An elderly man in rags is carrying a 75-centimeter-long iron pillar weighing 180 kilograms as he slowly walks into a waste recycling station in Chongqing.
It was the heaviest "scrap" he had ever received in the long history of picking up scrap, and it was also the most valuable item he had picked up.
A scrap iron pillar can sell for a high price of 65 yuan, and before the old man can enjoy the joy of making money, the people and police of the Cultural Relics Bureau suddenly came to this waste recycling station.
According to the description of the relevant personnel of the Cultural Relics Bureau, this humble iron pillar is an ancient cultural relic worth 100 million yuan.
Fortunately, the staff of the Cultural Relics Bureau arrived in time, otherwise the cultural relics would have been taken and melted by the people at the waste recycling station.
A cultural relic worth more than 100 million yuan was protected, but there was not much joy in the faces of the staff of these cultural relics bureaus.
It turned out that before that, a cultural relic worth more than 300 million yuan had been "destroyed" by scavengers in the northwestern Inner Mongolia region.
Occasional golden sticks in the waste pile, overnight become "ten thousand yuan household"
As we all know, the seventies of the last century was a time of famine disaster, and the country was focusing on science and technology and industrial development.
The economies of various places are very depressed, especially in some remote areas, which are not only plagued by famine, but also face harsh environments.
In the remote areas led by Northwest Inner Mongolia, there are elderly people everywhere who are scavenging outside, because of the geographical environment and the factors of regional development.
Many adult young people choose to go to cities with better economic conditions to seek development, which makes many elderly people have to stay in their hometowns to collect waste for a living.
At that time, there was an old man surnamed Wang who found a treasure on the way to collect waste, this old man was a native of Inner Mongolia, who had spent most of his life in Inner Mongolia and had never been out of Inner Mongolia.
After retirement, the elderly began to pick up the "work", and the waste that could be picked up and sold every day was not much, but at most it could still make ends meet.
One day the old man was ready to go home as usual, but on the way home, he saw a reflective long object.
In the setting sun, the light refracted from the long thing was extremely dazzling, and when the old man approached, he found that the long thing was just a rusted iron rod.
The body of the long stick was already rusty, and there were many extremely strong dirt attached to it, if it were not for the vague sight of some mysterious runes on the stick, this iron rod was almost the same as that of ordinary iron rods.
In other words, others ignored this kind of broken iron rod that "hid" on the side of the road, but the old man was different, and he seemed extremely excited after finding this iron rod.
Because compared to the paper shell he usually picked up, the value of this iron rod is not known how many times higher, the most important thing is that after the old man picked up this iron rod, he found that its weight was not light.
Under normal circumstances, the heavier a metal is, the higher its value, which is one of the reasons why the elderly are extremely excited.
After returning home, the old man weighed the iron rod for the first time and found that the iron rod was 7 pounds, according to the socio-economic situation at that time, the price of 7 pounds of iron alone was enough to fill people's stomachs for half a month.
With inner joy, the old man rinsed the rusty iron rod with water, and he originally thought that it was very mysterious with the iron rod.
However, as he rinsed the iron rod, he found that the body of the iron rod was emitting a faint dark golden luster.
Although the old man had never seen real gold, after he saw the vision of the stick, he always thought it was a "golden stick".
Whether this stick is made of gold or not is not too important for the old man, this is just a matter of earning more and earning less, anyway, no matter how it changes, the old man always earns.
When the old man discovered this vision, the sky had gradually darkened, so he had expectations, and at dawn the next day, he hurriedly got up and rushed to the gold shop, waiting at the door of the store for the owner of the gold shop to open the door.
The shops on the street opened one by one, and before long the door of the gold shop was slowly opened, and when the owner of the gold shop looked at the old man carrying an iron rod at the door, he was startled, and he mistakenly thought that the old man was some "turmoil" member.
The old man did not perceive the strange appearance of the owner of the gold shop, but he showed his intentions at the first time, and after learning that the other party had come to "treasure hunting", the tight nerves of the gold shop owner gradually eased down.
