"Big baby?"

"In our eyes, everything in this tomb of the Nanyue King is a treasure!"

Deng Xueliang, a researcher at the Guangzhou Institute of Archaeology, said with a wistful face while putting vegetables in his mouth.

Truly.

For the Guangzhou Institute of Archaeology, there is nothing in this tomb of the Nanyue King that is not a treasure.

Any thing is a cultural relic from the early Western Han Dynasty.

This is an immeasurable treasure for Guangzhou, which is extremely lacking in cultural relics of the Qin and Han dynasties.

"Copper, iron, jade, agate, turquoise, pottery, you name it!"

"There are more than a dozen jade swords alone!"

"There are a lot of iron weapons of all kinds, and there are dozens of iron ges and iron halberds!"

"It turns out that there are not many iron weapons in the West Ear Chamber, which does not mean that South Vietnam has not entered the Iron Age."

"And there are many practical tools made of iron, hoes, chisels, and nails."

"These iron tools all have traces of use, including weapons."

"This shows that these iron tools were not specially made ceremonial vessels, but were practical utensils during the tomb owner's lifetime."

"It seems that the popularity of iron tools in South Vietnam is about to be re-evaluated."

"The advanced iron culture of the Western Han Dynasty should have spread to Nanyue without much hindrance."

"The central government of the Western Han Dynasty did not have the same strict defensive iron weapons as the Xiongnu to flow abroad to South Vietnam."

Don't underestimate the ancients.

After experiencing the Warring States period for hegemony, the people of the Qin and Han dynasties were very clear about how important the monopoly of technology was.

The Xiongnu did not know how to make iron tools, so the Western Han people naturally strictly controlled the outflow of iron tools.

Some of the mutual markets between the north and the Xiongnu were generally traded in large quantities with grain, cloth and other things, and the Huns in exchange for livestock.

At most, it was to sell salt to the Huns.

Iron tools, especially iron weapons, were only allowed to be used in the army, and it was absolutely impossible to sell them to the Huns.

As for the craftsmen who can make ironware, it is even more closely guarded.

They could only manufacture weapons for the Western Han military day and night in the weapons workshop under the jurisdiction of Shaofu.

It can even be strictly monitored and restricted.

It is absolutely not allowed for any craftsman who can make iron tools to be acquired by the Huns.

The Xiongnu attacked the border counties of the Western Han Dynasty all the year round, and under the burning, killing and looting, they could only rob some of the population and some iron farm tools.

Even during the time of Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty and Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, iron agricultural tools were not yet popular throughout the country, and the real mainstream was still made of bronze or even wood.

In a slow-moving society B.C., it would have taken up to a hundred years to complete the transition from bronze to iron.

In the military of the Western Han Dynasty, some elites took the lead in replacing iron weapons and then trained elite cavalry.

After sixty years of sharpening a sword, Wei Qing and Huo Qubing went out of the fortress to defeat the Huns and seal the wolf.

It's just that I didn't expect that in the southern corner of Nanyue, there can be such exquisite iron tools.

Although the iron artifacts unearthed in the inner coffin have been very corroded due to poor preservation, and they have even stuck together.

However, the ability to create standard iron weapons is enough to show that there should be a group of professional "blacksmiths" in South Vietnam.

Perhaps it inherited the steel smelting technology of Wu and Yue.

Or maybe it's a technology from the central government of the Western Han Dynasty.

In short, the iron level of Nanyue is no worse than that of the central Western Han Dynasty.

This also makes Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty even more powerful.

The Nanyue Kingdom, which also had iron weapons, was easily wiped out in the face of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty who faced the Southern Gu, with almost no ability to resist.

The sons of the good families of the Western Han Dynasty, eating the sauce of their hometown and singing Liu Bang's song of the great wind, easily crossed Lingnan and crushed all the way to Panyu.

The army under Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty was really invincible!

"But compared to ironware, the jade craftsmanship of Nanyue is really top-notch."

