Vientiane Throne of Civilization

Chapter 524 Trial and Error
Zhou Xu's rhetoric was basically meant for those grassland elves.

Those prairie elves care about face the most. In addition, after adapting to life in Dazhou this year, they are all living well, which makes this trick very useful for them.

It was getting dark now, and it would soon be dinner time. Of course, Zhou Xu didn't plan to rush this 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.

Early the next morning, Zhou Xu, whose biological clock was always accurate, unexpectedly woke up an hour late and slept in for a while longer.

Not only because of the climate here, but also because I have been on the front line before.

The Dragon God's temple may be magnificent, but due to the climate, it is humid and hot all year round, making living there far less dry and comfortable than his own place.

"Well--"

Stretching vigorously, Zhou Xu's whole body was filled with a lazy atmosphere.

If he chose to indulge himself, he could maintain this state and lie paralyzed in bed all day.

But he is not such a person.

Zhou Xu is relatively confident about his willpower.

"Pengfei..."

Taking the woolen sweater on the side and putting it on, Zhou Xu habitually planned to ask Wang Pengfei to bring him breakfast.

As a result, as soon as his name was called, he realized that Wang Pengfei was sent as a supervisor by him and was not here at the moment.

After getting used to being bossed around, he really felt a little uncomfortable at the moment.

"Did the king just call the villain?"

While Zhou Xu was thinking about this, the attendant's voice came from outside the room.

Although Wang Pengfei is not here, the attendants responsible for daily affairs here are basically on call 24 hours a day. If Zhou Xu needs anything, he can just call him.

"Go and bring breakfast over here, and pour some hot water in. I want to wash up."

"Yes!"

After washing up and having a simple breakfast, Zhou Xu stretched his muscles and walked outside.

As the first day when he officially returned to Black Moon Village, he had no intention of spending it in the office.

Zhou Xu did not need to worry about the lizard people. Their settlement work was not complicated at all. When he arrived here yesterday, he had already made it clear to Zhang Xiaoshan, the village chief, that this matter would be left to Zhang Xiaoshan. More than adequate for hill handling.

Zhou Xu, who hadn't been back for a long time, walked around the village as usual.

Since this year, their manpower and resources in the Great Zhou Dynasty have been completely concentrated on the war with the lizard people, so the development of the rear is extremely close to stagnant. The main purpose is to maintain normal operation and stabilize the output of resources to prevent the rear or The frontline troops mainly suffered from internal collapse due to resource problems.

This also makes Black Moon Village basically look the same as he is familiar with. Should this be said to be 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 entered, he saw a large number of lizard craftsmen gathered there at the Ordnance Forging Department from a long distance away. Big, as dazzling as you want.

As one of the deputy ministers of the Ordnance and Equipment Department and the main person in charge of the Forging Department, Wang Dachui was having a huge headache making arrangements for these lizard weapon craftsmen.

He had applied to their king before, saying that the forging department needed more manpower, but he didn't expect that he would be given more than 200 people at once!
I really can't stop him.

Of course, when Zhang Xiaoshan brought these lizard craftsmen to him, he had already told him that the forging technology of these lizard craftsmen was still very backward, and they mainly focused on polishing.

But that doesn't mean they have no use.

Their Dazhou weapons also need to be polished and edged after completing the two steps of casting and hammering.Among the three steps of pouring, hammering and polishing, pouring is the easiest and most efficient. The latter two steps are very time-consuming and energy-consuming.

If these lizard craftsmen can take over all the polishing work, it will definitely be a huge help to the forging department.

The troublesome part now is to arrange space and tools for them, and at the same time, see what level the lizard men's polishing skills have reached.

The interior space of the forging department is not small, but it is unrealistic to accommodate the sudden increase of more than 200 lizard weapon craftsmen.

Fortunately, sanding does not require a stove either and can be done with basic sanding tools.

Wang Dachui temporarily checked with Zhang Xiaoshan this morning. No one happened to be using the test site in the morning, so he quickly borrowed the site, then arranged certain equipment for the lizard people, and gave each of them an unpolished Let them polish the iron arrowheads at the test site to test whether the lizard people's polishing skills are good enough.

After watching Wang Dachui simply arrange the lizardman craftsmen, Zhou Xu walked over leisurely.

When he saw Zhou Xu coming over, Wang Dachui, who had nearly fainted just now, was startled and quickly saluted.

"Subordinate Wang Dahamui, please see me, Your Majesty!"

"Exemption."

While speaking, 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.

The batch of sharp crystals that Zhou Xu brought back, as soon as he came back yesterday, Zhang Xiaoshan ordered them to be sent to the forging department.

"The name of this ore is sharp crystal. It is a special kind of ore. According to my current understanding, using sharp crystal as an auxiliary material to forge weapons can improve the sharpness of the weapon."

When Wang Dachui heard this, a look of surprise flashed on his face.

This thing sounded a bit incredible to him.

Of course, he didn't think that their king was just entertaining him out of boredom. Since he said it, it must be true.

At the same time, he probably understood what their king was thinking.

"The king wants us to add this sharp crystal to the forging of weapons?"

"Yes."

Zhou Xu nodded.

"My main idea now is to smelt sharp crystal and iron to extract a new alloy, and then use this alloy to cast weapons."

At this point, Zhou Xu changed the topic.

"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."

"The sharp crystal itself is relatively brittle. I'm worried that if the sharp crystal has too many ingredients, it may make the weapons we forge brittle. But conversely, if the ingredients are too small, it may not be able to improve the sharpness. degree of purpose.”

Zhou Xu and Wang Dachui were talking and gesticulating.

"So we need the most perfect ratio, and to get this ratio, we can only rely on your forging department's constant trial and error."

(End of this chapter)