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"Lord Andrew. "When he appeared in front of Andrew's laboratory, Gong Hao behaved very steadily.

"How does it feel about your new job?" Andrew asked.

"Well said, knowledge is the sharpest weapon of an alchemist, tell me how much you have learned?"

Gong Hao replied, "In three days, I have learned almost twenty ways to make potions. ”

"Not a lot. Andrew frowned.

"I mean the part that can be made independently. ”

"Oh, that's good. I knew you never let us down. So, in a few days you'll soon be able to make all the potions on your own, right?"

"I'm afraid it's still a long way off. Gong Hao replied: "It's good if you only learn one, but with the increase in the variety of medicines, many times the materials we need to use will be confused in our minds." If it's just a matter of materials, after all, you can always look at the information in advance. However, when it comes to the mastery of temperature and dosage, it is not easy to do. After all, the records cannot be so detailed, and we need to grasp and understand them ourselves, especially in the face of some special medicines, which are often unstable. How to deal with this situation requires absolute experience. I think I'm still a long way from really mastering how to make these potions. ”

"Well, you're sober, Gler, you've always been clear-headed, and that's what I appreciate most about you. Well, since you're coming to me, then I thought maybe there's something I can do to help you?"

"Yes, my lord, I wish I could get some glass and seasonal grass. ”

"Oh, what do you want to do with that?"

"I just want to make some tools that are more handy. ”

"If that's the case, you should go to Pie. ”

"My lord, I'm still your servant, right?" Gong Hao looked at Andrew with a smile. If you let yourself go to Pierre, then Pierre will definitely get to the bottom of it and ask why.

For the time being, Gong Hao doesn't plan to let Pierre know his tools.

So at this time, it is necessary to be pampered. Only with the help of Andrew can he do what he wants, without worrying about anyone noticing.

Sure enough, Andrew agreed, asking for some glass was just a trivial matter, and the four-season grass was not a precious material.

The alchemy of Fengming Da 6 has never put effort into civilianism.

This is determined by the nature of hierarchical society.

In the wizarding world, due to the existence of magical talents, there is a difference between high and low bloodlines, which contributes to and consolidates the stratification of the system, and due to the existence of the aristocratic system of social class, the exhibition of science and technology is mainly for the upper class rather than the grassroots.

This was the basic characteristic of the feudal system, which served the aristocracy.

However, because of this, high-end alchemy often lacks support from the grassroots people.

This makes the exhibition of society very flawed: people do not understand that grassroots technology is actually the cornerstone of high-end technology. A lot of high-end technology is often built on a sufficiently advanced grassroots technology. If high-end technology is the leader of grassroots technology, then grassroots technology is the booster of its exhibition. It is very, very difficult to rely on the previous leader to pull the entire social science and technology exhibition.

It is very likely that a pen that you can use well when doing experiments, a piece of paper is from folk technology, but due to the lack of folk technology, it also leads to the limitation of high-end technology.

And the alchemy of Fengming Da 6 is actually in such a deformed exhibition situation.

So you can imagine that alchemy can create a cutting-edge being like a puppet warrior, but not a thermometer.

It's not because they can't do it, it's that they simply don't want to do it. Alchemists are not Ming, and it is impossible to go to Ming for everything. Since there is no one to know the thermometer, they have to replace it with their own brains and experience. And even if they thought of it, they might not be able to understand it, because once it appeared, the alchemist would probably become worthless.

It's like Chaplin's biggest opposition to sound films, and it is precisely because of the clarity of sound films that Chaplin can no longer use the body language he is good at to express his unique artistic ideas. The emergence of many new technologies will lay off a group of high-tech veteran workers, but let a group of young people emerge.

The same is true for alchemists, who are obviously the beneficiaries, and it is precisely these things that they oppose the most. This makes it even less likely for them to think about making these basic tools.

But Gong Hao doesn't think about these, as long as he can do a good job, you don't go to Ming, I will go to Ming, and use it myself, wouldn't it be better?

Gong Hao made the thermometer almost very easily.

A small sealed glass tube, a few drops of the juice of the four seasons grass is considered a success.

