And cotton is six cents of silver for one catty, and seven cents and eight cents of silver for thirteen catties. If it is really for the soldiers to wear, there must be a layer of cloth on the outside, and it will be calculated based on the consumption of five feet of coarse cloth for each pair, plus brass bubble nails and other bits and pieces, a pair of armor and three taels of silver is enough.

Of course, this is the result of not counting the labor cost, and it is precisely that Dong Ce does not lack labor here.

Now there is no work, those women are idle at home all day, in order to ensure that they do not starve to death, Dong Ce also has to distribute food, so why not work for relief, if you don't work, you can't eat?

In this way, the cost is really low to a terrible extent.

Think about the imperial court, how many tens of thousands of taels of silver are issued to make armor and soldiers, but there is not much success in the end, and the silver is swallowed up and down. From this, we can see how efficient Dong Ce, a small group that has just formed, how frugal it is, and how capable the organization is.

This is also a great advantage for him who is weak.

Generally speaking, the same type of armor, for example, is all scale armor or cotton armor, and the greater the weight, the better the defense.

Of course, Dong Ce knows that this is an exception in his hands. Heavy does not mean that it is strong and hard, after all, the hardness of copper coins and specially made nail leaves cannot be compared, even if it is cast with a very conscience and quite thick private coinage. According to his estimates, the defensive power of this armor should be slightly stronger than the blue silk copper nail cloth armor, and it is not as good as the red satin copper nail copper leaf armor, which is in between.

"Have you tested it? How's the defense? ”

"Tested." Zhao Tieanan hurriedly said: "According to the method you said, use a knife to cut various parts, and the small one has selected ten places on this armor for testing." Shoulders, chest, back, armor skirts, etc. If you go down with a knife, you will have a hole on the outside, and the copper coins inside will be broken or cut off a layer, but the second layer is basically unharmed, and some will bend. But if it is another knife, it is difficult to say. As for the spear, the stock spear, it can pierce through, but it can't penetrate deeply. However, if it is the Cossack spear made for adults, it will not be able to stop it at all, and it will be pierced directly. ”

Dong Ce nodded, he was already very satisfied with this intensity.

After all, even the iron armor does not agree to block the piercing of the spear, and now both the Ming Dynasty and the Jiannu are equipped with spears, but there is no special class of spearmen. As for the rogues and bandits, that's not to mention, it's not bad to have a knife that hasn't rusted.

Anyway, in the early stage of development, Dong Ce would not take his men to hit hard stones.

After taking a knife, Dong Ce cut the outside of the armor, and the layers of cotton on the outside were thick and tough, Dong Ce Rao had a sharp blade to help and it took a lot of effort to tear it apart, which made him very satisfied. When the outside was torn open, the copper coin between the two layers of cotton cloth was revealed. These copper coins are woven into the size of a palm, and they look like large nail leaves. Each large nail leaf is the thickness of two copper coins, tightly attached to each other. The copper coins were threaded with a very thick and strong hemp rope and fastened tightly. Because there are holes on the copper coins, it is convenient for the interspersed fixing of hemp ropes. Dong Ce looked at it carefully, and the patterns were not complicated, simple but practical. As long as your hands are not too clumsy, you can almost get it right after learning it a few times.

And on the four corners of each large nail leaf, as well as in the middle, plus the midpoint of the four sides, there is a brass bubble nail. The bubble nails are worn directly into the square holes of the copper coins, and the nail caps are exposed on the outside of the armor, firmly binding the heavy and tough cotton cloth with these large palm-sized nail leaves. On a large nail leaf, there are nine bubble nails.

There is a hemp rope between each large nail leaf, but it is not very tight, so as to ensure that the cotton armor will not be tight and tight when worn on the body.

Dong Ce saw it, this kind of big nail leaf is almost made up for everywhere in the armor, and there are few dead ends - the lower part of the armor skirt is an exception, but this is really no way, if the armor skirt is too heavy, it will affect walking very much, which makes people very uncomfortable. Moreover, there will be no high-end things such as ground knives on the battlefield.

You don't see, the soldiers of ancient Rome and Greece only wore cuirasses, and there were even two big hairy legs exposed underneath.

Dong Ce asked the two of them not to leave first, and someone called Huo Qingtong over.

Huo Qingtong still looks like that, wearing a wide cotton armor, and the ponytail dangles at the back of his head. No fat powder, plain face to the sky, refreshing, clean and clean. Maybe she doesn't know what grease and powder is, but that fair and beautiful face is enough to arouse the jealousy of many women, she has excellent skin, and looks like a porcelain doll.

"My lord, are you looking for me?" Huo Qingtong bowed with a grin.

