Of course, as a special steel, the price of tool steel is much higher than that of ordinary steel, but the cost of these tool steels is 16,000 taels of silver per ton, that is, 25,000 silver dollars.

Every time Li Xian thinks of this kind of cost calculation, he feels chills all over his body, and he can only comfort himself that the real big head is actually the mastery of production technology, and the scientific research team in smelting can be used in the future, not pure consumption.

In this case, Li Xian tried his best to reduce the expenditure of actual materials, and replaced it with exercises and cheats, such as the Five Pieces of Extinction Master Tai joined the Smelting Research Institute, that is, Li Xian proposed to supply five hundred Jing Yuan Dan per month, and at the same time provide the top martial arts "Nine Yin White Bone Grasp", in turn in exchange for the extermination master Tai to work in the research institute for one year.

As far as the cultivation of the Exterminating Master Tai is concerned, the need for cultivation resources is not urgent, but he prefers to watch all kinds of top-level and super-level exercises in order to gain inspiration and get the opportunity to be promoted to an innate master, so when he heard that Li Xian was willing to provide this famous martial art in the Nine Yin True Scripture, he agreed after thinking for a while.

Li Xian felt that this business was doing well, and when he talked about the treatment with other third-order and fourth-order masters, he used some of the superior martial arts in the Amber Golden Cicada as an additional condition, but he achieved fruitful results, and many martial artists were particularly interested in the top-level cheats that could be passed down for several generations or even hundreds of years.

In this way, many of the super exercises that Li Xian obtained began to spread little by little among the martial artists of the Huaxia Guangfu Army, which not only saved Li Xian a lot of resources, but also further improved the overall strength of the Guangdong martial artists.

Although the consumption of resources by the Steelmaking Research Institute is quite amazing, the results achieved are also commendable, Li Xian's side has mastered at least a dozen methods of making knife steel and special steel, and six of them have also achieved universalization, that is to say, there is no need for monks above the third order to join, and mass production can be achieved by conventional means alone.

In addition, the research and development and regularization of more steel products are also steadily advancing.

As it stands, Li Xian can produce most of the materials needed to make machine tools and other machines, that is to say, from tools for metalworking machine tools, lead screw materials to special steel for steam engines, as long as he is willing to bear the high cost, he can copy them, without relying entirely on imports.

This may seem inconspicuous now, but the effect will be felt gradually in the coming days.

The Steelmaking Research Institute is the top research in the one-stop industry-university-research program, and it naturally needs to be supported by learning and production.

Li Xian also opened the "Guangdong Xianwu Academy" in the blessed land, with about 3,000 students, including local teenagers recruited in Leizhou since Li Xian's fortune, as well as military and warrior families, workers' relatives, and outstanding teenagers from Foshan and Guangzhou.

Li Xian's fortune is too short, these students are the students who joined Li Xian School in Yaluowan, Leizhou, and their actual school age is only a little more than three years, so it is impossible to hope that they will take the lead now.

However, Li Xian did not neglect the education plan and offered four compulsory courses for students: "Mathematics", "Chinese", "English" and "Art Design".

Among them, mathematics is also addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, unary equations, binary equations, and more knowledge of geometry, which is much simpler than Li Xian's original primary and junior high school education.

Li Xian has his own considerations, this engineering school hopes to train practical talents who can work in factories or research institutes as soon as possible, and it is impossible to expect them to master advanced mathematics such as calculus within a few years.

English was introduced after the capture of a large number of British soldiers and sailors, including officers and officers captured in Leizhou as pirates and officers in Guangzhou.

After many battles, Li Xian captured a staggering number of British, including more than 5,000 soldiers and nearly 1,000 sailors, and it was not difficult to select teachers who could teach English to students, which was better than doing manual work in the prisoner camp.

Britain has a well-developed national strength, a very high level of education among its citizens, and a literacy rate of more than 70 percent among the people, which is very powerful in this era, and it is easy to select more than 200 teachers with particularly strong writing skills among the captives.

As for art design, many people in Li Xian's world may be surprised why such courses are so important, but Li Xian hopes that these students can help draw machine design drawings or something after entering the workplace, and naturally the importance of art design is much higher than that of ordinary courses.

Naturally, these students were not learning Van Gogh-like abstract paintings, but mechanical design drawings that were needed in factories.

In addition to these four compulsory courses, other geography, history, physics, chemistry, etc. can only be electives, and students are interested in studying on their own or with the corresponding teachers.

From this point of view, the purpose and method of Li Xian's school are too utilitarian, and it may not be the best for the future development of students.

In addition, unlike ordinary schools, this academy also attaches great importance to sports, and specially opens "martial arts" classes, specially hiring senior martial artists from the Mixed Yuan Sect and Sanyuan Temple to teach the exercises of refining the body and building the foundation, and spending more than an hour every day standing on the pile or punching.

There is a proverb that "if you don't practice martial arts for a long time, you can't do alchemy if you don't practice martial arts for a long time", that is, you can't do alchemy when your body is young, and according to the words in martial arts, you can't refine the Dao seed when you are a child, so as not to be weak and fall into the root of the disease, so you can only try to learn martial arts and exercise your body.

Li Xian is also considered wealthy, and providing these students with a quota of five Jing Yuan Dan per month is enough for teenagers whose bodies have not yet grown and do not need to support Dao seeds.

In this way, these students practice martial arts every day and take Jingyuan Dan from time to time, which makes Li Xian feel that his school has a trace of the prototype of a cultivation school in science fiction: it is the kind of student who drinks "gene liquid" or something to enhance his physique, competes in martial arts every day, and the college entrance examination is set according to the martial arts practice.

Li Xian is very proud of this, the other protagonists are just fighting life and death with others as students, and I have already started to establish this kind of school myself, that is to say, others are just chess pieces, and I am the one who makes the rules, and the level of this force is simply clear at a glance.

In addition to research and learning, it is natural to have the support of "production".

Li Xian had many factories in the blessed land, including factories for artillery, muskets, shells, bullets, etc., and the production of these products was inseparable from metal cutting and processing, and a large number of knife steels produced by the research institute in experimental methods were used in these places, which greatly increased the production capacity of the military industry, and the production level of muskets alone was easily increased from the production of 5,000 guns per month to more than 10,000 guns per month.

In addition, relying on the technology developed by the research institute, Li Xian is planning to establish a special tool steel production line to mass-produce various knives and special steels required by the factory.

In addition, Li Xian also wanted to build a large-scale iron-making plant to produce wrought iron and pig iron in large quantities.