The Treasure Hunt of an Antique Dealer

A person's life is actually a process of continuous learning, and it will naturally be influenced by the offices that life comes into contact with. For example, this film and television drama and the novel can affect many people's worldviews.

A major drama called a historical drama plays a general narrative of history. It is not only a question of not being rigorous enough to say that the iron weapons of China in the Western Han Dynasty are inferior to the equipment of the Huns, it is even misleading!

The Chinese ancestors’ iron-smelting technology and weapon-making process are not as good as the Huns barbarians who don’t even have their own characters?

This is not nonsense!

Although the full use of ironware in China began in the early years of the Western Han Dynasty, in fact, the smelting technology of this ironware appeared in China during the Spring and Autumn and Warring States period, but it was not fully used on a large scale.

"Comprehensive use" is different from "scale use." During the Warring States Period, many soldiers in the Central Plains used steel weapons, and there are many evidences unearthed from archaeology.

Objectively speaking, from the perspective of global civilization, the large-scale use of Chinese iron weapons was not the earliest. It is generally believed that the earliest people who used large-scale iron weapons were the Hittites on the Anatolian plateau.

Although it is not the earliest, in the Western Han Dynasty, China was the world's top steelmaking level. At that time, the length of the extremely high-quality steel sword was far more than 1 meter, and the hardness and toughness were extremely high!

In a horizontal comparison, the appearance of ironware in the West was relatively early, but for the next two thousand years it remained stagnant at the primary level, especially in Europe. In the Middle Ages, carburizing technology was not even promoted!

By the way, the Hittites belong to the Middle East and have no relationship with Europe.

Compared with the ancient Roman Empire in the Eastern Han Dynasty, the length of the iron sword used by the Romans at that time was only thirty or forty centimeters-this is not because the ancient Romans were accustomed to using short swords since the early Republican era. The largest The reason is that their iron swords are too bad and too soft!

Ancient Rome developed to the end of the Western Roman Empire and still used a large number of bronze weapons, because their iron swords were unreliable—the strength was not enough, and they stabbed their opponents with a sword. As a result...

The sword is bent.

Either a flexible bend, or a bend that is too soft. If you want to continue fighting, you have to put your sword on the ground and stom on it straight.

Iron weapons are really unreliable, and it is better to use bronze weapons with mature technology.

As for the Xiongnu, since their rise in the 3rd century BC, until the Western Han Dynasty they have been anxious to do metal transactions with the Central Plains regime, especially steel.

However, the export of ironware and iron materials was strictly prohibited in the Western Han Dynasty, so the Xiongnu often went south to plunder the ironware and craftsmen of the Western Han Dynasty.

A TV series and a plot will make some people who do not understand the real history think that China's original steel smelting and forging technology is not as good as the Xiongnu, which is misleading!

What about the Uzi steel path knife that Zhang Nan asked to put away?

In the era of fighting with manpower and animal power, one or two pieces of high-precision equipment cannot change the development of history. At most, a warrior has a magic weapon that can cut the opponent's weapon out of the gap when fighting alone.

If you are lucky enough to chop several times, and you can even chop off the opponent's long knife, then you have to chop the same gap continuously, and the role of the magic weapon is nothing more than that.

As for Uzi Steel itself, it was a top-quality product in that era, but it was difficult to produce and the output was too small, not to mention that it has its own quality. The simple smelting method was too accidental-this time Zhang Nan obtained The Uzi Knife is obviously the top item among them, but it was impossible to equip any army on a large scale at the beginning!

Not to mention before and after AD, even during the Crusades more than 1100 years later, only the most elite troops and those wealthy officers among Saladin's men were worthy of Damascus steel machetes.

Zhang Nan is quite knowledgeable about history, and I really want to say to those filming movies and TV series: Be merciful, don't change history!

