Leaving the research institute, it was still early, and Li Ba went directly to the weapons foundry.

In order to avoid his own appearance, he caused a riot sensation in the city. He specially borrowed an electric car from the institute. The car was produced by the research institute, the car was modified, the engine was changed, and it was completely driven by electricity.

With the dwindling availability of fuel, electric vehicles have become a popular means of transportation. Nowadays, only the military still uses high-horsepower fuel vehicles. In Xibu City, and even in the entire Huameng area, civilian vehicles have been banned from the road.

Drive an electric car on a wide street. As far as the eye can see, pedestrians are like a tide, bustling, and full of prosperity. After several expansions, Xibu City now has the scale of a medium-sized and large-scale city before the end of the world. With a permanent population of 3 million, or nearly 5 million including the floating population, it is the largest settlement in the entire Huameng.

Limited by geographical conditions, the scale of Xibu City has developed to the limit, and the population of five million is close to the peak of accommodation. Despite this, there are still a large number of survivors from the outer city who come to Xibu City every day to admire the cityscape of the largest city in the Huameng.

Clearly, Westport City did not disappoint them. Under the efforts of Li Ba, the green area of Xibu City has reached 60%. As far as the eye can see, the streets are full of all kinds of mutant plants, mainly mutated fruit trees, covering the whole city.

High-rise buildings, concrete buildings, are no longer cold, full of life.

In the eyes of the survivors from other places, Xibu City is a modern city standing in a primeval forest. If they can live here, even if they live ten or twenty years less. Also willingly.

It's just that now I want to become a resident of Xibu City and have a settlement card. It is dozens of times more difficult than settling in Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou before the end of the world. As early as half a year ago, Xibu City had issued a city lord order to no longer issue settlement cards to the public.

Even if you settle in the outer city of the Nine Rings, it is difficult to reach the sky. Unless they are special talents, or have made significant contributions to Xibu City, they can receive this honor.

Of course, if you marry a local resident of Westport City. You can still apply for a settlement card. In this way, the local residents of Xibu City, regardless of men, women and children, have become fragrant and sweet. There is a joke circulating within the Huameng. There is an old widower in Xibu City, who is not good-looking, physically disabled, and has no skills. They live on their benefits. On a certain day. He wanted to open it and was ready to find a wife to live the rest of his life.

The day after he released the news, matchmakers flocked to him, almost breaking through the threshold of his house. A lot of yellow flower girls from other places lined up to marry him, and they didn't even mind being a little wife.

According to the regulations of the city of Xibu, fertility is encouraged, and polygamy is not prohibited. However, a woman from other places married into Xibu City. There is only one place to be registered. If you want to marry two or three rooms, you can settle down. But there is a hefty fee to be paid.

Some out-of-town women who are willing to be old widowers with two or three bedrooms even offer to bear the registration fee themselves. It can be seen how high the gold content of the Xibu City settlement card is.

It's just a joke. Li Ba once promised that everyone in the city could be proud to be a resident of Xibu City.

Now, he did.

Driving on the street, looking at the crowd around you, all of them are full of laughter and happiness. Li Ba himself is also very happy.

This is his city, the home he has worked so hard to build. In the days to come, he will do everything in his power to defend his homeland and protect everyone who lives here.

Come to the Armory Foundry.

With the expansion of territory, the increase in the number of troops and the development of commerce, the demand for cold weapons is also growing rapidly. After two years, the scale of the Ordnance Foundry continued to expand. Today, the factory covers an area of 100 acres, and the number of workers has increased to tens of thousands.

Even so, the productivity of the armory foundry still cannot meet the needs of the market.

Come to the main plant. The towering furnace, which runs entirely on electricity, is capable of melting hundreds of tons of steel at a time. The fiery molten iron flows through the crucible and diverts to different work areas.

Some need to be refined twice, and some are directly poured into the mold, cooled and poured into shape. There are tens of thousands of square meters of the main plant, which is hot and hot, accompanied by the sound of hammering and percussion, which is very lively.

The sharp-eyed workers saw Li Ba coming, and immediately turned around to report. It didn't take long for Boss Xue, the director of the Weapons Foundry, to greet him.

