Strictly speaking, materials research is not a high-tech guy, and in the process of researching various new materials, it is not flattering at all...... At least for Xin Yu, who does not have much accumulation in materials, he does not understand the laws of the ratio of various elements, at most he can only copy some metal formulas in his scattered memory, and other basic laws in material research, Xin Yu is not professionally engaged in materials science after all, so naturally there is no research, and it is impossible to give more guidance to the researchers of the Ocean Country.

Therefore, the material research of the Ocean Country did not have a good foundation from the beginning, and the material development process of Xin Yu's previous life was not easy. At most, because Xin Yu knows some material formulas, as well as some research methods, plus a little memory of the laws in the periodic table that is somewhat vague, and the role of some rare earth elements.

In other words, the material research of the maritime countries is in essence no different from starting from scratch. In this way, we can only accumulate enough successful or failed material formulations by accumulating experiments over time, and then we can summarize some reliable or unreliable speculative laws in many material records to guide future research.

Speaking of which, Xin Yu was still very satisfied with the material research of the ocean country before, after all, it developed from scratch, supporting the leap from the steam age to the electricity age, with a small country of only more than 100,000 square kilometers, and the education level of the people, especially in science and engineering, the education level is basically zero. Just relying on some of Xin Yu's guidance, which is not even completely correct, it is extremely rare to be able to achieve such results.

Especially when the super alchemy furnace that Xin Yu needed was successfully cast and operated normally for so long, it was already able to prove from the side how excellent the material research of the Ocean Country was.

Of course, in the refining process of the Super Dan Furnace, there may be some factors that Xin Yu guided or even personally participated in, but the efforts of a large number of material researchers were definitely indispensable. After all, success is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration, 1% inspiration may be the most important, but 99% perspiration is also indispensable.

For example, the number of people in the materials research circles of the maritime countries, including those working in private enterprises and research laboratories, has far exceeded the 100,000 mark. So many people, day and night boring mixing and smelting, just like buying a lottery ticket to fight luck, even if the probability of success is very small, but the huge base is there, so many years, there can always be some materials that can be put into the commercial or industrial field.

In the case that the requirements for materials in other fields of the maritime country are not high enough, the material formula "revealed" by Xin Yu, coupled with some types of materials researched by the domestic material research industry in the ocean, is enough to meet the current needs of various manufacturing industries in the maritime country.

This is what satisfies Xin Yu, and he will naturally be satisfied with his achievements. However, there are also things that make Xin Yu dissatisfied, that is, the ocean country can still maintain the emergence of hundreds of thousands of new materials every year in the case of poverty and whiteness, but now that talent training has been normalized, there are tens of thousands, or even millions of graduates of various majors every year, and even millions of graduates of various majors are invested in the society, but the research efficiency or the frequency of results has not been significantly improved.

Of course, this is because Xin Yu thinks that the scale of practitioners in the field of materials research in the maritime country has reached the normal proportion of social population or talents, and there is no brainstorm to use the special political composition of the maritime country to call on the people to "concentrate on big things" and engage in national research activities such as national battles in order to research new materials.

Although the maritime country has some feudal characteristics, Xin Yu, who advocated the establishment of industry and commerce, has always tried his best to avoid using administrative power to interfere too much in economic activities and research activities. In this way, under the condition of a developed economy, all research activities should naturally be linked to economic benefits.

Compared with the whole world, the scientific and technological level of the ocean country has crossed at least one or two hundred years of generation difference, and the market of the entire continent is definitely enough for all the enterprises of the ocean country to carve up, and the merchants in various manufacturing fields will naturally lack motivation to improve quality.

As a result, the demand for new materials is not as strong as it was at the beginning...... For example, it was originally necessary to manufacture carriage shock absorbers, whether they were suspended or fee-suspension, and spring steel was required.

With such a demand, there will naturally be a market for this aspect, and it is enough for everyone to study the power of spring steel. Although Xin Yu has already figured out a relatively suitable variety of spring steel, the geomorphological environment on the mainland is different, and there are subtle differences in the types of spring steel.

In this case, the material research industry of the maritime country has invested more in spring steel. This is why the maritime countries have so many achievements every year, in fact, they can be regarded as groundbreaking achievements, but there are not many.

The material research itself is all based on accumulation, and the maritime country cannot afford to play the tactics of crowds because of the small size of the country and the small population. Although compared with all the countries in the world, there are more than 100,000 researchers specializing in the research and development of new materials, which is already a very large number, not to mention the relative proportion, even the absolute number of researchers is the largest in the world.

However, there are many branches of materials research that are difficult and can definitely not be said to be enough in a short period of time for more than 100,000 people. On the earth of Xin Yu's previous life, the country that invested the most and the most in material research was the Red Empire known as the Battle Race or Polar Bear, and before the Soviet Union was dissolved, this boss empire had a total of tens of millions of qualified material formulas. Add to that the failed experiments that have been done in the process of studying these materials, and if they were to be recorded on paper, they alone would have built a Mount Everest.

It is conceivable that although the material research of the maritime countries has achieved remarkable results, it is only compared with other countries in this world. Because of the small number of employees, the efficiency of the mechanical device is not high enough, and the material formula calculated by billions on the earth in Xin Yu's previous life, the Ocean Country can only be regarded as just starting at best.

