With the existence of "fairness", that is to say, every time you pour wine, you cannot pour too much. If you pour too much, the wine will flow out of the small holes. This is "fairness".
"Fairness" is a concept of people's drinking in ancient times. It is a restriction and norm for drinking high-alcohol alcohol.
Therefore, although the Xixia Kingdom was a country established by ethnic minorities, they once had an extremely glorious civilization.
Although this period of civilization was built on the pain of the Song Dynasty, the more powerful Yuan and Meng Empire stepped on their bones to build an even more brilliant glory.
And this kind of glory is still going on, and only by opening the Mausoleum of Genghis Khan, will the glory of the Yuan-Meng Empire be truly exposed to the eyes of the world.
Of course, the world cannot see it now. Only Han Kongque and others can see this kind of glory.
Looking at the mountains of copper coins, when can copper coins be used to block doors?
When I opened the diamond wall, I didn't see the expected tomb passage, but instead saw endless copper coins, a sea of copper coins here.
"These are all Song coins. Could it be that these were plundered from the Southern Song Dynasty?" Mu Ling held some copper coins and asked while inspecting them.
Han Peacock didn't have much interest in these copper coins. Because the Song Dynasty was extremely prosperous, they issued a lot of copper coins at that time. There are also a lot of gift coins excavated in modern times, so Song coins are not rare at all.
In this way, no matter how many Song coins appear here, they are worthless and have no collection value.
Of course, the appearance of so many Song coins is still very shocking. Maybe using these Song coins to build a copper mountain can also attract a large number of people to visit.
"Didn't we speculate that we should now encounter the treasures of the Jin Kingdom that was destroyed by the Mongols? How come there are so many Song coins?" Huangshan said a little confused.
"Hurry up and clear the passage. This may not necessarily be a relic of the Northern Song Dynasty, but maybe it belongs to the Jin Dynasty." Han Kongque said.
"From the Kingdom of Jin? All money here is obviously from the Song Dynasty." Jin Yao asked.
Mu Ling explained: "Although the Jin Kingdom also issued coins back then, most of the money they used was Song coins. Therefore, when Song coins appear, they are not necessarily from the Song Kingdom, but may also be from the Jin Kingdom."
"The metallurgical industry of the Jin Kingdom was very developed back then, and they still had some good stuff. Pay close attention to it. If you find the ancient coins issued by the Jin Kingdom, they will be very valuable." Han Kongque said with a smile.
Although the Jin Kingdom was founded by the Jurchens, they were different from the Nurhachi family. The Jin Kingdom at that time was extremely powerful, both in terms of force and culture.
This is incomparable with wild boar skin, and wild boar skin only inherited some of the cultural heritage of the Jin Dynasty, so it was called Houjin.
"The boss guessed it very accurately. Look, this is the weapon of the Kingdom of Jin." Mu Ling found a mace from somewhere and it looked very powerful.
"This is the weapon used by the Jin people?" Jin Yao said in surprise.
"I know that the Mongolians use Mongolian scimitars, but the Jin people use maces?" Huang Shan also said in surprise.
Han Kongque said: "Jurchen soldiers are strong and use heavy weapons, such as maces. These weapons are very powerful when used."
"It takes a lot of iron to make a mace." Mu Ling said thoughtfully.
"Don't underestimate the Jurchens. The Jurchens during the Jin Kingdom had a very developed civilization, such as metallurgy," said Han Kongque.
Compared with the Later Jin Dynasty, the civilization of the Jin Kingdom was much more powerful. Currently, more than 10 iron mines and more than 50 iron-making sites have been found in the middle Jin Dynasty. The mines are as deep as more than 40 meters, and there are different operating areas such as mining and mineral processing.
According to estimates of the scale of mining, four to five million tons of iron ore have been extracted from these mines.
The Jin Kingdom at that time was not only powerful in metallurgy. At that time, they occupied most of the land in the north, so the ceramic industry was also relatively developed because of the foundation of the Liao and Song Dynasties.
Especially during the reign of Jin Xizong, the famous northern kilns such as Yaozhou Kiln, Jun Kiln, Dingzhou Kiln and Cizhou Kiln were all occupied by them, and production was resumed one after another. Therefore, the porcelain of the Jin Kingdom was also top-notch.
Of course, the gold, silver and jade industries are also quite developed, and many precious cultural relics have been unearthed.
During that era, the commercial activities of the Jin Kingdom became increasingly active. A large number of Song Dynasty copper coins were found in Jin Dynasty ruins and tombs in the northeast, which shows the close trade with the south.
The bamboo paper from Jishan in Shanxi and the hemp paper from Pingyang were famous for a while, and book engraving became a popular trend. Its carving technology can be compared with that of the Southern Song Dynasty. At that time, the center of the woodblock printing industry was in Pingyang.
Han Peacock has not discovered other things yet, but the coins of the Jin Kingdom have begun to appear.
Passing through a large amount of Song coins and coins made in the Jin Kingdom, Han Peacock and the others specially selected them.
However, the Jin Kingdom did not issue many copper coins. Instead, some banknotes were abundant during the period. Fortunately, these banknotes were all placed in wooden boxes and surrounded by a large number of copper coins, so they were not affected by moisture and did not rot.
I opened some wooden boxes and looked at the contents. They were either treasure notes, treasure passes, or treasure coupons.
