I just ate the local flavor of Nanhai County's Tuan Oil Rice; It is a hodgepodge rice made of fried shrimp, fish roast, chicken and goose breast, pig and sheep loin, chicken soup, cake enema, steamed vegetables, vermicelli, banana seeds, ginger cinnamon, and salt soy sauce, covered with new rice produced in the Pearl River Plain, and steamed layer by layer.

Zhou Huai'an, who was still a little greasy and full of burps, also appeared outside Nanhai County, where the handicraft workshop and practice furnace were most intensive

Although there is a diffuse smell of soot and thin dust everywhere, for Zhou Huai'an, this is the dawn of a kind of primitive industrial base; This is the special romance and passion that those who command to hide under the wings of men, and who play intrigue and intrigue in the courtyard of the deep mansion where they are safe, and who are also known as true love, can not experience the special romance and passion;

At least, after re-integrating the iron smelting industry under the rule of the South China Sea and the various peripheral and downstream handicraft workshops attached to it, he can finally use it as a reason for the rebels to rebuild ordnance, and carry out military technology research and development based on this world line in a certain sense (Pan Science and Technology Tree Front).

For example, after forging the most superficial swords and arrows, consider the further improvement and utilization of local materials in terms of armor and protective gear with higher technical content.

After all, in this era, although there are official standards and treatment procedures from the Ordnance Supervision Armor Crossbow Workshop, in fact, because of the differences in the vast territory, the cost of materials and the fluctuation of people's investment are also very different.

For example, in places close to the grassland and lacking iron, the use of cow and sheep skins and felt must be given priority to making armor; In the humid and rainy areas of southwest China, it is popular to use rattan as armor; In places such as Handan, which are close to the iron-making center in the hinterland of the Central Plains, the equipping rate of high-quality iron armor is much higher than that of other opponents. And this is also one of the important bonuses of the three towns of Hebei that have long been disobedient to the king, and the evidence against the imperial court.

Before, he drummed it out as an excessive paper armor, although the protection is barely acceptable, but it is not resistant to long-term rain and moisture, as well as the need to wade and swim, it will undergo different degrees of deformation and delamination; It's fine to wear it for a short time during wartime, but if it's used for daily duty patrol drills or something, it will inevitably be a little embarrassing;

The same goes for those mahjong-style bamboo armor, although this thing is not afraid of wading and swimming, and can even provide buoyancy bonuses; However, under the general weather in Lingnan, it is very moldy and brittle, and some even have an example of accidentally growing fresh fungus and mushrooms on the body.

In contrast, leather armor is much better, although it will also have problems such as mold and moisture, but as long as you take care of it, you can still use it for a longer time.

Therefore, he was able to participate in the comprehensive cost-effective evaluation of the protective effect and cost economy of the armor made according to different materials and processing technologies in order to personally participate in it.

Among the thirteen types of armor systems established by the Tang Dynasty, a considerable part of them are so-called ceremonial armor in the form of ceremonial decoration. The remaining leather armor, along with the six types of iron armor (including Mingguang, Guangyao, Fine Scales, Shanwen, Wuzhu and Chain Mail), is the actual combat armor of the army's equipment. Take the relatively lightweight, inexpensive leather armor that was first widely used by humans.

The best material in the south is undoubtedly the rhinoceros skin native to China, which is the legendary "rhino"; Not only is it dense and tough enough, but it also has a natural gorgeous pattern; Therefore, since the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, rhinoceros leather armor has always been one of the existences that military generals like to pursue; If it is properly maintained by means of oil immersion and painting, it can even be used as a family heirloom for generations.

It's just that rhinoceros in the wild have become more and more scarce over the past thousands of years, and if you really want to exhaust the mountains and forests to hunt for curiosities, you may be able to get a few, but as a batch of equipment for the army, or even a small batch of equipment for the personal guards, then don't think about it at all;

Secondly, there are crocodile skins and elephant skins as candidates, which are somewhat more common than rhinoceros; At least the "elephant trunk moxibustion" made by elephants is still a relatively common delicacy in this era; As for crocodiles or something, draw circles and curse you in the Tang Dynasty officialdom, and regard "Jun goes to Chaozhou to raise crocodiles" and "Gong goes to Hainan Qiongzhou to feed slang liao" as one of the most vicious mantras, and it is also a fashion of the times.

However, wild elephants are not so easy to deal with, they are all in groups; And there is a high probability of casualties caused by frightened madness; In addition, the adult elephant skin is too thick, and it is quite difficult to peel it off as a whole; Even after hunting and successfully peeling the skin, it is necessary to polish off a third of the general before it can be tanned. In this way, the cost performance of hunting elephant hides is not much higher.

The crocodile is relatively simple, and it is called "shark crocodile" in ancient fashion, and its skin is called shark leather; It is a piece of equipment that is once known as rhinoceros skin. "Xunzi Yibing": "The Chu people think that the shark and rhinoceros are armor, and the scarlet is like a golden stone." However, although Chaozhou is a famous crocodile paradise, when it is used to equip an army, there is no way to become a long-term source; After all, it is not a modern farm that has been artificially raised, and it takes a lot of effort and effort to find and hunt in the wild. Therefore, it can only be used as a supplement for small batches.

