While Xu Yuan was recuperating in the hospital, Gao Bin and Huang Yanyan began to look for the old man who had worked with Xu Heping.
Among them is Xu Heping’s student Lu Zuo.
After learning the reason for their visit and hearing that the master's son was in hospital, Lu Zuo immediately expressed his intention to visit him in the hospital.
Helpless, Gao Bin had to take him to the hospital and let him meet Xu Yuan.
Xu Yuan asked Lu Zuo on the spot about his father's investigation in Qishan. Lu Zuo told everyone that Xu Heping didn't find anything when he went to Qishan, but he had been to the Qishan Cultural Relics Museum.
And a few days before the accident, his worries turned into joy, and he also said that he would have fun in Qishan.
After hearing this, Gao Bin became suspicious of the cultural relics museum where Xu Heping went to get into trouble.
Later, they investigated that Xu Heping was originally on secondment in Xi'an, but later he took the initiative to work in Qishan. He was going to Qishan to do cultural relic appraisal.
Before Xu Heping's accident, he often liked to go hunting in the mountains in Qishan, but he often came back empty-handed.
There were no further clues for the time being, so after Xu Yuan was fine, they stayed at a hotel near the cultural relics museum.
"Brother Bin, we have to find a way to enter the warehouse of the cultural relics museum. Maybe we can find something."
The idea of making a wish coincided with Gao Bin's, and he muttered:
"We don't have a letter of introduction, so we can easily be kicked out if we go in like this. How about this..."
After a day off, Gao Bin and Huang Yanyan pretended to be foreign business owners and secretaries, while Xu Yuan pretended to be staff of the foreign affairs department. After the three disguised themselves, they went to the cultural relics museum and asked to see the director by name.
When the staff saw such a big fight, they did not dare to neglect them and quickly reported to the superiors.
But the first-in-command happened to be away for something, so he had to ask the second-in-command to step in.
After asking about the purpose of his visit, he learned that Gao Bin was planning to collect some antiques and came here specifically to seek help from the cultural relics museum.
When the second-in-command heard this, his eyes suddenly lit up and he sent other staff away. He said to Gao Bin privately.
"To tell you the truth, there happens to be a batch of cultural relics that have not been reported for damage. If you are interested, you might as well give us a package price and take them away together. It can also save us trouble."
Gao Bin knew very well that the so-called damaged cultural relics were actually genuine and not damaged at all.
As long as it is sold and reported as damaged, it becomes an open case. If you just get a few fragments and fool them, the investigators sent by the superiors will not be able to find any clues at all, so they can only let it go.
Gao Bin sneered in his heart, but his smile was ambiguous on the outside, indicating that he understood.
Then asked:
"I wonder what cultural relics can be given to me? Can you let me choose by myself?"
"This..." The second-in-command is a little embarrassed. It's not easy to get a batch for you. You still want to be picky?
Before he could refuse, Huang Yanyan took out 1,000 yuan and stuffed it into the second-in-command's pocket.
Just this one action caused a 180-degree turn in the attitude of the second-in-command:
"Let me make some arrangements."
"No problem, we have plenty of time."
The two parties reached a tacit understanding, and just like that, Gao Bin and the others easily entered the warehouse of the cultural relics museum, and the staff inside had been taken away by the second-in-command.
Gao Bin took the second in command and chatted at the door, and asked Huang Yanyan and Xu Yuan to go in and 'pick' the cultural relics.
There are historical records in the warehouse, and they can easily find out which cultural relics Xu Heping participated in the investigation, but the problem is, all of these cultural relics are missing!
Was it sold by the cultural relics museum under various names?
Huang Yanyan randomly found one of them and asked the second-in-command:
"Excuse me, where did this cultural relic go? We didn't find it. I like it very much."
"Oh, this is one of the batch of problematic cultural relics that were identified that year. Everything has been disposed of."
Huang Yanyan nodded, and after receiving Gao Bin's look, she didn't dwell on the issue and continued to pick out cultural relics.
But the wish inside unexpectedly found a knife.
...
In the hotel near the cultural relics museum, Gao Bin and the other three ignored a batch of exchanged cultural relics and instead stared at the knife on the bed.
"If I'm not mistaken, this should be the legendary Daxia Dragon Bird Sword!" Gao Bin pinched his chin and said.
He knew there was something wrong with the knife and there were important clues hidden in it, so he took it so seriously!
The owner of the Daxia Dragon Bird Sword was Helian Bobo, the leader of the Huns during the Five Husties and the Rebellion of China. This man, like other nomadic leaders at the same time, was cruel and inhumane.
In order to maintain his dominance, Helianbobo paid special attention to the quality of weapons and took many extreme measures.
