After falling from the peak of expectation to the bottom of disappointment again, Yang Lei scolded Yuan Tiangang. Forget it once, today was disappointed twice in a row, and Yang Lei's state has reached the edge of madness.

Seeing that the boxes were basically safe, he kept pulling over one box after another, and then violently opened them to check the contents of the boxes.

Similar to the previous rummaging in the Armor Mountain, one chest after another was opened, revealing that it was almost the same thing, and all the boxes contained various cold weapons.

There are many types of these cold weapons, including spear heads, arrows with bows and arrows, halberd heads with halberds, and some with swords and knives, but there is no shadow of the legendary Tang horizontal knife.

Among them, there is also a weapon with a strange shape, Chen Ziyang has never seen it, after asking Jin Huang, he knows that kind of weapon is called a gong, which is used more in the army of the Tang Dynasty.

Different from the armor that was stacked haphazardly before, all kinds of cold weapons in the box were neatly stacked, and except for the arrows of bows and arrows, the other weapons were wrapped in oiled paper and handled very carefully, so even after so many years, these cold weapons were still very well preserved.

Perhaps due to the problem of storage or size, all these cold weapons only have the part of the steel cast, the spear only has the spear head, the halberd only has the halberd head, and the bow and arrow only have the arrow, and there is no arrow shaft attached to the back.

"My heart is cold, it's all cold." Yang Lei cried while opening the box, these things seemed worthless in his eyes, no matter how beautifully made and well preserved, they couldn't sell for a big price.

This type of cold weapon casting is not very exquisite, although it is an item in the Tang Dynasty, but its historical value is not high, it is difficult to sell at a price. And these things are very troublesome to get rid of, maybe they will be on the side of the controlled knives, and there are very few buyers, so it can be said that these cold weapons are no different from scrap iron in the eyes of several people.

But Chen Ziyang stared at the contents of these boxes and was extremely surprised. The contents of the box seem useless now, but at the time, it was not easy to get so many cold weapons.

The status of these things in the Tang Dynasty was like the current boxes of AK47s, which were boxes of grenades and mortar shells, and these boxes were small arsenals. Coupled with the armor that had been piled up into a mountain before, Chen Ziyang finally confirmed his previous conjecture.

"No wonder Yuan Tiangang would draw the treasure map so secretly, no wonder he would hide the treasure map in the Taoist holy land, no wonder the treasure was placed in such a remote place, it turned out that this kid wanted to rebel!"

"Rebellion?" After several other people were stunned for a moment, they also understood what Chen Ziyang meant. Yes, at that time, after the combination of armor and weapons, it was the standard for a soldier, and there were so many armors and so many weapons, which were enough to arm an army of more than 100,000 or 200,000 people. Possession of such an army does have the capital to rebel.

"Yuan Tiangang is the national teacher of the Tang Dynasty, and he has won the trust of several generations of emperors, after all, he is a Taoist, is it necessary to rebel? And why did they rebel? Kim was skeptical of the idea.

In fact, there are many records about Yuan Tiangang's rebellion in the wild history. According to legend, Yuan Tiangang has worked in the position of national teacher for many years, with high power and monstrous power, but in his later years, he lost Wu Zetian's favor.

The vast majority of wild histories attribute the reason why Yuan Tiangang was not powerful in his later years to the fact that Wu Zetian discovered this reason for his rebellion. However, Nian served many emperors in Yuan Tiangang, worked hard, and his plan had been completely destroyed, and there was no possibility of a comeback, so Wu Zetian let him go.

Do you know about Wu Zetian's relocation of the capital to Luoyang? It is said that the entire plan to move the capital was Wu Zetian's trick against Yuan Tiangang, and it was a very important step in Yuan Tiangang's rebellion plan. ”

"Moving the capital? What does Wu Zetian's relocation of the capital to Luoyang have to do with Yuan Tiangang's rebellion? ”

"In the official history, Wu Zetian's relocation of the capital to Luoyang had three reasons: military, political and economic, but I think that no matter how high-sounding the official statement is, it is difficult to hide the fact that it was a very unwise thing to move the capital in that era.

