Chapter 1825: Shark skins are selling well

In fact, if the weather is not cold, watering the cotton armor lined with iron, the bulletproof effect is simply invincible. This is similar to the principle that the cotton sprinkled on the outside of the Eight Immortals table during the war of resistance against Japan was used to resist the devil machine gun.

Of course, the devil's machine gun was more powerful than the musket in this era. Therefore, if the cotton armor is watered, although it will become heavy, it will certainly be able to block the lead bullets of the muskets that were not powerful in this era.

However, Marin will not promote the tactics of charging after watering the cotton armor, which of course has a good effect, but if it is really promoted, the biggest victim may be the North Sea State. Because, Beihai has the most muskets!

Therefore, Marin will not promote any cotton armor watering technology, but let the people of the dead team directly wear dry cotton armor to charge. In this way, even if you are hit by a bullet, you will still be injured. However, the probability of lethality will be greatly reduced, and there is a good chance that it will be rescued.

Besides, the men in cotton armor charge are barbarians who act as death squads, so why should they care if they are injured or not?

As for the true elite of Beihai, Marin gave a plan of "double-layer rhinoceros nail plate". The double-layered rhinoceros armor is already strong in defense, and inserting a steel plate in the middle is simply indestructible. Even if it was Marin himself, if he went to the battlefield, it was nothing more than changing the ordinary high carbon steel plate inserted into a high manganese steel plate.

As for ordinary generals of the North Sea State, it is to directly wear shark leather armor with high-carbon steel plates. Now, the North Sea countries are vigorously promoting shark fishing. While cutting the shark fin, the shark itself is not let go, peeling off the shark skin to make a leather armor and scabbard. The scabbard made of shark skin is very popular. The unpalatable shark meat was directly processed into feed by Marin. In this way, waste is also avoided. You know, the fishing boats of the later generations caught the shark, only cut the shark fin, and then discarded the shark itself.

In this era, marine fishing has just started, and the amount of fishing is extremely small. Often, the amount of ocean fishing in a country is not as good as that of several large trawlers in later generations. No way, there are few fishing boats that dare to go deep into the ocean this year. The dozens of tons of medium-sized fishing boats that Malin withdrew from the Beihai State Shipyard were considered the giants of fishing boats in this era. Only a few dozen tons of fishing boats dare to leave the sea and go fishing in the deep sea. Ordinary fishermen's boats dare to fish against the coastline, and they have to wait for the fishing season, and the harvest is very small. It's not that they don't know the benefits of big boat fishing, but that these poor fishermen have no money to buy big boats.

Only the traversers such as Marin, who have money after opening, only engaged in loans to buy large fishing boats, so that ordinary people have the possibility to buy large fishing boats.

The big fishing boat used the winch trawl net that Marin had withdrawn, which not only greatly increased the catch, but also caught big fish like sharks. If you change to a small fisherman's boat, even if you catch a shark, you won't be able to pull it up. Instead, you may be overturned by the shark.

Dozens of tons of fishing boats, coupled with winches, have the strength to compete with the mighty shark. Moreover, catching sharks is simple-just kill the fish at sea and attract the sharks with the blood of the fish.

Sharks are more bloodthirsty, and as soon as they smell the blood, they will rush over excitedly. As long as you have a strong trawl, it is easy to catch the shark. It should be pointed out that ordinary fishing nets cannot catch sharks, and are easily broken by strong sharks and escaped. Only special thickened fishing nets can catch sharks.

And because there are no professional shark fishing vessels and fishing nets, sharks are now everywhere in the ocean. In addition to the more fierce killer whales, sharks have no natural enemies at all, so the number is huge. Even if the professional shark-hunting team sent by the North Sea country has already caught thousands of sharks, it is totally worthless to the huge ocean. Even in the large fishing ground of the North Sea fishing ground, it is not a big deal to lose thousands of sharks. After all, there are many common fish in the North Sea fishing ground, and naturally there are many sharks that eat small fish.

Moreover, shark leather armor has a special advantage-waterproof! After all, it is fish skin, which can be waterproof, but also against seawater corrosion. In rainy days, wearing shark leather armor can be used as a raincoat.

Therefore, when sailors from the North Sea nation are fighting on the deck, they are also beginning to promote shark leather armor. After all, this gadget is not only waterproof and rainproof, but also has strong protection.

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In fact, shark leather armor is the most popular in ancient China. There are few sharks that can be caught in ancient China. Therefore, shark skin is very precious, and it is also called "Jiao (dragon) skin". Although it is rough, it is strong enough and non-slip. Therefore, the scabbard and scabbard made of shark skin were very high-end things in ancient China.

