Alexander for the time being found the arrow-making facilities to be adequate, being able to at least meet his required demand for the coming year.
As such, he was next taken to the armor shop, where according to Faziz, two thousand (2,000) men were employed making chainmail.
This was a huge endeavor and the dimensions of the workshop where these men worked in surely represented as such, with the humongous wooden shed being the literal size of a football field, having multiple doors, numerous huge windows to let in sufficient light, and a large number of thick wooden pillars to hold the giant roof up.
Alexander observed that all the men inside were industriously laboring away, with some drawing out the steel wires, others turning them to rings, a few were engaged cutting these rings, many were busy linking them with each other while a large number were riveting them.
