Chapter 812: Relaxation In
the first month of winter, the village of the wood elves had been completely conquered by the winter equipment of their Great Zhou.
Is this winter really colder than previous years?
In fact, not really, it's just that the wood elves today have become accustomed to the existence of winter clothes and heaters.
With the contrast, the coldness that was originally bearable gradually became unbearable.
It's not that the weather has gotten colder, but that their tolerance for the cold has decreased.
It's not just the wood elves who have this feeling. In fact, the people of the Great Zhou, and even Zhou Xu himself, have more or less experienced this.
After living conditions have improved, if one day we suddenly return to the state before liberation, who could get used to it?
However, such a comfortable life is bound to require a lot of money to support it.
Let’s not talk about other things for now, let’s just talk about the anthracite that is burned every day. This is the most expensive grade of coal in the Great Zhou. The wood elves dislike the smoky smell of inferior coal, so they directly purchased the highest quality and most expensive anthracite on the market at that time.
After winter came, the whole village was using it, and the anthracite purchased before winter was almost used up.
If they want to use it until the beginning of next spring, they will have to purchase it again.
The expenditure on anthracite will most likely become the biggest consumption point for the wood elves this winter! During this period, the first batch of ore mined from the mining field in the Basin Forest was officially shipped out of the mine today and sent to the ordnance forging department in Xianyang City.
In front of the scorching forging furnace, Li Gan was waving the forging hammer in his hand as usual, forging the iron block that was as dazzling as the sun. Every time the hammer fell, large pieces of iron flowers would splash.
After completing another round of forging, Li Gan stopped and looked up at the members who had been standing by the side for a while.
"What's up?"
"Minister, the diamonds mentioned earlier have been delivered."
Today, Li Gan has been promoted to minister due to his outstanding personal abilities.
When Li Gan heard the report from his subordinates, his eyes suddenly lit up.
Long before, under the arrangement of their Majesty, Li Gan had already mastered the method of smelting crystal iron. The iron block he was folding and forging just now was a piece of crystal iron that had been integrated with sharp spar.
He wanted to try to forge a piece of crystal iron into patterned steel.
So far, things are going smoothly.
But now the emergence of diamonds has undoubtedly brought new variables to his arrangement, and it is even likely to make all his previous work useless.
However, Li Gan was not upset at all. He was only curious and excited about the new ore!
He didn't need to say much, his subordinates had already brought a basket of diamonds to him.
Picking up one of the diamonds at random, Li Gan rubbed the surface of the diamond with his fingertips, feeling the texture of the diamond.
Diamond feels cool to the touch, but it is different from the coolness of iron.
Although no refining has been carried out yet, some areas of the original ore have already shown a silky touch, which makes Li Gan feel very novel.
[According to your majesty, adding diamonds during forging can effectively increase the hardness of the weapon. The specific smelting method should be basically the same as that of crystal iron. The focus now is on how to control this ratio during the smelting process.]
[In addition, you can slowly try other smelting methods. For now, you should try to add diamond to steel first, and then try to melt steel, acutine and diamond together and forge them into patterned steel.]
At this moment, Li Gan's mind was still very clear.
"Let's try melting diamond and steel first. Which group has less work to do now?"
"Five groups."
"Then call Group 5 over and have them cooperate in trial and error."
There is not much technical content in trial and error in terms of proportions; it mainly depends on time and manpower.
As long as there are enough people, formulas of various proportions can be melted at the same time and the results can be obtained in the shortest time.
Li Gan was undoubtedly planning to do so at this moment.
The whole process is tedious, boring and strenuous, but Li Gan really enjoys it.
During this period, although Zhou Xu showed some concern about the progress here, he did not keep asking questions.
After all, he also knew that this was a time-consuming task in itself, and that his constant questioning would not have any positive effect. Instead, it would easily put pressure on his subordinates and increase the probability of messing up things.
In this way, facing these things, Zhou Xu's usual approach is to relax and believe that his subordinates can get things done.
Undoubtedly, Zhou Xu is still very confident in Li Gan, the forging master.
After handing off this task, he basically ignored it and focused all his energy on the government affairs that required his attention.
During this period, the study of mantras was certainly not neglected.
There is a reason why his research efficiency is slow when it comes to the truth.
It's not that he is lazy, but because in the process of perceiving, observing, analyzing and studying a mantra, the power of the mantra in his body will be constantly consumed.
This led to a situation where every time he conducted in-depth research, he would have to spend ten days or half a month to restore the power of the mantra in his body.
This was the case when he was holding back and not allowing his mantra power to be severely consumed or overdrawn.
Once he overdraws, under the drag of negative impact, he will need at least a month to recover.
"call--"
Inside the quiet bedroom, Zhou Xu, who was sitting on the bed, opened his eyes after a long exhalation. At this moment, his face, which was full of fatigue, showed an excitement that he could not suppress at all.
"Success! I finally succeeded!"
Just now, he finally cracked a mantra character completely and then restored it.
In this process, the existence of the 'Eye of Peering' played a crucial role.
These eyes that can see into secrets have greatly enhanced his analytical abilities.
Afterwards, a simple test was conducted and it was found that the mantra characters were still able to produce the same effect as before!
What does this mean? It means that as long as he restores the program to its original state after cracking it, it will continue to work normally.
Although it is not ruled out that some old Deng added the design of "self-destruction" when writing the program, but at least for now, apart from those serious anti-spying mantras, most of the mantras on him can be studied with confidence! Thinking of this, Zhou Xu also completely relaxed.
The next second, his body fell backwards, and he began to snore. The exhaustion brought by the massive consumption of the power of the mantra dragged him into a dream in the blink of an eye...
(End of this chapter)
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