Chapter 772 Yuanbao
In the space square, all the high-end weapons piled up in different areas are packed into bundles.
Fire guns, embroidered spring knives, bows and arrows, spears, etc., piled up like a mountain, are all standard equipment for factory guards in the Ming Dynasty.
Unfortunately, most of these weapons have rotted away.
Almost all of the bows, arrows and spears were scrapped.
The firecrackers and Xiuchun knives were all rusty, and cleaning them required an extremely long process.
However, none of this matters.
The important thing is that after seeing these things, Lu Fei can basically confirm his guess that this is the secret base of Wei Zhongxian's factory guard.
Weapons are stored in the square outside, and the remaining twelve wooden houses will definitely not let you down.
Ignoring Weapon for the time being, he pulled Chen Xiang to the first wooden house on the left.
The seal on the door was so rotten that no writing could be seen at all.
Only faint traces of the cinnabar seal can still be seen.
Lu Fei took out a small hammer from his bag and handed it to Chen Xiang.
Chen Xiang asked puzzledly.
"Why are you giving me this?"
"We discovered this together, and we added to it everything in it."
"As for whether it's good or bad, it depends on luck."
"How about we each open six rooms and compete with each other to see who has the higher value of the room?"
"This is the first time to try your luck, Miss Chen." Lu Fei said.
"I said, I don't want anything. As long as I participate, I will be satisfied." Chen Xiang said.
"Let's talk about that last, now let's see how lucky you are."
"Smash the lock!"
"I, I'm afraid I can't hit it." Chen Xiang said.
"Don't worry, the lock is broken, it won't take much effort to fix it."
Encouraged by Lu Fei, Chen Xiang raised the hammer and hit it hard.
"Click!"
There was a crisp sound and the lock fell to the ground.
In order to prevent organ
, Lu Fei asked everyone to step aside and opened the door sideways.
After making sure it was absolutely safe, everyone came to the door again.
The inside is a rectangular space with an area of about fifty square meters. There is no furniture and it is filled with tung oil wooden boxes.
The dimensions of these wooden boxes are almost the same as those of Zhang Xianzhong. The tung wood material is soaked in tung oil and is quite well preserved.
There are two floors, upper and lower, and there are at least sixty by visual inspection.
When they came to the first box, the task of breaking the lock was still left to Chen Xiang.
But this time it wasn't so exciting.
The lock head was soaked in tung oil and was also in good condition.
Chen Xiang smashed it more than a dozen times in a row, and his arms were sore, but the lock still didn't break.
Chen Xiang shook his head and said helplessly.
"Lu Fei, you better do it, I can't smash it anymore."
Lu Fei chuckled, flicked the unicorn needle and fiddled with the keyhole twice.
"Too!"
After a crisp sound, the lock opened easily.
Chen Xiang rolled her eyes at Lu Fei and said angrily.
"You're so annoying."
"It's so simple, but you insist on smashing it. Are you trying to make fun of me?"
"hey-hey!"
"You have wronged me for this. I let you break the lock so that you can experience the fun."
"Other people want to get addicted to handicrafts, but they haven't had the opportunity yet."
Lu Fei checked the box, confirmed it was safe, and signaled Chen Xiang to open it.
Chen Xiang nodded, held the lid with both hands and lifted it up hard.
When the lid was opened, Chen Xiang exclaimed.
"Oh my God!"
"This, is this a silver ingot?"
Lu Fei picked up a tablet and looked at it.
In the middle of the ingot is cast "Da Ming Yuan Bao" in traditional regular script.
The words "Fifty Liang" are cast on the left side, and the words "Guihai Year" are cast on the right side.
The year of Guihai was also the third year of Tianqi, which was Wei Zhongxian's most proud time.
These were fifty taels of official silver from the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the third year of Tianqi, which confirmed Lu Fei's guess.
"Yes, these are official silver from the Ming Dynasty."
"Look what's written here, this is fifty taels of pure silver in the third year of Tianqi." Lu Fei said.
"Wow!"
"So many!"
"Lu Fei, how much is a Ming Dynasty ingot worth?" Chen Xiang asked.
"It's hard to say. Every emperor's ingot has a different value."
"The specifics depend on the historical significance, the number of copies issued, the number of copies in existence and the state of preservation."
"During the Tianqi years, the number of ingots cast was huge, so the value was not very high."
"Although these are well preserved, one ingot is worth only a few hundred thousand at most, and no more than 150,000 at most." Lu Fei said.
"One hundred and fifty thousand is already a lot." Chen Xiang said.
"No, 150,000 is really not high."
"The sixth emperor of the Ming Dynasty, Ming Yingzong Zhu Qizhen, if the ingots from his time could be preserved, one ingot of ten taels would be worth two to three million!"
"The gap here is huge!" Lu Fei said.
"Brother, if the ingots of the sixth emperor of the Ming Dynasty are so valuable, wouldn't the ingots of the founding emperor Zhu Yuanzhang be worth a lot of money?" asked the little girl.
"hehe!"
"Just tell me what you said. If you say it in front of knowledgeable people, you will definitely be laughed out of your mouth." Lu Fei said with a smile.
"Why?"
"Am I wrong?"
"Of course not."
"After the founding of the Ming Dynasty, Ming Tai
Ancestor Zhu Yuanzhang set about rebuilding the financial system. "
"After years of war in the late Yuan Dynasty, copper mining came to a standstill, and the number of copper coins on the market was very small, let alone silver."
"So during Zhu Yuanzhang's time, paper banknotes were issued, called "Da Ming Bao Banknotes."
"The value of Ming Dynasty treasure banknotes is divided into six levels: consistent, 500 Wen, 400 Wen, 300 Wen, 200 Wen, and 100 Wen."
"For transactions under a hundred cents, copper coins are used for transactions."
"In order to take care of the large number of illiterate people at that time, Zhu Yuanzhang also made a very considerate and elaborate design, drawing a series of coin patterns on the banknotes, one string representing a hundred coins, and always drawing ten strings, but it is easy to understand understood."
"During Zhu Yuanzhang's time, it was forbidden to trade with silver among the people."
"The issuance of Ming Dynasty treasure banknotes not only uses no silver, but actually absorbs nine out of ten of the silver in the hands of the people."
"This system continued to be used until the Yingzong period of the Ming Dynasty, when silver trading was resumed intermittently."
"It is precisely because of this that silver from the Yingzong period of the Ming Dynasty has the highest value."
"As for the five emperors in front, there is no silver issued at all, let alone value." Lu Fei said.
"That's not right, my brother, isn't that what the movie says?" said the little puppy.
"A movie is a movie, it's all fiction."
"There's so much bullshit in the movie."
"There was no mention of memorials in the Ming Dynasty, but in the movie the ministers wrote memorials."
"The slogan "Long Live the Emperor" was obviously used by Wu Zetian. Every emperor in the movie is called "Long Live the Emperor." Can that be true?
"Read more books on a daily basis. That's serious knowledge." Lu Fei said.
During this time, Chen Xiang and Wang Xinlei took out a box of silver ingots and placed them on the ground to count.
The visual sense was absolutely shocking, but Lu Fei was too lazy to take another look.
Because these are not Lu Fei's goals at all.
