Master descends to earth

Chapter 88 Three Mountains
Shen Huanwen stood up and said, "I've drunk the tea and rested enough, why don't you hurry up and take us to see your baby?"

"You... a bandit!" Huangfu Jiang looked at the upright Shen Huanwen, and said with disdain on his face, "When a scholar meets a soldier, it's hard to explain why, you really..."

Shen Huanwen laughed, pulled Huangfujiang directly, and interrupted: "What are you doing? In fact, I have long been eager to show off your treasure, so why don't I help you tell it?"

Huangfu Jiang was really speechless: "For brother Su's sake, I won't argue with you today, please!"

Everyone took the elevator to the basement floor. The moment the door opened, Su Yuan was shocked. There were thousands of swords shining brightly in front of him.

Spring and Autumn, Warring States, Qin and Han, Three Kingdoms, Wei and Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, Sui and Tang, Song and Yuan, Ming and Qing, Republic of China...

Looking at it all the way, it is like wandering in the long river of history, cruising in the 5000-year civilization, which is fascinating.

Huangfu Jiang looked at the expressions of the three of them proudly. This is the most proud achievement in his life, especially Su Yuan, who is a superb master. It is rare for everyone to get together, and they began to discuss craftsmanship with great interest, and the atmosphere became more and more harmonious.

Su Yuan briefly looked at it, and nodded secretly. Huangfujiang is indeed a top collector, with a high level, and basically all of them are rare and rare boutiques in the market.

There are at least a hundred yellow light swords, most of which are of the same quality as the Flowing Water Sword, and there are twenty or thirty swords that are even better, reaching the level of the Seven Star Sword.

"This is..." When everyone came to a row of display cabinets, Su Yuan's eyes lit up, he picked up a machete, and began to study it carefully.

"There are three big mountains on the head of the traditional sword, namely: India, Iran, Afghanistan, Bukhara, Turkey and other countries with Damascus plane pattern blades, commonly known as Damascus knives."

"The katana sword, which is the katana sword, originated from the horizontal sword in the Tang Dynasty, but after thousands of years of development, it has become a complete system and even evolved into a spiritual symbol of the entire nation."

"There are also classic European swords from the Middle Ages, as well as the high-tech mass-produced sabers, which are popular all over the world and have a wide range of uses. This is the most profitable business."

Huangfu Jiang couldn't help sighing: "Since ancient times, the casting technique of patterned blades has been extremely complicated and difficult, and the swordsmiths have been kept secret. Only a few people are lucky enough to get it, and it is extremely precious. The royal families and nobles of all countries in the world are proud of the best blades. Proud. The casting technology of patterned blades also has different styles due to differences in regions and blade holders."

Uzi Steel!
Scenes flashed in Su Yuan's eyes, the blade was covered with various patterns, like flowing clouds and flowing water, it was extremely beautiful.The unique smelting technology and forging method have always been the technical secrets of the Persians and are not known to the outside world.

He said with a smile: "The veins of the smelted patterned steel blade produced in Persia are like silk weaves, and the luster is dazzling; the patterned steel blade produced in India often has dozens of layers of cloud trapezoidal veins, which is the so-called Mohammed ladder, which is very rare and rare; Turkey The pattern of the knife is in the shape of a roll, and its veins are like the shape of agate."

When Napoleon led the cavalry to conquer the world, no one could fight against him. Later, when he met the enemy cavalry wearing Utz steel scimitar, he was defeated.Historical records: The damage caused to our army is astonishing. The enemy just stretched the sword forward, relying on the momentum of the horse and the strength of the wrist to cut the blade into the body of our cavalry, or pull the blade horizontally, relying on the relative speed inflict terrible wounds.

After the Seventh Light Cavalry Regiment had an encounter with the enemy, some soldiers were even cut in two. After the battle, many cavalrymen were decapitated or even broken in two. The injuries were extremely serious. , wrists were all cut off, the situation is very miserable.

After the battle, Napoleon used a captured booty to test the knife, and every time he could cut the goat down the middle with no resistance, and the blood flowed along the blood groove.

