Cao Cao called me to rob a tomb

Chapter 873 Bronze Statue (4000)

"Brother Talented, if you put it this way, wouldn't the pure copper you mentioned...couldn't it only appear after the Xia Dynasty? Couldn't it be the historical sites related to the Jiuli Kingdom that we deduced earlier?"

Zhuge Liang was listening to their conversation, and finally couldn't help but stepped forward to ask the question in his heart.

"However, the pottery fragments found in the tiankeng are obviously ancient products from the Xia Dynasty, not to mention that the Tiankeng was on top of this relic, so it must have appeared later than this relic."

Wu Liang murmured and said, "What's more, we still saw Yinglong's skeleton here, and Hua Shenyi also proved that it was Yinglong after the divine swim, which also proves that this ruin and Yinglong should come from the same period. How to explain?"

"Uh……"

Zhuge Liang froze for a moment, scratched the back of his head and said, "Brother Youcai thought carefully, I forgot to include these things together."

"That is to say, the young master thinks that the copper smelting skills mastered by the Jiuli Kingdom are even more advanced than those of the Xia Dynasty?"

Yu Ji asked again.

"If this place is really the relic of the Jiuli Kingdom, and if this copper ware was indeed cast by the Jiuli Kingdom, then the copper smelting skills mastered by the Jiuli Kingdom at that time may be at least on par with the Shang Dynasty."

Wu Liang said seriously.

The Shang Dynasty was recognized by the later archaeological circles as a dynasty in which copper smelting skills reached maturity, but there was not much progress in this area until the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Periods. For a period of time, the momentum of progress was lost, and development became slower.

"This……"

Everyone was shocked.

From the ancient times to the Tang and Yu periods, and then to the Xia and Shang dynasties, thousands of years have passed between them. How can it not be shocking that the Jiuli Kingdom has mastered the skills thousands of years ahead of others.

But in addition to being shocked, everyone began to wonder why Chi You and Jiuli Kingdom were defeated by the alliance of Huangdi and Yandi.

According to historical records, the weapons of the Yellow Emperor and Yandi Alliance at that time were mainly wood and stone tools. How could they be the opponents of the Jiuli Kingdom?

It's a pity that the details of that war have not been recorded in detail. Even some documents summarized by later generations are all extremely exaggerated scenes of gods fighting, and there is no mention of the details of the confrontation between the Stone Age and the Bronze Age.

However, it mentioned that the Huangdi and Yandi Alliance was repeatedly defeated by Chi You and Jiuli Kingdom in the early stage of the war...

This also shows from the side that Chi You and Jiuli Kingdom do have a great advantage in the war with the help of advanced weapons.

In the myths and legends, the Yellow Emperor finally became the final winner. Not only did he invite all kinds of gods, but he also got a soldier talisman called "Yin Talisman" sent by the Nine Heavens Xuannv in his sleep. After getting this book, the Yellow Emperor Afterwards, training soldiers according to the art of war in the book, relying on the power of the Kui Niu Drum and the help of various gods, defeated the Jiuli Kingdom in the final decisive battle, and captured and killed Chi You and his brothers and clansmen.

This military talisman called "Yin Talisman" is worthy of scrutiny. It should be the earliest book on the art of war in the history of the Chinese Dynasty.

About the art of war.

The person with the most right to speak in the Zhuan army is Zhuge Liang.

As the saying goes, soldiers are deceitful.

To put it nicely, it is called strategy, and to put it bluntly, it can be called stealing, adultery, and swindling. In short, it is intrigue and deceit. If you can't win a frontal fight, you will use conspiracy and trickery, to cheat, to sneak attack, to not talk about martial arts...

If so.

If Chi You is the kind of straight-hearted guy with a simple mind and well-developed limbs, or if he takes advantage of weapons to belittle the enemy, or if he has some obvious character defects, it is not impossible to ruin his own advantage and finally make that huge advantage Overwhelming man.

Just like Boss Cao and Yuan Shao today, before the battle of Guandu, few people dared to believe that Yuan Shao would lose.

even.

It is not uncommon for historical events to take a huge advantage in history, but to be taken down by the enemy without bloodshed by tricks.

The so-called history is usually written by the victors.

Since the Yellow Emperor is the ultimate winner, history will naturally be written in his favor, and his achievements will be magnified as much as possible.

