Chapter 171 Rattan Armor
Zhou Xu spread out a piece of animal skin paper, picked up a feather brush made of pheasant feathers, and began to draw the pattern of the coin.
To put it simply, it is a copper coin that is round on the outside and square on the inside. There is nothing complicated about it.
But it looked too monotonous just like this, so Zhou Xu thought about it and drew the front and back of the coin.
The front side says 'One Coin', while the back side says 'Forged in Black Moon'.
From this we can tell that Zhou Xu also planned to introduce 'five-cent' and 'ten-cent' coins in the future.
Although the members of their tribe are illiterate now, thanks to the popularity of the coronagraph, they still know numbers. As long as they know how to count, there will be no big problem.
This design is simple to draw, but the problem is that with the introduction of the trade system, he needs to formulate reasonable trade rules.
Before worrying about this problem, he first called the best model maker in the tribe.
This can be considered a new profession within their tribe, specializing in making various molds.
The mold of this copper coin will undoubtedly be given to him for making.
The mold itself is actually not difficult to make, but considering that there may be a situation where value coins may appear in the future, Zhou Xu hopes that the mold can be made as fine as possible to increase the difficulty of counterfeiting.
Zhou Xu's serious attitude made the model maker nervous.
"Chief, please rest assured. I will make this mold well!"
"Well, don't worry, the more detailed the better! Go ahead!"
After seeing off the model maker, Zhou Xu's gaze once again fell on the animal skin paper in front of him.
What is written here are the trade rules he set.
Before the model maker came, he had already written five or six lines in bits and pieces.
It is impossible to formulate perfect and detailed rules in one go.
You know, even in the modern society before he traveled through time, some of their rules and regulations could not be said to be perfect. He can only formulate the core rules first, and then gradually improve them in the later stage.
Of course, the currency hasn't been minted yet, so he doesn't need to rush.
Carry the roll of animal skin paper with you, and take it out to write down whatever you think of. When you don’t have any ideas, do other things.
On this day, the rattan had been processed to its final state. There was nothing much to say, and the production of rattan armor officially began! Influenced by Zhou Xu, the craftsmanship of the handicraft group members in their tribe was quite outstanding.
Although this was the first time they made rattan armor, the weaving techniques were basically the same. As they had weaved more things and mastered various skills, they could roughly figure it out by looking at the patterns and thinking about them themselves.
"Mengdie, I'll leave this matter to you."
"Make sure the mission is accomplished."
Long before their leader asked her to make the final processing on the rattan, Zhuang Mengdie, who had already obtained the design drawings, had already begun to think about how to weave the rattan armor.
Now that I have some ideas in my mind, all that's left is to put them into practice and try which method is better.
During this process, Zhou Xu had no interest in getting involved.
Although he had just come here, the skill of weaving things was his specialty for survival.
But as mentioned before, there are only a few weaving techniques, and he has taught them all long ago. From now on, it all depends on their mastery and flexibility in applying them.
Under this premise, unlike Zhou Xu who had various things to do, Zhuang Mengdie, as the director of the equipment department, devoted all her attention to the research of this craft.
Now, in the process of making rattan armor, she clearly demonstrated what it means to surpass the master.
In a short while, a very delicate and exquisitely woven arm guard appeared in Zhuang Mengdie's hand.
But she did not stop there. Instead, she tried several other variations and made several arm guards in the same way. Then she compared them and decided which method was better. She then sent the final product to Zhou Xu.
Holding the arm guard, after seeing the design of the joints, a flash of amazement appeared in his eyes.
"Mengdie really can bring me a lot of surprises."
The arm guard cannot be made into a sealed cylinder and then the glove can be put into it. Unless there is an elastic band in this design, the arm guard will definitely be loose when worn.
In order to avoid this, the design he came up with was to add straps, put the arm guard over the arm, and then tie it tightly with the straps.
But what Zhou Xu didn't expect was that Zhuang Mengdie actually added a new design based on the design of his straps.
There will be holes between the rattan strips if they are woven a little wider. Taking advantage of this feature, Zhuang Mengdie wove one side relatively sparsely, leaving several rows of holes, and a row of small hooks on the other side.
Zhou Xu wrapped his arm with the arm guard, and then buckled the two sides of the rattan armor arm guard inward.
This way, the hook on one side will snap into the hole on the other side, and it can be firmly fixed on your arm even without the help of a strap.
Under this premise, if you think this arm guard is too big, you can hook another row inwards. The further inwards you hook, the tighter the arm guard will be.
In other words, this arm guard has an excellent fault tolerance rate, and people with thicker or thinner arms can wear it firmly! After Zhuang Mengdie made this design, Zhou Xu could see the key to it at a glance, but he had not thought of it before and only thought about the straps.
And Zhuang Mengdie was able to think of this, this is her ability.
This little clever idea undoubtedly makes the arm guard more sturdy.
After getting Zhou Xu's approval, Zhuang Mengdie quickly made the subsequent rattan armor parts and sent them over.
At this moment, Zhou Xu couldn't wait to test the strength of this vine armor.
At this time, the first sword that the forging department tried to forge had been forged and polished, so they used this sword to test it! Although Zhou Xu was still very confident in the strength of the rattan armor, it was still a bit risky to let people wear rattan armor to test the defense strength, so he finally chose to use wooden stakes instead of people to wear rattan armor.
You just need to put a breastplate on the wooden stake. Basically, the defensive strength of each part is the same. Even if there is a difference, it is very small. There is no need to put a full set on the wooden stake.
The sword came out of its body, and the blade emitted an icy cold light in the sunlight. Zhou Xu personally tested it.
Without any hesitation, he gripped the sword tightly, took a step forward, and with a dull "whoosh" sound, he chopped it down without mercy, directly hitting the vine armor.
At that moment, through the blade, he clearly felt the obstruction from the vine armor.
After one cut, the blade was found to be undamaged. Zhou Xu quickly stepped forward to check the condition of the vine armor.
There was an obvious cut left at the place where he had chopped with his sword. The cut was estimated to be one to two millimeters deep, but this depth was far from enough to cause damage to the rattan armor.
From the perspective of a modern man like Zhou Xu, although the sharpness of their swords is still very limited, they are bronze tools after all, and their power far exceeds that of stone and bone tools.
It can have such an effect against bladed copper weapons, so the defensive power of this rattan armor is beyond doubt!
(End of this chapter)
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