As it turned out, Du Wei's hunch was correct.

After posting a job advertisement through the Industry Alliance in Boulder City, five experienced blacksmiths and more than fifty blacksmith apprentices were successfully recruited. After signing a contract and a confidentiality agreement with these people, Du Wei began to cooperate with the "technicians" sent by the alchemy workshop to adapt to the process of assembly line production according to Jiang Feng's requirements.

After about two days of running-in, he was soon shocked by the scene in front of him.

It is also now that he completely understands what the flow of the assembly line means.

The discharge of the blast furnace is followed by the mould and the cooling pool, followed by a row of long table-like workbenches. The apprentice stood on one side of the long table, holding different tools such as a hammer and a file, repeating the same action for different parts.

Remove the unprocessed parts from the red marked wooden box, complete the processing, and throw them into the blue marked wooden box.

Small, goblin laborers weave from table to table, quickly moving full crates to the next apprentice's table, while moving roughly the same half-finished product to the next location, to ensure that everyone has a job on their hands while the line is running.

"Incredible...... It's incredible. Muttering to himself, Du Wei took off the hat on his head and squeezed it in his hand.

"I was shocked at first," said Fielding, who walked next to Du Wei and was directing production in the steel plant, looking at the apprentices who were tinkling and waving their tools not far away, and the goblins who laboriously threw iron ore and charcoal into the inlet and removed the slag from the outlet, "Do you know what I saw?" A machine, a whole steel mill is a machine, there is no creativity here, it is unpretentious, but the energy contained is incomparable. ”

"But...... Why is that? Du Wei swallowed and spat, and asked, "Obviously, the production steps have not decreased, why have the final products increased?" And...... The people who work here are apprentices. ”

"The workload hasn't changed, but haven't you noticed that everyone is skilled in their movements?" Fielding said.

Du Wei was slightly stunned, and was so slightly touched by Fielding that he immediately discovered this.

Everyone, whether it's the blacksmith manipulating the molds next to the blast furnace, the apprentice wielding a hammer, a file, an awl at a long table, or even a goblin sweating in the rain, is in a state of high load.

As far as the eye can see, everyone is working, and no one is idle and wandering around. A musket that would have required hours of meticulous polishing by a skilled blacksmith produced enough parts to assemble several muskets in less than a moment.

Everyone is like a cog, running in their own position.

Whether it's a master blacksmith or a goblin.

"Unbelievable ......"

"Surprised, isn't it?"

"Was this the wizard's own idea?" Du Wei couldn't help but ask.

"Maybe, maybe not, who knows?" Fielding sighed, "We always superficially think that everything we see is the whole of the world, but it turns out that our vision is too small to see even the tip of the iceberg of this world. ”

With that, Fielding shook his head and walked towards the door with his hands behind his back.

Du Wei looked at Fielding's back in a daze, not knowing why he suddenly had such a feeling.

Anyway, the assembly line is already in action.

If that musket was really as powerful as the wizard had described, maybe the outcome of this war would have been reversed.

……

The blacksmith's salary was three hundred Swiss silver per month, which was more than forty percent higher than the salary outside. In the past, apprentices were not paid and often had to bring their own dry rations, but here not only did the apprentices receive a salary, but the steel mill also took care of three meals a day.

It turned out to be three meals.

Although there is only a bowl of porridge in the morning, it is something that these children from poor families dare not think of.

The most incredible thing for them is that if the production task is overfulfilled, there are still 2-5 UBS bonuses to claim.

Although the production task cannot be completed, there is a corresponding punishment......

"It's a tainted art of forging!" The young man, who skillfully hammered out the fire holes in the steel bars with nails, hammers and calipers, and freckled on his nose, whispered, "We can't be blacksmiths by just repeating this work every day." ”

"Okay, Dureyne, our salary is already equivalent to half a blacksmith, and this is to help the wizard do things, I don't know how many people rush to work here." The red-haired man next to him kept working on his hands, tilted his head sideways and whispered, "And didn't you notice?" ”

"Notice what?"

"If complex tools could be produced in this way, there would probably be no blacksmiths in the future."

"How is this possible without a blacksmith!" "You don't know how important a blacksmith is to a city," said Dureyne, shocked. Cybanes, your father will beat you up if he hears you say that. ”

"I know, but look over there," Sarbanes-Oxley lifted his chin and pointed to the door, "how many barrels and parts have we machined today?" Let's take a look. ”

Durayne glanced at the door.

The wooden boxes that were piled up like a hill contained all of their works today.

"Can five blacksmith shops, working all day from morning to night, produce half of what is here? Don't say it's half, thirty percent! Even three percent can't do it! The expression on Sarbanes' face was a little excited, "See the expressions on the faces of those blacksmiths?" ”

"In any case, this is a stain on the art of blacksmithing," muttered Dureyne, striking a hammer into the nail and smashing the steel bar into a small eye, "even if it is a hundred finished pieces, it is not as good as a fine work of the master blacksmith." ”

"But what we need is not high-quality products, but thousands of qualified products, and you can't expect everyone to go to battle with the sword of Gondar."

"Enough, Sarbanes, I don't want to continue on this topic." Durayne said irritably.

The topic ended unpleasantly, and the two stopped talking to each other and concentrated on the work at hand.

Fate is so magical.

Have the same starting point, but not necessarily the same ending.

Cybanes's eyes sparkled, and Durein's heart was full of annoyance.

Many years later, Durayne resigned from the steel mill and went to the distant capital of blacksmiths as an apprentice, eventually becoming a well-known blacksmith. When I returned to Boulder City, I planned to use my skills to show my strength, but I found that there was no place for me here. Industrial leather. The flame of life has destroyed the tradition at all, not only the hammer in his hand, but also the castle and knights of the feudal lord.

At this moment, Sarbanes, who was standing next to him, also left the steel mill many years later, but instead of becoming a blacksmith, he applied the assembly line production concept he learned from the steel mill to brewing technology. With the salary and bonuses saved from years of frugality, he opened a winery, and after more than ten years of development, he finally became one of the top wine merchants in Boulder City......

But that's all for later......

Not to mention the fate of two little people.

Even if the fate of the entire planet is set against the background of the vast starry sky, what is it?