If he has strong martial virtues, then the details of the battle will be recorded a lot.

If he is proficient in the art of war, then the details of clever tactics will be recorded one by one for future generations to admire.

However, there are almost no detailed records on this aspect in the history books. Instead, they constantly emphasize how powerful Chi You and the Jiuli Kingdom are. From this, it can be inferred that the Yellow Emperor should not have relied on force to defeat Chi You and the Jiuli Kingdom.

In addition, there are no relevant detailed records on the details of the art of war.

Therefore, Wu Liang has reason to suspect that the methods used by the Yellow Emperor to defeat Chi You and the Jiuli Kingdom may not be so glorious. If it is recorded in the history books and made public, it may even affect the prestige and prestige of the Yellow Emperor, so it was selectively ignored.

However, these issues are not within the scope of Wu Liang's investigation for the time being.

What Wu Liang wants to know most now is whether this place is the relic of Jiuli Kingdom. If it is really the relic of Jiuli Kingdom, then where does Jiuli Kingdom's copper smelting skills, which may be ahead of an entire era, come from?

Even though it has come to the Iron Age, Jiuli Kingdom's copper smelting skills are no longer leading...

……

In the shock of everyone.

Wu Liang continued to carefully clean up the bronze vessel, and the soldiers of the Huren Army were not idle. They were still expanding and digging the hole, hoping to help Wu Liang find more valuable things.

After such an hour.

The sky had gradually darkened, and the Tuan army had no choice but to light a bonfire in the pit.

Wu Liang finally finished cleaning up the bronze vessel.

It was a portrait!
The figure maintained an upright standing posture, and it was about two meters high including the platform under its feet. It seemed to be a man, and his whole body was covered with a layer of green copper rust.

Compared with the bronze figure excavated from Sanxingdui found in later generations, the body proportions of this figure are obviously more realistic.

The same is true for the facial features. The face and facial features of the bronze statue in front of him are not much different from the real person. It is not like the bronze mask found in Sanxingdui with protruding eyes, wide mouth and big ears, nor is it like the bronze mask unearthed in other places. Masks generally have erect ears, a protruding nose, and openworked fangs.

This is a normal human face, with a square shape and realistic facial features, without any exaggeration or embellishment.

The two sharp horns that Wu Liang saw before were naturally part of the portrait, but they belonged to the helmet part of the portrait.

A semi-circular helmet is clearly designed on the top of the figure's head. The shape of this helmet looks similar to the hard hats of later generations. When worn on the head, it does not cover the ears, but only covers part of the back of the head.

The two sharp horns are separated from the top and sides of the helmet like ox horns, making it look like a Viking helmet that is more common in Western mythology, and it looks very majestic.

However, the helmet cannot be removed.

It is just the shape of a portrait's head, and it is actually integrated with that portrait, not independent.

In addition, the body of the portrait is also covered with an armor that hangs from the shoulders to the knees. This armor is composed of pieces of ten centimeters long and wide connected together. It seems that the protective effect should not be bad.

However, like that helmet, it is only a shape on the surface of the portrait, and it cannot be removed either.

"This... is this bronze statue made of pure copper?"

When he saw the whole picture of the bronze statue, Wu Liang couldn't help but have such a question in his mind.

Wu Liang knew exactly how soft the pure copper was.

And although the figure of this bronze statue looks stronger than him, it only uses two legs to support the weight of the whole body, which is unscientific in the first place.

If you use pure simple substance.

Unless the upper body of the bronze statue was an empty shell, those two legs would have no way of supporting the owner, and would definitely deform under the pressure of weight.

And if the upper body of the bronze statue is an empty shell, it will be difficult to maintain the image of the upper body, especially if it is buried underground and needs to bear the pressure from the soil and the growth of roots.

with such doubts.

Wu Liang first carefully cut open a small piece of copper rust on the torso of the bronze statue to investigate.

As a result, under the patina of copper rust, he actually saw a purplish red color, which indicated that the copper used for this portrait was really a simple copper that he thought was impossible to achieve.

"How could this be?"

Wu Liang couldn't understand it.

It is impossible for single copper to have such strength and hardness, unless there is another mystery inside the bronze statue, or this is actually a special kind of copper, which is not the same as the single copper he knows.

