For example, the chain armor that Wu Zhi is more concerned about and the transformation of Zhuge Liannu were completed inside.
Currently, three hundred pairs of chain armor have been produced.
Moreover, the defensive capabilities of this kind of iron armor are also extremely strong.
Unless they are violently hit by a berserker like Lu Zhishen, who possesses the power of the ancient world within his body, the person who pierces the armor will hardly receive any damage.
Although this type of chain armor has extremely abnormal defensive capabilities, it also has two very obvious shortcomings.
First, this kind of chain armor is extremely expensive to make. After all, a large amount of iron is used in the manufacturing process.
Moreover, it requires countless manpower to print out one piece.
If these raw materials, labor costs and labor costs are all added up, then it will cost at least four hundred taels of silver to create a pair of chain armor.
Moreover, it will take nearly ten days of work to create one.
Secondly, this set of chain armor is much heavier than ordinary armor in terms of weight.
Although Wu Zhi did not ask about the specific weight, how much it was.
But after he put on this suit of armor, not to mention wielding a weapon, even walking quickly was difficult.
Although in terms of force, he is far from comparable to Lu Zhishen, Lin Chong, Wu Song and others.
But his physique is also quite good.
Moreover, he has practiced the stick method for a long time, and his physique has naturally surpassed that of more than 70% of the people in the village.
But even so, after putting on this armor, he still couldn't move freely.
Finally, after discussion by leaders such as Wu Zhi, Zhu Wu, Li Jie, Lu Zhishen, and Lin Chong, they decided to name this set of chain armor: heavy chain armor.
Then, according to the same size, the materials were cut in half, and it was named light chain armor.
When it came time to officially fight the enemy, powerful men like Wu Song and Lu Zhishen were ordered to wear heavy chain armor and go into battle to kill the enemy.
As for other soldiers who are thinner, they are asked to wear light chain armor.
In this way, not only can this set of chain armor be equipped in large quantities for the army, but it can also save construction time and reduce construction costs in terms of technology.
At the same time, Wu Zhi and the others' specific gains from this trip down the mountain have also been calculated.
There are 180,000 taels of silver, and even more food and grass.
Taking the current situation in Shuibo Liangshan, it is enough to feed the entire population of the village for eight years.
During this period, Shen Kuo, Ling Zhen and others also got along very well with Li Jie and others.
When Li Jie and others improved the serial crossbow, they also put forward a lot of constructive suggestions.
This played a decisive role for Li Jie and others in changing the serial crossbow from a single shot to a continuous shot.
In the past, serial crossbows, when used with a loading clip, can indeed enhance the endurance of this type of equipment in a single use.
But its shortcomings are also very obvious.
That is, after installing the loading clip, you must pull the crossbow bolt and then pull the trigger to complete a shot.
This invisibly reduces the shooting density of this serial crossbow.
With the joint efforts of Ling Zhen, Shen Kuo, and Li Jie, they actually improved the single-shot mode of this serial crossbow into a continuous-fire mode.
Each time the trigger is pulled, three consecutive shots can be achieved.
In this way, not only the power of this type of crossbow is greatly improved, but also the shooting density of this type of weapon and equipment is increased.
Imagine if an army of a thousand men were equipped with such crossbows.
If you hit three times in a row, there won't be a single living person left within a hundred meters.
Moreover, this kind of serial crossbow is compact and lightweight.
At that time, if we train a special team and let each of them hold a serial crossbow.
No matter whether these people are conducting intelligence spying or beheading operations, they will be invincible.
However, after modification, the cost of this kind of serial crossbow has doubled.
Although Wu Zhi felt helpless about this, he also expressed his understanding.
After all, the more advanced something is, the more expensive it is.
This in itself is a very reasonable thing.
And Hong Tianlei Lingzhen's old profession is building artillery.
Originally, when he was at the Ministry of Industry, he was cared for by many senior military officials.
Moreover, he also greatly appreciated the things he had researched.
But what made him extremely helpless was that the civil servants in the court were very repulsive towards military commanders like them.
As a researcher, Ling Zhen must have a lot of research funds in his daily life.
Because without those coins, even if he had great power, no matter how many ideas he had in his head, he would never be able to realize them.
But it happened that R&D funding was being exploited at every level by the corrupt officials who were putting pressure on him.
Originally, Ling Zhen wanted to build a batch of red cannons.
But the people above gave all kinds of excuses in order not to approve the silver coins.
The most typical one is Zhao Ji.
There are excuses such as building new gardens, repairing old gardens, organizing flower and stone plans, collecting novel and interesting things from all over the country, and so on.
Even if Zhao Ji relents and agrees to this batch of research funds, when it reaches the hands of corrupt officials, it will go through several heinous exploitations.
In the end, the amount of money that could be allocated to Lin Zhen might not even be one thousandth.
Originally, he planned to make a batch of red cannons, but when he got the money, he couldn't even make a dozen cannon wheels.
He had seen this scene that made him laugh or cry more than once in his more than ten years as an official.
And here on the watery Liangshan Mountains, Wu Zhi fully approved of Ling Zhen's inventions.
Even when Wu Zhi was not in the village, Zhu Wu would immediately allocate funds after hearing Ling Zhen's needs.
The speed of approval is simply incredible.
All of a sudden, Ling Zhen felt very fond of this watery Liangshan.
Wu Zhi counted the silver coins in his hand and found that there were still 606,000 in total.
He left 200,000 for himself, and most of the rest was allocated to Li Jie and others to develop and manufacture these equipment.
As for the rest, he left it to Zhu Wu to take care of to pay for the daily expenses in the village.
At the same time, he also handed over the hand-drawn drawings of bicycles to these technical talents.
Let them see if they can build this thing in their spare time.
When the bicycle blueprint first appeared in the eyes of Shen Kuo, Ling Zhen and Li Jie.