Chapter 163

Just as he was about to continue speaking, another group of people arrived, dusty and tired.

Professors of astronomy had also arrived at the scene.

When they saw a group of people surrounding the scene, they thought they were studying a stone tablet.

Dean Lin shouted hurriedly: "Go, go, go, hurry up, there are already so many people studying it!"

Now the people nearby were all stunned.

What are they here for?

However, when they arrived at the scene, they found there was no stone tablet on the ground.

But when they saw the mountain of copper coins, even at their age, they were shocked beyond measure!

The Dean looked at the copper coins and couldn't help but exclaim: "This, this, this... are these all money? I thought there was nothing in this world more shocking than the power of the universe. Today I realized that my knowledge is ultimately insufficient!"

The other accompanying professors nodded in agreement.

Immediately after, the Dean remembered something and looked up at Fang Yang: "Hello, I am the Dean of the Chinese Academy of Astronomy, my surname is Lin. May I ask if you were the one who dug up that astronomical chart today?"

As soon as these words were spoken, the people around were stunned.

Dean of the Academy of Astronomy? Another big shot has arrived!

This is much more awesome than a university president!

The workers didn't understand, but the others did!

A university president can be at the same level as a mayor.

However, this Dean is at the provincial level!

Most importantly, he is one level higher than the two museum big shots next to him!

The most shocked were Director Dai and the two curators!

They didn't expect such a great god to actually run here too.

And looking at his posture, it seemed he was coming specifically for Fang Yang. Dean He probably guessed what it was for.

But Curator Zhou was completely dumbfounded. What is the situation with this Fang Yang?

Even the Dean of the Academy of Sciences has to come looking for him!

He was just feeling depressed earlier that he had no face at all.

However, what surprised him even more was.

Fang Yang didn't have any expression, just tilted his head to look at him and said faintly: "I dug it, so what!"

Dean Lin showed a smiling expression: "Where is the stone tablet? Can you let us see it?"

"Oh~~ it was sent to the Cultural Relics Bureau. If you want to see it, go there!"

"Okay, okay, thank you~~"

After saying this, he immediately called a few professors to walk back.

【Popularity】+1+1+1+1....

—【Haha, look at Curator Zhou's face, it's hilarious. I reckon he's doubting his life a bit now. As an old fan of Fang Yang, I know him too well. Don't look at him as only 20 years old, but I always feel like he has lived two lifetimes. He doesn't care much about many things, of course, except for money!】

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—【Let me popularize it for everyone. This is the Dean of the Academy of Sciences. If it wasn't astronomy, but the Dean of the Academy of Sciences, that's the biggest BOSS of the National Education Bureau. You can imagine how high his level is. The previous President Kong was awesome enough, but compared to him, he's still far behind!】

These people came and went in a hurry, leaving everyone at the scene unable to react.

Until they were completely far away, a wave of commotion broke out at the scene.

Only then did they finally come to their senses. Such a big shot actually came to find Fang Yang in person?

And it seemed to be specifically to see the previous stone tablet!

That means the value of this stone tablet is shockingly high.

The only one at the scene who didn't know what was going on was Curator Zhou. Listening to the discussions around him, he didn't even know what he was doing!

Dean He suddenly thought of the gold cake in his hand and immediately asked in confusion: "Fang Yang, you gave me this gold cake earlier, what were you trying to say?"

Fang Yang glanced at the gold cake and immediately jumped down from the car: "Dean He, first look at the era and special features of this gold cake!"

"Okay!"

Dean He immediately began to study it carefully.

Curator Zhou next to him was full of question marks and also wanted to come over to study it, but the object was too small, he couldn't see it at all, and could only be anxious on the side.

After about twenty minutes, Dean He was a bit confused: "If I'm not mistaken, this gold cake should be from the Han Dynasty! Did you also dig this up here?"

Fang Yang nodded: "Yes!"

"The workmanship of this gold cake is very exquisite, but I don't know what the V-shape on it means!"

Curator Zhou had long been impatient and snatched the gold cake to study it.

After looking at it for ten minutes, he said: "It is indeed from the Han Dynasty. The engraving on it should be the name of the worker who made it! Then what? Is there any specific significance?"

Fang Yang thought for a while and said with a smile: "I have read historical records before. During the reign of Emperor Wu of Han, there was such a regulation: local vassal kings had to pay taxes to the imperial court in gold! This was the 'Zhu Gold' used for sacrifices, which is this kind of gold cake!"

