Blue Waves and Blue Waves Ten Thousand Gurgling Springs,

Dig down the water and go up to the sky.

Ascending to the extreme foot of the autumn sunshine,

Shed the mud fetus in the world.

- Yongliu

The morning light slowly opened her eyes, and her slender and thick golden eyelashes dragged all over the sky, just from the gap between the lightly opened eyelids to the willow bank of the thin West Lake, which had not yet woken up, her expression was constricted. Busy with a cloud to cover his face, buried in the lake again, probably planning to repair some makeup.

The green willow silk by the lake is charming and smart, the color is rich and bright, and it is enveloped by a pool of leisurely lake water.

In the past, Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty went to the south of the Yangtze River six times, and all of them lingered in Si.

And those giants with 100,000 yuan in their pockets are also eager for this,

The Yashi who rode the crane down Yangzhou never spared the praise.

Since the Qing Dynasty traces back to the twenty Jiazi,

This place is still called Guangling, this water is still the murmur of the ancient ditch, but the only thing that has not changed is the intoxicating style of this lake.

A wisp of autumn breeze blows,

A bunch of willow tips fell together, and the willow leaves fluttered and danced with the wind.

The autumn wind, of course, blows the willow branches,

But sandwiched in the dawn wind, there is a sword wind that is more warm than the autumn wind.

The young man here is dressed in white,

Stretch your arms like flapping wings,

Moving like a crane,

PPO Yaoguang,

Painting landscapes.

In the mist,

light and shadow mirror the lake surface,

Looking at it from afar, it is like weaving a dream.

When the sword qi flickered, the sword light disappeared and disappeared, hidden in the sheath behind the young man's back, but the sword roared like a dragon, and the aftershocks were endless.

Hey?

At this time, a soft cry suddenly came from the other side, and a girl in a green shirt turned out of the willow shade.

In the hazy morning light, it is like an elf floating out of the willow forest, five feet graceful, and it takes the bright color of the lake for a while.

The breath between heaven and earth was paused, and the wind gradually stopped.

I saw that the girl took off the hat on her head and threw it into the water, her body moved slightly, and she spread her wings like a kite, turning a graceful arc in the air.

The tiptoe lands, just above the thrown hat.

The swallow flew back, but after two ups and downs, it almost crossed the lake.

The willow branches around him hung their heads and did not move, and the hats in the lake only spit out a few silent ripples, and in this picturesque smoke, only the girl rabbit rose and fell, dragging out an afterimage, crossing the blank space between the water and the sky.

The young man in white seemed to be able to see that the green shadow was still a little short of shore, but he was still standing in place.

I only heard the girl's soft voice, "Idiot! Pick people up! ”

Immediately, a long rainbow broke out of the glow, and the early autumn sunrise that had just made up for the makeup on the horizon and tried to appear again closed its eyes gloomily.

The boy quickly understood.

It's a little clumsy in the midst of the chaos, but it's still moving fast.

I saw him rise from the shore with both feet, and the long sword behind his back roared out of the box, and under the girl's sword, his figure turned around, and fell to the shore again.

The girl took advantage of this support to lightly flip over the top of the young man's head, but did not put away the sword, and pulled a sword flower in the air to cover the line that the young man was moving.

If he was forced by this sword, the young man in white could only fall into the lake in embarrassment.

He couldn't help but be stunned at this time, and when he looked up, he saw that the clothes that were turned up in the glow were dyed with gold edges, fluttering like a phoenix's tail.

In the lazy dim halo, you can't see through each other's facial expressions at all.

But he didn't read a trace of murderous aura from the sword wind, so he already had a plan in his heart, and he was not in a hurry to dodge, he pushed the sword in his hand over his head, and slashed straight at the palace with his backhand, screaming through the air, and the sharpness was compelling.

This strain is only in the blink of an eye.

However, the girl was floating in the air at this time and couldn't help but borrow her strength, so she had to swing her sword and strike each other, and her body turned backwards, making way for the place where she landed by the lake.

The two swords clashed, and there was a muffled sound, like a dragon chanting and a phoenix, or a tiger's claws rubbing the eagle's beak, not like the ordinary gold and iron striking is a crisp sound.

The young man knew that the other party's hand must also be a sword with extremely high hardness, and his body was slightly fixed, so he was busy checking whether his love sword was damaged.

