In the early 1970s, when the country was still in ruins, poverty was already synonymous with that period. Especially in some remote areas, people are rarely populated, land is scarce, people's living environment is harsh, and even the issue of food has become a big problem.
But it is precisely in this era, in the Inner Mongolia region of the great northwest, there is an old man who has become a million yuan household because he picked up an iron rod, and it is precisely this iron rod that makes the experts who later hear the wind cry bitterly, and it is even more infinitely lamenting that the country has lost three hundred million!
What's going on here? What kind of iron rod did the old man pick up? What kind of value does this iron rod have that can make the old man become a million yuan household? Why do some experts say that the country will lose three hundred million yuan as a result?
In the great northwest of the mainland, that is, in the Inner Mongolia region, where the land is vast, the population is sparse, and the materials are even more scarce. In order to survive, most of these young people will choose to go outside to work hard, and leaving their homes has become a helpless choice.
But living in such a harsh place as the environment, young people still have the ability to choose, but the elderly who are dying, or the left-behind children who are waiting to be fed, can almost be regarded as having no ability to work, and in order to survive, they can only rely on scavenging to survive.
On this day, Wang Laohan walked to the suburbs as usual, hoping to pick up some discarded metal, or other waste products that could be exchanged for money, as a supplement to the family, but helplessly, he rummaged through the garbage heap for half a day, and did not find much to exchange money, which made him a little depressed.
Hungry in his stomach, the grunting made him smash his mouth, his tongue licking his dry lips, and just as he was about to abandon the place and turn away, the afterglow of the corner of his eyes seemed to be flashed by some light.
Wang Laohan's eyes lit up, and he squinted his eyes slightly, he was older, and his eyes were not very good, but this did not prevent the light not far away from attracting him.
The old man quickly stepped forward, pulled the surrounding shelter apart, revealing a long thing inside, this thing in the sunlight, more and more bright, he looked a little strange, held in his hand still has some weight, it is estimated that it has been outside for a long time, in addition to the dirt on the stain, there is some rust.
rust! The old man was a little excited, he hurriedly removed the dirt above, only to see that there were some potholes on the stick, engraved with something like a graphic, but because the old man could not read, he only thought it was an ordinary pattern, and did not care.
But there is rust, which means that this stick may be an iron rod, which can make Wang Laohan happy and broken, this weight in his hand, it is estimated that it will weigh several pounds! That's worth a lot!
The excitement of picking up the iron rod swept away the haze of Wang Laohan's earlier time, and he carried the iron rod into his arms, intending to take it home and clean it, and then sell it for a good price.
As soon as Wang Laohan arrived home, he called for water at the first time, carefully swept the above clean, and then wiped it with clean water, as if he was treating a treasure, but it was not a treasure! The iron rod weighs 7 pounds!
If you sell it again, it's a lot of money!
After washing the iron rod clean, Wang Laohan also found something strange, the color of this iron rod was somewhat wrong, and it was actually glowing with a dull yellow golden light! The old man muttered in his heart, is this not an iron rod, but a golden rod?
The old man looked more and more like gold, but in his heart he was not sure, such a long one, just thrown away, is no one to find?
So Wang Laohan was both entangled and a little excited that night, and he didn't sleep all night, and the next morning, he ran to the gold shop and prepared to look for the boss.
The owner of this gold shop is also a real person, looking at the stick, he shook his head, the iron rod does have gold ingredients, but the texture is not pure, if it is according to the price of gold, it is not up to the standard, directly selling can not sell the price, and then the boss made a suggestion, you can melt the iron rod to purify, so that the price can be sold higher.
Wang Laohan can also listen to it, anyway, he does not understand very well, the price of iron is certainly not as good as gold, since it can be purified out of gold, even if the amount is less, there is nothing.
So with the help of the boss, the 7-pound iron rod was melted and purified into 4 kilograms of gold, and the owner of the gold shop gave Wang Laohan 12,000 yuan, so Wang Laohan became a 10,000 yuan household overnight, completely bidding farewell to the previous poor and destitute life.
After the old man got this huge amount of money, he was accustomed to a poor life, and began to overhaul the family and buy new clothes for himself, and the old man's life began to develop in a hot direction.
However, there were no impermeable walls in the world, and soon there were public announcements about the old man picking up an iron rod in the garbage heap and then smelting it into four pounds of gold.
From a poor old man to an upstart with tens of thousands of yuan in cash, the identity of the old man has also undergone a qualitative change, which has also made many eyes on him, and there is attention from archaeologists.
