"Path knife, why does that sound a little weird, a little bit like that..."

What else can there be, awkward, this pronunciation feels weird, not like the name of the Chinese knife.

It was Guan Xingquan who was questioning, and he could hear that the director of agriculture was talking about the name of a certain "variety" of knife, not just a specific knife.

As a Chinese, or a little understanding of ancient history, playing with antique cultural relics, Guan Boss still knows some varieties of knives that have appeared in Chinese history, such as the ring head knife of the Han Dynasty, the horizontal knife and Mo knife of the Tang Dynasty, the Pu knife of the Song Dynasty, and the popular Yanling knife of the Ming and Qing dynasties.

But he really hadn't heard of this path knife, the director of the agricultural curator was his own person, and it was not ashamed to say the doubts in his heart, if it was replaced by someone else, even if this Guan Xingquan had serious doubts in his heart, then he would not ask.

When Nong Bosheng heard this, he said to Guan Lao Dao: "Oh, this is a Chinese word that means divine sword." However, the name of this knife is generally only for the treasure knife of the Huns, and the early Huns called the dagger 'Jinglu' and worshiped it as the god of war.

There is a record in the "Book of Han - The Legend of the Huns": "Chang, Meng, Shan Yu and the ministers all climbed the Xiongnu Nuoshui Dongshan and punished the white horse. Shan Yu used the path knife and Jin Liulu to scratch the wine, and the old Shangshan Yu broke the head of the Yue clan as a drinker. ’

It means that it is only used to use the portable sword 'path' and the dagger 'Liuqi' to stir wine for the blood alliance drink, which is a kind of ritual of making an alliance between the Han Dynasty and the Xiongnu.

But that drinking thing is a little disgusting, the big wine cup made of the skull of the king of the Yue clan, and the later Mongols have a virtue, I don't know if it's an alliance or a warning..."

Yes, Nong Bosheng also remembered that Yang Lian Zhenjia was a pervert and neurotic who dug up the tomb of the Southern Song Dynasty Emperor and cut off the head of Emperor Zhao Yun and made it into a wine vessel.

He also knew that the wine vessel, which represented the humiliation of generations of Han Chinese, was later placed in the court of the Yuan Dynasty, and that Kublai Khan also used the large wine bowl made of the skull of the Han emperor.

It wasn't until later that when Zhu Yuanzhang destroyed the Yuan Dynasty and restored the Hanjia rivers and mountains, he also recaptured the wine bowl.

It is said that Zhu Yuanzhang also took the wine bowl and said: "I avenged you today!"

In April of the first year of Hongwu, Zhu Yuanzhang buried the skull of Song Lizong in Jubao Mountain in Jinling according to the king's ceremony, washing away the shame of a hundred years since the Song Dynasty!

Nong Bosheng said a little sexually, who let everyone stand on the Mongolian plateau, and said a little far - scholars, literati, who say that they are good-sounding are also characterful, and the vernacular is: that is also stubborn!

However, he didn't go a few streets away, and after scolding the Mongols, Nong Bosheng said: "Yan Shigu, a historian in the early Tang Dynasty, also quoted the Eastern Han Dynasty scholar Ying Shaodao, saying: The path is also the treasure knife of the Huns.

In fact, the 'path knife' more often refers not only to the portable knife of the Huns Shan Yu, nor to the dagger, but more often refers to the treasure knife in the hands of the Huns. ”

He was looking at it with reading glasses just now, and he flicked the blade with his fingers again, the sound was pleasant, and he took out a magnifying glass from his pocket to look at it carefully.

"Although this knife is not a treasure that the Huns can only have, it will definitely not be much, and non-high-level warriors are not allowed to have it, so it will be very rare, expensive, and 100% path knife!

Fortunately, it didn't have much at the beginning, and with this quality, the ordinary ring-headed knife used by our army at that time couldn't beat it!"

His words reminded Zhang Nan of a TV series "Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty" at the beginning of the 21st century, in which Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty found that the sword of the Han Dynasty army was inferior to the sword of the Xiongnu - the sword of the Han Dynasty and the sword of the Xiongnu did a rush experiment, and the sword of the Han Dynasty was broken in two!

is a bit exaggerated in film and television dramas, this Western Han Dynasty treasure knife is not a cucumber or a very brittle pig iron strip, it has toughness, and it is not easy to break even if it is cut into a saw blade.

Well, no matter what the director thinks, anyway, the next plot is that Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty learned that the Xiongnu found a kind of steel in the Western Regions, which greatly improved the performance of the Xiongnu's treasure knife, and it can be sharpened like mud.

