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Chapter 210 Heavy Armor Light Up
Just think of a solution yourself, it’s nothing big.

As we all know, the cost of building a heavy cavalry is staggeringly high, and 10,000 taels of silver may be a small amount. A simple calculation will make it clear.

A heavy cavalryman can serve for seven to ten years. After all, it is difficult for an old man to have the physical strength to control a 200-jin heavy armor for both the man and the horse, so let's say seven years. According to the current standards of the Po Lu heavy cavalry, that is, one person, three horses, and four armors. The supplies required to feed a warhorse are five times that of an ordinary person. The luxurious configuration of the heavy cavalry - one person and three horses, pushes this number to sixteen times that of ordinary infantry. The food for the cavalry and the warhorse is about thirty to forty taels per month. Calculated at thirty taels, that is three hundred and sixty taels a year, and two thousand five hundred taels in seven years.

In addition, the cavalry cannot live without military pay. Due to their hardship and intensity, the monthly pay is distributed according to the rank, with the lowest being 12 taels and the highest being 20 taels. If we use a compromise of 16 taels, then it would cost 1,000 taels of silver for seven years.

As for armor, the cost of a set of human armor is around two hundred taels, and a set of horse armor is about three hundred taels. Even if there is no war, at least three sets of armor must be replaced in seven years. Because daily training is very hard and arduous, the wear and tear of armor cannot be underestimated. In this way, the armor costs three thousand three hundred taels.

This does not take into account the situation where the horse is injured, the person is injured, or both the person and the horse are injured. In the best case scenario, both the person and the horse can spend these seven years safely.

This is already an expenditure of 30 taels, and then there are weapons. Weapons are relatively cheap, but the loss is unimaginably high. According to the standard of the Po Lu Heavy Cavalry, as an ultra-heavy cavalry, the Po Lu Heavy Cavalry has an extremely complex weapon configuration, including a horse lance, a horn bow, arrows, a short dagger, a bone flower, a two-handed sword, and a one-handed sword. This set costs taels as a standard, and the damage of weapons is commonplace. Basically, a batch of weapons must be replaced from March to April, which is nearly taels a year, and taels in seven years.

This is almost ten thousand taels, and this does not include the issue of compensation in the event of accidents, death, injury or illness during training, as well as the issue of replacing horses.

It is not an exaggeration to say that it costs more than 10,000 taels to build a heavy cavalry. Three thousand heavy cavalry would cost about 30 million taels of silver in seven years, which means more than 4 million taels of silver would be spent in a year.

This doesn't even include the logistics of serving the troops!
Therefore, even the most powerful empire in history did not dare to raise a hundred thousand heavy cavalry. During the heyday of the Jin Dynasty, the fully armored Iron Pagoda had only 6000 people. The armored cavalry of the Mongol Empire that swept across Europe and Asia only accounted for about 5% of the total cavalry.

What is the concept of 100,000 heavy cavalry... It was probably that when the Eight-Nation Alliance landed, there were suddenly twelve heavy combined brigades lined up in front of them.

That's why although Jiangnan Road is so prosperous, Lao Guo's Po Lu Army did not dare to deploy all the Po Lu Heavy Cavalry in full gear. Now there are only about 3,000 Po Lu Heavy Cavalry on combat duty, mainly to deal with emergencies in the Central Plains.

Therefore, Xia Lin had to find a way on his own. Fuliang's current tax collection capacity was really not enough to support the army. No matter how powerful it was, it was only a county. There were no more than 10,000 armored heavy cavalry in the whole country. Lao Guo, Li Jing and Li Yuan led three divisions respectively, and the whole country was gritting its teeth to support them.

But this is not a problem. As long as your thinking does not slip, there are always more solutions than problems.

Xia Lin walked alone on the street with his hands behind his back. He was really worried. This money was no longer something that could be earned through business. Thinking about Li Shimin's heavy cavalry in black armor, he knew that if he really used force now, he might not be able to win.

The power of the shotgun now is probably not enough to withstand the charge of the black-armored heavy cavalry. If Li Shimin is taken as the imaginary enemy, the shotgun needs to be replaced with a rifle, and the conscienceless cannon must be replaced with a proper smoothbore cannon or rocket launcher.

Xia Lin squatted there in silence for a long time, and finally sat down on a small stall, took out his mobile phone and started searching. He didn't need this thing when he played palace fighting with others, but now he had to climb the technology tree, so he had to accumulate some useful knowledge.

But it seems that these things are not very reliable. Either they need a long development process or a complete industrial system. His head hurts. What he most urgently hopes now is that a portal suddenly opens in front of him, and then a god who has a very good relationship with him walks out, pats him on the shoulder and says to him: "Xiao Xia, tell me what you want, and I will go to Yiwu to buy it for you."

