Chapter 41: The Dwarven Blacksmith
"Why is this fire blue?!" As soon as he stepped into the door of the blacksmith shop, Li Xin's eyes were immediately attracted by the blacksmith furnace with blue flames in the middle.
In his impression, didn't the stoves in the blacksmith's shop all bubble red or orange-red flames? Why did you get here and the painting style turned blue?
"Hehe, this is a dwarven specialty, the magic furnace, you can input mana to increase the temperature of the furnace, the more magic power you enter, the higher the furnace temperature will rise, and the faster the fuel will be consumed." Morrowind explained with a smile, and then pointed to a few blacksmiths who were tinkling and ding dong sledgehammers next to him and said, "Ten years ago, more than a dozen of our tribes teamed up to attack a peripheral town in Crucible, and the furnace and these dwarves were the trophies of that time. ”
Dwarf?!
Hearing Chenfeng say this, Li Xin immediately looked in the direction he was pointing, wanting to see what the legendary dwarf looked like......
I'll go!
Why isn't this style right?!
In the games I've played before, don't those dwarves have all hair, and they will braid their beards and hair into several big, thick braids?
How did it come to reality, it became that there was not even a single hair on the body, let alone braided into braids, which is completely unscientific!
"Because they stay by the fire every day, they can't keep too long hair, or they will be disfigured if they accidentally light it! However, those dwarves who are not blacksmiths still have their hair braided. Faced with Li Xin's question of not being there, Chenfeng still patiently explained.
"I see!" Li Xin touched his chin, it turned out to be a special work need, no wonder.
In fact, if you don't consider those little braids, the other characteristics of these dwarves are quite in line with Li Xin's inherent impression - one meter three or four tall, full of muscles, big head and short neck, thick and powerful limbs, bronzed skin, plus they also look fierce, if they go to the jewelry store to buy something, it is estimated that as soon as they enter the door, the clerk will immediately call the police.
"Your Majesty, don't look at these dwarves who are not good-looking, but their craftsmanship is the best in the entire continent..."Morrowind didn't care about how these dwarves looked, he was only interested in the dwarves' products now, which was a matter of life and death, "Look at these arrowheads, light cavalry spears, heavy cavalry spears, and these infantry spears and plate armor, they were all made......"
Although Chenfeng pointed to the various murder weapons hanging on the wall, the cold light flickering, and spat at there, Li Xin had no interest in checking their workmanship and quality, so he could only keep saying yes there.
One is that he doesn't understand the way of these melee weapons at all, and if he goes up to the layman and pretends to be an insider, he will be 100% despised.
After all, in modern society, how many people will study these cold weapons that can only be used to kill people? The most people do is play with compound bows, and occasionally find an opportunity to go up the mountain to shoot pheasants and wild boars.
And because he is more concerned about the quantity problem now - this tower has been a week, and now a total of ten spears and two sets of plate armor have been made, when will it be before the equipment of the sixty or seventy people in the tribe can be gathered?!
You know, we're only five weeks away from the scheduled departure time, and if you slow down at this rate, you won't even be able to get a new weapon, let alone armor.
Originally, there were fewer people than others, and if the equipment was not better than that of the other party, even if the sneak attack was successful, it would definitely cause a lot of losses, which would cause unnecessary variables to the plan to recruit and rebel later.
If it weren't for customizing a set of armor that the Minotaur could use on the earth, it would cost at least 100,000, and Li Xin would be eager to help them order dozens of sets.
But isn't there no money now? So Li Xin had no choice but to come up with other ideas.
"Yes, yes, these weapons are indeed very good, but don't you think the production is too low?" When Chenfeng finally finished the introduction, Li Xin directly changed the topic.
"Uh... There's no way around that, there are only five dwarves in total, and you can't get up fast if you want to. Morrowind nodded awkwardly, thought about it and explained: "And our people can't help much, because it's no problem for you to let them go to grazing, hunting, and fighting, but if you want them to strike iron, it's unlikely, after all, this sledgehammer also requires a lot of skills." ”
"Hehe, I understand all of this, and I didn't think of letting you minotaurs strike iron." Li Xin smiled, organized the wording a little, and began to explain his plan: "Actually, I want to gather all the blacksmiths of the twelve tribes together, and then the spear makers, the arrows of the arrows, and the various parts of those armor can be built separately, so that each blacksmith only needs to do one job, and he can naturally do it faster and faster, and it will not be like now, one person can do everything, but everything can't be done quickly." Do you understand what I mean? ”
"Uh...... This will increase speed, but the problem is that other tribes are unlikely to hand over their dwarven blacksmiths! This is the lifeblood of each tribe! Morrowind felt that this idea was really a bit taken for granted, if there was no blacksmith, then where would the iron tools and weapons come from in the future? How to fix it if it is broken? This is a guy used by various tribes to eat, and no matter how much you exchange food and steel for others, no one will agree to it.
"Oh? What do you think? But I think they're willing. Li Xin smiled slightly, and sacrificed his special skill - the silver bullet offensive, "You go and tell them this, as long as they are willing to hand over all the blacksmiths, then we will give them all the iron tools, including weapons, to provide trade-in services, and every year we also give them a number of iron pots, shovels, horseshoes, weapons and equipment and other kinds of iron, these are all things that can continue to be exchanged for the new, you can talk to them slowly about the specific number, anyway, I think you are quite good at business, don't you?" ”
"Take... To the old... Changeover? This is the first time Morrowind has heard of this kind of service, although he can understand every word, he just can't understand it!
"This... That is, you send the old and bad ones over, and then I will send you a new one to take away, and the loss of labor and iron is mine, you don't have to care about anything, isn't it very simple and convenient? Li Xin didn't believe that this trick would not work!
It's like, as long as you hand over all the iron pots at home to your neighbors, then you can go to your neighbor's house to eat every day, without paying for meals or bringing ingredients, just move your legs, open your mouth, and don't even have to wash the bowls.
"I see?! With such a good thing, then what else can be wrong?! I promise they absolutely would! Chenfeng suddenly realized, and hurriedly slapped his chest loudly, since His Majesty the Emperor is willing to give everyone benefits, then he is also happy to push the boat!
"Then it's up to you! If you get it done as soon as possible, you can increase the output as soon as possible, and there are you five blacksmiths, you can arrange it like this now, you can distribute the specific division of labor, I just ask. Seeing that these minotaurs were so short-sighted, Li Xin was relieved, and he didn't bother to care about those details anymore.