For a time, Tao's collection of more than 60,000 pieces of silver dollars and their total surrender became the focus of discussion among the people of the whole country. In people's heated discussion, Tao He's story was talked about from the old to the children.
Tao is just an ordinary militia, and her family is not rich. But it is such an ordinary militia that has done what many people can't.
Because she has no money, historians know more about that period of history, and people have a higher pursuit of traditional virtues.
How did Tao Jinlan find these silver dollars and bars? What kind of experience did she have after handing it in? What's the story of these silver dollars and shovels?
Next, let's take a look at Tao He's story.
1in the afternoon of June, 982, it was the scorching sun and the scorching sun. Tao, the hero of the story, is working hard with her cousin Tao Enming in the scorching sun.
What they are doing is the tap water project in Guide County, Qinghai Province. This tap water project is very important and beneficial to all families in the county.
Tao Jinlan and Tao Enming are in charge of the gardening field in Guide County. This section of the project is recognized as the most difficult to overcome in the whole water supply project. What Tao Jinlan and Tao Enming have to do is to connect this section of water pipe.
It is not difficult to simply lay the pipeline, but there are many trees in the county garden, and this water pipe just passes through the stairs of the county garden. How to successfully lay water pipes without destroying stairs and avoiding all kinds of trees is a very difficult thing. At that time, machines were not common, and all kinds of technologies were not mature enough, so we had to rely on manpower to dig a little. Everyone knows the difficulty, so no one wants to take the job.
Tao was only 18 years old and had just joined the militia. It was a time of high spirits and ambition. The education she received at home since childhood is that she is not afraid of hardships and tiredness, works actively and leads a good life.
Because of this family education and youthful age, Tao Jinlan accepted the job without hesitation.
"Someone must do the work. I am young and capable, I will do it. "
In order not to let my cousin be alone, Tao Enming proposed to undertake this work with Tao Jinlan, so there was the scene that appeared before.
After a day's hard work, this project has made great progress. Tao Jinlan and Tao Enming finally succeeded in digging out a drainage pipe.
"Brother, it's getting dark, and we've dug this pipeline almost. Let's go home first if we improve here. "
"Well, I did a lot today. You can have a good rest when you go back. "
Tao Jinlan said "yes" with a smile, and then held the hoe high. However, when the hoe fell, she felt a little different.
After the hoe fell, it didn't dig out the soft soil like before, but hit a hard thing. The sound of metal impact startled Tao Jinlan and attracted Tao Enming's attention: "What's the matter? What's wrong? "
"There seems to be something underground. I'll just dig it." Tao Jinlan rubbed his numb hand and lowered his head. Tao Enming also came to see it with Tao.
The dusty soil is pressed so tightly that you can't see what it is with your eyes.
"Dig again and see what it is." Tao Jinlan said.
TaoEnMing natural have no opinion, two people around the hard things carefully dug up. This dig, let them dig out something amazing.
This hard object is not very big. Tao Jinlan and Tao Enming soon saw the whole picture of this hard object. It turns out that the hard object is not a metal, but a clay pot.
Tao Jinlan and Tao Enming took out the pots. Before they saw what was inside, they found something else around them. Look at this jar with the same shape. The two men put down the jar, picked up the hoe and started a new round of digging.
Tao Jinlan raised his hoe again. This time, when he went down, he heard a "crash". Before Tao could see what had happened, he felt that his leg was buried by a silvery white thing.
"Brother, come and see what this is!"
When Tao Enming heard Tao Jinlan's words, he ran over and pulled Tao Jinlan out of the pile. Two people squatted on the ground and looked carefully. When they saw it, they froze.
"Brother, is this a silver dollar?" Tao Jinlan whispered.
"Well, it seems. I have never seen so much money in my life. This, this, who buried it? " TaoEnMing speak hesitatingly said.
After listening to my cousin's words, Tao realized a little: "So many silver dollars should be of great use. We have to report it quickly. "
"To the rightness, have to report. But it's dark today. Shall we move it home first? "
"It's too much to move."
"Then why don't we bury it first?"
"If one or two are missing, we can't tell."
"What do you say?"
"You stay here and I'll report right away." Tao said, immediately ran to the county. TaoEnMing swallowed saliva and stood warily around the silver dollar.