Dong Ce didn't care either, and said with a smile: "How did you learn to beat cotton sheets and weave copper coins?" ”

Huo Qingtong raised his head and said a little proudly: "I've learned everything, it's so good." ”

"Oh? It's so full of words, have you really learned? Dong Ce raised his eyebrows: "Seeing is believing, I have to test you." ”

Huo Qingtong smiled, and a hint of cunning flashed in his eyes: "I knew you were going to come here, and I brought it all." ”

Zhou Zhong smiled bitterly in his heart as he listened, and now in the entire Rock Castle, the only one who dares to talk to adults like this is Huo Qingtong. These people were also talking and laughing with adults at the beginning, but now, everyone's status is different, the status of adults is getting higher and higher, and the power is getting heavier and heavier, and these people are more respectful and careful in front of him.

He was a little stunned in his heart, since when did it start to become like this?

Zhao Tieanan stood there, he didn't dare to take a breath in the nervous atmosphere, he secretly glanced at Huo Qingtong, and said secretly in his heart: "This Huo girl is too bold, and the adults are not angry?" It seems that the adults must be very fond of her, and this Huo girl herself does not dare to offend. I have to talk to Xie Worm when I turn around, let him be careful, don't provoke her, and save trouble. ”

After hesitating for a moment, Zhao Tieanan decided not to tell Du Jianhe the news.

It can be seen that Huo Qingtong really understands it very well, standing there and talking eloquently, talking about the Tao. And it was demonstrated twice on the spot, and the action was very skillful.

What she brought and what she made, Dong Ce also took it carefully in his hand and looked at it.

The cotton sheets are very thick and tough, and the large nail leaves made of copper coin and hemp rope are also very strong, which is the same as the one in the set of armor that has just been opened.

Dong Ce smiled with satisfaction and praised: "Yes, how short is this time?" ”

Huo Qingtong grinned, a little complacent.

"Do the math, how long will it take to build and dry these cotton pads, plus weave them with copper coins, to the extent that you can make a good pair of nails?" Dong Ce asked again.

Dong Ce planned to divide the task of making cotton nails, but fixing the cotton pads and nail leaves with bubble nails to complete the last step of the armor was beyond the reach of those women. They are only responsible for making cotton sheets and making nail leaves with copper coins, and as for the later production and completion, it still has to be completed by craftsmen.

Huo Qingtong folded his fingers and calculated: "The weather has been good these days, and it took a total of six days to beat the cotton into cotton sheets and go back and forth three times, and two of them were spent on the stove at night, and I dried it not far from the stove." That's six days. Wearing copper coins is really not light, this piece, to wear strong and sturdy, almost more than an hour, this is not if there is any mistake, but also have to be dismantled and re-arranged. In this way, it can be made into a maximum of four pieces a day. And a pair of nail leaves, the size of a palm, is fifty-four. If you add the bubble nails given by the craftsmen in the later stage, and the final production is completed, it will take more than 20 days and half a month less. ”

"Half a month to twenty days."

Dong Ce pondered for a moment and patted the table lightly: "In this way, it is enough." ”

According to his original plan, after training for a month and a half to two months, these recruits will go out to start actual combat, after all, what they do behind closed doors at home cannot be transformed into real combat effectiveness. Only when the soldiers really see the blood and kill people can they be regarded as slowly being able to grow up.

If it is calculated in this way, these armors are still timely.

But there is always a time to adapt, now the soldiers are wearing fat jackets for training, and their bodies weigh less than ten pounds, and when the time comes, wearing thirty-four pounds of armor will definitely be very uncomfortable. So it will take at least a month to get used to.

In fact, Dong Ce should also be content, half a month to twenty days, without spending any regular labor, only a group of women can make three hundred pairs of armor, this is simply a miracle! Only the special material of copper coins is used, and only Dong Ce's unbridled thinking can act like this. If Dong Ce really wants to build a traditional cotton armor and forge a nail leaf by a nail leaf in the frame, I am afraid that he will not be able to make so many nails in a year.

Of course, such a high speed, everything is based on the use of copper coins as raw materials, if Dong Ce wants to build iron armor, then it will definitely not be like this, he still has to be honest, slowly grinding step by step, and slowly fighting. After all, the productivity, machines, and scientific and technological level of this era are like this, Dong Ce has no ability to change, and he will not change it as a liberal arts student. Dong Ce understood this truth very well in his heart, but he didn't show much excitement at this time. Instead, he instructed Uncle Zhou: "If you continue to ask for people from Zhao Dahui, we can also post notices ourselves, go to the towns and cities of various counties and towns to post them, and let them defect by themselves." The workshop, especially the blacksmith's workshop, had to be constantly expanded. The bigger the better, the more the merrier. ”

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