In the early morning of December 24th, the player's four main combat corps immediately went out of the city of Zhoushui and headed towards the Beishui Spring and Eagle Hand mining areas in Beiling. As for the specific combat deployment, whether it is a defeat or a victory, that is a matter for the front-line combat corps, and Qin Xiaobai does not need to think about it with this spirit. The logistics corps' various tasks such as transporting supplies, manufacturing equipment, and purchasing red medicine were all arranged, and everything was on the right track.

Qin Xiaobai assigned all the tasks of the logistics corps to the appropriate people to do, and basically did not participate in specific tasks, only responsible for "distributing food and money", and almost became a hands-off shopkeeper.

When you exhibit alone, you need to rely on your own full strength, and you must redouble your efforts at this time, because no one will give you a grain of grain and a copper coin. However, the operation of the logistics corps requires an effective division of labor and cooperation, not how diligent he, the corps commander, is. He assigned almost all the tasks, and the only thing he had to do was to distribute money and food. With this in his hands, the operation of the entire logistics corps is under his control.

The sheep brought two pieces of news from the small white camp that the tin smelting failed, but the prospectors sent a lot of tin ore and could continue the experiment. This news made Qin Xiaobai very excited.

He galloped directly with the sheep to the small white camp ten miles south of the city to see the progress of smelting tin ore.

The camp at this time is very different from the previous days. A large stretch of farmland in the field is almost entirely the land of the Little White Army players, and NPC Shanjung slaves can be seen cultivating the fields everywhere. In addition, there were a number of G. halberd soldiers patrolling the fields and supervising the work of the slaves.

It has become the prototype of a village, which has evolved from a single tribe to a group of villages. In the middle is a village, surrounded by cultivated land.

Most of the current Little White Army players are small rich farmers with at least dozens or even hundreds of acres of arable land, as well as workshop owners and slave owners who produce various products. Among them, Qin Xiaobai has the most land wealth, as much as 300 acres of arable land, dozens of Shanrong slaves, and dozens of copper smelting workshops on the largest scale in Zhoushui Walled City.

Copper smelting workshops are a lucrative industry. It is also the only industry with the nature of heavy industry in the game at present, which is very important for any force. Many rich players and powerful players know this and want to get involved in this industry very much.

But whether you have the mind to get involved in copper smelting, or are taking action to get involved in copper smelting. However, they saw with their own eyes that Qin Xiaobai unceremoniously pressed the Nameless Chamber of Commerce directly down, and the number of players with this mind was greatly reduced.

And as Qin Xiaobai accidentally won the lottery of the army in charge of the logistics corps, now the rich players and bigwigs of the power organizations in Zhoushui City have completely dispelled their thoughts. did not dare to continue to compete with Qin Xiaobai for the position of copper smelting overlord. After all, the wealth that the logistics legion can mobilize is really amazing, and the circulation of hundreds of thousands of copper coins at a time is enough to crush any opponent who tries to challenge Qin Xiaobai's copper supremacy.

So whether it is the god king, the mountains and seas, or being a king, the hooligan is not a crime, the gray glass, the light rain, etc., these two days have been very low-key. They only produce a small number of single pieces of copper to sell on the market, recovering the cost of investment. Try to avoid showing a strong intention to compete with Qin Xiaobai and the Sheep Chamber of Commerce for the bronze market.

The six of them produced less than 15 percent of the total number of bronzes in the market. The bronze ware produced by Qin Xiaobai's family accounted for 85% of the total land, and was basically in a monopoly position. The unified price alliance of copper ware still exists, but it has been reduced from eight to seven.

To the relief of all the rich and powerful leaders in Zhou Shuicheng, Qin Xiaobai's appetite stopped at copper smelting. And did not continue to expand. Industries such as winemaking, war bows, textiles, pottery, animal husbandry, leather, fishing, minerals, and many others also have high profits. Qin Xiaobai did not intervene. This gives them plenty of room to show their power, and they don't have to fight to the death with Qin Xiaobai, a strong opponent, on the road of copper smelting. land, dismounted, and quickly came to the copper smelting workshop area in the camp. Most of the NPC coppersmiths are smelting copper and casting bronze objects, a few coppersmiths are pondering a small pile of yellow tin ore, and Dumb is habitually stupid. When they saw the patriarch coming, they hurriedly bowed and saluted.

