The two went up to the second floor, and Wu Shuang opened a door with some pride.

Chen Song looked at the weapons in the room with some surprise.

The room, which was half the size of the hall on the first floor, was filled with all kinds of large and small weapon racks, on which were placed all kinds of weapons, and some swords were even placed on the ground at random because the weapon racks were not in sufficient place.

"Brother Wu, you don't use weapons, why do you still collect so much?"

Chen Song casually pulled out a spear placed on an armory rack and found that the tip of the spear was a little rusty.

"I like it!"

Wu Shuang smiled: "I didn't think about it so much at the time, I just looked at it and liked it, so I bought it, some of them are still antique weapons!"

Chen Song looked up at the weapons that basically occupied the room, and said with a smile: "You have too much!"

"Haha, I still dislike less, there are so many dynasties in China, each dynasty has different weapons, and there are so many types, I haven't even collected a tenth of it!"

Wu Shuang was very happy when he mentioned this.

Chen Song asked with some admiration, "Aren't you really going to collect all kinds of weapons?"

You must know that the total number of various types of weapons in ancient times is known as more than 400 kinds, and the weapons involved in the eighteen kinds of martial arts that are most commonly used in actual combat alone, because of the different eras, regions and genres, there are more than 10 different sayings about the names of specific weapons in ancient and modern times.

Our ancestors began to know how to make and use primitive weapons such as wooden sticks, stone knives, and stone axes for self-defense and hunting needs.

According to ancient records, knives, guns, bows, and arrows were made by the Yellow Emperor, and the "28 weapons" were created by Sun Bin and Wu Qi, military strategists in the Warring States Period.

In the Shang Dynasty, bronze casting knives, guns, and other weapons began to be used, and in the Han Dynasty and the Wei and Jin dynasties, iron and steel casting knives, guns, swords and other weapons began to be widely used.

Although the weapons listed in the eighteen kinds of martial arts are similar, they are very rich in form and content, with long instruments and short instruments. Soft instruments, double instruments, hooks, barbs, sharps, knives, bright and dark, attacking, defending, hitting, killing, shooting, blocking.

The earliest was the Han Wu in the fourth year of Yuan Feng (107 BC), after strict selection and sorting, 18 types of weapons were screened out, namely spears, boring, knives, ge, lance, whips, maces, swords, hammers, grasps, halberds, bows, axes, axes, cards, sticks, guns, forks.

In the Three Kingdoms era, the famous weapon connoisseur Lu Qian, according to the characteristics of the weapons, rearranged the "eighteen kinds of weapons" of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty into nine long and nine short.

The nine lengths are knives, spears, halberds, lances, boring, axes, sticks, spears, and forks.

The nine short are axes, ge, cards, arrows, whips, swords, maces, hammers, and grasps.

But now the general understanding of the "eighteen kinds of weapons" is a knife, a gun, a sword, a halberd, an axe, a hook, a fork, a whip, a mace, a hammer, a grasp, a boring, a stick, a lance, a stick, a crutch, a crutch, and a meteor.

And the term "eighteen kinds of weapons" has not been found in the ancient books for the time being, the Ming Dynasty Zhao "Five Miscellaneous Weapons" and the Qing Dynasty Chu Ren won the "Jianji" two books are only "eighteen kinds of martial arts", and the "eighteen kinds of weapons" recorded in these two books are bows, crossbows, guns, knives, swords, spears, shields, axes, Yue, halberds, yellow, mace, Laos, 殳 (sticks), forks, rakes, brocade rope lasso, white fighting (boxing), also known as "small eighteen kinds".

"I used to have this kind of thought, now let's go with the flow!"

Wu Shuang said with some emotion: "I have had a martial arts dream since I was a child, and I like this kind of thing very much, and when I met your senior brother later, after I became a martial artist, I became less enthusiastic about collecting weapons." ”

"Why is this happening?"

Chen Song looked at Wu Shuang with a puzzled face.

Isn't this becoming a warrior and preferring these things?

"When I was a child, I liked to listen to martial arts stories, read martial arts novels and TV, and I was very envious of the fact that martial artists could be happy to take revenge. ”

Wu Shuang thought for a moment and continued: "I think that the sword is a very inclusive thing, more as a representative of war, such as the sword from the philosophical and artistic view, it is the representative of the gentleman, the embodiment of perfection, from the way of war, social changes, history, military and other aspects of the sword, it is a representative of killing and defending the country, and martial arts is not directly related, because the major events of the country, in the worship and Rong, show that the advanced degree of weapons often determines the strength of a country. ”

Wu Shuang's words caused a monstrous wave in Chen Song's heart, and he looked at Wu Shuang with a shocked expression.

This theory is completely opposite to what I have heard since I was a child, but I vaguely feel that Wu Shuang is right.

Wu Shuang sighed: "Since ancient times, heroes have violated the ban with martial arts, once people have a stronger force value than others, there will be some people with low moral character who will continue to test the moral bottom line and the legal bottom line, which will seriously affect the lives of ordinary people, and even bring disasters. ”

Chen Song asked curiously, "Then Brother Wu, what do you think martial arts should be?"

Wu Shuang groaned and said, "I think it should be like Jing Ke!"

"Jing Ke?"

Chen Song asked puzzledly, "Why?"

