"Dear friend, long time no see!"

When the group came to a huge estate in the center of Dubai, they saw a burly Tagil, with a big beard and a very rough face.

After the polar bear hugged him warmly, he introduced: "This is Wu Tianyuan, China's treasure hunter, my current collaborator!" ”

Tagil stretched out his hand and greeted the guest in standard Chinese: "Distinguished guests from the East, who have long admired the great name, are really famous and not as good as meeting." ”

Wu Tianyuan said a few words, and everyone walked into the manor together, drinking and chatting in the garden. The Polar Bears did not treat Wu Tianyuan as an outsider, and began to discuss his deal with Tagil in person.

Tagil needed a large amount of gold, and only a polar bear in all of Asia could afford to take the deal, so he was invited to talk.

"In a word, 5 tons of gold, it will be done in a month, but I ...... the commission"

Tagil said happily: "No problem, give you one percent!" I don't have anything, just more dollars! ”

Polar bears are excited, gold is a hard currency traded on the black market, stronger than the dollar. After all, the international market is now changing greatly, and the exchange rate of the huge dollar falls a little every day, and it will lose hundreds of thousands.

While Tagil was leaving, the polar bear whispered, "Know why he wants gold?" Now the situation in the Middle East is very chaotic, and the United States has been plundering resources under various pretexts. I heard that the Arab royal family could not resist the insatiable greed of the Americans, and secretly paid for the revolutionary forces. ”

"One is to teach the United States a lesson and drag them to death here. To fight a war is to fight money, and a day is hundreds of millions of military spending! Second, these Middle Easterners are not fuel-efficient lamps, and they have long secretly joined forces with international speculators to snipe a dollar! Tagil has an inside story, the gods are fighting, and the imps are suffering, and he wants to avoid danger in advance. ”

Wu Tianyuan opened his eyes and took another look at the polar bear, it is not easy to eat this bowl of rice, three religions and nine streams, fairies, tigers and dogs must be known. It is necessary to know all kinds of news, and polar bears are not simple.

"Since you're here, and there are distinguished guests from the East, let's visit my collection together?"

Wu Tianyuan naturally couldn't ask for it, and for the first time he came into contact with the taste of Arab collectors, he had a good understanding of it, and he would have a bottom when he did business all over the world in the future.

"My collection is mainly in three aspects, one is the master oil paintings, Picasso, Gauguin, Monet, Van Gogh, Henry, the five top masters have classics!"

Tagil proudly led two people to the huge collection room, and dozens of oil paintings of the master were vividly visible, which was very shocking.

"Now that the oil painting is good, it is safest to maintain and appreciate the value." Tagil lamented: "When there is so much money that it is just a number, only top-quality art can make me feel a little safe!" ”

The three of them looked at the oil paintings, and then continued to walk inside, and when they arrived at the second large storage room, it was full of cold weapons and hundreds of swords of all kinds.

"We Arabs respect warriors the most, a good sword is a partner in life and death, and these are the best swords that I have spent more than twenty years traveling around the world to collect!"

"This is the Japanese ghost Ichiro Toichiro of the Japanese master of Mano, extremely sharp, rare to see!"

"The command saber of Napoleon III, who participated in many battles!"

Tagil proudly told the story of each of his beloved swords, and Wu Tianyuan saw that he had a hobby with Ma Yun, and the two of them could talk about it when they had time.

"It's all famous Damascus knives, especially this one, the knife of the legendary hero Saladin, it took me five whole years to get my hands on it!"

On September 3, 1191, the main forces of the Third Crusade, led by King Richard the Lionheart of England, approached Arsuf, an open flat near the city of Jaffa, where the two legendary heroes of Romanticism would meet and collide.

The other protagonist of the legend is the equally mighty king Saladin, the founding monarch of the Ayyub dynasty, the world's greatest general, who led his army against Richard.

Richard rode out to meet Saladin, apparently the two had a heated argument over the ownership of the Holy Land of Jerusalem, Saladin took out a scarf and threw it into the air in order to demonstrate to Richard, and then drew his sword and swung it at the scarf, cutting the almost weightless scarf floating in the air in half.

This spectacle amazed Richard and his knights, who had seen countless swords and swords in his life, and from that day on, a legend spread in Europe: there was an unknown metal material in the East, and the sword forged from it was extremely sharp. and aroused the knights' insatiable thirst for this sword. This mysterious sword is named after its raw material: the "Uzi" steel sword, or after the place where it was forged: the "Damascus" steel sword.

The actual performance of the Uzi steel sword can be found in very limited ancient texts, and most of them are some illusory legends. After the 18th century, Europeans became more aware of the world, and there were many wars, especially Napoleon's expedition to Egypt in 1798, which recorded the performance of the Uzi steel sword in battle.

Emperor Napoleon had two true Mamluk servants at his side, Ruthtang and Ali. According to his account, the enemy cavalry armed with the Uzi steel scimitar inflicted terrible damage on the French, and they simply stretched their swords forward, and slashed the blade into the body of our cavalry with the momentum of their horses and the strength of their wrists, or pulled the blade horizontally, inflicting terrible wounds with relative speed.

After the encounter between the 7th Hussar Regiment and the Mamluks, some soldiers were even cut into two pieces, and after the battle, many cavalrymen sacrificed their lives, their heads were in different places, and some of their bodies were broken into two, and the injuries were also extremely serious, and the backs of their hands and wrists were all cut off, and the situation was very miserable.

The Mamluks usually practiced their swordsmanship in the training room, where the practitioner had to stand up and raise the scimitar above his head, quickly slash diagonally, and practice this movement over and over again until he became very proficient. Each time, a goat or sheep can be easily cut off at the waist with a single knife, and without resistance, the blood flows down the blood groove of the Uzi steel knife. It is said that an Ottoman general once cut a cow in two with a single sword.

"You look at the mysterious pattern, it's so beautiful, it's just addictive!"

Tagil is obsessively holding a knife, as if stroking his lover, and the pattern of each knife is unique and very charming.

Wu Tianyuan picked up a handful and studied it carefully, modern scientists have found that the unique pattern of the Damascus scimitar is actually composed of countless small saws that are difficult to see with the naked eye, and it is these small saws that increase the power of the Damascus scimitar.

In fact, Damascus steel knife is called by Europeans, this kind of steel will have a special pattern on the surface when it is cast into a sword - Muhammad pattern, so it is a cast pattern steel in the pattern steel, which is different from the Chinese sword formed by folding and forging welded pattern steel, or the Japanese sword of quenching pattern steel.

The demonic pattern on the Damascus steel knife is simply a symbol of sharpness and preciousness, and the pattern is simply the ultimate beauty of artificial carving. Because of the moving legend and its excellent performance, knives made of Damascus steel have become the best in the world of knife collecting.

Unfortunately, because India's Uzzi iron ore was exhausted at the end of the 17th century, the cast pattern steel also disappeared, and the production of Damascus steel knives was lost. Although there are many attempts to use modern science to analyze and replicate Damascus steel knives, they have failed. Modern Damascus steel is only welded pattern steel, and this pattern is made for the sake of aesthetics and has no practical meaning. ”

Wu Tianyuan's heart moved, it seems that the Damascus knife is also a rare resource? Is the Uzi Iron Mine really extinct?