Zhutian: Starting from the Space-Time Merchant

Chapter 12 Ordering Armor
Lin Dao obtained a business visa and flew directly to Harbour City.

After arriving on the flight, check in directly to the hotel.

After dinner, he returned to the room, washed up briefly, and then traveled to Yonghe time and space.

Take out the butane torch, crucible, borax and other items and place them in the yard.

Lin Dao personally operated it, spraying fire to melt the gold.

The gold cake is melted at high temperature, and the molten gold gradually takes the shape of a gold bar in the mold.

Lin Dao melted fifty gold cakes in one breath and cast fifty large yellow croakers.

Each one weighs about 250 grams and is worth 100,000 yuan each.

After finishing his work, Lin Dao put fifty gold bars into his travel bag.

"I'm going out for some errands."

Lin Dao put on his bag and told Sun Dalang and the others to "look after the house and the gold cakes."

Sun Dalang immediately saluted and said, "Don't worry, my lord, the gold is with us!"

Back in the modern world, Lin Dao left the hotel with his travel bag and headed straight for the gold shop.

The financial industry is very developed here in Harbour City.

In the core area, there are gold shops and pawn shops everywhere.

Gold, a hard currency, is popular wherever it goes.

Lin Dao was very cautious and went to more than a dozen shops to sell gold bars in exchange for funds.

After walking out of the last gold shop, Lin Dao, carrying a travel bag, adjusted his hat and got into a taxi on the side of the road.

Instead of returning to the hotel, he went straight to the shell company that he had registered here.

"Lin Sheng."

The shell company's office address is rented in a commercial building.

Although the area is small, only a few dozen square meters, the monthly rent and property fees are as high as tens of thousands.

The staff only had two or three kittens.

The most important of these is finance.

Lin Dao's identity here is a shareholder, and the few employees who have nothing to do warmly welcome him as soon as they see him.

Although there was not much work, their salaries were never in arrears.

After a brief greeting, Lin Dao called the finance department, "Lisa, please transfer the previous payment to the company account."

The female financial officer, who was in her forties, was also a little surprised when she saw Lin Dao taking out stacks of Taurus from his travel bag.

Some time ago, the company imported a batch of grain and vegetables from Haicheng.

These goods had almost no competitiveness, but unexpectedly they were actually sold.

"After the account is credited, settle the balance due in Haicheng as soon as possible."

"Okay, Mr. Lin, it can be done today."

While the finance department was busy, Lin Dao found a chair to sit down and began to think about the next arrangements.

Having suffered losses when purchasing weapons and armor online before, Lin Dao is now much calmer and unwilling to make decisions on a whim again.

Zhou Shuren once said that one person's plan may be short-sighted, but the crowd may be long-sighted.

I should pool my wisdom and draw on the wisdom of the majority of netizens.

After taking out my mobile phone and posting my needs on the Internet, many netizens soon gave me suggestions.

Eliminate those that are meaningless, advertising, and nonsense.

The final result is quite satisfactory.

"There are many factories in China that do processing. As long as the money is in place, they can make anything for you, except for rifled tubes like 7.62 and 5.56."

"The only trouble is that if the quantity is small, people won't do it, and there's not enough money to open the mold."

"The processing factory probably needs hundreds or even thousands of orders before they're willing to start production."

"Don't just pluck the wool from a single sheep; you can send different parts to different processing plants."

"That assumes you have the financial resources to support it. It's going to cost a lot of money."

"I'm curious where the OP buys these things for."

"Africa doesn't use this thing anymore. They believe in shooting."

"Film and television companies don't need that either. They use cheap, fake plastic and cloth to make costumes and props."

"If I buy too much, I'll probably end up looking at a warehouse full of metal armor and singing a song about selling my body~~~"

"Stop talking nonsense, everyone above. I seriously suspect the poster is a time traveler. He brought these armors with him to fight in wars and dominate the world."

Lin Dao looked at it and nodded repeatedly.

"Sure enough, the masters are among the people."

"You even figured out I'm a time traveler, awesome~~~"

He called over two idle clerks.

"William, go collect detailed drawings of ancient armor. The more detailed the better."

"Peter, go contact a few more machining factories and prepare to place orders for armor with them."

Locals, especially white-collar workers working in Central, like to be called by their foreign names, and Lin Dao is one of them who follows the local customs.

Anyway, he himself is definitely not interested in foreign names or anything like that.

The two employees were a little surprised.

"Mr. Lin, can this be sold?"

This kind of product is too niche, where can it be sold?

"A film and television company wants to make a big investment and a big production." Lin Dao lied with his eyes open.

"The costumes and props must be authentic and historically accurate."

"There's money to be made in this business, so just go and do your job."

Lin Dao stayed for two days and placed orders with several machinery processing factories in the name of the company.

Some processing plants received orders for helmets, while others received orders for breastplates.

Items like shoulder pads, arm guards, shin guards and even gloves are ordered separately.

As for the quantity, the minimum order is one thousand pieces.

