Chapter 171 Vine Armor
As soon as he thought of it, Zhou Xu spread out a piece of animal skin paper, picked up a quill pen made of pheasant feathers, and began to draw the pattern of coins.
To put it bluntly, it is just a copper coin with a circle on the outside and a square on the inside. There is nothing complicated about it.
But just like this, it looked too monotonous. Zhou Xu thought about it and drew the front and back of the copper coin.
On the front it says '一文', and on the back it says 'Black Moon Casting'.
From this meaning, we know that Zhou Xu plans to launch "five-wen" and "ten-wen" coins in the future.
Although the members of their tribe are illiterate now, thanks to the popularization of coronagraphs, they still know the numbers. As long as they know the numbers, it won't be a big problem.
This design is very simple to draw. The trouble is that with the introduction of the business system, he needs to formulate reasonable trade rules.
Before he had a headache, he first called the most skilled model maker in the tribe.
This can be regarded as a new profession within their tribe, which is responsible for making various molds.
The mold for this copper coin will undoubtedly be handed over to him for production.
The mold itself is actually not difficult, but considering that price coins may be made in the future, Zhou Xu hopes that the mold will be as detailed as possible to increase the difficulty of counterfeiting.
Zhou Xu’s serious attitude made the model maker nervous.
"Don't worry, leader, I will definitely make this mold!"
"Well, don't worry, the more precise it is, the better! Go ahead!"
After seeing off the model maker, Zhou Xu's eyes again turned to the animal skin paper in front of him.
What is written here are the trade rules he formulated.
Before the model maker came over, he had already written five or six pieces here and there.
It is impossible to formulate the rules in such a complete and detailed manner in one go.
You must know that even in the modern society before he traveled, some of their rules and regulations cannot be said to be perfect. Now he can only formulate the core rules first, and then slowly improve them in the later stages.
Of course, the currency hasn't been minted yet, so there's no need to worry on his side.
Take that roll of animal skin paper with you, and take it out when you think of it and write it down. When you don’t have any ideas, just do other things.
On this day, the final processing of the rattan has been done. There is nothing to say, and the production of rattan armor has officially begun!
Influenced by Zhou Xu, the members of the handicraft group in their tribe are very good at knitting things.
Although it was their first time to make rattan armor, the weaving techniques were still the same. After weaving more things, they became proficient in various techniques. They looked at the patterns and pondered them, roughly. You can also figure it out.
"Mengdie, I'll leave this matter to you."
"Promise to complete the task."
Earlier when their leader asked her to do the final processing of the rattan, she had already obtained it. Zhuang Mengdie, who designed the drawing, had already begun to think about the weaving method of this rattan armor.
Now that I have already had ideas in my mind, all that remains is to practice and try which braiding method is better.
During this process, Zhou Xu had no interest in getting involved.
Although he had just traveled through time, his skill in knitting things was his specialty.
But as mentioned before, there are only a few knitting techniques. He has taught them all long ago. From now on, it all depends on their mastery and flexible use. Under this premise, unlike Zhou Xu who still had various things to be busy with, Zhuang Mengdie, as the head of the equipment department, devoted herself entirely to the study of this craft.
Now in the process of making rattan armor, she has clearly shown what it means to be better than the old.
After a while, a very delicate and delicate arm guard appeared in Zhuang Mengdie's hand.
But she did not stop there. Instead, she made several other variations and made arm guards one by one. Then she compared them to find out which method was better, and sent the final product to someone. Arriving in front of Zhou Xu.
Holding the arm guard, after seeing the design of the connection clearly, a flash of surprise flashed in his eyes.
“Mengdie can really bring me a lot of surprises.”
The arm guard cannot be directly made into a sealed cylinder and then put the gloves inside , unless there is an elastic band in this design, the armband will definitely be loose.
In order to avoid this, the design he came up with was to add straps. After covering the arm guard on the arm, use the straps to tighten it.
But what Zhou Xu didn't expect was that based on the design of his straps, Zhuang Mengdie actually added a new design.
Among the rattans, as long as the weaving is slightly open, there will be holes. Taking advantage of this feature, Zhuang Mengdie weaved one side relatively sparsely, leaving several rows of holes. , and a row of small hooks are woven on the other side.
Zhou Xu wrapped his arm with the arm guard, and then buckled the sides of the rattan armor arm inward.
In this way, the hook on one side will buckle into the hole on the other side, and it can be firmly fixed on your arm even without the help of straps.
Under this premise, if you feel that the arm guard is too big, you can also hook one more row inside. The further you hook it, the tighter the arm guard will be.
In other words, this arm guard has excellent fault tolerance. Whether it is a person with thicker or thinner arms, it can be worn firmly!
After Zhuang Mengdie made this design, Zhou Xu could see the key to it at a glance, but he had never thought of it before, only thinking about the straps.
And Zhuang Mengdie can think that this is her ability.
This little ingenuity undoubtedly makes this arm guard stronger.
After getting Zhou Xu’s approval, the subsequent rattan armor parts from Zhuang Mengdie were quickly prepared and delivered.
At this moment, Zhou Xu couldn't wait to test the strength of this rattan armor.
At this point in time, the first sword that the forging department tried to forge has been forged and polished, so let’s just use this sword for testing!
Although Zhou Xu was still very confident in the strength of the rattan armor, it was somewhat risky to directly let people wear the rattan armor to test the defensive strength, so he finally chose to use wooden stakes instead. People wear rattan armor.
You only need to put a breastplate on the wooden stake. Basically, the defense strength of each component is the same. Even if there is a difference, it is minimal. There is no need to put a full set on the wooden stake.
The sword came out of the body, and the blade exuded an icy cold light in the sun. Zhou Xu personally tested it.
Without any hesitation, he clenched the sword tightly, stepped out with a lunge, and with a muffled sound of 'whoosh', he slashed directly on the vine armor without hesitation.
At that moment, through the blade, he clearly felt the obstruction from the vine armor.
After one blow, the blade was not damaged. Zhou Xu quickly stepped forward to confirm the condition of the rattan armor.
I saw an obvious slash mark where he struck with his sword. The slash mark should be one to two millimeters deep, and this depth is far from being able to deal with the vine armor. constitute damage.
From the perspective of a modern person like Zhou Xu, although the sharpness of their swords is still very limited, it is still a bronze weapon, and its power is far greater than that of stone and bone tools.
It can have such an effect on bladed copper weapons. The defensive power of this rattan armor is beyond doubt!
(End of this chapter)