Out of the instinctive kindness of people, the owner of the gold shop did not give the old man a "set", he told the old man honestly that this stick does have a certain gold content, but the gold content is relatively small.
If it is sold directly, the price will be very low, but if the gold is purified and then sold, the price will increase many times.
The old man didn't care so much, for him, how to sell this golden stick is worth money, he is willing to get it.
With the help of the owner of the gold shop, this 7-kilogram gold rod extracted 4 kilograms of gold, and finally the boss purchased the 4 kilograms of gold according to the market price of the gold at that time, and paid the old man 12,000 yuan.
Slightly older people may have heard a called "ten thousand yuan household", in the era of the old man, ten thousand yuan household is a symbol of wealth, who is called ten thousand yuan household, who is the focus of the street.
The old man who received the huge amount of money did not save the money, but first bought a house, and at the same time gave himself a few sets of exquisite clothes.
The old man did not worry about others coveting his property, he only cared that others did not know that he had money.
The high-profile life of the old man soon attracted the attention of the neighbors, and everyone saw that the old man suddenly had a good time, and they came to ask for the secret of getting rich.
The old man did not hide his "road to riches", he told his neighbors how he picked up the "golden stick" and how to sell the stick, and did not miss a single detail.
And when describing that he earned 12,000 yuan in cash, the old man still had a strong sense of pride in his eyes.
Soon, the deeds of the old man picking up the "golden stick" became the talk of the locals after dinner.
The speed of transmission of information is always as fast as ten or ten hundred, and it did not take long for the old man to pick up the golden stick to reach the ears of local archaeologists.
After an investigation into the golden rod, archaeologists speculated that the golden stick was not a simple stick, but an ancient artifact left over from thousands of years ago.
The inheritance of the Xiongnu, ancient cultural relics worth more than 100 million
To say that the place where the most Xiongnu relics can be found in China is the Mongolian area, as early as the middle of the last century, archaeologists on the mainland found the ancient tombs of the Xiongnu in the village of Aruchaiden in the Hangjin Banner of the Yikezhao League in Inner Mongolia.
According to archaeologists, the ancient tomb at that time was the tomb of Aruchidon in the Warring States period.
When archaeologists entered the tomb to investigate, they found that the facilities inside the tomb were not intact, which marked that the tomb had been stolen before.
For some reason, the tomb robbers did not loot the cultural relics and treasures in the tomb at that time, and the archaeological team excavated more than 200 pieces of ancient Xiongnu cultural relics from the tomb.
Among the many ancient cultural relics that belonged to the Xiongnu at that time, the most famous and the most valuable was the "Eagle Crown Ornament".
This ancient artifact is known as the artistic treasure of the Huns, and it symbolizes status and power.
Archaeologists have learned a lot about the Huns, but there is only one such treasure, so there is very little information that can be learned.
In fact, the domestic understanding of the Xiongnu has not been much, so both the state and the archaeological team cherish every ancient cultural relic belonging to the Xiongnu.
This is also the main reason why the archaeological team was very eager to know all the information after hearing that the old man had picked up an ancient artifact in the local area.
After the archaeologists found the old man and determined that the "iron rod" found by the old man had been refined, they all showed a look of disappointment, but they still asked the old man to take them to the place where the "iron rod" was found at that time.
Led by the old man, the crowd quickly arrived at their destination, and archaeologists identified and speculated on the few remnants of the surrounding area (iron filings, gold nuggets).
After a certain period of restoration, archaeologists agreed that the stick picked up by the old man was the "golden object" mastered by the Xiongnu for thousands of years.
The country is not without gold, the eagle top gold crown ornament is a gold tool, but the number of gold artifacts unearthed is extremely rare, just the old man took a gold stick to melt, its value reached 300 million yuan.
Just as the so-called rarity is precious, the role of gold for the mainland is not only to symbolize the cultural heritage of the continent, but also has a high research value.
After all, an ancient artifact of the Xiongnu era can give the mainland a deeper understanding of the culture of the Xiongnu era.