This thermometer doesn't even have a clear scale because Gong Hao can't do a precise temperature distribution. But it doesn't matter, when the processed agent reaches the target temperature, Gong Hao directly makes a symbol on the scale of the thermometer, and then marks it, such as writing the word so-and-so grass, which means that when the temperature reaches this index, the material can be put in.

This means that a constant standard is released.

Different potions can make different thermometers, and many of them can share one or more of them. In this way, more than 100 kinds of medicines only need more than 10 thermometers to basically grasp all the temperature changes of the medicines.

Gong Hao even directly made the thermometer into a stirring rod, which made it more convenient to use, and at the same time, he didn't have to worry about letting Ivo see anything.

Basically, with this thing, he will never have any more temperature measurement errors, and of course, he will have to do some trial and error before making sure that the temperature at which he is burning is the best standard. This requires him to pay a large price for failure.

Fortunately, it is normal for new apprentices to fail, and Gong Hao's failure will not surprise everyone.

After finishing the thermometer, Gong Hao made another measuring cup. In the same way, Gong Hao didn't know how to determine the scale of the measuring cup, but it didn't matter, just arrange it according to the use of the potion.

The measuring cup is mainly used to determine the amount of material to be put in, in the past, when the apprentices put the material, they always put it according to experience, but now it is good, Gong Hao directly uses the measuring cup to replace the feel, which greatly improves the accuracy.

He then carved some special symbols on the outside of the measuring cup and thermometer to replace the volume, so that no one could read it. Of course, the best symbol is the Chinese character.

In this case, it was thought that Gong Hao would have to go through at least a month to roughly master and a year to become completely familiar with the potion production, but Gong Hao only took half a month to solve all the problems.

This was partly due to his own efforts, on the one hand, thanks to his thermometer and measuring cup, and on the other hand, he also benefited from his time in the library.

When he was in the library, he had basically read all the records about the production of potions, and he was already completely familiar with the proportion of material formulas, dosages, and cutting sequences, but he lacked practical experience. With a theoretical foundation and combined with theory for practice, it is really easy for Gong Hao, who is himself a tutor and assistant in the chemistry laboratory, to do all this.

Therefore, when other apprentices took a month to gradually grasp something, in Gong Hao's hands, they became proficient so quickly, it seemed as if they had been studying for several years, even Hines was extremely surprised.

What is especially amazing is not Gong Hao's mastery, but Gong Hao's success rate.

In addition to the continuous failures caused by the determination of the standard temperature and dosage of the potion at the beginning, Gong Hao's error rate was greatly reduced later.

Generally speaking, the success rate of a skilled apprentice is only one-third, and the success rate of an alchemist is only two-thirds at best.

But Gong Hao's success rate has reached one-half, at least in the production of potions, it only took him a month, and he is already close to the master level.

This surprised Pierre and couldn't figure out how he did it.

Of course, he didn't know that this was already Gong Hao's deliberate over-reporting of some error records, in fact, his chance of making mistakes was even smaller, if all of them were reported, he wouldn't want to hide the potion privately.

You must know that the potions made by Purgatory Island are rare in the entire Big 6, and there is basically no formula circulating outside. Nowadays, most of the potions that can be made outside are low-cost, shoddy things. Drinking a bottle of healing potion may not help you recover from many injuries, but it is entirely possible to give you a headache and brain fever for a few days.

After all, the production of potions not only requires formulas, but also rare materials, looking at the big 6, and now only Purgatory Island has this condition. The one hundred and thirteen potions Ivo mentioned were actually standard high-grade potions, and if you look at the big 6, there are no less than thousands of low-grade potions, which are completely incomparable to those produced by Purgatory Island.

With this opportunity, if Gong Hao doesn't take advantage of it, he will really be sorry for himself.

The increase in success rate leads to an increase in work efficiency. Gong Hao could freely use a large crucible, and he could refine ten bottles of potions at a time, which greatly accelerated his refining degree. At the same time, due to the low failure rate, he can avoid repetitive work, which further saves time.

In just twenty days, Gong Hao completed all the standard workload of an apprentice as a new servant, and also greatly reduced the amount of materials, which was done while he continued to work as a clerk and hunt monsters, which surprised everyone.

Even though Hines knew that this guy was a little genius, he didn't expect him to master it so quickly.