Historical records record that whenever a batch of weapons was accepted, Helian Bobo would definitely kill a batch of craftsmen.
For example, when inspecting bows and arrows and armor, if the bow and arrow cannot penetrate the armor, the bowsmith will be killed; if it does, the armorsmith will be killed.
During his reign, thousands of craftsmen were killed.
But precisely because of such high pressure, the weapons produced under Helian Bobo's rule are all rare treasures in the world, the most famous of which is the Daxia Dragon Bird Sword.
Although not much picture information has been handed down about this famous sword at the time, through some written records and other cultural relics of the same period, we can still explore its appearance and speculate on its craftsmanship and performance.
"Book of Jin" records:
(He Lian Bobo) made a hundred-level steel sword and made it into a large ring of dragon and bird. He named it "Dragon Bird of Great Xia" and inscribed on its back: "ancient sharp weapon, Wu, Chu Zhanlu. Dragon Bird of Great Xia, named Guan Shen"
Both can be ambitious and gentle. They are like wind-swept grass, commanding the nine districts. "This is a very precious thing in the world.
The Record of Ancient and Modern Swords, which was written in the late Southern and Northern Dynasties (may be a forgery, or was embellished by later generations) records:
Helian Bobo made five swords in the second year of Long Sheng's reign. There was a dragon bird ring on the back of the blade. It was also engraved with gold to make a dragon shape. It was three feet and nine inches long. The inscription said: "ancient sharp weapon, Wu Chu Zhan Lu. Da Xia Long"
The bird is famous as the capital of the gods. It can carry people far away, and it can be soft and close. It is like the wind and grass, commanding the nine districts." Liu Yu, the king of Song Dynasty, broke through Chang'an, got this sword, and later entered Liang Dynasty.
Judging from the records, the name of the Daxia Longque Sword is inseparable from the "Longque Dahuan", but there is another difference in the records of the ring between "Book of Jin" and "Records of Ancient and Modern Swords and Swords".
According to the "Book of Jin", the Daxia dragon bird ring should be the first sword with the dragon bird ring at the head and an inscription engraved on the back of the sword;
The "Ancient and Modern Swords and Swords" records that the Daxia dragon bird ring is similar to the large ring sword of later generations. There is a large ring on the back. The large ring and the "gold thread" form a dragon shape. It does not mention where the inscription is. p>
However, in terms of credibility, "Book of Jin" is higher than "Records of Ancient and Modern Swords and Swords". Judging from the knives of the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties that have been discovered by archeology, including the Sui Dynasty, the Huanshou knife is still the mainstream knife type in this period.
No large-ring knife-shaped knives have yet been found.
However, the equipment of the Huanshou Dao in the Wei and Jin Dynasties is very different from that of the Han Dynasty. In particular, the sheathed Huanshou Dao in the north is the most representative, which is significantly different from the Huanshou Dao in the Han Dynasty.<
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The sheath-type ring-first knife is also called the sheath-type ring-first knife.
This kind of ring-headed knife has no tangs, and the scabbard is long and has a large opening. After the knife is put into the sheath, almost only the ring-head is exposed, and most of the handle and the blade are inserted into the scabbard, hence the name.
At that time, the ring-shou sword would have a hand rope tied to the ring and wrapped around the wrist. When drawing the sheath knife, the hand rope and ring head should be used to draw the sword.
The biggest improvement of this type of ring-shou knife is reflected in the way the knife is hung.
The traditional Huanshou Sword is worn in the same way as the Han Sword, that is, the belt is passed through the sword's ring and then pinned to the waist.
This wearing method is only suitable for walking, and is particularly inconvenient when riding a horse.
The sheath-type ring-head sword has two hanging ears. The hanging ears are connected to a belt or rope, allowing the sword to be hung at the waist. It is hung at two points, which is very suitable for cavalry. Therefore, it first became popular in the north and gradually became
Mainstream.
Until the last cavalry sword in history, the Type 65 saber, it still used this two-point suspension method.
As the representative of northern knives at that time, the Daxia Longque Sword most likely also adopted this sheath and hanging design.
The decorative "dragonque ring" that gets its name from the Daxia Longque Knife should be said to be its unique ring head.
At that time, there were three ways to decorate the ring head. One was to add a decoration inside the knife ring. Generally, the knife handle had an extension inside the knife ring. This extension had a specific shape, such as flowers, plants or animals;
One is that the sword ring itself has a special shape, carved into vegetation, vines or dragons and pythons; the other is that it has both.
The dragon bird here should not be a simple bird, but a dragon and a bird.
The ring of the Daxia Longque Knife should be in the shape of a dragon with a dragon bird inside the ring.