Xia Lin would definitely answer, "Brother, don't go to Yiwu to buy it. Go contact the armed forces and get all their expired items. Then get two more production lines and a wind, hydro and solar power generation system. Bring me 56 for the 59 semi-truck and billion for the bullets. Hey, brother, buy of them and then modify them to get the all-electric ."

But this may be even more unreliable than the entire industrial system. It feels as absurd as a desperate person dreaming of winning five million from a scratch-off lottery ticket.

Well... let's take it one step at a time and think of a solution slowly. How can a living person not be suffocated to death by urine? Think about the poor new China. At least I still have a mobile phone.

After drinking a bowl of wontons at a small stall, he strolled to the entrance of the Grand Theater, fanning himself. He could hear the music of the troupe's performance and the sonata of musical instruments. Xia Lin sat on the bench again, looking up with his head and eyes closed, worrying.

After an unknown amount of time, a fragrant breeze suddenly blew into his nose. He suddenly opened his eyes and found a face almost close to his nostrils. Upon closer inspection, it was the nymphomaniac Ling Yue. She was still wearing her performance clothes and her makeup was still on, but at this moment she was sniffing around like a squirrel...

"oops……"

Xia Lin sat up straight and pulled her face aside: "Don't do such perverted things outside. There are people watching us."

But Ling Yue didn't care about that. Instead, she cried out and fell on Xia Lin, saying delicately, "Oh, my ankle is sprained, it hurts... Master, help me." "I don't know if your ankle is sprained or not, but you are really cunning."

Xia Lin helped her up, and she even took the initiative to pull Xia Lin's hands towards her sensitive parts. The looks of people passing by were really... anyone who saw it would never forget it.

"Oh! My lifelong fame."

"Master, please take me back to my room, okay..."

At this moment, Miss Ting Yun suddenly rushed out, twisted the flesh on her waist and dragged her away. When she left, she turned back to look at Xia Lin: "Can she smell the odor on you or what? Suddenly she started to run out, and when I followed her out, I saw you were here."

"Are you asking me? Ask her!" Xia Lin pointed at himself and said, "I just came here to rest because I was tired."

Seeing that crazy girl left, Xia Lin also ran away quickly. However, she pounced on him just now, and he smelled of powder. Fortunately, Lao Zhang was not there. If he was there, who knows...

Hey!
The moment Xia Lin thought of Lao Zhang, he suddenly had an idea!

Armor is expensive and heavy, so why not try composite armor?
The porcelain-making technology of Fuliang can be said to be very mature. It can fire oxidation and reduction, and the mold-turning and mold-reversing technology is also extremely advanced.

With a mature kiln and mature mold technology, can the entire porcelain armor be made? Of course, normal porcelain is definitely not possible, but what about special porcelain made from alumina?
After checking on his phone, Xia Lin felt that it was feasible.

So he immediately went to the workshop to find a craftsman and started discussing. In fact, his design idea was very simple, which was a multi-layered armor. First, each part of the armor was made using the reverse molding technology, and then after it was fired into shape, it was covered with a layer of panel and a layer of base armor as the basis. The panel was made of relatively hard steel plates, the base armor was made of soft cloth armor, and asbestos was filled in the middle.

This not only makes it invulnerable to swords and guns, but it can also effectively reduce weight. The asbestos cushioning can also make the armor have a considerable degree of impact resistance.

The joints can be designed to snap together for easy disassembly and maintenance, and some important parts can even be designed with separate protection.

This not only simplifies the process but also provides very effective protection. More importantly, a quick calculation shows that the cost has been reduced to a very terrifying level due to modularization and industrialization. Including labor and wear and tear, the price of a set of armor is less than forty taels of silver.

Wouldn’t this save money?
However, the people in the workshop did not seem to agree with this plan. After all, this thing was beyond their understanding.

But there is a saying that the arm cannot twist the thigh, so Xia Lin decided to give it a try.

The boss said he wanted to give it a try, so what else could they say? They just did it. First they needed to make a piece to test the strength. He followed the formula he found. Since there were so many kinds of ores in Fuliang, he made a batch to test the firepower.

The whole process of making molds, pouring molds, drying in the shade and firing lasted about ten days. During these ten days, he basically lived and ate in the workshop. When the first thin ceramic plate with a bluish color appeared, Xia Lin was so excited that he couldn't sleep all night.

He started making the world's first "composite armor" overnight, but this process was not completely without difficulties. First of all, there was no stamping machine, and the steel plates had to be forged by hand. Then it was difficult to stuff the filler in, and it was not clear what material the base armor was made of.

But what’s the saying, three cobblers are better than one Zhuge Liang, not to mention that there are a bunch of people sitting here chatting.

Finally, after five days, a composite armor with sheepskin on the back, a porcelain plate in the middle, a steel plate on the surface and filled with asbestos was formed.

Xia Lin happily hung the board in front of a piece of pork: "Now we are going to start the test, the first test begins."

(End of this chapter)