Chapter 373 Zhenguo Heavy Weapon 'Kyushu Ding'

…… Obviously, the sword that Liu Dong is holding at the moment is not the matching sword of the king of Chuzhuang, but the saber of the armor of the monarch of the Zongguo who was destroyed by him, but looking at the still sharp blade of this sword and the diamond-shaped pattern on the spine of the sword, as well as the hilt of the beast's face, there is not the slightest rust on it, it is difficult to imagine that during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the swords of the monarchs of a small princely state had such superb craftsmanship.

Next, Liu Dong picked up the remaining fifteen swords one by one, although the decaying scabbard blurred some handwriting, but Liu Dong basically recognized that except for three of the sixteen swords with the name of King Xiong of Chuzhuang, the rest were the swords of the kings of other princes.

In addition to these swords, there are also swords, spears, and ge, which add up to more than a hundred pieces, but the wooden poles that originally connected them have rotted, and now only the bronze zuò part remains. Of course, the best and best three pieces of bronze monolithic casting of the Yue, spear and Ge are still complete, and they should be used as a ceremonial guard for the king of Chuzhuang.

In addition to these weapons, there are also bronze supported armor and lacquer shields next to them, but the number is very small, there are only a few pieces of each, thinking that these things are not easy to preserve, Uncle Li and they only took out a few of them that are relatively intact.

In addition, in addition to these weapons and armor, there are also two huge bronze cymbals, each of which is close to two meters and has a caliber of more than one meter.

Among all these armor weapons, there are 45 'royal weapons' with inscriptions, the so-called royal weapons. It's with a certain prince. For example, the weapon with the inscription 'King of Chu Xiong Couple is self-bearing'.

And in addition to these armor weapons. There are also some loose pieces of chariots and horses, most of which are bronze, with a small amount of gold and silver chariots and horses, and I think this should be stolen by Uncle Li and them from the chariot and horse pit where King Chuzhuang was buried. In this karst cave, these carriages and horses are the most, piled together to occupy most of the cave, and when Liu Dong completes the cleanup, he roughly calculates that there are almost more than 10,000 pieces.

"I hope I can piece together a few carriages from it!" Liu Dong secretly looked forward to it.

After cleaning up the hole. Liu Dong came to the side of the pile of rubble, and then stretched out his hand and pulled it up. may have felt that the things inside were the most precious, so Uncle Li and the others deliberately blocked the passage with rocks on this day.

This time there were more rocks than when Liu Dong first entered the cave, and in the end, in order to save time, Liu Dong moved all the rocks in front of him to the mustard seed space.

It took about five minutes, more than 2,000 large and small stones were loaded, and then a wide rock passage with a width of three meters and a height of three meters and a length of more than 20 meters was opened, and a huge space larger than the five karst caves that Liu Dong had experienced in front of him appeared in front of him.

And in this huge space are more than thirty huge bronzes.

"It turns out that the best bronzes in the entire tomb of King Chuzhuang are here!" Liu Dong closed his mouth, suppressing the shock in his heart. Immediately, a strong wave of joy welled up in my heart.

Needless to say, the twenty-six large tripods cast by King Chuzhuang to show his merits are the same in size and shape as the Chaoguo Ding and Zong Guoding that Liu Dong obtained in the capital before. It's just that the inscriptions on the tripod and the relief ornaments are different.

However, compared with the Zongguo Ding and Chao Guoding obtained by Liu Dong, the remaining twenty-four large tripods all have a tripod lid on them, and each cover has a divine beast made of lost wax method.

The twenty-four tripods are solemn and luxurious, and under Liu Dong's relics, these tripods are not empty, but are full of bamboo slips, some bronze seals and tiger talismans used by ancient emperors to transfer troops. These things that represent the authority of a country do not belong to the Chu State but to the twenty-six countries destroyed by King Zhuang of Chu, but now only these twenty-four copper tripods have these things, but there is no one in the two big tripods that Liu Dong has already obtained, and there is not even a top cover, and I don't know if it was omitted in the tomb of King Zhuang, or it was artificially thrown away by Uncle Li and them.

But no matter what, with these two shortcomings, Liu Dong still feels very regretful in his heart.

In addition to these twenty-four tripods, there is also a larger tripod, this tripod is not the common three-legged round tripod in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, but the kind of four-legged square tripod in the Xia and Shang periods, it is obvious that it is not cast by King Chuzhuang, but taken from elsewhere, and the height of this tripod is more than two meters, standing under the tripod, Liu Dong can not see the inside.

The mouth of this Dading is also wide enough, reaching about one meter eight, almost the same height as Liu Dong, and the width is also one meter five, and the depth of the Dading is one meter. A tripod foot is almost as thick as Liu Dong's thigh.

Moreover, the bronzes of the Xia and Shang dynasties were more used as ritual vessels than food vessels, so the materials used in bronzes at this time were generally more than those in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, and the table was on this big tripod, that is, the wall of the tripod was exceptionally thick, with a width of nearly 20 centimeters.