Jin Lan ran to the county and found the then secretary Tao. When the minister heard that so many silver dollars had been dug up, he naturally dared not delay. He sent someone to the scene to continue reporting. Soon, experts and armed men from all walks of life arrived. Experts picked up a silver dollar and looked at it carefully, and found that it was actually a silver dollar in the Republic of China, and the on-site protection became more and more strict.
As the excavation continued, more and more silver dollars were dug up. Who buried these silver dollars and shovels here? What kind of stories do they have?
Every region has various legends about treasures, and Qinghai Province is no exception. One of the treasures is about Ma Jiajun.
Ma Jiajun was originally built in Dr. Sun Yat-sen's villa. At that time, China was in chaos, and various uprisings broke out. Ma Jiajun is such a team.
In the past few generations, Ma Jiajun's family has been growing and its power has been developing. They gradually changed from bandits to local government officials. Some people will continue to follow the path of their predecessors, either joining the army or entering the officialdom, while others will become what we call playboys, and these playboys have gradually become the main force to plunder the money of the northwest people.
Ma Haiyuan is such a dude who specializes in searching for money.
Ma Haiyuan, 1888, a native of Linxia County, Gansu Province. His uncle was the commander-in-chief of Xining and the first chairman of Qinghai during the Republic of China. This family background makes him very popular in Ma Jiajun's team. He has known many young masters and grandsons of Ma Jiajun since he was a child. They often hang out together, sometimes wandering in the street, and sometimes learning martial arts.
Although Ma Haiyuan is a dude, he is good at kung fu and became famous in Ma Jiajun since he was a teenager.
19 12 When Ma Haiyuan was 24 years old, he went to Qinghai to go to his uncle Ma Lin. In my uncle's hands, kung fu is great, and the official road is naturally smooth.
19 18, Ma Haiyuan came to Guide County and became the former assistant of local Ma Jiajun. Six years' experience didn't make him a soldier for the country and the people, on the contrary, it encouraged him to search for the people's fat and paste.
"This land belongs to us in Ma Jiajun, and I am in charge of these Ma Jiajun, so the gold and silver treasures on this land naturally belong to me." With this in mind, Ma Haiyuan began his career of collecting money.
He took advantage of his position to collude with local businessmen and made a lot of money, but he didn't stop there. In order to squeeze every drop of property dry, he kept raising taxes. The local people are miserable, but they have no resistance, so they can only let him continue to squeeze.
Ma Bufang, the son of Marin, is a famous warlord in Qinghai. After Ma Bufang took office, Ma Haiyuan was already a senior with high qualifications. Naturally, you can't move easily, which gives Ma Haiyuan more time to find money.
On the one hand, Ma Bufang wants to use the help of these old people to stabilize his position, on the other hand, he is afraid of the influence of these old people, so he has been trying to weaken their position in the army.
Although Ma Haiyuan was famous for his martial arts when he was young, his ability to lead troops was not excellent. Under his leadership, Ma Jiajun suffered many wars and losses. Therefore, after Ma Bufang took office, Ma Haiyuan was gradually removed from the army.
Although he left the army, Ma Haiyuan still has a place in politics. He was seen escorting the Dalai Lama into Tibet and serving as a member of parliament in Qinghai. Ma Haiyuan's position in the army is already very high. After leaving the army for politics, he also participated in many important affairs, so the money accumulated in his hands should not be underestimated.
With such great wealth, Ma Haiyuan naturally can't look on the bright side of all this. In order to hide the money and make himself practical, he secretly dug a big pit in his yard to store the ocean he had been looking for for for so many years.
For Ma Haiyuan, it may be a very satisfying thing to sleep with so much money every day. I just don't know if he will occasionally dream of ordinary people who have been ruined by his search at night.
From 65438 to 0949, the war of liberation has come to an end, and our army began to liberate the northwest as planned.
Ma Jiajun has been in a relatively stable state in recent years, and some people are busy searching for human resources to train. In addition, the tyranny of Ma Jiajun has aroused the dissatisfaction of the local people, so the PLA successfully defeated the local Ma Jiajun without much effort.
Ma Haiyuan saw that Ma Jiajun couldn't win and naturally wanted to run away. Unfortunately, Marin and Ma Bufang didn't want to take him with them.
Ma Haiyuan had to take only a few people to dulan county in disguise. The money buried in his yard is naturally too late to take away. Ma Haiyuan wanted to cross the no-man's land into Xinjiang, but unfortunately he had a stroke before he left Qinghai. He used up all his money to save his life.
