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Chapter 187 Robe Armor

Hearing his rhetoric, Liu Jing praised him without hesitation: "Zi Jin has such ambition, why worry about not being able to make some achievements in the future."

Ma Zhou has a great name and great words, which is what Liu Jing admires most about him. A man can have nothing, but he must not be without ambition.

Liu Jing thought in his heart: "If you talk about great ambitions in the world, no one can surpass me...

Ma Zhou was quite satisfied, and said: "A thousand-mile horse also needs Bole, otherwise, even though it is a famous horse, it will be humiliated by the hands of slaves, and it will die in a stable, and it will not be called a thousand-mile horse."

Here, Ma Zhou quoted Liu Jing's "Ma Shuo", praising Liu Jing as his Bole, and at the same time calling himself a thousand-mile horse.

"Well said." Liu Jing clapped his hands and smiled.

As long as the two were talking here, Huang Fu and Hua Shou, the stingy husbands from Zhongshui and Pingyang, immediately stepped forward in fear and reverence, and paid respects: "My official, Huang Fu (Hua Shou), pays homage to the Ming court."

Liu Jing glanced at the two, with a smile on his face, he nodded slightly and said: "Recently, the county magistrate, Yan Bomu, has been rectifying the administration of officials in the county. Ting stopped.

Ben Ting believes that Erxiang was controlled by powerful surnames such as the Gong family before, and there has been a long history of evils. It is inevitable that you have some unsatisfactory places in your haste, and because you have been brave enough to do things recently, even if you have no credit, you have hard work. It's not about causing public dissatisfaction. Even if there are minor faults, they can be tolerated temporarily.

However, Yan Bomu has always been an upright person, and this court can only suppress him this time out of respect and fear. If he is allowed to grasp something again in the future, then you can ask for blessings. "

"Thank you for the Ming court's forgiveness..." Huang Fu and Hua Shou knelt on the ground at the same time, with their foreheads on the ground, sweating profusely, and said, "The words of the Ming court must be kept in mind, and I will never forget them."

Liu Jing said lightly, "I hope so." Surrounded by Ma Zhou, Huang Fu, Hua Shou and others, Liu Jing boarded a carriage with a canopy and headed for Zhongshui Township.

On the other side, after delivering Liu Jing safely to the destination, Chu Fang immediately led the battalion and patrolled the water between Hunan and Zhong Ershui by boat to prepare for robbers.

After staying in Zhongshui Township Temple, Liu Jing continued to ask Ma Zhou to ask questions. Although the two had communicated from time to time in the past few months, the letters were limited by the number of words and it was difficult to cover everything. Some things still had to be asked in person, for example, Southeast Jing Man in the mountains.

Back then, the seven Jingmans in the mountains in the southeast responded to Gong's call and sent [-] coalition troops to help Gong, but they were ambushed by Liu Jing at the foot of Ling County, and almost all their troops were wiped out. Only one person who managed to escape back to the mountains There are more than a hundred people in the district.

Suffering such a huge loss, the seven Jingman villages were immediately weakened and fell into a slump.

Jingman has lived in the mountains for a long time. In order to survive, he has always believed in the law of the jungle. As long as he appears a little weak, he will immediately attract the attention of his surroundings. They are already devastated enough to face "our own people", so naturally they have no time to trouble Liu Jing.

What Ma Zhou learned from the Han merchants was: So far, five of the Jingman Seven Villages have been annexed, and the remaining two villages survived because they merged into one place, but they are only lingering on their last legs.

Hearing this, Liu Jing was completely relieved. Although an enemy like Jing Man did not pose a fatal threat, he should not be underestimated.For hundreds of years, the Han army has shed countless blood. General Fubo assisted Luoyue in the south, attacked Wuhuan in the north, and burned seeds in the west. He was invincible, but he was shrouded in leather because of them.

The situation Liu Jing is now facing is rather severe, so as long as Jing Man doesn't come out to make trouble, Liu Jing won't bother to deal with them for the time being.

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Among the Hengshan Mountains.

Under a slanting mountain, the water source trickles down, and when it reaches the foot of the mountain, the sound of the waterfall is like thunder.A barbarian village built of bamboo and wood stands at the foot of the ridge.

At this time, in the barbarian village, a raging fire ignited, thick black smoke covered the sky and the sun, and the sound of fighting rose straight into the sky.

A Jingman warrior holding a sword and bare feet in a bun, looked at the burned and collapsed gate of the village, and the enemies pouring in like a tide, with a look of horror on his face, he didn't dare to fight at all, turned around and walked towards the village He ran to the depths and shouted as he ran: "The stockade is broken, the stockade is broken..."

He was not the first person to run away. In fact, all the people guarding the gate of the village were running away. Only a few people chose to face the enemy and fight to the death, but they were overwhelmed by the tide of the enemy in a blink of an eye.

