Chapter 318 Then grab it (8 updates for Guo Jiuxing Silver League)
When Jiang Lin got up early the next morning, he saw three children already holding a hundred kilograms of pig iron and starting to run to exercise their endurance.
"Quite diligent." Jiang Lin secretly said.
Seeing him leaving the house, Sheng Yingchun turned around and ran back, holding the pig iron and bowing slightly to Jiang Lin: "Good morning, Master."
"Huh? Morning..." Jiang Lin didn't react for a moment. This girl was usually as cold as ice and didn't talk much, but today she took the initiative to come over and say hello.
And the look in her eyes always made Jiang Lin feel a little weird.
Sheng Yingchun didn't say anything else, turned around and continued running.
When Miao Yonghuai on the other side saw this scene, he also ran over with pig iron in his arms, shouting: "Good morning, Master!"
Song Ziyan followed him, timidly like a little girl: "Master...good morning."
"Morning, early..."
Seeing Miao Yonghuai greeting Song Ziyan back with satisfaction, Jiang Lin looked strange, what are these three dolls doing?
But he didn't think much about it. As long as the three children could adapt to life here, nothing else mattered.
In the days that followed, it was natural to continue to work step by step to repay the weapons customized by the military attachés.
In addition, a large amount of pig iron must be fired to complete the transaction with Yu Shuai.
This is a big job, one million pieces of pig iron, and at Jiang Lin's current speed, it will take a year and a half.
The elite blacksmith team of the South Blacksmith Camp eventually expanded to 300 people and did not continue to increase.
In fact, with Jiang Lin's current skills, even three hundred more people would be enough to supply pig iron.
But he was already wary of the Daqian Dynasty, so he naturally did not want to upgrade the weapons of the border army too quickly. Three hundred people were not too much or too little, which was just right.
The blacksmith masters are still very motivated now. A top-grade third-grade weapon costs two hundred taels of silver, and you can make more than a thousand taels in a day.
Those who failed to join the elite blacksmith team are drooling with envy now, eagerly looking forward to another expansion of manpower all day long so that they can also have the opportunity to experience what it is like to make a lot of money.
Unfortunately, they may never have a chance. Unless one day Jiang Lin feels that the threat has been completely eliminated, he will not expand the elite blacksmith team.
A few days later, Yang Junchi came to the South Blacksmith Camp with Yan Tianrong and others with documents from the Ministry of Industry.
"Merge?" After reading the documents, Jiang Lin was not surprised by the result.
Yan Tianrong and Yang Junchi discussed it for a long time before finally reporting it to the superior. The Ministry of Industry also happily issued a document allowing the four major blacksmith camps to merge, on the grounds that it would facilitate scheduling.
But everyone knew in their hearts that the Ministry of Industry was trying to give Jiang Lin face.
Mr. Zuo Sishi stayed in the South Blacksmith Camp all day. Although Yan Tianrong was the Secretary of the Foundry Department, he actually had nothing to do.
How dare he, an eighth-rank minister, order the fourth-rank left minister.
It would be better to merge the four major blacksmith camps and let Jiang Lin take charge of them all.
As for the Casting Department, it exists in name only, but in fact it has become a subordinate of Mr. Zuo Sashi, and it is enough to serve Mr. Jiang wholeheartedly.
"Since it is an order from the Ministry of Works, it is natural to obey it. However, the Battalion and Maintenance Department has not yet built so many houses. Once the four blacksmith camps are merged, this place will probably have to be expanded again," Jiang Lin said.
Yang Junchi handed over another document with a smile and said: "Master Jiang has considered it carefully, but the adults from the Ministry of Industry have also taken this into consideration. This time, five million taels of silver have been allocated specifically for the merger and transformation of the four major blacksmith camps. . How to do it is all up to Mr. Jiang. Thousands of people are also prepared at the Camping Department and will come over at any time."
Having said this, Jiang Lin has nothing else to say.
The talents from the other three blacksmith camps have basically been pulled over, and now they exist in name only and have little motivation.
Moreover, the documents from the Ministry of Industry stated that the salary of the Foundry Department would be increased by 10% as a whole.
If Jiang Lin doesn't agree, he will be rejecting the money that others have received.
The so-called cutting off people's wealth is like killing their parents. Jiang Lin would not do such a thing that has no benefit and is purely offensive.
When they learned that they were going to be merged into the South Blacksmith Camp, several other people from the Blacksmith Camp packed up their packages and bedding and came over overnight without saying a word.
Don’t have a house?
It doesn't matter, they just treat themselves as apprentices, spread their mats on the ground and sleep.
You act like you are yours after entering your door, and you will have to die in this three-quarter acre of land.
Jiang Lin looked amused and had no intention of driving them away, so he just let them go.
Since it is a merger, naturally it is no longer divided into southeast, northwest and northwest, but unified called Daqian Blacksmith Camp.
It is nominally under the jurisdiction of the Foundry Division, but in fact only Jiang Lin has the final say.
The Ministry of Industry actually didn't take these blacksmiths seriously. They all had low cultivation levels and couldn't even build treasure weapons.
Even if there are no more than 10,000 blacksmiths in the camp, they can recruit enough people from the private sector to supplement them at any time.
So even if some people think that this Daqian Blacksmith Camp has a vague flavor of Jiang, no one will care.
After careful consideration, Jiang Lin decided to use part of the money that originally belonged to the elite blacksmith team to supply other blacksmiths.