"When he assassinated the King of Qin, whether he succeeded or not, he couldn't escape, and most importantly, he wasn't for himself. ”

Wu Shuang said with a look of admiration: "Only this kind of behavior of going to the soup for favor or a righteous word, galloping thousands of miles to help, and even entrusting each other with his life, only asking for pay, not asking for returns, and no entanglement of interests is the real chivalrous righteousness!"

Chen Song suddenly fell silent.

Since ancient times, there have been many martial artists, and there are many people who are more powerful than Jing Ke, but how many are there who are really high-spirited and bright, and who value love and righteousness?

More often than not, they are like hooligans, wandering around, lawless, causing trouble, and even fighting because of an unpleasant or no reason at all.

After a long time, Chen Songcai smiled bitterly: "Maybe not everyone is like Jing Ke, that's why it's called Jianghu!"

"Hahaha, rivers and lakes, mixed fish and dragons....... is true!"

Wu Shuang patted Chen Song's shoulder excitedly, and said with a smile: "I can't help it now, this large group of people follow me to eat, if there is a chance one day, I must be like you, be a person in the rivers and lakes who does not produce, sees unevenness, acts chivalrous and righteous, and is happy to take revenge!"

Chen Song looked at Wu Shuang speechlessly.

What does it mean to be unproductive!

"It took me a lot of effort to collect these weapons, but I don't know how. ”

Wu Shuang said as he took a knife from a shelf and handed it to Chen Songdao: "Like this knife, I spent 200,000 Huaxia coins at that time!"

"So expensive?"

Chen Song took it curiously and watched.

This whole body of rusty knife, the total length of about 70 centimeters, small 镕, the blade is straight, for the cutting edge, the stem of the knife is narrow over the blade, the front is wide and the back is narrow, and the tail is open.

After identifying it for a while, Chen Song asked in surprise, "This is the blade of Tang Hengdao?"

As a martial artist, you must be familiar with all kinds of weapons since you were a child, even if you haven't practiced it, you have to know it, Tang Dao and Han Sword, these two can be said to represent the pinnacle of weapon manufacturing!

Just now, because this blade was covered with rust, some parts were corroded to the point that there were gaps, and there was no equipment, so I really didn't recognize it.

"Haha, good eyesight!"

Wu Shuangzan said: "I have shown it to many people, and they either say it is a short sword or a sword, but you recognize it!"

"This blade is not curved, how can it be said that it is a sword, it is the ancestor of the sword. ”

Chen Song couldn't laugh or cry.

This Tang horizontal knife is a straight blade, and the Japanese knife is a curved blade, and the two can be distinguished at a glance.

Wu Shuang nodded and said, "Who said it wasn't!"

The Japanese knife is an imitation of the Tang horizontal knife, and it is produced because the technology is not up to standard.

The cause was the Battle of the Baekgang Estuary between the Tang Dynasty and the Silla coalition forces and the Wa Kingdom and Baekje Coalition from August 27 to August 28, 663 AD.

At that time, the Japanese army had 42,000 participants and more than 1,000 warships, while the Tang army had 13,000 troops and 170 warships.

The Tang army was equipped with advanced Tang horizontal knives and Mingguang armor, and the Japanese army did not have its own advanced forging technology at that time, so it still used the imitation of the Han Dynasty sword with a ring head and the armor that could only reach the level of fish scale armor in the Han Dynasty.

Not only in naval battles but also in a small number of white battles on boarding, the Tang army defeated the Japanese naval army, which was several times larger than its own in strength and ships.

After the defeat of the elite troops of the whole country, the Wa State survived several years of panic and finally recognized their own strength, so they studied in the Tang Dynasty with a humble posture, and successively sent a large number of Tang envoys to study and bring the production skills of the Tang horizontal knife back to the Wa State.

After sending Tang envoys back to bring back the advanced steel forging technology of the Tang Dynasty and the production skills of Tang horizontal knives, the sharpness of the knives made by the Wa Kingdom reached an unprecedented peak.

This sharp, lightweight, and lethal knife was immediately loved by the samurai of the Japanese Kingdom.

However, due to the lack of learning of the heat treatment process, the blade could not maintain good toughness, and the needs of the samurai class had to be improved, and gradually evolved into a sword with a curved edge, which can reduce the impact of the blade and prevent it from being directly broken in the slash, also known as the katana.

Chen Song looked at the Tang Heng knife in his hand and asked, "This knife has been corroded like this, even if you install the equipment, it is basically useless, why did Brother Wu buy it back?"

"Actually, I was very conflicted at the time, on the one hand, I thought that it was not worth so much money, and on the other hand, I thought that after all, it was a thousand-year-old thing, and it would be good to keep it. ”

Wu Shuang said, stretched out his hand and pointed to the foot of the wall, and said, "The pile over there is much worse than this one." ”

Chen Song handed the Tang knife in his hand back to Wu Shuang, and stepped forward to look at the pile of weapons.

Large and small, chaotic weapons were piled together, but none of them were intact, and there was a thick layer of rust on them, all of which had been rusted to tatters, and some even broke.

Chen Song looked through the pile of tattered weapons, but he couldn't find a slightly decent one, so he stood up with lack of interest, his eyes swept to one of the stick-like weapons, and his eyes couldn't help but light up.