Watch the doorway, and the layman will watch the excitement. Looking at historical records in recent days, I found many ironic problems. For example, I feel more and more that Sima Qian loves to talk nonsense. He can be the originator of such things as rushing to brag.
Look at his paper-covered moonlight eclipse, peach blossoms and winter flowers, heavy rain and heavy snow, which are two feet and five inches deep. As if he had measured it with a ruler himself. Even though he did consult a lot of historical materials, personally visited historical sites and listened to many people's statements before writing, I still doubt these figures and records. People's subjective memory is unreliable. There must be a lot of misinformation in this. For example, this two-foot-five-inch snow, I think, is definitely not a scientific measurement data, and it may just be the thickness of low-lying land or a bluff figure.
The more I look at historical records, the more I feel that it is more like a novel. Maybe I overestimated the seriousness of official history. Anyway, Sima Qian is an exaggerated person. From "Yao Shunyu" to "Liu Xiangyu Explosion", he can bring them to life in such a long time, especially the dialogue, which looks so real and vivid that I can't believe it. This kind of writing effect, if the author does not have extraordinary imagination, is difficult to achieve. And is a book written by a person with excellent imagination still called history? Is the history book just a simple carrier to record the restored past facts or another form of artistic creation? Confused.
Sima Qian is very generous. He always lets the characters in historical records get hundreds of thousands or even tens of thousands of pounds of gold. He gave me the impression that it's all history anyway, so write more and everyone will have face. Ha ha. So with a stroke of a pen, those who came back from the dead are now famous teachers on Forbes list.
For example, Liu Bang was very happy when he heard Tian Ken's words. At present, he has got 500 Jin of gold. Emperor Xiaowen gave five thousand catties to Qiu, three thousand catties to urban and rural areas, three thousand catties to General Guan Ying Yi, two thousand catties to Zhu, two thousand catties to Xiang Ping Hou Tong, and two thousand catties to Dong Mouxing Juyi because his ministers actively eliminated the surplus potential of Lu Chan. The guest seal is obviously a heart-nourishing Hou, and he is given a thousand pounds of gold. "
You see, the gold here is not only weighed by Jin, but also by ton. I wonder how they brought such a heavy thing home. Think about it in A Dream of Red Mansions. We are better now. When it comes to gold, people in China are getting poorer and poorer, and the gap between the rich and the poor is too great. This is really an incredible question.
Is that era richer than the e era? It seems impossible. Reminiscent that the abalone of the ancients turned out to be smelly salted fish, I began to speculate that the ancient gold might be brass, but it didn't seem to make sense, because when and how gold changed from brass to present gold in these two thousand years has never been said. If so, it is impossible not to record it. Otherwise, Yang Bailao would have returned two catties of brass to Huang Shiren, and there would be no such tragedy as a white-haired girl.
Either the purity of ancient gold is problematic? The ancients did not have advanced science and technology to extract gold, but at most they relied on manpower to find gold in the waves and sand beside the river. Therefore, the gold here may be just some sands with relatively high gold content. Don't say 18K, it is estimated that there won't even be 12K.
Of course, there is another possibility. Due to the short history of human civilization in Han Dynasty, natural resources are rarely exploited and utilized by human beings, and gold is everywhere. Therefore, although gold was valuable at that time, its value was far from what it is now. So it is very common to give one thousand Jin of gold.
Not to mention that in order to cut off Xiang Yu's menace and dominate the world, Liu Bang decided to take advantage of Chen Ping's deviant behavior, so he gave Chen Ping 40,000 Jin of gold as an activity fund. Chen Ping really succeeded in alienating the relationship between Xiang Yu and Fan Zeng. After losing the help of a think tank, Xiang Yu became a heroic and lonely hero and lost all the way to Maicheng. Finally, he became a tragic hero, which led to the drama Farewell My Concubine in history. This is a detailed story about women and children.
Let's take a look at how much the 40 thousand Jin activity fund in Chen Ping's hand is worth.
I found a conversion data of ancient and modern currencies, which I think is unreliable.
Some people convert ancient gold and silver coins and copper coins into RMB in this way:
1 two gold = 2000 yuan = 10 two silver.
1 two silver = RMB 200 yuan = 1000 = 1 customs (diao) money.
1 Qian Wen = RMB 0.2 yuan.
1 stone rice = 1 two pieces of silver.
(1 stone rice = 10, 1 bucket = 1 0l1l =1.25kg1stone rice =125kg.
Let's convert the funds for this activity according to this ratio.
1 two gold = 10 stone rice
1 kg gold = 5000 stone meters
40,000 Jin of gold = 40,000 X5000 stone meters = 200 million stone meters = 25 billion Jin meters.
40,000 Jin of gold = 200 million taels of silver
40,000 Jin of gold = 40,000,500x yuan = 40 billion yuan.
According to conclusive historical data, the annual income of the Qing treasury is about 72 million taels of silver. If this conversion ratio has reference value, then Chen Ping's activity funds are equivalent to the national treasury income of the Qing Dynasty for three years. It's equivalent to 40 billion RMB, which looks more like nonsense. I even think that all the wealth of the Han people is less than this figure. It can be seen that if Sima Qian was not talking nonsense, then gold was not very valuable in the Han Dynasty.