The world is not satisfactory, and there are constant ten residences and seven eights, so there are constant interruptions. - "The Biography of Yang Hu of Jin"
Life is in the world, and dissatisfaction is the norm of life. As in the Book of Jin. According to the Biography of Yang Qi, the affairs of the world are not satisfactory.
An old house in a farmer's market in Gaoyi County, Shijiazhuang City, Hebei Province, dug out a large number of Qing Dynasty silver dollars, and when Guo Zengji, a descendant of the old house, asked for "ancestral property", he was rejected by the state management department.
The reason for the refusal was that Guo Zengji could not prove that it was the property of their family, let alone that it was an item buried by his father's hand, so the silver dollars were handed over to the state as unowned goods.
When a huge amount of wealth is discovered, it is out of reach, and it is inevitable to sigh "the world is impermanent".
With the progress of society, more and more old buildings were overthrown and rebuilt.
While digging the foundation, the excavator dug out a decaying wooden box, and as the box opened, a large pile of silver dollars and banknotes was seen.
Just as Lu Xun said, China has never lacked people to watch the liveliness, and the large-scale action of the old house has also attracted many people to watch.
When the silver dollar appeared, the crowd boiled, followed by a scramble to snatch all kinds of silver dollars and banknotes into their pockets, as if their belongings had been discovered.
When the news spread, the construction management department quickly reacted to block the scene, sent someone to guard it, and did not dare to continue digging down, first quickly reported the matter to the cultural relics management department.
After receiving the news, the cultural relics management department attached great importance to it and immediately sent relevant experts to conduct the appraisal. Experts have confirmed that this batch of silver dollars and paper money is a product of the Qing Dynasty.
The value of the cultural relics was confirmed, and naturally it could not be arbitrarily lost, so experts and local police stations quickly visited everywhere to recover the silver dollars that had been taken away by the onlookers before.
After calculation, a total of more than 800 silver dollars were recovered from the hands of the masses, and all of them were collected under the management of the cultural relics management department.
Later, the excavator continued to work in the old house, and dug out a large cart of silver dollars, the value of which was difficult to estimate for a while.
Each dynasty has its own currency characteristics, which provides effective help for our study of the dynasty of that year.
The Qing Dynasty is only a hundred years away from us, and it is only a few decades away from 1999, so the old people at that time had some wealth in their hands about the Qing Dynasty, which is also forgivable.
With the development of the times and the death of the old man, posterity will not know the wealth they originally hid for their children and grandchildren, so they will be dug up in the public and handed over to the state as a masterless thing.
With the spread of the news that the old house dug up a large number of silver dollars, more and more people went to "claim", pretending to be the descendants of the old house, hoping to obtain the inheritance of this wealth.
However, through visits and inquiries, and after asking them to provide relevant evidence to prove it, their claims were ruled out one by one.
They are just rich and moving, thinking that they have been old enough to get rich overnight if no one knows the details.
Later, an old man Named Guo Zengji appeared, and his words were the most reliable, and through investigation, it was also confirmed that this was indeed their family's old residence.
Guo Zengji said that a large amount of money was buried by his father that year, but because of the land reform, he was criticized for fighting, in order to leave some wealth for future generations, so he dug a pit in his home to bury the family property he had saved in the ground, who knew that future generations had never discovered this secret.
Guo Zengji told everyone that his father's name was Guo Charter, born in 1904, and their family was an official of the Qing Dynasty, and their family was well-off.
Since Puyi announced his abdication and the Qing Dynasty officially collapsed, Guo Charter's father abandoned politics and business, and because of his unique business vision, he quickly saved a large amount of family wealth for his family.
In 1929, Guo was admitted to Chaoyang University in Beijing, also known as the University of Political Science and Law, and worked as an official for a period of time after graduation.
After the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japan, he actively participated in the aid of the War of Resistance and contributed his strength to the cause of the War of Resistance.
Later, he resigned from the government for some reason, returned home to take over the family business, engaged in business and land, and did a prosperous career. In his hands, the family's assets grew a lot, and he began to rebuild the Guo family compound and became a merchant on the famous zhen side at that time.
After Guo Charter became a local rich gentry, instead of exploiting the people, he spared money in righteousness, not only helping the local construction of primary schools, but also often providing relief to disaster victims, which had a very good reputation in the local area.
After the founding of New China, the land reform policy was implemented throughout the country, and the rich merchants' land and real estate were all recovered and distributed centrally, and the Guo family was naturally among them.
In order to leave the money he had earned in half his life to his descendants, Guo Charter came up with a treasure strategy and buried the silver dollars, calligraphy and paintings and other property accumulated over the years.
Over time, Guo Zengji did not know exactly where his father was, how much property was buried, and the old house was also recovered by the national planning, and it was impossible to know the mystery.
It was not until 1999, a chance to rectify the old house, that this large number of silver dollars could be seen again, and only then did Guo Zengji know what his father had planned for them.
Since he knew about this, Guo Zengji naturally could not be indifferent, so he went to the state administration and wanted to get back their silver dollars, but he refused.
On the one hand, after the silver dollar is alive, there have been several groups of people, indicating that it is the descendants of the old house who have asked for silver dollars, and the last one has been confirmed to be a false report.
On the other hand, because Guo Zengji has no evidence to prove that this is the money buried by his father, he cannot rush to return it to him. In the end, this silver dollar can only be handed over to the state as an unowned thing.
Guo Zengji was very angry, so he took the local expert to court, hoping that the court would give him justice and recover the family's wealth.
After Guo Zengji's hope of recovering his wealth through legal means was dashed, he could not let go, and now, more than a decade later, although he has died, his grandson Guo Yingqun still insists on recovering this property.
From Guo Zengji to his grandson Guo Yingqun for three generations, they have always been persistently on the road to recovering this batch of silver dollars, and the result is unknown.
Originally, this was a road that Guo Charter wanted to leave for future generations, who wanted to be involuntary due to the changes of the times, the old mansion could not be saved, and the secrets under the old mansion naturally could not be excavated by posterity.
In the process of progress in each era, it will be accompanied by some regrets, some helplessness, which is something that cannot be changed, and the society has been moving forward, and our lives are constantly getting better.
Although Guo Zengji could not recover the property due to insufficient evidence, at least now his life was much happier than the instability of that era.
Nowadays, the country is rich and strong, the society is stable, and the life is happy, although the wealth it has for a while is not satisfactory, but I believe that with its own efforts, one day it will harvest greater wealth.