But how to explain the sharp corner on the portrait helmet that can be deformed when it is slightly moved?
and so……

Wu Liang is more inclined to guess that there is another mystery inside the bronze statue.

So he raised his hand and tapped the bronze statue's chest twice with his knuckles.

"Dong dong!"

The sound transmitted back was extremely dull, obviously the inside of the bronze statue should not be hollow.

"It's true."

Bai Jingjing confirmed from the side at the right time.

"Honestly..."

Wu Liang frowned, expressing that he really couldn't understand the structure and material of the bronze statue.

So he had no choice but to continue to look around the bronze statue in more detail, from top to bottom, from front to back without letting go of any details, and finally he found a small long gap in the waist.

Because this gap has been buried in the ground all year round, it has been filled with a mixture of red soil and rotten roots. In addition, the patina expanded to a certain extent when it was formed, covering it even smaller, so it is really not easy to find.

Wu Liang immediately took out the small brush and cleaned it carefully.

Not long after, he removed the patina on the nearby outer layer, and Wu Liang picked off the red soil and rotten roots filling the gap bit by bit.

At this moment, the small gap was finally fully presented in front of him.

The gap was about an inch long, about one centimeter wide, and about three centimeters deep, and the cut of the gap was extremely smooth. It seemed that it was injured by some kind of relatively thin sharp object.

At the same time, Wu Liang also saw clearly the situation inside the gap.

There are three layers of layers in the gap, which looks like a sandwich biscuit.

The first layer is the copper rust wrapped on the outermost layer of the bronze statue. This layer of copper rust is about half a centimeter thick.

Under this layer of copper rust is a layer of pure purple-red copper, which is only about one centimeter thick.

And under this layer of simple copper, there is a black substance.

This black substance is hard and looks like some kind of rock, which should be the inside of the bronze statue.

But what is more miraculous is that this rock and the elemental copper have been fused. To be precise, the elemental copper has infiltrated into this rock, and the intersecting place forms a mixture of you, me, and me. state, it is almost impossible to separate the two using physical means.

"Elemental copper fused with the rock inside the bronze statue?"

Wu Liang was concentrating on the process of making the bronze statue, "Could it be that the figure was first carved out of stone, and then the melted copper was poured on the stone sculpture, and the outer layer of the stone sculpture was coated like chocolate ice cream?" Such a layer of copper?"

"But if it is a copper plating process, it is absolutely impossible to plate such a thick layer..."

Wu Liang thought of the brass chain mail he was wearing given to him by Wen Renzhao. The brass chain mail was made of copper plating. In fact, its essence was refined iron, and the layer of purple-red Elemental copper is just a thin layer of decoration, not even a millimeter thick.

For example, the one-centimeter-thick single copper on this bronze statue is impossible to use copper plating process, and the copper can only be inlaid bit by bit.

In this case, it is impossible for the metallic copper to fuse with the rock inside.

In addition, environmental factors can also be ruled out. After all, this layer of simple copper has no other serious oxidation except for a layer of copper rust on the outside. That is to say, the preservation environment of this bronze statue is still acceptable. Extremely high or low temperatures can be basically ruled out.

"What is the black substance in it?"

Unable to figure out the problem for the time being, Wu Liang turned his attention to the black substance inside, and at the same time waved to everyone, "You guys also come here to see what's inside."

Everyone was also full of curiosity, they had been waiting on the sidelines for a long time, and hurriedly came up when they heard Wu Liang's greeting.

After going around like this.

"Gentleman, I don't really understand, but I think the black stone inside is quite similar to the one on the holy mountain, but I don't know how to verify it."

Cao Ni, who never had a chance to participate, expressed his opinion to Wu Liang first.

This girl lived a good life since she was a child, and she was the focus of people on many occasions. As a result, she has no advantage compared with this group of strange people with their own strengths when she comes to the Huren Army, so she always looks for opportunities to express herself. In order not to feel too insignificant in front of Wu Liang.

"A stone from the holy mountain?"

Wu Liang frowned slightly.

The holy mountain above should be some strong magnetic basalt. Speaking of which, since the bronze statue stands here, it is naturally more convenient to use local materials.

However, strong magnetic basalt is a very distinctive rock, if it must be associated with copper...

(End of this chapter)