1949101On October 25th, Ma Haiyuan was finally surrounded. The people's liberation army's policy of preferential treatment to prisoners allowed him to live for another two years.
195 1 year, the bully who hurt one side finally died. And until his death, he didn't go to see the money he buried.
After the founding of New China, Qinghai people heard that Ma Jiajun left a lot of wealth in Qinghai, but I don't know where it was buried. No one has been looking for this property, and gradually no one is in charge.
The former residence of Ma Haiyuan in Guide County, Qinghai Province has been turned into a county gardening field. Until 1982, the ocean buried by Ma Haiyuan in his yard was finally dug up by Tao brothers and sisters.
Ma Haiyuan got a lot of money by blindly searching for the people's fat and paste, but he died tragically before he died. Decades later, Tao, who never thought of finding the legendary treasure, accidentally dug up this priceless treasure. It's fate, but it's still embarrassing
Silver dollars were dug up, and with more and more silver dollars unearthed, the situation became more and more extensive. Tao Jinlan looked at the piles of silver dollars in front of him, and at that time he was dumbfounded.
She never imagined that she could meet this legendary treasure just by working normally. She doesn't know the value geometry of these silver dollars, but looking at the faces of experts around her, I think they are very valuable. Mining and statistics have been going on for a long time. After two days and three nights, the preliminary excavation and statistical work is finally coming to an end.
According to statistics, 679,865,438+0 silver dollars and 65,438+0,568 silver coins were unearthed.
According to preliminary identification by experts, these unearthed silver coins include Yuan Datou, Yang Long, Chuanyang and other styles. Even if the market price of these silver dollars is set aside, its historical value, collection value and even artistic value should not be underestimated.
According to a preliminary estimate, these silver dollars were worth more than 300 thousand at that time. If you put it now, I'm afraid it's worth hundreds of millions!
It is a great event to dig up so many silver dollars in the county garden, and Tao's actions spread all over Guide County at an extremely fast speed.
Because the unearthed cultural relics are all from the Republic of China, the nature of the site is well protected, and ordinary people naturally have no chance to see the true contents of those silver dollars. However, Tao Jinlan and Tao Enming were at the scene at that time, and they dug up the silver dollar, so people naturally turned their attention to these two people.
Every day, people come to ask them about their situation. At first, Tao felt that he had experienced a great event. Later, when more people asked, she figured it out: she was just working normally, and it was just a coincidence to dig up those silver dollars. Now that the silver dollar has been paid, it has nothing to do with her.
Tao no longer cares about this matter and works as usual. But she didn't expect it to end as easily as she thought. The excavation of cultural relics has come to an end temporarily. Due to the high value of the unearthed cultural relics, this matter quickly alarmed the superior leaders and newspapers.
In fact, many people will wonder why Tao Jinlan reported it directly. It was getting dark and there were only two people in the garden. If they stole a few silver dollars, no one would know, but Tao didn't do it.
To this question, Tao Jinlan answered simply: "That's not my own business."
This is a simple matter. You shouldn't take things that don't belong to you. But it is such a simple thing that not everyone can do it.
For everyone, a lot of treasures are a great temptation. Whether you can stick to the bottom line in front of temptation is the best way to judge a person's morality.
There is no doubt that Tao is a man of noble morality. She put the phrase "finding money unconsciously" into her life.
After the interview, Tao's story soon appeared in newspapers, and people all over the country knew her story.
In addition to various honorary titles, Tao also received generous rewards.
However, for Tao herself, she always felt that she just did a simple thing and didn't deserve so much praise.
After the heat of this incident gradually faded, Tao also returned to his original quiet life.
But maybe it's not so calm.
After this incident, Tao has been committed to providing all kinds of help to people in need, subsidizing poor students and taking care of lonely old people. She has contributed to this society with her own strength.
Over the years, Tao Jinlan has helped others silently.
We can't know whether Tao is such a person originally, or whether he feels that he accepted too much goodwill in that incident and should give back to the society. But in any case, we still have to admit and admire her contribution to this society.
Tao inadvertently dug up more than 60 thousand silver dollars, which brought changes to her life. She could have taken a less hard road through this incident, but she still chose the most common road to move on.
Such a person deserves everyone's admiration.