Qin Xiaobai nodded and said to Dumb, "How is the progress of tin refining?" ”

Dumb seemed to be still thinking about something, and shook his head with a dull expression. "I made it once, but although the stone was yellow, it couldn't be made of brass. As for the tin, I don't know what it is. ”

Qin Xiaobai patted his head and told NPCs who had never seen tin what tin was. The difficulty is not generally high. Never mind. It doesn't matter what it is, you will know it when you refine it anyway. He looked up the data on the attributes of Dumbland. This is the easiest way to know the progress of your research.

Dumb: An ordinary hero, enlightened.

Technology: Drilling wood for fire, stone grinding, wooden handle installation, copper smelting technology, copper sword technology, copper helmet technology, copper shield technology, tin smelting technology.

4. Copper smelting technology. The copper smelting process has been mastered.

Copper Identification

Progress of copper smelting research

8. Tin smelting technology. The tin smelting process has not been mastered.

Tin Ore Identification

Progress of tin ore research

Dumb has mastered the most techniques of almost all NPC craftsmen. He learns the fastest and has mastered the most, but because of the lack of research time, the research progress of all technologies is not too high.

Dumb studied tin ore once, but the smelting failed, and no effect was obtained, and his heart was hit hard, and he refused to smelt tin ore again, and he would not study it again until he was in a good mood. The problem is that no one knows when he will be in a better mood - this is a characteristic of NPC research progress, which often becomes depressed due to failure, making research progress unusually slow. Unless there is a ready-made technique for them to learn directly, this slow research process will test the player's patience.

Qin Xiaobai asked the coppersmiths to continue their work.

He walked to the side with the sheep, "Judging from Dumb's progress bar, he estimates that he will have to study more than ten times before he can master the technique of tin smelting." And tin smelting is only the first step in smelting bronze, and there is also the technology of smelting bronze. However, he refused to smelt tin ore, which was a bit troublesome. What are your ideas? ”

The sheep thought for a moment and said, "I gave Dumb 300 copper coins as the cost of studying tin smelting. Why don't I give him more money next time to boost his motivation? ”

Qin Xiaobai said: "Well, this method is fine. But the progress of the research is still too slow, let all the coppersmiths smelt tin ore, and whoever is in a good mood will go to smelt, there is no need to wait for Dumb to master the tin smelting technology. Other coppersmiths, they may also be able to smelt the tin faster than Dumb. The sheep hurriedly calculated the cost and said hurriedly, "However, every time an NPC conducts research, it costs a research fee. The minimum cost of tin smelting is 300 copper coins per research, otherwise NPCs will refuse to conduct research. If each of our 44 coppersmiths were to participate in the research, the total research cost would be very large, and we would have to pay 13,200 copper coins for the research at one time, and this is only an upfront investment, and there will be no results at all. Each of them studied more than ten times, that is, hundreds of thousands of copper coins, and the cost of research was too great. If only dumb is allowed to study, the research cost will be greatly reduced. ”

Qin Xiaobai has already decided, what he cares about is the final result, not the question of how much to invest.

The heavy responsibility of smelting bronze is tied to Dumb, and it is not safe.

Moreover, all coppersmiths are involved in the research of tin smelting, and the probability of successfully smelting tin is greatly improved. These studies are not all wasteful, and the proficiency of tin smelting technology will be very beneficial for them to master the technology of smelting bronze.

"We don't have to think too much about this, the profits we make on bronze equipment are enough to cover the cost of researching bronze, and we can invest in batches. If each of these NPC coppersmiths were not allowed to try, who knew who among them would be the first to smelt the tin in the shortest possible time? Whoever mastered the bronze technology first and entered the Bronze Age will have an unstoppable advantage! This is a gap in the times, not to mention players, even NPC forces are powerless to stop it! For this goal, tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of copper coins are not a problem at all! ”

The sheep groaned in his heart, these are all copper coins. But he knew that the eldest brother had already made a decision, and there was no way to change it. The sheep gritted his teeth, "Okay, let all the coppersmiths participate in the research!" ”