Less than a thousand square meters, Nick's Talisman Workshop is a typical courtyard-style workshop, with a total of twenty-four pauper workers, eight of whom are skilled craftsmen who are skilled in making talisman metal plates, as well as thirteen young apprentices and three handymen, who make up the blank rune metal plate processing workshop.The warehouse of the workshop was well managed by Nick, and it was almost clear what was in the entire workshop, but in fact there was almost nothing in it except for the piles of copper plates.When we walked into the workshop, several craftsmen were gathered on the workbench next to the pickling pool to play cards, looking very engaged, even if we walked in, we did not put down the cards in our hands, but the young apprentices were silently tidying up the workshop in all corners of the workshop, although it seemed that there was really nothing to tidy up.The fire under the only crucible in the room has long since cooled, and even the combustion chamber below has been cleaned, indicating that Mithril has not been smelted here for a long time.We stood next to the pickling pool, Nick dispersed the craftsmen who played cards during working hours, but those craftsmen did not seem to have any nervousness, and several craftsmen who gathered together to play cards looked lazy, although they did not refute Nick in person, but they looked as a matter of course, and the expression on their faces clearly said: There is no work in the workshop, what's wrong with us playing cards?
Brennan had a calm face, looked at the craftsmen who were casually walking around in the workshop, looking bored, and said to Nick in a low voice: "Why do you still have to support them at this time, you should give them a long vacation, this is all raised in the workshop, and you have to pay money every day." ”At this time, Lady Arya asked Nick to introduce us to the process of processing rune metal plates in the workshop.I say in my heart, no one knows these processes better than you.As a member of the Babington family, there seems to be no one who can match the magical metal industry of the Green Empire.There was no expression on Lady Arya's face, she always maintained an aristocratic smile on her face, her steps were graceful, and the powerful aura exuded from her body made the poor craftsmen in the workshop not even dare to look at us directly, but only secretly looked at us in the corner.Hearing Mrs.
Arya's request to introduce the process in the workshop, Nick stood at the front of the line, when the metal copper plate transported from the blacksmith shop entered the workshop, this will be the first process, each metal copper plate must be put into the pickling pool for full soaking, the superficial layer of the metal copper plate is cleaned of the patina, and then it must enter the alkali pool to remove the grease on the surface of the copper plate, and finally put it into the clean water pool to clean.Then it will be sent to the grinder for polishing, and finally the copper plate will be polished to be as smooth as a mirror, and then it will be sent to the side of the crucible and coated with a thin layer of auxiliary alchemy potion, so that it can be immersed in the Mithril solution inside the crucible, and the surface of the copper plate will be polished smooth as a mirror and stained with a thin layer of Mithril, of course, the surface of the copper plate that has not been coated with alchemy potion will not be stained with melted Mithril, even a small drop.The copper plate must be taken out of the crucible before it melts, and the copper plate will be blown very thin by the air wall formed by the bellows, and the blank Mithril talisman plate will be quickly cooled and placed in the drying area of the workshop for final aging.Originally, Ma and I also opened a blacksmith shop in the city of El, and at that time we wanted to enter the realm of blank rune metal plates, but unfortunately we naively thought that as long as we hired a master blacksmith, we could make rune plates, in fact, we did make some blank rune plates with a layer of magic red copper on the surface.At that time, I didn't understand how the primary rune metal plate we made was different from other rune metal plates, and now it looks like it's not a little bit worse, just looking at these complicated pre-treatment processes, let me know what kind of advantages the rune metal plates made in batches in the workshop have, the most obvious advantage is that the coating is uniform, and the entire copper foundation plate is polished as smooth as a mirror.It's hard not to be a well-machined rune metal plate that is not loved by those who are good at carving the magic patterns of metal plates.After looking at the process, I asked Nick, "The blank rune metal plates that came out of here, each one of them was made like this?"
”Nick had a puzzled look on his face, and then asked me strangely, "Your Excellency the Magician, is there anything wrong?"
”"No, no, no, you're doing a great job."
I hurriedly said, "I've never seen how to produce a blank metal plate before, I'm just a little curious. ”"This kind of finished Mithril rune plate is only suitable for small and medium-sized workshops to process and produce, because the copper plate is polished into a mirror, which seriously limits the output, and it is difficult for the general large workshop to polish each copper base plate to be as smooth as a mirror, as long as it is flat."
Lady Arya whispered beside me explained that this was also the reason why these small and medium-sized rune workshops were able to survive under the oppression of large-scale rune workshops before.To put it bluntly, most of these surprise blank rune boards will be provided to the laboratory of the Academy of Magic, or the Magic Research Institute, the Magic Guild Ming Research Institute, and so on.And the magic red copper rune plate invented by me and Qi Ge with gold essence magic pattern on the surface needs to be plated on the copper substrate, and then the pure gold solution is drawn on the red copper rune plate, according to the different uses of the rune plate, the pattern on the red copper rune plate will also be very different, and the thickness and depth of the fine gold magic pattern line directly affect the processing cost of this hybrid rune plate.Of course, the extremely thin and shallow lines of the Adamantite Pattern will minimize the material cost of the rune board, but unfortunately the difficulty of the Masters who want to redraw the Magic Pattern along the extremely thin Adamantite Pattern Line will be infinitely magnified, which will make the manufacturing cost increase exponentially, so Qi Ge and I have been thinking about how to bypass the expensive Inscription Master hand-engraved magic runes.It is some of Qige's extremely bold ideas to use the mold to directly print the Adamantite Magic Pattern on the red copper rune plate, and she thinks that as long as the impression is made more exquisite, it is still very feasible to use the shaping mold to carry out the batch processing of the Adamantite Magic Pattern Red Copper Rune Plate.Mrs.