The stick that the old man smelted, after expert identification, believes that it is an ancient cultural relic from the era of Wang Zhaojun.
The story of "Zhaojun out of the jam" has always been familiar to most people, after all, Wang Zhaojun is known as the four beauties of ancient China.
At the beginning of the Han Dynasty, just after its establishment, all aspects were developing, and the economy and military were also in a period of consolidation, although it had its own big country on the territory of China.
However, the overall strength is much inferior to that of the Xiongnu in the north, and it can even be described as a world of difference.
At that time, the leaders of the Han Dynasty had been seeking perfection in order to let the Han Dynasty have a buffer period, and resolutely put forward the policy of peace and affinity during the government of the dynasty, and Wang Zhaojun was a classic example of harmony in history.
Living under the oppression of the Xiongnu was bound to have a very negative ending, until the time of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, the situation in the Han Dynasty was unprecedentedly transformed.
After several large-scale battles led by Emperor Wu of Han, the dominance of the Xiongnu shrank rapidly, and the "throat" was completely contained by the Han Dynasty.
Unfortunately, as Emperor Yuan of Han inherited the throne, due to his own lack of good governance ability, the internal system of the Han Dynasty was gradually disordered.
The comprehensive national strength also produced a downward spiral, and the Xiongnu seized this opportunity to turn around and launched a counterattack against the Western Han. careless
Under the breath of exhaustion, the Han Yuan Emperor had to resort to the policy of peace and affinity again, which also gave rise to the famous story of "Zhaojun out of the plug" in history.
The strength of the Xiongnu is obvious to all, and their main area of activity at that time was today's Inner Mongolia, and in terms of alchemy, the technology of the Xiongnu and the Han Dynasty can be regarded as the most sophisticated in history.
This is the main reason why archaeologists attach great importance to the relics of the Xiongnu period.
If the old man had the stick that the old man had obtained for smelting in the gold shop, if it had been well protected by archaeologists and the state for research, perhaps the mainland would have made another major breakthrough in metallurgy.
At the same time, more reference information may also be obtained on the history of the Xiongnu and Han Dynasties.
The protection of cultural relics is the responsibility of everyone
At that time, the mainland did not introduce relevant laws for the protection of cultural relics, and the old man took the iron rod to smelt and sell for money.
It is carried out without knowing that this is a cultural relic, and the so-called "ignorant are not guilty", and the state cannot pursue its responsibility because of this.
Although smelting that iron rod is equivalent to causing the country to lose 300 million yuan directly, the country has always been thinking about the people, and for the interests of the people, the country has not investigated too much.
Although the state has not held the elderly accountable for this matter, this does not mean that the state does not attach importance to such incidents, because every cultural relic has great value to the country.
Therefore, in 1982, the state deliberately promulgated the "Cultural Relics Protection Law" to stop some acts of damaging cultural relics.
The protection law clearly states that as long as the cultural relics from China are from china, whether on the water or under the water, all belong to the state, if someone sells or damages these cultural relics privately, it will be directly punished by law.
Considering that it is likely that there will be behaviors similar to those of the elderly, who do not know the information about the cultural relics and directly damage them.
The state has organized many archaeological teams and carried out a certain degree of cultural relics knowledge training throughout the country.
With the joint efforts of the state and the people, more and more cultural relics have been unearthed and well-protected, and there are nearly 1.9 million ancient cultural relics in the Palace Museum alone.
Although this is the largest cultural relics museum in China, there are not a few museums that closely follow the scale of the Forbidden City.
At present, there are more than 5,000 museums in China, and the total number of cultural relics in these museums needs to be measured in units of hundreds of millions.
This shows how much efforts the state has made for the protection and exploitation of cultural relics over the years.
The state attaches so much importance to the protection of cultural relics, as a citizen, it is natural to uphold their own sense of responsibility and protect every cultural relics from the national territory
Because cultural relics are of extraordinary value to the country, with the existence of these cultural relics, the country may have major breakthroughs in some fields.
And when the country becomes stronger, our entire nation will become stronger and stronger, and its position in the world will become more and more unshakable.