Even because the dragon is also a dragon, the shark known as "Jiaolong skin" is often made of a scabbard and a handle, which is a high-end product that the emperor can only use. Its status is much higher than that of LV in later generations. For example, the sword of Chief Qianlong is a scabbard made of shark skin.

Why is the shark skin scabbard a high-end scabbard? In addition to the erroneous "Jiaolong" claim, the shark skin is rough and non-slip, making it easy to hold. Moreover, it is relatively waterproof and resistant to corrosion, and it is not easy to corrode the blade body.

You know, ancient swords do not have stainless steel, so maintenance is very important. If you use other leather, you must wipe the blade body frequently to avoid water and rust. Moreover, other leathers are not as waterproof and corrosion-resistant as shark skins. Once the water penetrates into the blades, the swords will also rust, causing huge losses.

Therefore, the use of shark skin as a scabbard is not only a tall one, but also practical factors.

In the dynasty of the Qing Dynasty, the hierarchical system was particularly strict, and often only the emperor and the Manchu and Mongolian nobility could use shark skin as the scabbard. If ordinary people dare to use it arbitrarily, there is danger to their lives.

As for the Ming Dynasty, although the rank is strict, it is much looser than the Qing Dynasty. The only problem is that the Ming Dynasty's banned sea caused no big fishing boats at all, and only a few small fishing boats sneaked into the sea.

The small fishing boat dare not provoke the powerful shark, so very few sharks can be caught. Even if the court does not prohibit private ownership of shark skin scabbards, you must have shark skin ...

Of course, the Ming Dynasty will be divided into two stages-one is before the "Longqing Switch" and after the "Longqing Switch". Before the "Longqing Switch", the Ming Dynasty banned the sea, so there were few shark skins, so it was expensive. After the "Longqing Switch", there were fishing boats going out to sea, and Europeans and Japanese merchants exchanged valuable shark skins with people from the Ming Dynasty. Then the price of shark skins plummeted. In the Wanli period, a shark skin even fell to one or two hundred texts, not even leather.

However, the "Longqing Switch" was a matter of 1567. It was only 1515 at this time. The Ming Dynasty closed its doors and banned foreign countries. Even if the Japanese trade route was not developed by the sea merchant Wang Zhi, there was basically no cheap Japanese shark skin flowing in. Therefore, at this time, shark skin is still very rare.

For example, Marin sent 500 shark skins for test marketing while letting Kong Tai send a warning to the Ming Dynasty. As a result, the Daming Dynasty, who rarely saw shark skin because of the sea ban, directly smashed the high price and opened one or two silver shark skins!

Perhaps, in Europe where prices are high, one or two silver shark skins are not very high. However, in the Ming Dynasty where prices were very low, this was a very high price. You know, one or two silvers can buy two stone rice in the Ming Dynasty ~ www.wuxiaspot.com ~. In Beihai, one or two silver is 37.3 grams of silver, which can only be used to make 49 standard Finney silver coins. Counting the value of copper, it is worth more than fifty fenneys, and you can only buy more than fifty pounds of rye or ten pounds of wheat ...

In the Ming Dynasty, sharks were mainly welcomed by military officers and Jin Yiwei. As for the soldiers ... Actually, I want to use shark skin as the scabbard, but the economic strength does not allow it ... And the officers usually collude with the civilians to drink the soldiers' blood and eat the pay, and naturally have the money to buy shark skin for the scabbard. And Jin Yiwei, because those officers have a lot of money, they naturally have the money to buy shark skin as a scabbard ...

There are millions of Daming troops, how many officers? Therefore, this market is huge! Taking advantage of the shortage of shark skin in the Ming Dynasty, Beihai can still take advantage of this opportunity ...

The 500 shark skins used for test marketing by Kong Tai were sold off as soon as they were sent to the Quanzhou wharf, and many high-ranking merchants with ties to the military also placed orders and asked the North Sea State to send thousands of more shark skins. After all, there is too much demand here in the Ming Dynasty. Whether it is an embroidered spring knife used by Jin Yiwei and generals, or a common point geese knife, it needs a shark skin to make a good scabbard and be used to wrap the handle (the shark skin wraps the handle can prevent the hand from slipping and causing it to fall off. sweat)……

After seeing that shark skin is selling well in Daming, Kong Tai sent a clipper to deliver news to the country that shark skin is selling well in Daming.