"Boss, I was looking for you!"

As soon as they met, Boss Xue kept complaining. There are too many external orders, and his assembly line lacks a talisman mold, so it can't be completed at all.

After the weapons foundry produced the talismans, basically, ordinary cold weapons have been eliminated. In addition to some large-scale infrastructure equipment required. The rest, whether it is the military department or the commercial house, all the orders placed are all kinds of talismans.

Not to mention the complaints, Boss Xue directly pulled Li Ba to the talisman production workshop. Here, there are more than a dozen jade talisman molds, about the size of a table, and they are placed in a boxy place.

There were dozens of workers next to him, all young and strong men, holding hands in pairs, carrying refined molten iron and pouring it into the mold. The overall aura of the jade mold flickered, and after ten or so minutes, the talismans had been cast.

Most of these runes are based on swords, guns, swords and shields, and after the finished product, the runes on the surface are looming, shining with aura, which is almost the same as the runes created by Li Ba himself.

"Boss, we only have a total of twelve sets of talisman molds now, and we can only produce five hundred finished products in twenty-four hours...... Not to mention the army, we can't complete the orders placed by the commercial banks in three months, you say, what can we do? ”

Boss Xue began to pour bitter water. These days, he has been urged by people on both sides of the business house and the military department to have a headache. Now that the boss has come just in time, as long as he can give twenty more sets of talisman molds, he can solve the urgent need.

Twenty sets of talisman molds!

Li Ba smiled wryly after hearing this. If Boss Xue needed twenty high-quality talismans, he would be able to refine them and send them back. But this talisman mold ...... Not to mention twenty sets, even if there are two sets, he can't build them now.

The talisman mold involves a variety of talisman inscriptions, which takes a lot of time. With Li Ba's current talisman attainments, it will take at least three or four days to complete a set of molds.

It's just a process, and even if it's a bit complicated, it's not a big deal. The point is, the materials used to make the talisman mold, he didn't have.

Jade Essence!

This is the material necessary to create the talisman mold. Jade essence, as the name suggests, is the essence of jade, which needs to be extracted from the inside of ordinary jade. After spiritual fire training, only one hundred catties of ordinary jade can be refined into one catty of jade essence. A set of molds for casting low-level talismans requires a full hundred catties of jade essence. In other words, it costs 10,000 catties of jade.

On the same day, in order to make the talisman mass production and enhance the overall strength of Huameng. Li Ba gritted his teeth and created twelve sets of talisman molds, and the jade he had brought back from the Miao area was almost exhausted.

Now, his soldiers and horses are fighting everywhere, although a large number of jade stones have been collected, but these jade stones are only enough to cultivate the elixir, and there is no surplus at all, which is used to make talisman molds.

After Li Ba said the situation, Boss Xue expressed his understanding. After all, in a sense, the elixir is more important.

"Alas, we don't produce jade here, if only we could open up the communication line to the southwest as soon as possible!"

Of course, Boss Xue knew about the Southern Army's action plan. At this moment, I was anxious in my heart, and I couldn't wait to leave the foundry and personally bring people over to help the Southern Army open up a line of communication. In that case, the southwest business will be smooth, and jade will continue to come with energy. The talisman mold he needed would not be a problem.

"Boss, you come with me!"

Li Ba smiled after hearing this, and pulled Boss Xue to the open space behind the factory. After that, I saw him wave his hand, the air in front of him distorted and fluctuated, and a huge battleship appeared out of thin air and landed on the empty field.

Boss Xue also has storage talismans, so he is not surprised that the boss can conjure things out of thin air. What shocked him was the battleship, huge and majestic, with exquisite style, and countless runes looming on the hull. Obviously, this is a talisman.

A giant talisman with great power!

"This is the Blue Battleship!"

Li Ba introduced the function of this battleship to Boss Xue in detail.

"For a week at most, I will take this ship to the southwest Miao District. When I come back, let alone twenty sets of talisman molds, even if I build a complete set of talisman molds for the Blue Hades Battleship, I will get them for you. ”

At this point, Li Ba's face was full of confidence. (To be continued.) )

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