Arya and I walked around the workshop, and did not directly say on the spot that we wanted to buy the workshop directly, but said to the owner of the workshop, Nick, to go back and think about it, Nick didn't think there was anything wrong with this, but there was a faint disappointment in his eyes, his workshop price was about 1,200 gold coins, which was really the price of cabbage.Although this is a slum, such a courtyard-style workshop, even if it does not count the various facilities inside, is just such a courtyard of nearly 1,000 square meters, and its own value will not be less than 1,000 gold.In the slums of the sixth district of the imperial capital, the approximate selling price of those attic houses here is generally between two hundred and three hundred gold coins, which is five times the price of the houses in Ercheng.On the contrary, Brennan has been asking us about the bottom line of buying this workshop.I had hoped to settle the matter before I left, but Lady Arya stopped me with her eyes, and I had to agree to renegotiate at the restaurant the day after tomorrow.When the magic caravan drove out of the alley, I sat in the magic caravan and asked Lady Alya, "Isn't this workshop worth 1,200 gold coins?"
Why not just buy it?
”Mrs.
Arya did not answer my question immediately, but looking out the window at the houses on both sides of the streets of the slums, and seeing some poor women and children sitting in the shade of the trees on both sides of the street, and magic caravans passing by them, I realized that the number of poor people like this, who came out of the houses on summer afternoons to cool off, was quite large."
Of course we're going to buy it, but not today."
Lady Arya pursed her lips.Her brow furrowed as if she was thinking about something, and this preoccupation looked beautiful.She turned her head and said to me, "Since we don't have any dispute about the price of this workshop, the biggest problem between us is how to receive the craftsmen in the workshop, between full reception and selective reception, I prefer selective acceptance, this workshop would rather recruit a new batch of craftsmen than those scattered craftsmen, their inertia in this workshop has been cultivated, and it is difficult to change it for a while, I don't want these loose craftsmen to stay in the workshop in the future. ”Lady Arya squinted her eyes, gently rubbed her temples with her white fingers in annoyance, and said in annoyance, "The last insistence of this workshop owner, Nick, is probably that he wants us to accept all the craftsmen here, and I don't want any of them!"
”I stared at Lady Arya with wide eyes, and thought to myself: I didn't think she even wanted a craftsman, and I was about to ask her why.Before she could ask, she said again: "In the future, we will make a new form of rune plate, and the price of magic red copper in the imperial capital is not high, so when making red copper rune plates, there is no need for these craftsmen to do fine processing, in order to make up for the quality of red copper runes, we can even thicken the plating a little more, and waste some more magic red copper, which will make the production process much simpler, and the apprentices in the workshop are enough to do these jobs, and they are better to manage than those craftsmen with loose personalities." ”After all, Lady Arya will still need to manage this workshop for making rune plates in the future, so of course I don't have any problem with Lady Arya cutting off those loosely disciplined craftsmen.A faint smile curled up at the corner of Lady Arya's lips and said, "Only by satisfying Boss Nick's appetite can we convince him to give up his insistence."
Otherwise, I'd rather set up the workshop in the third district, in a residential area near the Royal Academy of Magic. ”She took out a parchment booklet from a drawer, and turned it page by page, silently scribbling it down.After a while, he bit the barrel of the pen, raised his head and said to me, "In addition, we will do two things next." ”She stretched out a finger to me and said, "The first thing is to find a way to get the formula of the Adamantite Solution, of course, even if we can't get that formula, we have to find a way to convince the alchemist, at least we can't leak the Adamantite Solution, in fact, this kind of Adamantite Magic Pattern Red Copper Rune Plate is not difficult to process, the core of this Charm Plate is the invention of the Adamantite Gold Solution, without this special magic metal solution, it is impossible to solve the process problem of this special metal rune plate, It's best if we can keep the recipe in our hands. ”Hold out a second finger before saying, "The second thing, how can I reduce the cost of the magic rune metal plate."
If you want to reduce the cost of the rune plate, you must realize the shaping mold can be directly printed on the red copper rune line, if we can print the gold spirit magic line on the red copper magic pattern, then boldly think about it, whether the mold printing can replace the hand-carved magic pattern of the Ming master?
”I looked at Lady Arya a little speechlessly, she really dared to think about it!
The magic caravan continued along the long street of the sixth block, towards the outskirts of the imperial capital.The farther away from the central area of the imperial capital, the more dilapidated the lofts on both sides of the street become, and Ying Li and I used to visit here two months ago when we were wandering around the alleys of the imperial capital in a magic caravan, and we saw that this area seemed a little depressed.I heard that there were four or five poor families living in each attic, and even the living room was partitioned and beds were placed, and some of the old attic balconies even had suggested awnings built on the balconies, so that people could live in the sheds in the hot summer."
Hey, speaking of which, the most bitter in this plane war are the poor people at the bottom, maybe every day they have to worry about whether their jobs will be messed up by themselves, at this time, there are a large number of workshops in various neighborhoods of the imperial capital have closed down one after another, it is really hard to imagine how the poor people working in the workshops will live after losing their jobs?"
I sighed to Lady Arya."
No matter what, those poor people won't starve to death."
Lady Arya said."
Why?"
I asked Lady Arya.Lady Arya pointed to the Floating Imperial City, and then lowered her voice and said, "That supreme emperor doesn't want to see anyone starve to death in the imperial capital, so once you find poor people living in extreme poverty, the civil affairs officials of the imperial capital will find a way to arrange some heavy work for them." ”"Like carrying bags on the dock at the airport?"
I smiled and asked Lady Arya."
Uh-huh, almost."
Lady Arya glanced at me.