Chapter 36: Armament Upgrade

For the next weapons of the Limburg troops, Lelouch is ready to do it according to the weapons requirements of the entire temple in the future, that is to say, the weapons of the Limburg soldiers now are also the most standard equipment for the grassroots soldiers of the Terran after Leluxiu takes charge of the Terran in the future.

Thanks to the influence of the perfect syndrome of modern society in Lelouxiu's heart, the weapon armor designed by Lelouch has poured the most energy into the aesthetics after ensuring the practicality and high cost performance, in Lelouxiu's view, the equipment and appearance of the grassroots soldiers determine the image of a force army in front of the world, so the practicality of the equipment of the grassroots soldiers is very important, but the beauty is equally important.

For the armor in his own planning, Lelouch still specially made a set of samples to facilitate his own modification and testing, so although the armor has not yet been put into production, the technical reserves are already completely satisfied.

In the armor factory, a group of workers are studying in front of a model, these are the armor craftsmen gathered by Lu Luxiu, the number is about fifty people, plus more than two hundred apprentices, the entire armor factory has about two hundred and fifty skilled workers, this is not counting the number of other low-tech people, and when the factory is really put into production, with mechanization and assembly lines, there is no other guarantee, it is absolutely no problem to meet Lu Luxiu's 2,000 troops, and this also includes two hundred cavalry.

"It's worthy of Lord Leluxiu, such a beautiful and practical armor can find a way to be mass-produced!"

"Indeed, although we all know about the waterwheel, we never thought that the waterwheel could be combined with this thing called a gear, to make this kind of machine, uh, tight."

"Maybe they're just as tight as the dwarves!?"

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The workers continued to exclaim as they surrounded the armor model, and the overall hue of the armor in front of them was silvery-white, which was the color formed by the natural reflection of sunlight from stainless steel, and the armor was not only a monolithic cuirass with shoulder pads, but also had protective gear for almost every part of the human body.

Helmets, arm armor, leggings, combat boots, and almost all of the protective gear are forged from stainless steel, and the helmet is not a simple nose guard or pointed helmet, but a semi-enclosed helmet that covers the entire face, except for the gaps in front of the eyes and nose, the other heads are tightly protected, and inside the steel armor, is a set of light blue light leather armor, which is responsible for protecting the soldier's face from the friction damage of the steel to his body, as well as some weaknesses that inadvertently leak out during activity.

Of course, such leather armor can't resist elf arrows, dwarven muskets, and even half-orcs with daggers with all their strength, at most to guard against some stray arrows and inadvertently cut in weapons, in fact, Lelouch also thought about using chain mail internally to replace leather armor, but in this way, the burden on the soldiers has increased, and the continuous combat time has become shorter, and the chain mail is not as practical as leather armor in the face of the above weapons, and when there is steel armor outside to resist most attacks, Leather armor provides more flexibility and comfort to soldiers, and is also cheaper to build and easier to maintain than a cuirass.

After the above accessories were assembled together, a soldier who seemed to be formed stood in front of people, a tall and mighty, but not bulky, and shining silver as if the image of an iron warrior appeared, but these are just the most basic weapons, for some beautiful processing in the later stage, Lelouch has also been in his heart.

After the overall tone of the soldier turned to silver and white, the secondary color was chosen light blue, which made the originally holy soldier have a touch of sacredness, and there was a blue horse spike behind the helmet, which made them have a noble taste, and with the zither-shaped shield in the left hand, the silver-white war spear in the right hand, and the steel long sword at the waist, the image of the whole soldier was simply perfect.

I don't know how many brain cells this design consumed Leluxiu, but when the results finally came out, Lelouch still felt that he had not wasted his efforts during this time, originally Kenon proposed to design the color of the armor to the red dragon flag used by Leluxiu, red tones, but Lelouch looked more farther away, and it would definitely not take long for him to use this red dragon flag in the future, when he really ascended to the throne, the hue of the human race would still take the more sacred tone of blue and white.

It is better to change it later, than to set it directly.