The delivery addresses are all Lin Dao’s warehouse in Haicheng.

Because the order quantity is not large, the processing factory's asking price is not low.

Adding up all the components, the price for a set would be several thousand dollars.

In addition, he had to order food, vegetables and other supplies, and the income from selling gold bars was soon exhausted. He was not in a hurry about this.

After all, in this era of doing business, it is rare to pay the full amount directly.

Deposits are paid and payments are made repeatedly after receiving batches of goods.

Lin Dao also wanted to sell more gold bars in exchange for funds.

But he was worried that taking too many actions in a short period of time would cause unnecessary trouble.

Business is important, but safety and confidentiality are more important.

After arranging things in Harbour City, I set off to return to Haicheng.

For the next period of time, Lin Dao worked as a warehouse manager in his previous company, constantly registering and taking inventory of goods received and shipped.

After finishing work, he went to his company's warehouse to receive batches of supplies.

Goods from all over the country are sent in continuously.

The armor template he finally chose was the lamellar armor, which was used on a large scale from the pre-Qin period to the Ming and Qing dynasties and was the most widely used in actual combat.

The so-called lamellar armor is actually a kind of fish scale armor.

It is made up of pieces of armor that look like letters, so it is called Zhajia.

In movies and TV dramas, the so-called armor that makes people laugh and looks like plastic cloth is something you can just laugh at.

Real lamellar armor, with layers of armor plates that are airtight.

From helmets to neck guards, from breastplates to skirt armor, from arm guards to leg guards, everything is available.

Wearing silk cotton armor, a layer of light chain mail, and lamellar armor on the outside, it is the most deterrent three-layer heavy armor in history books.

Lin Dao also specially ordered a batch of ferocious copper masks, which are metal masks, to increase the deterrent effect.

Reach out and touch the armor that has been machine-processed, polished and colored.

Looking at the extremely high appearance, he reached out and pinched the thickness of the armor.

Lin Dao nodded with satisfaction.

"Although the price is high, it has both good looks and strong defense. This is what I want."

Lin Dao brought the first batch of sixty sets of armor and came to Yonghe time and space again after a few days.

In the boundless wilderness, a forest road for tricycles suddenly appeared.

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Lin Dao was speechless as he looked at the figure in front of him who was defecating only seven or eight steps away.

He thought it was a scout from the beggar army.

But the next moment, his eyes became serious.

The figure with his back to him was not dressed like a beggar soldier.

Two or three miles ahead, there stood a number of military camps that had not existed before.

Lin Dao picked up the claw hammer next to the seat, got out of the car and walked towards the figure not far away.

With one blow of the hammer, Jie Hu fell to the ground.

He has high eyebrows, deep eyes, thick body hair, and a mouth full of big yellow teeth.

He was wearing a sheepskin coat, his fingers were thick and his knuckles were covered with calluses.

Lin Dao added a few more hammer strikes to make sure that the fallen Jiehu was only breathing out but not breathing in.

He turned and walked to the horse not far away, reaching into his sack and feeling around.

Dry food as hard as stone.

A flint used to start a fire.

Two pieces of jewelry still stained with blood.

Some copper coins and some miscellaneous things.

Among them, Lin Dao only took away a wooden ivory plate.

This is the identity card belonging to the military households.

"It's really Jieqi."

Lin Dao looked up at the long line of camps in the distance and said, "Trouble."

In order to keep his freight secret, he chose to appear and leave in a place far away from the dock.

The old camp of the Qihuo Army was surrounded, and he was blocked outside.

Lin Dao's ability to travel through time is centered around himself.

Wherever you were before you left, you will be in the same place when you return.

At this moment, how to enter the dock became a problem.

He hit the warhorse on its butt with a hammer, and the horse ran away by itself.

Back on the tricycle, Lin Dao started to travel back to the modern world.

“When in doubt, ask Baidu.”

Lin Dao simply went online and posted his own help request.

"How can a modern person, living in the era of cold weapons, use modern technology to pass through the enemy's siege camp and enter the besieged city?"

Just like before, set up a reward.

After all, asking someone for help without giving any benefits is a bit dry.

After posting, Lin Dao went to wash up and go to bed.

I had work the next morning and it was already noon when I finished.

I only had time to read the replies when I was eating with my lunch box.

It is better to filter out those advertisements, nonsense and meaningless replies first.

The remaining replies provided a lot of useful suggestions.

One of the replies was very detailed.

"Ancient sieges weren't about impenetrable walls, unless it was like the kind in novels where a million troops besieged a village."

“Usually, sieges are conducted near city gates and roads.”

"There will be huge gaps between each camp, blocked by secret patrols, trenches and chevaux de frise."

"We can choose to set off at 3:00 AM when it's dark and cloudy and the human body is most sleepy."

"Carrying low-light night vision goggles, thermal imagers, and various tools, we will reach the city through the gaps between the camps."

"At this time, we just need to contact the city to lower the rope basket and enter the city."

(End of this chapter)