Chapter 86 The Mo Dao of the Tang Dynasty (seeking a monthly pass,
Looking at the box carefully, I found that the gaps were sealed with wax.
This protective measure is really great.
This time, Chen Wenzhe was not afraid of destroying this layer of protection. He scratched it with his fingernail and found that it was still very thick.
"With a dagger!"
"No, it's just some paraffin. It's easy to break open. It's easy to damage this piece of lacquerware with a dagger."
Although this piece is not red, it is still handed down from the Tang Dynasty. How can it be destroyed?
The most important thing is that this is probably the knife case of a Tang Dao.
How can a complete set of things be incomplete?
He scratched and exerted a little force, and the wooden box was opened.
There was another layer of paraffin inside. This time Chen Wenzhe took the dagger and carefully removed the paraffin on it.
"If you want to take it out, it's best not to touch the paraffin!"
"It's okay, I brought a lot of sealed bags!" Chen Wenzhe said with a smile.
"You are really well prepared!" Chen Qingchuan said angrily.
"That's natural, haha. The bottom is oil paper, and there's a wax seal on the outside. This time it's stable!"
I carefully opened the oil paper, and there was actually grease inside. When I opened it suddenly, there was a faint aroma.
"It's probably whale oil. There should be no shortage of whales off the coast of Dongshan Province in the Tang Dynasty, but it would be very difficult to capture them and boil them into whale oil."
"Just buy it."
"Those big nobles won't pay for it. After all, a lot of whale oil is used here."
Although Chen Wenzhe did not calculate it, he knew that this cave should have been used for a long time. This can be seen from the incense burner used for sacrifices.
When an incense burner is used for a long time, it will naturally shed countless incense ash.
I glanced at it a few times, mainly looking at the gold objects on the altar, but I didn't take a closer look at the incense burner.
At this moment, I remembered that the incense burner seemed to have four legs?
Turning his head, the light shined on it, and sure enough, it was a four-legged square tripod. It was just a little smaller, only thirty or forty centimeters tall, but it was still a tripod.
The bronze four-legged square tripod was also a sacrificial vessel. This was probably illegal in the Tang Dynasty, right?
However, since there are a large number of weapons hidden, there is no need to care about whether it violates the rules or not!
It's not easy to carry such a big square tripod, and besides, there's nothing you can do about it when you take it out.
In China, the bronze trade is controlled. If he dares to take it out and sell it, someone will definitely dare to arrest him.
Withdrawing his gaze, Chen Wenzhe looked at the box in his hand again.
After cleaning the grease inside, what was exposed was a black and red scabbard. The handle must be placed next to it. This knife does not need to be folded, but connected.
This is a Tang Dao. It didn't run away because it was too long.
Putting the two together, it should be about three meters long. A knife this long must be a Mo Dao.
After taking it in hand, some information about Mo Dao quietly emerged in my mind!
The Mo Dao is an extremely practical combat knife. It is mainly used for cutting and fighting against cavalry. It has a wide range of overall use, so it naturally needs to be long and strong.
Therefore, the production of Modao is too complicated.
He took out the scabbard and slowly pulled it out. Sure enough, this should be what the Mo Dao looks like. It is not a straight knife.
This knife has a broad and thick blade, like an axe.
It is shaped like the one next to the left ear, and is silver-white in color.
This should be similar to what is recorded in the literature. People in the Tang Dynasty were mostly well-educated, so it is not meaningless to use the word "Mo" to form a sword.
This character not only has the shape of a knife, but also has the meaning of one to a hundred, so it is called Mo Dao.
The Mo Dao can usually be disassembled into two parts and is held by lower-level officers. The lower-level officers must be young and strong warriors who have undergone long-term military training.
Supervise the battle during the battle. At the critical moment of the battle, it can be used as a slaying sword.
This thing looks like a long-handled double-edged horse-killing sword. It is probably the prototype of the long-handled broadsword in later generations.
The emergence of anything has an evolutionary process, and Mo Dao is the original type of long-handled sword.
Mo Dao just changed its name and evolved into long-handled broadswords with various names, so it never disappeared.
Originally, the Mo Dao was a lengthened and thinned axe blade, used to chop weapons and equipment of heavy cavalry. However, such a craft was difficult to achieve in ancient times.
Therefore, there is a certain reason why Mo Dao is expensive. It is different from other knives.
In the Tang Dynasty, Ma Shan was the only one who could compare with Mo Dao.
The cost of the Mo Dao is mainly due to the craftsmanship. The Mo Dao is different from other weapons. Other weapons can show their power as long as they use more steel. However, the Mo Dao is a weapon that can attack both near and far. It needs to be lethal and sensitive.
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This requires that the Mo Dao should not be too long or too short.
If it's too long, it's easy to break, but if it's too short, it's not strong enough, so a special process is used to finally achieve a special method that can be folded.
Part of the shadow of Mo Dao can be seen on the current RB Nodachi.
When using the Nodachi, you need to hold it high and use the weight of the blade and the user's strength to cut downwards together, so it is very powerful.
At the same time, the user can use the elastic force when the tip of the knife contacts the ground to lift it above the head, thus effectively saving the user's physical strength.
It is also because of this method of use that the Mo Dao requires that the tip of the knife cannot be quenched like other weapons, and because there is a steel knife in the middle, it is easily broken when it touches the ground, so the Mo Dao has formed its own unique style.
There is a certain reason why Mo Dao is not allowed to be buried with him. Good things should be reserved for the living instead of being buried with the dead.
Moreover, the Mo Dao is not easy to make and is expensive, so it cannot be buried in vain. It should be of maximum value in the hands of living people.
Therefore, almost no Tang knives have been passed down to later generations, and this one was obviously violated by someone, otherwise it would not have been preserved until now.
It seems that the owner of this large tomb must be from the middle and late Tang Dynasty, otherwise he would not dare to violate the rules.
Since the Anshi Rebellion in the middle of the Tang Dynasty, the strength of the Tang Dynasty has gone from bad to worse, and it finally fell into a melee. Otherwise, no one would dare to hide their weapons even on the Dongshan side of the Emperor Tiangao.
Of course, these have nothing to do with Chen Wenzhe. He came down just to solve the problem of financial freedom, and it must have been solved now.
Therefore, he would never break the stone coffin or open the coffin.
As for the three-color Tang Dynasty pottery figurines that he had longed for, he also saw them, those three-color pottery figurines outside.
It would be nice to take a look at this thing. After all, it was a burial object. He was not interested in getting one and keeping it at home.
He looked at it and touched it, but Chen Wenzhe didn't start the inheritance because he didn't know if he needed the Tang Dao production technology.
After all, today's metallurgical methods are definitely not comparable to those of ancient times. As for forging a Tang Dao yourself, although it is very tempting, I don't know if it is worth wasting an opportunity to inherit it independently.
Anyway, the things have been obtained, whether to accept independent inheritance will be discussed later.