The Treasure Hunt of an Antique Dealer

"Jiuludao? Why does this name sound a little weird, a little that..."

What else is there, awkwardly chanting, this pronunciation feels weird, unlike the name of Huaxia Sword.

The question was Guan Xingquan. He could hear that the director of the farm was talking about the name of a certain kind of knife, not just a particular knife.

As a Chinese, he still knows a little about ancient history and plays with antiques and cultural relics. Mr. Guan still knows some types of knives that have appeared in Chinese history, such as the ring first knife of the Han Dynasty, the horizontal knife and the Mo of the Tang Dynasty. The knife, the Pu knife in the Song Dynasty, and the Yan Ling knife popular in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, and so on.

But he has never heard of this path. The director of the farm is his own, and it is not ashamed to say the doubt in his heart. If it is replaced by someone else, even if the doubt in his mind is serious, he will not ask.

When Nong Bosheng heard this, he said to Guan Lao Dadao: "Oh, this is a Chinese word, which means magic knife. However, the name of this knife is generally only for the treasure of the Huns. The early Huns called the dagger "path" and regarded it as God of soldiers.

There is a record in the "Han Shu-Xiongnu Biography": ‘Chang, Meng, Shanyu and the ministers all climbed the Xiongnu Nuoshuidongshan and punished the white horse. Shan Yu used the path knife, Jin Liuli to scratch the wine, and the old Shangdan Yu Suo broke the head of the Yueshi king as a drinker to drink the blood alliance. ’

It means that Shan Yu used his pocket knife to "pathway" and the dagger to eat "liu plow" to stir wine to drink for the blood alliance. This was the original ceremony of making an alliance between the Han Dynasty and the Xiongnu.

But that drinker is a bit disgusting. The big blackjack made from the skull of King Yue’s is the same virtue as the later Mongols. I don’t know if it’s an alliance or a warning..."

Yes, Nong Bosheng also remembers Yang Lian Zhenjia’s abnormal and neurotic digging the Southern Song imperial tomb and cutting off Lizong Zhao Yun’s head to make a wine vessel.

He also knew that the wine vessel that represented the humiliation of generations of Han people was later placed in the court of the Yuan Dynasty. Kublai Khan also often used the large wine bowl made of the skull of the Han emperor.

Later, when Zhu Yuanzhang destroyed the Yuan Dynasty and restored the Han family, he also regained the wine bowl.

It is said that Zhu Yuanzhang also took the wine bowl and said: "I am avenging you today!"

In April of the first year of Hongwu, Zhu Yuanzhang buried Song Lizong's skull in the Jinling Jubaoshan in accordance with the royal ritual, to wash away the shame of the century since the Song Dynasty!

Nong Bosheng is a little bit provocative. Who made everyone stand on the Mongolian plateau? That also has a stubborn temper!

But not a few streets away, after cursing the Mongols, Nong Bosheng added: "Yan Shigu, a historian in the early Tang Dynasty, also quoted Ying Shao, a scholar of the Eastern Han Dynasty, saying: "The path is the treasure of the Xiongnu."

In fact, the "path knife" more often refers not only to the hand-held sword of the Huns, nor the dagger, but more often to the sword in the hands of the Huns. "

Just now he was watching with reading glasses, and he flicked the blade with his fingers again, his voice was pleasant, and he took out a magnifying glass from his pocket to look carefully.

"Although this knife is not a treasure that the Xiongnu can only possess, it will definitely not be much. Non-high-level warriors cannot own it. That would be very rare, expensive, and a 100% path knife!

Fortunately, there was not much at the beginning. With this quality, the ordinary ring first knife used by our army at that time could not fight it! "

His words reminded Zhang Nan of a TV series "The Great Emperor of Han Wu" in the early 21st century. There was a passage where Emperor Wu discovered that the swords of the Han army were inferior to the swords of the Xiongnu. The sword of the Han Dynasty broke in two!

A somewhat exaggerated film and television drama description, this Western Han Dynasty sword is not a cucumber or a very brittle pig iron sliver. It has toughness, even if it is cut into a saw blade, it is not easy to break.

Well, don't worry about what the director thinks, anyway, the next plot says that Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty learned that the Xiongnu found a kind of stainless steel in the Western Regions, which greatly improved the performance of the Xiongnu's sword, and can cut iron like mud.

Then, the ambitious classmate Liu Che sent Zhang Qian to the Western Regions.

Yes, one of the important tasks of Zhang Qian’s mission to the Western Regions in the TV series is to obtain more advanced steelmaking technology. Back then, the country with the most advanced steelmaking technology in the world went to the Western Regions to find more advanced technology...