The girl in green clothes giggled, "Sure enough, it's a good sword!" Senior Brother Qing, can you borrow a sword to take a look? ”

The boy had an innate sensitivity to the sword, and with just two fingers, he could already perceive from the sound of the sword that there was no serious problem.

At this time, he heard the girl's call, and looked up curiously, "You? Masters? ”

The girl raised her eyebrows lightly and looked at the young man surnamed Qing, "My master is your master's senior brother, should you call him senior sister?" It's really a wooden fish brain, how did I use the six dragons just now? ”

The newborn red sun was hit one after another, and at this time he could only hide in the distance and secretly aim at the children of the rivers and lakes.

The gentle gaze sprinkled on the girl's side face, dyeing her eyebrows and hair golden, pulling the already green and upturned eyelashes into an exaggerated arc of light.

Under the eyelashes is a pair of typical phoenix eyes, the corners of the eyes are slightly upturned, and the large and bright eyes reflect the golden rays of divinity in the morning sun.

Probably because of the thick eyelashes, or because the pupils are large and clear, the plump eyelids also look extraordinarily playful, perfectly hiding the only flaw of the phoenix eyes.

No matter who such a pair of eyes look at, it will be difficult for his gaze, his mind, to spread beyond this shearing wave.

It is impossible to even pay attention to her delicate nose, playful lips, and soft and delicate neck and cheeks.

Since even Chaoyang was stupid, and he hadn't pulled his whole body out of the water and sky for a long time, the young man couldn't help himself.

It wasn't until he felt that the long sword in his hand that was as light as a sibling and could not be separated from his body was gently grabbed by the other party, that he smiled awkwardly.

Chixia skillfully hid the embarrassment on his face, but the unnaturalness in her voice could not hide the shame,

"Oh, that. When taking the six dragons to the sky, this is the word of the Qiangua, right? Soaring into the air and striking in the light, it is a bit appropriate. ”

"Huh? This is the basic routine of this sect's 'dry thunder and three falls', didn't the master teach you? What about 'Xunlan Five Rises'? How many did you learn? ”

The boy scratched his head and muttered, "I, I haven't studied." I don't have a master either, although Uncle Chen taught me to learn swords, but he only asked me to call me uncle, and he resolutely refused to let me learn from the master. ”

"That's weird, so what did you learn?"

"Uncle Chen only taught me some sword principles and some basic movements, and then he only explained the I Ching to me, so that I could comprehend it on my own. Uncle Chen also said that my father's swordsmanship in the past was exquisite, and it was easy to understand. He could only point me to the path that my father had understood, but he did not dare to teach me on my father's behalf. ”

The girl snorted and said disdainfully, "Old antique! That's it, your father is also my uncle, no matter how I talk about it, I am your senior sister. ”

Although Uncle Chen has never told him about his past, he still has some fellow disciples.

But the young man devoted himself to comprehending the way of the sword, although he had never practiced the moves, his understanding of swordsmanship was quite profound, so he took the sword of the girl in green, and he no longer had any doubts about the other party, and hurriedly bowed respectfully, "Qingyun has seen senior sister!" ”

The girl smiled proudly and waved her hand with a big grin, "That's it, seeing that you are so well-behaved, Senior Sister Ben doesn't care about you." My name is Gourseting. By the way, junior brother, your sword...... Hey? ”

The girl was playing with the sword she had taken from Qingyun's hand at this time.

It was a broad-edged iron sword, with an archaic style and moire.

It is neither the narrow and straight horizontal blade that the contemporary northerners are accustomed to, nor is it like the iron spine double spine that was popular in the southerners Song Qi.

Gu Caiting carefully identified the three obscure insect and bird seal characters as obscure as the book of heaven etched on the bottom of the sword body, "This is the ......"

"Oh, senior sister, this sword is called 'Dry Taste Break', and it is said to be the sword of the Warring States Sword Casting Master. It is a relic of my father. ”

Seeing that this junior brother had no city government, he honestly gave the bottom of his baby, and he was also angry and happy.

It seemed that it was out of the middle of the door that she would not be rude, and she had no choice but to pull out the short sword at her waist.

The short sword was no more than a foot long, and its style seemed much more fashionable than the broadsword.

The blade of the sword has a sharp spine and has been tempered very carefully.

The patterns caused by thousands of hammers are finely and neatly stacked together, reflecting a unique scale light, and from a distance, it seems to be covered with a thin layer of pink halo.

Only the two gold inscriptions engraved on the boring side of the short sword are the only design elements that can reflect a slight sense of age.

