Chapter 524 Trial and Error
Zhou Xu's remarks were basically meant for the grassland elves.
Those grassland elves care most about their reputation. Moreover, after adapting to the life in Da Zhou over the past year, they have been living very well, which makes this trick quite useful to them.
It was already dark and it would soon be time for dinner, so Zhou Xu certainly didn't plan to rush the whole night.
After leaving the matter of settling these lizardmen to Zhang Xiaoshan, Zhou Xu returned to his residence and went to bed early after a simple dinner.
After running around all day, he was tired.
The next morning, Zhou Xu, whose biological clock was always very accurate, unexpectedly woke up an hour later and slept in a little longer.
It's not just because of the climate here, but also because I have been on the front line before.
The Dragon God's temple might be grand and majestic, but due to the influence of the climate, it is humid and hot all year round, and living there is far less dry and comfortable than his own place.
“Hmm—”
Zhou Xu stretched hard, and now his whole body was filled with a lazy air.
If he chose to indulge himself, he could maintain this state and lie paralyzed in bed all day long.
But he is not that kind of person.
Zhou Xu is quite confident in his willpower.
"Pengfei..."
Taking the woolen sweater beside him and putting it on, Zhou Xu habitually planned to ask Wang Pengfei to bring him breakfast.
As soon as he called his name, he realized that Wang Pengfei had been sent out by him to serve as a military supervisor and was not here at the moment.
After being used to ordering people around, he actually felt a little uncomfortable at this moment.
"Your Majesty, were you calling me just now?"
Just as Zhou Xu was thinking about this, the voice of the servant came from outside the room.
Although Wang Pengfei is not here, the servants in charge of daily affairs here are basically on call 24 hours a day. If Zhou Xu has anything, he can just call them.
"Go and bring breakfast over here, and pour some hot water in. I need to wash up."
"yes!"
After washing up and having a simple breakfast, Zhou Xu walked outside while stretching his muscles.
As this was his first day officially returning to Black Moon Village, he had no intention of spending it in the office.
Zhou Xu didn't need to worry about the lizardmen's affairs. Their settlement was not complicated. When he arrived here yesterday, he had already explained everything to Zhang Xiaoshan, the village chief. It was more than enough for Zhang Xiaoshan to handle this matter.
Zhou Xu, who had not been back for a long time, walked around the village as usual.
Because all the manpower and resources of their Great Zhou were completely concentrated on the war with the Lizardmen over the past year, the development in the rear was very close to stagnation. The main task was to maintain normal operation and stabilize the output of resources to prevent the rear or front-line troops from internal collapse due to resource problems.
This also made Black Moon Village still look familiar to him. Is this a good thing or a bad thing? The area Zhou Xu mainly inspected must be the work area where various departments gathered. As soon as he came in, he saw from a distance that a large number of lizardman craftsmen gathered in the ordnance forging department. The scene was so large that it was as eye-catching as it could be.
Wang Dachui, one of the deputy ministers of the Ordnance Equipment Department and the main person in charge of the Forging Department, is now having a headache making arrangements for these lizardman weapon craftsmen.
He had applied to their king before, saying that the forging department needed more staff, but he didn't expect to add more than 200 people at once! He was really overwhelmed.
Of course, when Zhang Xiaoshan brought these lizardmen craftsmen to him, he had already told him that the forging technology of these lizardmen was still very backward and mainly based on polishing.
But this doesn't mean they are useless.
After completing the two steps of casting and hammering, the weapons of their Great Zhou also need to be polished and sharpened.
Among the three steps of casting, hammering and polishing, casting is the most convenient and efficient one, while the latter two steps are very time-consuming and energy-consuming.
If these lizardman craftsmen could take over all the polishing work, it would definitely be a huge help to the forging department.
The trouble now is to arrange a place and tools for them, and at the same time see what level of polishing skills these lizardmen have reached.
The space inside the forging department is not small, but it is unrealistic to accommodate the sudden increase of more than 200 lizardman weapon craftsmen.
Fortunately, sanding does not require a furnace and can be done with just basic sanding tools.
Wang Dachui confirmed with Zhang Xiaoshan this morning that no one was using the test site in the morning, so he quickly borrowed the site, arranged certain tools for the lizardmen, and gave each of them an unpolished iron arrowhead, asking them to polish it at the test site to test whether the lizardmen's polishing skills were up to par.
After watching Wang Dachui make simple arrangements for the lizardman craftsmen, Zhou Xu walked over slowly.
When Wang Dachui, who was almost fainted from being busy just now, saw Zhou Xu coming, he was startled and quickly saluted.
"Your subordinate Wang Dachui pays homage to the king!"
"No need to be polite."
As he spoke, Zhou Xu quickly got to the point.
"The batch of ore I brought back should have been delivered, right?"
"Yes."
Faced with the question, Wang Dachui nodded quickly.
Zhou Xu brought back a batch of sharp crystals as soon as he came back yesterday. Zhang Xiaoshan, who had received instructions, immediately ordered someone to deliver them to the forging department.
"The name of this ore is a special ore. According to my current understanding, if a ore is used as an auxiliary material to forge weapons, it can increase the sharpness of the weapons."
When Wang Dachui heard this, a look of surprise flashed across his face.
This sounded a little unbelievable to him.
Of course, he didn't think that their king was just making fun of him because he was bored. Since he said that, it must be true.
At the same time, he roughly understood what their king was thinking.
"Your Majesty, do you want us to add this sharp stone to the forging of weapons?"
"Yes."
Zhou Xu nodded.
"My main idea now is to smelt the acridite and iron to extract a new alloy, and then use this alloy to forge weapons."
Having said that, Zhou Xu changed the subject.
"But this matter is definitely not as simple as I said. Let's not talk about the various problems that may be encountered during the smelting process, let's just talk about the ratio of the two metals during smelting."
"This acutite itself is relatively brittle. I'm worried that if there is too much acutite, the weapons we forge may become brittle. But on the other hand, if there is too little acutite, it is very likely that the purpose of increasing the sharpness will not be achieved."
Zhou Xu and Wang Dachui talked and gestured at the same time.
"So we need a perfect ratio, and to achieve this ratio, we can only rely on your forging department to keep trying and making mistakes."
(End of this chapter)
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