Not long after Shi Wansui left, Cui Yingyou walked into Ouyang Shuo's office. Ouyang Shuo asked her to sit down with a smile, and jokingly said, "Your, you don't come here for nothing?!"
He said that for a reason. After getting along with each other for this period of time, Ouyang Shuo discovered to his astonishment that this adopted sister was actually a workaholic. This depends on modern society, she is definitely a strong woman.
"Brother, even you are here to make fun of others. The little sister works so hard, isn't it all for the territory of the elder brother?" Cui Yingyou blushed and said coquettishly.
Ouyang Shuo hurriedly apologized, and coaxed: "Okay, okay, it's the elder brother's fault. Youer, don't be angry." In order to avoid her embarrassment, he quickly found a step and asked, "The junior mining field, can you What's going on?"
Although Yingyou is generous, she is her daughter's family after all, and she is slightly embarrassed to be ridiculed by her elder brother who is closest to her and trusts her the most. I was supposed to report on work, but now it's hard to open my mouth. Hearing that Ouyang Shuo took the initiative to chat about work matters, he was relieved.
She collected her emotions and said calmly: "Yes. As early as three days ago, I found Master Li, the blacksmith, and asked him to lead people to start searching for the mine. Finally, good news came yesterday. They are in the southwest of the territory. At the foot of the mountain, I found an open-pit iron ore field. The mine is not only large in size, rich in ore storage, but also extremely easy to collect. Some are directly exposed to the soil, and others only need to simply dig out a layer of soil , you can collect iron ore.”
Ouyang Shuo nodded happily, "This is really good news. Although the current demand for ores in the territory is not very large, the demand will increase sharply when weapons can be made. Now that there is this open-pit mine, the future is very bright. For a long time, there is no need to worry about iron ore. By the way, have you found skilled personnel who are more familiar with mining?"
"Well, I came here today to report this matter to my elder brother. Among the refugees that were spawned today, there is a mid-level miner named Yuan Shaoping. My sister suggested that he be in charge of the operation of the junior mining farm."
Ouyang Shuo didn't hesitate at all, "Yes. You can bring him here, and I'll meet him. If there are no problems, I will appoint him as the head of the primary mining farm and place it under the management of your Material Reserve Department."
Yingyou was very touched by Ouyang Shuo's trust, "Thank you, big brother, for your trust, hehe!"
Ouyang Shuo waved his hand and said with a smile: "You are my younger sister, with strong ability and good vision. Of course, my elder brother trusts you. But, don't work too hard."
Yingyou responded in a low voice, and the two of them became much closer.
After Cui Yingyou left, Ouyang Shuo didn't plan to stay in the office anymore. He thought, it's time to take a look at the carpentry workshop.
Since the last time I handed over the "Manual of Manufacture of Guide Cars" to carpenter Lu Guangzhi, I don't know how his research is going and whether he has made any progress. This guide car is related to whether he can get the exciting reward in the first battle map in the near future.
The carpentry workshop is built on the commercial street on the central axis, next to the blacksmith shop. When Ouyang Shuo walked into the carpentry workshop, the carpenter who was said to be a descendant of Lu Ban was leading two apprentices around a small wooden cart.
Ouyang Shuo was stunned for a moment, not surprised, but Lu Guangzhi had already understood the technical manual and built the guide car? ! This is too powerful! You know, this is a difficult technical job.
Unlike the modern compass, which uses the geomagnetic effect, the ancient compass car uses the principle of differential gears. The guide car uses a gear transmission system, and the wooden man on the car indicates the direction according to the rotation of the wheels. No matter which way the car turns, the hand of the wooden man always points to the south, so that the hand always guides the car even though it is returning.
An apprentice carpenter looked up and saw Ouyang Shuo, and quickly reminded the master who was still staring at the car.
Lu Guangzhi came back to his senses, hurriedly bowed to salute, and said in fear: "Xiao Min was in a daze for a while, and neglected the adults. Please punish the adults!"
Ouyang Shuo smiled, "Master Lu forgets himself in his work and deserves everyone's admiration and learning. What's the crime?"
Lu Guangzhi smiled shyly, and said shyly, "I made my lord laugh!"
Ouyang Shuo didn't want to get entangled, and pointed directly at the small wooden cart, "If I'm not wrong, it should be the guide cart described in the "Manual of Guide Car Manufacturing Technology"?! No, just three or four days , Master Lu has made such progress."
Hearing what Ouyang Shuo said, the man's dark face instantly turned red, with an unconcealable shame, "Xiaomin is ashamed, I really don't deserve such praise from adults. According to the records in the book, Xiaomin has indeed taken the guide car Made it. It's a pity that the car does not indicate the direction as it is recorded in the book."
Only then did Ouyang Shuo suddenly realize that it was just a test product, so it was more realistic. "Master Lu doesn't have to be like this. As far as I know, this compass car is a very precise instrument. Even with the technical manual as a reference, it can't be mastered in a short time. You don't have to be depressed at all, let alone feel ashamed. Anyway, there is still plenty of time, so there is no rush. Master Lu can study slowly, and maybe he can take this opportunity to raise his carpenter level by one level."
