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Chapter 108 Wakizashi (Add more)
There is no centralized antique market like Panjiayuan in Wa Kingdom.

Generally, antique shops are scattered in lively commercial streets or in secluded alleys.

However, there are still two places where you can concentrate on Taobao in Saka City
The first is Old Matsudori Antique Street, which is located near Nishitenma 4-chome, Kita-ku, Hanshi, with a length of about 1 kilometer.

Most of the items sold in this kind of antique shop are relatively simple. For example, the above is a shop specializing in swords, and there are few other things in it except weapons and armor.

Japanese swords are very famous, and Ouyang Xiu once wrote a poem to praise its sharpness:

The road to Kunyi is far away, and no one can be poor if it is handed down from generation to generation.

The second location is the Tennoji Antique Market, which is held on the 21st and 22nd of every month and is the largest antique market in Sakata.

Unlike the street stalls in my country that specialize in buying antiques with investment value, many of the "antiques" in this kind of street stalls are just old things recycled from the homes of ordinary residents of the Wa country.

The appreciation is weak, the price is not high, but it is also full of warm and nostalgic life atmosphere.

But here is also very discerning, Wang Xuehong introduced the simple situation here to Ye Yuan.

Asked Wang Xuehong's purpose of coming here this time, Wang Xuehong sighed and said:

"This time I'm here to participate in an auction two days later. In this auction, several cultural relics from our country will be auctioned. We players are looking forward to whether we can take some of them back."

Speaking of this, Wang Xuehong is also a bit speechless. Although Ye Yuan doesn't understand the antique business, he still knows a little about the loss of cultural relics.

Huaguo is a country with a long history. After thousands of years of dynasties, many antique cultural relics have been lost overseas due to various reasons such as wars and private sales.

Over the years, some patriotic businessmen have tried their best to use overseas purchases, auctions and other methods to return many lost antiques to the motherland, but a large part of the antiques are still on display in exhibition halls in various countries.

It seems that this time, Wang Xuehong and the others saw some antiques and planned to buy them and bring them back to China.

As they walked, the two came to a shop that sold ancient knives.Wang Xuehong is very familiar with every shop here, and took Ye Yuan in to admire all kinds of antique knives in the shop.

While admiring the knives in the store, Wang Xuehong was also very relieved, talking about the whereabouts of a famous Japanese knife.

During the Anti-Japanese War, a considerable number of antiques from the Japanese country were also left in the Hua country. To be precise, they should have been captured by the Hua country's army.

One of the most representative is a famous antique knife called "Huche".

It was Han Liancheng who seized it from Japanese Lieutenant General Uga Keijiro in the South Island. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, he donated it to the military museum for collection.

This knife was forged in the ninth year of Kuanbun (1632), and has a history of nearly 400 years.

His forge is also well-known. He was Zeng Mixingzheng, a famous sword worker in the Edo period. Therefore, this sword was rated as "the best new sword" by the Japanese sword circle.

Friends who have watched One Piece will know that Japanese swords are divided into several levels.

They are: Yeyue, Good Yeyue, Great Yeye, and Supreme Great Yeye. Among them, there are only [-] highest-level Supreme Great Yeyes.

The "First Generation Onitoru" and "Second Generation Onitoru" that Suoda dreamed of belong to the most important property.

And this "Tiger Toru" is likely to correspond to the "Second Generation Ghost Toru" in One Piece, which shows how precious this knife is.

Recently, Japanese scholars have found through investigation that the "Huche" preserved in the country of Wa is a fake.

The real "Huche" is collected in the Chinese Military Museum.

It can be said that the Japanese people attach great importance to their sabers. Under normal circumstances, if the saber is lost, they will commit suicide by harakiri.

Uga Keijiro committed suicide shortly after he was disarmed.

It may be that they are unwilling to admit that their national treasures appear in Huaguo in the form of spoils of war.

Feeling such a shame, so comforting myself with a fake knife, this is really a laughable thing.

When Wang Xuehong talked about this, he was very happy.

While the two were talking, they looked at the various knives in the store, and Ye Yuan deliberately used his senses to feel these knives.

But just when Ye Yuan sensed and touched an old-looking Wakizashi, he unexpectedly discovered the secret in this knife.

Japanese samurai generally have two swords, one long sword and one short sword. The long sword is called Da Dao, and the short sword is called Wakizashi.

The wakizashi Ye Yuan saw was placed in a very inconspicuous corner. Ye Yuan couldn't tell what year this wakizasa was from, but judging from the style of the blade, it shouldn't be from recent years. work.

These are not what Ye Yuan cares about, Ye Yuan is interested in this knife.

It's because Ye Yuan clearly saw in his perception that this knife is hollow, with a thin piece of animal skin wrapped around the blade.

Because it is curled, Ye Yuan has no idea what is recorded on the animal skin.

The owner of the knife shop is an elderly and skinny old man, and he was very happy to see that Ye Yuan was interested in this knife.

After all, this knife has been in my shop for many years, and few people have taken a fancy to it.

The value of ancient knives mainly depends on whether the wearer is famous or who made it.

This knife was bought by accident at a second-hand stall when he first entered the industry.The purchase price at that time was relatively high, and for this reason, this knife has not been sold.

The main reason is that this knife has no origin at all, and judging from the style of the knife, it is only a hundred years away from modern times.

As for the knives of this era, not many celebrities have worn them. It can be said that there are many in Japan.

Such a knife is difficult to sell in Japan, so it deceives these foreigners who come to travel.

The owner of the store warmly received Ye Yuan. Since he often receives foreign tourists, there is no problem for the store to speak simple English.

Ye Yuan asked about the price, and the old man gave a price of 180 million Japanese coins, equivalent to a little over 10 Chinese coins.

Wang Xuehong reminded Ye Yuandao:
"Xiaoyuan, such a knife is worthless, the price is too high."

Ye Yuan also knew that this store owner must think that he is the kind of tourist who is stupid and has a lot of money.

"50"

Ye Yuan gave his own price.

Of course the old man disagreed, and in the end it was decided that there should be no less than 100 million.

Wang Xuehong pulled Ye Yuan.

"Xiaoyuan, there are many such knives in this street. They are just souvenirs, not even antiques."

Wang Xuehong still reminded Ye Yuan, he thought Ye Yuan was wasting money.

Ye Yuan is also hesitating whether to buy this knife, after all he doesn't know what is on the leather thing inside.

At this moment when Ye Yuan was hesitating, the shop owner also saw that Ye Yuan was not easy to fool, let this guy go, it's really hard to say whether this knife can be sold in the future.

In the end, the owner happily agreed to Ye Yuan's price.

(End of this chapter)