After the greetings, Chang Chunwu asked Zhu Changyang to follow her to the study.
Jun Shu followed very naturally.
Chang Chun glanced at him without hesitation and hinted: "Brother Jun, this is related to Chang Yang's private affairs..."
"His private affairs?" Jun suddenly understood and took it for granted, "Then I should know."
The colorful black cat that had been following him looked up and echoed, "Meow, meow, meow."
"?" Chang Chunwu turned his head slowly and looked at Zhu Changyang without any doubt.
Zhu Changyang wiped his face, not knowing how to explain for a moment. He thought that the Baigongmen wanted to talk to him about those few things, so he laughed dryly and said, "It doesn't matter. If he wants to listen, then he can join in."
Jun Shu's eyes curved and he raised his eyebrows proudly at Chang Chunwu.
The black cat said proudly: "Meow!"
Chang Chunwu: “…?”
What is there to be proud of
But since Zhu Changyang said so, she followed suit. Since it wasn't a big secret, she nodded and took out a stack of spirit stone receipts and handed them over: "This is for your share of the flashlight's profits."
Zhu Changyang had long since gotten over his embarrassment, but he was still surprised when he saw the number of bills: "So many!"
Jun Shu and the cat turned their heads together, glanced at the thickness of the bill, and nodded with satisfaction: "Not bad."
"Meow."
Chang Chunwu: “…”
For some reason, I suddenly felt like I was being judged.
"These are just the current income." Chang Chunwu smiled at Zhu Changyang and continued, "Thanks to your skills, the flashlights we made are very popular. Merchants from all over the Nine Regions have come to place orders, and there are still several orders waiting to be made."
In addition to the flashlight workshop, as Zhu Changyang guessed, Baigongmen also produced a batch of bicycles, mixing other metals and spiritual materials into the raw materials to refine them into stronger and lighter alloys, greatly improving the performance of the bicycles.
However, even so, bicycles still have no market in the world of cultivation where flying is common, and are mainly sold to the mortal realm. Of course, this has also made a lot of money for Baigongmen.
However, the principle of a bicycle can be seen at a glance, and it is difficult to maintain a technological barrier. Now there are craftsmen in the mortal realm who can imitate and produce it.
It doesn’t matter to Baigongmen, their core technology is still in refining equipment.
As for the world of cultivation, flashlights are practical but not very magical, and are of no use in seeking the truth. What everyone is more concerned about is the spiritual power battery refined by Chang Chunwu, which is a real magical weapon.
When the topic returned to the flashlight workshop, Zhu Changyang became excited and suggested taking his apprentice to visit it.
"Of course." Chang Chunwu agreed immediately and acted as the interpreter himself, leading Zhu Changyang and his party towards the back mountain.
Chang Fengchi also followed happily.
The flashlight workshop was built next to the trial field and covers an area of about one acre.
The workshops in the world of cultivation naturally do not have the mechanized automatic assembly lines of modern times, and most of the work is done manually by craftsmen.
Fortunately, the manufacturing process of the flashlight was not complicated. When Chang Fengchi mentioned that the sect wanted to build a workshop, Zhu Changyang designed some simple mold drawings based on the level of refining equipment in the cultivation world.
The craftsmen of Baigongmen refined the mold according to the blueprint. As long as the craftsmen follow the operating specifications and use the mold correctly, they can manufacture various basic parts of the flashlight, which can be regarded as semi-automatic.
The biggest technical difficulty is that the melting point of tungsten is too high. The current smelting technology of mortals is not able to melt and shape it, so the refining of tungsten wire still needs to be completed by the refiners in the sect.
This also has an advantage. In those days, there was no protection for property rights. Whether it was in the world of cultivation or in the mortal realm, workshops had to find ways to preserve their own secret methods.
Although the Baigongmen had signed contracts with all the craftsmen and apprentices, it was not foolproof. With each process being independent, it was difficult for a single person to steal the complete technology. Especially the tungsten wire production, which was difficult for non-refiners to replicate.
