秦始皇统一六国后,以黄金为上币。汉承秦制,仍以黄金为上币。以亭长身份举起反秦大旗的刘邦,在楚汉相争中曾给陈平4万斤黄金来离间、收买楚君臣,使彭越、英布等叛楚归汉,对于彻底击败项羽起到了不可低估的作用,因而刘邦立足关中而建立的汉王朝,对黄金采取了控制政策,有“盗出黄金边关缴”(简76)的律条可证:主管吏、卒、徒明知是“盗出”仍然放其出境,以及对其不进行搜查,与“盗出”者同罪;不知情,且搜查后没有发现而放其出境,要处以“戍边二岁”的刑罚。~①可见,黄金在当时 Qin Shi Huang unified the six countries, with gold as the currency. Han Cheng Qin system, still in gold for the currency. Liu Bang in the form of long pavilion held anti-Qin banner, in the battle between Chu and Han Chen Ping gave 4 kg of gold to leave, buy Chujun Chen, so that Peng Yue, British cloth rebel Chu returned to the Chinese, completely defeated Xiang Yu played not Underestimated the role of Liu Bangli, thus establishing the footsteps of the establishment of the Han dynasty, gold has taken control of the policy, “stolen out of the gold side of the pay ” (Jane 76) of the law can prove: competent officials died, “Pirates of the United States still let them go abroad and did not conduct any search on them, and they committed the same crime as” Pirates of the People “; if they did not know and did not find themselves released after their search, they should be sentenced to” two years of defense " . ~ ① visible, gold at the time