I had a good night's sleep for the first time in a week, and when I woke up the next day, Liu Lei felt full of energy, and he unexpectedly found that cultivating in the Great Yan Strange Stone actually made his spiritual power increase slightly, which made Liu Lei surprised, which meant that now in addition to practicing magical exercises and inscribed the original pattern on the stone bricks in a state of exhaustion, there was another channel that could allow him to grow quickly.

After a week of high-intensity training, Liu Lei has been able to persevere in the daytime training, of course, all he said is that he will not faint, at night he is ready to inscribe the original pattern on the stone bricks for Qingfeng Town in the first half of the night, and enter the strange stone to cultivate in the second half of the night, anyway, as long as the mental state is fine, the body can be relieved for a few hours with the help of a medicated bath every day.

In short, Liu Lei now arranges his time full, which not only makes him feel fulfilled, but also makes him forget the shadow in his heart for a while.

Today, Li Tianlong gave Liu Lei a half-day off, and if he doesn't let go, Qingfeng Town's affairs have accumulated a lot, and there are many important issues, and Zhu Dezhi doesn't dare to make up his mind.

Zhu Dezhi is now standing in front of Liu Lei at the moment, complaining while reporting, now the most headache for Zhu Dezhi is the secret cottage, the craftsmen that Liu Tianyu promised to Liu Lei last time have arrived one after another, the simple houses in the cottage are not enough to live in at all, the blacksmith ran to chase Zhu Dezhi almost every day, let him allocate materials for expansion, and at the same time, in order to strengthen the secrecy of the cottage, the wall is also transformed into stone, and it is more than ten meters high, although the amount of work is much smaller than the city wall of Qingfeng Town, But at present, almost all of his energy is focused on Qingfeng Town, and Zhu Dezhi does not dare to make a decision at all.

After listening to Zhu Dezhi's narration, Liu Lei patted Zhu Dezhi's shoulder embarrassedly, he has indeed neglected a lot of things in the past few days, Zhu Dezhi is not young, and he has never managed so many people before, and it is already very hard to be able to do what he is now.

In fact, Liu Lei has already had an idea about this matter, and with the continuous improvement of Qingfeng Town's strength, the model of the thief cottage small workshop has indeed been unable to keep up with the pace. Liu Lei called the blacksmith who also looked aggrieved to his side, took out three pieces of paper from his arms and handed them to him and said: "Don't worry, you are the cash cow of Qingfeng Town, naturally I won't treat you badly, since you want to build it back, you should be thorough."

The blacksmith took the drawing and hurriedly opened it, although he used to be a craftsman in the Federal Foundry Department, representing the highest achievement in the entire Glory Federation's weapon manufacturing, but after following Liu Lei for a while, whether it was a Zhuge crossbow or a Mo knife, a series of Liu Lei's inventions made him astonished, and in his opinion, looking at the entire Glory Federation, Liu Lei can be regarded as the top craftsman.

The first drawing is a vase that is narrow at the top and wide at the bottom, and the drawing is five or six meters high, three meters wide inside, and there are some strange holes on it. The blacksmith had never seen this thing, and looked up at Liu Lei suspiciously.

Liu Lei smiled and explained: "This is a good thing, I call it a blast furnace", as a traverser Liu Lei's last life in the countryside, there are two such buildings at the entrance of the village, it is said that it was built under the slogan of "taking steel as the key link, leaping forward in an all-round way", when the new China steelmaking movement, every village near Liu Lei's house almost this thing, this method is also called soil steelmaking, simple, fast to get started, and the most important thing is that the blast furnace can make the temperature of steel refining higher.

The disadvantage of soil steelmaking is that it will produce a lot of pollution and environmental damage, and the quality cannot be guaranteed, but these shortcomings do not exist in the mixed element continent.