Gu Caiting explained seriously, "This 'dry taste' of yours and my 'district' sword actually have a lot of origin.

At that time, the swordsmanship of the Yue people was the best in the world, and the Zhou cadres and the Yue people Ou Yezi worshiped together under the door of Mr. Mo Da, the first swordsmith of the Yue country.

Later, they fell in love with the teacher's daughter, Mo Xie's little sister.

The two didn't want to hurt their classmates because of this, so they agreed to win or lose by casting swords, and the loser gave up the pursuit of the little junior sister.

This 'dry taste' of yours is the work that will be completed, and what Ou Yezi cast is the 'district' in my hand.

Legend has it that at that time, Ou Yezi was too focused on casting this sword, and spent a lot of effort, and when the sword was completed, he actually vomited blood and fainted.

Because there is a blood sacrifice sword when it is baked, this sword will faintly glow with a little blood under the strong light.

But because the blood color is too thin, it seems to be the color of peach blossoms.

The number of this sword changed hands, the man thought it was masculine, and the woman avoided the murderous reputation of drinking blood.

Therefore, such a strange treasure has been hidden in the box, and no one uses it, so its name is unknown. ”

"So amazing? I heard that this 'district' sword is more subtle and mysterious. ”

The girl in the green shirt glanced at the young man, "The quality of the sword is actually meaningless. The judge of this competition is Mo Ye, and she chose the sword in your hand. The cadres also went out to learn because of this, and settled here with famous sword beauties, and the sword-casting technology was also transmitted to the Central Plains. ”

"Settle here?"

"Yes, this is the boundary of the ancient Han country, and the cadre is the Han royal family."

Qingyun took his sword and replied casually, "The sword-forging technique is passed down internally, which is a great merit. Thanks to that Mo Evil Girl. ”

The girl snorted, her eyes flickering, "A good thing? During the Yin Shang period, this was originally the territory of the Yue people, and there was the Kuang Fang country.

With the expansion of power in the Central Plains, the Yin people repeatedly crusaded against Huaiyue and Yangyue, and the Kuang State was also exterminated by King Yin.

After the king of Zhou destroyed Yin, he divided this place to the clan surnamed Ji and established the Han State.

At first, the Zhou people were afraid that the local Yue people were good at making swords, and they still had some care in terms of policies and taxes.

However, since the cadres stole the sword casting skills of the Yue people, the Zhou people also began to exert force to purge the descendants of Kuang Guo.

Whoever is in the Yue and possesses iron weapons in private will be killed, and those who will not be conscripted will be expelled from them.

Therefore, I don't know how many people of Kuang Guo's descent were buried in this underground before they got the name of Guangling. ”

These histories have never been valued by the master of the Central Plains, and Qingyun naturally has no way of knowing.

At this time, he was listening attentively, and the narrator had such a soft and delicate voice, so he did not interrupt, and did not even consider how the content of the conversation between the two suddenly jumped into such a thick historical topic.

Gu Caiting's gaze was fixed in the distance, as if he was trying his best to recall the story repeatedly told by the elders of the clan when he was a teenager, "But the Yue people are fierce and have not succumbed to this."

The Yue people who were lucky enough to survive gathered and elected the leader to proclaim himself King Guang, and launched a crazy revenge on the Han royal family.

The Han clan was assassinated frequently, almost extinct, and was finally forced to negotiate with the Yue.

The Han people promised to pass on the irrigation techniques of the Zhou people to the Yue people and help them move south to Lingnan. Because the two big countries of the Yue people, Da Yue and Da Luo, were successively trapped by Chu, and the Kuang people had no choice but to face the reality and accept the conditions.

After the peace talks, although Han gained some respite, its national strength was eventually greatly damaged, and it became an insignificant small force between Wu and Chu.

However, the name of King Guangling Guangwang arose because of this, and it was passed down among the Yangyue clans who were unwilling to leave their homeland.

At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the Jiang family, one of the twelve remnants of the Pan Gu clan, the ancestor of the Yue people, inherited the last King Guang.

It's just that with Sun Quan's policy of indoctrining the barbarians and bringing the Yue to the people has gradually achieved results, more and more Yue people have given up their obsessions.

The so-called reputation of King Guang has gradually become a legend.

