Da Qin: At the age of six, I beat Qin Shihuang at the beginning

Chapter 75 The Collision of Bronze and Iron

"Stingy, where did you start?"

Dian Wei looked at Zu Long inexplicably and smiled for a long time, but there was always something weird in his heart.

He twisted the ax in his hand in a beautiful pattern, then placed it on the ground, and looked at Zulong puzzled.

"I'm not even willing to use bronze, and only use iron. Isn't that stingy?"

Zu Long was still out of breath from laughing.

In his unstoppable magical laughter.

Dian Wei listened to him explaining while laughing.

At last he figured out why he was laughing.

There is indeed a big gap between bronze and iron in value.

Bronze products once had a very brilliant experience in Daqin.

In addition to making weapons, bronze wares also assumed the role of royal daily utensils and ritual utensils.

The so-called Zhongming Dingshi refers to the fact that noble families will use bronze tripods as bowls.

In ordinary ancestor worship seasons, bronze wares are indispensable.

In this way, it is also the consensus of all Daqin people to say that bronze is precious and iron is cheap.

Even putting these aside, copper has another name called gold in the history of Daqin!

In the old days, Shang Yang put a wooden stick in the south of Xianyang City, and anyone who could carry the stick to the north of the city would get ten gold.

This gold refers to copper.

Although later with the mining of gold, gold gradually became specifically refers to gold.

But it cannot conceal the glory of copper in history.

The round and square hole coins popular in the Great Qin Dynasty were cast in copper.

Although some other elements are also mixed in bronze, copper is still the majority in general.

So a weapon made of copper is basically equivalent to a weapon made of money.

Although brass is used in daily currency, the difference in copper content from bronze is not too large.

And the current iron, although due to the lack of smelting technology, is not worth much.

Even bronze products have many defects.

The addition of nobles has always used bronzes as their main configuration.

Weapons made of other things will be looked down upon by others.

Dian Wei frowned and listened for a long time.

Finally understood what Zu Long meant by being stingy.

Isn't there no use of bronze?
It's not that I'm reluctant, it's that I don't use it rarely!
Dian Wei laughed too.

But this time he was laughing at Zulong's insight.

The two smiled at each other for a while, and Zu Long noticed something unusual.

I'm laughing at Mu'er being stingy, what are you laughing at?
He cast a puzzled look at Dian Wei.

Dian Wei stopped laughing, and said to Zu Long mysteriously: .

"Want to know why I'm laughing? Teach your men to fetch some bronze weapons."

Bronze weapons?

Zulong didn't know why:.

"What are you doing with bronze weapons?"

Dian Wei laughed twice: .

"You'll know when you bring it."

Zulong smiled and shook his head.

This Dian Wei acted and spoke more and more like Qin Mu.

Originally a rough and straightforward man, how did he learn how to play tricks?
He beckoned behind him.

In an instant, a certain shadow behind Zulong squirmed.

A black-clothed shadow guard appeared from it, handed over two bronze swords and then disappeared.

Dian Wei looked startled.

No matter how many times you have seen it, the concealment techniques of these shadow guards are still impenetrable.

Even this time, I watched that person disappear in the shadow with my own eyes, but I couldn't find it when I looked again.

It can only be said that, after all, they are royal guards, so they do have some methods.

"cough!"

Zu Long coughed lightly, bringing Dian Wei back to reality.

"The bronze weapon is here, what do you want me to see?"

Dian Wei picked up an ax from the ground, and pulled out a bronze sword from Zulong's body.

"My lord father, what do you think will happen if the ax and the sword cut each other?"

Zulong laughed loudly: .

"So you just let me see this?

Hahaha, does this still need to be said?
There might be a gap in the bronze sword.

However, your iron ax may be about to shatter! "

Dian Wei blinked: .

"you sure?"

Zu Long affirmed: "Sure!"

Zulong is very confident about Daqin's bronze casting level.

After nearly a thousand years of development, bronze casting technology has become very mature.

As early as the Spring and Autumn Period, craftsmen were able to forge extremely sharp weapons.

Later generations of China once unearthed the sword of Goujian, the king of Yue.

After more than two thousand years, there is still no rust at all, and it can still break hair!
After experiencing the world hegemony in the Warring States Period, the weapon casting technology has reached a big level.

And the shadow guard's saber was forged by a master of the world's famous craftsmen.

Isn't it easy to chop a rough iron axe?

Dian Wei looked at Zu Long's determined expression and stopped talking.

The left hand swung the ax, and the right swung the sword, and the two collided violently!
"when!"

A loud bang!
Zulong's eyes widened!
The Shadow Guard saber, forged by a famous craftsman himself, snapped into two pieces!
The tip of the first half of the sword flew out spinning and stuck in the ground.

Zulong walked quickly to the short sword, pinched the broken part with one hand and lifted it out of the soil.

The broken sword was nearly five inches into the ground, and the blade was shining coldly.

This……

No problem, this is the shadow guard's standard sword!

He walked quickly to Dian Wei's side again, carefully observing the blade of the axe.

Zu Long shouted wildly in his heart, at least there must be a gap, right?

This is the shadow guard's saber!
As a result, the ax blade is as smooth as new without any marks!

Zulong didn't know which aspect to explain in order to make the scene in front of him reasonable.

Have a problem with the sword?

Impossible, the shadow guard personally handed it to him.

And he just checked the short sword, there is nothing unusual about it.

This is the highest level bronze saber produced by the royal craftsman!
Having trouble with the ax?
Isn't this made of iron?

Hmm, that seems to be the only explanation?
But the color of the ax was blue-gray, and the hand was cold, so it was obviously iron!

Then it could only be that Dian Wei did something wrong!

Dian Wei laughed, knowing that Zu Long would find it difficult to accept this result.

He stuffed the ax in his hand into Zulong's hand:.

"I knew you didn't believe it, come on, try it yourself."

Zulong picked up the other intact sword suspiciously.

Then, with all his strength, he slammed the two weapons together.

Another bang.

The bronze sword broke in two without any suspense.

And Zulong immediately brought his eyes to the edge of the axe, but there was still no trace!
Two consecutive loud noises finally alarmed Qin Mu.

He pushed the study door open with a "creak" sound, and only then did he see Zu Long and Dian Wei in the yard.

And the four cut-off swords on the ground.

"Father, what are you doing this early in the morning?"

Dian Wei laughed a few times and said loudly: .

"My lord, your father laughed at me that my ax was made of iron.

Then I chopped off his bronze sword.

He also suspected that there was something wrong with me! "

Qin Mu looked at the short sword and finally knew what was going on.

"Isn't it normal for an iron ax to break a bronze sword?"

(End of this chapter)