There are too many things and interests involved in moving the capital, and it costs the people and money, no matter from which aspect, moving the capital will do more harm than good, but even so, Wu Zetian still moved the capital.

According to the records of wild history, Wu Zetian moved the capital to Luoyang because she felt very uneasy in her heart after she brutally tortured and framed Queen Wang and Concubine Xiao Shufei to death, and often dreamed in her dreams that Queen Wang and Concubine Xiao Shufei were wearing hair and blood flowing all over their faces, which made her panic all day long.

Later, Wu Zetian moved out of the original dormitory, but it had no effect, and nightmares still haunted her every day, making her frightened. In order to avoid the ghosts of Queen Wang and Concubine Xiao Shu, she lived in Luoyang for a long time and moved the capital to Luoyang.

In fact, one point is mentioned in more wild historical records, that is, in fact, the ghosts of Queen Wang and Concubine Xiao Shufei were controlled by Yuan Tiangang, and it was Yuan Tiangang who used these two ghosts to frighten Wu Zetian, the purpose of which was to let Wu Zetian move the capital.

In addition to using two ghosts to frighten Wu Zetian, Yuan Tiangang also spread rumors about Luoshui, and his purpose in doing these things was to use the relocation of the capital to consume a large amount of the Tang Dynasty's national strength, looking for opportunities to achieve his goal of rebellion, and even looking for an opportunity to assassinate Wu Zetian on the way to move the capital.

Before, I thought that these things were just made up by the people who wrote the wild history themselves, all legends, and nonsense, but now it seems that this is not the case, and Yuan Tiangang's reaction should indeed be a fact. ”

"What is your basis? Is it all this armor and weapons? This is a bit too far-fetched, as far as I know, this area of Yunnan has not been peaceful in the past dynasties, and there are constant wars.

The mountains here are high and dense, the terrain is complex, and at the same time, because the mountains are high and the emperor is far away, there are many people who do not obey the control, coupled with the difference in culture, it is very difficult to govern. Therefore, all dynasties have regarded it as an important thing to be able to govern here.

During the Tang Dynasty, troops were also used here many times, and the reason why Nanzhao perished was also because of this reason. So it's not surprising that some of the armor and weapons used by the soldiers are here.

Perhaps in order to reduce the burden of transportation, or to move troops quickly, a military station was established here, and such a hidden place was found to store weapons, so that when there was a war, soldiers could be quickly armed, which was not impossible. ”

Shangguan Kangning knew more about the affairs in Yunnan, so he found the loopholes in Chen Ziyang's basis.

"There is some truth in what you said, and there is indeed such a possibility, but let me tell you, the kind of situation you mentioned does not exist at all, Yuan Tiangang in addition to rebelling, he also opened mines privately, no matter which of these two items, was a capital crime during the Tang Dynasty."

"Huh?" The others were surprised, after coming here, Chen Ziyang had experienced almost exactly the same thing as them, but why was he able to see so many things that others couldn't see?

"I don't know if you've noticed, whether it's the piles of armor from before, or the boxes with cold weapons stacked neatly now, everything is arranged in a very strange way.

The main part of the first mid-lake island resembles a huge crater, which is filled in with armor, but the armor is not higher than the crater.

And here it is similar, these boxes are all placed directly on the ground, and there is no situation where two boxes are stacked on top of each other.

Have you ever thought that this way of stacking is very awkward, not only is it time-consuming and laborious when arranging, but it also wastes a huge amount of storage space. ”

After Chen Ziyang said this, several other people all nodded, the fact is true, the way these boxes are placed is too weird, why not stack these boxes on top of each other? It had to be all spread flat on the ground.

