Chapter 298 Paper Armor Caused
Tawu hurriedly said, "Come here to buy it. The light carriage is good and cheap, and it is very convenient for you to use when you move and transfer."
Nomads have no fixed places, and they have to make several transitions throughout the year.
"Okay, OK, then I'll make arrangements tomorrow."
The grassland tribes are very backward. They have no production capacity except for horses, cattle, sheep and other livestock.
Iron pots, fabrics, needles, tea, salt, and all kinds of vegetables they don’t have, and they all need to trade.
However, short-sighted businessmen in the Central Plains often harm the grassland herders and herdsmen do not understand the market, so they become middlemen. This is the necessity of the existence of the turquoise and communicate with both parties.
The people of the Central Plains need horses, but they don’t need horses that can’t jump around and work. So Hao Meng arranged for the Iron Hoof Tribe to train the horses they produce into horses that can pull carts, so that they can better meet the needs of the Central Plains. Once the horses can pull carts, they can basically cultivate the land.
The next morning, he set off the camp and raised his troops. Hao Meng, Gao Lan and Tawu led his troops back.
The White Wolf King Horse Thieves were completely eliminated, and there was a missing pest on the grassland, and the northern part of Youzhou was temporarily settled.
Just as the Mi family caravan came to Youzhou to trade spirits, tea and other items.
Hao Meng sent the ten iron-hoofed horses donated by the Iron Hoof Tribe back to Xuzhou.
The battle report and letters arrived in Xuzhou five days after passing through the post station.
Lu Bu was very happy to read the letter and arranged commendations. Anyone who has made merits will be rewarded.
"Hao Meng, Gao Lan did a good job. In order to support Tawu, he wiped out the White Wolf King Horse Thief. The grasslands in the northern part of Youzhou will form a three-legged tripod."
Master Zhao next to him shook his head: "The lord is too happy too early. The two of the iron hoof tribes were not strong enough."
"It doesn't matter. We can send a single cavalry to patrol the grasslands and strictly prevent Tadun from expanding. If Tadun cannot expand, our goal will be achieved. Once the threat from Yuan Shao is lifted for a few years, Tadun's doom will come."
Zhubo Zhao took out another letter: "There is another letter here, and the lord has read it."
When Lu Bu saw that this was a product recommendation letter written by Hao Meng, he explained in detail the iron hoof horses of the Iron Hoof Tribe. They were short and hard, with gentle personality and extremely strong endurance.
After seeing this, Lu Bu was overjoyed: "It turned out to be an iron-hoofed horse that is famous all over the world."
Of course, the iron hoofed horse was not famous at this time. As a branch of the grassland horse, it was not famous because it was short.
Iron-hoofed horses grazing in the grassland and mountainous areas create extremely strong endurance.
The strength of pulling a cart and ploughing land is also good, it is a rare good horse.
What is even more commendable is that the Iron Hoof Tribe has more than 50,000 iron hoof horses, and more than 10,000 can be sold every year. And this is normal. If these herdsmen stop eating horses, there will be more people who can sell them.
"Zhao Zhubo, please reply to Hao Meng immediately and ask him to contact the Iron Hoof Tribe to trade iron hoof horses. Arrange ten caravans to transport them together, and ask for a thousand tamed horses at once, and another five thousand breeding mares. I plan to breed iron hoof horses in the newly built horse farm in Jinan County."
"Okay lord."
Zhao Zhubo immediately drafted the letter, and after Lu Bu read it, he arranged it to send it with a seal.
The caravan transports horses relatively slowly. First, after choosing in Youzhou, keeping them for about ten days to see if there are any diseases, especially plagues, etc. Only when you are sure of your health can you transport them. Generally, 300 to 500 horses are traveling 60 to 100 miles a day. The one-to-one-tour-four mode is adopted, that is, the guy rides a horse and four horses behind. When you arrive in the Central Plains, there are cultivated land everywhere, which is not suitable for rushing horses.
At this time, Lu Su came with a piece of armor, overjoyed and extremely happy.
"Lord, congratulations to the lord, congratulations to the lord, our paper armor is made."
Lu Bu was also very surprised. You should know that there was no technology for making paper armor in this era. Lu Bu just told the craftsmen that it was a rare craft, but he didn't expect it to be so quickly.
When Lu Bu took it, he saw it, it was quite good. It felt a bit like bamboo armor, which was very hard one piece, and the repeated beaten paper armor was still very hard.
"How effective is the experiment?"
"The fifty-step arrow cannot be shot through, and the general soldiers cannot cut through the force. The defense is worse than the iron armor, but the victory is that it is lightweight, only one-third of the weight of the iron armor. The light cavalry is lighter and can improve the maneuverability of the cavalry."
Lu Bu smiled and said, "Zi Jing came here in time. Hao Meng just found an iron-hoofed horse with extremely strong endurance in the grasslands of Youzhou in the north. However, this horse has poor load-bearing ability. After having paper armor, it will be like a tiger with wings."
Lu Su was also very happy, but there were no skilled craftsmen at present, so it was too early to mass production.
However, the production process of paper armor is much simpler than that of iron armor. Skilled women can operate the production, so there is no need to worry about the output.
During this period, the sales of papers have been delivered for free at the beginning and are now hot, and orders have been scheduled for the New Year.
This is because we have adopted the method of free trial packages. We first hand out more than a dozen long soft papers for free. We feel that it is very effective when we use them in the toilet. We will never use anything else, and we will form a dependency in the short term.
As long as the conditions are met, they will buy it.
"The transformation of daily paper is breakthrough. I never thought that there would be such a large number of people. Almost all states in the world use people to ask for goods." Lu Su was very happy.
"Let's first become bigger and stronger, improve quality and improve packaging. Soon the local papermaking workshop will be established because the technical content is relatively low. There must be a few flagship products, otherwise our official papermaking workshop will have no room for survival when the private papermaking workshop comes together."
"This is because our labor costs are expensive. Workers only work four hours a day and have four days off every month. If this is replaced by a small private workshop, they will not be able to work six hours a day. This will reduce the cost. There are benefits and disadvantages in the official business."
Lu Su was very busy during this period, making wine and paper, and had to be responsible for training for recruits. After a while, he went back and had to set up a separate paper-making workshop. After all, it was a confidential thing and could not be confused with civilian things.
Lu Bu asked someone to call Cao Xing and Zhou Cang, and the two of them patroled until they came back in the evening.
The Central Army held wine, but there was no one else, just Lu Bu, Cao Xing and Zhou Cang.
I simply ordered a stewed goose with iron pot. There was no combat mission in the evening, so I drank less water and wine.
After three people drank for three rounds, Lu Bu looked at Cao Xing and Zhou Cang:
Chapter completed!