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Chapter 139 0136 [Money Bag]

The names of the armor in the army of the Northern Song Dynasty are very confusing, such as steel chain mail, chain armor, bright light mesh armor, gold armor, long and short head armor, black lacquer near water mountain spring armor, Ming Ju armor, stepman armor...Zero total There are dozens of them in total.

However, according to the type of arms, they can be roughly divided into three categories.

That is, horses, steps, and crossbows!

Among them, the infantry armor is the infantry armor, which is composed of 1825 armor leaves and weighs 58 Song Jin.

Note that this 58 Song Jin is only the base weight.

If you encounter a strong enemy like heavy cavalry, you can also install additional armor leaves on the armor to improve your defense.

Up to 89 Song Jin!

According to Nie Dong, the infantry armor is not as cumbersome as imagined. In fact, it adopts a roll-up folding design, which is very convenient to wear and will not cause too much interference to the soldiers' actions.

This kind of manufacturing process is extremely complicated. Even if there are design drawings, craftsmen in ordinary government-run workshops cannot imitate it immediately, and it will take at least a year and a half to study it.

The second is the heavy armor of the crossbowman.

Yes, the armor of the crossbowmen in the frontier army of the Northern Song Dynasty was heavier than that of the cavalry, weighing 54 Song Jin.

It seemed unbelievable that the crossbowmen were wearing such heavy armor.

But this is impossible. When facing Xixia, the cavalry is at a disadvantage. Once the Xixia iron cavalry breaks into the formation, the crossbowman can only become a lamb waiting to be slaughtered.

Therefore, during the many years of fighting with Xixia, crossbowmen gradually began to put on heavy armor, so that they would not be afraid of cavalry charging.

During the Southern Song Dynasty, Yue Fei relied on his heavy armored infantry and relied on the dense formation of ditch fortresses to defeat the golden ace cavalry Tiefutu many times.

However, there are advantages and disadvantages in everything. The heavy armored infantry moves slowly. Even if they defeat the Jin army, they cannot take advantage of the victory to pursue and expand the results of the battle.

This made it impossible to deal a fatal blow to the Jin army, causing it to be injured.

This is also one of the reasons why, under the command of famous generals such as Yue Fei and Han Shizhong, in the early Southern Song Dynasty, they obviously won many battles, but they were always on the defensive.

The heavy armor of the cavalry is the lightest of the three types of arms, only 44-52 Song Jin.

Naturally, Han Zhen didn't want to focus on heavy infantry, so he only ordered [-] pieces of infantry heavy armor, and the rest were mainly light infantry to ensure the mobility of the army.

To put it bluntly, the Song Dynasty chose heavy infantry because the cavalry was too weak.

You must know that there were no heavy infantry in the early Song Dynasty, because the Jingsai cavalry in the north were strong enough to face the Tielin Army, the king's cavalry of the Liao Dynasty, without losing the wind.

Jurchen is dissatisfied with ten thousand, full of ten thousand invincible?
wrong!
It is Han Qi who is less than [-], and is invincible!

This sentence refers to the static cavalry.

The most glorious record is to use [-] iron cavalry to severely damage the [-] Iron Forest Army of the Liao Kingdom!

However, with the signing of the Tanyuan Alliance and the peace talks between Song and Liao, the cavalry of the Jingsai cavalry, which originated from the descendants of the Tang Dynasty's feudal towns, gradually declined, and the quality of the Song Dynasty's cavalry also plummeted.

咣 咣 咣!
The water hammer hit the wrought iron, making a heavy sound.

Compared with traditional workshops, the advantages of hydraulic workshops are assembly line operations and non-stop work day and night.

As long as the water in the Xiaodong River is still flowing, the water hammer can continue to swing.

With the superposition of the two phases, the efficiency is naturally several times higher than that of traditional workshops.

After making the rounds, Han Zhen smiled with satisfaction and said, "That's right, you've worked hard all this time, you can go to the County Government Book Office later, and each person will receive a reward of [-] pennies!"

Fifty guan!
Craftsman Yuan's eyes lit up immediately, and they bowed to thank each other again and again.

This bounty is not insignificant, and I am full of gratitude to Han Zhen.

Patting Craftsman Yuan on the shoulder, Han Zhen encouraged: "Work hard, and if you can finish the errand ahead of time, there will be a reward!"

And rewards?

Craftsman Yuan took a deep breath, and said solemnly: "The magistrate is relieved, we will do our best."

Han Zhen exhorted: "The work must be rushed, but the quality must also be guaranteed."

"I save it."

Craftsman Yuan nodded quickly.

After explaining a few more words, Han Zhen left the workshop, rode on his horse, and rushed to Xiaowang Village.

Galloping all the way to the front of the stronghold, I saw a few Xiangyong with bows and arrows standing on the wall of the stronghold. Seeing Han Zhen from a distance, he immediately shouted: "Stop whoever comes!"

Not to mention, quite a bit of momentum.

Seeing that Han Zhen didn't stop, the village braves immediately took off the bows and arrows on their backs, drew their bows and set up arrows.

"The county magistrate?"

When he got closer, a Xiangyong recognized him.

Hearing this, the others immediately put down their bows and arrows.

After the villager bravely called someone to open the gate of the village, he said anxiously, "Excuse me, the county magistrate, it was just so far away, we didn't recognize it."

"Nothing, you did a good job, and it will be like this in the future."

Han Zhen smiled slightly, and rode his horse into the cottage.

The people in charge of Xiangyong stepped forward and summoned up their courage: "County magistrate, when can we go to the military camp?"

After recruiting Xiangyong a while ago, they were happy about it for a long time.

