Zhao Tieanan scratched his head and said, "I know what a green worm is, but I don't know what a green worm is?" ”

Frogs are a kind of worm, a very interesting kind of worm.

It is shaped like a cicada, and its eggs are attached to trees and blades of grass.

Legend has it that the frog gives birth to a child, and the mother and the child will still gather together after separation, and people use the blood of the frog mother and child to smear the money, and the money of the mother's blood or the money of the child's blood will fly back after being used, so there is a saying that "the frog pays back".

Therefore, later, green worms were often used to refer to money, especially copper coins.

The so-called green worm armor is the money armor, which is woven into armor with copper coins as armor leaves.

What Dong Ce wanted to build this time was a green worm beetle.

It's not his whimsical speculation, but it's true. When Dong Ce visited a history museum in a certain place in his previous life, he once saw a pair of frog beetles in that museum. At that time, the annotation under the armor was written about the armor cast by the landlord regiment in the late Ming Dynasty. Dong Ce was very interested in this, and after going back, he checked a lot of information, and there are two mainstream theories on the Internet, the first is that the landlord regiment practiced arming and privately forged armor, and the second is that this is a magic weapon. It's like a peachwood sword, and the five emperors of later generations.

Dong Ce didn't have time to explore what it was, but he knew that when he first went to Yanghe City, he had this idea.

In fact, since he began to prepare for the formation of an army, Dong Ce has been worried about the armor. No matter how much Liu Ruozai trusts him and values him, dozens of pairs of armor can be given, but hundreds of armors will definitely not be given. It's not that he doesn't want to give, but he really can't give it. The resources of the entire North Hebei Province are also limited, and there are children everywhere who stretch out their mouths to feed, and it is not good to be so obviously favoritism.

So you have to figure it out on your own.

Dong Ce thought of the green beetle. If there is another kind of armor that is the easiest to manufacture and the least expensive, it is the frog armor.

In his last life, he was a big connoisseur of playing with ancient coins, especially the copper coins of the Ming and Qing dynasties, and he collected a lot of them at home. In his impression, in addition to the eleven taels of the Apocalypse, the copper coins minted in the last years of the Ming Dynasty were generally of average quality, small and thin, and they were copper-tin-lead alloys.

But later, when he saw the private money taken out by the boss in the inn outside the city, Dong Ce was immediately happy in his heart. This kind of private coinage is thick and strong, and it basically meets his requirements. And more importantly, private coins are cheaper, much cheaper than official coins, and are suitable for a large number of exchanges.

That is to say, Dong Ce now has no ability, no technology, and no one to build it himself, otherwise it will definitely be cast in large quantities.

A while ago, he bought private money in Yanghe City, for today.

Dong Ce made a look, and Bai Zhongqi turned the bag of copper coins he was carrying upside down, and they all fell to the ground, piling up a small pile on the ground.

Dong Ce smiled: "How about replacing the nail leaf with copper coins?" Zhao Anvil, you can talk about it. ”

Zhao Tiean, in fact, Ya doesn't want to say it, he is honest, he reacts slowly, but this doesn't mean that he is stupid. There are obviously many problems with this proposal, how can copper coins replace nail leaves? It's not like you haven't seen such a brittle and thin thing, so don't you break it as soon as you break it?

But how can this be said?

He wanted to express his meaning as tactfully as possible, but he really couldn't speak, and he sighed for a while before he said, "My lord, this copper coin, it's really ...... This one...... It's unusable! ”

Du Jianhe listened on the side, his face was indifferent, but he sighed secretly in his heart, a little worried about him. He and Zhao Tiean's current fight is open and secret, which is true, but he never thought of putting the other party to death, Zhao Tiean's words were wrong, and he was afraid that he would be punished.

Unexpectedly, Dong Ce smiled and groaned: "That's right, I know this." ”

That's right, Dong Ce has always known that it is impossible to replace Jiaye with private money.

He was very familiar with the manufacturing process of copper coins, which were cast directly. The nail leaf is cast and then hammered, hammer by hammer, and forged thousands of times. How can the workload of the two be the same? The degree of strength, toughness, durability, and even the degree of easy repair of copper coins is far from that of nail leaves, and it can even be said that it is two grades worse.

But the problem is that Dong Ce never thought of replacing Jia Ye with copper coins. All he wanted was a temporary replacement.

Dong Ce is now facing two choices, one is to have no armor, and the other is to use frog armor.

The second one, of course.

Although the defense ability is average, it is still much stronger than the big red fat jacket of the Ming army, and it is much stronger than no armor. It is much better to have these copper coins sandwiched between two pieces of cotton cloth than cotton cloth alone.

Dong Ce used the green worm armor as a transitional armor, if there were enough well-made armor leaves. Who wants to use this thing?

"Don't say anything, just try it!"

Dong Ce pointed at Bai Zhongqi: "You go and try it, use all your strength, don't keep your hands." ”

"Yes." Bai Zhongqi responded.