Seeing these things, Han Peacock felt that it was normal, because there were really not many copper coins in the Jin Kingdom.
At the beginning of the Jin Dynasty, old money from the Liao and Song Dynasties, as well as money minted by Liu Yu of the pseudo-Qi Dynasty, were used as a means of circulation. After Hailing moved south, money began to be minted. However, due to the limited copper production in the country, the same money was not enough to meet the needs of commodity exchange.
Therefore, a large number of "Jiaobao", "Baoqian", "Tongbao", "Baoquan", etc. were printed as substitutes for minting and have been used as means of circulation.
However, the unrestricted issuance of token coins such as "Jiaobao" led to the loss of credibility. As a result, in the last years of the Jin Dynasty, as political rule gradually collapsed, the financial order also gradually collapsed.
During the reign of Emperor Aizong, the "Tianxing Baohui" was created to circulate cash. The denominations were divided into four grades: "one coin", "two coins", "three coins", and "five coins".
Since there was no credibility at all, it was completely unworkable within a month.
Han Peacock really didn't know that the Mongols robbed everything, and they even snatched back these rubbish. Maybe they thought that as long as it was paper, it was a good thing, so they brought it all back and used it for burial.
The discovery of these treasure banknotes gave Han Peacock some hope. You must know that both the Mongols and the Jurchens had robbed the Song Dynasty, so a large number of the Song Dynasty's treasures might appear here.
Of course, Han Kongque was looking forward to calligraphy and paintings, not gold, silver and copper coins, because he found too many of these things here.
Since the Mongols even snatched scraps of paper as burial objects, will the calligraphy and paintings from the Song Dynasty also appear here?
However, Han Peacock soon became disappointed because Mu Ling found many more gold ingots.
"Emperor's gold ingot?" When he took it over and looked at it, Han Kongque recognized it. It was an emperor's gold ingot from the Jin Kingdom period, because it had been excavated from other ancient tombs and was also collected in the Dazu Stone Carvings Museum.
This kind of gold ingot has the emperor's head and the seal characters are very easy to recognize, so Han Kongque recognized it at a glance.
This kind of "Emperor's Gold Ingot" from the Great Jin Kingdom was discovered for the first time in the Bayu area. At the same time, artifacts from the Great Jin Kingdom and the Jurchen tribe were also discovered.
I heard that the discovery was also an accident. When local villagers were digging, they pulled out a square "gold nugget" from the ground. The front was engraved with the head of an ancient emperor, and the back was engraved with seal script characters. It was hard to read.
The villagers suspected that it was a "gold ingot" they had never seen before, and quickly reported it to the local government and cultural relics department.
Relevant experts from the Dazu Stone Carving Museum rushed to the scene and initially identified the item as a rare gilt commemorative ingot called "Ode to Victory of the Great Gold". It weighs 454 grams, is made of red copper, and has a gilt surface.
The front is engraved with a bust of Jin Taizu Wanyan Agu wearing armor, the left and right sides are respectively engraved with the pattern of "dragon and phoenix presenting auspiciousness", and the six characters "Ode to the Great Golden Victory Tuo" are written in seal script on the back.
In September 1114, Aguda, the leader of Wanyan, raised his troops to attack Liao and swore an oath on the banks of the present-day Lalin River. In October of the same year, he conquered Jiangzhou of Liao.
After Aguda founded the country, he named the place where he pledged his loyalty "Deshengtuo".
After Aguda's death, Jin Shizong ordered a monument to be erected to commemorate it, and it was carved into the first monument in the Jin Kingdom: the "Grand Golden Victory Tuo Ode Monument".
Based on historical facts, it is speculated that this kind of gilt copper ingot is likely to be circulated as the early currency of the Jin Kingdom or stored as gold bricks.
The gilt copper ingot "Ode to Victory of the Great Gold" may be a commemorative or reward "gold ingot" issued to the world in commemoration of Taizu Jin.
Therefore, printing one's surrender on coins is not a modern invention. Nine hundred years ago, people carved their own faces on gold ingots.'
Therefore, when Han Peacock saw this gold ingot, he also thought that one day, my face would appear on the empire's gold coins.
However, Han Kongque's expression soon changed, because after cleaning up the emperor's gold ingots, more rectangular gold ingots, cubic gold ingots, oval gold ingots, and gourd-shaped gold ingots were found.
Such a gold ingot did not look like it was cast in the Kingdom of Jin. When he saw the inscription on it clearly, Han Kongque's face became even worse, because he knew where this gold ingot came from.
"What's wrong, boss?" Sensing that there was something wrong with Han Kongque's aura, Huang Shan immediately asked vigilantly.
However, no matter how Huangshan checked the surrounding situation, it didn't look like he was in danger. Han Kongque's state at this time seemed to be angry?
After seeing so many gold ingots, shouldn't we be happy? Why are we still angry? Huangshan was puzzled.
Han Peacock smiled bitterly and said: "These gold ingots should belong to the Song Dynasty, that is, the Northern Song Dynasty. Their appearance here can only prove that we Han people were once weak."
"Northern Song Dynasty? Is it normal for gold ingots from the Northern Song Dynasty to appear here?" Huangshan looked at Han Peacock in confusion. What is there to be angry about? There are many ethnic groups that were robbed by the Mongols, so there is no need to be angry now, right?
"Are you sure it's a gold ingot from the Song Dynasty?" Mu Ling said with an unsightly expression. (~^~)