Don't look at the rapid development of the Huaxia Alliance, especially in terms of economy and construction, but in general, the Huaxia Alliance is just a relatively large tribe, and compared to other second-class races, it is still backward in all aspects.

It's just that Li Qi broke it up, put everyone into factories, and replaced the national law with a company system, which helped the Huaxia Alliance cover up many problems.

But this is what Li Qi hopes to see, because he can't go all out to develop the economy and civilization and culture at the same time, he doesn't have such a big ability, this is very difficult, because the development of civilization and culture will inevitably affect economic development, and there will be many contradictions, his line is to meet the material needs first, and use the material needs to make up for the shortcomings of the system and civilization.

To put it mildly, this is actually somewhat similar to having a pet, if you are obedient, you will be given meat to eat.

Of course, Li Qi still hopes that mankind will develop into a big alliance with its own civilization and culture, and its own laws, but he is not a genius in this regard, unlike some people, who can achieve power in one fell swoop, and play the power and arts, the system, and the law to perfection.

In this respect, he prefers to be slower and try his best to ensure that there are no mistakes, because at present the Chinese Alliance is socialist, and if he does not pay attention to it, class contradictions and various contradictions may arise.

Now humanity does not have the ability to resolve contradictions.

However, as human beings come into contact with each other more and more, materials become more and more abundant, and family culture is formed, contradictions are bound to arise.

This is all brought by Rich, of course he will not be restrained, he just wants to delay the process, so he wants to strengthen ideological work, propaganda fraternity, unity, self-improvement, etc., these socialist ideas, and at the same time add some capitalist concepts, we can have today, all because of our unity, fraternity, mutual help, if we are not united, we will lose milk, we will lose meat and bread.

It's hard to go from luxury to frugality!

No one wants to go back to the wild man's life, eating fruit every day.

So this time the ideological work has been very successful, because the current thinking of human beings is very simple, and they also think that this is the case, because we are united, we have meat to eat, so we should be more united.

However, for the sake of industrial development and economic development, Li Qi gave up the development of civilization and culture, and if it is not successful there, it is equivalent to a bamboo basket for nothing.

After dealing with these things, Li Qi immediately flew to the factory in Yaozhou.

Nowadays, the factory is not yet operating at full capacity, or even not operating much, either because of a lack of manpower, not a lack of raw materials, or even a lack of what to produce.

This is a heavy industrial factory, and if you don't produce cars, artillery, tanks, and airplanes, you can't produce anything, and in terms of construction, you have to ask the tanuki to do it.

In fact, for now, the Huaxia Alliance really doesn't really need steel.

As a result, although the factory was many times larger, the number of personnel did not increase much, except that a larger steam engine could be placed here, which could be used to forge large objects.

When Li Qi arrived, everyone was still developing forging technology, and did not produce any heavy industrial products.

"Great Chief!"

"Great Chief!"

When everyone saw Li Qi coming, they shouted one after another.

Li Qi saw that everyone was very focused on debugging the large steam engine, nodded with a smile, and saw that Ah Gu and none of them were here, so he asked an employee, "Where are Rong and Ah Gu?" ”

The employee replied, "They've been in Workshop 7 all the time." ”

The so-called No. 7 workshop is Agu's dedicated R&D room, and ordinary employees can't go there.

Li Qi nodded, and then went directly inside, through three passages, before coming to the door of a single workshop, only to see two guards standing in front of the door.

"Great Chief."

"Agu, are they in there?"

"Yes."

Two guards pulled the heavy iron door open.

This workshop is relatively empty, on the right is the data room, and the copywriting room, Li Qi glanced at the copywriting room, and saw that there was no one inside, so he walked to the left, and there was only a large steam engine in the big room on the left, and at this time only Agu, Rong, and Hanying were standing in it.

This combination is quite unusual, because the three of them happen to be three different races.

But Ah Gu and Rong didn't seem to notice Li Qi's arrival, only Han Ying's eyes flickered, but he didn't make a sound, and the atmosphere here seemed to be a little serious.

Li Qi also quietly walked over, staring at it, only to see Agu staring at a punch made of ice stone, this ice stone was of course given to Li Qi by the Great Wilderness Clan, because Li Qi brewed a liquor for the Great Wilderness Clan that he liked very much, which was actually brandy. The ice punch and a round piece of red iron underneath it, surrounded by a cold air.

"A little colder." Agu said.

The cold shadow on the side turned his wrist slightly, and the cold was even worse.

What are they doing? Li Qi looked curious, but didn't dare to disturb them.

"Melt." Agu said again.

"Yes."

Rong raised his hand, only to hear a boom, and the steam engine immediately started.

There was a bang, and I saw that the punch immediately moved up and down and back once.

As soon as the hand was pressed, the steam engine gradually stopped running, and now the steam engine does not need to be switched, and can be directly controlled by the temperature of the fire.

Ah Gu moved the handle with both hands again, and when he heard a few clicks, the iron clamps on both sides immediately opened outward, and Ah Gu took out a palm-sized gear from it.

Li Qi's eyes widened, this gear looked like it really didn't lose to the future generations, the key was that this gear was fiery red, and he couldn't help asking: "Is this black iron?" ”

His voice almost scared off the gear in Agu's hand.

"Great Chief!"

Ah Gu looked back and subconsciously shouted.

"When did you come, Great Chief?" Rong asked honestly.

"Just a moment."