King Qin Guang, the hall master of the first hall of the ten halls of Yama, is the incarnation of the last King Guang of the Jiang family. ”

When Qingyun heard this, he couldn't help but pat his thigh, "Hey, it turns out that King Qin Guangwang still has such a background, and this is the first time I've heard of it." After a pause, he asked hesitantly, "But why is Senior Sister so familiar with these histories?" ”

Gu Caiting felt a little out of shape, and the topic was far away.

But when she saw the sincerity of Qingyun's question, she looked pitiful and begging for the truth, so she also replied, "The Yue people respect the Pangu clan as the ancestor, and my surname is one of the twelve direct descendants of the Pangu clan.

Now the people of the Central Plains sometimes write this surname as Pu, which is taken from the meaning of the word.

Our ancestors continued to move south due to the expansion of the Central Plains, moving from Huaiyang to Bashu and Lingnan.

Our ancestors could not adapt to the miasma snakes and insects in Lingnan, so like most Yue people, they went to sea to find another world. ”

The word sea had an unparalleled deterrent effect on the people of that era.

It represents an unconquerable force, an alien world where the divine beasts are scattered.

Qingyun couldn't help but exclaim, "Senior Sister Gu came by ship from overseas? ”

The head of the gourd pavilion shook gently, let the wind comb the teeth, and talked,

"Not really. The ancestors of the Yue people were indeed good at sailing.

Tracing back from the north of the sea, reaching the corner of the North Sea, the land of North Korea as the cloud of the "Classic of Mountains and Seas". After Yin's death, the country of Jizi.

The fief of Yin Shang in Jizi was originally adjacent to Han, so he collectively referred to the location of some surrounding tribes as Han to cherish his hometown.

With the Han River as the boundary, the left side of the river is the country of Mizi, and the right side of the river is the land of Sanhan.

The country of Pang, this name is Daluo, which was attacked by Shang and Zhou, and scattered all over the country.

Although my people have migrated to Benhan far away, they have not forgotten their original intentions, and the territory under their jurisdiction is still called Panluo Country.

(The author's case: "Hanshu" is halfway to the country, and the transliteration is also)

Later, the Central Plains returned to the Han River, and the Han army fought to the Han River, changing the Han River to the Han River, and the Three Han had contacts with the Central Plains again.

As a result, some of the clansmen moved into Yandi to do some herb and fur business.

My parents were born in Guannei and moved south to Luojing with Wei Dunan.

This time I went south, and I was once again in the homeland of my ancestors. ”

Listening to the girl's chatter from all over the world, Qingyun was stunned in her heart, and said hatefully, "Senior sister has a lot of knowledge. It's not like I lived in seclusion with my uncle since I was a child, and I didn't know that there was such a world outside. ”

He shook his head slightly, his eyes filled with a little elder love, "It's not that I'm knowledgeable. It's just that these stories have been passed down from generation to generation in our people to express their nostalgia for their homeland. However, a dignified seven-foot man like Senior Brother Yiqing should go out and break into the world. ”

The young man turned red when he heard this, and he twisted for a long time, "I, I promised Uncle Chen." Without his permission, you can't travel far, especially ......"

"Especially what?"

"Especially in the north. As long as you learn the sword from him, you can't set foot in Wei Tu in this life. ”

Cai Ting snorted impatiently, "This is the promise of that pedantic uncle. At this time and that time, Uncle Shi himself was already on his way to the north. If you want to go out to the north and have a look, you might as well go with you. ”

"How is that possible? Uncle Chen said he wouldn't go north again. And, in the morning, he's still teaching me how to learn a sword. The boy's eyeballs almost popped out of his sockets, and his face was full of disbelief.

"Then why don't you go and see for yourself?" When he said this, the face of the gourd Caiting was playful, and his eyebrows were bent into a perfect arc and fluttered, which seemed to drive the willows in the sky to move with the wind, and the wind and smoke were floating.

All things in heaven and earth seem to fade away with the wind and smoke, and escape into the void, leaving only a few simple brushes, a few points of vermilion, depicting a touch of moving, printed on the smooth jade goose egg, branded on the tip of the heart of the ignorant young man here.

Some women really can't laugh.

Forget to smile,

or a city,

Or pour a country.

Or when so,

unconsciously stirred up the world.

》》》》》 time to knock on the blackboard《《《《《

According to the setting of this article, the two swords of Dry Taste Break and District Hammer were cast in the Spring and Autumn Period, so could these two swords be iron swords?

The traditional Western view of history holds that ancient China entered the Iron Age about a thousand years later than the Near East.

