Just after the End of 2016, a villager in Nanzuo Village, Shaanxi Province, Brother Zhu, is ready to renovate the house in his home, because in recent years, he has saved a lot of money by working outside, and after having money, What Brother Zhu wants most is to renovate and rebuild the house in his hometown, so that he can work outside in the future, and the people at home can live more comfortably.
So he wanted to take advantage of the gap after the end of the year, the house in the family renovation, this is because he is more free after the end of the year, there is another reason is that the money saved outside these years is really not much, if you want to invite people from outside to get back, the money is definitely not enough, so he wants to ask relatives at home to help himself, so that the labor cost of house renovation will also save a lot of money. So after the End of the Year, Brother Zhu began the work of renovating the house.
When Brother Zhu and his party began to dig the foundation, he suddenly dug a hard thing, which made it difficult for Brother Zhu to continue digging, so they decided to dig up this "thing" first to see what it was, so Brother Zhu and his relatives worked together to finally dig up this heavy and hard thing, this thing was covered with mud, for a while, it was impossible to see what it was. You can just faintly see the shape of the thing. This thing looks a bit like the "oven" used by modern people, the volume is also very large, although the appearance is covered with mud, but it can also be seen that there are many defects that have been corroded on it, and this thing has been buried in the ground for many years.
Brother Zhu didn't think much about it at first, but a person who came to help him renovate the house said that this was not a cultural relic. This sentence reminded Brother Zhu that the person who said this was Brother Zhu's brother-in-law, Zhang Jianmao. Brother Zhu's words gave Brother Zhu a reminder, he carefully thought about it is not impossible, Shaanxi as the ancient capital of China's thirteen dynasties, its underground buried cultural relics are numerous, at the beginning of the new century, Shaanxi Metro Line 2 was established, it dug out a lot of ancient tombs, in the last century, there are also many people to Shaanxi, want to come here to find cultural relics, so if you say that digging out cultural relics under the ground at home seems to be this possibility.
But Brother Zhu's home has lived here for generations, so Brother Zhu doesn't know in his heart whether this is a cultural relic. So he decided to ignore this first, first finish the task of renovating the house, and then say that the house renovation should be done as soon as possible, because after all, the house renovation is completed, he still has to go out to work quickly. So he told his relatives who came to work that this matter should not delay the work, so this matter is even in the past.
But not long after, Brother Zhu found another big hole in the relics that resembled an oven. At that time, Brother Zhu was trying to dig the foundation a little deeper, and then dug a big hole in the digging, this hole looked very deep, and it was very dark, Brother Zhu They took the flashlight and couldn't see what was inside, the occurrence of this incident completely broke Brother Zhu's plan to renovate the house as soon as possible, because of this hole, their construction must be stopped.
At first, Brother Zhu wanted to find someone to go in and take a look, but because the hole was too dark, no one dared to go in and see, so Brother Zhu proposed to dig this hole a little bigger, so that more light could be penetrated, and it was convenient to see the whole picture of the hole, so when they opened the hole, they found that the hole did not seem to be particularly deep, but because it was too dark, so it made people feel that he was particularly deep. But the specific situation inside is still not clear. At this time, Brother Zhu thought of the "thing" that looked like a cultural relic that had been dug up before, and this hole also appeared in the place where the cultural relics were found, and after linking the two things together, everyone felt that this hole was not simple, so everyone searched to know what was inside this hole.
So they dug the hole and then took a flashlight to take a look, and found that it was all like ancient copper coins, which made everyone present very happy, and then they worked together to dig the hole, and the whole picture of the hole was displayed in front of everyone. Sure enough, the hole was full of copper coins, most of which were embedded in the soil, which looked dense at first glance.
This made everyone very excited, after the villagers heard about this incident, they all rushed to see Brother Zhu's home, Brother Zhu was also shocked to see such a scene, so he used his hand to cut out some copper coins from the soil, only to find that these copper coins have many different shapes. Some are the round square hole money that we often see on TV dramas, and some are shaped like "shovels", and these copper coins are written on them, but most of the people present do not know the words.
Although no one can confirm that these copper coins are true, everyone present agrees that the coins are artifacts because they were excavated from the soil. When Brother Zhu saw these scenes, he was very happy at first, but after a while, he wanted to think about how to dispose of these money, because these ancient coins looked like a lot of money, and they had different shapes, and it was possible to say that it was not true, otherwise how could so many different ancient money appear in one place. But now I have no way to confirm whether it is really antiquities, this hole has been dug, how to keep the money, whether it is reported to the state or how to do it. Just when Brother Zhu was still thinking about what to do, someone came to the door.
At that time, after Brother Zhu discovered this cultural relic, he thought that because it was under his family's house, he felt that he should not report it to the state, but he had not yet called, at this time, there were cultural relics dealers who found him and wanted to collect the cultural relics under the ground of Brother Zhu's house. The cultural relics dealer told Brother Zhu that he liked cultural relics very much and had always liked to collect these things, so after coming to Shaanxi, he heard about the matter of Brother Zhu's family, so he "came to admire it.". He also said that if Big Brother Zhu could sell it to him, the price was not a problem, and he was willing to pay 2 million. This money is difficult for Brother Zhu, who has been working outside for many years, not to be moved, if there is this money, Brother Zhu does not need to renovate the family's house, he can go directly to the city to buy a house, even if the cultural relics dealers put forward such favorable conditions.
In Brother Zhu's heart, it must be false to say that he was not moved, but he still did not dare to conduct private business. Originally, he did not dare to rush to report to the state because he could not be sure whether it was true or false, and the arrival of this cultural relics dealer made Brother Zhu convinced that he must report it to the state, so he refused the cultural relics dealer, and then directly called the matter to report to the local government department.
