In fact, the gold reserves in the Western Han Dynasty were very large. In the early years of the Western Han Dynasty, the gold storage in the national treasury has reached more than one million tons, which is actually very amazing, equivalent to half of the gold storage in China in 2003. In fact, there was so much gold in the Western Han Dynasty, 1 because of some accumulation in the previous dynasties. In fact, many people liked to collect gold before the Spring and Autumn Period. After the Qing dynasty unified the six countries, the Qin dynasty had a large amount of gold reserves, so these gold were finally taken away by Liu Bang.

The second reason is that in the Western Han Dynasty, it has entered the era of cold weapons. At this time, the ability of mining minerals in the Western Han Dynasty was also very strong. According to historical records, at that time, the Western Han Dynasty had set up official posts specializing in mining, and the number of such official posts was particularly large, so the Han Dynasty was able to mine some gold mines by itself, because the state treasury had a very large amount of gold storage at that time.

The third reason is that during the Western Han Dynasty, many western countries had some trade with the Western Han Dynasty. For example, the historical secretary of Rome said that Rome traded with the Western Han Dynasty every year, such as buying some silk from the Western Han Dynasty and so on. Every year, the amount of gold that Rome poured into the Western Han Dynasty will reach more than 5 tons, which is actually quite amazing.

In fact, many historians in history will think that there are many gold reserves in the Western Han Dynasty. For example, in the battle between Liu Bang and Xiang Yu, Liu Bang used 42,000 gold to alienate the relationship between Xiang Yu and Fan Zeng. It was also because of this gold that Xiang Yu doubted Fan Zeng, which eventually led to Fan Ceng's resignation and return home. Later, Fan Ceng died of illness on his way home. After Xiang Yu lost his right-hand man, he committed suicide in Wujiang two years later. Therefore, the establishment of the Western Han Dynasty was actually based on these huge amounts of gold.