Regardless of whether the description of this film and television drama is correct or not, Zhang Nan remembers the saying of the path knife. As for the reason why the Western Han Baodao is inferior to the Xiongnu Baodao, there is no need to explain it to Guan Xingquan.

Since the Han Dynasty's steelmaking technology is the world's first, why is it that the Han sword is inferior to the Xiongnu sword?

Nong Bosheng naturally talked about the quality of steel at the time, saying: “The quality of the ring-head sword used by ordinary soldiers in the Han Dynasty was not as good as that of the Huns for some time. It is not that the smelting technology of the Xiongnu or the Western Regions is better than that of the Huns. We are tall. At that time, the barbarians were smelting iron with the native method.

However, someone from the Western Regions had obtained the right iron ore and also figured out a way to make high-carbon steel. "

He pointed to the tomb area below, "Don't talk about Emperor Wu's meeting of the Han Dynasty, even if it is a hundred years later, there are still a lot of bronze weapons used by the Huns.

What kind of steelmaking skills can these barbarians have, and even their forging skills are rotten. It can be said that we defeated the Huns with a ring-head knife made by ourselves.

Judging from the fact that many of the Xiongnu swords unearthed in the past resemble the shape of the Han, not only the iron culture of the Huns was influenced by the Han culture, but it is estimated that most of the blacksmiths in the areas controlled by the Huns at that time were also Han craftsmen from the Central Plains. Looted.

If the Huns had such a level of path knife in their hands, it is estimated that the war would have to be fought for hundreds of years. This way, the Huns would have very few or even very few treasure swords!

There is an endless supply of steel. Most of the iron and steel sources in the Western Regions are Persia and Ancient India. Although we had very advanced ironmaking technology at that time, we were able to make pure iron, which was impossible in other countries.

However, the Huaxia Central Plains region does not have the technology to make high-carbon steel. Generally, medium-carbon steel is made by mixing cast iron and wrought iron, which is really inferior to the Huns’ swords in the strength of a few weapons.

The steel used for the sword of the Huns was not produced by them, but relied on a very small amount of fine steel produced in the Western Regions.

From the 6th to the 5th century BC, the Hyderabad area in the northwestern corner of ancient India. By the way, that side now belongs to Pakistan.

At that time, the smelters in Hyderabad selected the black manganese ore, bamboo charcoal and some plant leaves, which were selected by multiple processes and ground into powder, sealed in a ceramic furnace and burned and heated. After the internal ore powder was melted, the **** formed a mass of metal.

Then the mass of metal is repeatedly melted and cooled four or five times, and finally smelted into a metal block, which becomes Uzi steel.

We don’t seem to have many black manganese mines in China, so it seems that this kind of indigenous steelmaking technology has not appeared for a long time. Fortunately, our ancient steelmaking technology is advanced. It can only be obtained in small quantities by drowning with practical medium-carbon steel that can be produced in large quantities. The Huns of Uzsteel.

It’s a bit one-sided to say that we can win the war with ordinary steel, and we need to add comprehensive national strength, manpower, and people’s support. But it’s still a bit like when the Soviet tanks drowned Hitler first, and NATO was still overwhelmed by NATO in the past few decades. It's similar to our stress. "

Speaking of Nong Bosheng, he turned the face of the treasure knife to the side, and said: "Look at the patterns on the face of the knife, like stars in the night sky. This effect is because these patterns are basically two materials with different properties.

The bright ones are called Xueming carbon iron, which is harder than glass!

These structures in the dark areas are austenite and botenite, called polished iron, which is very tough.

In the extremely tough bolly iron, Xueming charcoal iron, which is harder than glass, is evenly dispersed. The blade of Uzi steel can be sharpened so that it is not easy to lose the blade, and the blade is not easy to break.

Fortunately, the manufacture of Uzi steel is time-consuming and laborious. One discus has to be smelted for two or three months, and the success rate of sintered discus is very low. Otherwise, if the original Huns could get a large amount of Uzi steel, it would be troublesome!

By the way, Anan, Uzi steel is not easy to rust, and this knife is not too bad, which is probably one of the reasons.

But it seems that there is no Uzi steel knife that was 2,000 years ago unearthed on this earth. Your luck is overwhelming! "

"The Huns have never unearthed here?"

Zhang Nan knows about Uzi steel knives, because he had collected them before. Although they are not as good as 20 centuries ago, they are all antiques: Uzi steel was no longer produced in the 17th century, because the iron ore in the production area was completely dug and imitated. The ones can only be regarded as "Utz steel type high carbon steel."