The reason why such non-resistance occurred was because their opponent was a frightening one-day beast who could stop children from crying at night.

Since the return of thousands of warriors led by Shan Riyi a month ago, he has launched a crazy revenge action. In just over [-] days, the six villages that participated in the attack on Shanjiazhai in the past have already fallen to Shanjiazhai one after another. The hand of the sun.Now this stockade is the last one.

At the moment when Shan Rifeng came back, he openly declared that he would only kill the "spiritual husband" and other culprits. If he did not resist, he could save his life. If he resisted, he would be regarded as an accomplice of the "spiritual husband". Die with him.

Shan Riyi's approach broke down the resistance of the people in one fell swoop, so he was able to win consecutive battles.There was even a cottage, before he could launch an attack, Jingfu was killed by his subordinates, and surrendered to Shan Rifeng.

With silky hair and brocade clothes, and a single day with a big gold ring on his ear, under the protection of dozens of Jingman warriors, he stepped into the last enemy stronghold as a victor.

Although there were fires everywhere in the village, the resistance was far from fierce, which was naturally related to Shan Ridao's practice of "only punishing the chief villain, and never questioning the threat".

In fact, this idea came from Liu Jing's suggestion. The hatred between the two sides is as deep as the sea, and there is absolutely no room for maneuver. If they can't effectively divide the other party, even if they pay all of the 1000 people under their command in a single day, they may not be able to succeed in revenge.

Shan Riyi had always been convinced of Liu Jing, and he adopted this opinion almost without much consideration.

Facts have proved that his decision was right.

The last resistance force of the enemy village gathered in the village building under the mountain.

However, this move was nothing more than a desperate fight, hundreds of people surrounded the Zhailou in a single day.

This situation of confrontation lasted until Shan Rixun came in person, and he shouted that if the sperm husband was captured and surrendered, everyone in the building would be saved from death.

The Zhailou fell into deathly silence at first, and then fierce fighting broke out.

Soon, the gate of the Zhailou was opened, and the Jingfu was tied up with his hands, and he was twisted in front of Shan Riqiu.

This person was the chief culprit who caused the tragedy of the Shan family, his eyes turned red instantly, he kicked him to the ground, stomped on his face, and asked: "Have you thought about today? "

Jing Fu knew that he was going to die, so he looked very hard, and cursed: "You little bastard! I only regret not being able to kill you that day..."

Shan Ri laughed out of breath, took a wooden crossbow from his entourage, pointed it at the person under his feet, pulled the trigger, and the sharp arrows pierced through his chest in an instant.

"Ah..." Jingfu couldn't help screaming in pain.

Shan Riyan intentionally avoided the vital parts of his body, and the other party's screams were heard in his ears like fairy music.

In the past six months, he has often been unable to sleep at night, and even when he falls asleep, most of his thoughts are about revenge.Now that the enemy he was thinking about day and night was right in front of his eyes, he would definitely not let the other party die so "cheaply".

In a single day, he fired the arrows without any haste, pulled the crossbow, fired the arrow again, and pulled the crossbow again...

Jing Fu was hit by more than ten arrows, his body was like a hedgehog, his blood was almost drained, he was still alive.

This enemy who used to make him hate him so much that he couldn't sleep at night, now he is lying on the ground like a dead dog. Shan Riyi gradually lost the interest to continue torturing the opponent, and handed the wooden crossbow to the one who followed him all the way. Younger brother Shan Qin, let him make a move to finish the opponent.

Shan Qin is only 14 years old this year, not more than five feet tall, dark and thin, but he has a fierce face, he took the wooden crossbow without hesitation, and shot it at the Jingfu's head.

Watching the last enemy die in front of him, Dan Ridou's heart suddenly became empty.But he quickly regained his spirits, the great revenge has been avenged, but the great favor has not been repaid.

Liu Jing once told him that there will be changes in Changsha in the next few years, and he wants to integrate the Hengshan villages as soon as possible, waiting for Liu Jing's call.

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In Zhongshui and Pingyang Townships, on both sides of the Xiangjiang River and Zhongshui, there are golden scenery everywhere, and the yellow rice ears hang down with heavy ears, which makes the people laugh from ear to ear.

Especially the people who have been granted land, they have been cattle and horses for half their lives for their surname, and the greatest wish in their hearts is to have a piece of land of their own.However, who would have expected that things that were not even dared to be dreamed of would come true one day.

The common people shuttled across the fields, harvesting rice hard while thinking sincerely: "This is all due to Mr. Liu's kindness..."

During the autumn harvest, the people were very busy. Liu Jing didn't want to jump out at this time to "add chaos", so after coming to Zhongshui and Pingyang Townships, he only made one public appearance.

