Tang Dynasty good brother-in-law

Chapter 920

"You are very good." Liu Ruyu couldn't close her mouth with a smile: "I didn't intend to intervene in the business here, but the saint specially asked me to go out to sea with the boat just for fun. When I met someone holding a piano at a port I stayed, and after checking the account books, it was really amazing, do you know how much the spices collected by Baoqin are worth?"

"There must be 15 to [-] Roman gold coins. The price of transporting these goods back to Datang will at least triple, and the transportation cost is quite high."

Liu Ruyu looked at Liu Mu in surprise, and then looked at Baoqin.

Baoqin shook his head: "I definitely didn't say the amount in the account book."

"Needless to say, how many people, how many slaves, and how much output there is in that place can be guessed. Don't forget, it was Mogadi where I left the manpower at first, and then planned to build a port. In the next few hundred years, sand will definitely be an important place of production of frankincense and myrrh, and there is no one."

Liu Ruyu was very angry at Liu Mu, she originally planned to give Liu Mu a surprise, but Liu Mu had such a reaction.

Liu Mu showed Liu Ruyu a note, and it was the numbers on it that really surprised Liu Ruyu.

Ordnance, perfume, traditional Chinese medicine.

The predicted annual trading volume of these three items and the horrible profit are ten times or dozens of times the profit of frankincense.

"Second sister, you go to the castle to rest for a few days, I have to do some serious business."

After Liu Mu walked away for a long distance, Liu Ruyu didn't recover.

I remember that when Liu Mu gave a horizontal knife costing 180 renminbi to the Ministry of War for more than 600 renminbi, in Liu Ruyu's eyes, this was a terrifying profit.

At that time, Liu Mu said that the 180 Wen was only the cost of materials and labor, as well as the cost of research and development, the cost of machine wear and tear, and the cost of transportation.

Today, the cost of a Roman dagger made by Datang is only 110 five renminbi. Liumu’s asking price here is not as simple as adding a zero. Liumu’s asking price is three Roman gold coins and six Roman silver coins.

A Roman gold coin is worth about [-] yuan. If it is exchanged for goods and sent back to Datang, this is a terrible profit.

Willow also specially designed real heavy cavalry ordnance for Rome. A complete set cost nineteen Roman gold coins and nine Roman silver coins.

Liu Mu took people to the training ground.

At the training ground, there are already [-] Roman warriors lining up.

Comparing the two armies, the average height of the Tang army's elite is higher than 1.8 meters according to the calculation of later generations, and the height of the Roman army is 1.6 meters.

The Romans are the lowest in the Mediterranean, lower than the Franks, lower than the Visigoths, and much lower than the Slavs.

Liu Mu stood beside Li Daozong: "How?"

"Don't think about heavy infantry, unless you use slave soldiers. The Roman nobles in Athens will not put precious steel full-body heavy armor on slave soldiers, so the infantry needs to be redesigned. It is cavalry, which is very good."

Liu Mu asked, "What's a good way?"

Li Daozong replied: "Low height means light weight. In addition, the horses here carry more weight than our horses. Then you can have a full set of heavy armor for knights and heavy armor for horses. With a halberd, you can stab and kill. The horses here Heavy cavalry can raid for more than seven miles in one go, and after a short rest, they can raid again."

Liu Mu nodded: "So, what about the camel cavalry?"

"I haven't researched it yet. Let's talk about heavy cavalry first, and then crossbow flying cavalry. Their riding and shooting skills are too poor. It is impossible to build flying cavalry within two or three years of training now, so they can only rely on crossbows. This There is also trouble with crossbows."

"What trouble."

Li Daozong smiled bitterly: "Our steel crossbow is too lethal, which makes the nobles in Athens afraid. They think that if the weapon of crossbow is used by slaves, it will be a very terrible threat to the nobles, so they are discussing it. A solution."

Liu Mu also smiled helplessly.

In real history, crossbows were not used in Europe until around 100 AD.The crossbows of that period were indeed influenced by the spread of Song crossbows to the west, and then European crossbows appeared.Originally known as the Barbarian's Bow, the crossbow could pierce through solid metal armor and was known as an instrument of evil and ferocity.

It didn't take long for the crossbow to become an officially forbidden weapon in Europe.

What Liu Mu didn't expect was that the Romans were also afraid of crossbows, and they were afraid of the powerful lethality brought by crossbows.

Willow wanted to tell the Romans how much he liked the crossbow, which was a real weapon for murder and arson because of its small size and light weight.The most important thing is that the training is very easy. Compared with the two or three years it takes to train an excellent archer, it only takes three months to train an excellent crossbowman.

While Liu Mu and Li Daozong were talking, Li Junxian over there had already begun to show the power of the heavy cavalry of the Tang Dynasty.

As Li Daozong said before, Arabian war horses are stronger than the original horses of the Tang Dynasty. Based on this, heavy cavalry must be deployed.

Three hundred riders are not many people.

However, the 2000 Roman soldiers who were shocked by the heavy cavalry battle formation with [-] cavalry were pale. They believed that more than half of their [-] people would be killed or injured after a charge of such a heavy cavalry.

"It's a pity that there is no magic-level heavy cavalry ordnance." Li Daozong said regretfully.

Liu Mu didn't take it seriously: "As far as their steelmaking skills are concerned, these are enough. Let's go." Liu Mu didn't plan to stay in the training ground anymore. Here is the heavy cavalry skills that Li Junxian led to train Roman soldiers.

Heavy cavalry in the Tang Dynasty is not only riding skills, but more importantly, battle formation, coordination, coordination and so on.

All the training starts with learning to read the commander's command orders on the horse. The hierarchical command orders are based on gestures and body language, not by shouting.

Liu Mu took Li Daozong away, and the two came to a basement of Liu Mu in the castle.

The torches illuminated the entire basement. On the wall of the basement was a circle of wooden figures, each wearing a different armor.

"From the strong period of the old Roman Empire more than 400 years ago, until now. The armor of Roman generals, elites, and ordinary soldiers. The armor of surrounding barbarians, the armor of Persians, the armor of Arabs recently obtained, and unknown Whoever it is, as long as it is collected from the battles in the surrounding area, it is here. In the other room, there are weapons and shields."

Li Daozong observed these armors very carefully.

He didn't do too much research. Li Daozong believed that since Liu Mu had collected these, he must have arranged for someone to do research and have detailed information on file.

"Second brother-in-law, the Roman city of Damascus is a very important town. It can be said that it has the highest iron and steel technology in Rome. Before the Sui Dynasty, our steel and iron were not as good as here. If this city is destroyed by the Arabs The victory of the Larsen Kingdom will have serious consequences, very serious."

(End of this chapter)