With the machine in hand, Mike quickly made a large number of semi-finished products, and began to have goblins make small needles and fish hooks.

There are four processes involved in needle making:

The first is to knock straight. The goblins wielded their hammers to finish their work on the stone platform, and they could knock thirty or forty pieces an hour.

The second is sharpening. The tool is a pedal grinding wheel similar to that of a one-wheeled bicycle. In a group of three goblins, take turns pedaling the grinding wheel and the other two sharpen the tip of the needle. On average, each person can grind about 30 sticks per hour, and when they are trained to grind two sticks at the same time, the efficiency can be doubled or two.

The third is the processing of the needle nose. Since they already have a thin and flat nose, it is easier for goblins to cone out the bumps with a steel cone, and after grinding them off, repeat them once or twice to complete the hole. The speed is not much faster, even the needle nose is small, and the average person can process more than eight pieces per hour.

The fourth and final process is quenching. At present, a large number of needles are baked on the steel mesh and thrown into the water, and the effect is needless to say, but it is enough for the needles.

The dwarves are known as "natural blacksmiths", and the seven dwarfs who were once part of the lead peak dragon army under Thrall were approached by Mike and ordered to take the goblins to quench them.

The natural blacksmiths began to think that they were going to quench their swords, and one by one they were speechless. When I heard that it was just a casual barbecue of needles and fish hooks, I immediately patted my chest and said that our dwarven blacksmith level is a first-class master, and it is guaranteed that there is absolutely no problem. Even goblins can become good blacksmiths with our education.

In addition, there are some goblins doing odd jobs, and regrinding steel cones also requires manpower, and on average, it takes about 16 goblin minutes to make a needle. According to Mike's estimate, after a period of time to become fully proficient, it should be able to compress to less than 8 minutes.

There is a slight difference between a hook and a needle, the first is sharpened, the second is bent, and the third is quenched. Because it is difficult to knock a circle at the tail when knocking the bend, although there is one less process, the production time and needle are basically the same.

There are several processes used by the people of the Otherworld to produce these two items, one of which is basically the same as Mike's, but they pull the wire to make iron, make iron, needle iron fishhooks, and then quench and carburize to increase the hardness, and may have to go back and forth several times and finally temper, the process is more difficult, which leads to the high price of needles and fish hooks. The price of these two commodities is the same, the wholesale price of 35 gold coins per thousand pieces in Sentia, and the retail price of 5 copper coins, and the Kena Er and their land in the Pioneer Camp are more expensive, ranging from 6 to 10 copper coins depending on the distance.

Mr. Orfitt was originally extremely dissatisfied with the recent behavior of his cheap son-in-law, who did not use his expertise to tame slaves, and refused to go to Centia to work as a construction mage to earn money, and he knew all day that he was messing around with his own daughter, and there was no way to compare with the hard-working and down-to-earth Adrian, and he had to find an opportunity to educate him.

But it wasn't until Mike organized goblins to produce needles and fish hooks that Mr. Orfitt felt he should be educated. He thought he was fully aware of his son-in-law's intentions: he did want to tame slaves, but his main purpose was not to sell, but to build an industrial town and use trained slaves for large-scale and simple labor. Isn't the "First Five-Year Plan and Development Outline of Sanzang Town" nonsense?

Mr. Offett didn't know how Sentia produced needles and hooks, and naturally he didn't know their production capacity and cost, but he knew that the wholesale price was 35 gold coins per thousand, and the cost was estimated to be 25 to 30 gold coins. He knows Mike's capacity, and he thinks he knows the cost.

In terms of production capacity, Mike set different indicators for different processes, which are equivalent to 45 needles or fish hooks per person per day, and the number of needles or fish hooks is gradually increased to 70. Mike thinks the limit is around 100, and Mr. Offett thinks it's impossible, but sixty or seventy should be fine, even if each person produces 2,000 per month. Mike's goblins are so numerous, as long as there is enough thin wire, they will definitely be built faster than sold.

In terms of cost, goblins only need the most basic living support, and the food they need is only one-third of that of adults, even if it is 5 silver coins a month, it must be more than enough. Add up the miscellaneous costs such as various logistical goblins and tool losses, and the cost of a thousand needles of the goblins will not exceed 5 silver coins, which will have little impact on the total cost.

