Datang romantic little landlord

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754 Rich, So Willful!

From Li Wangyou's point of view, although Datang's armor has excellent defensive power, it is not very good-looking.

In the Tang Dynasty, there were thirteen kinds of standard armor, among which Mingguang armor, Guangyao armor, Xilin armor, Shanwen armor, black hammer armor and chain mail armor were all iron armor.

But even the highest-grade Mingguang armor is superimposed with small pieces of iron armor, similar to the scales of a pangolin.What made Li Wangyou unable to look directly at him the most was the glittering sequined breastplate on Mingguangkai's chest.

Most of these round heart mirrors are polished extremely brightly, just like bronze mirrors.It is said that wearing Mingguang armor on the battlefield will emit a dazzling "Mingguang" due to the sun's irradiation, hence the name.

But in Li Wangyou's view, the two round breastplates on the Mingguang armor's chest looked really funny.It's like wearing a female metal bra on the armor, which makes people unable to look directly at it.

Every time he sees Cheng Yaojin and Yuchi Jingde, the five big and three thick generals of the state, wearing Mingguang armor, he has an urge to spurt blood.

It's too inconsistent...

Since ancient times, China has seldom used European-style armor made of a whole piece of iron. The reason is that European-style plate armor is not effective against weapons such as bows and arrows.

Since ancient times, China has attached great importance to long-range attack weapons such as bows and arrows, and also attached great importance to the defense of bows and arrows.The layered scale armor is far stronger than European plate armor in terms of defense against long-range weapons such as bows and arrows.

And before Li Wangyou came up with the hydraulic forging machine, the cost of manually forging the plate armor was too high.

European knight plate armor is actually just a special model in Europe. Those local tyrants, knights and aristocrats spent a lot of money to produce a bunch of full-body plate armor that is comparable to works of art. It is impossible to popularize it on large-scale battlefields.

Of course, there were no large-scale wars in ancient Europe at all.The so-called wars between nobles are usually nothing more than brawls involving hundreds of people and at most thousands of people.As for the knights who can wear full plate armor, there are only a few of them.

Li Wangyou naturally doesn't know any armor design, but he can copy it.

Anyway, he didn't build the armor to fight on the battlefield, it was purely for pretending to be cool.

Although he doesn't like Little Japan very much, he likes Little Japan's comics and love action movies.In Li Wangyou's opinion, the most handsome armors are naturally those holy clothes in the cartoons that impressed him when he was a child, "Saint Seiya".

In particular, Seiya's Pegasus sacred suit is an existence with absolutely outrageous looks.

Now that there is a hydraulic forging hammer, it should not be difficult to use it to forge armor. The holy clothes of these saints should also be forged.

Of course, the so-called "Holy Cloth" that Li Wangyou was going to build wasn't even an armor.He is only going to use thin iron sheets to make a look. To put it bluntly, it is just a prop for cosplay.There is no defense at all, it's just for being handsome.

Thinking of the Saint Cloth, Li Wangyou couldn't help but raise the corners of his mouth. He suddenly thought that he should let the dudes do something.

Hehe, I'm just bored, let the dandies accompany me to play cosplay, it should be interesting, right?

There are exactly ten dudes, and it will be very interesting to add a golden saint of the zodiac to them when the time comes.

Thinking of this, Li Wangyou suddenly became interested, and immediately began to draw the blueprint of the Saint Cloth.Fortunately, when he was a child, he liked to read the "Saint Seiya" comic book the most. He also remembered the outline of the Saint Cloth's style, and there was no problem in drawing it.

After drawing out all the holy clothes of the saints and the golden holy clothes of the zodiac in one go, Li Wangyou sent someone to find Yan Liben again.

"Liben, help me find a few craftsmen to make the armor on this set of blueprints."

Yan Liben reached out to take the blueprint, and after taking a look at it, his eyes almost popped out.

"Teacher...Teacher, are you painting armor?"

Li Wangyou nodded as a matter of course: "Of course it's armor, how about it, isn't it handsome?"

Yan Liben swallowed hard: "Teacher, these armors can be made by forging. Now with the help of the hydraulic forging machine designed by the teacher, this kind of plate armor is naturally very convenient to forge. But these armors are really useful? Such a full-body armor, I am afraid that ordinary people can't wear it? How can we march and fight?"

