Throne of Vientiane Civilization

In the first month of winter, the wood elves' villages had been completely captured by their winter equipment.

Is this winter really colder than in previous years?

In fact, there is not, but today's wood elves have become accustomed to the existence of winter clothes and heaters.

With contrast, the chill that was originally bearable gradually became unbearable.

It's not that the weather has gotten colder, but that their tolerance for the cold has declined.

It's not just the wood elves who feel this way. In fact, the people of Great Zhou, and even Zhou Xu himself, all have this feeling to some extent.

After living conditions improve, if one day we return to before liberation, who can get used to it?

However, a comfortable life like this is destined to require a lot of money to support it.

Let’s not talk about other things, let’s talk about the anthracite coal that is burned every day. This is currently the most expensive coal in Dazhou. The wood elves disliked the smoky nature of poor coal, so they directly purchased it in large quantities. The highest quality and most expensive anthracite on the market.

After winter, the whole village is using it, and the anthracite coal bought before winter is almost bottoming out.

If they want to use it until next spring, they have to make another purchase.

The expenditure on anthracite coal will most likely become the biggest consumption point for the wood elves this winter!

During this period, the first batch of ore mined from the mining field in Basin Forest was officially transported out of the mine today and sent to the Ordnance Forging Department of Xianyang City.

In front of the scorching hot forging furnace, Li Gan wielded the forging hammer in his hand as always, forging the iron block that was as dazzling as the sun. Every time the hammer fell, large iron flowers would splash out.

After completing another round of forging, Li Gan stopped his movements and raised his eyes to look at the members who had been standing beside him for a while.

"What's up?"

"Minister, the diamond mentioned before has been delivered."

Today, Li Gan seems to have been promoted to minister by virtue of his outstanding personal abilities.

When he heard the report from his subordinates, Li Gan's eyes suddenly lit up.

Long before, under the arrangement of their majesty, Li Gan had mastered the method of smelting crystal iron. The iron block he was folding and forging just now was a piece of crystal iron that was fused with sharp crystals.

He wanted to try to forge a piece of crystal iron into patterned steel.

So far, things are going very smoothly.

But now the emergence of diamond has undoubtedly brought new variables to his arrangement, and may even make his previous work useless.

However, Li Gan was not upset at all, he was only curious and excited about the new ore!

He didn't need to say anything as his subordinates had already brought a basket of diamonds in front of him.

Picking up one of the pieces, Li Gan rubbed the surface of the diamond with his fingertips, feeling the texture of the diamond.

Diamond is cold to the touch, but it is not the same cold as iron.

Although no refining has been carried out yet, some areas of the raw ore already have a silky feel, which makes Li Gan feel very novel.

[According to His Majesty, adding diamond to the forging can effectively increase the hardness of the weapon. The specific smelting method should be basically the same as crystal iron. The focus now is how to grasp this ratio during the smelting process. 】

[In addition, you can slowly try to smelt with other materials. For now, you should try to add diamonds to steel first, and then try to see if you can smelt steel, sharp crystal and diamond together, and Forged into patterned steel. 】

At this moment, Li Gan's thoughts were still very clear.

"Let's try smelting diamond and steel first. Which group has the lighter workload now?"

"Group five."

"Then call the five groups over and let them cooperate in trial and error."

There is not much technical content in the trial and error aspect of proportion, and it mainly relies on time and manpower.

As long as there are enough manpower, the formulas of various proportions can be smelted at the same time, and the results can be obtained in the shortest time.

At this moment, Li Gan was undoubtedly planning to do this.

This whole process is tedious, boring, and strenuous, but Li Gan really enjoys it.

During this period, although Zhou Xu was concerned about the progress here, he did not keep asking questions.

After all, he also knows that this is a time-consuming matter in itself. If he keeps asking, it will not have any positive effects. On the contrary, it will easily create pressure on his subordinates and increase the probability of screwing up the matter.

In this way, when faced with these things, Zhou Xu's usual approach is to relax and believe that his subordinates can handle things well.

Undoubtedly, Zhou Xu is still very confident about Li Gan, the forging master.

After handing over this task, he basically ignored it and concentrated all his energy on the government affairs that he needed to worry about.

During this period, the study of the mantra certainly did not fall behind.

There is a reason why his research efficiency is slow when it comes to mantras.

It's not that he is lazy, but because in the process of perceiving, observing, analyzing and studying a mantra, the power of the mantra in his body will continue to be consumed.

This led to a situation where every time he studied in depth, he had to spend ten days and a half to restore the power of the mantra in his body.

This was still under the condition that he had some reservations and did not allow his mantra power to be seriously depleted or overdrawn.

Once overdrafted, he would have to wait at least a month to recover from the negative impact.

"call--"

In the quiet palace, with a long breath, Zhou Xu, who was sitting on the bed, opened his eyes. At this moment, his tired face showed an uncontrollable excitement.

"I succeeded, I finally succeeded!"

Just now, he finally completely cracked a mantra character and then restored it.

In this process, the existence of the ‘Peeping Eye of Secrets’ played a vital role.

This pair of eyes that can spy on secrets has greatly improved his analytical ability.

Then a simple test was conducted, and the mantra characters could still exert the same effect as before!

This shows what? This shows that as long as he restores the 'program' to its original version after cracking it, it can continue to operate normally.

Although it is not ruled out that some old people have added a 'self-destruction' design when writing the program, at least for now, apart from those mantras that are seriously protected from prying eyes, most of his mantras can be safely protected. Do your research!

Thinking of this, Zhou Xu also relaxed completely.

The next second, his body fell back, and he snored. The exhaustion caused by the massive consumption of mantra power dragged him into sleep in the blink of an eye...