It is extremely difficult for ordinary people to build armor. It requires each piece of scale armor with one hammer. However, it is simple for Dong Hu. Whether it is to use a windmill or a cattle and horse, to beat it using the principle of leverage, or to crush the iron juice into iron sheet with an iron mill, it is much more efficient than pure human pounding.

Dong Hu has been making privately for several years, selling armor privately. Of course, most of the armor privately sold are leather armor, and even iron armor is a simple and simple armor like a short shirt.

Privately making and selling armor is a serious crime. The lightest punishment will also be exiled to the border areas as slaves. Dong Hu dared not sell armor among the Han people, and privately selling it to Qiang. Hu could do it. If not, he would not be able to support so many words, and he would not have the money to buy mares and raise horses and mules.

Everyone thought that Dong Hu sold meat, mutton, farming tools, tables, chairs, benches, and salt... They supported their families. When the group saw the exquisite Guangming armor, they realized what the kid had relied on to make a fortune.

It was one thing in my heart, and another thing in my words. Dong Zhuo knew the grudge between Dong Huang and Dong Hu, and was afraid that his nephew would talk nonsense on the armor. This not only gave the imperial court an excuse, but also made his generals dissatisfied. Therefore, he repeatedly warned Dong Huang not to interfere in any armor.

Of course, Dong Huang was not really stupid as a pig, and he just swears and swears and promises repeatedly. Even so, Dong Zhuo sent him to the horse farm outside the city.

As a military general, he knew the value of armor, especially the top armor. When Dong Zhuo saw the Guangming armor, he instinctively wanted to use armor to bribe imperial officials, such as He Miao, the Yueqi captain in Dong Hu's mouth, and then climbed up to Empress He who no one wanted to offend.

Dong Zhuo was a military general and stayed in border fortresses all year round. He either defended or suppressed Xiliang, rebelled by the Songfan Qiang, or fought with the Xiongnu and Xianbei north of Bingzhou. He was far less familiar with the imperial court than Dong Hu, who always paid attention to Luoyang.

After Dong Hu's analysis that day, Dong Zhuo also extinguished the idea of ​​currying favor with eunuchs or civil officials of Qingliu, and instead asked his younger brother Dong Min to go to Luoyang with money and a letter. When he saw the Light Armor, he had the urge to press Dong Hu to beat the board and give He Miao money. Is it better than a pair of top armor to take effect?

It is related to his own glory and wealth, and Dong Zhuo cannot pay attention to Guangmingkai, but he also knows the bad temper of the boy, so he has to send money to the thatched hut with pig iron.

Dong Hu would not think about these nonsense at this time. For him, as long as Dong Zhuo did not depose the emperor, as long as he did not give excuses to those bastards who were determined to become kings, as long as the Dong family did not become the bad guys in the world, as long as he did not implicate himself in trouble, the rest of the matter was not considered a matter. But he still didn't expect Dong Zhuo to let himself stay away. He thought he would explain to Guangmingkai, but in the end he waited for a million yuan and ten thousand kilograms of pig iron.

Dong Hu knew the price of armor. The average leather armor is 10,000 yuan per pair, and iron armor is five times that of leather armor. The best black iron armor costs 100,000 yuan. The defense of fish scale armor is far from comparable to that of black iron armor. When it is rare, it is definitely the king of luxury goods. It is worth at least one million yuan. After mass production, it can be sold for about 500,000 yuan. Just by purchasing ten pairs of fish scale armor with only one million yuan of Dong Zhuo, he lost, but Dong Zhuo paid another ten thousand kilograms of pig iron, which is different.

One pound of pig iron in this era is equivalent to half a pound of later generations, and pig iron is far less than that of later generations. There are many impurities. If a pound of pig iron is converted into steel according to Dong Hu's method, it will also lose 40%. If a hammer is used to smash it into steel, it will lose 90%. Of course, except for making it hard in front of outsiders, he will not be willing to lose 90%.

Based on the loss of 40% per pound, 10,000 pounds of pig iron can produce 6,000 pounds of steel, a pair of fish scale armor weighs forty kilograms, and ten pairs only require 400 kilograms. If the labor and carbide cost are deducted, he also made a lot of steel.

According to Dong Hu's estimate, even if it is a million or tens of kilograms of pig iron, he will make a profit. He doesn't care much about the amount of copper coins, but what he cares about is the pig iron that can build military armor.

But this is only for Dong Hu, who has improved the iron smelting technology, it will be different if others have changed. Not only will it lose 90% of the iron material, but the most important thing is that a good pair of light armor will take several months or even a year to build it. Therefore, Dong Zhuo and Dong believed that giving him millions of dollars and tens of thousands of kilograms of pig iron was a punishment and a blow, and others had no objection.

Dong Hu knew that Dong Zhuo was good-looking and capable generals had such a temperament. If he didn't punish him, he wouldn't know what would hit him on his head. So when he gave Dong Mao Guangming Armor, he had already planned to give him a few more pairs, but he didn't plan to collect Dong Zhuo's money. It was considered a punishment for his private expansion of troops. But unexpectedly, Dong Zhuo actually gave him so much money, pig iron.

The grains on Longxi County include soybeans, millet, sorghum, and wheat. Different types, the prices are naturally different. The most expensive one is soybeans, five hundred qian per stone, followed by the best millet, four hundred qian per stone, two hundred twenty qian per stone, and one hundred twenty kilograms per stone (62 kilograms). A few days ago, Dong Hu borrowed 20,000 shi from Dong's mansion. In order to reward him, Dong Zhuo gave him another 10,000 shi, but now he has sent one million qian and ten thousand kilograms of pig iron.

