If you really want to accept the inheritance of Tang Sancai, you must touch the Tang Sancai in the stone coffin.
I think the Tang Sancai in the stone coffin should be smaller and more delicate.
After crossing the altar, carefully avoiding the wooden figures, bronze figures, and pottery figurines, Chen Wenzhe came to the stone coffin.
Looking at the mottled paintings in front of him, Chen Wenzhe felt a little pity.
However, this stone coffin has been exposed to the air for more than a thousand years, and it is already very impressive to be able to leave some paintings on it.
"It's just as I guessed, but this stone coffin is probably older than the one outside!"
Looking away from the stone coffin, Chen Wenzhe looked at some black things piled on the ground with a smile.
Apart from coffins, these items are probably the most valuable.
Wiping off the dust on it, I saw a black patch.
After too long, these things have turned black. Needless to say, they must be silver.
I picked up a ship-shaped silver collar and it looked really ugly.
However, a feeling of joy spread from my heart.
The purity, weight, size, and characteristics of silver all come to mind in an instant.
This is the real way to touch gold. It can be said that he specializes in gold and silver. He is particularly sensitive to gold and silver now.
This thing is in the shape of a small boat, slender, with a very thin bottom, and the two ends are tilted up. The silver on both sides is too thin and has been crushed flat, making it look even uglier.
However, Chen Wenzhe knew that this was normal.
In many film and television works, we often see such plots: the emperor casually rewards others with a lot of gold and silver, and then carries out boxes after boxes of exquisitely shaped ingots.
In fact, anyone who knows history knows that those fat, beautifully shaped silver ingots were created by later generations, and real silver ingots are not like that.
Our country has a long tradition of using gold and silver as currency, and silver coins have already appeared on the stage of history during the Han Dynasty.
Later, Xu Shen, a great writer in the Han Dynasty, commented in "Huainanzi" that "collars are made of gold, silver, copper and other unfinished utensils, and are called collars."
Collar refers to a blank of metal material that has not been smelted, and is roughly in the shape of a long strip.
Since precious metals themselves have relatively high value, they can be directly used as storage and bulk trade payments.
By the time of the Tang Dynasty, what we call the Tang Dynasty silver collar was formed.
The name silver collar comes from its shape. At that time, people used to call long and straight things "tight".
The wooden one is "梃", the bamboo one is "糳", and the metal one is "铤".
When you hear this name, you can actually think of its shape.
In addition to the long wat-shaped silver collars of the Tang Dynasty, there was also a boat-shaped silver collar like this one, which was tied around the waist and turned up at both ends.
Silver collars at that time could usually be used as a standard unit of counting, and one collar weighed fifty taels.
Therefore, the collar in Chen Wenzhe's hand is fifty taels of silver.
The reason for adopting such a shape is that on the one hand, it can fully demonstrate the ductility of silver, and on the other hand, it can prevent the mixing of other metals during casting.
As a high-value metal, silver can easily be targeted by people with bad intentions. In order to prevent counterfeiting, the silver itself needs to be visible to others in all directions, so the shape of a ship appeared.
The bottom of this shape is relatively flat and thin, making it easier for people to make quick judgments.
The properties of silver are unique. Its pure white color is its biggest symbol, and once it is mixed with other impurities, such as copper, lead and other base metals, it can also be easily identified.
For example, after adding 2% copper to sterling silver, the color of the silver will obviously turn gray.
So this is why it is easy to see the exaggerated wings on both sides of the silver coins we see. These are actually signs of anti-counterfeiting.
"If you have a silver collar, you must have a gold collar. Haha, this one is actually not a gold collar, but a gold brick!"
"Should this be called a gold bar?"
I don't know when, Chen Qinglin came to Chen Wenzhe's side.
Behind him was Chen Qingchuan, two people on the left and one on the right, standing behind him.
"It's just a gold brick. It was called a treasury at that time!"
Chen Wenzhe smiled and turned it over. It didn't look like much, but it weighed a lot!
He picked up a piece casually, and it was much heavier than the large yellow croaker he got earlier.
The purity should reach 98%, not three nines or four nines. Chen Wenzhe is very sure about this.
The gold-touching skills are so powerful in this aspect.
He remembered that the small gold bricks from the Tang Dynasty treasury that were being faked were 50 grams each, which was one or two weights.
During the Tang and Song dynasties, the weight was sixteen taels per catty, which means that such a gold brick weighed a full 800 grams.
Not counting their historical value, if you simply sell gold, such a piece can be sold for almost 300,000.
After cleaning off the silver bars on the top, there are still a lot of gold bricks on the bottom.
"Why are there five or six boxes here? Even if there is less decoration in one box, why should it be packed with a hundred yuan? Five or six hundred yuan, five hundred yuan, one piece is 800 grams, how much is this?"
As he talked, Chen Wenzhe couldn't talk any more.
"Four hundred kilograms? That's four hundred kilograms, less than half a ton!"
After a while, Chen Qingchuan finally spoke.
Chen Wenzhe was speechless. It was less than half a ton. Do you mean more? Or less?
"We also found a lot of iron gun heads in the back. This place must have been used as a hiding place for soldiers!"
Chen Qinglin did not talk about gold, but changed the topic.
Chen Wenzhe nodded and threw the gold in his hand into the pile of gold and silver.
"I have already guessed that the owner of this large tomb should be a noble after the mid-Tang Dynasty. These silver bars are proof."
According to historical records, the most popular time for silver collars in the Tang Dynasty was in the middle and late Tang Dynasty. Its function was not only limited to official use, but also began to be used in large-value payments and foreign trade among the people.
During the Tang Dynasty, my country's foreign trade was very frequent, not only through the Silk Road, but also through frequent maritime trade.
At that time, silver coins were commonly used in West Asia, which was difficult to exchange with the Kaiyuan Tongbao at that time, so using silver collars became the most convenient option.
The Tang Dynasty ship-shaped silver collars were conducive to the smooth development of global trade. In that era that lacked a credit system, the ship-shaped or wat-shaped shapes were conducive to both trading parties testing the quality of the silver.
The face value of the silver collars of the Tang Dynasty was so high that ordinary people had almost no chance to see and use them. Therefore, it is not surprising that they were buried underground after entering this place.
"Huh? Did you find the weapon? Only the gun head?"
"Most of them are gun heads, and then there are these two boxes, which are also made of lacquerware. They are quite big. We only brought one piece over!"
With that said, Chen Qingchuan handed Chen Wenzhe a long and narrow lacquerware box.
The length of this lacquerware box reaches one and a half meters.
Seeing the flat and long box, Chen Wenzhe's heart suddenly beat violently.
In the Tibetan Soldier Cave, a lacquer box like this was found. What else could be inside?