"I'm afraid it's even more powerful than the craftsmen of the Western Han Dynasty in the same period."

"We have the head box, the foot box, and the jade you found in the inner coffin, the shape of the vessel is bi, Huang, group jade ornaments. With hooks, seals, angular cups, lid boxes, lid cups, bearing plate goblets and other jade ornaments. ”

"The patterns of jade withering have valley patterns, vortex patterns, pu patterns, cloud patterns, hook thunder patterns, pedicle patterns, scale patterns, noose patterns, string patterns, dragon patterns, phoenix patterns, parrot patterns, animal face patterns, etc."

"The carving process of the pattern also includes line carving, shallow floating, high floating, hollowing, circular carving, double-sided carving, etc."

"The jade in the main tomb is simply the pinnacle of jade craftsmanship in BC!"

"I can proudly say that not only the Western Han Dynasty, but all civilizations and countries in the world at that time probably did not have such a superb and comprehensive jade carving process!"

"In particular, a group of jade pendants composed of many small pieces such as jade, jade, jade, and glass beads are even more exquisite!"

"This group of jade pendants is about 85 cm long and about 50 cm wide from east to west. It is composed of thirty-two pieces of jade, among which the double wind vortex wall, the dragon and phoenix vortex wall, and the double dragon pu pattern wall, each of which is taken out separately, are rare treasures. ”

"In all the tombs of the nobles of the Western Han Dynasty before, such a fine jade bi has never been unearthed."

"There is also that high-footed jade cup, which is also a rare treasure, and it is the most exquisite and beautiful among all the jade cups unearthed in the country."

"The jade manufacturing process of Nanyue is indeed very powerful."

"This is definitely not something that a country that has only been established for a few decades can grasp."

"The Nanyue Kingdom has definitely inherited a group of craftsmen from the Wu, Yue, and Chu Kingdoms, and continues to cultivate them carefully, so that there can be so many exquisite jades."

"The Legend of the Fairy Tree"

It's not like you can cultivate this craftsman.

Just like modern people engage in art, they can't do it if they want to.

This thing has to be talented.

And it also needs to be supported by a long heritage.

As a country established by the descendants of the Southern Expeditionary Corps of the Qin State, the Nanyue Kingdom must not have brought any jade craftsmen with them when they set out on the expedition.

However, in the Southern Expeditionary Corps, there were a large number of immigrants from the Six Kingdoms.

At the beginning, Qin Shi Huang asked the Southern Expeditionary Army to go to Lingnan with hundreds of thousands of immigrants from the Six Kingdoms to conquer Baiyue.

On the one hand, the relocation of immigrants from the six countries to unfamiliar places can reduce the risk of rebellion in the Central Plains.

On the other hand, the Southern Expedition did require a large amount of population support to gain a firm foothold in Lingnan.

Zhao Tuo also relied on these immigrants from the six countries to gain a firm foothold in Lingnan, and finally took advantage of the Central Plains when Chu and Han were busy fighting for hegemony to unify Lingnan and establish a country.

The South Vietnamese State was not really built from poverty and whiteness.

There are hundreds of thousands of immigrants from the Central Plains from the Six Kingdoms, plus hundreds of thousands of Qin troops.

Therefore, in terms of art, craft, and culture, there is a context to inherit, and there is the heritage of the six countries.

Immigrants from Chu, Yue, and Wu were able to provide the South Vietnamese with iron-smelting and jade manufacturing techniques.

Immigrants from Qi and Yan were able to undertake the task of building sea ships and sailors for the South Vietnamese Kingdom.

The soldiers from the Qin State took on the responsibility of protecting everyone and expanding the territory.

In a sense, the entire Nanyue Kingdom is a colonial group composed of the people of the six countries + the army of the Qin State.

They came to Lingnan to colonize, not the native people of Lingnan, and brought their own advanced technology and culture!

This is the "flower of civilization" that blooms in Lingnan in Nanyue!