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It is a long bronze spearhead, about 45 centimeters long, with a green rust throughout, with more pronounced wings, a reinforced ridge on the midline, and a slightly broken edge on both sides.

After playing with bronzes for so many years, Zhang Nan can see that this is a genuine cultural relic-grade spear patina naturally, or the kind that has not been out of the soil for a long time, and it will not be able to form such a rust layer in a thousand years.

As he picked it up and looked at it, he asked, "Where did it come from?"

"Someone over there is putting the useless wasteland into a vegetable garden, saying that it was dug up at noon, and putting it aside. When I saw it, I asked a few words, and the worker sold me two people for two hundred dollars.

Brother, have you lost it?"

"Almost. ”

Two hundred dollars for such a big bronze spearhead, it can't be said that it is a loss or a profit, and the girl is happy to buy it.

It's pretty much fine, Charlize Theron certainly doesn't care about $200, but the money is still paid by her bodyguard, and she doesn't have much money with her.

If her brother says that she loses, then she will be very shameless when she pays back the money to the bodyguard.

"Brother Guan, this bronze spear from the ancient Roman era?"

Charlie was curious, but she didn't ask Zhang Nan, who was looking at things, but Guan Xingquan on the side.

"Trajan's Romans have been here, but I think this spearhead may be earlier..."Guan Xingquan has been playing antiques for so many years, even if he doesn't play, he has become an expert every day.

The heyday of ancient Rome was the reign of Trajan, around 100 AD, when the Roman Empire controlled about 5.9 million square kilometers of land, and the Mediterranean Sea became the inner lake of the empire.

According to records, the southern shore of the Black Sea was the territory of the Roman Empire at that time, and their troops also visited southern Ukraine and the northern shore of the Black Sea, but they did not establish strongholds or cities in this area.

Guan Xingquan said again: "I think this spearhead looks like ancient Greece, Anan, what do you think?"

I don't know why, as soon as Zhang Nan heard this, the classic sentence "What do you think, Yuanfang" popped out of his mind, and he couldn't help but smile.

"It's true that this spearhead has the ancient Greek style, but even at the time of Alexander's expedition, the army of the northern front did not seem to have reached this area, and the farthest was as far as the Danube Delta region of present-day Romania.

At that time, this was the territory of the Scythians, and although the nomadic regime was defeated by Alexander and his father, the Macedonians had little to do with the nomadic military people who ruled this large area.

Moreover, at that time, the richness of the Black Sea and the northern shores of the Caspian Sea was not at all comparable to that of the Near East and the Middle East in the south, and Alexander had little interest in this area.

It's okay to fight a few battles, but more than 2,000 years ago, it was worth the loss to rule this area for a long time, whether it was the Greeks or the Roman Empire, it was estimated that they would be slowly dragged to death by the Scythians in this area.

However, the control area is only more than 200 kilometers away, and it is normal for this spearhead to spread from the Greek-controlled area, and Greek-style weapons will still be quite popular..."

As he spoke, Zhang Nan stopped: the spearhead was turning to the other side, and his brows furrowed.

There was a piece of patina on the top that was different in color from the other parts, and it was slightly scraped with a fingernail, "It's rust." "A judgment immediately occurred in my mind: the rust had been glued to the iron after years of contact with the iron, and had fused with the patina.

"Did any iron dig up over there?" asked Charlie.

"No, those two didn't say. ”

Zhang Nan put the spearhead on the coffee table and clapped his hands, "Go and see, this thing is really left by a Scythian."

If it's those guys, there's got to be something else buried in the ground. ”

The boss dispatched, Miss Charlie led the way, and everyone naturally followed. Here Andre stretched out his hand and signaled twice, and naturally someone hurried ahead of everyone to the place that Miss Charlie said: it was still within the scope of the sanatorium, but it was relatively partial.

The big people travel, it's real and a little feeling.

Zhang Nan said that it might be something from the Scythians, and there might be other items at the same time, but only Andrei had heard of the Scythians in the crowd, because he was educated in the Soviet Union and had this term in history textbooks.

Others didn't know, Charlie said that it was hundreds of meters away, Zhang Nan simply said while walking, so as not to make everyone understand the situation and feel bored.

"The Scythians are the Scythians I mentioned earlier, and they are just called different names in the history books of different countries, and they are common in modern times.

These people spread throughout the steppes of Central Asia and South Russia from the 8th century BC until the 3rd century BC, and belonged to the Indo-European language family of East Iranian nomads.