It is said that an Ottoman general once chopped a cow in two!

Huangfu Jiang looked at the scimitar, lost in memory and said: "I have traveled to Iran and the Middle East many times, just to find the most authentic Damascus knife."

"I have seen the local people practice the knife technique with my own eyes. The practitioner has to stand upright with one foot in front of the other and lift the machete over his head, quickly chop along a diagonal line, and practice this movement repeatedly until he is very proficient. "

"Two people each hold the two corners of a large and soft veil, swing it up and down until the whole veil is full of wind, then let go while swinging upwards, the veil floats softly in the air, at this time practice The operator quickly raises the knife over the head, and cuts at the scarf diagonally, if the person's saber technique is really proficient, the scarf will be divided into two pieces in the air and float gently to the ground."

Su Yuan touched the scimitar in his hand, the guard was made of silver and gilded, the handle was made of black buffalo horn, and the inside of the scabbard was made of hardwood wrapped with cowhide and sewn with gold, silver, and copper threads.

The sheath head and sheath mouth are made of precious metals such as gold and silver, and the handle and sheath are often inlaid with red coral, turquoise, red sapphire and other treasures. And Qur'an proverbs, gorgeous and unusual.

With a strong yellow light shining, combined with the faint and wonderful pattern on the blade, it is indeed the top type of cold weapon.

In fact, in the [-]th century AD, Genghis Khan and his grandson Xu Liewu led an army to invade the west twice, and Damascus and many surrounding cities suffered heavy losses.The Mongolian army ordered the massacre of the city. Only skilled craftsmen could save their lives, but they had to follow the Mongolian army back to Beijing.

A large number of skilled craftsmen were plundered back to Dadu, the capital city. The Yuan Dynasty ordered the construction of a city about 300 miles south of Dadu, and named it Baoding, meaning to defend Dadu and stabilize the world.

Many artisans plundered from Damascus were organized as artisan households and arranged in Baoding to manufacture luxury goods for the royal palace and nobles in the capital and manufacture weapons for the army.

Artisan households are subsidized by the government, but they must be passed on from father to son and become artisans from generation to generation.The manufacturing process of Damascus steel was introduced to China and began to take root.

In terms of craftsmanship, when observed under a high-powered microscope, the so-called unique pattern is actually composed of countless small sawtooths that are hard to see with the naked eye. It is composed of two materials with different properties. The bright part is snow-bright carbon iron, which is harder than glass, and the dark part The structure of the place belongs to the Voss field iron and the Pole iron.

In ancient wars, poison was fed directly to many blades, causing the blades of many Damascus steels to appear black. On the black blades, there are shiny snow-bright charcoal and iron. No wonder some people describe it as stars in the night sky.

Su Yuan put down the scimitar, looked around, and directly picked up the brightest one, the golden light shone in the yellow light, Huangfu Jiang couldn't help secretly admiring it, the most powerful Mascus knife can be seen at a glance among the twenty or thirty, it really deserves its reputation.

Various scenes flashed in his eyes. The quenching work must start before the sun rises, so as to avoid the sunlight from affecting the observation of the radiant fire color of the sword after heating.

The heating before quenching is all controlled by the experience of the knife maker. When the radiant fire color of the knife turns bright red like strawberries, it is quickly drawn out and put into a wooden tank filled with quenching solution.

Quenching liquid is made by mixing sesame oil, sheep oil, pure wax and asphalt, etc. Utz steel has high carbon content, so water quenching may cause fracture.

After ten seconds of cooling in the quenching solution, the knives are withdrawn and quickly rubbed over the half-cooled charcoal to remove residual grease and allow them to be tempered.

Then there is grinding, first use lime and grass ash water to remove the oil stains on the knife body, then use a piece of wood dipped in oil and steel stone powder to grind the sword continuously, and use hematite powder to polish the sword finely.

Then smear the sword with a weak acid solution. Under the weak acid cleaning, the unique pattern of woozi steel is clearly displayed. Finally, the sword is wiped clean and it will not rust for a hundred years.

(End of this chapter)