What was the most popular weapon and equipment in Japan during the Warring States Period? It was not a samurai sword, but armor, armor with high protection. Because good armor can ensure that warriors will not be killed easily in combat, which is equivalent to multiple lives. In ancient China, it was strictly forbidden for civilians to possess armor, but swords were not allowed. Because, in the war of cold weapons, the significance of armor was greater than that of weapons. Even Nurhaci launched an uprising, he had to rely on the 13 pairs of armor left by his ancestors, rather than 13 knives, nor 13 horses.

Warriors wearing armor can rush into the enemy formation fearlessly. If you wear a T-shirt, you can try it? The reason why the Qing Dynasty was able to get up is inseparable from the importance of armor. Although Malin didn't think the Qing Dynasty was good, it is undeniable that the cotton armor of the Qing Dynasty was really good and beautiful. Compared with the extremely ugly regular clothes of the Qing Dynasty, the Eight Banners armor was indeed very handsome. Of course, the Qing Dynasty armor was learned from the Ming Dynasty.

Unfortunately, because the Japanese daimyos were too poor to afford high-end armor, so in the early Warring States period, many samurai armor was made of bamboo and wood chips. This thing could not be resisted by anything and could only be used to show off.

Only the large armor worn by the nobles has a relatively high protective power. But even the large armor worn by the nobles is mixed with leather and iron sheets, so there is no pure iron armor. The main reason is that Japan lacks iron. Also - the Japanese figure cannot wear pure iron armor...

As mentioned earlier, because Japan prohibits eating meat, Japanese people are generally short. Even if they are not shorter than 1.5 meters, and even if they are over 1.6 meters, they are considered to be great men. This height is equivalent to the level of fifth and sixth grades of elementary school in later generations. If they were asked to wear armor like Ming Jun, which weighs dozens of kilograms, they would probably not be able to run.

Therefore, Marin wanted to sell a batch of European armor to the Yushi family in Sado Island, but the warriors of the ready-made European armored Yushi family probably couldn't wear it. Moreover, the size was too big...

As a last resort, Marin had to arrange a batch of armor specially made by craftsmen to supply them to Yumao's family. For this reason, Marin specially summoned hundreds of craftsmen who were good at making leather armor to gather together to create armor for the samurai of Yumao's family.

According to the height of the Japanese in this era, Marin specially made a batch of small leather armor suitable for men of 1.5 to 1.6 meters. In addition, they also asked them to wait for the key parts on their chests and nailed a batch of iron armor pieces. In this way, they could obtain the protection ability of the most advanced large armor in Japan.

As for what materials to use, Malin first ruled out the most advanced rhinoceros leather. That thing was short of the Beihai Army. Then, it was cowhide. Malin was not short of this thing. After all, the Beihai Kingdom imported tens of thousands of cows from the Crimean Khanate every year and killed thousands of them, so naturally there was no shortage of cowhide.

But cowhide is also very useful. Not only can it be used for making clothes and shoes, but various daily necessities also require a lot of cowhide. Malin was a little unhappy to make armor for the Japanese warriors of the Yumao family.

So, a craftsman suggested - why not use shark skin to make armor?

"Shark skin!" Marlin's eyes lit up immediately.

Beihai Country has many shark skins. The origin of these shark skins is related to the whaling policy that Marin vigorously promotes.

Why is it related to the whaling policy formulated by Marin? Because, in the eyes of fishermen, whales and sharks are both overlords in the ocean. The difference is that whales are much larger than sharks.

But whaling is very dangerous because whales are very strong and can easily overturn the whaler's ship. Therefore, whaling requires certain skills and skills.

Sharks are regarded as small whales by fishermen and have become targets of being hunted. Of course, fishermen do not catch sharks for catching sharks. They hunt sharks purely to practice skills for whaling. After all, sharks have similar characteristics to whales, and they all like to eat small fish. However, sharks are much smaller in size and strength than whales, which are very suitable for whaling beginners to practice.

Therefore, the shark was unfortunately regarded as the target of training newbies by the whaling ships in Beihai Country. The method of whaling ships to attract sharks is very simple - kill a few fish and sprinkle the fish blood into the sea...

When the smell of blood is smelled, the sharks will come excitedly. But what greets these unlucky sharks is the whaling guns of whaling novice...

Although novices don’t have much skill and often let sharks escape, in the long run, the whaling ships in the Beihai Kingdom have also used whaling methods to hunt many sharks.