Each person's share is not much. Rough calculation, together with the 10% given by the Ministry of Industry, it is equivalent to about 30%. Some who were originally master chefs raised their prices by 50%.
Even an ordinary apprentice, as long as you are not lazy and work diligently, will earn two taels of silver every month.
In this way, no matter the mainstay like the master master, or the ordinary blacksmith, or the apprentice, they all feel grateful to Jiang Linna.
After so many years of blacksmithing, when have I ever seen such a generous official?
In comparison, the Foundry Department and the Ministry of Engineering were extremely picky.
If Jiang Lin raised his arms now and asked who was willing to follow him, it is estimated that at least half of the people would agree without hesitation.
The blacksmiths are not stupid. They don't understand that the current good situation is not due to anything done by the Foundry Department or the Ministry of Works, but because of Jiang Lin's efforts alone.
Without Jiang Lin, the foundry department would be knocked back to its original shape in the blink of an eye.
And with Jiang Lin, the fourth-rank Zuo Si Envoy, a popular member of the border army sitting in charge, people from other departments had to be polite if they wanted to come to make iron tools, but they didn't dare to speak loudly.
The status of the Foundry Department has soared at an extremely fast rate among the Forty-Eight Departments of Daqian.
In a very short period of time, it has become the one that attracts the most attention, except for the Department of Internal Affairs, the Department of Shangyu and other departments with special status.
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In addition to the foundry department, the recent changes in the watchtower are also quite gratifying.
The first change is naturally that Tian Daheng and other seniors have been promoted to first-level Yuanwu Realm masters through continuous "drug abuse".
And it’s not just one, there are dozens of them!
The dozens of martial arts peaks that had gone to attack Wushuang Castle and Tianhuo Castle before were now at the Yuan Martial Realm.
Although it is just the first time to enter this realm, in terms of the number of Yuanwu Realm alone, it is already more than the previous Wushuang Castle, Skyfire Castle, and Thunder Eagle Castle combined.
The weapons of these people have been replaced by treasure weapons, and the previous high-grade weapons have been handed down to newcomers.
"We have recruited a lot of people recently, and the total number has reached about 700, and we are gradually extending to the original locations of Wushuang Castle and Skyfire Castle."
Tian Daheng described the recent development of the watchtower with a respectful look. As the number of people increased, more experts were attracted.
Among the newly joined people, there are already more than a dozen ninth-level martial artists and several peak martial artists.
Although Zhan Wanglou no longer cares about the martial arts cultivation level of outsiders, if they have a higher cultivation level, they can always save some pills.
Even though Jiang Lin's success rate in refining elixirs is surprisingly high, there is almost no possibility of wasting medicinal materials, but there is nothing wrong with saving as much as possible.
At this moment, Jiang Lin was holding several prescriptions for elixirs, all of which he had collected recently from the watchtower.
It was a pity that they failed to find elixirs like Jiuyao Dan and Baose Dan that could improve the Yuanwu realm.
"The Xiashan Liu Alchemy Master that your Excellency is looking for has obtained some information."
Jiang Lin raised his head slightly, and Tian Daheng's attitude became more respectful and said: "This person is a fifth-grade alchemy master. He is good at refining a pill called Kongming San. It is said that it can improve some martial arts understanding. He has not joined any force yet and has formed his own sect. He has many apprentices and is quite famous in Xunzhou.”
Jiang Lin was confused when he heard this: "Improve martial arts understanding? What is it for?"
Tian Daheng was stunned for a moment when asked, and subconsciously replied: "If you have a high level of understanding, you can understand martial arts secrets faster. In addition, you also need to learn some tricks to improve your cultivation..."
As he was talking, Tian Daheng remembered that Mr. Jiang in front of him seemed to have incredible understanding. It could also be said that he didn't need understanding at all.
There are so many martial arts secrets that you can understand just by reading them.
As for improving your cultivation...
Others rely on enlightenment, Master Jiang relies on blacksmithing.
Even these people have benefited from his alchemy skills, and they have been successfully promoted to the Yuanwu realm by taking drugs fiercely.
"Well, that's somewhat useful, but he can only refine Kongming Powder?" Jiang Lin asked curiously.
"Uh..." Tian Daheng was a little unsure of how to answer: "I don't think he only knows how to refine Kongming Powder, but he is the best at this kind of elixir."
Jiang Lin groaned, and then he realized that not all alchemy masters were like him, and could 100% understand how to refine elixirs of the same level.
After all, he is cheating, and others can only rely on their own efforts.
It's pitiful to think about it this way.
"The strange fire in his hand is called Ziming Qihuo. It is said that it is precisely because of this strange fire that Xia Shanliu's success rate in refining Kongming Powder is extremely high. Usually, at least seven furnaces can be made out of ten furnaces." Tian Daheng said.
"With the strange fire in hand, there is a 70% chance..." Jiang Lin shook his head slightly and refused to comment.
"Someone wanted to buy that strange fire before, but Xia Shanliu drove him away. He knew many Yuanwu realm masters, but no one dared to ask for it by force." Tian Daheng said.
Jiang Lin hummed and said, "I have no choice but to go there."
Jiang Lin is bound to get the strange fire in Xia Shanliu's hands. No matter what the other party wants, he can give it to him.
If you really don’t want to give it… then grab it!
The worst case scenario is that he will send Kongming Powder to Xia Shanliu on a regular basis in the future. His refining success rate is not very high anyway, and he can make money while lying down, so it shouldn't be too difficult for him, right?
Jiang Lin rubbed his forehead, feeling more and more like a frontier soldier.
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