Even if you are afraid that these boxes will collapse if they are stacked too high, and the weapons inside will be broken, then you only need to pay attention not to stack them too high, and only stack them in two or three layers.

"I think there's only one reason why these armors and weapons are arranged the way they are, and that's so that they can be stored for a long time.

The soil here is mixed with some kind of substance that prevents mushrooms from growing, and if the chests are stacked too high, there is a good chance that the things mixed in the soil will not be able to inhibit the growth of the glowing mushrooms, which will damage the armor or weapons.

Therefore, the people who put these armor and weapons here are very careful about the long-term preservation of these things, and if it was a military station built here, they would never have thought about it so carefully.

Originally, I still had some doubts about this, but after I figured it out, I found that all this should have been done by Yuan Tiangang, and these armors were not bought by Yuan Tiangang, or deducted from the army of the Tang Dynasty, but should have been cast by him himself, and the reason is very simple, that is, those armors. ”

"Armor?" The other five people, you look at me, I look at you, their eyes are full of doubts, and each of them has seen a lot of the pile of armor, and they don't see any clues in it.

"You've seen the armor before, and you should have noticed that while the yellow armor is much less than the white armor, it's basically a third of the total armor.

Armor with a glowing yellow light has a higher copper content, and this armor is stronger than armor made of stainless steel, and the flexibility is much better, which is one of the better armors.

However, the armor was cast in the same way as steel armor, and it is likely that brass armor and steel armor were cast from the same mold. This is not right, and it is precisely this that let me know about Yuan Tiangang's private opening of mines and private casting of weapons.

Do you know that during the Tang Dynasty, there was a very, very shortage of copper, and the Tang Dynasty was the most serious dynasty in Chinese history, and the circulation of copper coins was very small, so in the Tang Dynasty, basically the bronzes were returned to the furnace and used to cast copper coins.

Therefore, the number of bronzes in the Tang Dynasty is extremely rare, which is why the bronzes of the Tang Dynasty are very valuable.

Therefore, in the Tang Dynasty, it was a very luxurious thing to use copper to cast armor, and only a very few generals with relatively high status would get armor containing copper.

Such armor is already scarce, coupled with the status of the generals who wear it, resulting in these armors being extraordinary, and these armors must be beautifully crafted to be worthy of their status, and it is already demeaning to describe such armor as meticulously crafted.

However, the proportion of copper content in the armor we have seen before is very high, and the casting process is very poor, which is the standard armor worn by ordinary soldiers, which also shows that these armors are absolutely impossible to be cast in the official arsenal of the Tang Dynasty.

Add it all up, and you should understand what I mean. Yuan Tiangang must have discovered copper and iron ore somewhere, so he directly opened the mine and quarried stones, and built an arsenal to produce weapons and armor for the rebellion.

Even I have a bolder guess, I think it is very likely that even forces like Nanzhao were cultivated by Yuan Tiangang. The purpose was to keep the frontier wars of the Tang Dynasty continuous, which would consume the national strength and involve their energy, so as to give the people who rebelled after inheriting the treasure an opportunity.

I don't know in what year Yuan Tiangang died, but I guess it should have been after 700 AD, and the emergence of the Nanzhao forces was precisely around that period.

Maybe Yuan Tiangang's rebellion failed, he knew that he would not succeed in his life anyway, so he transported some hidden armor and weapons here and hid them.

His purpose may be to let future generations continue to oppose Tang through these things, or it may be to avenge himself, or it may be the aftermath of some other scheme. Regardless, he left this treasure behind. ”

The more Chen Ziyang spoke, the more excited he became, his eyes widened, revealing a fine light.

"Er Yang, after talking about it for a long time, we really can't find anything except armor and weapons? So what does this treasure mean to us? Yang Lei said dejectedly.

"Leizi, you are wrong, on the contrary, it is precisely because of the existence of these armors and weapons that I am sure of one thing, there will definitely be a treasure here, and the scale of this treasure is definitely not small."

(End of chapter)