In January 1978, in Xiufeng Bridge, Huangjinggou Commune, Weiyuan County, Sichuan Province, a migrant worker was digging mountains and quarrying, when suddenly he found a clay pot in a pile of dirt, and the copper coins inside weighed about 20 pounds.
After the experts sorted out the statistics, it was found that there were 435 straight 105 baht, with a diameter of between 2.6 and 2.9 cm, a weight of between 5.3 and 9 grams, and 400 Shu Han five baht, a diameter of 2.5 cm, a weight of about 3.1 grams, and a half two coins and 1 piece.
According to the "Weiyuan County Chronicle", these copper coins should be the currency circulating during the Shu and Han Dynasties.
In 214, when Liu Bei's men led troops to attack Chengdu, due to insufficient military expenditure, the left general Liu Ba suggested that Liu Bei mint a large amount of money worth one hundred dollars, and Liu Bei immediately ordered the minting of a large amount of money of inflated value called "straight hundred and five baht".
A "straight hundred and five baht" can be exchanged for 100 "five baht", the price is 100 times its price, but the weight is only 3 times its weight, the mint value of this currency is much higher than the actual value.
Liu Bei's "straight hundred and five baht" purchased a large number of military materials in the civilian sector, instantly filling the national treasury, after which Liu Bei intensified his efforts, reduced weight on the basis of "straight hundred and five baht", and minted "straight hundred" money.
These false big money plundered the people's wealth, disrupted the economic order, the people's money evaporated for no reason, and since then the currency depreciation has been out of control, and Liu Bei, who loves the people like a son in the world's impression, actually used this method to beat the people's pockets, which is simply subverting the historical cognition.
Most of the money extracted from the people in the late Shu Han Dynasty was used for military operations, but it did not achieve good results, and the exhaustion of national strength was huge, and the people fell into the depths of the water.
Experts can't help but sigh that it is no wonder that the Shu Kingdom was the first of the three kingdoms to perish.