First of all, almost all of the metals smelted in the Mixed Yuan Continent are metals with elemental attributes, and their own mass is far more than that of the earth, and the flames here do not need to burn coal and trees, they all use mutated salamanders, and the temperature is very high. The blast furnace is just a better warmer for the blacksmith, and how to use it still needs to be transformed by the blacksmith according to the actual situation.

Liu Lei briefly explained the principle of the blast furnace, and the blacksmith's eyes suddenly lit up, this is the advantage of talking to professionals, just click on the other party

Able to understand the principle.

The blacksmith nodded and wrote it down, and threw aside the blueprint of the blast furnace, Liu Lei provided an idea, and in the blacksmith's opinion, this principle was more practical than this impractical furnace.

The second drawing depicts a windmill and a waterwheel, which are not uncommon in the Yuan Continent, and the special thing is that there are many poles and ropes next to these two artifacts.

"What are these?" The blacksmith asked, pointing to two oddly shaped objects on the drawing.

Liu Lei looked at it and pointed to the drawings and replied: "This is a pulley, this is a gear, it can change the direction of the force, I went to see it last time and found that the weapons we built are all hammered out by craftsmen with tools little by little, with this thing can convert wind and water into power, instead of manual forging of metal, faster and more efficient."

Although there are a lot of craftsmen in the thief cottage now, they are all ordinary blacksmiths, many people only exist in the state of hearing about red crystal iron, and the forging of red crystal iron has high physical requirements for craftsmen, if this thing is really the same as Liu Lei said, it will solve the urgent need at once, not to mention anything else, that is, the design of the windmill and waterwheel will be in vain The blacksmith has been grinding with Zhu Dezhi for so many days, even if there is nothing else, it is worth it.

"Good stuff! Great stuff! The blacksmith's fingers trembled and stroked the drawings, at this moment Liu Lei was already as sacred in his heart as the god of craftsmen arched by every blacksmith shop, although he had heard that there were machines powered by fine stones in distant countries, but they could transform the most common things in life into power, Liu Lei was the first one he encountered, even if there was no one in the entire foundry department of the Glory Federation.

"Don't get excited! Take it easy! The last one is the most important thing."

Liu Lei took the first two drawings, folded them and stuffed them into the blacksmith's arms. Pointing to the third drawing, he said.

The blacksmith is now full of admiration for Liu Lei, and he can't wait to open the drawings. But compared to the first two, this drawing left the blacksmith dumbfounded.

"House?" The blacksmith asked, stunned. The most important thing that this third young master thinks is that it is a house that covers a large area, and the structure is very unreasonable compared to the structure of the houses in the Mixed Yuan Continent.

The first floor is much higher than usual, not to mention, the length is a bit exaggerated, less than six meters wide but more than 30 meters long. Although everyone on the side couldn't understand what the two said at the beginning, they could also see from the blacksmith's performance that Liu Lei's previous two drawings were very powerful, but everyone knew the third one, which was exactly what everyone felt incredible.

Liu Lei smiled and said: "This is not an ordinary house, I call it a factory, and it will be used to make an assembly line in the future."

"Assemblies? What are you doing with water in such a big room? Besides, even if it's filled with water, how can it be made to flow? Zhu Dezhi on the side grabbed his thinning hair and asked with a confused expression: "The young master wants to raise fish?" Then you don't need to build a house, just dig a hole."

Liu Lei was almost angry to death, and gave Zhu Dezhi a roll of his eyes and scolded: "I'll dig a pit and bury you." ”

Zhu Dezhi shrank his neck in fright, not daring to speak.

It doesn't matter if others don't understand, but the chief "Minister of Industry" booked by Liu Lei in the future doesn't understand, Liu Lei patiently explained.

"Blacksmith, what is the process of building weapons and armor now?"

The blacksmith scratched his head and didn't know why Liu Lei asked this, but such a simple question was not difficult for him, and he said: "Naturally, each skilled craftsman brings a few small workers, and the skilled craftsmen are responsible for building, and the small workers will do it."

