Facing Chen Han's questions, Professor Li felt embarrassed as if a teacher could not answer the students' questions.

But Chen Han didn’t feel there was anything embarrassing at all. It was normal that he didn’t know Professor Li!

Even for modern Chinese characters, most people only know three to five thousand characters.

However, the more commonly used "Xinhua Dictionary" contains more than 10,000 Chinese characters.

"Chinese Character Ocean" contains more than 80,000 Chinese characters!

Even Chinese linguists dare not claim to know most of the Chinese characters.

What's more, it's such an obscure seal script.

You should know that compared to the official script popular in the Eastern Han Dynasty, the Qin Zhuan (small seal script) used in the early Western Han Dynasty is obviously more difficult to understand.

Xiaozhuan is a font that was born after Qin Shihuang unified the six kingdoms and implemented the "scripts with the same text" to unify the national script.

It is a "simplified Chinese" character that was simplified based on the large seal script originally used in the Qin Dynasty.

The large seal script is a commonly used font in the late Western Zhou Dynasty and is said to have been created by Boyi of the Xia Dynasty.

The large seal script inherits the rich style of original Chinese hieroglyphics.

To put it simply, it is very difficult to understand. It is better to say that it is "looking at the pictures and talking".

Xiaozhuan, which was simplified on the basis of Dazhuan, is more concise, and the strokes are more horizontal and vertical, and the roundness is even. It no longer looks like a "painting", but a tough square character.

But in fact, the gap with modern Chinese characters is still very large, and it is very difficult to distinguish.

And until now, scholars have not figured out the meaning of all Xiaozhuan characters.

Not to mention that from time to time, never-before-discovered "new" characters are found on some bamboo slips from the Qin and Han Dynasties.

It's totally normal not to know each other.

In fact, after the discovery of many seal script characters, linguists have to slowly study and define the meaning of the characters.

"Then thank you Professor Li. If that doesn't work, wait until the bamboo slips are repaired and take pictures for those who study ancient characters in the hospital to ponder."

Kong Jianwen waved his hand, said haha ​​and skipped the topic, and said excitedly:

There are specialties in the art field. They are engaged in archeology, not the study of ancient characters. There is no need to waste time on one or two unknown characters.

"It doesn't matter if you can't understand a word or two. The content of this resignation letter is still very informative!"

"It is certain that the owner of tomb No. 168 was buried in May of the 13th year of Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty. The date can even be accurate to Gengchen, which is the seventeenth day of May!"

"This information is very important!"

"Sure enough, he was from the period of Emperor Wen of Han Dynasty!" Chen Han cheered in his heart.

When he found some unearthed lacquerware with the word "ren" written on them, Chen Han wondered in his mind whether it might be related to Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty.

After all, when mentioning "benevolence" in the Western Han Dynasty, one would definitely think of Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty and his concept of governing the country with benevolence and filial piety.

Sure enough, it is now confirmed that the owner of the tomb was indeed the one who died in the thirteenth year of Emperor Wen of Han Dynasty.

And more importantly, he also discovered some Hanbanliang!

Thinking of this, Chen Han immediately grabbed Kong Jianwen's arm and told him about it.

"What? You found some half liang of money? Are you sure it's Han's half liang?!"

This news shocked Kong Jianwen again.

Is it possible that today we can solve a problem that has troubled Chinese historians for two thousand years?!

"Teacher Kong, I have also cleared out more than ten Hanbanliang!"

Su Sa, who heard the chat between Chen Han and Kong Jianwen, quickly joined the conversation.

Su Sa was the first to clean up the bamboo mat. The bamboo mat she found was very small. There were only some half-taels of money and some copper rings that she didn't know what they were used for.

It was also because of this that she finished cleaning up early and continued digging in the saddlebag, and then she found this piece of bamboo slips.

Chen Han and Su Sa quickly took Kong Jianwen to look at the half a tael of money they had cleared out.

Although these copper coins have inevitably rusted, turned green, and turned black.

But this half-liang coin with a plain back and an outer wheel shape can be recognized at a glance as a Han banliang!

To be precise, it is impossible to determine who minted the Han four baht and a half liang based on historical data!

There are many kinds of half-liangs in the Western Han Dynasty, and they were cast five times before and after.

There was one made by Liu Bang, which weighed less than one baht, but he shamelessly said it was half a liang [elm pod half a liang].

There are also eight baht coins and five cents minted by Empress Lu in order to save the currency system that collapsed due to Liu Bang's random issuance of coins.

Also, Emperor Zhao of the Han Dynasty, Liu Fuling, didn’t know what he thought, but he took half a tael of iron cast from iron.

In addition, I don’t know whether this is four and a half baht minted.

Five currencies of the early Western Han Dynasty are all engraved with the word "banliang" on the currency surface.

However, the first four types can be determined as to who led the casting. Only the last four baht and a half liang has been debated endlessly in the historians.

Now, this debate can finally be put to rest.

Holding a patina-colored four-and-a-half baht, Kong Jianwen rubbed the copper coin, feeling the special texture of the bronze, and sighed: "Since it can be determined that the burial date of Tomb No. 168 is the 10th century of Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty,

Three years.”

"Then who cast these four and a half baht can also be determined."

"It must be true that the four-baht coin minted by Emperor Wen of Han Dynasty in the fifth year recorded in "Hanshu Shihuo Zhi" is true."

"This also means that the theory that Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty minted three baht coins for the second time and the textbook that Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty carried out six currency reforms are both wrong and must be revised."

"I think Ban Gu should have written "Three baht coins in the spring and February of the fifth year of Jianyuan" as the first year of Jianyuan when he was writing "Book of Han·Wudi Ji", which caused all the subsequent records to be messed up.

."

"The correct history should be that in the fifth year of Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty, four and a half baht coins were minted and used. In the fifth year of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty changed to mint three baht coins."

"Finally, in the fifth year of Yuanshou, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty abolished the three-baht coin and minted the five-baht coin."

“This way it is logical and smooth.”

"In that era when going out was all about walking and finding people was all about yelling, the implementation of all central policies was slow."

"A currency system requires at least ten years of feedback before major changes are made. It is impossible for Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty to change the currency system multiple times between the fourth and fifth years of Yuanshou, as recorded in later generations."

"One year is not enough to mint the coins and issue them on a large scale. How can we change the currency system again?"

"The emperor would not dare to change his order so quickly!"

Kong Jianwen laughed and said to Chen Han and Su Sa in a somewhat teasing way: "Okay, Xiao Chen, Xiao Su, your discovery can be said to be a major discovery that has rewritten history textbooks!"

"From now on, the records and teaching materials in history books about Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty's currency system reform will be changed because of your discovery today!"

"You, teacher, and I have been doing archeology for so many years, but we have never made a major archaeological discovery that overturned historical records!"

Chen Han scratched his head and said with amusement: "I didn't expect everything to go so smoothly. I just happened to find Han Banliang. It just so happened that the owner of this tomb was definitely from the period of Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty."

"A problem that has troubled the historical community for two thousand years has been solved so easily."

Kong Jianwen nodded happily: "Although we are materialists, I have to say that doing archeology is really a matter of luck."

"Xiao Chen, it seems that you are very lucky."
Chapter completed!