No longer thinking about the self who only existed in the possibility of taking the wrong path, Luo Ming continued to look at the summary report made by Da Kang in his hand.

There has been new progress in the cannon casting work, the two newly cast Tiger Squat cannons and one mountain howitzer (although there are no grenades) are of relatively good quality, and a lot of shells have been cast, at least enough to fight two battles.

The old, the young, the sick and the disabled were also activated, making paper armor pieces, sewing the armor pieces on cloth or being responsible for coloring the armor pieces - the paper armor that was originally shown to the guests was actually of poor quality, and the main role was to pretend to be scary, but it has been improved during this time, and now it is stronger than ordinary leather armor, and the difference in weight is not large.

Luo Ming once told his soldiers to try to attack paper armor - the blunt spearhead is difficult to pierce at first, and although the relatively sharp spearhead can pierce in, the wound will generally be shallow, or the stab will be slid away at the wrong angle. If an ordinary person uses a sword, if he doesn't use all his strength, he can only cut through the paper armor, and almost can't hurt the flesh and blood underneath.

Infantry on the battlefield are often confronted with stray arrows, and if they do not wear armor, a flurry of arrows can cause many people to fall, and some may not die, but the wails of the wounded can also greatly damage morale.

Due to the range advantage of bows and arrows, melee soldiers cannot reach the archers unless they run tens or hundreds of meters, so soldiers will always show frustration and be disrupted - and paper armor is especially helpful in this regard.

I don't know if it's the role of paper fiber, Luo Ming is not familiar with this aspect, so it is difficult to understand it for the time being. But after testing, it can be confirmed that ordinary people's bows and arrows must shoot directly within more than ten steps to have enough strength to penetrate the paper armor and hurt people, if it is the kind of projectile that is sixty or seventy meters away or even hundreds of meters, at most it is tied to the paper armor, and it is difficult for the arrow to continue to go deep.

As long as it is not shot in the gap of the nail piece and the face, even if such an arrow hits a dozen in one breath and looks like a hedgehog, it is fine, it is completely alive, kill two more enemies, and then wait for the victory to apply some medicine to treat skin trauma.

With this move, not only will the psychological superiority of your own soldiers be greatly increased, but at the same time, the enemy will definitely have a great panic when he sees a group of soldiers with arrows stuck in their bodies as if they were all right.

Even Luo Ming made several sets of paper armor for the swordsmen - not to say how high the defense of the paper armor is, it is definitely not as good as the real iron armor, not to mention the armor made of rare metals and enchanted.

Paper armor is used to bully miscellaneous soldiers, and there is no difference between the naked body in the battle of the sword masters, and a sword can hardly play any role in retardation.

But paper armor is ten times cheaper than iron armor, and even if it breaks, it is easy to repair, or simply remake it without distress. Paper is easy to color, easy to shape, and can be made into a majestic shape - Luo Ming has heard of the term "paper model", which looks similar to a real figure, which is really ingenious.

That is to say, in addition to being distributed to small soldiers, paper armor can also be used as a ceremonial guard, and it is used to arrange a first-class style.

In addition to the paper armor, the summary book also said that the formula of cement has made some progress, but unfortunately due to the humid weather and the arrival of winter, further experiments cannot be carried out for the time being.

At the end of the summary book, there is a record of agriculture: another 300 acres of land were cultivated, but the soybeans planted in it were stunted - but they were not originally planted for food, but to fertilize the fields, and even if they were stunted, they would not be distressed.

Luo Ming calculated this and found that this year alone, he led Meiquan Collar to reclaim 1,200 acres of new land - you must know that a normal knight collar is only 2,000 or 3,000 acres of cultivated land in addition to wasteland.

It can be said that this is really a miracle, without some agricultural technical ideas brought by Luo Ming from the earth, no one can do it by normal means - and the cost of reclamation is too high.

This is one of the reasons why the lords don't have much willingness to cultivate the land - without manure to fertilize the fields, the yield of newly cultivated land is almost negligible, and without enough close and sufficient water, it is difficult to produce too many crops even from a single piece of ripe land.

Some peasants will secretly run to cultivate a little land in order to make their lives better, and if the reclamation fails, then they will have to bear the consequences; if the reclamation is successful, it will not be long before the lord's tax collector will find the land and collect taxes from the peasants - the lord can get the new land without paying a penny, so why spend money to cultivate it himself?

Of course, this makes the efficiency of reclamation ridiculously slow.

Even if only Luo Ming's efficiency in reclaiming wasteland is reported, it is estimated that both the Grand Duke and the princess will immediately call him a sage, and it is very likely that they will directly hire him to serve as a senior advisor in the court, or even directly appoint him as the head of reclamation.

It was really a step to the sky, Luo Ming had thought about it a little before, but in the end he firmly gave up. Although it is a step to the sky, there is almost no room for development in the future.

If he held such a position, he would definitely lead the royal family's manpower to reclaim wasteland for the royal family, even if it was 100,000 acres...... In the end, it would be great to be able to reward him with 10,000 acres, after all, he didn't even have a few of his cronies, let alone gather a group of people to protect his own rights and interests. The big people above can be rewarded if they want to, and punished if they want to.

If you run into a guy with a black heart, you will simply kill him after learning his skills, and replace it with someone to continue the cultivation, and save that reward.

As for the blackness of the heart...... Luo Ming didn't have any extravagant hopes for the little fox princess. How could the future heir of the country, raised by such a brilliant and ruthless grandmother, come out of the mud and not be stained?

And even if he was not cleaned up and successfully got his small share of the reward, but when his technology spread, he lost his core competitiveness in this regard, and the grain output increased and the price of food fell, so the land he held in his hand would also depreciate.

In the newly reclaimed wasteland, there will naturally not be many people - people are Luo Ming's most cherished resource, even if agriculture is important, it is because agriculture can feed many people.

In short, it is a dead end that takes the first step to the sky, but will soon reach a dead end.

Luo Ming didn't expect his talent and skills to be hidden for too long, but he just wanted to delay as much time as possible.