Chapter 5 New Standards

Facing the rising sun, Zhang Hao looked at the Pei Yuan Pill in his hand, the finger-sized pill, like the finest pearl, exuding a hazy treasure light.

This is an ordinary Pei Yuan Dan, but it is worth 20 low-grade spirit stones, equivalent to 20,000 iron coins, almost the income of ordinary people in a year.

Cultivation and practice, wealth is the first!

The pill melted in the mouth, and a warm breath flowed throughout the body.

Glancing at Chaoyang again, Zhang Hao closed his eyes with a smile and began to practice.

Industry must be played, and cultivation must not be left behind.

Feng Xuan resists the wind and lives with the sky, which is exciting to think about.

Hazy, Zhang Hao once again entered the so-called state of 'unity of heaven and man'.

The vast energy between heaven and earth was still surging like ocean waves, and Zhang Hao greedily absorbed this huge energy.

In a trance, Zhang Hao found himself once again on the path full of formation patterns, surrounded by flying streamers.

A little enlightenment is brewing in the heart: the circulation route of true essence in the body faintly follows a certain rule, which runs through the inside and outside of the human body, and interacts with heaven and earth.

I don't know how long it took, Zhang Hao found that the stone wall blocking in front of him seemed to be short, Zhang Hao had a feeling that as long as he stretched out his hand and pushed, he could enter the eighth layer of the Qi Refining Period.

But Zhang Hao smiled and didn't move. I broke through six or seven floors one after another, and I haven't consolidated yet. Cultivation is not achieved overnight, it must be taken one step at a time.

Three poles in the sun, Zhang Hao opened his eyes. The power of the seventh layer of Qi refining rolled in the body. Zhang Hao's eyes were half-narrowed, and he pinched a magic seal with both hands, and suddenly pushed forward.

A seven-foot flaming palm appeared, silently melting a one-foot pit on the rock wall.

Zhang Hao stepped forward and stroked gently, and his tentacles were hot.

He clenched his fist and blasted it at the rock wall, which slammed into the rock more than two inches, shattering the surrounding rocks and creating a depression in a radius of one foot.

"Is this the power of cultivation?" Zhang Hao looked at the damage he had caused, a little shocked. "It's a challenge to develop technology in such an environment!"

Zhang Hao drew his own saber again, a sword of the highest grade magic weapon, and the sword slashed through the rock like a fluffy plaster. Xiu is really powerful, which makes Zhang Hao surprised and delighted.

The good thing is that Xiuzhen really has a future, and the surprise is that with such a strong Xiuzhen environment, how should the industry go?

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After lunch, Zhang Hao came to the smelting area again. Along the way, I was still thinking: the novel is really a lie, and the cultivators not only do not open up the valley, but eat more and eat more finely.

For lunch, Zhang Hao ate spiritual rice and drank spiritual springs, and the dishes were also demon beast flesh and blood or spiritual fruits and vegetables.

"Young Master. A voice interrupted Zhang Hao's thoughts, it was Huang Mingshan.

Huang Mingshan handed over a list of more than twenty people.

Zhang Hao looked at it and nodded. "Huang Mingshan, let me put this list first. In the past few days, everyone has seized the time to produce. After a few days, the matter is dealt with, everyone will be gathered to study and improve the fan together. ”

Huang Mingshan was overjoyed, but asked carefully: "Young Master, isn't there some high-level craftsman in the family who refine weapons, why do you want to find an ordinary craftsman like a villain?"

Because you are so controlling, so obedient to command, those guys are so arrogant that even my father has to consult with them. Of course, this cannot be said, Zhang Hao's reply to Huang Mingshan was: "I see your truth-seeking and pragmatic attitude. ”

Huang Mingshan suddenly straightened up: "I promise not to disappoint the young master!"

Zhang Hao nodded, and began to inspect the smelting area, those dark iron ready for sale, the purity was between 70% and 86%, according to Zhang Hao's requirements, all poured a foot and a half square iron ingots.

After the ingot is cooled, it is carefully polished, and the six sides are smooth as a mirror, with straight edges and corners. A kind of 'standardized' industrial atmosphere is blowing in the face.

