The hemp rope pocket is a piece of upper body armor that can be called a "treasure armor" in this era. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

It took a lot of labor, a little bit of hand-knocked out iron sheets, and a little bit of rough copper wire, which was really expensive.

This is neither chain mail nor scale armor, but a cloth armor that can simply be called armor. Those thick copper wires are used as chain mail to form rings, but the copper is very soft and the actual protection ability is limited; The thin iron sheet is placed in the woven cloth bag, and the cloth bag is connected with hemp rope and the like, imagine that it is two layers of clothes, the middle of the two layers of clothes is separated into many small pieces, and the small pieces of fabric are sandwiched with iron sheets.

The copper wire ring and cloth iron armor were not a set, but were worn on the inner layer, mainly above the chest, to facilitate the movement of the shoulders, and by the way, there was something like a hat buckled on the head - that is, a hooded jacket was woven only with thick copper wire.

It was such a simple and crude armor, but in the eyes of these leaders, it was like a treasure, and several people reached out and touched the copper wires, feeling the iron pieces caught in the cloth, and were shocked.

Because the forging technology and wrought iron refining technology are not very qualified, these iron pieces cannot be beaten very thinly, so they are very thick and heavy. There is a mess of iron pieces hanging on his body, and it is true that the protection per unit weight is far worse than that of locks, scales, piercing, plates, etc., but it is still stronger than being naked.

Chen Jian held the cloth armor and the associated copper wire hat with both hands and handed them to Su Yue, who also hurriedly took it with both hands, and suddenly felt that his arm sank, and he was secretly surprised.

"Xia knows that the leader of Suyue often goes through battle formations, and he is brave and brave with bows and arrows, but the arrows have no eyes, and the Dongyi people are good at shooting, if they fight with Dongyi in the future, they are only afraid that there will be damage, and after returning to Yucheng, they meditated hard, and finally thought of giving this thing to the leader of Suyue."

"This linen cloth is covered with pieces of iron, and although it is of different thicknesses, it may not be able to withstand the fierce blows of the stone axe, but it can always protect itself. The bronze armor on it can resist the stray arrows, and if the arrows are thirty or fifty steps away and cannot see blood, please ask the leader of Suyue to accept them. ”

He said it very modestly, but the leaders knew that this thing could really save lives on the battlefield, and Su Yue thanked him repeatedly, and his heart was extremely satisfied.

"Thank you Ji Xia for that."

He immediately put it on his body, moved a little, and then casually took out a feathered arrow of cast iron arrow from Ji Bai's quiver, and stabbed it several times at the place where there were iron plates on his shoulder and chest, and he really couldn't pierce it.

All the leaders praised one after another, and Su Yue also smiled: "This gift can really be called a treasure. I've had jade orbs, but if it's the most intimate, it's still this thing. ”

"Although this thing is precious, I hope that this thing is owned by the leaders of my great rivers, and everyone has it, and this treasure will become a ploughshare and bronze sword and other things that can be seen everywhere, and the treasure is not a treasure, but it is my wish."

His words have the bearing of the leaders of all departments, whether they are false or true, these words still won the applause and praise of everyone.

After applauding, Su Yue asked, "I don't know if this armor can still be made?" If it can be crafted, everyone can buy some and exchange some for some, and everyone can take less damage when they fight. ”

The leaders of the cadres also looked at Jian Chen with anticipation, and Jian Chen frowned and said, "This thing is not easy to make. As for the leader of Suyue, the cost is huge, but I am afraid that it will be difficult to make it again. ”

When everyone was disappointed when they heard this, Jian Chen said again: "But if it is simplified a little, it can be made." I've come up with a way to do it in three to five years. Three or five years later, the skills of those iron-smelting people in Yucheng are becoming more and more mature, and when the time comes, they can also be separated and go to your cities. If there is an iron mountain, mine and smelt, so that the clansmen of the great river tribes can have new farming tools, or they can also create long swords and spears. ”

In a word, he suddenly won more praise than Su Yue said just now, which is the most practical thing. Nowadays, the iron tools of Yucheng are circulating everywhere, not to mention that the Dahe tribes can be exchanged for good things when they are taken to Yidi, which seems to have become a reliable currency like the copper coins of the Xia Kingdom.

And Xia Guo has always strictly guarded the secret of iron smelting before, and some people have squeezed Chen Jian with words such as the common interests of the Dahe tribes, hoping that he can take it out and share it with everyone. But Jian Chen's answer was not a natural reason such as why we made it up for you, but that it was difficult to smelt in other cities because of the lack of skilled workers.

All the leaders thought that Chen Jian's previous statement was just prevarication, but now that these words came out, many people felt that Chen Jian was indeed the kind of person who put the illusory thing of the collective interests of the Great River as the first place, and they were even more worried about electing him as the high priest.

Su Yue watched Jian Chen continue to brag there, and guessed in his heart that this was probably the benefit that Jian Chen had given to the clans in order to secure the position of high priest. Although the mind is not pure, the benefits in hand are real. Not to mention whether Xia Yu could defeat Xia Yu and snatch the technical craftsmen before, even if he entered it, it was useless - everyone knew that most of the craftsmen of the Yucheng Smelting Division were fugitive slaves from various cities, and they were all people with blood feuds and blood debts, and it was too difficult to make them surrender.