However, shark meat is hard to eat. This is mainly because sharks have no urinary organs and their urine permeates through the skin. Therefore, shark meat is soaked in urine all year round, so it naturally tastes unpalatable.

Therefore, most shark meat will be abandoned and will not waste salt to marinate into salted fish. But it is a pity to throw it away like this. Therefore, fishermen in Beihai will soak the shark meat, bake and dry it, and then grind it into shark meal as a feed additive for raising pigs and cattle.

But both shark's fins and cod liver Marin have ordered them to stay. After all, shark fins are a famous delicacy. The cod liver oil extracted from cod liver is also a good thing.

As for shark skin, fishermen will also stay. Because shark skin has an important role - making scabbards...

Malin remembers that the Qianlong sword I heard of in my previous life was made of shark skin as a scabbard. The shark skin is very rough and hard, and is used as leather goods. It feels very poor in the touch and is not soft.

However, its rough and hard feature is very suitable for making scabbards. After all, scabbards should not be too soft. The rough skin of sharks can just provide a certain amount of resistance to prevent the sword from slipping out of the scabbard.

Of course, in addition to its excellent quality, shark skin is also listed as the designated material for the scabbard in China. In addition to its excellent quality, there is another reason that shark skin has a very domineering alias - Jiao Skin! Jiao is a dragon! Dragon is the most noble beast in China. Then, shark skin, called Jiao Skin, will naturally have a higher value.

In addition, Malin has indeed heard that ancient Chinese people used rhinoceros skin and dragon skin as armor. Malin asked someone to use shark skin to touch it, and it was indeed more powerful than cowhide. Although it was very rough, it was suitable to use it as armor. Moreover, no one wanted this thing except for scabbards...

This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! So Marin ordered these 100 craftsmen who know how to make leather armors, using stock shark skins, to make 500 small leather armors to sell them to the Hashima family with samurai, and to give them confidence to fight against the Honma family.

Although Japan is also a major fishing country, and has a tradition of whaling and shark catching, Japan is currently backward in fishing technology. It does not have professional shark nets, professional shark hooks, and does not use whaling forks. Therefore, it is difficult for Japanese fishermen to catch whales or sharks. Therefore, it is impossible to form an industry. Unlike the Beihai Kingdom in Marin, because of the application of whaling fork technology, it can not only obtain a large number of whales, but also obtain many shark by-products.

Just like shark skin, the reason why it became precious leather in ancient China was because of the lack of scientific methods of killing in ancient times, which made it difficult to catch sharks, so it was naturally precious.

But in fact, in ancient times, because there were no trawlers all over the world, there were many whales and sharks in the sea. As long as there were scientific and reasonable means, they could not be killed.

Not to mention the 16th century, even after the end of World War II in the 20th century, the Japanese went to sea to catch whales and gained a lot of fishing. It is said that when World War II just ended, Japan's economy collapsed and food was extremely scarce. In order to prevent people from starving to death, the Japanese Supreme Emperor MacArthur taught Japan to use modern fishing boats and whaling techniques to kill whales in the waters around the world to obtain a large amount of whale meat...

In this way, the Japanese lived through the most difficult years after the end of World War II by relying on whaling. But later the Japanese became addicted to whaling and banned whaling all over the world, and they were still hunting whales. It was obvious that whaling allowed them to taste too much sweetness...

But now, this sweetness is naturally exclusive to Beihai Country, which has mature whaling technology. Marin has prepared dozens of whaling fleets to hunt enough whales to obtain a large amount of whales, whales oil and other important materials. Since whaling can allow Japan, a population of 60 to 70 million, to survive the food shortage after the end of World War II, Marin feels that these whales can completely allow the Beihai Country's population to obtain enough meat.

The dozens of whaling fleets formed by Marin, except for the first few teams, the other teams started to practice shark catching. Therefore, the Beihai Country has a lot of shark skin. Before, I could not find the purpose of shark skin, so I could only use it as a scabbard. But now, Marin suddenly realized that it seems that it is okay to make leather armor in shark skin...

This leather armor made of shark skin can not only be sold to the Japanese Warring States Daming, but also to the Ming Dynasty in large quantities. After all, shark skin had an extremely resounding name in the Ming Dynasty - Jiaoxi...

Moreover, the Ming Dynasty was even more miserable than Japan. Because of the long-term ban on the sea, the Ming Dynasty fishermen did not have many opportunities to go out to sea to catch fish. Therefore, the amount of shark fishing in the Ming Dynasty was very touching. In this way, shark skins naturally became rare.
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