And in order to prevent the decoration inside the sword ring from affecting the wrapping of the hand rope and drawing the sword, Helianbobo's craftsmen may have deliberately enlarged the sword ring for convenience and practicality, so it is called a "big ring" in history books.
Similar sword ring decorations were unearthed in Goryeo and even Neon in the later period. It can be seen that the design of the Daxia Longque sword must be extremely beautiful and became an imitation sample of the precious swords from various East Asian countries at that time.
Since the Han Dynasty, there has been a habit of carving inscriptions on the backs of swords.
According to documentary records, the main text of the inscription on the back of the Daxia Longque Knife has a total of thirty-two characters. Please note that this is only the main text.
The inscription on the Huanshou knife often has a "preface" indicating the "manufacturing date" and material of the knife.
Calculated this way, the number of inscriptions on the Daxia Longque Sword should be close to fifty, preceded by "In the second year of Longsheng, on a certain day of a certain month, a hundred refined steels were refined" and so on.
However, there is no inscription on the knife in front of Gao Bin and others, but this does not mean that it is a fake.
As a nomadic leader, Helian Bobo should consider the portability of the sword on horseback and not be too long.
Judging from the length, it actually echoes people’s perception of the Daxia dragon bird.
As the number one sword at that time, the craftsmanship used in the Daxia Longque Knife must be unique.
At that time, there were two methods of steelmaking, one was steel frying and the other was steel pouring.
Fried steel is the most common application, and the steel produced is mostly low carbon steel or wrought iron. Although the impurity content can be reduced after folding and forging (steel making), the hardness of low carbon steel is low. For China at that time, talking about
Not advanced.
Steel filling involves alternately mixing raw and wrought iron, sealing it with mud, and placing it in a furnace for heating. The pig iron's lower melting point is used to infiltrate the molten pig iron into the wrought iron.
Then it is forged and forged to obtain pure quality steel.
If this is true, the Daxia Longque Knife is technically very advanced, and its toughness and hardness will be excellent.
It is not only ahead of other civilizations in the world, but also compared with the swords of the Sui and Tang Dynasties and even the swords of the Ming Dynasty two hundred years later, it does not fall behind in performance.
So whether it is true or not, you will know once you try it!
When Gao Bin and the others came back, they brought a piece of wood from outside.
In order to verify the authenticity of the knife, Gao Bin held the knife with one hand and asked Xu Yuan to hold one end of the wood with both hands and chop it off quickly.
With just one knife, the wood as thick as an adult's calf was cut off in an instant. The section was smooth and there were no burrs at the fracture, indicating that the sharp blade destroyed the structure of the wood in an instant.
Huang Yanyan knows some kung fu, but this knife is enough for her to see clearly:
"What a fast knife!"
Of course, knives forged with modern technology may not be unable to achieve this effect, but in ancient times, it was not easy to have such a sharp knife.
However, the blade is real, but the handle is not necessarily true.
Gao Bin had long discovered the problem with the handle of the knife. It was obviously a later addition. According to the ancient knife forging habits, the handle should be made of wood.
The handle of the knife in front of me actually uses black ivory technology that has been lost since Qianlong, making this knife look not practical, but more like a handicraft.
Is this a later replacement?
What Huang Yanyan is even more curious about is that Helian Bobo's tomb was found locally?
But as the eldest daughter of the Huang family, she had never heard of this matter.
The wolf is a terrifying animal that dominates the grasslands with its alertness, cunning, ferocity, cunning, and bloodthirsty.
Of course, these words are not only used to explain wolves, but can also be used to describe people, especially those emperors who were once arrogant.
Among the emperors of the past dynasties, there are countless clever, treacherous, cruel, cunning and bloodthirsty emperors;
But it is extremely rare to have these wolf qualities integrated into one body.
Helian Bobo, the founder of the Hu Xia Dynasty during the Sixteen Kingdoms period, was such a wolf from the north.
Helian Bobo, formerly known as Liu Bobo, was the son of Liu Weichen, leader of the Xiongnu Tiefu tribe.
The environment filled with smoke and war made Helian Bobo become a man as alert as a wolf at a young age.
In the 16th year of Taiyuan in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, Tuoba Gui attacked and killed Liu Weichen. Helian Bobo successfully got rid of the Northern Wei cavalry with his quick thinking and escaped to Chigangan alone.
Because Tuobagui sent someone to ask for Helian Bobo, Ali, who scolded the cadres, gave him to Gaoping Gong Wuyiyu of the Later Qin Dynasty, and Wuyiyu "gave him a female wife".
After a period of exile, Helian Bobo finally found a place to stay.