"Because this gold belonged to tribute gold, it had to reach a certain purity ratio. At that time, some vassal kings paid gold that wasn't pure enough, and because of this, they were dismissed from their positions by Emperor Wu of Han!"

"So later, to avoid this situation, they would stamp a mark on the pure gold cakes, which is this V-shaped symbol. You can take it back later to test whether this gold cake reaches pure gold to verify whether what I said is correct!"

Dean He nodded after hearing this: "But even so, what does that prove?"

Fang Yang smiled and continued: "Before that, let me say an aside."

"In the early Western Han Dynasty, the Han Dynasty inherited a large amount of gold from the Qin Dynasty. In addition, many gold mines were discovered at that time, and a large amount of gold was continuously dug out. At the same time, the opening of the Silk Road also allowed the Western Han Dynasty to exchange silk and other goods for a large amount of gold from European countries like the Roman Empire. So the gold reserves of the Western Han Dynasty at that time were very, very large!"

"Because of this, after Wang Mang usurped the throne, he inherited a large amount of gold from the Western Han Dynasty. At the same time, he implemented a currency reform policy, issued decrees, nationalized gold, and prohibited people below the rank of marquis from owning gold. They had to take the gold out and exchange it with the imperial court for copper coins!"

"So at that time, Wang Mang accumulated about 700,000 catties of gold, equivalent to 170 tons today!"

Curator Zhou frowned: "Except for the pure gold just now, I know all this. Then what? What exactly are you trying to express!"

Fang Yang ignored him and looked at Dean He: "What I want to say is, this is a coin-minting workshop. The copper coins of the Xin Dynasty were all developed by Wang Mang himself, so he must have often gone to the coin-minting workshop."

"But a gold cake exclusive to the royal family appeared here. Don't you find it strange?"

"Think about it, so many copper coins here weren't discovered by anyone, which shows that this place had already been forgotten at that time, otherwise, it's impossible that no one would have come to take so much money."

"After the Battle of Kunyang that year, Wang Mang had no troops to mobilize and finally died. His 170-ton gold treasure disappeared without a trace. According to folk legends, a part of it was snatched away, but a large part vanished into thin air! If this gold cake was snatched and left here, or received as a reward by other princes, it doesn't make sense, because there are so many copper coins here, no one would not want them, right!"

"Then there is basically only one possibility: this gold cake was here when it was very safe. The question is, who put it here? To be able to take out the gold cake exclusive to the royal family and put it in Wang Mang's coin-minting workshop, I think except for Wang Mang himself, there should be few people in this world who could do it!"

Dean Wang seemed to understand at this time, his eyes wide open, bright and spirited!

He said excitedly: "You don't mean... Wang Mang's treasure... might be here?"

Fang Yang nodded with a smile: "We'll know after digging a bit later!"

93. Treasure unearthed, the whole network is shaken, Fang Yang Museum! (Please subscribe!) ===== CHAPTER 164 =====

Following Fang Yang's analysis, the archaeological experts present felt their heads buzzing!

If Wang Mang's treasure really was down there, the amount of gold would be unimaginably vast.

The more they thought about it, the more excited they became, their breathing even growing rapid.

Xu Fang hurriedly asked, "Then what are we waiting for? Where do we dig?"

The others nodded solemnly.

Fang Yang pointed to the spot where he had previously discovered the gold cake: "I estimate that if it's there, it should be under this!"

"Alright! Everyone stop what you're doing and come over here to dig together!"

The crowd grabbed their shovels and came over to start digging.

With over twenty people digging at once, the speed was far faster than Fang Yang's excavator.

And relatively speaking, it was also much safer.

The others just waited quietly.

Watching the soil decrease bit by bit, they were on the verge of reaching a depth of two meters.

Suddenly, an archaeological team member exclaimed: "Look! I've dug up a gold cake!"

This sentence was like an adrenaline shot, injected straight into everyone's hearts.

Everyone looked over excitedly.

They saw him holding a golden round cake covered in mud.

When he completely cleaned off the mud, the glittering little cake was revealed.

Everyone was stunned!

The shock the workers felt today might exceed what they would feel in their entire lives.

"My God, wasn't Qian Shan enough? Is there really treasure?"