Chapter 395: The Sword is Blue

The third gift was taken out, and everyone hurriedly looked at it, it was a very narrow box, about four feet long, but only two palms wide in width - nothing else to look at, just by virtue of this shape, there is no need to guess what is in it, not to mention those who have been in the military for a long time, even ordinary scholars can see that this is a sword box, which must contain a sword.

"Your Majesty, this is the treasure that the minister said, and the minister named it Minglan."

The box was opened by Liu Hongji, and sure enough, it was a sword inside, but it was different from the small and delicate sword of the East, this sword was obviously much wider and longer, and the hilt was relatively long, and it was designed to be easy to hold in both hands, and the sword body was also very wide, although it was not yet unsheathed, but it could also be seen through the sword grid that was nearly two palms wide, and the sword body of this sword was at least one palm wide - this is already a heavy sword, which is a weapon rarely seen in the East.

Of course, it is only rare, not impossible, (the most famous Juque is the best example), but there are very few people who can use this kind of sword. Because the quality of the heavy sword is usually more than 20 catties, it is not available for those who are not powerful, but most of those who are born with divine power like to use heavy weapons (such as plate axes or double hammers), which leads to the fact that the heavy sword is very unpopular in the East, and there are even fewer famous people who can use the heavy sword well.

In addition, the heavy sword is not a two-handed sword, and the two-handed sword is also a small and medium-sized sword, but the handle is relatively long and suitable for holding in both hands. Two-handed swords were actually very popular during the Tang Dynasty, and even most of the kendo of the later Wa Kingdom was two-handed swordsmanship, but the reason why it was designed in two-handed mode was mainly to increase attack power - two hands slashing was definitely more powerful than one.

And the epee is different, although the epee is also a two-handed grip mode, but the reason why it is designed to be held in two hands is purely because the epee is too heavy and one hand cannot move. Moreover, the heavy sword moves are generally wide open and closed, which is more suitable for use on the battlefield, especially cavalry or heavy infantry, and it is extremely powerful to use.

The two-handed sword is good at hand-to-hand heads-up, and the nature of the two is different - if you have to classify the heavy sword in the two-handed sword, you should also open a separate series, and it should not be mixed with the ordinary two-handed sword.

The decoration of this sword, which Liu Hongji called the blue sword, is very ordinary, the material of the sword blade should be gold, the carving is very simple, the shape is a lion's head, although it is only a few strokes, but it is very expressive, but it may also be because it has not been used or maintained for a long time, so the surface is purple-gray.

The entanglement on the hilt of the sword is also supposed to be gold, also purple-gray. There is also a piece of leather wrapped under the gold wire, but also because of the long time, the original variety of leather can no longer be seen - but the leather that can go through thousands of years of immortality is obviously not an ordinary goods, I am afraid that it is hunted from some rare and ancient beast, and I am afraid that it has long been extinct.

The sword grid is also made of gold, but the difference is that three eyeball-sized blue gems are set on each side, and even though they are old, they still shimmer bright blue after being wiped off the surface of the dust—there is no doubt that this must be a cornflower sapphire, a precious gemstone also from Tianzhu, and it is also the best of sapphires, which can be described as priceless.

The whole sword is overflowing with an ancient atmosphere, and if you want to say that the only thing that comes from the modern age, I am afraid that it is the scabbard.

The scabbard is cast from the top rosewood, and the pattern on it is carved by the skillful hands of famous craftsmen, which shows that Liu Hongji also took great care when he matched the sword with the sheath. It's a pity that his aesthetics are really not good, the style of this sword is obviously a simple route, he wants to carve so many patterns on the scabbard, I don't know what to say - both things are beautiful, but one is simple and the other is gorgeous, and the combination of the two is very incongruous, ugly.

Li Shimin slowly stood up, although this sword was made indecently by Liu Hongji, but there is one thing he is not wrong, that is, this sword is really related to himself - I don't know why, Li Shimin always feels that this sword is very meaningful to him, whether it is the previous Mountain of Light or the edict of Zhenguo, it cannot be compared with it. This feeling is really very strange, and even Li Shimin himself doesn't know where this feeling comes from, it's inexplicable.

Reaching out to take the sword from Liu Hongji's hand, his hand sank obviously, and the quality was at least thirty catties or more, which was Li Shimin's first impression.

"Zheng~"

Slowly pulling the sword out of its scabbard, the long sword rubbing against the scabbard produced a slight dragon groan, showing the extraordinary nature of this sword.

When Li Shimin's sword was all drawn, the overall posture of this sword also came into everyone's eyes, the color of the sword body was very amazing, neither the silver white of ordinary steel, nor the jet black of the black iron, nor the cyan of bronze, but the magical azure blue - no wonder it was named Ming Blue by Liu Hongji, it turned out that the sword body was really blue.

This is very rare, to say that the blue sword with the technology of the Tang Dynasty is not impossible to make, Li Zhen funded a large number of alchemists (the earliest chemists), under his vigorous investment, these alchemists have researched a lot of strange things, including a special substance, after mixing with steel calcination, it can form a blue coating on the surface, so that the steel shows a dark blue luster and also plays a role in preventing rust, but the output is too scarce, Otherwise, Li Zhen would have been put into vigorous production a long time ago.

However, this is obviously not the case with this blue sword at the moment, because the blue of the blue sword does not only tend to be superficial, but seems to emanate from the inside, and the color of the blue sword tends to be sapphire blue rather than dark blue, and the color is similar to the luster of the three gems on the sword grid, but listening to the sound of Li Shimin hitting the sword, the material is clearly made of metal, which is really strangely tight.

"Buzz~"

Li Shimin just waved a few times in the air, and the friction between the blade of the sword and the air made a soft sound, which shows that this sword is not only strange in color, but also very unusual in sharpness.

"Huh!"

"Zheng~"

"Click!"

"Whoa!"

The empty-handed sword dance obviously did not make Li Shimin happy, and he casually aimed at the small case in front of him, and waved it down with his right hand, and the sword broke through the wind and slashed at the small case, just feeling a little sluggish, the sword had already passed through the small case, just made a light sound, and then heard the sound of the small case breaking and scattering.

(End of chapter)