As mentioned earlier, it is precisely because of the complexity of material research that the maritime countries have actually reached the limit. In terms of ordinary people, Xin Yu feels that there is not much potential to be tapped...... Unless the overall technology becomes more advanced, the acceleration of materials research can be achieved. Before that, if you want to research more and better materials, you can only slowly accumulate successful experiences and lessons from failures over time.

Since the material research industry composed of ordinary people no longer has much potential to be tapped, Xin Yu naturally did not have much dissatisfaction...... In fact, he wanted to use diffusion technology to stimulate the scientific and technological development of the ocean country, and he also had this idea, but after all, it was not too strong.

But then again, the efficiency of ordinary people is close to the limit, so what about the star magicians? Since the star magicians have so many advantages in research compared to ordinary people, Xin Yu naturally would not let or use the standards of ordinary people to demand those twelve star magician slaves.

And in fact, these astrologists did not disappoint Xin Yu. Although in terms of the research of materials that Xin Yu needed that could replace the heavenly and earthly treasures, these astromagicians did not have much success. But because they are so efficient, they can complete dozens of material tests every day on average...... That is, to verify the recipe developed by the technician.

This kind of efficiency is absolutely beyond the reach of ordinary people, although it cannot be said that one is ten thousand, but it can definitely be called one as a hundred. Therefore, in terms of general material research, this research team, which is composed entirely of astromagicians, has researched several materials that can be called successful and have promotion value in just one month.

For example, marine steel ...... Although five or six years after the establishment of the Maritime State, the first real ironclad warship had been successfully built. After more than ten years of development, the ship industry of the maritime country can now be regarded as dominating the ocean. Even the armed merchant ships are built of steel, and you can imagine how "developed" the maritime countries are in the field of ship steel.

However, even if the shipbuilding industry of the maritime country has reached the hegemony of this world, it is only "big but not strong" in the strict sense. Because these steam-powered steel ships can only reach a thousand tons in maximum tonnage, and even the larger wooden sailing ships are not comparable. If it were not for the fact that the wind and wave resistance of steel ships and the speed and seaworthiness of steam ships are more advantageous than those of wooden ships, especially in the military field, steel warships have more powerful battlefield survivability and anti-strike ability than wooden warships, otherwise, the steel shipbuilding industry of the maritime country would not be as prosperous as it is now.

The reason for this is that there has not been much progress in the steel smelting industry of the maritime countries, especially in the steel smelting suitable for the construction of sea ships. In other words, higher strength and toughness of marine steel have not been studied at all.

However, in just one month that these astrologists and researchers participated in the material research, they successfully researched the formulation and smelting process of a high-grade marine steel with great promotion value and practical value, which can be imagined what an outstanding achievement.

It's a pity that although for ordinary researchers, if they can get such an achievement, they will definitely be able to get Xin Yu's praise and commendation, even if they can get a knighthood for this achievement. But for these astrologers...... Especially for the astral magicians who are slaves, such an achievement is barely enough for them not to be scolded by Xin Yu.

It's not that Xin Yu is very harsh on these slaves, not to mention that Xin Yu is still practicing on the Nameless Mountain, and he has no mind to pay attention to these novice slaves for the time being. It's just that because the task assigned by the "master" is the research of materials related to astrological star treasures, even if they research various alloy formulas for aerospace, it is impossible for them to win Xin Yu's praise.

That is to say, in the psychology of these sorcerers, they have not completed the task, and they will naturally feel "not doing their job". However, as for the materials of the Xingbao embryo, those researchers who are engaged in material research, that is, the experts who do the research design for this astrology research team, are just ordinary people and do not know much about astrology.

In his idea, the materials that can be used to make Xingbao embryos are nothing more than higher strength, toughness, hardness enough, and corrosion resistance, pressure resistance and collision resistance, which are better than existing materials.

In fact, theoretically, this researcher's idea is not wrong, but the materials that can achieve better data just by relying on the various stresses between molecules are just ordinary materials, even if they are successful.

For an astral magician, a more outstanding star treasure embryo not only has strong physical properties in itself, but also has many requirements in terms of special abilities. It can be said that the performance of the material is only one aspect, but more is the "characteristics" of the material, such as memory, such as the ability to self-recover, etc., with these special functions, it can be called a treasure of heaven and earth.

This means that the interior of these materials not only needs to have better molecular forces, but also better energy fields, so that the materials themselves have various capabilities and properties that ordinary materials do not have.

Although Xin Yu "blackmailed" all kinds of heavenly materials and earthly treasures from the astral world and let these materials experts study them, there was no electron microscope that could observe the molecular level, and there was no accumulation of knowledge about related microscopic substances.

Even the "master" doesn't know how to match the artificial formula of the heavenly and earthly treasures, and those astromagicians who don't have much experience in material research naturally don't know how to do it.

In this way, in the past month, the astral slaves have followed the baton of the material "experts", how can it be possible to study qualified heavenly and earthly treasures?

From this point of view, Xin Yu was indeed negligent at the beginning, after all, he didn't think that the material experts he dispatched were already the most "authoritative" people in the entire ocean country or the world in terms of materials, but these were already "expert" level researchers, but they didn't think about what the heavenly material and earth treasure should be, and they also used the old vision of studying ordinary materials to design the test formula and steps of the heavenly material and the earth treasure or the star treasure embryo material.

If the starting point is wrong, it will naturally be impossible to "blossom and bear fruit", unless luck is against the sky......