Chapter 45: The West Sea Knife

"Lord Liu" Xie Wengshan looked at Xie Laosi suspiciously and asked, "What gift?"

Xie Laosi thought for a while and said, "Is it a gift from Lord Liu of Xihai County, or please ask the old lady to see it for herself."

What kind of official position Liu Ziqiu is, Xie Laosi really doesn't know, but he stayed in Weiding City for a while, knows that Liu Ziqiu has a high prestige among the local tribes, and has also seen Liu Ziqiu's jīng soldiers and strong generals, mentioning Liu Ziqiu, he has an inexplicable awe, and even dare not mention Liu Ziqiu's name, as for what is in the box, Xie Laosi knows nothing, the box mouth is pasted with seals, there are thirty warriors sent by Liu Ziqiu to personally guard him, and his men dare not open the box no matter how curious they are, but Xie Laosi knows that there is a box that is particularly heavy, so he asked the guys to carry the box over

Xie Yun personally stepped forward to inspect the seal and saw that it was intact, then nodded at his father, Xie Wengshan said in a deep voice: "Open"

The two family members stepped forward to open the lid of the box, and everyone poked their heads over, "Huh", their faces were full of disappointment, it was actually a box of stones, Xie Yun thought that the adult surnamed Liu was going to play tricks, and the Xie family was a little annoyed, and his face sank: "Throw it into the river"

In fact, Xie Yun has always acted in a very measured manner, but more than a month ago, his most beloved daughter was forced out of the house, his mood was extremely low, and he lost his patience with Rì, and several family members stepped forward and were about to lift the box, but heard Xie Zhiwen say: "Wait"

Xie Zhiwen picked up a stone from the box, looked at it carefully, handed it to Xie Yun, pointed to one of the places and said, "Father, please look here"

Xie Yun looked at the light for a while, nodded thoughtfully, and waved his hand: "Someone come, please come over."

Xie Wengshan, the three brothers have retreated behind the scenes, in front of people, Xie Yun is the head of the Xie family, hearing that it was the head of the family, Ren Er ran over and bowed down and said: "The slave is here, please ask the master to command."

Xie Yun handed him the stone in his hand and said, "Take a closer look."

Ren Er also has an identity as a famous jade worker in the south of the Yangtze River, he picked up the stone, only glanced at it, and was surprised: "Master, where did this stone come from?"

Xie Yun naturally didn't tell him the origin of the stone, but only asked, "What do you think?"

Ren Er's eyes lit up, his hands couldn't stop rubbing the stone, and he muttered: "Okay, if the slave maid sees it well, this should be Kunlun Puyu"

Kunlun jade, that is, the later called Hetian jade, even in modern times, is extremely precious, jade is uncarved jade, later generations are also called seed jade, since the end of the Jin Dynasty, the trade route to the Western Regions was cut off, the Central Plains therefore lost the important source of Kunlun jade, the price of jade rose for a while, Ren second-hand in this piece of jade than the bowl is a circle, if carved properly, should be able to open three or four pieces of jade

Xie Yun realized that he had misunderstood that Master Liu, but his face remained silent and said, "Then look at how much jade is still in the box."

Ren Er walked to the entrance of the box and was immediately stunned, the box full of stones was all Kunlun jade, and the quality of the piece in his hand could only be regarded as medium, for a jade worker, to have the opportunity to carve so many high-grade jade, even if he was called to die immediately, it was worth it

Xie Weng Shanqiang held back the excitement in his heart and asked, "Ren Er, look at the estimated value of this box of stones."

Ren Er shook his head and said, "The slave doesn't dare to say that it is priceless."

The price of jade is already high, and the source is broken, and this value is really difficult to estimate, but the Xie family understands that if this box is all high-grade Kunlun Puyu, coupled with superb carving skills, it is still a modest statement

Xie Wengshan was stunned for a while, turned his head and asked, "Xie Laosi, who is that Lord Liu, what is the relationship with my Xie family, and you want to give such a heavy gift?"

Xie Laosi arched his hand and said: "Back to the old lady, the villain only knows that Lord Liu's name is Liu Ziqiu, and the others don't know."

"Liu Ziqiu" Everyone in the Xie family was taken aback

Xie Zhiwu was the most bold and stroked his palms and laughed: "Haha, I knew that Brother Ziqiu had nothing to do, but I didn't expect him to be an official."

Xie Yun glared at his youngest son and asked, "What position does Lord Xie Lao Si and Lord Liu hold now?"

Xie Laosi said with a bitter face: "Master Hui, this villain really doesn't know, but the entire Hexi Road seems to be under his control."

Xie Yun gasped, he couldn't imagine that Liu Ziqiu had done such a big career in more than half a year, it seemed that he was going to give his daughter to Liu Ziqiu, and he was quite discerning, but when he thought of his daughter's current situation, Xie Yun couldn't help but shake his head and sigh

Xie Zhiwu couldn't help urging him: "Hurry up and see what treasures are in the other boxes."