When in distress, wolves are best at camouflaging.
During Helian Bobo's stay, he always kept his tail between his legs, and actually won the reputation of being "intelligent in sex and beautiful in manners". Yao Xing, the king of the Later Qin Dynasty, "was surprised when he saw him and paid him deep respect", and not only named him a general of valiant cavalry.
, he was given the title of Captain Che, and was often asked to "participate in military and state affairs".
He Lianbobo was "favored more than honored" and became a rising star in the post-Qin political arena.
As time went by, Helian Bobo showed his wolf tail of "being slow to serve, being crippled by others, being greedy, violent and having no relatives". Yao Xing did not take it seriously, but instead "take Bo Bo as a moral integrity. General Anbei and Duke Wuyuan, together with There are more than 20,000 Xianbei and miscellaneous captives from the three tribes and five tribes, and they are in charge of Shuofang."
A wolf is a wolf after all, and it does not pay attention to repaying kindness.
Without the protection of his father-in-law, Helian Bobo would not have been able to stay away from the pursuit;
Without Yao Xing's favor, Helian Bobo would not have been able to leave the town.
After having an army and a territory, Helianbo's true nature was revealed.
Not long after Helian Bobo arrived at Shuofang, he encountered Xianbei from Hexi Province paying tribute to Yao Xing with eight thousand horses. Helian Bobo did not miss Yao Xing's courtesy to him and forcibly detained the cavalry.
After having the cavalry, Helian Bobo summoned 30,000 troops to attack Gaoping in the name of hunting, killed his father-in-law Wu Yiyu, and reorganized his troops.
A wolf is never familiar with food. It is the nature of the wolf to repay kindness with hatred.
Later, the twenty-seven-year-old Helian Bobo claimed to be the king of heaven, the Great Chanyu, established the Yuan Dynasty, appointed hundreds of officials, the country was named Daxia, and the history was called Huxia.
Usually, when a political power is established, there is often a capital city that symbolizes the foundation of the country.
However, when the generals "admonished the danger", Helian Bobo "disobeyed".
The reason why Helianbobo did not set up a capital city at the beginning was not only because Hu Xia "started a great undertaking but did not have many brigades" and his strength was relatively weak, but also because Helianbobo liked to engage in guerrilla tactics like a wolf.
That is what he said: "Riding on clouds and wind, catching the enemy by surprise. If you are trying to save someone before you hit them, hit them on the back. If you are trying to save them, hit them in front of them."
This strategy of "eating freely" not only strengthened Hu Xia's strength, but also fulfilled Helianbo's wolf ambition.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, the arrogant Helian Bobo proposed to the bald monarch Li Tan, but was rejected.
In Helian's rage, his wolfish nature aroused and he "led 20,000 men to attack them...killing and wounding more than 10,000 people, plundering 27,000 people, and returning hundreds of thousands of cattle, horses and sheep."
No matter how ferocious the wolf is, it will sometimes give way, but when Helianbobo was injured, his behavior was even more ferocious and terrifying than that of the wolf.
"Lai Tan sent someone who was good at shooting to shoot him, hitting Bo Bo in his left arm. Bo Bo was able to fight back and defeated him. He chased him for more than eighty miles and killed tens of thousands of people."
Helian Bobo can be regarded as the most powerful general during the Five Husties period.
There must be many treasures hidden in his tomb. As a member of the Huang family, it is impossible for Huang Yanyan not to be interested.
But when Gao Bin removed the handle of the knife and poured out the 'Tianqi Tongbao' inside, Huang Yanyan finally put away his interest in the treasure and turned to look at the 'Tianqi Tongbao'.
"This is most likely a clue left by Uncle Xu." Gao Bin said decisively.
"But what's the use of this? What does father want to tell us by leaving this?" Xu Yuan was puzzled.
"I don't know either. By the way, didn't you leave any clues in your Sudinglu?" Gao Bin suddenly mentioned, thinking of Wei Academy.
"Su Ding Lu?" Xu Yuan was stunned for a moment, then took out the family secret book from his arms and looked through it.
After reading it for a while, I suddenly realized that this was not good, so I put the book down:
"Let's watch it together?"
Huang Yanyan asked:
"It's not good. After all, it's something passed down from your ancestors. What if we learn it."
Make a wish and shake your head with a smile:
"Don't worry, it's all passwords. No one can understand it except me."
When Gao Bin mentioned Su Ding Lu, he certainly wasn't trying to steal his master's skills. With Da Jin Ya's knowledge reserve, he was enough to do well in this industry.
His purpose is to lead out of the academy.
No, after reading for a while, he pointed to the preface and said:
"You see, the preface mentions that this book was produced in Wuying Academy."