This kind of equipment is the infantry equipment of the late Limburg period, but correspondingly, Lelouch also has cavalry troops, and the equipment of the cavalry is not much different from the infantry, but the armor is thicker, the internal leather armor is replaced with chain mail, and the wings on the helmet are also larger, and the tone is no longer silver white, but pure white, and each cavalry is also equipped with a ceremonial cloak, similarly, the cloak is also pure white, although the color of the war horse is different, but after the steel vest specially designed by Lelouch for the war horse, the overall tone can also be regarded as white, In this way, the whole cavalry looks like the purest knight of the gods, and the overall effect looks extremely noble and sacred.

The cavalry weapons were no different except for the war spear replaced with a steel cavalry lance, and there was also a model for such cavalry equipment, which was ready to be used in the expansion of production in the future.

Don't get me wrong, this is not the standard configuration of the Terran cavalry in the future, the Terran cavalry, Lelouch is still the pursuit of the medium-sized cavalry, taking into account the combination of defense and flexibility, but at present, it is not necessary, although these two hundred cavalry still seem inexperienced, but Lelouch believes that through their professional training and sufficient supply, their physique and combat skills will definitely not lose to Richard's knight of the Guard, and in terms of conduct, they can definitely be called a model of holiness, no way, Directly applying the norms of the people's army of later generations, coupled with the constraints that Lelouch thought could be accepted by the knight's manual, under the double guarantee, the conduct of these would-be knights could definitely be called the first in Middle-earth, and in Liebert's hands, the growth rate of these cavalry seemed to be somewhat beyond Lelouch's expectations.

Yes, these equipment are the knightly equipment that Lelouch prepared in the future, so everything is moving closer to holiness, to use a phrase that Lelouch often says to describe these soldiers:

We, the human race, should carry out the "sacred" to the end!

It is believed that the soldier's equipment will be put into production after a while, but Lelouch is not most concerned about these, but the most important goods at his moment, and the foundation of whether he can further expand his strength, and what he cares about most is the brewery.

What could make more money than beer? Easy to manufacture, low technology content, easy to mass production, low cost, but the profit is exceptionally high, tobacco and alcohol have always been profiteering objects, the production of beer has already begun, but the use of small family workshops, and not the use of factory forms for large-scale production, so can not form economies of scale.

But now it's different, with the construction of the industrial zone, the brewery because it doesn't need the assistance of the water wheel, he was the earliest, and the scale of production is larger, but these breweries are not in Woodburg, but in Limburg, an old town in Limburg was directly demolished and built into a brewery by Lelouch, the manufacturing process of beer is very simple, so it is easy to steal the teacher, Lelouch is not ready to give up the "monopoly" This big killer, think about it, the lucrative wine industry, plus the monopoly, The combination of these two things will create much profit and wealth for Lelouch, so those agriculture is the foundation of Lelouch, but Lelouch does not care about the income of those agriculture, the bulk of the income, agriculture will always be ranked behind commerce and industry.

In fact, the beer momentum began as early as the last Northern Gala, and this kind of all-you-can-drink cold drink successfully attracted everyone who drank them, whether it was a low-class soldier or an upper-class nobleman, and even more loved beer than those fruit wines and high-purity distilled spirits.

During this period, no less than twenty nobles had come to Lelouch to discuss plans to buy some beer, but Lelouch refused after giving him a little drink for free.

This not only did not diminish the aristocracy's love for beer, but on the contrary, they were more eager because of the small quantity, as the saying goes: what you can't get is always in turmoil.

But in the end, Lelouch revealed a hint of news, that is, although he could not supply to the nobles on a large scale, he could sell it through caravans, and then expand production, and for those caravans, he only levied a quarter of the income tax.

Don't look at this quarter a lot, in fact, this is already very good, when the news was given to the nobles who drank beer to vigorously promote the caravan in their territory, the keen businessmen after a simple investigation, have found a huge business opportunity, as early as a month ago, the first batch of caravans has set off, I believe that it will arrive here in a few days, of course Lelouch will not only be ready to sell to the nobles, beer is born in small profits and quick turnover, but in the case of Lelouch monopoly, In the case of this further reduction of costs, the price of civilian beer is even lower than it is outrageous, after all, there are too many ears of wheat in the fields to be used up.

Lelouch now stands on the top of these castles almost every day and watches in the direction of the imperial capital, waiting for the "fat pig", oh no, the arrival of the caravan, these days Lelouch almost dreams, he dreams that he is lying on the pile of money and rolling, and he keeps laughing wildly in his dreams.

And when I wake up in the morning, I often find that my pillow is full of saliva.