Mike's main cost is the raw material of thin steel wire, and the price is that Mr. Offett heard from Mike's mouth, 20 gold coins per thousand. Mr. Offett felt that his son-in-law was very honest, and that the offer would certainly not be large even if there was moisture. Through his daughter's hard work, Mike agreed to get the Offfit Chamber of Commerce involved in the form of a profit share. At present, it is ready to wholesale by 1,000 pieces of 30 gold coins, see how competitors react, and then consider whether the price needs to be adjusted further.

Mike is indeed honest and does not misstate costs. Among the cost of 1,000 thin steel wires, the patent royalty is 19 gold coins, the raw materials are nearly 4 taels of steel, the cost of magic bits is about 1 silver coin, and the depreciation of tools and goblin extinguishing are about 5 silver coins.

Mana Pearl Regeneration is a very useful power-up that can be used once a day to restore memories and use spell slots of a certain level. Restoring a Tier 1 spell slot is called a Tier 1 Mana Pearl, and a Tier 5 spell slot is called a Tier 5 Mana Pearl. The price of low-grade pearls is not expensive, and Mike also uses the second-order kind if he wants to use it, about 800 gold coins, and he can use it for ten or eight years every day.

But Mike didn't have it or needed it, he was so far away from the goblin that he couldn't run out of spell slots.

After the official production, Mike worked for a week, about an hour a day. About 400 kilograms of thin steel wire, about 2 million pieces, about 650 kilograms of thick steel wire, about 1 million pieces, and about 700 kilograms of steel sheets, about 170,000 pieces. In addition, Mike also built 20 ultra-fine steel wire coils, each weighing 25 grams and about 400 meters long. With such a large amount, I don't know how long it will take to use it up, anyway, I can put it in a box and put it in the dimensional hole that the teacher just borrowed himself, so I don't have to worry about rust at all.

For the sake of secrecy, Mike will dismantle the mold, knife, forging hammer and take it away in a space bag every time he finishes work, so usually even if someone sneaks into the small dark room, he can only see very common things, and he can't understand why it is at all. Mike was going to work hard for a while longer, build more inventory, and then destroy the machine, leaving only the blades of the knives to carry around in a space bag.

Also for the sake of secrecy, Mike asked the goblins to take a magnet and collect the scrap and put it in a steel box, and then he cast a spell to soften it and forge it into steel bars, so the raw material utilization rate was as high as 100%.

For the sake of secrecy, the 60 goblins involved in the manufacture of semi-finished products were isolated from the beginning, only Mike and Goku were allowed to come into contact, and when they were about to destroy the tools later, they were all brutally wiped out.

The main factor limiting Mike's speed of swiping money is the market capacity, even if he monopolizes the moon sea, he may not be able to sell 500,000 needles a year, the market of fish hooks is estimated to be about the same, and he can earn a total of 20,000 or 30,000 gold coins, Mike feels that it is not enough for himself. However, this Moon Sea is a bit similar to the Black Sea on the earth, the Black Sea is connected to the vast Mediterranean Sea in the west, and the South Moon Sea is connected to the vast Falling Star Sea.

Mr. Offett was obviously aware of the capacity of the market, so he pleaded with Mike to make weapons, which he felt was hugely lucrative.

Mike scoffed at this.

"Have you ever thought about who you need to compete with in the arms market, take the most recent one, Melwater's big Chamber of Commerce? Whether we have the ability to compete with them or not, they send a few dragon knights, how are you going to deal with it?" In the great United States in the 19th century, large corporations or consortia also made off-the-shelf moves against competitors, DuPont was good at blasting, and the Morgan consortium had an army, not to mention this otherworld, which was even more chaotic than Somalia.

"Won't you...... I don't think it's that serious. "Mr. Offett felt that his son-in-law had little courage.

"Why don't you do it yourself?" Mike ignored him. Although this old man is quite shrewd, but because he only does some small business, his vision is very low, and he can't tell how it is now, and he will naturally understand when the business is bigger.

"......" Mr. Offitt was speechless, if he had that ability, he would have done it a long time ago. He thought about it for a while, and put it another way, "We don't sell needles and fish hooks to compete with others?"

"The market capacity of each of these things is not large, and there should be no strong opponents, so we can compete casually. Think about what other small metal goods you can sell, maybe we can make them. "So let's just say that the old man can't figure out the situation, Coca-Cola can do it very much, and there is no danger of being blasted by DuPont.

