It is not easy for an ordinary civilian to prepare a full set of weapons.

Armor was very cheap, the empire had mass-produced many cuirasses, and had successively seized nearly 200,000 sets of various types of armor from the surrounding areas (30,000 sets of armor were taken from the arsenal of Lin'an at one time during unification) - the Great Zhou contributed most of them, and the Jurchens, Mengwu, Tibetans, and Dang Xiang each donated tens of thousands of sets, and recently this transport team has also joined Pars, a new member.

The empire did not prohibit the folk to hide the armor, and now the vast majority of these armors have been spread to the people or the subject countries and the Tibetan country, but there are still tens of thousands of sets of iron armor in the arsenal.

Besides, it doesn't take much to press several sets of cuirasses with a hydraulic forging machine.

Therefore, in the empire, a set of iron armor, depending on the performance and materials, roughly cost around 5 taels to 15 taels - the cuirass is the cheapest, the chain mail is the second, and the full set of armor is the most expensive.

Knives are cheaper than armor.

Fuso knives, which used to be very popular in the previous week, poured into China in large numbers with the demise of Fuso craftsmen and the outflow of craftsmen.

Now, the minimum value of a regular Fuso knife can be as low as 1 tael – unless you want to customize a "treasure knife", which is a matter of personal requirements, as some people will set gems on the handle of the scabbard, or use a mahogany scabbard for a statement of valuables.

However, the price of the knife itself will never exceed 3 taels.

Among other cold weapons, bows and arrows are rarely used by Han Chinese now, and only a few masters who are particularly confident in their archery skills will equip them themselves.

The empire does not produce this kind of thing now, and there have been many seizures in the past, but they have been stored for too long, and they are not in good condition.

If you want to use a bow and arrow, you need to find a master to customize, or import it from Waifu.

Other non-standard sidearms are much better, such as maces, throwing axes, maces and other small pieces, which have not been used up in previous seizures.

The most expensive part of equipment is actually the musket.

Among the rifles, the cheapest 10 mm caliber shotgun costs ten taels for civilians.

The 15 mm standard Type 1 arquebus was twenty taels and was only sold to civilians and above.

The standard Type 2 flintlock pistol of the same caliber costs thirty taels; Forty taels of firing rifled guns modified from the standard Type 2; Fifty taels of standard Type 12 firing pistol of 3 mm caliber.

The Daizi rear-loading gun modified from the standard Type 3 requires a modification fee of five taels, and the price is acceptable, but this gun requires a special one-piece bullet, and the price of ammunition is one section higher.

Shotguns, standard 1 and 2 models are all open-flame smoothbore guns, and the ammunition is a small lead ball with gunpowder, which is relatively cheap - only the price of gunpowder is involved, the projectile can even be made by itself, and lead itself is also a base metal.

Those ammunition, bought from official weapons stores, were worth 1 tael for a hundred rounds.

Bullets for firing rifled guns require special molds, and the price is slightly higher, 1.2 taels for a hundred rounds.

Because the bullet of the rear-loading gun has a primer, the price soars directly to the point of 5 taels per 100 rounds!

The problem was that in the South Seas, where the humidity was too high, the effectiveness of open flame muskets such as arquebuses and flintlock muskets was severely reduced, while muskets with better breath-holding properties, such as firing rifles and breech-loading guns, were not greatly affected.

Before the departure of the Chu army, the General Staff gave guidance to all Han volunteers participating in the war to choose firing rifles as much as possible.

However, if you have to fire the gun, a fully equipped Han soldier, the minimum equipment cost is also 46 taels, which is not a small amount of money.

Therefore, most of the Chu soldiers who volunteered to participate in the war still had to rely on flintlock pistols and even arquebuses.

But those monks and soldiers, one by one, all chose the best equipment, not only under the monk's robe, but also the best sword, at least the standard type three firing pistol, and even those guys from Northern Shaolin also had an extra pistol!

I have to admit that Northern Shaolin is not only the first in the righteous path of martial arts, they are also the largest landlord, usury creditor and shop owner of the Dengfeng generation.

Including 2,000 monks, the total strength of the Chu army is 6,000 people, and there is no participation in Waibo for the time being, but Xu Shiyang has ordered several lords of Goryeo, Fusang, Ryukyu, and Annam to prepare to send troops to send troops, and they are expected to send 10,000 cold weapons troops to Nanyang as reinforcements, and the main task is to maintain law and order on the islands dotted with dots after the Chu army wins.

The 6,000 Chu troops will be divided into 80 large ships, loaded with supplies, and set off separately from several ports in the south of the Yangtze River, arriving at Sriwijaya which is being besieged by Majapahit in advance, and after joining forces with the Sriwijaya army, they will launch a counterattack.

They were joined by a naval fleet led by Li Feihu, Li Feilong, Li Feihuang, and Li Feifeng, totaling 200 sail warships and transport ships, and 24,000 sailors and marines.

The main target of the Imperial Navy was the Kingdom of Maacca, a vassal state of Majapahit, and of course, after completing the task of controlling the Strait of Majapahit, they would also help the Chu army to attack Majapahit - in fact, the Naval Staff believed that these two things were actually one, and as long as Majapahit was destroyed, Malacca would naturally be easy to control.

On the contrary, it is impossible to control Malacca.

Therefore, the advice of the fleet commander Li Feihu was that the navy and the Chu army should cooperate to attack the main territory of Majapahit first, and then turn around and destroy Malacca, which was easier to deal with.

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The attack of the navy and the Chu army on Majapahit was only a trivial matter for the empire, after all, the number of troops sent by itself was only 30,000, and the degree of concern of the cabinet and the military in this matter was not high.

Moreover, for the empire, in addition to opening up the South Seas, there is still a war to be fought.

That was the war of conquest against the southwestern Dali Kingdom.

On the surface, the reason for the conquest of Dali was the tentative invasion of Sichuan Province and the claims to the territory of Sichuan, Guizhou and Guizhou Provinces when the previous Zhou Dynasty was destroyed.

At that time, Dali's invasion was beaten by Xu Shiliu and the Sichuan defenders of Dazhou, so it did not cause any major losses, and it seems unreasonable to use this as a reason to destroy a country.

But if an empire wants to destroy a country, there is a way to say it, and it doesn't matter if it's justified or not.

For Dali, the empire gathered 60,000 Chinese troops and 10,000 Waibo and Tubo troops in Sichuan Province, 30,000 and 10,000 Waibo Dongbarians in Gui Province, and 30,000 and 10,000 Jinghu barbarians in Guizhou Province, totaling 120,000 Chinese troops and 30,000 Waibo soldiers and 150,000 troops, preparing to completely destroy Dali with thunder.

The tiger and wolf division of the Duan clan of Dali is very panicked, they are also a strong country in the southeast, they have defeated Tubo and Donghu before, and even the regular soldiers with the attached tribal soldiers have no problem making up an army of 2 or 300,000, and it seems that the troops are a lot more than the Chinese army.

However, everyone understands that this advantage in forces is useless.

It's not worth mentioning at all.