Finally, there is the cowhide that is common in origin and relatively simple in yield; After the successive annexation and loss of sincerity in Lingxi, the source of bulk cowhides is no longer a problem, because the local Han and barbarians have the tradition of raising cattle in the mountains, and there is a custom of bullfighting and slaughtering cattle to select good breeds every year.

But even if it is buffalo leather, it is not just a casual use, but needs to be raised between the corresponding years, too early and too loose and too brittle; And when the material is taken, there are a few specific parts of the body that are suitable, and the others can only be used to make those simple and shoddy leather goods or something.

Moreover, these parts should not be subjected to intensive whipping, or excessive insect bites or even obvious trauma to destroy the relative integrity of their overall tissue fibers; Then, because of the need for the strength of the armor, in the process of tanning into finished leather, there is also a certain failure rate and loss. Then apply several coats of paint to prevent daily wear and natural oxidation.

Therefore, those who can easily equip their poor and blank army of homeless people with a casual pull of materials and craftsmen is simply too sweet.

As for the more common pig skins and sheepskins, they are either thin and soft or loose and crispy, and the area that is well utilized is also small; Can only be used as clothing and leather goods material. As for the horse skins that some people have mentioned on the forum in later generations, what kind of joke is that; How big is the heart or how deep is the brain, so that the horses, which were important strategic resources in ancient times, were slaughtered and skinned as protective gear?

The next imitation work of the Iron Armor Six Styles (including Mingguang, Guangyao, Fine Scales, Shanwen, Wuzhu, and Chain Mail) was carried out. Among them, the bright light and light armor composed of a variety of different materials and components are the most complex, of course, this is basically not equipped by the big head soldiers, except for a small number of trial products to exercise skills, used to make gifts for high-level and related households, can basically be excluded;

The black hammer armor is a kind of extremely labor-intensive cold-wrought iron armor, which can basically be eliminated at this stage. The difference between mountain armor and chain mail is that it is a ring twist, and the other is made of three strands of cross twisting;

Among them, the chain mail has the most variants in ancient and modern China and foreign countries, and the larger and thicker ones made of the ring hole can be called the ring mail or the chain ring mail, and the smaller and denser hole is embellished together, which becomes the so-called chain mail and dense ring mail in later generations.

Although the structure seems to be simple at a glance, the finer the parts, the more demanding the strength of the material; Moreover, it is too labor-intensive to process and form so many fine parts, which is too labor-intensive to weave and connect.

So the final choice is the scale armor, and it is not the official half-body fine scale armor composed of at least three hundred and fifty-seven pieces; Instead, it is enlarged and simplified, more like a shrunken version of the more than 100 "coarse scale armor"; Each piece has also increased from the size of a copper coin to the size of a teacup; Of course, comfort and weight have also increased in inverse proportion.

And after this imitation processing is formed, there is also room for other variants; For example, the clip forging is lengthened and thinned and combined together, which is the prototype of the so-called golden silk willow leaf armor, if these iron strips are lengthened and riveted into a circle, it will become a kind of circle armor that once appeared in the late Jin Dynasty and early Yuan Dynasty. If the clip is further expanded to hold the shape, then the ancient armor and iron armor based on the golden jade clothes have returned.

Of course, this kind of coarse scale armor can be directly opened and pierced and nailed on the leather case or cloth clothing as a double protection, and it can also be connected with silk threads as a separate armor jacket; At present, the finished product that can be determined is only the original version of the cartridge vest with the front half of the armor, which weighs about 16 catties; and the addition of shoulder pads and a strengthened version of the back vital nail piece, which requires a weight of three catties; There is also a high-end full-body version with a knee cover and a belly nail, which weighs about 35 pounds.

However, because of the scattered weight worn in the body, the pressure is actually more relaxed than simply carrying the same weight; If you have mastered the load balance and marching rhythm of your body after proper adaptive training, you will continue to move for a longer time.

As for the whole breastplate that YY is described as godlike, or a large piece of armor made of whole steel; Sorry, Zhou Huai'an has not yet conjured up a percussion drill with sufficient power and a large platform forged as a whole. The hard iron piece the size of a teacup is the maximum limit of manpower and handling machinery that he can use and transform at present.

On the other hand, the iron in Nanhai County is more than tough and the hardness is insufficient, so it doesn't matter if you can hit it a little lighter, you really need to rush to within a dozen or twenty steps before you have too many opportunities to release arrows face-to-face. In the case of increasing production and accumulating experience, in fact, some indicators of protection performance can also be slightly lowered;

Anyway, this batch of iron armor that came to practice should be given priority to the vanguard of the Northern Expedition, and the real good things that have stabilized in craftsmanship and quality will have to wait until the next few batches. According to the current progress, more than 100,000 pieces of scale armor can be forged in about one day, plus the effort of hiring women to sew and embroider, that is, to control the level of nearly 200 collars of iron scales (armor) per day.

Correspondingly, the unpainted plain leather armor can reach about 500 bodies, as long as the special hunting team and the raw materials supplied by the sea can keep up; This is mainly due to the use of three shifts day and night and a simple assembly line driven by animal power.

And what he has to do is just to occasionally spot check and determine the quality of specific finished and semi-finished products, and then provide guidance for further optimization of efficiency at a certain link; Just when he was looking at these busy handicraft workshops and was a little complacent, Zhou Huai'an suddenly received another news from Guangzhou.

"Xiao Chai, are you looking for my help.。?"

(End of chapter)