Although he is only a brave man in the countryside, he will be able to enter the army directly in the future.

As a result, they learned the news of the army expansion yesterday, and many people from Xiaowang Village were selected, which made them feel disappointed.

Han Zhen knew what they were thinking, so he couldn't help drawing cakes and said: "Don't be impatient, you need to lay a solid foundation first, and take advantage of the leisure time now to learn more words. When you enter the army, as long as you perform well, you will be able to learn more about it soon." promotion."

"I know!"

After eating the pancake painted by Han Zhen, all of them smiled immediately, and they were full of energy.

It is no secret that the Qingzhou Army needs to be able to read and write if they want to be promoted.

Nowadays, there are more and more people attending night classes in Xiaowang Village.

As a result, Xiaowang Village has spawned two new industries.

Blackboard and chalk.

Paper, ink, pens and inkstones are too expensive for ordinary villagers to afford.

But chalk and small blackboards are very cheap. You can buy more than a dozen pieces of chalk for a penny, which is enough for several days.

There are clever villagers who spend money to purchase slaked lime from the lime kiln, make chalk at home, and then sell it in the market.

The blackboard is also very simple, even some carpenters can make it.

But to make a blackboard, raw lacquer is needed...

The simple two small industries have created a large number of jobs.

Xiaowang Village is Han Zhen's base and experiment site.

If Xiaowang Village can gradually transform from a small-scale peasant economy to a commodity economy, it can be applied in other counties and towns in the future.

……

In Xiaowang Village not far away, several billows of black smoke shot straight into the sky.

Compared with the profits created by the factory, the slight impact of the smoke is completely negligible.

Entering the village along the loess path, the most striking thing is a huge work shed in the northwest corner.

This work shed is Han Zhen's money bag, the salt factory.

Knowing that he was coming today, the monkey waited outside the workshop door early.

"Second Brother Han!"

Today's monkey has an extra calm aura.

This is actually very normal. After having the experience of managing thousands of people, the mentality will gradually change.

After getting off his horse, Han Zhen asked, "Has work started yet?"

"It's already started!"

The monkey nodded and motioned: "Second Brother Han, I'll take you to have a look."

Walking into the shed, you will see four large salt ponds in the shape of steps.

Each salt pond is operated by three NO.40 workers.

After the salt water is boiled in the tallest salt pool, a worker immediately opens the bamboo pipe, and the salt water is automatically poured into the No. [-] salt pool.

A bucket of milk of lime was poured into the brine, and workers kept stirring it with bamboo poles to make it react quickly.

After the milk of lime precipitates, the reacted brine is poured into the No. [-] salt pond again.

The workers in charge of the No. [-] salt pond continuously pump air into the salt water with a bellows to carry out the secondary reaction.

After precipitation again, the brine is poured into No. [-] salt pond.

After the first three processes, a lot of water in the brine has evaporated. As the concentration of the brine increases, the No. [-] salt pond does not need to be heated, and the pure white refined salt will automatically precipitate in the pond.

After the workers fish out with a large wooden spoon, they put them in a wooden frame to dry, and finally pack them into bags.

The entire salt-making process is in an orderly manner, just like a mechanical operation.

"Second brother Han, this salt pond is so useful. Yesterday I asked the workers to try burning it, and it produced thousands of catties of refined salt in half a day."

The monkey continued excitedly, "I learned from the lime kiln and divided the workers into three shifts, working day and night. In this way, we can produce at least [-] to [-] catties a month."

Right now, Zhu Ji and Gu Song are using the names of Zhao Ting and Liu Mi to continuously develop channels outside.

After the refined salt is produced, it will not be piled up in Xiaowang Village, but will be transported to various places immediately.

They were exchanged for bright copper coins, as well as grain, coarse salt, pig iron, cowhide and horns, cattle, horses, donkeys and mules, and other materials and livestock, and then transported back to Linzi County.

In this way, a lot of time is saved.

Han Zhen lowered his voice and said seriously: "The confidentiality work of the salt factory must not be left behind."

"Second Brother Han, I'll save it."

Monkey nodded solemnly, and said, "I'm going to set up a patrol team to patrol the factory day and night, and be responsible for finding out those who have evil intentions."

"Not bad!"

Han Zhen smiled slightly.

After inspecting the salt factory, it was noon, and Han Zhen and the monkey had a fight in the factory cafeteria.

"Monkey, the salt factory will be handed over to you, help me keep an eye on it."

"Second Brother Han, don't worry!"

Monkey knew in his heart that Han Zhen was training himself.

I'm afraid that after the salt factory stabilizes, new errands will be arranged.

Suddenly, the monkey seemed to think of something, and said, "By the way, Brother Han, the cement you mentioned earlier seems to have been burned out of the lime kiln."

"It burned out?"

Han Zhen was overjoyed.

He himself doesn't know much about firing cement. He only knows that clay and iron ore should be added to limestone, but he doesn't know the exact ratio and the temperature during calcination.

At that time, after the opening of the lime kiln was added, he left a separate kiln for the workers to try to burn cement in their spare time.

Whoever can burn it will be rewarded with fifty pennies.

Under the heavy reward, the workers showed great enthusiasm. Anyway, idle is idle, try it.

"I gonna go see!"

Saying goodbye to the monkey, Han Zhen rode his horse and hurried to the lime kiln.

Seeing him, the steward of the lime kiln immediately came up to meet him and called out with a smile, "County magistrate!"

He was originally a villager in Xiaowang Village, and he was also the first group of workers to recruit.

Han Zhen asked straight to the point: "I heard that someone burned cement?"

"Correct!"

The steward nodded.

Han Zhen ordered: "Go and call him."

(End of this chapter)