Hearing Ma Jun's words, Liu Ye's heart was half cold......

The smelting technique is far inferior, and the same plate armor is three percent weaker, which is not unacceptable!

In order to improve the technology of Wei and suppress the development of Chu, it is worth paying some price.

However, with the strength of the skilled craftsmen, the output of only a few dozen pairs per year can be achieved?

This figure completely dispelled Liu Ye's thoughts.

The skillful craftsman battalion of Wei is equivalent to the Ministry of Industry of Chu State, and also adds a part of the cooperative official workshop, that is, it is responsible for developing new technologies, and at the same time it also has a large number of official craftsmen, and the person in charge is Ma Jun, the "skilled craftsman military division".

It not only represents the most cutting-edge technology of the Wei State, but also represents a large part of the productivity of the Wei State Guanfang......

In other words, almost all the blacksmiths in the official workshops of the Wei State, in addition to this, do nothing, and can only do dozens of sets a year?

And how is it possible to do nothing beyond that?

"This ...... When Xu County rescued Miss Xiahou, the State of Chu dispatched hundreds of heavy cavalry, and since the King of Chu was willing to trade, it was impossible for him to have only hundreds in his hands. Could it be that Wei is really ten times ...... No, a hundred times more than our craftsmen? Liu Ye asked in disbelief.

It is impossible for the Chu State to stop all other projects, gather all the craftsmen, and devote all of them to the manufacture of plate armor, right?

If that's the case, how can it be easily traded?

"I suspect that when the plate armor of the Chu State was manufactured, some kind of mechanism technique should have been used." Ma Jun's face is relatively long, not only is he always flat, but he also speaks from time to time.

"Tricks?" Liu Ye said that he didn't understand, isn't he a blacksmith? Why is it related to mechanical arts?

"These sets of plate armor are almost identical, and there are no traces of creation, as if they were made into shape by hammering stainless steel plates with great strength." Ma Jun expressed his speculation.

Ma Jun did guess correctly, there are currently two batches of plate armor in Chu State, one is to use a stamping machine that lacks a power source and relies on the Jinling garrison generals to be charged in turns, and each part is stamped and formed at one time, and the other is to use hydraulic forging to save manpower and build slowly......

Among them, the former is obviously of higher quality, and the latter is only equivalent to water power, which saves pure labor, and also has experienced blacksmiths to refine and check, and can accept a stamping of steel, which has lower requirements for toughness and can have higher strength.

It can not only be used to punch out the concave type, some buckle positions, but also directly punch a finger-long hole.

These fine holes are also one of the important bases for Ma Jun to guess that Chu Guo used some kind of trick.

In contrast, the cost of hydraulically forged plate armor is still on the high side, and the quality is low.

After that, Bai Tu didn't plan to engage in water-forged plate armor, and waterpower was still used to make swords, farm tools, or grinding and weaving.

Jinling is a royal city, and the nearby defenders are not only numerous, but also have a high proportion of elites, and without affecting training, it is still very easy to rush out of the Wei State every day for two years of production - provided that there are no other projects that require a large True Qi engine to supply energy.

"A hammer? Don't you want a thousand powers? How can it be! Liu Ye exclaimed.

Ma Jun turned his head to look at him, and after being silent for a few seconds, he spoke: "The largest upper body front armor part needs to be hammered so neatly at one time, and it will take about two thousand jun of strength. ”

Qianjun, when it is generally mentioned, is just an empty word, referring to a very large force.

One pound and thirty pounds, one pound of the Han system is about equivalent to half a pound in later generations, that is, 7kg, a thousand pounds...... That's just over 7 tons.

Liu Ye didn't expect that a virtual finger he casually said would be corrected so solemnly and "accurately" by Ma Jun, and it was twice as high as the virtual finger?

If Bai Tu heard Ma Jun's words, he would have a higher evaluation - the estimate is quite accurate, the largest stamping machine in Chu is indeed the highest of more than 60,000 catties of stamping, which is equivalent to more than ten tons in later generations.

The stamping machine itself cannot be mass-produced, especially the stressed part, which is the same as the tungsten steel seal, which is refined by Yu Ji and Pang Tong little by little with "painting symbols".

What is the concept of a press of more than ten tons?

An ordinary sedan body can be punched out with a fifty-ton press......

The largest part of plate armor is also much smaller and thinner than the car body, but the "steel" mass-produced by the Chu State, although compared with the steel produced by other princes, is like humiliating children, but it is far from the texture of steel in later generations, and the yield strength and hardness cannot have the best of both worlds, so such a large-sized press is needed.

"How is that possible? Two thousand? Even Lu Bu ......," Liu Ye said, looking at Xiahou Yuan.

Seeing this, Xiahou Yuan also shook his head and said, "Although I haven't reached the realm of a divine general, it is indeed mysterious, but even if it is a general...... At most, it is only when it explodes with all its might. ”

Liu Ye: ???

Is there really one?

And Ma Jun's face remained unchanged - he didn't know if there was a thousand powers, but ...... It's useless to have it, what's the use of bursting out with a thousand powers?

Can it be used to smash iron? Even if you can ...... What to use as a hammer for you?

One or two god generals, for mass production, it doesn't mean much!

Ma Jun's conclusion is actually very much for Pang Tong's appetite, such as the first stamping machine in the Chu State, is it recharged by God in the future?

Even if it was Lu Bu, Zhao Yun, Huang Zhong, and Sun Ce, all four of them were called to supply energy together, and three or four pairs of plate armor were rushed out in one day.

The reason for the large production is that this is because there are more than 5,000 wood and stone generals and more than 1,000 gilded generals stationed near Jinling, charging the giant True Qi storage device.

As for not converting true qi, directly using brute force to operate the stamping machine?

Come less! Ten stamping machines are not enough for Sun Ce to dismantle in one day......

It's not a job that can be done with the strength.

Whether it is reasonable or not, Liu Ye at least believes that Ma Jun's estimate of the production capacity of the skillful craftsman camp - dozens of pairs a year, he can't count on it at all!

That is to say, at first glance, the technical content is not high, and there is not even a plate armor with heavy and complex craftsmanship, which will be a "specialty" of Chu for a period of time.

And it is impossible for Bai Tu not to know this, it seems that if he wants to buy a large amount of plate armor in the future, he will definitely be slaughtered.

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At the same time, although the other envoys didn't know that Xiahou Yuan actually came to the Chu State in person, they also knew that as a gift for marriage, the Wei State was the first to get the first batch of plate armor samples!

Jian Yong, Liu Yi and others, in the name of visiting, also hoped to see samples of plate armor here in Wei.

Regarding Jian Yong, Liu Yi and others' requests to see samples, Liu Ye also pretended to agree generously, but he didn't know if Bai Tu would sell it to them.

Liu Ye is a little pity, the envoys of the major princes are basically there, if there are only one or two, he can also discuss it privately and join forces to suppress the price......

However, now the Liaodong camp, represented by Liu Yi, even has a certain competitive relationship with the Wei State - they all want to eat the last remnants of the Yuan clan first.

Therefore, there is no such thing as joining forces to lower the price or something, and the price that Bai Tu gives to Wei must be the lowest now, and Liu Ye doesn't want to be annoying in vain.