Li Chong said: "Guan family, I will send someone to bring the armor right now."

"No need, I'll go and see for myself."

"The official house, the place where the armor is stored is being repaired. There may be inconvenience in the past."

"Where is the armor?"

"In the armory."

"Where are the crossbow arrows and knives?"

Li Chong replied: "In the weapons and crossbow warehouse and the Nanwai warehouse."

"Take me to check it out."

"The official family..."

"Why, what's the inconvenience?"

"There is no...no inconvenience."

Zhao Ning first went to the military crossbow warehouse and inspected the crossbows, including the bed crossbow and the divine arm crossbow.

The military flag crossbow warehouse is an arsenal where crossbows are stored, but the place where crossbows are produced is called Gongnuyuan.

The production capacity of the Gongnuyuan of the Song Dynasty was very strong. According to historical records, the Gongnuyuan produced more than 16.5 million pieces of various bows, crossbows, arrow clusters, bowstrings, etc. every year.

This shows that the division of labor in the Song Dynasty was very developed, and the professionalism of each position was also very high.

Although its external force is weak, its weapons production capacity lags behind that of any country in the world at the same time.

Moreover, the armament manufacturing system has a complete management system. For example, it is stipulated that every 7 people can make 8 bows in 9 days, 8 people can make 5 sets of knives in 6 days, and 3 people can make 150 arrows in 2 days.

These are all specific tasks clearly stated.

Zhao Ning went to Nanwai Library to pick up some swords and iron bone flowers.

Finally we arrived at the armory.

Li Chong originally planned to arrange for someone to pick up some pairs of armor, but was stopped by Zhao Ning. He went in personally and visited the weapons and armor warehouse.

Then, he immediately took out several pairs of armors.

He also ordered people to hang the armor on the wooden figure.

Then let the Imperial Guards with you start testing these armors.

First, he shot with a crossbow arrow. The arrow clusters hit the armor but could not penetrate it, leaving only some shallow dents.

Then I used a knife to chop it, but it couldn't be split. Until I used the iron bone flower, a large piece of the armor was obviously dented, and the threads in some places even became loose.

Zhao Ning couldn't help but be shocked. Tieguduo's armor breaking was indeed not what the history books boasted about.

You must know that the fish scale armor of the Song Dynasty has very high defensive power. The weight of this armor is as high as 50 kilograms. Coupled with the blunt weapons such as axes and iron bones, an infantryman of the Song Dynasty can carry the load almost as fast.

70 pounds.

With this kind of equipment, swords have no effect at all, and only blunt weapons can kill the enemy.

So when you read the history books, you will find that the famous generals of the Song Dynasty all used blunt weapons.

This type of heavy infantry in the Song Dynasty was called Burenjia.

It is said that the famous Iron Buddha Temple of the Jin Army was adapted from Bu Renjia.

"Go and check some more armors. Zhao Ding, you take people to check."

"yes."

Zhao Ding led the imperial army and began to conduct random checks around the area.

He first walked around and observed very carefully, and then took people around to randomly sample.

Finally, hang the pulled out armor on the wooden figure and start testing.

Li Chong on the side was already sweating profusely.

Jing Chao held a crossbow in his hand, and shot an arrow at the armor he had just taken. There was a muffled sound, and the armor was actually broken by the arrow!

Zhang Shuye was shocked. He immediately walked over, touched the place where the armor was shot, and then examined it carefully.

"There's something wrong with this iron... there's something wrong with this iron!" Zhang Shuye said in a deep voice.

Zhao Ning said: "Try all those pairs as well."

Jing Chao then tested ten more in succession, eight of which were shot.

Zhao Ning picked up a knife and slashed it, leaving a deep mark. After a few more cuts, the armor was actually cut through by the knife!

Zhao Ning threw it aside casually, his face already gloomy: "Is the crossbow arrow and knife too powerful, or is the material of the armor too poor?"

Li Chong was so frightened that he quickly knelt down and said, "I'll forgive you, but these armors were from a long time ago. They may have deteriorated over time."

Zhao Ding said: "These armors were all cast in the past three years. When I selected them, I checked the markings on them."

"What's going on? Tell me!"

"The official spares his life, but these ministers don't know."

"As the supervisor of the weapons inspection, you told me that you don't know?" Zhao Ning grabbed an iron bone flower and smashed it on the armor in front of him, smashing the armor into pieces and getting furious.

He said, "What use do I need from you!"

Li Chong was so frightened that he knelt on the ground and shivered.

"Zhang Shuye, Zhao Ding, and Jing Chao stay, and everyone else goes out."

"yes."

The rest of the people went outside.

Zhao Ning looked at Li Chong and said, "Tell me, what is going on?"

Li Chong hesitated, and Zhao Ning said: "You don't want to live by yourself that much? You don't want to live by yourself, and you still want your family to be buried with you? Don't think that I don't dare to fight against the Yi people!"

"I have mercy on the officials! I have mercy on the officials! When I took over the weapons inspection, I had already discovered some of these inferior armors. I was planning to report them back. At that time, Cai Jing was in power, and the country and the DPRK united with the Jin people to destroy the Liao Dynasty.

In troubled times, no one cares."

Li Chong was smart, Cai Jing was already dead, so he knew it was best to put the responsibility on a dead man.

"Who did you give feedback to?"

"I...I deserve to die!"

"Tell me! What's going on?"

"I deserve to die!"

"Jing Chao!"

"I'm here!"

"Drag it out and chop it up."

"yes!"

"The officials have mercy on me, I say! I say!"

"slow!"

Jing Chao stopped.

"It's King Yun. It's King Yun who asked me to do this."

King Yun?

Zhao Ning was surprised, Zhao Kai?

"Do you know what you are talking about?"

"I understand clearly that it is King Yun."

"Why did he let you do this?"

Li Chong timidly said: "A pair of armor used to cost 40 kuai, but the inferior armor now costs 20 kuai."

Zhao Ning took a deep breath, as if a volcano had erupted in his heart.

"How many copies of this poor quality have you made?"

"Made...made..."

"explain!"

"150,000 pairs were made. The rest were from the official family before I came here. The rest were from before I came here and are none of my business."

It seems that in the late Northern Song Dynasty, armaments were depleted and weapons were corrupted. The rumors are not false!

"Don't you know that soldiers on the front line will die if they wear this kind of armor?"

Zhao Ning was so angry that he started walking back and forth: "Do you think they will all die anyway and wear the same clothes!"

"Shameless! You are greedy even for this kind of money! Worms of the country! Worms!"

Zhang Shuye said quickly: "The officials should calm down, the holy body is important."

"Do you have any evidence of Prince Yun's involvement? Bring it out!"

Li Chong looked confused and said: "I will give money to King Yun regularly."

"Where's the evidence? You can't let me investigate a prince just because of your words!"

Li Chong's face was as pale as paper.

"The iron for forging the armor was provided by King Yun and shipped from his iron smelting factory."
Chapter completed!