This life is actually a process of continuous learning, and it will naturally be affected by the things that come into contact with life, such as this film and television drama can affect many people's worldview.

A drama called a historical drama plays a partial generalization in the narration of history, saying that the iron weapons of the Western Han Dynasty in China are not as good as the equipment of the Huns, which is not only a problem of lack of rigor, but even misleading!

The iron-making technology and weapon-making technology of the Chinese ancestors were inferior to the Xiongnu barbarians, who did not even have their own national language?

That's not!

Although the full use of iron tools in China began in the early years of the Western Han Dynasty, in fact, the smelting technology of this iron tool has appeared in China during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, but it has not been used in a large area.

"Comprehensive use" is different from "large-scale use", and many soldiers in the Central Plains used steel weapons during the Warring States Period, and there is a lot of evidence obtained from archaeological excavations.

Objectively speaking, from the perspective of global civilization, the large-scale use of iron tools in China is not the earliest, and it is generally believed that the earliest ethnic groups to use iron weapons on a large scale were the Hittites on the Anatolian Plateau.

Although it was not the earliest, by the time of the Western Han Dynasty, Huaxia was the world's top in steelmaking, and at that time, the length of the extremely high-quality steel sword was far more than 1 meter, and the hardness and toughness were extremely high!

In horizontal comparison, the age of iron tools in the West is relatively early, but it has been stagnant at the primary level for the next two thousand years, especially in Europe, which did not even promote carburizing technology in the Middle Ages!

By the way, the Hittites belong to the Middle East and have nothing to do with Europe.

Compared with the ancient Roman Empire in the Eastern Han Dynasty, the length of the iron sword used by the Romans at that time was only thirty or forty centimeters - it was not because the ancient Romans were accustomed to using short swords to fight since the earlier republican era, but the biggest reason was that the texture of their iron swords was too bad and too soft!

Ancient Rome continued to use a large number of bronze weapons until the fall of the Western Roman Empire, because their iron swords were unreliable - the strength was not enough, and they stabbed the opponent with a sword, and as a result...

The sword is bent.

It's either an elastic bend, or a bend that's too soft, and if you want to continue fighting, you have to put your sword on the ground and step on it straight, and if you want to step on it.

Iron weapons are really unreliable, and it is better to use bronze weapons with mature technology.

As for the Xiongnu, since the rise of the 3rd century B.C., to the Western Han Dynasty, they have been anxious to trade metals with the Central Plains regime, especially steel.

However, the export of iron tools and iron materials was strictly forbidden in the Western Han Dynasty, so there were often cases where the Xiongnu went south to loot the iron tools and craftsmen of the Western Han Dynasty.

A TV series and a plot will make some people who don't know the real history think that the steel smelting and forging technology in China was inferior to the Xiongnu, which is misleading!

Then how to count the Uzi steel path knife that Zhang Nan asked people to put away?

In the era of fighting by manpower and animal power, one or two pieces of high-precision equipment could not change the development of history, at most, a certain warrior had a magic weapon, and when he fought alone, he could cut the opponent's weapon out of the gap.

If you are lucky to cut a few more times, you can even cut off the opponent's long knife, then you have to be lucky to hit the same gap in a row, and the role of the magic weapon is only that.

As for the Uzi steel itself, it was a top product in that era, but the production was difficult and the output was too small, not to mention that it itself had good or bad quality, and the simple smelting method was too accidental - the Uzi steel knife obtained by Zhang Nan this time was obviously the top product among them, but it was impossible to equip any army on a large scale!

Not to mention after BC, even during the Crusades more than 1,100 years later, Saladin's men were worthy of the Damascus steel scimitar only among the most elite troops and those officers who were worth a lot of money.

Zhang Nan still knows more about history, and I really want to say to those who make film and television dramas: Be merciful, don't change history!

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After combining Zhang Nan's Tufuzi method, the archaeological clean-up process has been greatly accelerated: the official has been robbed, and he doesn't care whether the process is completely regular, just figure it out and figure it out.

