The mainland is an ancient civilization with an excellent history of 5,000 years. Under this vast land, with countless wealth, our ancestors have left us a wealth of cultural treasures. To this day, some artifacts are admired in museums, some are in private collections, and some are buried in the ground and are unknown. Today we are going to talk about: an old farmer drilled a well and accidentally dug out 120 pounds of gold cake. I wanted to sell it, but I was stopped. After experts persuaded him to hand it over to the state, he said: There is still a difference of 200 tons. What's going on?
This matter begins with a farmer in a small mountain village on the northeastern outskirts of Xi'an City, Shaanxi Province. In the last century
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Later in the era, the old farmer Zhang Mou was preparing to dig a well in his own vegetable garden, and when he had just hit four or five meters deep, his hoe suddenly touched a hard and hard thing, making a very crisp "ping-pong" sound. Immediately, Zhang Mou quickly realized that there was something under this piece of land.
Zhang Mou picked up the shovel and dug it up, and he paid off, and he dug out the yellow-colored round cake block one after another below, which looked like a copper block. Zhang mou thought it was not worth anything, but he still decided to dig them all out.
When Zhang took home the copper blocks he had painstakingly excavated and washed them, these copper blocks emitted a more dazzling and dazzling light, and they did not look as simple as the copper blocks. With a nervous mood, Zhang Used his teeth to bite a piece of temptation, feeling that both texture and hardness are very similar to gold, which can scare Zhang a lot.
Zhang Mou began to count these golden cakes, and the whole inventory was out
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Blocks, up to weight
120
Yu Jin. Subsequently, Zhang's family began to plan carefully how to monetize these golden cakes as soon as possible.
After a few days of calculation, Zhang Mou took his son to a bank in the county town and prepared to cash out these gold cakes in the bank, but the bank staff was frightened when they saw these gold cakes, they intuitively thought that these gold cakes were not simple, and quickly reported them to the local cultural relics bureau.
The local cultural relics bureau soon heard the news and after identification, it was found that these gold cakes came from the Western Han Dynasty and were very precious. Under the persuasion and education of the Cultural Relics Bureau, Zhang and his son had to hand over these golden cakes to the state. In recognition of their practices, the Heritage Bureau donated them
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Dollar cash and a glorious pennant with the inscription: Protection of cultural relics unearthed by the state.
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Tons, as for this
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Where exactly are tons of gold? It remains a mystery to this day.