It is not a highly centralized nomadic regime, it should be more like a loose alliance of a large number of tribes united, none of which is as tightly structured as the Huns, and there are also English historical sources that call him a Siguti or a Scythian...

There are many names, the ancient Persians called them the Sakas, because the Scythians were a tribal alliance and occupied a wide area, and the ancient Persians also divided them into the Cypriots who wore pointed hats, the Cypriots who drank the hemp, and the Cypriots on the other side of the sea.

The ancient Assyrians called them the Ashkuzas, the ancient Indians called them the Sekas, and the ancient Greeks called them the Skutoi or Sekhs.

There are also records of the Scythians in the Chinese Historical Records and Han Books, when the Scythians had gone downhill, and the Chinese historical books called them Sai or Sai species, and called them Sharp-hat Sai people or Sakya people..."

"These people like to wear pointed hats," Charlie asked.

"yes, it's like being criticized... Oh, you don't understand that thing, it's kind of like the 3Klux Klan's bunch of crumbled tall hats..."

A nation recorded in the history books of China is still a nation that galloped on the Eurasian continent earlier than the Xiongnu.

Guan Xingquan listened to Zhang Nan's words, and said as he walked: "You said that Sima Qian's pointed hat plug has gone downhill, so he still has contact with the Han Dynasty, and our army at that time killed far enough!"

"Of course, I have killed the Pamirs and the Altai Mountains, and I have come to Kangju.

However, there is a record in the historical records, but it is not because the army of the Han Dynasty killed the Pamirs that they knew about the Scythians, nor did they hear about it from Central Asian merchants before.

In ancient times, it stands to reason that we knew about the existence of the Scythians in the Shang and Zhou dynasties, and the Scythians can be said to have been indirectly driven to Central Asia and the South Russia region by our ancestors.

During the Shang and Zhou dynasties in the Central Plains of China, these Scythians lived on the eastern side of the Altai Mountains before moving westward. ”

At this point, Guan Xingquan listened more and more interestingly, and it could still have anything to do with it so far?

Zhang Nan looked at the eastern sky and said: "We have lost too much ancient historical data, but combined with archaeology and historical records that can be found, before the 9th century BC, these Scythians were mainly distributed in the east of the Altai Mountains.

In the early 8th century B.C., King Xuan of Zhou conquered the Qiang and Xirong, who could not confront the Zhou Dynasty army and were defeated, so they could only move westward, and as a result, they crossed the Altai Mountains and went west to South Russia with the Scythians who oppressed further west.

At that time, it was normal for the people of the Central Plains to know the situation in the Western Regions, but unfortunately the records were often missing, and I did not know the information that Sima Qian found from which corner.

However, it is also believed that natural disasters may have been one of the reasons for the westward migration of the Scythians, who reached the Caucasus and the northern shores of the Black Sea and drove the Cimilian from the original area to the west and south.

Big fish eat small fish, light rain eats dried shrimp, and dried shrimp can eat soil, that's it.

Most of the Scythians settled in a large area from the Caucasus to the south, while others continued westward to the Danube Valley, and some followed the Csimians southward to Asia Minor and the northwestern parts of the Iranian plateau.

You can't beat the Lynx and Xirong, but it's okay to bully the natives here, it's a bit like the Huns hundreds of years later, if it's the Huns who moved west, then it's the same thing.

By the 7th century BCE, the Scythians who had settled in the steppes of Ukraine had developed into a powerful nomadic people who remained strong until the 3rd century BC.

These Scythians invaded Western Asia and Southern Europe many times, and clashed with Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, and Macedonia, and were largely victorious and defeated.

According to the records of the ancient Greek historian and military general Thucydides in the fifth century BC, the total number of Scythian troops at that time exceeded 150,000, and they were basically cavalry, and their combat effectiveness was very strong!

Later, as the Scythians continued to conquer the surrounding sedentary peoples, and the Scythians began to gradually get used to sedentary life, the proportion of infantry increased in the later period.

According to ancient Greek unit records, the Scythian infantry was light cavalry that could not afford horses, armed with javelins, bows and arrows, and shields.

The cavalry is generally dominated by light cavalry wearing only leather clothes, and the nobles act as heavy cavalry, iron armor!

As for the equipment, the difference between the light cavalry and the heavy cavalry was only in the protection, and the weapons were basically the same, both armed with short spears, javelins, bows and long swords.

Engagements are usually fought with a rain of arrows that weaken the enemy's army, firing at least 10 to 12 arrows a minute, and at a very long range.

Throw your javelin when you get close to your opponent, and then the heavy cavalry will charge the center of the enemy's formation in a dense formation.

