I collect gold fingers in the heavens

Chapter 599 Marriage and craftsman, paper armor (seeking subscription monthly pass)

It is June [-]th in the twelfth year of verticality.

The Song family entrenched in Chengdu Mansion married Song Xinyou, the only legitimate daughter of this generation, to Wang Hongyi, and gave a lot of dowry, the most precious of which was fifty uncastrated war horses in the name of dowry.

This was originally given by the Song family to Wang Hongyi to improve his strength.

As a result, when they passed through Hongze Mansion, they were confiscated by the town commander in the name of military supplies, and they were only replaced with low-quality Qian donkeys.

Nothing like this happened in the original book.

Although the feudal towns all over the country were very greedy, but considering the power of the Song family and the Wang family, they did not do this kind of behavior after all.

But this time and that time also.

In this period of time in the original book, Wang Hongyi hadn't conquered Taisu County yet!
How can it be known to the world now!

Hongze Mansion is adjacent to Changding Mansion controlled by Wang Hongyi.

The next step for Wang Hongyi to expand would be Hongze Mansion.

Du Gongzhen, the town commander of Hongze Mansion, was temporarily unable to take the lead in attacking Wang Hongyi because he was restrained by Chengdu Mansion, so he could only adjust and prepare step by step.

Under such circumstances, how could Du Gongzhen, the town commander of Hongze Mansion, watch the Song family send horses to Wang Hongyi to increase his strength!

But Du Gongzhen didn't do anything wrong. He took the horse and returned it to the donkey.

After all, the Song family is very powerful not only in Shu, but also in the whole world.

Even Wei Cundong of Chengdu Mansion attaches great importance to the opinions of the Song family—well, under normal circumstances!

Under unconventional circumstances, Wei Cundong took the Song family as he said, so he did it!

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Song Heng, the head of the Song family, felt very guilty and ashamed in this regard.

He was worried that the Wang family would make Wang Hongyi look down on the Song family.

After all, in the original book, when the King and Song families got married, the two families could be regarded as well-matched, and the Song family was slightly better.

But now that Wang Hongyi has conquered Changding Town, his official positions are the fifth-rank magistrate and the fifth-rank guerrilla general. The Wang family owns the land of the two mansions, and its momentum is faintly higher than that of the Song family.

Especially in these troubled times.

The Wang family holds military power, which is another advantage!
The Song family wanted to form a strong alliance because they liked the advantage of the Wang family in command of soldiers before, so as to gain insurance for the Song family in the troubled times, and fight for great wealth!

After all, choosing Wang Hongyi is equivalent to being tied to the chariot of the Wang family.

Fortunately, Wang Hongyi has a calm temper, but he is a good man.

Although Wang Hongyi forcibly married an ordinary woman as his wife before marrying the daughter of the Song family, this made the Song family very dissatisfied.

But in the face of Wang Hongyi's record, all dissatisfaction can be tolerated.

The Song family felt guilty that the loss of fifty war horses not only did not enhance Wang Hongyi's strength, but instead enhanced the strength of his enemy.

But Wang Hongyi didn't care.

Because Wu Siyuan gave him not only a large number of war horses, but also a much higher quality.

Wang Hongyi didn't care about the Song family's fifty war horses at all.

Three days after the big wedding.

Wang Hongyi left Song Xinyou's gentle hometown without hesitation, directly entered the barracks, and practiced non-stop.

While training soldiers, he also established a number of artisan workshops, making paper armor, forging weapons, and researching explosives.

Not only did he give generous rewards, but he also allowed those who were outstanding to obtain official status.

This greatly stimulated the labor enthusiasm of these craftsmen.

Wang Hongyi popularized the concept of assembly line in it to speed up production.

These artisan workshops are only capable of doing this if Wang Hongyi conquered Changding Town, became Wang Zunzhi's heir, took charge of the resources of Wenyang and Changding Towns, and obtained the assistance of the Song family.

Not to mention weapons.

That paper armor was Wang Hongyi's big move that he had held back for a long time!

Paper armor is made of hard cloth and then covered with paper tendons. If you still pay attention to gorgeousness and beauty, you can paint it with gold lacquer and various patterns to make it dazzling.

The defensive power of this paper armor is not low, and the defensive ability of the best paper armor is no less than that of iron armor. The production of this kind of armor is to first fold the paper into a three-inch thick wheel, nail four nails per square inch, and then cut it into Armor, if it is soaked in rain, it will be difficult for the gun arrow to penetrate.

If the whole army is armed, these ten thousand soldiers can fight twenty thousand!
But this cost is much lower than that of leather armor.

Wang Hongyi just expressed an idea. The skilled craftsmen below have tried a few times and figured out the manufacturing method, dividing it into various processes and producing it in the form of an assembly line, and the efficiency has been greatly improved at once.

Regardless of the fact that this is an armor made of paper, it is actually very defensive. Within twenty steps, if you wear paper armor, as long as you don't directly hit a vital point, you will only be injured.

More than forty steps, wearing paper armor, bows and arrows are basically no threat.

It also has a very high defense ability for fighting on the battlefield and cutting with long knives.

It can be said that its defensive ability is not inferior to that of Iron Armor, but it is afraid of fire and water!

In the history of the earth, it is recorded in the "New Book of Tang" that when Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty, Xu Shang guarded Puzhou, with thousands of soldiers, folded paper as armor, and the arrows could not penetrate it, which shows its flexibility and safety.

The current output is [-] sets per month.

However, Wang Hongyi has nearly tens of thousands of soldiers and horses, and this output is far from enough.

Therefore, Wang Hongyi ordered to increase the recruitment and training of craftsmen and increase the production speed.

Of course, this all costs money!
Although Wang Hongyi obtained a bumper harvest in the two counties, it looked good at first, but with the rapid expansion of his territory in a short period of time, more and more troops were under his command, and more and more money and food were consumed.

With his little money and food and the finances of one prefecture and one county under Wang Zunzhi's control, he could barely maintain it.

After all, Wang Hongyi now has nearly [-] soldiers under his command, while Wang Zunzhi had only [-] soldiers before, so it is very difficult to raise them.

But it is a bit stretched to support Wang Hongyi's large-scale expansion and development.

This forced Wang Hongyi to find ways to develop financial resources.

Wang Hongyi racked his brains, but in the end he really came up with a solution.

He remembered Li Chengye's starting capital in his previous life - an open-pit gold mine located in Shunyi County, Changding Town, on the upper reaches of the Jishui River.

This gold mine is not big, and it took seven years to finish mining. There are five thousand taels of gold every year, but it is extremely easy to mine.

This is the fastest way to relieve his financial pressure.

So he called Lai Tongyu, who was appointed as the magistrate of Shunyi County, and secretly gave him the task.

Lai Tongyu took the order and left.

Five thousand taels of gold per year is fifty thousand taels of silver. On average, there are about four thousand taels of silver a month.

Although this amount of money is not much, it is very important to his current situation.

With this money, Wang Hongyi can not only open various artisan workshops, but also continue to operate schools and martial arts halls, and develop to the land of two towns, and even the most expensive intelligence agency - the Thirteenth Division. started to build.

(End of this chapter)