In fact, if the weather is not cold, watering the cotton armor lined with iron sheets will be invincible. This is similar to the principle of covering the quilt outside the Eight Immortals table during the Anti-Japanese War to resist the Japanese machine guns.

Of course, during the Anti-Japanese War, the power of the Japanese machine guns was much more powerful than that of the muskets of this era. Therefore, if the cotton armor was poured into water, it would become heavier, but it would definitely block the lead bullets of the muskets of this era.

But Marin will not promote the tactic of watering the cotton armor and charging. Although this is of course effective, if it is really promoted, the biggest victim may be Beihai Country. Because Beihai Country has the most muskets!

Therefore, Marin will not promote any cotton armor watering technique, but let the suicide squad directly wear dry cotton armor to charge. In this way, although the bullet will still be injured. However, the probability of fatality will be greatly reduced, and there is a high probability of being rescued.

Besides, those who charge in cotton armor are all barbarians who act as suicide squads, so why bother with concern whether they are injured or not?

As for the real elite of Beihai Kingdom, Malin gave a plan to "plug the double-layer rhinoceros leather armor into steel plates". The double-layer rhinoceros leather armor is already very defensive, and inserting a steel plate in the middle is simply indestructible. Even if Malin himself, if he goes to the battlefield, he will just change the inserted ordinary high-carbon steel plate into high manganese steel plates.

As for ordinary soldiers of Beihai, they just wore high-carbon steel plates inserted into shark leather armor. Now, Beihai has vigorously promoted shark fishing. While cutting shark fins, the shark itself did not let it go. They peeled off the shark skin and made leather armor and scabbards. Sheaths made of shark skin are very popular. The unpalatable shark meat was directly processed into feed by Marin. This also avoided waste. You should know that later fishing boats caught sharks and only cut off the shark fins and then discarded the shark itself.

In this era, sea fishing has just started, and the fishing volume is extremely small. Often, a country's ocean fishing volume is not as good as that of several large trawlers in later generations. There is no way, there are almost no fishing boats that dare to go deep into the ocean these days. 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 dozens of tons of fishing boats dare to leave the nearshore and go fishing in the deep sea. Ordinary fishermen only dare to fish along the coastline, and have to wait for the fishing flood, and the harvest is very small. It's not that they don't know the benefits of fishing on big boats, but that these poor fishermen have no money to buy big boats.

Only time travelers like Marin, who have money after cheating, can have some loans to buy big fishing boats, giving ordinary people the possibility of buying big fishing boats.

The large fishing boat uses a winch trawl that Marin exits, which not only increases the number of fishing, but also catches big fish like sharks. If it were a small boat of ordinary fishermen, even if the sharks were trapped, they would not be able to drag them up, and the sharks might overturn the ship.

Fishing boats with dozens of tons and winch have the confidence to compete with extremely powerful sharks. Moreover, catching sharks is very simple - just kill fish at sea and attract sharks with the blood of the fish.

Sharks are bloodthirsty. Whenever they smell the smell of blood, they will rush over excitedly. As long as they prepare a strong trawl, they will easily catch the shark. It should be pointed out that ordinary fishing nets cannot catch sharks and are easily broken and escaped by strong sharks. Only a specially made thickened fishing net can catch sharks.

Because there are currently no professional shark fishing vessels and fishing nets, sharks are everywhere in the ocean. Apart from the more ferocious killer whales, sharks have no natural enemies at all, so the number is extremely large. Even if the professional shark fishing team sent by the Beihai Kingdom has caught thousands of sharks, it is not worth mentioning for the huge ocean. Even in the large fishing ground of Beihai Fishery, thousands of sharks are lost without any trouble. After all, there are many ordinary fish in the Beihai Fishery, and naturally there are many sharks that eat small fish.

Moreover, shark leather armor has a special advantage - waterproofing! After all, it is fish skin, which can be waterproof and also prevent seawater corrosion. When wearing shark leather armor on rainy days, it can be used as a raincoat.

Therefore, when the sailors of Beihai Kingdom are fighting on the deck, they have also begun to promote the battle wearing shark leather armor. After all, this thing is both rain-proof and waterproof, and has strong protection.

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In fact, shark leather armor was the most popular in ancient China. There were very few sharks that could be caught in ancient China, so the shark skin was very precious and also called "Jiu (Dragon) skin". Although it was a bit rough, it was firm enough and anti-slip. Therefore, scabbards and scabbards made of shark skin were very high-end in ancient China.