Their heavy cavalry were highly trained and were able to regroup after the assault and turn the course to charge again.

As soon as the opponent's formation was dispersed, the light cavalry surrounded him to end the battle.

Unfortunately, the Scythians did not have a written language, and their history in Europe and Central Asia was recorded by the ancient Greeks: the ancient Greeks also recorded in detail a battle of at least 50,000 men by the Scythians, in which two princes and two brothers fought for the throne, with the participation of Greek mercenaries and Thracians.

I don't know exactly how it fought, but the high-speed Scythian cavalry was able to maintain a whole in a fierce battle when it was outnumbered, and the opponent was defeated and lost, and finally won a complete victory. ”

Zhang Nan said this, Guan Xingquan asked: "They have iron weapons"

"Well, the Hittites were the first to use iron, and the remnants of the Hittites in the 8th century BC were destroyed by the Assyrian Empire, and Assyria was in its final glory by the 7th century BC.

Even if it is called the bloodiest and most brutal empire, it will not be able to defeat the Medes of Neo-Babylon and the Iranian plateau in the end, and the Assyrians of this frontier region will not be much better off than the Scythians.

I suspect that it was there that the Scythians learned to smelt iron and use iron weapons, and according to excavated artifacts and carbon-14 measurements, the Scythians were already very common in the 6th century BC.

This bronze was still in use, and it was mixed until the third century BC, but the Scythian nobles in the fifth century BC even changed their armor to iron armor.

And it is conceivable that the Scythians should have been good blacksmiths, and their nobles had used iron scale armor at least 2,500 years ago. ”

Advanced, very advanced, it was the sixth century BC!

As for how Zhang Nan knows

Needless to say, Andrei answered this question: "I have visited several museums with excavated cultural relics of the Scythians, and the Scythians have a very good tradition: when they are buried, they will put all the weapons and equipment of the deceased in life.

It is said that more than 5,000 Scythian tombs have been excavated so far, and a lot of information has been obtained. ”

Andrey's memory is superb.

Zhang Nan added: "100 years ago, the history of Scythia was almost entirely recorded by ancient Greece, and who let them never have a written word, and they did not know how they ruled in the first place.

Perhaps in the languages of neighboring countries, but there are no preserved records, modern people rely on some inscriptions in ancient Greece and a large number of Scythian names, place names, and ethnic names in the works of classical writers to know that there was such a nation and country.

In the past few decades, I have relied on the archaeological discoveries of Russia and the Soviet Union, and I have learned a lot more about Scythia..."

With that, the place has arrived.

The sanatorium is very large, with not only beautiful resorts, buildings, gardens, but also some undeveloped wasteland.

With small shrubs and weeds, the staff in charge of the sanatorium felt that there was a shortage of supplies, and that the season was right, so they simply borrowed an excavator from the shipyard to turn the extra vacant land into a large vegetable field.

Anyway, there are people who work, and it's a big deal that the people who work can get more vegetables and potatoes when the time comes.

Now that there is a shortage of materials, so are vegetables, which makes Zhang Nan think of those vegetables that are sometimes comparable to the price of meat or even more expensive in more than 20 years!

At that time, it was extremely happy for people in the city to have two or three points of land to grow some vegetables: but the residents had no land, and there were very few people who could afford to buy villas and turn gardens into vegetable fields.

At that time, there were mountains on the edge of the county seat of my hometown, and many people illegally reclaimed vegetable plots on the mountains, and the government was too lazy to care about these small things.

The people in this nursing home have similar thoughts: it is really not to mention, the cost of vegetables for a family is quite a lot a year, let alone in the era of material shortage.

There is a very interesting saying before and after China's reform and opening up: residents, residents, are not as good as a ridge for farmers!

The land was cleared, the excavator was finished, and the spearhead was found when it was manually sorted.

This year, the vegetable field has been opened, and the water still cares whether you are a cultural relic, and the capitalist lady of a rich foreign rich family is curious, so she casually sells it.

It's not expensive, so I asked for two hundred dollars, thinking that one person would get a good score of 100.

It's also refreshing here, and this is the deal, and the two pairs of selling spearheads feel that they are not selling at a loss.

As for Zhang Nan's judgment that it may be a remnant of the Scythian civilization, in addition to the shape of the spear, there are also traces of the rust mixture.

Maybe there was a Scythian tomb there, and the spear had been in contact with other iron tools, and there might have been something left there.

I didn't want to get anything, I just wanted to feel the civilization at that time and get in touch with that distant history.

