So can you design an armor that is both light and highly protective? For example, the European full-body armor is worn like a robot, and it is wrapped in iron from the tips of the hair to the toes, which not only looks scary, but also has a weak protective ability, especially against slashing.

The answer is no, there are several major shortcomings of the European full-body armor, which may not be conspicuous in Europe, but it is very troublesome to move to ancient China.

The first is the cost, even if Hong Tao can make a cold-forged steel plate and then stamping it, the cost of this armor will be very high, hundreds of thousands of pairs...... It's a headache to think about, no matter how rich the Song Dynasty is, it is impossible to afford to play.

The full-body armor of the Europeans was the equipment of the knights, in other words, only a very small number of high-ranking officers wore it, and the soldiers made do with iron hats and chain mail, and they themselves could not spread it on a large scale.

The second is that this armor was not much more defensive against piercing attacks than mountain armor, and the scale of warfare in Europe at that time was relatively small, and the number of archers was even smaller.

Changed to the Song army and the Western Xia army, tens of thousands of people went into battle on both sides, and thousands of archers and arrows rained down, and this kind of iron sheet was a hole when it was pierced. If you want to defend against crossbow attacks, you have to put on a layer of chain mail inside, and the weight goes up again.

In the end, it is a matter of cost, Chinese armor such as mountain armor is very easy to repair if it is broken, and it is enough to replace a few nail pieces and repair them. It is too laborious to repair the whole body armor in Europe, and you have to use sheet metal workers to knock and rivet, and you can't finish it after a big war that can exhaust the craftsmen to death.

"I have a way, but I don't have the materials now, let's talk about it later!" After carefully studying it for two days, the soldiers used various standard bows and crossbows to attack these pieces of armor at different distances, and after checking the defensive effect, Hong Tao had a way, but he still couldn't do anything.

Because his method requires medium carbon steel as the material for the armor, the weight of the cold-forged medium-carbon steel sheet is several times lighter than the hot-forged thick wrought iron sheet on the mountain pattern armor, but the defense power does not decrease but increases.

The new mountain armor made of this armor must be much lighter, and then each soldier is equipped with a stamped pointed steel plate hat to make a hat like a hat, which can defend against both slashing and bow and arrow throwing, which is more perfect.

"This hood is so ugly, and he is also famous for his painting skills, how can he spoil the generals so badly!"

Hong Tao threw down a sentence and left, but did not take the manuscript paper on the table. The crown was a villain this time, and secretly looked at it with a strong curiosity, and then tore up the manuscript paper.

It depicts a soldier wearing mountain armor and a pointed hat. Not to mention the painting skills, this dress seriously does not conform to the aesthetics of the Song Dynasty, the soldiers are not like soldiers, and the peasants are not like peasants.

Since the beginning of spring, Hong Tao has been busy like a little bee, scurrying between Qionglin Garden, Jinmingchi and Fuma Mansion almost every day.

As the temperature gradually rises, the seedlings in the nursery also sprout and sprout day by day, and change their appearance after a few days under the careful care of the gardeners.

Thanks to the help of soil and chemical fertilizers, the florists say that the seedlings here are significantly stronger than elsewhere, and as long as there are no major climatic disasters and insect pests, the harvest will not run.

Not to mention those ash saplings, they were originally quite leathery, for more than a month, Zhu Bajin mobilized his apprentices to go to the states and counties around Kaifeng to draw a meal, as long as the ash trees were found, no matter how big or small, they were all dug up by the roots, and they were all transplanted to Qionglin Yuan to satisfy the appetite of those small insects.

To say that Qin Hu's daughter-in-law is really worthy of a family of silkworms, although she has never served silkworms since she got married, she is still feminine when she raises white wax insects.

Now the cocoons of the white wax insects in those rooms have broken their shells, and the white wax insects that hatched first have grown to the size of millet grains, brown, but they are already white flowers in the basket.

In the past 20 days, the wax worm has begun to secrete wax silk, which is more than 10 days earlier than Hong Tao expected.

According to Qin Hu's wife, only those insects that crawl on the branches in groups will secrete wax silk, and the insects that stay on the leaf surface rarely secrete, so they are male and female. As for which male and which female she doesn't know, she still needs to continue to observe, and she will be able to see at a glance when the insect changes its form.

"Next year, next year, the officials will have their own methods!" If you continue to reproduce at this rate, you will have to buy more baskets for the wax worms to live in.

There are so many of these gadgets, not one in a cocoon but a swarm, and almost a hatched worm in an egg bag will occupy a basket.

Qin Hu's wife said that these ash trees in Qionglin Yuan may not be able to support next year's wax insects, because this thing lays too many eggs, and there are people to protect the scourge without natural enemies, and the number will increase geometrically.

Hong Tao is naturally not afraid of many insects, how to make money if there are not many. This is far from enough, do not have to wait until next year, this autumn will have to open up more white wax farms.

The pre-purchase model is still used, allowing those farmers who do not have enough land to plant trees and insects on wasteland that is not suitable for planting crops, and then purchase them by themselves. Both sides make money, no one loses, and greenery. More than ten years later, there is wood to be cut down, what a good deal!

In fact, now Hong Tao is no longer short of money, since the official production of Wujin Bank, Wujin's name has been effective. The people of Kaifeng accepted this kind of honeycomb charcoal, which has no smoke but is strong and resistant to burning, and then drove the new honeycomb stove into every household together.

There were not enough craftsmen under Hu Shuang, but the project of the coke kiln could not be delayed, so he had no choice but to find a horse for help, and he could not see that the money he had received was not earned.

Hong Tao can't be a skilled craftsman, but he has a bad stomach that pits people. For the sake of Hu Er's father and son's dedication to the coke kiln these days, a little squeezing out is enough for their father and son to eat and drink for a lifetime.

"Join!" This is Hong Tao's bad idea.

"Go to your peers and explain to them that the craft of the pankang and the honeycomb stove can be taught, but for each pan kang and a stove, you have to pay one-tenth of the salary as tuition. They can make money with more work, and if you save manpower, you can still make money, and the sales of honeycomb carbon will increase greatly and make money. Do the math, do you lose? ”

When he saw that Hu Er was reluctant to teach his craft to others, Hong Tao gave him another economic lesson. When there are too many means to make money, instead of earning it little by little, it is better to pull everyone to do it together. The expansion of the scale will not only not suffer losses, but also make a lot of money, and we should take a long-term view.

“…… Then there are always people who lose, right? Hu Er understood one thing, that is, everyone makes money, but he doesn't understand, how can there be a thing where everyone makes money and no one loses?

"Let's share this cake of mine, how much can each of us get?" When Hu Er came, Hong Tao was eating, he didn't pay attention to eating without saying a word, and ran to the main hall with a rice bowl, which happened to be used at this time.