Pieces of black iron ingots were built up like bricks. In one night, more than 20 iron ingots have been poured. It is foreseeable that with the transformation of the smelting furnace, the production speed will continue to increase.

There is a smelting area where arrows are being poured, including small sleeve arrows, ordinary bows and arrows, beaded crossbow arrows, and thick crossbow arrows, etc., the arrows of these arrows will be dipped in a 93% pure black iron solution, covered with a layer of high-purity dark iron, and after later processing, the armor-piercing ability of the arrows can reach the 'magic weapon level'.

"Little mouse. Zhang Shengye greeted Zhang Hao from afar.

"Hey...... Second uncle, let's discuss something, can this title be changed?"

"Then let's call you a big mouse. ”

"Uh...... It's still a little mouse, this is a good sound~~~" Zhang Hao raised his head and asked Cangtian speechlessly.

Zhang Shengye looked at the Xuantie ingot in the distance with burning eyes, and asked, "Little mouse, you have made the Xuantie ingot too big, which is difficult to sell." ”

"Oh, how do you buy it?"

"One is that the cultivator buys it personally, and it is a few catties or even a few taels at a time.

There are also procurements from the army, the government, commercial houses, families, mercenary groups, etc., more or less. When there are more, there are thousands of catties, and when there are few, there are hundreds of catties or dozens of catties. ”

"Second uncle, I have an idea, let's cut prices to seize the market. ”

"It's hard to reduce the price!" Zhang Shengye disagreed, "Xuantie's profits are almost transparent, and everyone earns hard-earned money. If the price is reduced, it will offend many people and disrupt the market. ”

"Second uncle, what if we don't do retail, only wholesale, and large-scale wholesale. ”

"Wholesale?" Zhang Shengye's eyes suddenly brightened.

There is also the concept of wholesale here, but it is mainly for ordinary materials, and most of the cultivation materials are very small, and it is difficult to form a scale, so Zhang Shengye did not expect it for a while.

Zhang Shengye began to calculate himself: "We now have almost a thousand times more production efficiency, and the cost is not even half of what it used to be, and in the future, with the expansion of scale and efficiency, the cost will be further reduced."

So, we have ample room for price reduction. ”

"With such large-scale production, the cost has only been reduced by half?" Young Master Zhang Hao questioned.

"The biggest cost of smelting dark iron comes from crushed spirit stones. Although these broken spirit stones are all inferior spirit stones, they are also spirit stones. ”

"I see. Zhang Hao nodded, "Second uncle, I have another suggestion, which is to set up a new weight standard."

The general units of measurement are: catty, jun, stone, etc., thirty catties are one jun, and four jun is one stone.

Such a measurement method is confusing, which is not conducive to large-scale wholesale and statistics.

Besides, the dark iron is very heavy, and the 'one stone' dark iron is only six or seven inches square.

And the establishment of new units of measurement, or our own standards, is itself a sign.

If you want to be a first-class family, you have to set your own standards. ”

"Well said!" Zhang Shengde walked over, "So, what kind of standard do you want to set?"

"Dad, second uncle, there is a kind of 'big catty' on the market, also called kilogram, I want to take 1000 kilograms as a unit and name it 'ton' (Note (1)).

One ton of dark iron, the market price is 9% off wholesale.

More than 10 tons of dark iron, the market price is 85% off wholesale.

More than 50 tons, 20% off.

Not only selling, the minimum batch: one ton.

I measured it, and the one-and-a-half-foot square ingot was exactly one ton. ”

"Okay, little mouse, you've been planning for a long time. Zhang Shengye laughed, turned his head to look at the neatly built black iron ingots, and his eyes flashed with joy.

These dark irons are polished and mirror-like, and their surfaces emit a pale cyan glow, like huge gemstones. Just one glance is exciting!

It's just that Zhang Shengde looked at Zhang Hao's gaze, but he was a little puzzled: Is your brain a little sensitive and a little off the line?

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Note (1): Ton is a foreign word, from the English tun. Originally, I wanted to use "tun" instead of "tun" in the book, but after thinking about it, I should keep my daily habits and make it easier to read.

Subsequent units of measurement will not be interpreted separately in accordance with this example.