Lu Guangzhi's face paled, and he said gratefully: "Thank you for your trust. Xiaomin must hurry up and study, and try to make a compass car that can be used as soon as possible to repay your kindness."
"In this way, I can rest assured. Then you can be busy, and I won't bother you!"
Coming out of the carpentry workshop, Ouyang Shuo walked into the junior blacksmith's shop next to him. For Li Tiezhu, a junior blacksmith, to be honest, he didn't pay much attention to it. The reason is also very simple, junior blacksmiths cannot forge weapons and armor. At most, arrowheads can be made, not the more complicated Mitsubishi-shaped arrowheads.
Because military supplies are contraband in the market, there are only three ways for the lord to obtain weapons and equipment. The first is the simplest, that is, when the military camp is transferred, the system will directly present a set of basic weapons and equipment. For example, after a farmer is transferred to a militia, the system will automatically give away spears and leather armor.
The setting of the system is just to avoid the embarrassment of soldiers appearing naked, which can be regarded as a basic guarantee system. Of course, the disadvantages of this approach are also obvious. The weapons and equipment presented by the system are not of high quality and are easily damaged or destroyed.
The second way is to smuggle and cooperate with the big chamber of commerce in Wangcheng. As long as the starting price is paid, those big chambers of commerce with deep backgrounds will dare to take risks. They will arrange private escorts to escort all the way and transport the weapons and equipment directly to your territory.
This is of course not without cost. One is to get in touch with these big chambers of commerce, you must upgrade the primary market to the high-end market, and then you can open the fourth platform of the market—the negotiation and cooperation platform. The second is that the price of smuggled weapons and equipment is very abnormal, and the lord who is not a financially strong lord can't afford it at all. Any smuggling can bring the territory close to bankruptcy.
Those big chambers of commerce are not living Lei Feng, but born vampires. They took the risk of ransacking their homes and destroying their homes to transport weapons and equipment to your territory. They would not be satisfied if they did not earn several times or even ten times the profit. To make matters worse, the Chamber of Commerce is only responsible for selling weapons and equipment. They are not responsible for the later maintenance. If you want after-sales service, then everything is out of the question.
The last way is to establish your own military industry. Once a territory has its own military industry, it naturally does not need to be controlled by others. You can produce as much as you want.
This approach looks beautiful, but in fact it is the most difficult of the three approaches. Why? ! Because weapons and equipment are prohibited items, as long as they can be named by specific names, they need corresponding technical manuals to build them. For example, the famous Mingguang armor from the Southern and Northern Dynasties period in history requires the "Mingguang Armor Manufacturing Technical Manual" to be able to build it.
In general, these technical manuals are not available on the primary market. There is only one place to buy it. That is the third platform opened after upgrading to the mid-level market—the limited-time auction platform. The system will hold limited-time auctions on this platform from time to time. At that time, some rare items will appear.
More than half of the technical manuals for weapons and equipment came from this auction. Ouyang Shuo clearly remembered that the first auction held in his previous life was in the third month after the server was launched. That is the day when the credit point and game currency trading platform is officially opened.
back to the front. In Ouyang Shuo's plan, to start a weapon workshop, at least one senior blacksmith is required to preside over it. Therefore, he did not expect much from Li Tiezhu, a junior blacksmith. Unexpectedly, as soon as he walked into the blacksmith shop, Li Tiezhu gave him a surprise.
The burly blacksmith said happily when he saw Ouyang Shuo: "Haha, what a coincidence! Xiaomin was going to look for the lord, but the lord came unexpectedly."
"Oh? I don't know if Master Li is looking for me, what can I report?" Ouyang Shuo was surprised to see this calm and capable blacksmith showing such an excited expression.
"Hey, I have some good news to report to my lord. Yesterday afternoon, when I was making agricultural tools for the Agricultural Reclamation Division, I naturally broke through the bottleneck and was officially promoted to an intermediate blacksmith."
Hearing what he said, Ouyang Shuo immediately thought of the territorial characteristics attached to the gold-level village building order - the skill proficiency of production residents increased by 20%, and the success rate of territorial talents breaking through the bottleneck increased by 10%. I didn't expect that it would work so quickly, and it was really strong enough.
"Hehe, then I really want to congratulate Master Li! I want to ask, what special feeling did you have when you broke through?"
"Feeling? I don't feel much, everything seems to be a matter of course. Since I came to Shanhai Village, I feel that my blacksmithing skills have become more and more proficient. The problems that have been confusing before, seem to suddenly become easier after arriving here. , It’s almost as if there is divine help.” Li Tiejiang himself seemed very surprised by his breakthrough.
"Okay, no matter what, this is a good thing. Next, Master Li can try to make some arrowheads and spears. Soon, the territory will be useful."
Li Tiezhu readily agreed, and it was a great honor for the blacksmith to be able to forge weapons. After a brief explanation, Ouyang Shuo left the blacksmith shop.