The steel boss was more energetic than the rusted big iron bars, and the other guys and those Russian soldiers were not idle, and in the past almost two hours, a burial tomb was cleaned up, and the one in charge of Chen Jianghua had also been cleaned up by almost a half.

The organic matter in the burial tomb has long been rotten, it may be that the water permeability of this tomb is too good, not to mention any leather, human bones, and even the owner of the tomb 2000 years ago simply left only a few teeth remaining!

Tooth enamel is not easy to decay, which is still thanks to the fact that the acidity of the soil here is not the same as that of the cold winter for a long time, otherwise there will be nothing left.

The remaining teeth looked not small, and Zhang Nan was still in the mood to joke with the specimen bag: "According to this size, the height of the tomb owner is estimated to be more than 1.85 meters." ”

Guan Xingquan was puzzled, "There is a relationship between height and tooth size?"

"No, I guessed. ”

Zhang Nan didn't blush at all, "But if there are a few more teeth and more complete teeth, it may be possible to guess the approximate age of death of the tomb owner, but it is not very accurate, it has something to do with eating habits..."

It's all nonsense, there are only four or five teeth left and they are not very complete, and it is nonsense to study the age of the tomb owner according to the degree of wear and tear, and it is purely to have some fun when there is nothing to do.

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The iron objects in the tomb are not only a path knife, but also a short knife with a handle length of about 30 centimeters, which rotted in the sand and stained a lot of mud nearby.

A short knife that completely pierced the heart had been broken into three pieces before it was dug out, and it was carefully taken out and put into a specimen bag, and Zhang Nan saw that its broken stubble was already completely corroded.

Strictly speaking, it is no longer an iron knife, just a long strip of rust: this should be the guy who eats in front of the tomb owner, a very ordinary small iron knife.

Twenty gilt bronze plaques were found near the saddle site, almost all of them in pairs, with slightly rough patterns on the front, and the two largest ones had reliefs of galloping horses.

Like the three gilded bronze plates found in the saddle, these gilt copper plates of various sizes and almost in pairs were ornaments on the harness, but not on the saddle, and were supposed to be on the strips of leather.

A few clay pots and pottery bowls look quite ordinary, but these are fine pottery, which were very valuable in the Xiongnu region at the beginning, at least more expensive and beautiful than stoneware and stone bowls.

There are also some scattered stone beads, red and green, all of which are agate and turquoise found on the Gobi Desert.

This is not a woman's thing, it should be an ornament from when the tomb owner was alive, and it may be a more beloved thing.

The most interesting part of the tomb is that six small hedgehogs were found in the place where the owner was supposed to be lying: hedgehog-shaped gold ornaments, each 4.5 cm long and 2.5 cm wide, molded with gold sheets.

Round carving, hollow, the hedgehog's body of those thorns transformed into a curly pattern, with small holes on the edge, the shape looks very cute.

For the use of these hedgehog gold ornaments, Nong Bosheng believes that this should be an embellishment on the clothes of the tomb owner: it looks cute, but the tomb owner is definitely not related to "cuteness" at the beginning!

"The hedgehog is covered in thorns, and the shape of it is used to make jewelry, which means that the owner of this tomb is definitely not easy to mess with, just like a hedgehog, whoever provokes him will stab whoever he wants!"

Well, so far, the owner of this burial tomb should have died of natural causes before burying it, otherwise no one would want to bury the hard-won practical items such as road knives, gilded horse harnesses, and hedgehog gold ornaments!

Comrade Zhang Nan completely agreed with the opinion of the curator, and boldly guessed: "The path and road knives are all buried together, do you say that it is possible that this is the commander of the Shan Yu Wang Tent Army, just like those later pro-army commanders?"

In response to this speculation, Nong Bosheng's answer was: "It is very likely, but it is a pity that the Xiongnu nobles and officials did not have the habit of using seals, so they could not dig up a famous one." ”

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