The main function of armor is for self-defense, which is generally only owned by officers and soldiers, and the cost is relatively high. And in the era of cold weapons, the self-defense effect of armor is very good. That's what one armor means when three crossbows are spoken.

In terms of defending against rogues and hunting, armor is normally not needed. Armor can only be used against regular troops. So this is the main reason why the government does not allow the people to have armor.

Those who secretly possess armor will be punished for rebellion!

For example, the case of Zhou Yafu in the Western Han Dynasty.

Zhou Bo, the founding father of the Western Han Dynasty, has a son who also worships the prime minister, that is, Zhou Yafu. He was good at managing the army and leading the army, and once put down the rebellion of the Seven Kingdoms and made great contributions to the dynasty.

However, this meritorious prime minister did not get a good death, and died of hunger strike in prison in his later years.

At that time, the judge of the Western Han Dynasty, Ting Wei, convicted Zhou Yafu of hiding armor privately and convicted him of rebellion, and finally Zhou Yafu was humiliated and died of hunger strike.

Regarding Zhou Yafu's case, readers throughout the ages have been crying out for him, thinking that it is all false accusations.

But this case is not wronged.

You have a knife in your hand, so to speak, for self-defense, to defend yourself against bandits.

If you have a bow and arrows in your hand, it can be said that it is for hunting and for subsistence.

But you have armor in your hands, what are you doing with it?

This thing is heavy and expensive, it cannot be worn as clothing, it is easy to wear out, and the cost of maintenance is also very high, and if it is not used for war, it is really of little use to the people.

If it can be used to fight, isn't that a rebellion?

The crime of concealing armor was not only strictly controlled in the Han Dynasty, but also in the Tang Dynasty.

During the reign of Li Zhi in the Tang Dynasty, Li Xian, the crown prince established by Li Zhi, was directly deposed as the crown prince by Li Zhi because hundreds of armors were found in the house, and then exiled to the frontier.

It can be seen that even the crown prince is not qualified to hide armor privately. Once discovered, it must also be punished as the crime of treason.

It is precisely because of these examples that the common people of the Han Dynasty did not dare to hide armor privately, and the blacksmiths did not even dare to make armor.

If it was still the time when the Han Dynasty was strong, these blacksmiths would naturally not dare to forge armor, but now in this land of Runan, it is already his Yuan Yao who has the final say.

So he just needs to find someone who can build armor, and as for the guilt, it's completely negligible.

It's not even a ban, but it's a big reward.

Fortunately, even if you can't find someone who can build armor, it doesn't matter.

Yuan Yao himself knows a little bit about it.

Although he hadn't made it himself, he knew what the fish scale armor and armor looked like, and he still had a few pairs of armor in his hands, so he only needed to draw the gourd in the same way, and there was no big problem in making the armor.

Immediately, Yuan Yao gathered all these blacksmiths, and then showed them what the official armor of the Han Dynasty looked like, and then told them how to make it.

After these blacksmiths got Yuan Yao's assurance, they had the courage to make this kind of armor.

After Yuan Yao's teaching, these people also learned very quickly, after all, the production of this kind of armor is quite simple.

You only need to make some pieces of iron of the right size, and the rest of the process can be completed by some women who are good at sewing.

The difficulty is that for this armor to be strong enough, it needs to be forged into a metal that is light enough and hard.

Although the metallurgical technology of this era was much better than that of the Qin and Han dynasties, it had never reached the point of creating a hundred steels, and the metal used in some remote places was still pig iron.

Although this kind of pig iron is also considered iron, it is very brittle, and it is easy to break if it is slightly collided, so it is still a bit reluctant to use such pig iron to forge the armor.

Fortunately, the forging skills of these blacksmiths are not completely unbearable, they still have some skills, although the forging of refined iron is more cumbersome, but forging a few more times, forging pig iron into steel, there is still no big problem.

The challenge is primarily time.

After all, at the stage where firewood is mainly used for combustion, it is difficult to heat the iron.

And now, Yuan Yao let them use the coal mine in advance, and the forging speed has been greatly improved.

That's it, for most of the next half a month.

Yuan Yao began to arrange manpower to repair the city tower in Shangcai County, and at the same time, he used cement in the construction of the medical school.

In the midst of these things, you have to watch these craftsmen make armor and arm their newly acquired hundreds of war horses.

The matter of repairing the city tower is relatively simple, there is cement and he personally demonstrated, the Huang foreman led the team to command, and soon repaired the old city wall of Shangcai County, and even began to build a new city tower in the planned place.

As long as it takes two or three months, as soon as the new city building is built, the entire Shangcai County will be able to expand several times, and the people accommodated in the city will be greatly improved.

At the same time, the manpower gathered by Ji Ling's side was also quickly selected, and these people were all selected from the army.

Some of the soldiers under Yuan Yao's command were veterans before Yuan Shu, and some were conscripted refugees, some of whom also fled from the north.

Therefore, there are many people who can ride horses, and it is relatively easy to choose 500 people.

Yuan Yao does not have particularly powerful cavalry generals under his command for the time being, so this group of people can only let Ji Ling train first, and then change the commander after he finds the cavalry generals in the future.

Half a month passed quickly.

The construction of Shangcai County is not something that can be completed overnight.

Yuan Yao didn't put all his mind here, he still needed to go to other places.

After all, after the beginning of spring, the spring sowing time of Jian'an for three years will soon come.

In the past, this kind of spring sowing thing was not the turn of a Taishou to pay attention to it at all, after all, the big families everywhere could complete these things.

But this year is different.

Because of last year's natural disasters, resulting in a large reduction in grain production, this year has not been eased, if this year can not increase grain production, it is not an optimistic thing for the entire Huaisi region.

And the degree of food shortage will be even worse, so Yuan Yao must find a way to increase the grain production in the vicinity.

If we can't drive the entire Huaisi region, we must at least ensure that the grain output of Runan County is increased, otherwise if the grain shortage is serious this year, in winter, we will repeat the mistakes of last year.

However, before he could think of how to increase grain production, he received the news that Tai Shici had returned from Jiangdong and brought him bad news.

On the side of Danyang County in Jiangdong, Zhang Xun failed to attack Wu County, losing more than 20,000 soldiers and horses, and the crown prince Yuan Jing was killed by Sun Ce and died on the spot.