When the French opened the bag, they looked at the dark gray "volcanic ash", smelled it, tasted it, but didn't notice anything special. Fortunately, Marin upgraded the manure to earthworm manure, and the Frenchman didn't taste the sour taste of the feces. Otherwise, it would be exposed.

In fact, earthworm manure is very similar to soil. Although it is not smelly, it also has a foul smell. Therefore, Marin makes people mixed with some wood ash, and real stone powder into it to cover up the foul smell. Those stone powders are actually the scraps of stonemasons in the quarry when processing stones, including stone powder and gravel.

Then, Marin organized some labor force to crush the medicine he stepped on, repeatedly crushing it, saying that most of the stones were crushed. Some of the stones were crushed with a hydraulic forging hammer.

But the hydraulic forging hammer can only smash large pieces of stones, and cannot be smashed very finely. The windmill mill is a stone mill, and it is not suitable for crushing stones, as it will damage the stone mill. Therefore, Marin simply took out a batch of iron medicine mills and let some women who have no work to crush the stones. Just give some food subsidies or change.

The spring plowing in Beihai Kingdom has ended. Because rye is planted, it does not require much management, and most people are idle. For this reason, Malin asked the men in the Harz Mountains to chisel stones, women knock stones, and crush stones. These can produce benefits. Of course, Malin also rewards them, food, or brass coins.

Stones can be processed into square stones for construction, building castles or churches. Gravel can be used as stones to pave the road. However, this time, Marin asked women to crush the stones with medicine to deal with the French.

After all, you say it is volcanic ash. Volcanoes must be stone mountain. Volcanic ash must also have some small stones, right? So, Marin did not require the stone powder to be completely crushed, but retained some very small fine stones, proving that this was "from the mountains."

Sure enough, when the French saw those fine stones mixed with them, they did not suspect that this was not volcanic ash. If it were pure earthworm manure, the French might have doubted it.

Marin didn't know that the French were actually starting to make the idea of ​​Iceland now. After all, having Iceland means having Iceland's "volcanic ash". But the premise is that the French have to suppress England first. Otherwise, if you send a few ships, you will be intercepted by England, which is meaningless.

But the French have not had a good result recently, because the English Channel is windy in spring, which is beneficial to sailing ships and not friendly to French Calais ships. Therefore, it is necessary to wait until summer to launch more attacks on the coast of England.

However, the French did not know that the secret of the Calais ship had been fully revealed to England by Marin. Now, the English shipyards have begun to build Calais ships and recruited Italian captains to guide how to control the galleons.

The Spanish Kingdom of Aragon provided strong support for the actions of the English. Although Spain and England almost turned against each other because of Princess Catherine's death, under the huge threat of the possible rise of the French navy, the Spanish decisively put aside their prejudices and joined forces with the English.

Then, the Kingdom of Aragon, who was also proficient in galleys, sent a large number of naval officers to England as instructors. Moreover, the construction of galleys in the English shipyard also received technical support from the Kingdom of Aragon.

In short, even in summer, it is difficult for the French to get a bargain. Because the English also have warships and tactics similar to them.

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Not only France and England were preparing for the summer conflict, but the southern side of Austria, Emperor Maximilian I also began to actively prepare for the war.

Malin has sent a batch of exported versions of the "Jiangnan Leather Factory" armor, that is, leather bandage armor with steel plates. This type of leather bandage armor does not affect movement like plate armor, and the connection method is flexible connection. It is easy to wear and does not affect movement after wearing it. Especially for cavalry, you can do some difficult movements on the horse's back, such as dodging the opponent's collision with a gun.

If you wear plate armor, try bent over? Sorry, the person is fixed. It is like a splint on the joint of the arm and cannot be bent.

Therefore, in the 18th century, when Europeans created simple breastplate cavalry, they did not wear complete upper body plate armor, but they all wore three-quarters breastplate or even two-thirds breastplate, in order to empty their waists so that the cavalry could move on the horse's back.

Especially in the era of firearms, if you sit upright on the horse's back, you will be very likely to get shot. But if you lie on the horse's back and charge and wear a steel helmet on your head, your safety will be greatly improved.

Of course, that was the case in the 189th century. At present, the greatest significance of this kind of slimming and bandaging armor is that it is cheap... and then, the second significance is that it is not to be served by someone...

Ordinary plaque knights walk well after wearing a full set of plaque armor, but they can't walk smaller. They can get on horseback... Plate trousers can affect the flexibility of getting on horseback. If you get on horseback alone, you can easily fail.

Therefore, when encountering war, the platoon-armored knight must bring attendants. Even if he does not have a platoon, such as a heavy-armored cavalry, the officer will arrange light cavalry to serve the platoon-armored heavy cavalry and help him get on the horse.

Before, when Marin was a wandering knight, he did not wear plate armor pants. Although it was not, it also facilitated his horse to get on and off. However, even if he did not wear plate armor, it was actually not convenient to get on and off. Because the waist of the chest plate armor with half of his body could not be twisted casually, which greatly affected the efficiency of getting on the horse.

Therefore, the Russians in Eastern Europe and the native chickens in Western Asia were unwilling to learn and adopt even if they were exposed to Western Europe's plate armor. Because it was too inconvenient. When faced with muskets and cannons, Eastern style pricks and chain mail were the same as those in Western Europe and could not resist them. Therefore, they were too lazy to learn. Instead, the Ottomans learned a lot of muskets. Musketeers from the Balkans were also the absolute heroes of the Ottoman Turkey's defeat of the Persian Safavi Empire and the Mamluk Dynasty in Egypt.

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This time, the bandage armor that Malin gave to the emperor, plus the matching horse armor, totaling 3,000 sets, each set of only 25 gold coins. It was simply a price that jumped from the house and hit the blood price!

The emperor himself actually did it, and he ordered people to imitate the 500 sets of tampons and bandage armor sent by Malin before. The leather bag and the nail piece are nothing, and everyone has the same level as the same level, and the cost is not much different.

However, when it was the turn of the nail plate, the emperor was a little stunned. Why? The nail plates produced in Austria are not only not as strong as those of the high-carbon steel plates in the Beihai Kingdom, but also have a high cost.

It should be pointed out that the high-carbon steel in Beihai Country first uses an iron-making blast furnace to smel out pig iron. Then, the pig iron is put into a crucible furnace and uses the crucible steelmaking method to smel out high-carbon steel. Because it has the Ruhr area, Marin has endless coal and the cost is also very low.

Austria is more miserable. There are no coal mines here, so they can only use charcoal. Charcoal is made of wood and the cost is much higher than that of coal. Moreover, the furnace temperature is difficult to reach the furnace temperature of coal combustion.

Therefore, nowadays, iron smelting furnaces are not widely used. Many blacksmith shops are still using block iron smelting technology to produce iron ingots. However, block iron smelting has many impurities and poor quality, so blacksmiths need to repeatedly heat and beat it on the charcoal fire.

The process of pounding is also a process of refining. The impurities in the iron are gradually squeezed out, and at the same time, carbon elements also seep into the surface of the wrought iron, achieving partial carburization.

However, this process is too long. Moreover, the quality is very unstable due to the differences in the skills of the forging master. The quality of the master's products is stable, and the quality is not much different from that of the high-carbon steel in Beihai Country. However, the working price is also very expensive!

Therefore, the emperor was surprised to find that if the processing cost of Austria, this set of 25 gold coins of plate-plate leather bandage would be a loss-making transaction.

In this regard, Marin's explanation was that he recruited a large number of experienced blacksmiths from Italy, with good skills and trained many high-level apprentices. In addition, Beihai has a lot of coal, which is lower than using charcoal...
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