Then, the ambitious classmate Liu Che sent Zhang Qian to the Western Regions.

Yes, one of the important tasks of Zhang Qian's mission to the Western Regions in the TV series was to obtain more advanced steelmaking technology, and the countries with the most advanced steelmaking technology in the world went to the Western Regions to find more advanced technology......

Regardless of whether the description of this film and television drama is correct or not, Zhang Nan remembered the saying that the path knife, as for the reason why the Western Han Dynasty treasure knife is not as good as the Xiongnu treasure knife, there is no need to explain it to Guan Xingquan.

Since the Han Dynasty had the world's first steelmaking technology, why did the Han sword be inferior to the Xiongnu knife?

Nong Bosheng naturally talked about the quality of steel at the beginning, and said: "The quality of the ring-head knife used by our ordinary soldiers in the Han Dynasty was not as good as the treasure knife of the Huns for a period of time, not that the smelting technology of the Xiongnu or the Western Regions was higher than ours.

It's just that someone in the Western Regions got a suitable iron ore and came up with a way to refine high-carbon steel. ”

As he spoke, he pointed to the burial area below, "Don't talk about Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, even if it is a hundred years later, there are still a lot of bronze weapons in use by the Huns."

What steel-making technology can these barbarians have, even the forging technology is rotten, it can be said that we have defeated the Huns with our own refining ring-headed knife.

Judging from the fact that the shape of many Xiongnu swords unearthed in the past resembles the Han style, not only the iron culture of the Xiongnu was influenced by the Han culture, but it is estimated that most of the blacksmiths in the Xiongnu-controlled areas at that time were also Han craftsmen from the Central Plains and were looted by the Xiongnu.

If the Huns had such a grade of path knives, it was estimated that the war would have to be fought for hundreds of years - there were very few Huns with such treasure knives, or even very few!

Steel was obtained, and most of the sources of steel in the Western Regions were Persia and ancient India, and although we had very advanced iron-making technology at that time, we were able to make pure iron, which was not possible in other countries.

However, there was no technology for refining high-carbon steel in the Central Plains of China, and it was generally used to mix cast iron and wrought iron to refine medium-carbon steel, which was really inferior to the treasure knife of the Huns in the competition of strength of a few weapons.

The steel used by the Huns' treasure knives was not produced by them, but relied on a very small amount of refined steel produced in the Western Regions.

From the 6th to 5th centuries BC, the Hyderabad region in the northwest corner of ancient India was, by the way, now part of Pakistan.

At that time, smelters in Hyderabad selected multiple processes and ground them into powdered black manganese ore, bamboo charcoal and some plant leaves, which were sealed and burned in a clay furnace to form a mass of metal.

The lump of metal is then melted and cooled four or five times before being smelted into a lump of metal, which becomes Uzi steel.

We don't seem to have much black manganese ore in China, so it seems that there has never been such a local method of steelmaking technology, but fortunately, our ancient steelmaking technology is advanced, and the Huns who can only get a small amount of Uzi steel were drowned with practical medium carbon steel that can be produced in large quantities.

Although it is a bit one-sided that our ordinary steel is good to win the war, and we have to add the problems of comprehensive national strength, manpower, and people's hearts, it is still a bit like the Soviet Union's tank cluster drowned Hitler first, and then in the past few decades, NATO and us have been under a lot of pressure. ”

Saying that, Nong Bosheng turned the blade side of the sword, and said: "You see the patterns on the surface of this knife, just like the stars in the night sky, this effect is because these patterns are fundamentally two materials with different properties.

These bright ones are called snow charcoal iron, and the hardness is greater than that of glass!

These structures in the dark places are austenite and bostenite, called bolite iron, which are very tough.

The blade of Uzi steel can be sharpened very sharply, and the blade is not easy to break.

Fortunately, the manufacturing of Uzi steel is time-consuming and laborious, a discus has to be refined for two or three months, and the success rate of sintered discus is very low, otherwise the original Huns would be in trouble if they could get a large number of Uzi steel!

By the way, Anan, Uzi steel is not easy to rust, and this knife is not rotten, which is probably one of the reasons.

But it seems that there is no 2,000-year-old Uzi steel knife unearthed on this earth, and you are very lucky!"

"The Huns haven't unearthed it yet?"

Zhang Nan knows about Uzi steel knives, because he has a collection before, although there are no goods from 20 centuries ago, but they are all antiques: in the 17th century, Uzi steel was no longer produced, because the iron ore in the production area was excavated, and the imitations can only be regarded as "Uzi steel high-carbon steel".

