Richard behind naturally saw the pitiful results of the infantry in the fifth military camp. He never expected that he could get thousands of pairs of iron armor in a county town, even though most of these iron armors were light chain mails weighing only a dozen pounds!

This is the remote area to the westernmost remote Anxi Protectorate in the Tang Dynasty!

From a small perspective, it reflects how good the metallurgical technology of the Tang Dynasty was developed and how rich the Tang Dynasty's court was!

The popularization of iron armor on such a large scale is obviously because the Tang Dynasty had the technology of cheap smelting to create iron armor and pig iron raw materials, as well as its strong national strength!

In fact, Richard's guess was only half right. The Tang Dynasty had very developed smelting minerals and armor-making technology compared with the feudal era, which could greatly increase the production efficiency of armor-making.

However, the Tang Dynasty court was not very rich!

The reason is very simple. It has been nearly a hundred years since the invasion of Green Skin. Although Green Skin is unable to unite to launch a large-scale offensive in the past century, local wars will break out every year, and more than one more time!

War costs money!

Therefore, even if the Tang Dynasty itself has strong national strength and consumed it for such a long time, it would not save much capital...

However, due to years of war, the Tang Dynasty became poor, and local wealthy merchants achieved abnormal prosperity and development, especially the industries related to war, which were in a saturated business state all year round, resulting in significant technological progress in industries such as armor and weapon building.

The Mingguang Heavy Armor is specially developed to fight against the armor of the black orcs in the green skin!

The government was poor, so the government soldiers Richard encountered were basically unable to configure iron armor, at most a set of leather armor and battle robe configurations.

Some of the lower-level urban patrol battalions are not even fully equipped with leather armor.

However, poor government officials do not mean poor local tyrants. On the contrary, due to the reproduction of green skins, the wilderness is full of dangers and commercial circulation becomes difficult, which in disguise increases the price of goods traded in different places.

That is to say, the profits of caravans transporting specialties from one area to another have increased significantly!

The risk of wilderness transportation leads to the annexation or bankruptcy of a large number of private traders and small caravans with insufficient financial resources. If you want to transport goods in the wild, you must hire a large number of armed personnel.

This undoubtedly provides strong commercial competitiveness for the noble families, and they themselves raise a large number of servants to guard!

The soldiers of the government will not escort the merchants along the way unless they bribed the government!

However, the cost of bribing the government is too high. No matter how safe the officers and soldiers escort, the caravan has no money to hire officers and soldiers to escort goods for themselves for a long time...

This led those local gentry to carefully cultivate their servants for commercial interests, not only equipped them with iron armor at high prices, but also hired warriors to be their leaders, and even played guest roles in bodyguards to escort the caravan along the way.

Because of this, the Gongsun family recruited thousands of guards and warriors in Gaoxiang County.

Although the Gongsun family contributed a large number of its own servants, it also indirectly shows how powerful the armed forces hidden among the people are!

The abnormal business prosperity has fattened local gentry and businessmen, and naturally gave them money to support more servants and provide better weapons and equipment.

In addition, these servants and guards often escort the family caravans, and they will inevitably encounter green-skinned battles along the way, and their combat experience is richer than that of officers and soldiers!

As a result, the servants' guards are better than the officers and soldiers from equipment to combat experience. If the local government encounters a large number of rebels that cannot be defeated, they will often join forces with local gentry and wealthy families to use the servants' guards to suppress the rebellion, which is very useful!

In addition, since the salary requirements offered by local gentry are often higher than those of the government, many martial artists in the martial arts family are more willing to join the gentry family as guest martial artists, or the leaders and instructors of the guards of the servants.

In contrast, in order to save expenses, Lis' salary is not high, and Lis often needs to participate in some dangerous combat tasks, which is far less safe than the warrior guarding caravans that work hard for local gentry families.

Although the wilderness is dangerous, it is not always unlucky to encounter the wandering green skin. As long as the green skin is not smoked from the ancestral grave, it will not be encountered!

Therefore, for warriors with high martial arts skills, they should be guardians of caravans

Wei Yuan is safer than being a government official.

As a result, those who are strong in the government are often third-rate warriors selected by the gentry family, that is, warriors in the flesh and bones realm, and warriors in the muscle and bone realm generally choose to join the local wealthy clans to work hard.

Only those warriors who want to be promoted in the court system will join the government.

If you want to be promoted in the Tang Dynasty court, you have no background or connections and can only use your life to fight for military merits. Otherwise, it would be normal for the teams stuck at the bottom of the class to be with the captain for the rest of your life. Without great perseverance and the courage to fight for life, the warriors would not choose to work hard for the court.

As for the acquired realm, it can be called a first-class expert in the world. It can stir up the situation in the world wherever it goes. It is naturally difficult for ordinary wealthy families to pay a high price to hire, let alone the government...

If you want the masters of the acquired realm to work hard, the court must promise to have real power official positions, such as the guard appointed by Bu Haoyu!

However, how could the guardianship of such local emperors be easily handed over by local families?

Therefore, there are very few acquired realm warriors who serve the government...

However, the Tang Dynasty attached great importance to the innate realm warriors. The golden seal and strong men were the highest among the strong men. It can be said to be a qualitative leap. Even the local officials were polite and had to give in to the position of the local officials. They had a very noble status and were often regarded as inspectors by the Tang Dynasty as generals with high positions and powerful people!

Therefore, most of the innate realm warriors, that is, the great masters in the world who are called masters, were won over by the Tang Dynasty court.

This information was informed by Richard after he occupied Dashi Town and heard from the original official in Dashi Town that this was not a secret in the Tang Dynasty.

It seemed peaceful under the rule of the Tang Dynasty, but local wealthy families and local governments connected with each other. It was no longer a rare thing for the governors to be like small warlords. However, the Tang Dynasty still occupied the general trend, and everyone had a common enemy, green skin, so the world was peaceful.

In the last century of uninterrupted war with Green Skin, the central power of the Tang Dynasty was gradually dispersed by local powerful forces, and the An Lushan Rebellion was just a point of explosion!

As a result, after An Lushan picked up the window paper, the Anxi Protectorate, which was far away from the sky, immediately separated into more than a dozen independent forces, large and small...
Chapter completed!