This is a well-known thing, but everyone didn't say anything, anyway, Chen Jian said that there was no more fugitive slaves in Onozawa, and everyone pretended that these fugitive slaves were all dead.

It's just that no one has noticed the time node of three or five years that Jian Chen said, and no one knows that Xia Guo is now the weakest time, and no one dares to shake it with the residual power of last year.

This kind of Yu Wei Chen Jian felt that it needed to be strengthened, so after verbally giving a big sweet date to the Zhongchengyi clan, he asked someone to come up with a second gift.

"This gift is easy to make, not too difficult. I know that all the leaders are the best warriors in the clan, and the warriors like armor, swords, spears and other weapons, so this gift is given to each leader. ”

With the shock of the cloth armor before, everyone's curiosity was mobilized this time, but what Jian Chen took out later disappointed them.

I don't see anything delicate, it's just an ugly brass stick, it's still empty inside, and there's a piece of wood behind it, so I can't see what it's for.

But everyone didn't ask, and ugly things weren't necessarily bad to use. There are too many strange good things in the Xia Yu system, but there are not many that can be called gifts by Jian Chen, so it is difficult for them to guess what it is.

In fact, this is a copper musket. It is not an arquebus, nor is it a flint fire, but a primitive musket.

This is one selected from many melted castings, the interior is very smooth, the level of casting is also good, and it didn't blow up after a few test shots, so Chen Jian used this to scare and scare the leaders.

It was already filled with gunpowder, and a special small fire rope like a cannon twist stretched out from the fire door, and the lead round bullet had already been poked into it before it was handed over to Chen Jian.

Holding the not-so-long bronze handcuff in his right hand and the arquebus in his left hand, he took two steps forward seemingly unintentionally.

Ji Bai immediately placed a clay pot on the stone next to the big tree, which he had been carrying, and filled the clay pot with a jar of lime for the effect.

Jian Chen was already close to the distance of three or four steps away from this clay pot, and normally he should be able to shoot at this distance.

He smiled on his face, but muttered in his heart: "Don't blow up, don't miss it, don't miss it......"

This is all common to this kind of shoddy stuff.

When the leaders looked at the arquebus on Jian Chen's left hand, they all guessed that it had something to do with gunpowder, so they were all ready for a loud sound or a strong explosion - in their opinion, the people of Xiacheng were very fond of this kind of thing, and after returning from Dongyi, in order to celebrate, it was said that some people stuffed gunpowder into the bamboo and lit it, and they also heard that the people of Xiacheng liked to listen to the poplar tree with insects burning at the end of the year for a long time......

Jian Chen really didn't want to touch this thing, Xia Cheng had a few people who had died on it in the past few years, but he had to do it at this time.

With his right hand, he raised the bronze fire gun that had been prayed several times, aimed at the clay pot three or five paces away, and with his left hand, he quickly lit the fast fire rope inserted in the fire door with the fire rope.

Bang......

After a sound that was not too loud, a puff of white smoke came out of the muzzle, and the clay pot three or five paces away shattered in response, just as a gust of wind blew, and the scene was extremely shocking.

Everyone was frightened enough by this scene, they had seen gunpowder a long time ago, and many people had used it, but most of them were thrown out to hear the sound, where did they think that gunpowder could be used like this?

In fact, the power of this musket is not very large, the range is closer than the bow and arrow, the archer shoots twenty arrows may be this broken thing to complete the loading and preparation, there is no simplest and most primitive semi-mechanical fire rope and fuse plate, by the way, if this is not a clay pot three or five steps away but thirty or fifty steps away, it is better to close your eyes.

But Chen Jian hid all these shortcomings, and what he got was the perfect situation where the gunpowder and lead bullet had been compacted, the ignition wire was inserted, the target was three or four steps away, and it had not rained yet.

Therefore, in the eyes of the leaders, the situation is like this: Ji Xia raised his hand, aimed at the clay pot, lit the short fire rope, and in the blink of an eye, the jar was shattered, this thing is much stronger than a bow and arrow! And judging by the sound of the jar popping, this thing must be very powerful, even if the leader of Suyue was wearing that armor, he would probably be shot to death.

No matter how good the bow is, the trajectory can be seen with the naked eye; No matter how good a stone a slinger throws with a piso, he can see how it hits the target.

And yet this thing is nothing.

It was a miraculous thing, especially to the leaders who had never thought of seeing anything like it, and it was simply the weapon of the law of cause and effect of this age—I was going to make the jar shatter, and the jar shattered. If you didn't draw your bow, you didn't use a sling, you didn't get close and hit it with an axe, and the jar was shattered!

Jian Chen secretly shook his somewhat stiff hands, glad that he was not blinded by the explosion, smelled the smell of gunpowder in the air, and casually threw the musket that would take at least a minute or two to prepare for the next shot, which was useless at this time, into Ji Bai's hand.

"This is my gift to you, one for each leader. It's just that it's very troublesome to control, although it's easier to learn than drawing a bow and archery, but it will take five or six days, and I'll have people go to your cities to teach you in the future. ”