Standing in front of this huge tripod, you will feel the majesty and heaviness revealed from it.

This is several times larger than Simu Wu Dafang Ding, the ornamentation is also very gorgeous, in addition to the cloud and thunder pattern at the edge of the mouth, and the bottom of the fine thunder pattern, the four walls of the whole big tripod with the technique of relief, cast a large number of vivid monsters, many of which the image of the monster Liu Dong is also a little familiar, there are many descriptions of them in the pre-Qin classic "Classic of Mountains and Seas".

Liu Dong circled around the big tripod and counted it, and a total of 108 kinds of strange beasts were engraved on this unprecedented huge bronze tripod.

In addition to these monsters, there are also images of mountains, rivers, and castles on the four walls, and at a glance, the vast and majestic land and endless space seem to be right in front of you.

It's really hard to imagine how people used the pottery model method to make a big tripod so sophisticated. The endless mountains and rivers are condensed on this not too big roof.

And after Liu Dong sighed, he reached out and touched the wall, and the relics in his mustard seed space suddenly jumped violently a few times, and then the golden light burst out, and then a few words appeared in the sky above the relics.

"Xia Yu casts one of the nine tripods 'Jingzhou Ding'!!

After getting this result, Liu Dong was shocked and almost bit off his tongue.

"This ...... Is this really one of the Jingzhou Dings in Kyushu?" Liu Dong said with infinite excitement in his heart.

In the early years of the Xia Dynasty, Dayu divided the world into Kyushu, and the state set up a state pastor. Later Xia Qi ordered Kyushu Mu to contribute bronze and cast Jiuding. In advance, people were sent to draw the famous mountains and rivers, places of beauty, and strange things in various states of the country into an atlas, and then sent selected famous craftsmen to engrave these paintings on the body of Jiuding, and symbolized a state with a tripod. The carved figures also reflect the state's mountains and rivers. Jiuding symbolizes Kyushu, reflecting the unity of the whole country and the high concentration of royal power, showing that King Xia has become the co-lord of the world and is in accordance with the "Mandate of Heaven". As the saying goes: "Under the whole world, it is not the king's land, and the shore of the land is not the king's minister." Since then, Kyushu has become synonymous with China, and "Dingding" has become synonymous with the establishment of national political power.

In China's thousands of years of history, there are only two important weapons that have been truly recognized by all dynasties, one is the Jiuding cast by Xia Yu, and the other is the 'Heshi Bi' of the first emperor's political system, that is, the 'jade seal of the country'.

The Jiuding cast by Xia Yu is a symbol of imperial power that was fought for by various countries in the pre-Qin period. And He's Bi is a symbol of imperial power in the feudal era.

Kyushu Ding inherited the Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties for nearly 2,000 years, until the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the various vassal states still respected the Zhou royal family with Jiuding as the co-master, and after the loss of Jiuding, the Zhou royal family was also destroyed by the Qin State. After the jade seal was lost in the Song Dynasty, the emperors of later generations became the 'tabula rasa emperor'.

And for thousands of years, I don't know how many wars have been caused around this Kyushu Ding and the jade seal of the country.

The records of these two important weapons are also different in history, not to mention He's Bi, but Jiuding, Sima Qian, Ban Gu and other famous historians have different explanations.

It's just that what Liu Dong didn't expect was that he actually saw one of the nine tripods, 'Jingzhou Ding', in the tomb of King Chuzhuang. And this result is easy to think of the idiom 'winning the Central Plains', which is also a representative of King Chuzhuang's achievement of hegemony.

However, according to the original historical records, in 605 BC, King Zhuang of Chu once led the Chu army to the north, and took the opportunity of attacking Lu Hun to drive the main army of Chu to the southern suburbs of Luoyang in the Eastern Zhou Dynasty and held a grand military parade. King Zhou Ding sent the eloquent Wang Sunman to the labor army, and the king of Chuzhuang asked Zhou Tianzi about the size and weight of the Ding, and was finally rejected by Wang Sunman.

But looking at the Jingzhou Ding in front of him, it is obvious that the facts do not match the historical data, the king of Chu Zhuang did not get the nine tripods, but he got one of the nine tripods, the 'Jingzhou Ding' representing the location of the Chu State! And after his death, he buried it in his own tomb.

"This is really unexpected!" Liu Dong couldn't help but sigh as he looked at the rich purple brilliance rising into the sky above the big ding. Although he knew that this Dading must be a Xia Shang heavy weapon, he never imagined that this was actually the real Xia Yu Jiuding, a heavy weapon for the country!

And there are also a large number of bamboo slips in this Kyushu Ding, and there is also a bronze phoenix statue representing the totem of the Chu State. This bronze statue is two opposing phoenixes, similar to the shape of the elephant, but the image is different.

Around this famous Kyushu Ding, as well as the one-meter-high Fengzun inside, Liu Dong studied them for nearly an hour before he reluctantly put them into his mustard seed space.

…………………………………………………… (To be continued......)