Looking at the money sent by Dong Zhong and pig iron, Dong Hu thought for a while and said, "My uncle has hundreds of Ding family generals. It seems that Huwa has just recruited more mercenaries, but in fact, the two cannot be compared. Moreover, his uncle has not only supported hundreds of Ding family generals, so Uncle Zhong should take the money back and just thinks that Huwa has paid back the debt of 4,000 stones of grain. As for General Hua Xiong as a mercenary captain..."

Dong Hu scratched his head and said, "Uncle Zhong, you know that Huwa is not a general of the court, so how can he let General Hua Xiong be a marshal? Moreover, this is not very beneficial to his uncle. It will make people say that his uncle plans to rebel or something. Of course... Without the name of a marshal, with General Hua Xiong's ability, it is more than enough to be a captain of a marshal."

Dong Zhong knew the result of Dong Zhuo’s discussion with the generals. It was not important for the lieutenant to be a lieutenant. What was important was how many soldiers could be in charge. Thinking of Dong Zhuo’s instructions when he came, he couldn’t help but speak.

"Huwa is a governor. It's okay to pay 4,000 stones of grain for one million yuan. I just don't know how many mercenaries this brigade commander is in charge of?"

Dong Hu knew Dong Zhuo's thoughts and smiled and said, "According to the court's 'five people are one army, ten people are one squad, fifty people are one team, hundred people are one squad, two hundred people are one song, four hundred people are one squad, ten squads are one battalion', the army commander is only four or five hundred. However, Huwa is not a general and brave in the court, but he is not qualified to use the imperial military system. At most, the mercenaries are the rural braves who protect their families and the country, so Huwa divided the mercenaries into three squads, squadrons, and brigades...."

Dong Hu wanted to speak the word "general" but he felt it was inappropriate when he spoke. After all, he was not a general recognized by the court.

"Fifty people shall prevail, fifty people shall be a team, two hundred and fifty people shall be a squadron, five hundred people shall be a squadron, small team, squadron, and brigade shall be divided into five squadrons, namely the first large team, the second large team...etc."

"In addition to the central army led by Huwa, General Hua Xiong can choose one of the two brigades on the left and right. But in the ugly way, Huwa is the commander of the mercenary. If General Hua Xiong violates the military order and Huwa cuts General Hua Xiong's head, don't blame us, uncle. Uncle Zhong needs to explain this clearly to his uncle."

Although Dong Zhong had never served in the army or something, he also knew how many soldiers a captain was.

The two songs are in one. Usually, the soldiers led by a school captain and the soldiers led by Sima are the same, with four hundred people. However, the school captain is different from Sima, and the school captain has a higher status than Sima.

In the early years of the Han Dynasty, each county had two lieutenants in the north and south. Later, due to insufficient military expenditure, it was abolished, but not all of them were completely abolished. For example, the "Southern Captain of Longxi County and Northern Captain of Shu County in Yizhou" that Dong Zhuo served as the early years were not abolished, because the south of the southern Captain of Longxi County was the Shenlang Qiang, which was easy to rebel and rebellion, and the northwest of the northern Captain of Shu County in Yizhou, were the Qiang tribes of Songfan Grassland. Most of the retained lieutenants were in the border areas, and all the Humans threatened the stability of the prefectures and counties, which was preserved.

The prefecture and county lieutenant was the first person under the prefect and was also under the direct command of the court. However, the court abolished many prefecture and county lieutenant in northern and southern provinces due to insufficient military expenditure. Although there was no Human invasion around these prefectures and counties, it cannot be said that all the prefectures and counties will be fine. They still need some soldiers, such as the people's tax resistance, such as a few thieves occupying the mountains and becoming kings, and soldiers need to suppress bandits, and these soldiers are led by Sima and are affiliated with local prefectures and counties.

Although the lieutenant of the prefectures and counties is in the prefectures and counties, it belongs to the court, while the Sima belongs to the local prefectures and counties, so it seems like a military force, but its status is much worse. This is only a period of peace and stability. If a war occurs, the lieutenant can mobilize soldiers from the surrounding counties and counties nearby, and the number of soldiers led by the lieutenant may reach a thousand or thousands, depending on needs.

The permanent lieutenant of the prefectures and counties is in the prefectures and counties, with only four hundred regular soldiers. The third auxiliary lieutenant of Chang'an and the fifth battalion of the Luoyang Northern Army are different. Their status is much higher than that of the prefectures and counties, and their permanent soldiers are commanded, which is higher than that of the ordinary two thousand generals.

The Dong family is a family of military generals. Dong Zhong knew very well about the military system of the Han Dynasty. Even if he didn't understand, the lieutenant in the southern part of Longxi County was in Lintao and grew up in Lintao since childhood. Isn't it clear how many soldiers there were in the military camp outside the city?

So when he heard the three words "Five Hundred People", he felt relieved. He was particularly satisfied with Dong Hu's sensibility and smiled and said, "When he is in the army, he should act according to the orders. If General Hua Xiong violates the military rules and regulations, he will not be able to blame others even if his head is chopped."

Anyone who has watched "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" knows that Xu Rong, Li Jue, Guo Si and Hua Xiong are the four powerful generals of Dong Zhuo. Because of his inconvenience with Dong Mao, Dong Hu not only beat Li Jue and Guo Si, but even Dong Zhuo's son-in-law Niu Fu was beaten to the point of bruising and swollen face. Perhaps because of the reason why these people were beaten, Xu Rong was also lukewarm to him.

Xu Rong was recruited by Dong Zhuo when he was appointed as the Guangwu Order of Yanmen under Zhang Huan. Li Jue and Guo Si were both surrendered when they were the Wuji School Captain of the Western Regions. Dong Hu had seen three of the four men and thought he had never met Hua Xiong, but he was just thinking that he didn't know that because he explained the Hehuang incident to Dong Zhuo that day, Hua Xiong had a good impression of him.
Chapter completed!