Liu Lei nodded and continued to ask: "Then take the Zhuge Repeater as an example, how long does it take to build one?" ”

The blacksmith calculated carefully and said: "After this thing understands the principle, the process is not complicated, and it took five or six days to be unfamiliar with it some time ago, and now."

It only takes three days! ”

"And what if the part breaks?"

This time, the blacksmith didn't think about it and said: "Naturally, it's repair, just make a part and replace it." ”

"Then Zhuge Repeater needs a few steps"

"Five," said the blacksmith without hesitation, "first the wooden box is made, then the bow is secured, the crossbow string is tied, the machine is cast and assembled, and finally the firing device is installed."

Finally, when it came to the most critical time, Liu Lei smiled and said: "Since the steps are all the same, if I let one person be responsible for building the wooden box, one person making the bow body, one person making the crossbow string, one person responsible for the machine expansion, one person responsible for the firing device, and finally another person responsible for assembling it, do you say okay?" ”

Listening to Liu Lei's words, the blacksmith lowered his head and thought for a while, and suddenly looked at Liu Lei with a shocked face, according to him, if a person only does one process, the time can be greatly reduced after proficiency, and the requirements for craftsmen will be reduced a lot, after all, everyone only needs to know their own, and this is a complex firing device that can be made in one day, that is to say, as long as six people can create a Zhuge repeater in one day, the speed is far several times that of before, this is still the case of six people, What if we doubled the number of people?

Liu Lei nodded at the blacksmith and said: "This is the assembly line, from one end in and out from the other, like flowing water, and the last link can create a Zhuge crossbow, and the most important thing is that if each part is strictly required, the error will be much smaller, that is to say, if our weapon is broken when it is used, it only needs to be replaced with a spare one, and the fault can be discharged immediately, do you understand?" ”

The blacksmith was shocked by Liu Lei's unprecedented way, and nodded sneeringly, Liu Lei knew that his head had become a paste now, and he still needed to digest and straighten it out.

"And in the future, the cottage will be called the Ordnance Battalion, you are the first commander" Liu Lei commanded, he believed that when the blacksmith digested Liu Lei's words today, he believed that there would be a very big progress, and it was better to teach people to fish than to teach people to fish! Even though he had a lot of knowledge of his previous life in his mind, everything had to be combined with this place in the Mixed Yuan Continent, and in this regard, the "natives" such as blacksmiths were the experts.

After dealing with this matter, Liu Lei breathed a sigh of relief, and Zhu Dezhi on the side saw that Liu Lei seemed to be in a good mood, so he hurriedly came over and said, "Young master, I have another good news"

"Huh? Tell me about it," Liu Lei asked curiously.

Zhu Dezhi said with excitement on his face: "Young Master, the land we have cultivated, the crops have sprouted!" ”

"Really?" Liu Lei hurriedly asked, Qingfeng Town now has displaced people joining every day, and the population is slowly increasing, buying food is not a solution, and it is not good for the development of Qingfeng Town, when he first opened here, Liu Lei saw the plain in front of the valley, if it is used well, it should not be a problem to raise tens of thousands of people, so when it settled down, Zhu Dezhi would have led people to reclaim it, and he was busy these days without paying attention, and he didn't want the crops to grow.

This is great news, a group of people hurriedly ran to the mouth of the valley, and when they arrived here, they found that almost all the people gathered here, approached and did not develop anything, but from a distance, a large area of land in the distance was a faint green in the east and west, which reminded Liu Lei of an ancient poem: the grass is far away but there is nothing.

These extremely inconspicuous "green tips" seem to have emerged from the soil overnight.

Under the gaze of thousands of people in Qingfeng Town, Liu Lei walked over and dug out a young bud from the soil and gently bit it in his mouth, the slightly bitter taste was sweeter than any delicacy.

"Hooray!"

I don't know who took the lead in shouting, and suddenly the people of the entire Qingfeng Town were screaming and tsunami, only those who have been hungry can understand this feeling, this trace of greenery is the hope of life, and it is the vision of the future.