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The archaeological cleanup process was greatly accelerated after combining with Zhang Nan's method of Tufuzi: all officials were robbed, and it didn't matter whether the process was completely formal, just figure it out and figure it out.

The steel boss competed with the rusty big iron sliver. The other guys and the Russian soldiers were not idle. In the past two hours, a funerary tomb was cleaned up, and the one that Chen Jianghua was in charge of was also cleaned up. Less than half.

The organic matter in the burial tomb has long been rotten. It may be that the tomb has too good water permeability. Not to mention leather or human bones. Even the owner of the tomb 2000 years ago left only a few tooth residues!

Tooth enamel is not easy to decay. This is the blessing that the soil here is not as acidic as the winter is long enough, otherwise nothing will be left.

Looking at the remaining teeth, Zhang Nan was still in the mood while holding the specimen bag, joking: "According to this size, the height of the tomb owner is estimated to be more than 1.85 meters."

Guan Xingquan wondered, "Is there a connection between height and tooth size?"

"No, I guessed it."

Zhang Nan didn't blush at all, "But if you have more teeth and more complete teeth, you may guess the approximate age of death of the tomb owner, but it is not very accurate. It has something to do with eating habits..."

It's all nonsense, there are only four or five teeth left and it is not very complete. According to the degree of wear and tear, studying the age of the tomb owner is nonsense. It is purely nothing to have fun.

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The iron objects in the tomb were not only a path knife, but also a short knife with a handle of more than 30 centimeters in length, which was rotten in the sand and stained a lot of nearby soil.

A short knife that was completely rotten had already been broken into three pieces before it was dug out. It was carefully taken out and put into the specimen bag. Zhang Nan saw that its stubble cut was completely rusted.

Strictly speaking, it is no longer an iron knife, just a long strip of rust: this should be the guy who eats in front of the tomb owner, a very ordinary small iron knife.

I found that there were more than 20 pieces of gilt bronze plates near the saddle, almost all of them were in pairs, with slightly rough patterns on the front, and the two largest pieces also had reliefs of galloping horses on them.

The same as the three pieces of saddle gilt decorative copper pieces found~www.wuxiaspot.com~ These gilt copper pieces of varying sizes and basically in pairs are also decorative objects on the harness, but not on the saddle. They should have been on the saddle. Those pimps.

A few clay pots and bowls looked ordinary, but these were fine pottery. They were precious in the Xiongnu region at first. At least they are more precious and beautiful than stoneware and stone bowls.

There are also some scattered stone beads, red and green, all of the agate and turquoise found in the Gobi Desert.

This is not a woman's thing, it should be the jewelry when the owner of the tomb was alive, or it may be a more beloved thing.

In the most interesting tomb where the tomb owner should lie, six small hedgehogs were also found: hedgehog-shaped gold ornaments, each only 4.5 cm long and 2.5 cm wide, molded from gold pieces.

Round and hollow, the thorns on the hedgehog are deformed into curly patterns, with small holes on the edges. The shape looks very cute.

Regarding the use of these hedgehog gold ornaments, Nong Bosheng believes that this should be the decoration on the clothes of the tomb owner: it looks cute, but the tomb owner definitely has nothing to do with "cute" at the beginning!

"The hedgehog is covered with thorns. The use of its shape to make jewelry means that the owner of the tomb was definitely not easy to mess with at the beginning, just like a hedgehog, whoever messes with him will be pierced!"

Well, so far, the owner of this tomb should be buried after natural death, otherwise no one would be willing to bury the hard-won practical items such as path knives, gilded horse gear, and hedgehog gold ornaments. NS!

Comrade Zhang Nan completely agreed with the curator’s point of view, and boldly guessed: "The path knives are buried, do you think it is possible that this is the commander of the Wang Zhangjun alone, just like the later pro-army commanders?"

Regarding this speculation, Nong Bosheng’s answer is: "It is very possible, but unfortunately the Huns nobles and officials have no habit of using seals and cannot dig out a famous one."

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