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Cheng Jinzhou is subtly changing the research methods of everyone in the team.

Standardized purification steps, standardized testing methods, standardized experimental procedures - standardization is the first step in modern experimental methods and a necessary condition for modern science.

With standardized conditions, the processing speed of serpentine and beryl has increased several times, and even Ys is very satisfied.

However, as research progress accelerates, the supply of raw materials is once again facing difficulties.

For several astromancers, the most important thing is to study, and the second is to publish results reports. They actually don't care about what kind of raw materials they use and what kind of things they produce. Therefore, Cheng Jinzhou, who is suspected of using cheap labor, is fully responsible for this.

The problem is that the church has a fixed supply of about 500 kilograms of such raw materials every week, and it is not easy to increase it. On the other hand, Cheng Jinzhou also asked Bishop Kant for more materials to use in building some detectors - the bishop's final reluctant agreement did not mean that he could suppress unlimitedly.

So, while the other star warlocks were busy looking through the information and doing experiments, Cheng Jinzhou sat there in a daze.

Yisu said helplessly: "You can't make money even if you sit still."

"It's a pity that the real rice is not mature, otherwise I would be rich now." Cheng Jinzhou shrugged. Things like beryl cost dozens or hundreds of taels of silver per kilogram. The current weekly demand is around 1,000 kilograms, which means the gap is as high as 50,000 taels of silver.

In fact, due to the higher price of serpentine, this figure still needs to increase by 20%.

Although he has a certain amount of savings and can earn a lot of money through raising money from maritime merchants, the merchants' throughput capacity is also limited. An average of more than 100,000 taels of silver per month is the limit. Explosive transactions may be able to raise money instantly. Nearly one million taels of silver can only be spent once in a while. At least for now, the family, including Qin Yu Trading Company, is unable to spend large sums of money.

This also means that for a long time in the future, Xiao Cheng will have a deficit of more than 100,000 taels of silver every month. Even for the Star Warlocks, this is an extremely large amount of money, equivalent to 3 million US dollars and 20 million yuan. Skilled corrupt officials below the elite level cannot embezzle as much money in a year.

Ys was wandering around somewhere, sometimes in his left ear, sometimes in his right ear, saying: "Planting is indeed a good choice. The environment of many planets is very bad, and they can no longer afford the cultivation of high-grade food. Waiting for your real rice When it matures, it will be a lot of money."

"If you had gotten me some high-grade grain seeds, all the problems would have been solved." Cheng Jinzhou shrugged dissatisfied.

"How can it be so easy?" Yisu didn't explain much. In fact, he rarely talked about the Star Alliance with Cheng Jinzhou.

"It's better to wait." Cheng Jinzhou rubbed his eyes tiredly. Regular consumption of real rice made his body much better, but after all, he was not made of steel.

Waiting for the autumn harvest, which is only a few months away, it is better to wait peacefully than to fight.

Yisu was silent for a moment and said, "It would be best if I could get my body in advance."

"There is no money now." Cheng Jinzhou spread his hands and said: "Now there is a fourth-level star warlock who is eyeing him. I have to rely on the blessing of the church. I have cornered Bishop Kant, and the star warlock association does not want me. I will lose my life." ”

"Where is your contribution to the Star Warlock Association?" Yisu followed Cheng Jinzhou every day and knew him as well as he did himself.

It has been nearly two months since "A Wonderful Type of Calculation for Maximizing and Minimizing" was published, and it has brought Cheng Jinzhou more than 500 contribution points. This is equivalent to nearly 500 astromancers studying calculus. From the perspective of the mathematical community, it is not an exaggeration to describe it as "the whole world".

Even in China in the 21st century, the number of students who devote themselves to studying calculus or even the history of calculus is difficult to reach 500. According to the management of the Star Warlock World, starting from the third one, the increase rate of contribution points will be greatly reduced. Unless there are new achievements or special events, subsequent Star Warlocks will quote more articles from previous Star Warlocks - if there is no similar diffusion, it would be meaningless for everyone to rush to publish articles with great interest.

Tigers eating meat, jackals deboning vultures, and vultures making homemade carrion soup are not only traditions of nature, but also applicable to any place where the laws of nature prevail.

"It's not that I haven't thought about contribution points." Cheng Jinzhou saw that the nearest star warlock apprentice was also five or six meters away, so he relaxed his voice and whispered: "Contribution points have always been in short supply. Give the association 600 taels of silver and sell them It’s 1,000 taels of silver outside. In total, I can exchange it for 500,000 taels of silver. But with this money, I may not be able to last until the autumn harvest without eating or drinking. Moreover, the money to be returned to the court is not yet available. What if? I can upgrade to a three-star warlock, but I have to spend a lot of money to buy contribution points back."