As soon as they arrived at the place, the person who sold the spearhead to Chariz Theron was still there, and he didn't dare to leave when he saw the formation: many people in military uniforms were blatantly carrying AK74s

"Give them $500 and ask where the spear was found"

As soon as Zhang Nan ordered, the two didn't dare to fool around, and directly pointed out the place.

$500 is not just a consulting fee, but also a lot of work.

One word: dig

The land was leveled, and the high and low were all bulldozed, but the excavator loosened the land in that place had just been drawn a thin layer, and there was an abnormality.

There should have been a layer of covering soil with a thickness of sixty or seventy centimeters, but now it has been dug up, and when it is dug up, a large trace of rust appears, and there are still a few pieces of rusted and small iron objects in the soil that have been turned out by the shovel.

asked people to stop, Zhang Nan went up and took a look, "It's the nail leaf of the fish scale armor, and the soil of Ukraine is neutral, otherwise it will be rotten." ”

In a little more than an hour, the leaders of the shipyard and the navy will come, and Zhang Nan has no time to work as a cleanup.

But no problem, the two workers who are doing the work are happy to do this little work, and it will be enough for the two security guards to watch.

I have been to Mongolia with Zhang Nan to dig up the tombs of the Huns, and I have a little experience and know how not to dig indiscriminately.

Dig slowly with a small shovel for growing vegetables, this armor is stacked in two layers, just remove the soil layer covered on the top, and wait for the boss to come and see it when he is free.

As for Zhang Nan, after seeing it for more than half an hour, he temporarily lost interest after seeing a large piece of fish scale armor and an iron sword that could be nearly 70 centimeters long.

It's a noble tomb, but I have more important things to do, so I'll come back tomorrow when I'm free.

If you're not available...

Let the shipyard handle it itself, this trip can be whenever the Tufuzi is interested.

Searching for the treasures of the former and the Red Navy is not looking for the Scythians.

Besides, what can the Scythians have

At most, a few weapons and one or two gold ornaments are not as attractive as those warships and auxiliary ships that the shipyard and the Ukrainian Navy want to sell!

……

Everything is going well, business with the shipyard, the Ukrainian Navy is well negotiated, there are good harvests on both sides.

It's just that the Varyag aircraft carrier, which has begun to rust, feels a little weird, and I can't say what it feels like.

As for the tomb of the Scythian unit, except for the spearhead that Charlie spent money to buy, Zhang Nan didn't take anything else, not even the iron battle axe with a golden hoop from the tomb owner, and let the shipyard deal with it itself.

went to Kiev to attend the wedding of the daughter of a corrupt official, Guan Xingquan did not return to the United States with Zhang Nan, and went directly to Moscow.

The "Flying Sky" program was launched, and the ticket price of 21 million US dollars was negotiated. Not only that, but Russia also got another big business: in May, the shipyard in the north started to build a super "goldfish", titanium alloy pressure-resistant shell, fourth-generation technology, Zhang Nan paid for it, and it will be leased to the Gambia Navy in the future.

It's rental, not selling: nuclear submarines can't be sold, and there are a bunch of international agreements and regulations.

Referring to the sunken Komsomol members, the Russians were not only able to make money, but also used Zhang Nan's funds to retain a group of technicians and skilled technicians, and to accumulate experience.

The aircraft carrier can't be built, but Russia has a complete system for building nuclear submarines, and it can't be lost: in the future, they dare to pit Ah San, and the transformation of an aircraft carrier will make Ah San want to die, but he really doesn't dare to pit Zhang Nan.

This is the guarantee given by Andrei and others: you have made a lot of money, and if you want to die, you can try it!

They also bought equipment that could put together an ocean-going fleet, but not many of them were newly built, and many of them were semi-finished products that could not be maintained and were forced to be eliminated, and they all needed to be slightly modified to adapt to the tropical seas.

Some businesses can be made public now, while others have to be kept secret for a period of time, which is convenient for everyone.

Guan Xingquan is going to space, very good, the news is very strong as soon as the news comes out; the cruiser has changed hands, and the president of the zipper has called!

Zhang Nan's words left Mr. Zipper speechless: "My big ship will never go to China."

And, William, to be honest, you have a bunch of aircraft carriers and cruisers, and those staff members below you should not close their eyes and blow the argument that there is some threat on my side, they will be seen as a joke by others.

It's not that interesting..."

The zipper president just made a routine call, and now he was relieved: a glorious class is going to blow the threat theory, and it's really boring for him to think about it, and the person who blows it is like a clown jumping off the beam.

……

On March 30, Andrei and Alexander drove across the bridge over the strait, and the operation was about to be launched.

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