After thinking about it again, Mike felt that he should completely dispel his father-in-law's delusions: "Besides, we can't do swords and the like, and we can't do it." ”

"I don't think you're letting goblins make wooden hilts. "Mr. Offett doesn't believe it.

"So what you want is this kind of weapon, then we still have the ability. Mike pulled out a knife, the blade was about the length of his thumb, and it was a good weapon to use against food.

“...... Can't you just make it bigger?" said Mr. Offitt.

"No, I can't. The quality of the steel sheet as a raw material is very average, and the goblins will not forge, the blade is completely grinded out, and the quenching and tempering process is not good. Mike said that there is a reason that is not the main reason, "unless you can get better steel." ”

"Well, let's sell these first......" Mr. Offitt finally gave up for a moment, and went to think about the sale and purchase of supplies in a sullen manner.

There are only two types of steel in this world: weapons steel and non-weapon steel. Non-weapon steel is actually weapon steel whose quality is not well controlled, and the price difference between the two is nearly doubled. Mike is already using weapons steel, how can there be "better performance steel". The quality of weapons depends on forging and quenching and tempering, all of which require skilled blacksmiths.

The knife Mike has also been developed, and the raw material is a 60° diamond-shaped steel sheet with a hole at a single end of 6 cm long, but there are still some problems with mass production.

There are five manufacturing processes:

The first one grinds off the tip of the end of the hole.

The second line is to make a blade of steel by cutting the blade. These two grinds are similar to sharpening the tip of a needle, both in a group of three goblins, and the two courses add up, and it takes an average of 90 minutes to sharpen a blade per head. Mike estimates that it should be able to compress to 50 or even 40 minutes, but unfortunately he can't grind two hands at the same time, otherwise the efficiency can be doubled.

The third is quenching.

The fourth is to make the handle. The handle is simple, consisting of two wooden strips and a small stick. A piece of wood is 2 cm wide and has a 1 cm wide groove in the middle, a piece of 1 cm wide can be installed in a large wooden strip groove, both wooden strips have holes that can be put together, and the small wooden stick is thinner than the hole and thicker than the hole.

The fifth is installation. Align the holes in the order of "small wooden strips + blades + large wooden strips", knock the wooden stick into the hole, then cut off the wooden stick, and then wrap it firmly with a cloth strip.

There was a big problem with the quenching step, and the natural blacksmiths had to practice again because their skills were quite sparse. Of course, they themselves said that it was because there was no suitable stove, the firewood was not good, and the batch of processing at the same time was too large, and Balabala was the fault of the world in short. Mike didn't bother to talk nonsense with them, and each performed a hundred knife quenching with Goku, and then they were speechless. It's actually quite simple, Goku doesn't have much experience, and Mike has no experience, but because the requirements are lower, Mike will be able to read it once, but the problem is that the natural blacksmiths have lower IQs......

The manufacturing of the handle was even more difficult. First of all, the goblins always break the saw blade when they pull the hand saw, secondly, they don't know how to slot, then they don't know how to punch holes, and finally someone has to mark the line or do it slowly according to the mold to control the shape. Mike looked up to the sky and sighed, only to wait until he would bring in wheel saws, planers, and wooden drills.

Mike was going to ask the dwarves to hurry up and solve the quenching problem, and the handle of the knife asked Mr. Orfitt to go to Sentia to find someone to outsource the process. Similar knives are sold for about 5 silver coins in the market, and the wholesale price is close to 40 gold coins for 100 pieces, and there are many people who manufacture them in batches, so it should not be difficult to outsource the process.

This knife is extremely versatile and is a necessity of life. It can be used as tableware, fish, chickens and rabbits, skinning and carving, and many production and field activities are also needed, and even used as a hidden weapon. The market capacity of the Yuehai area alone should be 50 to 1 million a year, and if you add the vast coastal countries of the Falling Star Sea in the south, the market capacity will inevitably exceed 10 million, which is definitely a weapon for making money.

Therefore, if the outsourcing cost cannot be kept low enough, it is better to produce the tool holder in-house. Even if it can't be produced, it has to be assembled here. Mike asks Kenaer, who has a formal education, to select line-marking talents from among goblins and teach them to scale, line-down, and write simply in preparation for self-production.

