In terms of the corrosiveness of seawater, after thousands of years of soaking, the sword of King Goujian of the Spring and Autumn Yue Dynasty is afraid that there is no copper slag.

"Is this really salvaged from the bottom of the sea?"

Chen Xiu asked in disbelief, and Professor Fang nodded again and said, "This embroidered spring knife was salvaged not long ago, and I was even more shocked than you are now when I first saw it." Due to the rudimentary equipment on our ship, we can't find out what its embalming ingredients are, but I believe that when we unveil this knife, it will definitely shock the archaeological community all over the world!"

With the current manufacturing process, it is naturally possible to create a knife that can resist seawater corrosion, but just imagine, when the Europeans have not yet opened the Age of Discovery, Xia Guo has been able to create such a corrosion-resistant knife, which will definitely make the world's archaeological community crazy.

The embroidered spring knife is a conceptual standard weapon worn by the Ming Dynasty Jinyi Guard and the Imperial Forest Army, just like the standard 92-type pistol for police officers today.

"History of the Ming Dynasty" records that the epitaph of Zhang Jue, the commander of the Jinyi Guard during the Jiajing period, reads "Give the four beasts unicorn clothes, Luan belt embroidered spring knives, and silver scoop square bags".

The embroidered spring knife is some of the tombs of military attachés of the Ming Dynasty, and some have also been unearthed.

But those unearthed embroidered spring knives have been rusted after the baptism of the years.

"The material of this embroidered spring knife is definitely different from the ordinary embroidered spring knife, and it is still extremely sharp after hundreds of years. I think its original owner must have been a powerful person, do you think it would be ......?"

"Are you guessing that the inscriptions on the ship were carved with this knife?!"

Chen Xiu directly guessed what Professor Fang was thinking, thinking back to the words he saw on the deck carved so smoothly, it was very possible.

"Jin Yiwei was originally the eyes and ears of the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, and he also specialized in doing some shady things. But why did the Yongle Emperor send a high-ranking brocade guard to the West? This is too much to kill chickens with a knife......

Chen Xiu suddenly remembered that Professor Fang had told him before that the shipwreck this time might be related to Emperor Jianwen.

If Emperor Yongle sent Zheng He to the West, as recorded in the wild history, it was to find Emperor Jianwen, this kind of chasing and killing his nephew and former emperor, he naturally couldn't hand it over to ordinary people to do, of course, he had to send his most trusted Jinyi Wei to help him cut the grass and eradicate the roots.

Such a guess is in line with Noshi's conjecture.

Chen Xiu said what was in his heart, Professor Fang nodded, and shook his head again, "I also thought the same way before when you made this kind of inference, but then another thing was found under the wreck, which made me overturn this conjecture again. ”

"Anything else?"

Professor Fang opened the safe again and took out another box from inside, but this time Chen Xiu's palms didn't get warm, and it was estimated that it would not be a priceless treasure.

When the box was opened, there were seven or eight palm-sized ceramic shards inside, and there were some lines outlined on them, like paintings.

"At this time, there was a plum bottle, but because it was incomplete, it was only half of the splicing. ”

As Professor Fang spoke, he opened his laptop, opened a photo, pointed to it, and said, "This is what we put together." ”

Chen Xiu stared at the plum bottle on the computer, and saw that there were originally four paintings on the plum bottle, but this plum bottle was only spliced together with three drawings due to incompleteness.

"Can you zoom in on the painting on the bottle? ”

"Yes!"

Professor Fang directly opened a PPT and said: "The three paintings above, I also took another photo and enlarged them, you can take a look." ”

Chen Xiu looked over and saw that the first picture was a fire in the palace, and a young man in a dragon robe survived; the second picture was a middle-aged man in a dragon robe and a young man in a dragon robe having a long conversation; and the third picture was a portrait of a big ship going to sea, with a young man in a dragon robe standing on the bow of the ship. The latter one is incomplete due to the uneven fragments.

But the amount of information in the first three pictures directly stunned Chen Xiu, and he couldn't close his mouth for a long time.

If the things above the picture are not added, it will definitely subvert the evaluation of the Yongle Emperor in the entire historiography.

Judging from what is done in the painting, combined with the official history and wild history, the first painting should be said that in the "Battle of Jingyan", Zhu Di, the king of Yan, attacked the Nanjing Imperial Palace.

According to the official history, but the palace fire, Emperor Jianwen died in this fire. Later, because the country could not be without a king for a day, King Yan was reluctantly pushed to the throne by everyone after the "three lets".

Of course, the legend of Yeshi is that this fire was set by King Yan. Because the banner of King Yan's army is "Qingjun side", that is, there are traitors around the emperor, and he leads his troops into Nanjing to kill traitors, and he himself is loyal to Emperor Jianwen. If Emperor Jianwen hadn't died for no reason, how could King Yan logically ascend to the throne of the emperor.

Whether it is wild history or official history, Emperor Jianwen died in the fire after all.

Of course, there are also wild historical legends and the same as this first painting, Emperor Jianwen escaped in the sea of fire, and later there is a legend that Zheng He went to the West to find Emperor Jianwen.

However, judging from the second picture, the older person in the dragon robe should naturally be King Yan, the later Yongle Emperor - Zhu Di, and the younger one in the dragon robe should be Emperor Jianwen who escaped death in the sea of fire.

These two obviously had a long talk after Zhu Di seized power.

This is something that no historian has thought of for hundreds of years.

The third picture is also clearer, Zhu Di built a fleet of people to escort Emperor Jianwen from the Central Plains Dynasty to the Western Ocean.

If the three paintings on the plum vase are confirmed, the evaluation of the Yongle Emperor, the emperor who killed his nephew and ascended the throne, is all overturned.

The phrase "the most ruthless emperor's family" is also to be subverted!

This plot, I'm afraid that even if it's a movie, I don't dare to shoot it like this!

"There is no smoke!"

Chen Xiu held his hands and said to Professor Fang, the amount of information in these three paintings was too much, and he had to take it slowly.

Professor Fang handed Chen Xiu a cigarette, and he couldn't help but light one and said slowly: "If the painting on this plum bottle didn't deceive us, it would be able to explain why the fleet that went to the Western Ocean brought a high-ranking official of the Jinyi Guard with him!"

However, none of this is enough to support our argument, and we need to find more evidence to further corroborate this view.

The only clue now is what the words left on the deck before the wreck mean, and it's up to you to decipher it. ”

Chen Xiu couldn't help but feel pressure, if he could solve the mystery of Zheng He's trip to the West, he would definitely be able to leave a strong pen and ink in the Chinese historiography.