The Huns like thick burials, and the sword will accompany the burial, if even the ancient India and Persia regions have not unearthed the 2000-year-old Uzi steel knife, then the ancient Xiongnu ruled the area did not?

Nong Bosheng nodded and said: "No, Uzi steel is precious, I guess that after the Hun nobles obtain this kind of steel, they will not generally use only Uzi steel as a whole, it should be added to a part during forging, then it will not be authentic, and the characteristics of this knife will also change, and it will not be a knife if it is rotten for two thousand years."

This is only a point, and the more important Xiongnu aristocratic tombs have been formally excavated in only two places.

The Soviets excavated the tomb of Noyinula in the 20s, in Mongolia, near the border with Russia, very far north, and there were iron swords unearthed, but not Uzi steel, which I saw almost 40 years ago, and it was rotten.

There is also in the 70s in our Inner Mongolia stumbled upon a few Xiongnu noble tombs, I also went to visit the excavated cultural relics, but those tombs are equivalent to the Central Plains Warring States Period, the unearthed metal artifacts are basically bronze and gold products, iron tools are almost gone, the same no Uzi steel, maybe the Huns at that time did not get this kind of Western Regions steel. ”

Saying that, Comrade Curator raised his head and glanced at the nearby wasteland, "Modern archaeology has been in recent years, and this large area once ruled by the Xiongnu is either a grassland or a desert, or a high mountain or a forest, and no man's land can account for more than half.

The area excavated by the Soviets is hundreds of kilometers away from the north of the movement, and this large area where we will be is a no-man's land, needless to say that hundreds of years ago, even if the herdsmen of twenty or thirty years ago occasionally grazing would pass by here and see these stones on the surface, who cares?

The herders who do what we do don't care, they don't even realize that this is a tomb, and they don't have the kind of awareness that they report anything unusual.

In fact, not only is there a lack of awareness, but this newspaper has to be driven hundreds of kilometers, except for the idlers sitting in the office, who has that kung fu!

Even if some herdsmen realize that digging this kind of stone pile may be an opportunity to make a fortune, if they want to make a fortune with the manpower of a few people and have to live a herding life, they will drive more than 100 kilometers to dig when they have time?

This is too great for ordinary people to bear.

Herdsmen, not farming people, may have to travel hundreds of kilometers to find a suitable excavation. Even if you find it, you can ride a horse for hundreds of kilometers and come back to dig.

Then dig it for a few days and find that the tired cow has not dug up a reason, and it will be 100% off, but the nomads who ruled here after the ancient Xiongnu may dig these stone piles.

This large area ruled by the Huns, except for us and the Soviets, no one else is in a position to study it if they want to.

Besides, the core area of the Xiongnu activities is still in today's Mongolia, what academy of sciences and cultural departments on their side...

Hehe!

After this joint expedition some time ago, I can see clearly that these Mongolians basically didn't know anything about what was on the land for decades, and they didn't even care about it at all, and this satellite was too much!

Not to mention the history of one or two thousand years ago and a large number of ancient cities, they don't even know about it, and even the map of the Qing Dynasty that they recently made is full of errors.

Some of them can make people laugh, I don't know if it's arrogance or ignorance, on the map I saw in their museum, the eastern border of the Khalkhanate actually went east past our Chang'an.

The archaeology of Mongolia is just beginning, but to be honest, the minds of these sheep herders are completely enlightened, and their thinking is still stuck in the time of Temujin!

Mongolian archaeology is almost blank, as for the two excavations of the Xiongnu tomb between us and the Soviets, I think we still have a chance to find it this time, I don't know if there is this kind of Uzi steel knife below. ”

Saying that, he returned the knife to Zhang Nan, and after taking it, Zhang Nan said: "I plan to take the knife back to the United States first, find a good knife workshop to re-polish and assemble it, there are also people over there who play Uzi Steel, what do you think?"

Nong Bosheng smiled, "It's all made you like this, it's okay to polish and polish."

But Anan, don't end up wearing a Persian knife outfit or just do it.

In my opinion, the inner arc of this knife is extremely small, almost straight.

I'll ask a friend to get you a few drawings and photos of the Han ring head knife outfit found in archaeology, and the blade will be kept in its original state as much as possible, and you can just follow the standard ring head knife outfit for people to process. ”

When Zhang Nan heard this, he said: "That's good, anyway, the sword for the Huns is basically Han style, and this forging craftsman is also Han, so I will get a ring head knife and a knife outfit." ”

The knife was wrapped in a white cloth and put it away, and only then did Zhang Nan have the heart to take a look at a few small things unearthed in the same burial tomb an hour ago.