After visiting the parts production process, Chang Fengchi took them through a door and into a separate room next to it, and introduced: "This is the 'assembly room' built according to the suggestions of the brothers."
The so-called assembly room is actually an assembly workshop designed with reference to modern factories.
A flat long table is placed in the empty house. The produced parts are transported here and distributed according to the links. Each assembler is only responsible for assembling several parts of the flashlight.
In addition, Zhu Changyang also designed a set of small tools for the workshop, mainly soldering irons, tweezers and pliers.
These tools are simple to make but very practical.
After disassembly, each step becomes very simple. With the help of tools, a six-year-old child can complete it without long-term training. The assembly speed is also greatly improved, and a flashlight can be assembled in a short time.
Finally, another person conducts a quality inspection to ensure that the flashlight components are complete and functioning properly before it can be shipped.
When they saw Chang Chunwu and his group, the workers greeted them warmly and it was obvious that they were very satisfied with their work.
Chang Fengchi said: "The production of parts is still relatively slow and cannot keep up with the speed of assembly. We only need to assemble for half a day every day. In the remaining time, other brothers in the sect will teach you how to make and use molds. Those who are willing can also learn the basics of Qi Refining."
Since the production of flashlights does not require any cultivation or spiritual fire, recruiting workers does not require spiritual roots to reach a certain level like recruiting students.
In addition, flashlights are selling well, the remuneration offered by Baigongmen is very generous, and you can arrange your own work after get off work every day, unlike working as a handyman who has to be on call day and night. Therefore, the flashlight workshop has undoubtedly become the most desired workplace for mortals in the area around Buchendi.
Jie Li followed Zhu Changyang, listening to Chang Fengchi's introduction while watching the flashlights being assembled one by one. He felt itching to try to assemble one himself.
Chang Fengchi naturally agreed. Just as a batch of parts were delivered, Jie Li sat down beside the assembly line and learned how to operate from others. He used a soldering iron to solder the parts and assemble them...
After a while, a flashlight was completed in his hands. He installed batteries in the flashlight, pressed a button, and watched the light light up, his heart became more and more excited.
I still remember that a few months ago, flashlights were as rare as immortal magic tools in the mortal world.
And now, he saw with his own eyes that ordinary people did not need spiritual roots or cultivation. As long as they received simple training and mastered certain methods, they could also create such artifacts, and they could produce them in batches.
This may be what Zhu Changyang once told him, the power that "technology" brings to mortals.
Studio:
[Seeing the processing plant again, the spring breeze of industry is really blowing across the land of cultivation.]
[To be honest, industrialization has indeed made life much more convenient for ordinary people. This is also true in the world of cultivation. No matter how powerful a magic weapon is, ordinary people cannot use it. It is not as practical as a flashlight. ]
[But will there be pollution? I am a little worried about the environment.]
[Pollution should be okay. Factory pollution is usually caused by the use of chemicals. I see that they use magic to handle the steps that require the use of chemicals, such as refining tungsten wire... Magic is still powerful, Mueller]
After visiting the flashlight production line, Chang Chunwu took them to sit down in a nearby warehouse which also served as a temporary meeting room.
In the world of cultivation, there are space magic spells such as mustard seed bags, and warehouses do not take up much space.
Chang Chunwu took out a mustard bag from a special cabinet and handed it to Zhu Changyang, saying, "These are the waste stones I saved for you. I was going to ask Fengchi to deliver them to you, but you were unpredictable these days, so they were delayed."
Zhu Changyang took a look and his eyes lit up immediately: "Wow, so many!"
This mustard bag is of quite high quality and has a large space inside. When fully filled, it can probably hold up half a mountain.
Most of the monks who use this kind of mustard seed bag are extraordinary people, and they usually store precious materials, spirit stones, magic tools, etc.
This is normal. Top-grade spirit stones are rare. Even if all the top-grade waste stones from the Nine Realms were collected, they would not be able to fill this bag.
"Great." Zhu Changyang smiled even brighter than when he received the receipt. He roughly estimated the amount and said, "These should be enough for me to use for a while."
