Amid Kongming's curiosity, Qin Tian brought him to a garment workshop.
The Liu Bei army's garment workshops had already existed for more than two years.
Ever since Qin Tian began building workshops in Huainan, whenever workshops were established elsewhere, garment workshops were generally built first.
What Qin Tian had brought Zhuge Liang to see was a new type of armor.
Since he intended to reform military equipment, naturally, while researching new horizontal sabers, he had also been producing new armor.
During the Eastern Han, armor was primarily lamellar armor, divided into wooden armor and iron armor.
This kind of armor used plates strung together with cords and leather straps, giving it considerable defensive strength.
Yet this armor was exceedingly heavy. A suit of iron lamellar armor weighed as much as twenty-two jin, roughly forty-four Han jin.
Thus, drawing upon later designs, Qin Tian created fish-scale lamellar armor on this foundation.
Compared with the lamellar armor popular during the Three Kingdoms period, which protected the upper body but neglected the lower, it included additional leg skirts.
Do not underestimate these leg skirts. On the battlefield, the more comprehensive the protection, the fewer the injuries!
Beyond that, there was Brightlight Armor specially worn by commanders.
In this era, most commanders wore Two-Panel Armor, with protection over the chest and back on both front and rear panels.
Yet this type of armor lacked dedicated chest protection and could easily leave one wounded by a hidden arrow.
Brightlight Armor, however, was different. It came fitted with a heart-protecting mirror—plainly put, a steel plate!
It was heavier, but its safety had improved enormously as well.
These two types of armor covered all the equipment an elite force required.
Yet Zhuge Liang's keen gaze noticed a suit of new armor.
"May I ask, sir, what branch