Even because the dragon is also a dragon, sharks called "Jiulong Skin" often have scabbards and hilts, which are high-end products that can only be used by emperors. Their status is much higher than the LVs in later generations. For example, the sword of the Qianlong Chief was a scabbard made of shark skin.

Why are shark leather scabbards high-end scabbards? In addition to the rumored "Jiulong" theory, shark skin is rough and non-slip, which is convenient for hand grip. Moreover, it is waterproof and corrosion-resistant, and it is not easy to impair and corrode the blade.

You should know that ancient swords did not have stainless steel, so maintenance is very important. If you use other leathers, you should often wipe the blade to avoid rust caused by water. Moreover, other leathers are not as waterproof and corrosion-resistant as shark skin. Once moisture penetrates and touches the blade, the knife will also rust and cause huge losses.

Therefore, using shark skin as scabbards is not only high-end, but also practical factors.

In the Qing Dynasty, the hierarchy system was particularly strict, and only emperors and Manchu and Mongolian nobles could use shark skin as scabbards. If ordinary people dared to use it indiscriminately, their lives would be in danger.

As for the Ming Dynasty, although the hierarchy was very strict, it was much more relaxed than the Qing Dynasty. The only problem was that the Ming Dynasty banned the sea, resulting in no large fishing boats at the sea, and only a few small fishing boats sneaked into the sea.

This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content later! Small fishing boats are afraid to provoke strong sharks, so there are very few sharks that can be caught. Even if the court does not prohibit the people from having shark skin scabbards, you must have shark skin...

Of course, the Ming Dynasty had to be divided into two stages - one was before the "Longqing Switch" and after the "Longqing Switch". Before the "Longqing Switch", the Ming Dynasty forbidden the sea, so there were few shark skins, so the price was expensive. After the "Longqing Switch", there were fishing boats going out to sea, and Europeans and Japanese merchants exchanged with the Ming people with worthless shark skins, and then the price of shark skin plummeted. By the Wanli period, a shark skin even dropped to one or two hundred people, which was not as good as cowhide.

But the "Longqing switch" happened in 1567. It was only 1515 now. The Ming Dynasty was closed to foreign countries and banned the sea. Even before the Japanese trade route was directly developed by the sea merchant Wang, there was basically no cheap Japanese shark skin flowing in. Therefore, at this time, shark skin was still a rare thing.

For example, while asking Kong Tai to report a message to the Ming Dynasty, Ma Lin sent 500 shark skins for trial sale. As a result, the Ming Dynasty, which rarely saw shark skins due to the ban on the sea, directly paid a high price and bought 1 tael of silver per shark skin!

Perhaps, in Europe where prices are high, one tael of silver and one shark skin is not very high. However, in the Ming Dynasty, when prices are very low, this is a very high price. You should know that one tael of silver can buy two stones of rice in the Ming Dynasty. In the Beihai Kingdom, one tael of silver, that is, 37.3 grams of silver, can only be used to mint 49 standard Finney silver coins. Including the value of copper, it is worth more than fifty Finney, and can only buy more than fifty pounds of rye or ten pounds of wheat...

In the Ming Dynasty, sharks were mainly welcomed by officers and the Jinyiwei. As for soldiers... they actually wanted to use shark skin as scabbards, but their economic strength was not allowed... And officers usually colluded with civil servants to drink soldiers' blood and eat empty salary, so they naturally had money to buy shark skin as scabbards. As for the Jinyiwei, those officers, because they had a lot of ways to make money, they naturally had money to buy shark skin as scabbards...

The Ming Dynasty had millions of troops, how many officers were? So, this market was huge! And taking advantage of the shortage of shark skins in the Ming Dynasty, the Beihai Kingdom could still take the opportunity to make a profit...

The 500 shark skins used by Kong Tai were sold for trial were snatched away as soon as they were sent to Quanzhou Wharf. Many rich merchants with military connections also placed orders and asked the Beihai Kingdom to send thousands of shark skins. After all, the demand was too great in the Ming Dynasty. Whether it was the embroidered spring swords used by the Jinyiwei and generals, or the ordinary goose feather swords, they all needed well-made scabbards of shark skins and used to wrap the hilt (shark skin wrapping the hilt can prevent hand slipping and cause sweating to occur)...
Chapter completed!