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"If you want to be promoted to a swordsmith as soon as possible, you can't work so hard. Pen ~ Fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info" Mu Wanqing's eyes showed a look of pity, "Look at you, what has happened to you in the past month or so?"

For more than a month, Ou Chuyang had barely taken a step out of the sword casting room, either desperately casting swords or absorbing amethyst. For him, cultivation is the only time to rest.

Mei Qixin casts a sword once, and he has to cultivate for more than half a year, and Mei Aoxue casts two superb craftsman weapons in a row, and the sword qi is exhausted, and it is difficult to continue. Rao is Ou Chuyang absorbed the sword qi at a speed against the sky, and he couldn't stand such a high-intensity non-stop casting, and he himself felt that his mental strength was very overdrawn.

Ou Chuyang rubbed his face, relaxed, and said, "I don't want to do this either, but there is always an indescribable feeling in my heart, forcing me to keep speeding up, speeding up, speeding up again......

"Are you anxious to avenge your master and sister?" asked Mu Wanqing.

"Not exactly. Ou Chuyang replied: "That feeling is very strange, as if I am about to suffer a catastrophe if I don't improve my strength as soon as possible, it always makes me uneasy." ”

"I guess it's a hunch. Mu Wanqing took a bowl of soup and handed it to Ou Chuyang, "Let me help you." ”

"Do you want to learn sword forging from me?" asked Ou Chuyang with a smile. The picture of Mu Wanqing, a fairy-like beauty wielding a blacksmith hammer, is simply ......

"I'm afraid that learning to forge a sword now will be half the effort, and the gains will outweigh the losses. Mu Wanqing thought for a while and said, "I can pass on the sword qi in your body to you, so that you can recover faster." ”

"Pass the sword qi to me, then aren't you cultivating in vain?" Ou Chuyang said and shook his head.

"I have just recovered to the peak realm of the Sword Master, and if I want to break through to the Sword Master realm, it is not possible to achieve it in a year or two. So no matter how much I cultivate, it will be difficult for me to improve my strength in a short period of time. Mu Wanqing carefully analyzed: "And once you are able to forge a treasure weapon, then our cultivation resources will be multiplied, so the top priority now is to do our best to help you become a sword caster." ”

"Makes sense. Ou Chuyang made a very simple decision, "That's it, as long as we cast a superb treasure weapon and sell it, we can retreat and cultivate until we break through the realm." ”

"Hmm. Mu Wanqing urged again: "Then you hurry up and eat, and then have a good night's rest, we will start to attack the swordsmith with all our strength tomorrow." ”

"Okay!" Ou Chuyang excitedly took a big bite of the meal and praised vaguely: "I didn't expect your skills to be really good, and it was so delicious to cook for the first time." ”

"I also practiced several times before I ......" The fire next to her was shining, and Mu Wanqing's face seemed to be a little red.

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With the assistance of Mu Wanqing's sword qi at the peak realm of the sword servant, Ou Chuyang was like a tiger with wings, and his sword casting speed was greatly improved. Four or five superb craftsmanship were cast in succession, and I felt that I was already familiar with it and was at ease. This shows that Ou Chuyang is not too far away from the long-awaited swordsmith.

Moreover, Ou Chuyang also began to expand the scale of Meixintang, recruiting many helpers and apprentices. Because of the excellent quality of Mei Xintang's superb craftsmanship, there is no worry about sales at all, since the second day of opening, Mei Xintang has not had inventory, and Ou Chuyang has been rushing to make orders.

In the face of such a booming sales situation where you can sell as much as you want, expanding production is the best way to increase profitability. In addition to improving his casting speed, Ou Chuyang also prepared to try the assembly line operation of division of labor and cooperation after some careful thinking.

Standardization, mechanization, and intelligent social division of labor are several major characteristics of modern industry, and they are also the core factors for the rapid increase in production capacity. Although Ou Chuyang cannot completely copy the modern industrial large-scale production system, he can also learn a lot of valuable experience from it.

Sword forging is an extremely complex craft, and each sword is a work of art. What Ou Chuyang wants now is to reduce artworks to handicrafts and mass production.

To divide the labor, the process must first be split into several links.

The first major process is smelting, this part is relatively simple, because there is no requirement for the sword gate, and Ou Chuyang also became a smelting apprentice when the sword gate was not opened. Moreover, many of the sword materials purchased by Di Zhenjie and the sword materials provided by the customers themselves are already finished products and can be forged directly.

Ou Chuyang hired two smelting apprentices with a high salary of one tael of silver per month, plus eight helpers who had previously "pedaled on bicycles to generate electricity", and formed a smelting workshop, which was specifically responsible for smelting sword materials.

There are many processes for forging swords, among which the three key processes of forging, ventilation and four fires must be completed by Ou Chuyang himself.

However, several processes such as cold forging, shaping, opening, inlay, seal carving, chiseling gold, polishing, polishing, and raising light are mainly for aesthetics, and do not affect the quality and performance of the sword. Therefore, Ou Chuyang also hired people to divide labor and form a plastic surgery and decoration workshop to be responsible for these processes.

The hilt of the sword and the four parts of the sheath, the sheath, the protective ring, and the sword mark that make up the scabbard can also be handed over to the apprentice to make, and Ou Chuyang only needs to be responsible for casting the valve and carving the sword spirit array.

In the end, the exquisite craftsmanship produced by Mei Xintang will be made by more than a dozen people, Ou Chuyang's workload will be reduced by more than half, and Mei Xintang's production capacity will be more than doubled.

Ou Chuyang took the first assembly line product, carefully examined it, and said with satisfaction: "Not bad! The quality is not much worse than the one I made myself, and the decoration is more exquisite and the appearance is better." ”

"You're so good!" Mu Wanqing praised, "Why haven't other swordsmiths thought of it for thousands of years?"

"Definitely. Ou Chuyang shook his head with a smile and said, "It's not that others can't think of it, but they don't bother to do this." Sword forging is an art, a belief, and a Tao. For swordsmiths, the sword is like their own flesh and blood, and every bit of it is their own painstaking work, so how can they use the hands of others?"

Mu Wanqing asked, "Then why don't you have such an awareness?"

"Because there is something more important waiting for me urgently, and this is just an expedient measure forced by the situation. Ou Chuyang stood with his hands in his hands and looked into the distance.

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"Dad, Mei Xintang has been open for more than three months, and business is getting better and better. Chen Yajing asked her father, Master Chen: "Why can a mere swordsmith cast three superb craftsmanships in a month, is there anything greasy about this?"

"It's nothing more than hiring people to work together to forge swords, and handing over the processes that don't require sword qi to the helper apprentices. Master Chen snorted coldly, "Opportunistic tricks are difficult to achieve." As long as that kid surnamed Mei can't become a swordsmith, he won't pose any threat to us, so let him jump in. ”

"But, what if he is promoted to a swordsmith?" Chen Yajing asked worriedly, "Could it be that Dad, you really let it go and sit idly by?"

"Haven't you learned a lesson from the last time? The fourth prince is clearly protecting him, don't go and be bored with yourself. Master Chen admonished, and then said: "Mu Xiu will be destroyed by the forest wind, let's just wait and see what happens." ”

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