Dong Ce chose him because Bai Zhongqi was thin among these people, but if he was placed among the Ming army, bandits, bandits, and even rogue thieves who were generally malnourished and thin-faced in this era, he would at least have a medium physical fitness. There is no way, the food in Rock Fort is good, and it is open to eat, and in the past few months, everyone's body and bones have been recuperated.

Zhou Bo hurriedly instructed everyone to get out of the way, leaving a circular open space the size of a zhang in the middle, and let Zhao Tie Anvil find an anvil and put it on the ground. Bai Zhongqi thought about it, took two copper coins, and stacked them on the anvil. He pulled out the Cossack cavalry knife he borrowed from Dong Yongzhen, and was about to swing the knife to cut it down, when Dong Ce suddenly said: "Change the waist knife, the enemy doesn't have such a sharp weapon as ours." ”

"Yes." Bai Zhongqi answered, found the most common waist knife in the Ming Dynasty, aimed in the direction, and slashed down.

He didn't keep his hand. He knows some of Dong Ce's character, let you be, you'd better be like that, don't be smart, otherwise it will definitely be you who will be unlucky in the end.

With a slash, several sparks splashed out, with a sonorous crisp sound.

Everyone hurriedly looked, but saw that the copper coin on it had collapsed, and a deep cut appeared on the front of the copper coin, which had almost been divided into two sections. The copper coin below also collapsed to the side, but there was no damage on it.

Bai Zhongqi picked up the two coins and sent them to Dong Ce.

Dong Ce took it in his hand and looked at it twice, the corners of his mouth hooked slightly, revealing a satisfied smile: "It's not bad." ”

This knife went down and almost cut a copper coin. But don't forget, this is without protection. What if there are two layers of cotton cloth on top of the copper coin? The knife first slashed at the extremely tough and strong cotton cloth, and then slashed at the copper coin, can it still cut the copper coin?

Moreover, Fang Cai Bai Zhongqi was cut straight up and down, which was the most powerful, the most ruthless, and the most lethal. In actual combat, there are very few such opportunities, most of them are slashed diagonally on the body, or even just pulled on the body, and the strength is definitely not so sufficient. Due to the angle problem, after the knife is cut, it will be unloaded by the cotton armor itself and the copper nails on the cotton armor, and slide away a little. In this way, the force of the armor itself is much smaller. Therefore, in actual combat, if you are slashed, it is estimated that it is just a scratch on the copper coin. As for the spear stabbing - there is nothing to be done, let alone this, the whole body of iron armor can't stop it.

But the performance of this copper coin has already made Dong Ce quite satisfied.

Even if it is one layer of frog beetles, what about two layers? If the green worm armor inside is as thick as two copper coins, then the defense power is also considerable.

Everyone was also surprised, but they all said that they had thought about it before.

(I'm playing with ancient money, this has some experience, I have Ming money here, Apocalypse Eleven Taels, Chongzhen horse money, and private coins in the late Ming and Qing dynasties.) What I want to say is that copper coins are not as thin and brittle as most people think, especially private coins, let alone private coins. There is a Xianfeng heavy treasure at the end of the Qing Dynasty privately minted money, the Baofu Bureau is fifty, and there is a copper dollar imitating Guangxu. Especially the treasure that is fifty heavy, big and heavy, heavy and swarthy, and it is pressed in his hand, like a scale. It is said that it is made of copper, which is red and black. It's really ugly to cast, the words are very unclear, crooked, and it looks like it's out of the clay workshop.

To be honest, I can't bear any of the above. In the end, I chose two Xining Tongbao, which are the copper coins of the Song Dynasty, which have a huge amount of money in the world and are very cheap, even if they are on Taobao, they are a few pieces. And I have compared, the casting level, thickness, size, and completeness of this copper coin are no different from the coins of the late Ming Dynasty.

I can't get an ancient weapon, but with the kitchen knife at home now, I can chop it down with a knife that doesn't care about the cost - the top one is chopped open, and the bottom one is deeply scarred. There is no doubt that the sharpness, toughness, and overall performance of ancient weapons are certainly not as good as today's kitchen knives. I am a burly man, and my strength is not too bad. Well...... That's it. ）

As for the cost of using copper coins to make armor, it is completely negligible.

Using copper coins as armor gives people a sense of wealth at first glance, but in fact this is not the case at all. A pair of armor, with copper coins at most twenty catties, twenty catties of copper coins, that is, about 3,000 privately minted coins. One tael of silver can be exchanged for 1,550 pieces of private coins, that is, the private coins needed for a pair of armor are two taels of silver. This cost is much lower than that of a blacksmith to build a carapace. Moreover, Dong Ce had another idea in his heart - if he faced those rabble of rogue thieves or bandits, if the cotton armor was cut, a large number of copper coins inside would be exposed and scattered all over the ground, which might cause the enemy to loot. This is another chance to kill the enemy.

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