Chapter 84：Dara is disappointed

Dara began to ring the masonry. This is the basics of treasure hunting. Usually, old masters for luck put silver coins in bricks. Sometimes there were hiding places in the masonry, sometimes silver was placed in the corners of houses or forts for protection from spirits, it drove them away or precious jade. But it was already more difficult with him without a special scanner, you'll find hell! But a special scanner, unlike a more or less professional metal detector, cost not $ 4,700 but all 25,000. None of the treasure hunters, well, or almost no one will buy it.

Since the main income of the treasure hunter is not the treasures themselves, but advertising from the views on their YouTube channel. The more subscribers, the more advertising. If there are more than 400,000 subscribers, then usually advertising three or four brands a month brings about 6-7 thousand dollars. Well, the finds themselves are consolation bonuses. A month usually comes out no more than 200-300 dollars, and sometimes even less.

Gold coins or rare coins, are not so common every 3-4 years. Poryo such coins can cost up to 6-8 thousand dollars. It is very rare that anyone immediately finds frizz, that is, 5-10 coins at once at the same time, especially gold and rare ones. It depends on luck and the right place. That is, the place where rich people lived, maybe it was a market square, a customs point for collecting tribute between the border of the principalities. Maybe there was a house of a innkeeper, a hotel, a postal station or a house of a merchant, a house of a rascal. It's hard to find out. You need to read manuscripts, know languages, Arabic and Persian. Porio has access to funds and archives, not only local but also foreign, where old documents from the 15th-19th centuries are collected. There are old topographic and boundary maps.

Those places where treasure hunters were not yet, those places where the locals didn't bury them, didn't take the tree, didn't rummage everything in search of gold and silver.

As a local resident, a history teacher himself, said to be an educated person, during the time of the second empire, he led his class 4-5. That they were engaged in illegal excavations of the mounds. He was a nationalist. Therefore, I told my students, dig, find, hide at home, this is your cultural heritage. Even if it remains so in our homeland, you will possess these treasures and not the second empire will take to you.

From the point of view of a scientist, this is a crime, it is vandalism. So barbarously refers to his story, breaking cluture layers, losing history. But from the point of view of preserving the memory of ancestors, perhaps this was the best way out for him. Since really everything that was dug up valuable was exported to the capital of the metropolis.

The elite in Small-An was strange, with phobias, some were afraid of the Chinese, thinking that they would occupy all of Small-An, and would pluck him from the inside. But they did not know the story. Since ancient times, Small-An was a vassal country of the TAN Empire; after 1848, even the capital of Small-An was under the protectorate of the Qing Empire. The Chinese had their diasporas, their cities in Small An, like the inhabitants of Small An, had their cities near Gaochang and Changnan, there was a whole block of craftsmen and merchants from Small An. They got along with each other. Small-An needed the Chinese as a window to Persia and the Arab East, and the Persians as a window to China.

From ancient times, the territory of Small-An was under the large empires of the Persian, Arab, Chinese, later the First and Second Empires. Small-An was fought in the mid-19th and early 20th centuries by the USA, Great Britain, Austria-Hungary, and Great Porta. But the First Empire won, she outplayed everyone.

Others were afraid of the second empire. Third were on the US side. Fourth lobbied for EU interests. Fifth were for China. Sixth for the increasing influence of India. Seventh for attracting Arabs. In short, in Small An, there was an elite, it did not think about increasing the welfare of its people, but simply lobbied its interests and stuffed its pockets. Nothing new.

So here in Small-An, for the treasure hunter there was a new Kalondike, the times of the Gold Rush began again.

If it was possible to find a secret workshop in the caves, the treasure hunter could enrich himself in an instant.

During the period of feudalism in the mountains and deserts in remote places, wealthy land owners hid underground workshops where slave artisans worked. They created works of art, jewelry workshops, manufactured weapons and chain mail. And some melted gold and silver into the backwater, sometimes it was higher than the official test in the principalities. That is, they made left money, which was simply smelted from mined private and hidden from the eyes mines and smelters.

If you find one, you can find blanks from precious metals and jewelry and coins, many, many coins!

But such findings were rare. During the time of the Mongol invasion, some of them were frozen, and so they forgot. The other part functioned until the end of the 1920s.

In total in Small An, there were only two such finds over the entire period of existence during the period of independence over 35 years. But during the second empire, there were only 17 finds. But there were clearly more!

Dara knew this. He was a student historian.

Having received an iron signal from inside a small masonry, Dara started breaking the wall like a maniac!. Breaking masonry with a shovel. It took him considerable time until he finally discovered that a piece of a saber was sticking out of the wall of the second row ...

Here is the ass. Dara thought it took so much effort to find this piece of shit!