Mike is ready to hit the market with the wholesale price of 100 35 gold coins, and see how the opponent reacts to adjust the price. Of course, the business of millions of gold coins a year must be very dangerous, and it cannot be attacked casually like a needle and a fish hook, and it must be done slowly depending on the force of the mercenary group.

In addition, the steel sheet grinds off the sharp corners and grinds a few gaps to create another product: the fire sickle. It doesn't take twenty minutes to build this thing, and the market price of a flint is about 6 silver coins, but Mike can't estimate the market capacity.

If you can make this kind of small blade, of course, a larger small knife or kitchen knife is not a problem. But there is almost nothing in Sanzang Town, and it is necessary to step up construction, and there are such products at present. After the housing and other problems are solved, the product should also have a certain brand awareness, and it will be easy to expand the product line at that time. He has thought of the advertising slogan: "Xitian" brand series of products, so that your life is as convenient as heaven.

Since the main thing that restricts Mike's production capacity is the weight of the product, he is reluctant to make something too heavy, and most of the kitchen knives will not come out. The ones scheduled to be released are some small daily necessities, such as medium-sized knives, small and medium-sized iron mirrors, V-mouth wooden handle forks, etc. Mike thinks that as an all-powerful traverser and noble master, time is extremely precious, and it is a lot to spare a week or two a year to strike iron, how can he do this every day.

Besides, as long as you can do a good job of these small daily necessities, it is very easy to break 10 million profits a year, and if you can monopolize the main plane, maybe you can break 100 million, it is enough to do anything, and there is no point in spending more effort.

Mike's profit has two parts.

Part of it is the profit of semi-finished products such as short steel wires and small steel sheets - or in Mike's words, royalties, which Mike does not have to share with anyone except the potential Owo teacher. According to expectations, the profit of a kilogram of short and thin steel wire for making small needles and small fish hooks is more than 100 gold coins, the medium steel sheet used to make small iron mirrors is also 100, the large steel sheet used to make medium iron mirrors is slightly more than 60, the small steel sheet used to make small knives is close to 60, the small and medium-sized steel sheets used to make medium knives are 30, the short and thick steel wire used to make medium needles and fish hooks are 28 gold coins, and the small and medium-sized short steel pieces used to make V-mouth wooden handle forks with the lowest profit are also more than 25 gold coins.

The other part is the profit of manufactured goods, which is estimated to be three to fifty percent of the profit of semi-finished products, and this part of Mike is to be used to win over allies, so he needs to share it with everyone. Approximately the proportion is that the Offit Chamber of Commerce is responsible for sales, accounting for 20% of the profits, and the other 80% belongs to Sanzang Town. Sanzang Town is the property of the mercenary group, which accepts Mike's leadership in principle, but in terms of benefit distribution, Mike and Wukong account for 50% of the two of them equally, and Sal and Sermena represent the lead peak Dragon Palace and account for 50% of the internal distribution.

In order to make the business bigger, especially without Mike's too much effort, he needs to find a lot of allies and share the profits of the finished product with everyone. Money is inexhaustible, and it's useless to ask for so much. If it is found that due to competition or some reasons, the wholesale price is low and the profit of the finished product is insufficient, Mike will reduce the supply price of semi-finished products under the pretext of reducing the cost of process improvement.

Mike didn't want to build weapons, mainly because earnings by weight simply wouldn't work. The most common long sword in the standard weapon, it is good to sell a kilogram for 5 gold coins in wholesale, but it costs 2 gold coins to buy steel, and you must give a skilled blacksmith a large sum of money, and the rest of Mike is not eye-catching at all. Otherwise, even if the goblins don't know how to forge and the quality is not up to par, Mike can easily make thin steel bars, and the blacksmith's workshop will definitely be happy to buy them to make weapons, and the market must be quite wide.

The only exception is the bow crossbow, to be exact, the bow string, 0.1mm ultra-fine steel wire should be used to make a high-quality bowstring, but the specific how to make it still needs to be studied, Mike does not understand it very well and lacks other materials to match. Let's let the indigenous people study how to make a bowstring with ultra-fine steel wire, anyway, the material of the composite bowstring can't be kept secret, as long as the people of the other world can't make ultra-fine steel wire at a low cost, Mike can sell it at a high price.