Waste rock is a very high-grade ore. If all of this bag is refined, the common metals alone will exceed the inventory he has accumulated through hard work in this year. It is estimated that it is enough for him to build a small factory.
"Originally, we could have had more. In the past, other sects didn't want waste stones, so we could exchange them for all their waste stones with a few low-grade spirit stones or some spiritual materials. Sometimes, we didn't even have to give them spirit stones. We just had to tell the disciples in charge of miscellaneous affairs and collect them on time." Chang Fengchi pouted, looking a little depressed. "Now that they've discovered that we can make flashlights from materials refined from waste stones, they've raised the price of waste stones. Some sects have also started researching waste stones, so it's not as easy to collect waste stones as before."
"Normal." Zhu Changyang was not surprised and smiled and said, "If downstream products are selling well, the prices of upstream raw materials will definitely increase accordingly."
Metals have always been valuable in the mortal realm, and mortal craftsmen would go to the cultivation world regularly to mine for waste metals. However, the cultivation world looked down on mortal objects without spiritual power, and therefore always regarded them as cheap.
Now that the cultivation world has discovered that these ordinary objects can also create substitutes for magical instruments and make a lot of money, the value judgment of waste stones will naturally change.
Chang Fengchi thought about it and felt relieved, and said no more.
Chang Chunwu smiled, then his expression became serious and he said to Zhu Changyang, "By the way, I have something else to discuss with you."
Zhu Changyang: "What?"
Chang Chunwu took out another bag from the cabinet and placed it in front of him, saying, "These are the used batteries that I collected according to your previous suggestion."
This mustard bag is not very spacious and contains half a bag of ordinary dry batteries. There are not many of them, but they are all used. The surface of some batteries has rotted and some solution can be seen seeping out.
It turned out that when Baigongmen first proposed to build a flashlight workshop, Zhu Changyang had thought about the problem of environmental pollution. His workshop had advanced equipment that could process various industrial wastes. The current industrial awareness of Piaomiao Continent was obviously not at this level.
However, Zhu Changyang had no better idea at the time, so he could only remind Chang Chun in the jade communication not to pay attention to the waste gas and waste water produced by the workshop, and suggested that she find a way to recycle the used ordinary dry batteries.
In fact, to be honest, the scale of Baigongmen's workshop is so small, which is nothing compared to those real large factories in modern times. Moreover, many processes can be handled with spiritual fire, unlike modern factories that require chemical products. Even if they are completely ignored, it will not cause any impact on the vast Nine Realms.
But Zhu Changyang was considering longer-term issues. As the saying goes, little by little, a lot can add up. Who could have predicted how widely flashlights would be used in the mortal realm in the future, and whether other industrial products would appear in the mortal realm
Chang Chunwu didn't understand why at first, but she knew Zhu Changyang wouldn't do anything without a purpose, so she added a condition when selling flashlights, requiring people who bought flashlights to bring used batteries for exchange before they could buy new batteries, similar to the old-for-new model.
Over time, these old batteries have accumulated.
Chang Chunwu also gradually understood Zhu Changyang's meaning. Monks are most sensitive to aura. Even if she has only a vague understanding of chemicals, she can feel that these old batteries have gradually become ominous after being stored for a long time. The substances inside have adverse effects on mortals, water sources, etc.
"I have some methods to deal with it." Zhu Changyang took out a booklet, which recorded some commonly used modern techniques for recycling dry-cell batteries.
The carbon rods, copper and zinc in waste batteries can be recycled manually, or crushed by fire, roasted at high temperature and then condensed to extract mercury and other substances.
"So it can be handled this way." Chang Chunwu read the contents of the booklet one by one. The more he read, the more relieved he felt. He smiled and said, "Then I feel relieved. I have thought of some ways before, but none of them can completely solve the problem. If I combine them with your method, I can solve most of it."
Zhu Changyang was a little surprised: "Do you have a solution?"
"Yes." Chang Chunwu nodded and said that since she discovered that these waste batteries were harmful to mortals and the soil, she had spent some time studying them.