Li Qi didn't look at it, just replied perfunctorily, and couldn't help but take the gear from Ah Gu's hand, secretly wondering, what happened here? Why are they able to produce such precision gears in just a few moments? He asked again, "Is this black iron?" ”

"It's... Yes. ”

"Why this color?" Li Qi said and looked at Rong again, and said, "Could it be that the flame of Rong has strengthened a lot?" ”

The black iron is black with red light, but this gear is just the opposite, it is a fiery red iron with a trace of black light, even the black iron forged by the blue flame that melted back is also dark red, and the black is still obvious.

Rong scratched his head and said, "It's not all my credit, it's mainly because of the help of Cold Shadow's Ice True Qi." ”

Agu added: "It's also thanks to the cold forging technique of the Great Chief. ”

Li Qi was stunned and said, "I don't understand too much. ”

Agu explained: "Great Chief, it turns out that this black iron can be calcined twice, but it replaces the fire with cold air, and we call it 'cold forging'. ”

"Cold? Calcination? Cold forging? Li Qi blinked, shook his head and said, "I still don't understand." ”

Agu said: "We calcined the white fruit into black iron, and then beat it to enhance the properties of the black iron, which is the first calcination and forging, and this stage requires a melting flame. But it turns out that black iron can also be calcined for the second time in extreme cold, and after the second calcination, the texture of black iron will change, that is, we don't need to increase the power, only need the second calcination, and we can also forge very precise parts.

But speaking of which, thanks to the cold forging technique of the Great Chief, we had been thinking about how to increase the power of the steam engine until then, but we had never thought of a way. It wasn't until I carefully studied your cold forging technique that I wondered if it would be easier to forge at low temperatures, so I asked Hanying to help, but I didn't expect that in the extremely cold temperature, for black iron stamping, the black iron would not only become more plastic, but also turn fiery red, and its attributes would also be improved. ”

Li Qi was stunned when he heard this, and said in his ear: "You said calcination at extremely cold temperatures?" ”

This is not the concept of cold forging, cold forging does not mean forging at dozens of degrees below zero, it is called cold forging, mainly to see the recrystallization of metal, iron is called cold forging at room temperature, but tin forging at room temperature is also hot forging, because the recrystallinity of tin is very low.

"Yes."

Ah Gu nodded affirmatively, and said, "If the Great Chief doesn't believe it, we can demonstrate it now." ”

"As much as I believe it, I want to see it too."

"Good! All right! ”

Ah Gu nodded a few times, suddenly remembered something, and couldn't help but look at Han Ying in embarrassment.

Cold Shadow nodded.

She was able to have such strength because of Richie's help, so she felt that she should repay Richie now.

After getting Hanying's nod, Ah Gu immediately ran to the copywriting room and brought a square piece of black iron, which could not be said to be black iron, but should be said to be red iron, because this piece of iron was dark red.

Ah Gu first handed the piece of iron to Li Qi, "Great Chief, this is forged from molten flames. ”

This dark red iron, Li Qi had seen before, he nodded.

Then Agu put the black iron on the anvil.

Cold Shadow immediately used the cold palm she had comprehended to urge the cold qi to envelop the black iron, and at the same time, it seemed that the red light of the black iron began to flicker.

Rong picked up the hammer and struck it.

A scene that shocked Li Qi appeared, only to see that the black iron was gradually deformed, and the luster was becoming more and more red and bright, and under the exquisite technology, a fiery red dagger was revealed.

"For... Why is this happening? ”

Li Qi was extremely surprised.

As far as the melting process is concerned, this is completely iron, just replacing fire with cold air, but this doesn't make sense at all.

"We don't know the reason yet, but I suspect it may have something to do with the white tree. ”

Li Qi was curious: "What do you mean?" ”

Ah Gu said: "The big chief should know, that kind of white tree has always grown in extremely cold places, usually in deep ditches, where the sun shines, but it can't grow that kind of white tree." ”

Li Qi said thoughtfully: "In other words, this black iron itself is cold, so the cold can calcine it. ”

"I think so. But....... ”

Ah Gu scratched his head and said, "But we have experimented, the cold air cannot smelt black iron from the white fruit, and it must be calcined by a melting flame before the second forging can occur, which seems to be wrong, but neither the purple lazuli nor the colorful stone can be forged for the second time, only black iron can." ”

Li Qi nodded slightly, and then asked, "Is that necessary to obtain the cold shadow of the cold true qi?" ”

Ah Gu was stunned and said, "We don't know this yet, because we don't know how to create such a low temperature, even if we use ice cubes, the cold qi of the ice cubes cannot be condensed together, and the temperature is far less than the cold ice true qi of the cold shadow." ”

"So you don't know!"

The silent cold shadow on the side suddenly spoke.

Li Qi was stunned and said, "What do I know? ”

Han Ying said: "I thought that you asked me to cultivate the Cold Ice True Qi just to forge this black iron. ”

"So I'm such a person in your mind. It's so sad for me! ”

Li Qi flashed a trace of grievance tears in the corners of his eyes, and said: "I have always believed that this kindness will always be rewarded, so when I give, I never pursue returns, which is also my life creed." For example, Hanying, you, I have always been unrequited for you, for example, if I save you, what am I asking for, but you are forced to protect me out of desperation. ”

In fact, he planned to do so, if he could control the temperature, it would be very helpful for forging, but he could also forge if he wanted to get the cold air.

Although it can be said that this is the case, Han Ying always feels a little strange when she hears it, and with her understanding of Li Qi, it seems a bit far-fetched.

But Ah Gu was very moved and said: "The big chief said it really well, I believe the big chief." ”

"Thank you!"

Li Qi patted Agu's shoulder with a touched face.