Of course, the biggest contribution to this is the thermometer and beaker he made. With these two things, Gong Hao doesn't have to worry about making potions at all. If time permits, he plans to build a small test bench and make some of the more sophisticated tools used in chemistry labs before.

But two months is probably not enough anyway.

And if Hines wants to keep himself, he will have to make more and bigger contributions.

It's obviously not enough to just make potions.

No matter how good the potion is, it is just a skilled trade, and if Hines wants to give up the possibility of being secretly revealed by Gong Hao, so as to keep him in the Alchemy Tower for a long time, and do what he wants, Hines must be made to realize his true value.

Irreplaceable value!

Gong Hao remembered that before he was reincarnated, he once encountered such an incident:

One worker complained that he was always doing a lot of work, but his wages were minimal. But some technicians don't need to do anything, but they earn several times more than them. At that time, I said to the worker: The value of a person is not judged by how much labor you pay, but by how much irreplaceable you are. If you leave this position now, there will be a group of people behind you who can replace you at any time, and your irreplaceability is the lowest, so even if you put in more labor, the reward is limited.

But if you are sure that after you leave, there are many things that only you can do that others can't, then you have the capital to bargain.

Irreplaceable, Hines had to be made to realize that he had irreplaceable value, so that he would take the risk of keeping himself.

And the proficiency of making potions alone will not be able to achieve this in any way. For Hines, the materials he squandered every day were far more than Gong Hao could save, and he wouldn't care about that. For an alchemist like him, only the unknown, the mysterious, the unattained are valuable.

Whoever can do this is irreplaceable.

This is the only thing Gong Hao can think of and can do by himself.

"Mistress Pierre. ”

Gong Hao came to Pierre's laboratory and saluted him respectfully.

"What's the matter?"

"That's right, the list of potion needs sent by the empire has been completed, I want to ask if there is anything else you have to order?"

Pierre put down the test in his hand.

He was quite interested in Gong Hao.

For some reason, he always felt that this was a bit of an unpredictable kid for him.

This kid is so smart, so smart that he can learn almost all the jobs quickly, so smart that he can always perform better than others expect, so smart that it's hard for you to catch his faults, smart enough that you can give him almost everything and let it go yourself.

Ivo had never had the opportunity to teach Hue Igler once after he had taught him more. Soon after that, Ivo was concentrating on his work and ignoring Hue.

And now, less than a month later, Huey finished his work even earlier than Ivo, and then came to him to ask for a new job.

Not only smart, studious, but also hardworking.

He did even better than Neil.

It stands to reason that you should be satisfied with such a person, but why do you always feel uneasy in your heart?

He couldn't figure it out.

Lowering his head and thinking for a while, Pierre said, "So is there anything you want to do?"

"That's the case, if the adults don't plan to arrange for me to do a new job, then I want to try to use the materials I have saved in my hand to see if I can further strengthen the existing potion recipe. Gong Hao replied.

"You want to change the current potion crafting recipe?"

Gong Hao immediately replied: "The formula is researched by people, and future generations always make more innovations on the basis of their predecessors." If the past can study it, why can't the future make a better one?and I think I might be able to help the other apprentices do something, but you know I can't go anywhere else. ”

"Don't you think your heart is too big?"

Gong Hao immediately looked sincerely frightened: "My lord, I just want to do my best to do more for the master and you." ”

"In that case, you should be yourself. Okay, I still have something to do, you go. ”

"Yes, sir. ”

Gong Hao came back stupidly.

For the first time, Gong Hao was rejected by Pierre when he wanted more work.

He's wary of himself, damn bastard!

Back in his laboratory, Gong Hao frowned, it was much more difficult to do things under such a guy who was always on guard than under Andrew.

Do you want to go to Andrew?

No, it's not good, going to Andrew for this kind of thing will only make Pierre more disgusted with himself. It's not worth it.

But in order to gain access to the deeper secrets of alchemy, Pierre must be made aware of his own worth.

Perhaps, Hines can help himself.

Gong Hao's eyes lit up.

Yes, in the Alchemy Tower, the real person who is talking is Hines. Just as he had relied on Andrew's help to become the head of the servant in the circle of servants and enter the library, he could also go to Hines.

But now is not the time.