Now she has gained a lot of experience in researching materials, which has really helped her to figure out some clues.
"Everything in the world is mutually reinforcing and mutually exclusive. I have consulted many ancient books and finally found a magical plant that can solve this problem." Chang Chunwu took out a mushroom-like golden plant the size of an egg from the cabinet and introduced it, "This is creeping golden moss, which grows by the water. It is said that if you throw it into the water, it will spread on the waves and shine like fire, so it is also called night-shining moss."
Those people in the cultivation world always speak in a flowery manner. Zhu Changyang translated it in his mind and it probably meant that if this plant was thrown into water, it would emit golden light, and if it was exposed to sunlight, it would look like a flame.
Simply put, it is the firefly among plants.
As the largest light source wholesaler in the Nine Regions today, Chang Chunwu is naturally not interested in the light. She is concerned about another function of the golden moss.
It is said that the golden moss can absorb impurities in the water and soil to nourish itself and turn into brilliance, so it grows in beautiful mountains and clear waters.
Chang Chunwu asked someone to find some golden moss materials from a material store and mixed them with soil contaminated by waste batteries. He found that after a period of time, the soil was really improved.
Zhu Changyang was shocked, and immediately picked up the golden moss and examined it carefully. As expected, this mushroom-like thing was full of spiritual energy. He couldn't help but sigh: "It is indeed extraordinary."
The world of cultivation is really unscientific. No wonder these cultivators can ascend to heaven. Not only do they have spiritual energy that can prolong their lives, they also have natural, environmentally friendly and purifying spiritual plants.
Such a magical land, it would be a shame if there were not a few gods here and there to give us this gift from nature.
In this way, as long as we plant golden moss around the factory and use industrial means, we should be able to solve most of the pollution problems.
Studio:
[Damn, there is such a good thing. I suggest all major factories introduce it! ! ]
[Chang Yang, when your live broadcast is over, you must take this thing out of the plane. Do you hear me? Don't make me beg you! ]
However, before Zhu Changyang could be happy, Chang Chunwu sighed, "It's a pity that it's hard to find golden moss now."
Zhu Changyang: "What do you mean?"
Chang Chunwu explained that this golden tung originally grew on the Xianxing Mountain in the north of Changping Territory. It was not rare at first, but later on, Xianxing Mountain was punished by the immortal master, and no grass grew on the mountain. The golden tungsten died in large numbers and has been rarely seen since then.
The remnants of golden moss that she had found with great difficulty were all stored by the material store many years ago. They were expensive and could no longer be regrown.
At present, she has sent her disciples to various famous mountains to look for living plants, but she doesn't know when they will find them.
"Is that so?" Zhu Changyang felt a little regretful after hearing this, but he still smiled and said, "It doesn't matter. We will do our best and leave the rest to fate."
After that, he took out a booklet and said, "Actually, I have been thinking about some spells these days, and I just wanted to find you to study them together."
Chang Chunwu was stunned: "Did you come up with this spell yourself?"
Zhu Changyang nodded: "Yes."
Studio:
[??? What, a self-created spell!]
[Awesome! I thought he was busy with industry, but he didn't neglect magic class!]
[666, this is a combination of both technology and magic! I wonder what kind of magic he created?!]
[Is there any need to ask this? It must be related to weapon refining. He is an experienced weapon refiner.]
Chang Chunwu asked the question that most netizens were thinking: "What is the name of your magic? Can you discuss it with the outsiders?"
It is not easy to create a magic spell, and discussing it with outsiders casually may cause it to be leaked. Chang Chunwu thought he should remind him.
"Oh, it's okay. This spell is for everyone to use." Zhu Changyang smiled. "I haven't thought of a name yet. How about calling it Environmental Protection Spell?"
Chang Chunwu:
What genre is this
Studio:
The author has something to say:
Chang Yang: Yes, a new genre~.
The moss is taken from Youyang Zazu. "Throw it into the water, it spreads on the waves, and its light shines like fire in the sun" is the original sentence in Youyang Zazu. The rest is just my fabrication~
(End of this chapter)