During the millennium between 2500 and 1500 BC, meteoric iron daggers appeared in the Near East. In the mainstream view of the West, this cannot be used as evidence of mastery of iron smelting, and therefore cannot be seen as a sign of the Iron Age. Similar meteorite artifacts also exist in China, but only slightly later.

In the millennium between 1500 and 500 B.C., dozens of crude iron tools have been unearthed in the Near East. According to China's archaeological achievements in recent years, cast iron bars from 1500 BC (Gansu Lintan Mogou site) have also been discovered, as well as carbon steel swords in the Spring and Autumn Period. There is even an iron sword inlaid with iron and jade (Sanmenxia Western Zhou Yu National Tomb). In fact, the level of technology is at least not inferior to that of the Near East, but the number of pieces found is smaller. In the "Ancient and Modern Sword Records", it is recorded that the Zhou swords cast have both bronze swords and iron swords. In Western studies, because they don't have a decent written history, they also reject all written history, and most of these artifacts are not mentioned. However, since the late Spring and Autumn period, China has already had iron blades casting, which is already a fact supported by physical evidence. As for written records, they abound. The Eastern Han Dynasty classic "Wu Yue Chunqiu" said: The cadres will make swords and pick the iron essence of the five mountains. "Jueyue Book" cloud: Ou Yezi and the cadre will chisel Cishan, drain its stream, and take Tie Ying as three iron swords. One is called Longyuan, the second is Taia, and the third is Gongfu. It can be seen that this article sets the works of the two teachers as iron swords, which does not destroy the historical framework.

Let's go back to the history of iron tools as defined in the West, after 500 BC, which is considered by "mainstream" scholarship to be the Late Iron Age in the Near East, and China began to enter the Iron Age. The Chinese army continued to use bronze weapons in large numbers in the early Han Dynasty, which has also been cited by Western scholars as evidence of the late development of Chinese iron casting technology.

In fact, there are several important reasons for this:

First, as we all know, during the reign of Qin Shi Huang, there was a nationwide crackdown on the smelting industry, and private smelting was expressly banned, and even metal products were confiscated and destroyed.

Second, China's bronze smelting technology is very, very mature, and bronze can have different characteristics depending on the ratio of copper and tin. The hardness of bronze for weapons was no less than that of early carbon steel, and the heavy copper blade was easier to break through the mainstream wooden and bamboo shields of the time. In the fine parts of the bronzes of the Zhou Dynasty, copper wire can be inlaid with jade, gold and iron to make very complex shapes, far exceeding the complexity of Near Eastern bronzes. The casting of large vessels, such as Dingding, will not produce structural cracks. It can be said that the casting level of Chinese bronzes at that time represented the highest level of ancient bronze craftsmanship in the world. In the case of swordsmithing, for example, the Goujian sword of the Yue King with a chrome protective layer was the undisputed king of bronze weapons, and iron and steel swords around the world during the same period could not be defeated in terms of hardness or corrosion resistance. Writing here, I know that there will be many "scholars" who question the feasibility of ancient chrome plating, it doesn't matter, this work is dedicated to all kinds of doubts, and the process methods at that time will be restored later. The so-called archaeology, the real thing is large, and the existing cultural relics are not enough to prove everything?

Third, corresponding to technology, the supply chain of the foundry industry at that time was planned by the state, the supply of raw materials, the reserve of craftsmen, and the corresponding Yasi have become a mature system, and the production capacity is huge. And the entire industrial chain, before the Han Dynasty, was built with bronze as the center. Armament is one of the major expenditures of the state, and sophisticated technology is not necessarily suitable for popularization.

Fourth, the kingdom of Xitai, a great iron country in the Near East, that is, the area of present-day Turkey, had a population of less than three million at that time, and its royal power was not as concentrated as that of ancient China. To fight against Egypt, the number of troops in the whole country is not more than 10,000. The population of the core area of the Zhou Dynasty was close to 30 million, and the population of the Western Han Dynasty exceeded 60 million. China's army was one million at that time, and Changping was able to kill 400,000 people in a local war. In such a volume, the official will definitely use more mature and cost-effective technology, and there will be a lag effect on the replacement of new technologies, which is also very easy to understand.

To sum up, according to archaeological findings, the time of the appearance of Chinese iron tools and the complexity of the shape technology are not inferior to those of the Near East. The time for full popularization, especially militarization, is relatively late, only because of the lack of an incentive to fully replace mature and cheap technologies.