Cheng Jinzhou made deals with the Star Alliance just like the British made deals with the Chinese before the Opium War. The technology of the former is so advanced, and the profits after excluding transportation costs are so amazing. It seems that the market is vast, but in fact, it cannot grow big. It is said that on the eve of the Opium War, China's industrial consumption capacity was comparable to that of Honduras, which had a population of only a few million. Nowadays, Daxia, with a population of tens of millions, seems to be no better.

Whether it is maritime merchants, trading houses or smaller traders, the area they can cover is limited after all, and the consumption power of Daxia is also limited. Although Cheng Jinzhou can produce more and more food, the demand of local residents is decreasing, and the amount of cloth and medicinal herbs they can provide is gradually decreasing sharply. The result is like "low grain prices hurting farmers" in a good year. If the quantity exceeds a certain amount, business will not be able to continue.

After all, this is not a developed commodity world.

According to Uncle Ma's opinion, the essence of human commodity exchange is to improve social productivity: those who cultivate the land are specialized in farming, those who pick fruits are specialized in picking fruits, and those who weave baskets are specialized in weaving baskets. Since everyone is professional, the speed of production will be accelerated, and through exchange, the quality of life of the whole society will be improved. The division of labor and cooperation in modern factories also develop on this basis.

If Cheng Jinzhou spent thirty to fifty years to change the society of Daxia, and let all farmers plant medicine and trees, and let all pig farmers weave and raise silkworms, then he would be the perfect choice to provide food and meat. . But trying to adjust the production and life of people in Daxia within a few years is basically a delusion. Have you not seen that the post-imperialist United States, Europe and Japan are all trying their best to source manufacturing raw materials and dump industrial products. Their aid to the third world is for mutual prosperity, and it is also for the prospect of commodity exchange. If Saudi Arabia still has sand buried underground, there will be no value in trading with them.

Ys couldn't come up with any effective method. In fact, what caused the current predicament was precisely his request: the materials could not be purchased from the autonomous trading platform.

If not for this, Cheng Jinzhou would have been rich by now with more than 100,000 taels of silver from transactions every month.

Classmate Xiao Cheng is happy and relaxed. He is only 14 years old, has a long life, and is an astrologer at the top of the pyramid. Why should he suffer in a hurry.

After Cao Feng finished his work, he saw that Cheng Jinzhou seemed to be idle, so he walked over slowly and asked with a smile: "Brother Jinzhou, do you have time to help?"

As everyone gets acquainted, the titles become more casual.

"Say." Cheng Jinzhou stood up and tugged on his gown.

Cao Feng fumbled for a lens and handed it to him, smiling: "Although I am doing purification, I still like vision-enhancing crystals."

He still calls the microscope a "vision-enhancing crystal."

"Has it improved recently?"

Astromancers generally prioritize their personal interests in their research. Everyone is willing to join the Star Warlock team and work together to overcome certain difficulties and problems, but it does not mean that they will give up their interests. Cheng Jinzhou has never expected this.

Cao Feng nodded, and took out a telescope-shaped vision-enhancing crystal and said: "Now we have double lenses, and the magnification has been increased to 85. We can already see a lot of small things."

Cheng Jinzhou picked it up and looked at it. Although he still couldn't see anything like bacteria, there was no problem if he looked at the cells.

It's a pity that many of the star warlocks of this era have ideas about amplified star formations, and Cao Feng has no chance to replicate Leeuwenhoek's success.

"What do you need me to do?" Cheng Jinzhou was very talkative.

"It's hard to calculate the arc." Cao Feng said, placing a thick stack of straw paper in front of Cheng Jinzhou.

Over there, Jin Xi also finished the work at hand and walked over quickly. His mathematical research ability is weaker than Cao Feng's, and he needs more help.

Cheng Jinzhou smiled and opened the pages. They were all about elementary geometry. They were not difficult, and certainly not easy. Many self-righteous high school students and college students thought that if they went back in time, they could become academic geniuses with poor grades. But in fact, even a university professor has to think twice before completing a primary school math Olympiad problem. The chicken and rabbit problem is the best example. If you can't use equations, this question alone can eliminate half of the stupid high school students.

The greater the curvature of the lens, the more difficult it is to calculate. Jin Xixing Warlock's star array is more like an automated machine. Various parameters must be measured perfectly before it can be started and run. If there is a slight change in the middle, the glass will break with a "pop" sound.

Classmate Xiao Cheng didn't answer immediately. He kept it in his hand and said he would continue to look at it. Now that the difficulty has increased, it is not easy for him to be sure.

Taking this opportunity, Cao Feng whispered: "Liu Kuang and An Feng seem to have reached an agreement with the court."

"oh?"

"Be careful of Yang Zhanquan." Cao Feng shook his head gently as he spoke. Facing a fourth-level star warlock, few people could still maintain confidence.

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