Next, the two boxes are filled with fox skins, one box is filled with fire fox skin, which is red like fire, and the other box is filled with snow fox skin, which is as white as snow, these fox skins are selected by Liu Ziqiu Jīng, the whole fox skin does not see a trace of miscellaneous sè, and there is no wound, they are all hunted by the best hunters directly in the eyes of the fox, and the fire fox and the snow fox are extremely rare, and these two boxes of fox skins can not be done with money, but compared with the box of Kunlun Puyu, the value of these two boxes of fox skins is too small

Xie Wenda frowned and said: "Xie Laosi, you are talking about Liu Ziqiu from Changshan Village, he can get so much money with a small soldier, are you mistaken?"

In fact, the power of the Xie family is now only concentrated in Jiangnan, in the Hexi area, there are no deep friends at all, let alone someone to give them such a generous gift, and the gift-giver has an adult and surnamed Liu Yixie Wengda, Jīng should have thought of Liu Ziqiu a long time ago, and although these three boxes of items are precious, but only relative to the Central Plains and Jiangnan, in fact, these things are all specialties of the West Sea, if it is really as Xie Laosi said, Liu Ziqiu has occupied the entire Hexi Road, it is really not difficult to get these things, but Xie Wenda has recently been very close to Wang Shichong of Jiangdu, and he has bet on Wang Shichong for the future of his own branch, so he is naturally unwilling to admit this fact

Xie Laosi groaned: "The villain doesn't know where he came from and what he used to do, I just remember that he said that the heaviest box was given to the three old ladies, these two boxes of fox skins were given to the master, and one box was given to the two sons and young ladies."

At the mention of "Miss", Xie Yun felt a pain in his heart again, waved his hand and said, "Open"

The box was opened, but it was divided into three compartments, and it was obvious that the gifts given by Liu Ziqiu had been divided for Xie Zhiwen's brothers and sisters

There are a few ancient books in the middle of the box, which are given to Xie Zhiwen, these ancient books are all collected books in the palace, Yang Guangxi took them with him for recreation during the expedition, and after they were lost in the Great Dou Tu Valley, the ice and snow melted, these ancient books were picked up by the herdsmen, and they were dedicated to Liu Ziqiu, Liu Ziqiu himself had no interest in reading, but he knew Xie Zhiwen's hobby, so he came to borrow flowers and offer Buddha

The left hand is a bar, but it is a saber, the blade is like the moon, the blade is like snow, Xie Zhiwu pulled out the saber he carried with him, the swords touched each other, only to hear the sound of "choking", the saber has been broken into two, the knife is intact as before, there is no gap, Xie Zhiwu, as the son of the Xie family, the saber is naturally not ordinary, and it is not worthy of this knife, and everyone can't help but praise in unison when they see it: "Good knife"

In fact, this is only Liu Ziqiu's most common saber in the army, Liu Ziqiu began to organize people to build knives after practicing steel, Tang knives occupy an extremely important position in Chinese history, Liu Ziqiu enlisted in the army, as a special soldier, inevitably had to contact all kinds of cold weapons, he learned all kinds of knowledge about Tang knives at that time, when Liu Ziqiu discovered iron ore and coal in the West Sea, he set out to build his own "West Sea Knife"

The knives in the Western Navy are divided into five types: instrument knives, Mo knives, horizontal knives, Barrier knife and sabre, in addition to the saber, the other four knives originally belonged to the history of the Tang knife, the knife is built by relying on the knife used, the main equipment is guarded, the shape is similar to the Mo knife, but the weight is only half of the Mo knife, and all the Mo knives are according to Liu Ziqiu's own knife model, all weighing fifty pounds, the first five thousand people of the Mo knife army has been formed, but the Mo knife to build time-consuming and material, the five thousand people of the Mo knife army is only equipped with five hundred Mo knife obstacle knife is the short knife carried by the body, self-defense, only equipped with centurion and above generals, and the most widely used is the horizontal knife, the saber is similar to the horizontal knife, but the blade is narrower, the arc is larger, more conducive to chopping on the horse

The knife given to Xie Zhiwu is a horizontal knife, which is different from ordinary horizontal knives, except that the scabbard decoration is more gorgeous, but none of these people present have ever seen such a sharp saber, so they don't think it is a treasure knife, but in comparison, the ancient books given to Xie Zhiwen are overshadowed

Xie Zhiwu put the knife into the sheath and said loudly: "Look at what he sent to his sister"

Xie Yun was very helpless about this son, but he also wanted to see what kind of treasure Liu Ziqiu gave to Xie Muyu, and at the same time, he was very conflicted in his heart, in case Liu Ziqiu sent jewelry, and his daughter has now become a light gourd, but he doesn't know how to face it

At this time, Xie Zhiwu had already taken out the things in the lattice, three yellow silk cloth bags, the first cloth bag turned out to be a short knife, in fact, it was a barrier knife, and the other cloth bag contained seven dazzling beads, black and white, red, orange, yellow, green, blue and purple, seven kinds of Yan sè are different, each of them has the size of an egg, it is rare to collect one, and it is rare to gather these seven beads together, but I don't know how much effort it takes, in fact, this is a collection in the Longxi Palace, Liu Ziqiu took it to make a gift, and to everyone's surprise, the last yellow silk bag was only green salt