Most of the Tang Dynasty armors were not full-body armors. Even so, the total weight of more than a thousand pieces of iron armor connected together with ropes in an extremely complicated way reached more than [-] catties.

Moreover, the thickness of these armor plates is only 1 to 2 millimeters.

Based on Yan Liben's experience, if the iron armor drawn on Li Wangyou's blueprint is made, the weight may reach more than a hundred catties. How can such a heavy armor be practical?

Even famous generals such as Cheng Yaojin and Yuchi Jingde, wearing armor weighing a hundred catties, would find it difficult to fight.

Li Wangyou smiled and shook his head: "Liben, I was wrong, this armor is only made of thin iron sheet, it is light enough."

"Then how to defend against arrows and weapons?" Yan Liben asked puzzled.

Li Wang rubbed his nose with a smile and said, "Uh, you just treat it as a costume, not for combat. By the way, remember to plate this set of armor with silver, and the other twelve sets are all gold-plated for the teacher. It has to be pretty."

"Theatrical... Costumes? Need to be gilded?" Yan Liben felt that his three views were about to collapse today. The little teacher was teasing him, right?

He looked at the stack of blueprints in his hand again. In Yan Liben's view, every pair of armor on it was in a style that he had never seen before, and it looked rather awkward.

Although there are countless fans of the holy warrior's holy clothes in later generations, from the eyes of Tang people, these holy clothes can be called weird.

You must know that since ancient times in China, the shape and pattern decoration of the armor was not random, and there are all meanings in it.For example, the top of the copper helmet is often filled with the feathers of colorful pheasants, because pheasants are fierce and aggressive, and they will not be timid until death, which is used to symbolize bravery.

The ferocious beast-head-shaped copper shoulder guards and buckles not only serve as decorations, but also serve as a deterrent to the enemy.

However, Tang Dynasty is not without purely decorative armor. For example, those imperial guards in the Taiji Palace, the gleaming armor is basically just a beautiful appearance, showing the majesty and luxury of the royal family, but it has no actual defensive significance.

Yan Li wanted to come, and Li Wangyou wanted to make armor, so it should be the same.

He nodded helplessly: "Okay, the disciples know that these armors are not difficult to make, but it takes a lot of money to plate them with gold and silver."

Li Wangyou said in the tone of a local tyrant and upstart: "Don't worry, I will send the gold to Niu Wujiang later. You should not save money for the teacher. Just one request, hurry up!" Within ten days, it will be built for the teacher."

With his current net worth, it's no big deal to spend a few hundred taels of gold just to be happy.

Rich, is so capricious!

"No, this disciple understands." Yan Liben only felt a headache...

755 No, you will!

After Li Wangyou returned to the mansion in Dingzhou Village, he couldn't wait to tell the beautiful boss about the bet he had with the dudes today.

Such a fun thing, only the beautiful boss will understand the fun.

Sure enough, when Li Wangyou said that he had someone create the Saint Cloth of the Golden Zodiac, and was going to let Cheng Chumo and the others cosplay the Golden Saint, the beautiful boss couldn't stop laughing.

She lightly hit Li Wangyou's chest with a pink fist, covered her mouth and smiled, "You can just play tricks on Cheng Chumo and the others... But it's still interesting to think about it. Hehe, speaking of it, when I was young, I also liked watching it." I've read the manga, Saint Seiya, too."

Li Wangyou said with a smile: "Haha, I'm idle anyway, just tease them. When I think of Cheng Chumo and the others wearing such golden holy clothes that are so golden and flirtatious to the extreme, I want to laugh. It’s time to let these bastards walk back and forth on Zhuque Street several times, so that all the people in Chang’an City can take a good look.”

The beauty boss blinked, and suddenly said: "It doesn't seem interesting if you just let them walk around in this holy clothes. Since it's a cosplay, why don't you let them play the plot of Saint Seiya, wouldn't it be more interesting?"

Li Wangyou was stunned, how could he look like a beautiful boss, don't be so dark-hearted.

"Master, what do you mean..."

"Hee hee, since there are no movies in Tang Dynasty, why don't you make a stage play and let Cheng Chumo and the others go up and perform? The movie version of Saint Seiya should be very popular, right?" the beautiful boss snickered.

Li Wangyou was speechless, who said that he made fun of Cheng Chumo and them?Looks like your idea is worse, right?

In a daze, he seemed to see a fox tail wagging behind the beautiful boss...