The local government was shocked to hear the news, although it was not surprising that cultural relics or ancient tombs were found in their Shaanxi Province, but according to the content of Brother Zhu's phone, it seemed that there were many different ancient money inside, and if this was true, it would be a major discovery.
So the local government asked the personnel of the relevant departments and the experts of the local cultural relics administration to come to Brother Zhu's home. After the discovery of these copper coins, Brother Zhu also knew that this matter was a big deal, so he had not dared to touch these cultural relics, except for the day he had just dug them out, the site was only the traces of the excavation that day, so the experts immediately excavated these copper coins, because there were too many copper coins here, the work was insufficient, so soon after a large number of people came to excavate, which also caused a lot of villagers to watch.
Most of the staff at the scene are divided into two parts, one part of the staff to excavate, the other part is to clean up, even so, the staff also spent two days to excavate all these copper coins, and then the experts weighed, found that these copper coins weighed 918 pounds, that is to say, the weight of these copper coins actually reached half a ton, which not only amazed the villagers at the scene, but also shocked the staff at the scene. Many people with short working hours have never seen such a scene at all.
After the copper coins were excavated, the experts brought the copper coins back to the Cultural Relics Administration for testing and inquiring about the origin behind them, and they also told Brother Zhu to try not to destroy the scene, and Brother Zhu could only do so after hearing it.
After returning to the Authority, the experts first sent people to draw the words and shapes on the copper coins on paper, and then compared them according to historical data, and then used professional machines to test these copper coins, first to detect the rust on the copper coins, which looked very old, should be very old.
So in the experts from the shape of the copper coins and the test, these copper coins should be the Han Dynasty things, but the specific period, this also needs to read some information again. Because the shapes of the copper coins are different, some experts speculate that this may be a product of the new dynasty period established by Wang Mang in the Western Han Dynasty, which is a surprising discovery.
Because the new dynasty established by Wang Mang was only 15 years old in history, but a series of policies implemented in this dynasty were very advanced, such as Wang Mang's land reform in China, which completely violated the national agricultural structure of the landlord class under the feudal society, and the implementation of the low-cost housing policy, he had invested in the construction of five low-rent housing communities in Chang'an City, a total of 200 low-rent housing communities, for the poor to rent cheaply, and there were many systems that he had tried to produce in the society at that time So today, there are still many people who suspect that Wang Mang "traveled" to ancient times, and the new dynasty established by Wang Mang is precisely because these systems and the time of existence is relatively short, so it has always been full of mysterious colors, and the cultural relics unearthed from Wang Mang's era are even fewer. Therefore, the study of this dynasty has always lacked direct cultural evidence.
If what was dug out under Brother Zhu's house was indeed something from Wang Mang's dynasty, its value was immeasurable. For experts, there is one of the main reasons for the fact that experts believe that there is something in the Wang Mang period, that is, they found the "Six Springs and Ten Cloths" in these copper coins, which is a more famous set of copper coins in the Wang Mang period, and it is also one of the monetary systems at that time, including Koizumi Naoichi, Mizumi 10, Young Spring 20, Zhongquan 30, Zhuangquan 40, and Daquan 50 A total of six kinds. Its main feature is the use of a hanging needle seal, and the vertical break in the seal body spring character is two sections, which is the main feature of wang mangquan coin.
Not only that, but the copper used in its casting is excellent, and the text depicted on it is also very exquisite. The ten cloths include 100 small cloths, 200 small cloths, 300 young cloths, 400 sequential cloths, 500 poor cloths, 600 medium cloths, 700 zhuangbu, 800 second cloths, 900 sub-cloths, and large cloth yellow thousands. These cloth coins are minted in copper-tin alloy, and the exposed copper part is bluish yellow and the body is relatively hard. At that time, wang mang had carried out three currency system reforms after the establishment of the new dynasty, in addition to following the square hole round money of the Han Dynasty, he also ordered the minting of new coins such as Liuquan and Shibu, which may not be valuable in Wang Mang's time, but it is of immeasurable significance for the study of that dynasty today.
After determining the dynasty of these copper coins, experts began to study why these copper coins appeared under the ground of Zhu Brother's family, at first, some experts believed that the reason why copper coins appeared here was because there may be ancient tombs near Zhu Brother's home, but after professional investigation, it was found that there was no sign of ancient tombs near Zhu Brother's home, and then experts once again speculated whether there were high-ranking officials and nobles living here before the Western Han Dynasty, resulting in the loss of so many copper coins of these copper coins. Experts believe that it is only possible to be some high-ranking officials and nobles, because it is impossible for ordinary people to have so much money in their homes, but experts have not concluded in the reading of the materials that the officials who lived here in Nanzuo Village during the Western Han Dynasty and met the conditions.
Finally, experts speculated from the location of the copper coins and the surrounding environment that these copper coins may have been left behind during the war, when a high-ranking official fled, because these copper coins were very messy when they were found, and only these copper coins were found in the village of Nanzo, and the other ones were not found, so the experts agreed that this was most likely the origin of the copper coins.
After the problem of copper coins was solved, Brother Zhu thought of something that looked like an oven before being put aside, and also busied himself with handing it over to the Cultural Relics Administration, which found that this was indeed a barbecue stove of the Han Dynasty after testing, which also proved that the owner of the copper coin put this barbecue stove on the copper coin as a shield, experts speculated that the person who buried the money may want to wait until the end of the war to come back to get it, but unfortunately he finally had no way to come back to get the money. After this incident, Brother Zhu was also commended by the local government.