It turned out that just a few years ago, archaeologists found the remains of the tomb of Aruchaiden in the village of Aruchaiden in Hangjinqi, Yikezhao League, Inner Mongolia.
Although the tomb was destroyed for objective reasons, more than two hundred extremely rare Xiongnu treasures, as well as a large number of gold and silver objects, were unearthed.
After learning that the old man surnamed Wang was lucky because of an iron rod, archaeologists suspected that the iron rod that the old man got might be a cultural relic.
Archaeologists immediately found a relationship at the first time, tried to find a way to get in touch with Wang Laohan, and after learning the intentions of the experts, the old man took the crowd to the place where he picked up the iron rod at that time. The experts surveyed the surrounding environment and detained all the areas near the site of their discovery.
At that time, the gold shop where Wang Laohan sold iron rods was also found, but fortunately, the shop owner had not yet sold the gold lumps that had been smelted into four pounds, and even the residue of the smelted iron rods had not been cleaned up.
Definitely good news for archaeologists. Experts brought the residue of gold lumps and iron rods back to the institute for study, hoping to restore the two substances.
On the other hand, through the narrative of Wang Laohan and the owner of the gold shop, the experts made a judgment on the prototype of the iron rod, and based on the original volume size and characteristic analysis, they finally concluded that this iron rod was a very rare gold tool in the Xiongnu period, spanning the Ganges River of time, which has a history of thousands of years!
Nowadays, because of Wang Laohan's inadvertent behavior, it has been smelted into gold lumps and residues, and its value has been lost at least 300 million, and the loss of which is immeasurable for the archaeological community!
The reason is also very simple, the old man's move is not only the loss of a precious historical relic, but also the opportunity to examine the Xiongnu culture, the Xiongnu gold ware during the Han Dynasty and the mainland's study of han dynasty gold artifacts.
It can be said that the intuitive value of a cultural relic is a bowl of water, but the potential value of a cultural relic itself is a vast ocean. Because a cultural relic can not only reflect its role and status at that time, but also reflect the characteristics of different periods and different cultures. It is of great help in studying the culture of the continent.
According to historians, there was no writing during the Xiongnu period, and the excavations of cultural relics were extremely rare, especially those similar to gold and silverware.
And this valuable iron rod naturally contained the cultural heritage of the time and the national characteristics of the Xiongnu. Although the old man has melted the golden rod, archaeologists have not given up exploring this antiquity.
Under the perseverance of archaeologists, they determined that this iron rod is a cultural relic from the "Zhaojun out of the plug" period, and the archaeological value is huge.
As we all know, after Wang Zhaojun went out as an emissary of national friendship, Hu and Han had friendly coexistence for more than fifty years. Created the Huaxia unification, hu Han family. This will serve as a reference and enlightenment for the people of the modern mainland in building a harmonious society and promoting the peaceful development and reunification of the two sides of the strait.
After Zhaojun's departure, he actively promoted the exchanges between the Xiongnu and the Great Han, and the politics and commerce between the Great Han and the Xiongnu have been going on normally, for more than seventy years, there has been no war, and people have lived and worked in peace and contentment. At the same time, to a certain extent, it also promoted the cultural exchanges between the Han Dynasty and the Xiongnu, and promoted the development of the Xiongnu.
This move of Wang Laohan has caused huge losses to the interests of the country, and at the same time issued an early warning to us, which can make us clearly realize that the protection of cultural relics cannot be delayed.
In order to reduce the occurrence of such things, in 1982, the state promulgated the Law on the Protection of Cultural Relics. Among them, the law clearly stipulates that all cultural relics left behind in the "underground", "internal waters" and "territorial waters" of the People's Republic of China belong to the state.
Those who deliberately destroy valuable cultural relics or scenic spots protected by the state will be investigated for legal responsibility and punished by law. This also shows the country's determination to respect and protect cultural relics. At the same time, the State has also arranged for professionals to disseminate relevant knowledge in various places.
Although Wang Laohan destroyed cultural relics without knowing the importance of cultural relics, the destruction of 300 million yuan of cultural relics is, in the final analysis, the loss of the country and the regret of the times.
There is nothing we can do about this fact, and we can only treat historical relics with a more reverential attitude, respect history, protect culture, and avoid such tragedies as much as possible.
However, in fact, in that era, the law on the protection of culture had not yet been introduced. Most people don't yet have the concept of protecting artifacts. If we look at it from another perspective, it is also a beautiful thing that the elderly can change from a scavenger to a million-dollar household, have no worries about food and clothing, and enjoy their old age.