The Huns like thick burials, and they will bury them with their swords. If even the ancient India and Persian areas did not unearth the Uzi steel swords 2000 years ago, then there is no ancient Huns ruled area?

Nong Bosheng nodded and said: "No, Uzi steel is precious. I guess that after the Hun aristocrats obtained this kind of stainless steel, they would not use Uzi steel as a whole under normal circumstances. It should be a part of it when forging. If it is not authentic, the characteristics of the knife will also change, and it will not be a knife if it has been rotten for two thousand years.

This is just one point. The more important tombs of the Xiongnu nobles have been formally excavated in only two places.

The Soviets unearthed the tomb of Noyinwula in the 1920s. It is located in Mongolia, close to the Russian border, very far to the north. There are iron swords unearthed there, but not Uzi steel. I saw them almost 40 years ago and they were all rotten. It's out of shape.

There are also several tombs of the Xiongnu nobles in our Inner Mongolia in the 1970s. I have also visited the unearthed cultural relics, but those large tombs are equivalent to the Central Plains and Warring States period. The metal artifacts unearthed are basically Bronze and gold products, and ironware are almost missing, and there is no Uzi steel. Perhaps the Huns did not get this Western steel at that time. "

Speaking of the curator, he raised his head and glanced at the nearby wasteland. "Modern archaeology has been around for a few years. This large area that the Huns once ruled is either grassland or desert, or mountains, forests, and no man’s land. For the most part, the early tombs of the Xiongnu were still unsealed and could not be found.

The piece that the Soviets unearthed is hundreds of kilometers away from the moving north. This large area where we will be in is no man’s land. Needless to say, hundreds of years ago, even if it was 20 or 30 years ago, herders occasionally grazing past this place. On the side, who cares when seeing these stones on the surface?

Those in our business will care. The herders will not care, or even realize that this is a tomb, and there is no sense of reporting abnormalities.

In fact, it is not only lack of consciousness, but the report has to be hundreds of kilometers away, except for the idlers sitting in the office, who has that skill!

Even if a herder realizes that digging a pile of stones may be an opportunity to make a fortune, just relying on the manpower of a few people to make this fortune, and still have to graze the life, rush more than a hundred kilometers to dig when they are free?

This difficulty is too great for ordinary people to bear.

Herdsmen, not a farming nation, may have to travel a few hundred kilometers to buy something suitable for digging. Even if you find it, ride a horse several hundred kilometers back to dig.

Then, after digging it for a few days, I found that the cows were exhausted and they didn’t dig up. So, 100% of them would stop cooking, but the nomads who ruled here after the ancient Huns might dig these piles of stones.

Except for us and the Soviets, everyone in this large area ruled by the Huns has no conditions to study it.

Besides, the core area of ​​Xiongnu activities is still in Mongolia nowadays. What kind of academy of sciences and cultural departments on their side..

hehe!

After this joint investigation some time ago, I can see clearly that these Mongolians in the past few decades have basically no idea what is on the land~www.wuxiaspot.com~ or even have not cared about it at all. This satellite Excessive!

Not to mention the history of a thousand or two thousand years ago and a lot of ancient cities. Even the maps of the Qing Dynasty that they have recently made are all falsehoods.

Some of them can make people laugh. I don't know if it is arrogant or ignorant. On the map I saw in their museum, the eastern border of the Kharkha Khanate actually passed our Chang'an eastward.

The archeology of Mongolia is just getting started. The truth is that the brains of these gangs of sheep and cattle are completely civilized, and their thinking is still in the Temujin era!

Mongolian archaeology is almost blank. As for the two excavations of the Huns’ tombs between us and the Soviets, I think we still have a chance to find them this time, but I don’t know if there are any Uzi steel knives below. "

Speaking of returning the knife to Zhang Nan, after taking it, Zhang Nan said, "I plan to take the knife back to the United States first, and find a good knife workshop to re-grind and assemble it. There are also people playing Uzsteel over there. what do you think?"

Nong Bosheng smiled, "It's all made you look like this, it's okay to polish and polish.

But Anan, don't make it into a Persian knife suit or just do it in the end.

In my opinion, the arc of this knife is extremely small, almost straight.

I asked my friend to get you some drawings and photos of the first-knife set of the Han ring that were discovered by archaeology. Keep the blade as original as possible, and you can process it according to the standard outer-knife set of the ring. "

When Zhang Nan heard this, he said, "Well, anyway, the swords given to the Xiongnu are basically Han style. This forging craftsman is also a Han Chinese, so I will get a sword with a ring head outside."

The knife was wrapped in white cloth so that it could be stored away. Only then did Zhang Nan have the intention to look at a few small things unearthed from the same burial tomb a few hours ago.

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