On this day, accompanied by Ma Zhou, Liu Jing came to the former Gong family's Yefang place.The reasons for choosing this place were firstly that the scale of Gong Shiye’s visit was the largest, and secondly that there was an open-pit iron mine nearby, which was only four or five feet deep, so it was convenient to obtain raw materials.

After Ma Zhou's effective integration, Yejiao now has all kinds of smelting furnaces, furnaces, and forging furnaces, and can produce a large number of agricultural and warfare tools every day.

Liu Jing was very interested in iron smelting in the Han Dynasty. He ignored the scorching heat and observed the two furnaces at close range. He saw flames jumping inside and molten iron splashing everywhere.

Both furnaces are built of bricks and stones that can withstand high temperatures. They are about eight feet high, with a circle around the upper opening of about four feet. Fuel wood and iron ore to smelt pig iron.

It takes about two hours to smelt a furnace in this way before the pig iron will flow out of the iron mouth.

While watching iron smelting, Liu Jing asked Ma Zhou who was beside him from time to time.

Ma Zhou grew up in his own iron shop. Although he didn't like blacksmithing, he was a half-expert after he had been exposed to it for a long time. He was basically able to deal with Liu Jing's problems with ease.

Liu Jing knew nothing about iron smelting in his previous life. He only knew that coal can be used instead of charcoal as fuel, which can greatly increase the output of iron.However, there is also a disadvantage of using coal as fuel, that is, burning coal will affect the quality of pig iron.

After visiting the iron smelting, Ma Zhou took Liu Jing through the smelting workshop and into the row of houses behind.

After Liu Jing entered the door, he found a group of people burying their heads in threading and sewing armor.Seeing Ma Zhou's arrival, everyone put down their work and left the table to bow down.

Just as Ma Zhou was about to introduce Liu Jing to everyone, he stopped him with his eyes, so Ma Zhou stopped talking and led him straight into the back room.

When Liu Jingcai entered, his eyes were attracted by a bright and mighty fish-scale armor.

A jacket refers to short clothes, and a robe refers to long clothes. If the armor that can only protect the upper body is called a jacket, then this armor skirt goes from the knee to the calf, which is enough to be called a robe.In the words of later generations, it is a full body armor.

This armor looks quite heavy, Liu Jing couldn't help turning his head and asked Ma Zhou, "How many armor pieces are used for this armor, and what is its weight?"

Ma Zhou replied without thinking, "This armor has a total of 850 pieces and weighs more than [-] catties, reaching [-] catties."

Liu Jing was dumbfounded when he heard this. The Han Jin was much lighter than the modern Jin, but one hundred and eight Han Jin weighed more than 20 kilograms.

Liu Jing asked again: "How long did it take to make such an armor?"

Ma Zhou replied, "Thirty blacksmiths can make a set in about four or five days."

"Does it take so long?" Liu Jing frowned. In other words, [-] leather blacksmiths can produce [-] to [-] pieces of this kind of armor a year?

Even if the number of blacksmiths is increased tenfold, it will be difficult to exceed one thousand per year.The problem is, three hundred leather blacksmiths, probably the only Leiyang in Jingnan that has an iron official, can't get it out, right?

Liu Jing couldn't help feeling cold, and asked again: "How much is the cost of this armor?"

Ma Zhou replied, "The total cost of this armor is [-] yuan."

An ordinary servant in the city can earn [-] yuan a month, so he needs to go without food or drink for sixteen months before he can afford such a piece of armor.

This price is astonishingly expensive, but Liu Jing is not too surprised by this figure, it is worth the price, especially in troubled times.

Ma Zhou couldn't help but said: "Liu Jun, the materials used for such an armor are enough to make two Ru armors, more than enough."

Liu Jing thought about it comprehensively, and thought that what Ma Zhou said was reasonable. He now has a lot of troops. The Sima Ying of Cai Sheng and Liu Xiubie's divisions exceeds a thousand people, and there are [-] soldiers in Chu Fangyi County. Qimin, the household who granted the land, formed a battalion of more than [-] soldiers, and Liu Zhu and Wang Qiang's fleet had nearly [-] people, totaling more than [-] people.

However, the armor equipped is only more than two hundred, only a ratio of ten to one.At this time, there is really no need to blindly pursue the "quality" of the armor, but to increase the "quantity" first.

Thinking of this, Liu Jing nodded and said, "Zijin, what you said makes sense. I was the one who simplified things before."

Ma Zhou said: "This armor is very good, but it is difficult to equip it in large quantities in a short period of time, but if Chu Ziping wears this armor and uses it to charge into battle, who can take it?"

Liu Jing nodded again and again and said, "Then just make a few for now, and then each of you will have one."

(End of this chapter)