Da Wei Chun

Chapter 68 Basic stability
At dawn, Li Song set out, led the convoy and soldiers, and went westward along the Jing River, crossing the Kongtong Mountain.

If nothing else, in two days, they will arrive at Gaoping Town.

There were five double carriages, one was for Hu Baozong, and the other was for copper.

At the bottom of each car are two iron boxes one foot square, each containing [-] catties of copper ingots, on which are either silk and felt tents, or grain bales and haystacks, and a car Loaded with a few frozen pigs and sheep.

Hu Baozong did not hide his whereabouts, but when he met Guan Fang, he said he was going to Gaoping Town to meet Lu Gong.

This time, Li Song brought [-] old soldiers of the Li clan and [-] villagers of the Song clan.

One hundred soldiers all wore armor, and all of them held guns and knives. At first glance, they were powerful soldiers.

Li Song originally wanted Li Bo to go, but Li Chengzhi was not at ease.

He was not afraid that Hu Baozong would hack the [-] catties of copper, but that he was afraid that Hu Baozong would make his own claims.

For example, instead of buying iron materials, you can directly buy armor, or you can buy all of them as horses and weapons without buying any grain...

Don't doubt, Hu Baozong can definitely do it.

What Yinzhen can understand, he naturally understands: if the siege of Jingzhou can be solved one step ahead of the imperial court, no matter how serious the sin, it can be covered up.

Even if there is only a one in a thousand chance, Hu Baozong will definitely do it.

For example, just as Li Bo imagined, all the thousand soldiers in Li Chengzhi's hands will be armed into armored soldiers, or even armored cavalry, and then fight against Liu Huiwang...

Of course, four thousand catties of copper is far from enough, but as the eldest son of the Hu family in Jingzhou, even if he doesn't bring a penny, he can definitely get it out on credit.

Li Chengzhi was very afraid that Hu Baozong would suddenly come to his senses and think about this on the way, but he couldn't walk away, so he could only send Li Song to watch it because of expediency.
Li Song is a confidant of Li Shixian and Li Chengzhi, and Hu Baozong will still have some scruples and will not be too arrogant...

The remaining [-] soldiers were temporarily handed over to Li Bo for training. Li Bo was considered a battle-hardened soldier. Even if there were riots in the past five or six days, he would be able to handle it.

The tens of thousands of catties of iron materials have already been smelted, of which two thousand catties and more than 4000 catties of lead and tin were built into Buddha statues, and the remaining more than 8000 catties were smelted into about six thousand catties of steel plates, which have all been forged. Cut and pierced the holes.

In order to save the process and time, each piece of nail is the size of a palm, and eight blacksmiths are bringing dozens of Li's strong men to fix these nails on the felt that has been woven in the past.

Li Chengzhi figured it out, if he only made [-] pieces of armor, he should have no problem, but he only asked the blacksmith to make [-] pieces, and the remaining nearly [-] catties of steel plates were all used for forging helmets.

The main reason is that he always felt that the behavior of wearing only an iron vest, but showing his head outside, was equivalent to reminding the enemy: Come, pierce here...

The three or four thousand strong people were not idle, and Song Lishen led them to make wooden armor according to Li Chengzhi's request.

It's very simple. In fact, it is to imitate the manufacturing method of Zhajia, string two-inch thick, palm-sized pine boards, and then sew them with linen to make a waistcoat.

This was not created by Li Chengzhi, it existed during the Warring States Period.When the families are poor and have no money to buy iron armor, most of them wear this armor when they go out for military service.

Li Chengzhi also tried it himself. The defense power of this armor is not low, and it is not a problem to cut and chop. It has a good defense ability against long-distance bows and arrows and thorns in chaotic battles.

What surprised Li Chengzhi even more was that the spiritual effect of this thing was even greater than the defensive effect.

The more than 200 monks who were incorporated into the army, when they knew that they would wear wooden armor during the battle, they shed tears on the spot, called Li Chengzhi benevolent, and said that if they went to the battlefield, they would fight to the death.

Righteous ass!

He made this kind of armor completely to hide people's eyes.

Even if he has the ability to do it, he will not let all the thousand soldiers wear iron armor, only some iron armored soldiers and one wooden armored soldiers.

And also in turn.

Today you wear iron, tomorrow he wears wood, every day rotates...

In this way, except for confidants like Li Song and Li Bo, who can know how much iron armor and how much wood armor?

And when the time comes, those who actually go to the battlefield will naturally only go to the iron armor first, and when the wooden armor has to go, it must have reached a desperate situation, and also covered up the wool...

In addition, Li Chengzhi had to stare at the coppersmith to transfer gold to Tie Buddha.

This is a real technical job, not to mention fur, Li Chengzhi doesn't know what raw materials and processes he uses, so he can only find professional people to do it.

Zhaoxuan Temple is to take charge of the monk affairs in a state, and there are hundreds of temples large and small, and there are naturally many Buddha statues.

Therefore, among monks, there are craftsmen who paint clay sculptures and give gold to bronze Buddhas, so don't worry about no one.

But after these craftsmen started working, he realized how dangerous it was.

In addition to gold and copper, the raw materials of Fukujin need to use a large amount of mercury, and they must work under the state of mercury heating.

This can lead to mercury poisoning if you are not careful.

Therefore, whether it was the overseer Li Liang and Li Zhang, or the coppersmiths, Li Chengzhi ordered them to be wrapped tightly in leather robes, with only one pair of eyes exposed.

A group of coppersmiths were shaking while working: This Li Jialang is so bold that he melted all the copper Buddha and replaced it with iron?

When I have finished all these iron Buddhas, is it time to be silenced?
When Li Chengzhi's brain is broken, he will be silent.

These are all talents!
Regardless of the rest, when the opportunity arises, Li Chengzhi will definitely open a few copper mines. With a little training, these people are good masters of copper smelting and coinage...

So he warned Li Song a long time ago: after using it, raise it up, he will be of great use in the future.

Including the families of these coppersmiths, they have also been taken care of by Li Song.

Then the rest are the women, children and the elderly.

These people also have jobs: some cook meals for the strong men and soldiers, and some help blacksmiths sew felt armor.

In short, no one is idle, and nearly [-] people are basically stable.

Li Chengzhi has been praying, and it is best to keep calm like this until the civil unrest is pacified...

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I don't know if it's because of God's mercy, taking care of these chaotic people.Since the seventh day of the first lunar month, let alone snow, there are very few cloudy days.

The fields outside the Sengzhuang were specially leveled, and the snow had already been cleared to the fields a mile away.After sunning for another seven or eight days, and after iron smelting, pottery smelting, and copper smelting had accumulated a large amount of slag, Li Chengzhi let all the soldiers go down the mountain and paved a school ground in the field.

The area is not large, it is almost a football field, and the generals are enough for these nine hundred soldiers to catch and fight...

When Li Chengzhi went down, the nine hundred soldiers were practicing formation.

Li Bo was standing on a platform made of wooden planks, about ten feet high.There are copper cymbals, copper gongs, cowhide drums, and a lot of colorful flags standing beside them.

(End of this chapter)