Douluo's self-disciplined soul beast

Chapter 548 An Insignificant Ball

"It's quite a lot, these people add up to hundreds of people."

"Yes, but I don't have any familiar people here. It shouldn't be that none of those people are here."

Tai Tan is the vice president of the Blacksmiths Association. Although he hasn't been here for a long time, there are still a few familiar people. At this time, all he saw were strangers and young people, which made him feel a little unreasonable.

At this time, a person walked down the stairs in the hall and saw several people at the door.

"Uncle Titan, are you here? It just so happens that Master needs your help with something."

"Silong? You're still here, why are there so few people here? And none of the old guys saw it."

"It's a little less. Those people have all gone to the steel factory over there. As for the old man you mentioned, they are all on the fifth floor."

Then Titan introduced to everyone:

"These are Lou Gao's apprentices, and they are also the old men of the Blacksmith Association. They volunteered here to contribute to the association. Speaking of which, their casting skills are second only to master craftsmen, and they are all master-level skills, and their soul power level is also high Reached the soul sage."

Lou Gao, a blacksmith known as a master craftsman, is one of the three master craftsmen on the mainland. It has a great relationship with blacksmiths.

The master craftsman is the highest level of blacksmiths. Like soul masters, blacksmiths here also have their own ratings, which are divided into seven levels.

From low to high, they are: junior blacksmith.Intermediate blacksmith, senior blacksmith, blacksmith master.Master Blacksmith, Master Blacksmith and Master Blacksmith.

But this grading has no effect outside. In the outside world, even if you are a master craftsman, if your spirit power level is not high, you won't get too much attention.

No matter how excellent the blacksmith's craftsmanship is, the things they build are extremely weak against high-level soul masters.

This kind of situation can only appear in Gengxin City.

Gengxin City is the city with the most blacksmith shops, and only in this city will blacksmiths be valued.

According to incomplete statistics, in the entire Gengxin City, there are thousands of blacksmith shops alone, and tens of thousands of blacksmiths.There are many blacksmiths from other cities who come here specifically for the blacksmith assessment.If you can pass the senior blacksmith assessment, you can stay in this city.Simply put, this is a blacksmith's paradise.

Most of the people living here are not blacksmiths and are engaged in metallurgical industry-related businesses, and the rest are a minority

In addition to precious metals, these blacksmiths are also one of the purposes of their trip.

And several of Lou Gao's disciples are also excellent blacksmiths, Silong is only one of them, there are three like him.

Seeing Tai Tan, he also planned to take Tai Tan directly to the fifth floor, but Tai Tan still explained the situation here to Tang San.

"Young Master, the General Assembly is divided into five floors. The first floor is the trading area. Blacksmiths in Gengxin City usually sell finished products or metals here. Blacksmiths also have to eat.

There are also merchants who specialize in selling various metals. Common metals can be found on the first floor, and they are much cheaper than in Tiandou City.However, there are very few rare metals, so you can only try to find the leaks. If you want a large amount of precious metals, you need to go to the second floor.

The second floor is the advanced trading area, where most rare metals are traded.But you have to be careful, the first floor can be leaked, and the second floor can also be drilled. The association only provides a trading place, unless it is sold by the association itself, otherwise it will not be authentic, and there will always be people who want to make up for it.

The third floor is the blacksmith registration assessment area dedicated to the blacksmith level assessment. If you are interested, young master, you can also try it.

The fourth floor is the VIP area and also the auction area.Some particularly valuable and rare minted items are regularly auctioned there.

As for the fifth floor we are going to, it is the office area, where the blacksmith association handles things, and it is also the forging area for excellent blacksmiths. Excellent blacksmiths have an exclusive territory on the fifth floor.

I used to have it too, but I returned it later. After all, I only come once every few years, so there is no need to take up space. "

"Actually, your position is still reserved for you. After all, there are so many master-level blacksmiths in Gengxin City. Even if you return, most of them will be vacant."

Then under the leadership of Silong, a group of people walked upstairs to the trade union.

There were guards in the stairwell, but because Si Long led the way, these guards did not stop them.

During this process, Titan will also introduce the situation of the trade union.Silong will make up for what Titan said.

Stepping on the second floor, it doesn't feel like you are in a room at all, but it still looks like you are in a market. There are so many shops here that you can't see the end at a glance.

Titan said: "This is the high-end trading area. Those who can open a store here must have a certain background. The others are similar to the first floor, except that there are more good things here.

As a group of people walked up, Tai Tan introduced the situation. This trade union headquarters is not a simple building. It can be said that it is a three-dimensional football field, and the area of ​​each floor is very huge.

In this era, even with the assistance of a soul master, it is not easy to build such a building.

After walking down one flight of stairs, they came to the fourth floor, where a guard was standing at the entrance.

"Silong, are you back? Isn't this Uncle Titan?"

"Yeah, I just met, and the master is too busy to come, so it's okay now."

"This is also one of Lou Gao's apprentices, but is there anything he can't do? Need help?"

Tai Tan is a little curious about Lou Gao. In terms of forging technology, Lou Gao is undoubtedly better than him. He is also curious about things that can make Lou Gao need help.

"You will know this when you go up, and it is difficult for us to explain clearly."

After that is the fifth floor, there are no guards here, as long as you have the ability to open the door, you can enter, but the way to open the door cannot be violent demolition.

Of course, considering the material of this door, it is impossible for ordinary people to disassemble it. Its material is so special that no trace can be left even with a knife or axe. This may be the earliest combination lock on the mainland.

After Silong tapped at different positions according to the law, the door was also opened.

There are a total of 36 casting rooms distributed on the fifth floor, but most of the doors have been dusted, and only four or five rooms can be seen that people often come in and out.Even in Gengxin City, the holy land of blacksmiths, there are not many master-level blacksmiths.

And at this moment, there are only two rooms that are moving.

Silong led the crowd to the innermost No. [-] casting room and stopped, stood respectfully by the door, and raised his hand to knock on the metal door.

There was no sound of forging coming from this casting room, and when Silong knocked on the door, it immediately.An irritable voice sounded from inside, "Didn't I say it a long time ago, no one is allowed to disturb me."

Si Long hurriedly said respectfully: "Teacher, it's me. I'm sorry to disturb you. But the vice president of Titan is here, and I think it might be able to help you, so I made my own proposal."

As soon as Silong's words came in, the irritable voice disappeared immediately, and after a short time, accompanied by a series of knocking sounds, the wide iron door slowly slid open.

The bright room inside is exposed, but there are no windows in this casting room, so it is bright.It turned out to be because there was a soul guide lamp hanging on the roof of the room, and there was an exhaust fan suspected of being a soul guide next to it, which was changing the air inside.

With these two soul guides alone, this place can be said to be luxurious.

The person who opened the door was a short and fat old man, his appearance was almost a bold version of Ma Hongjun, he was only one step away from Gugalas, and he could pass off as a wine barrel.

Protruding ears, small eyes, and a short disheveled hair, it looks like it hasn't been washed for many days.Wearing a loose robe, there was something like metal powder on his chubby face.

"Titan, are you still alive, you old thing?" As soon as the door was opened, the chunky old man's resonant voice sounded.

Tai Tan laughed, "Lou Gao, you fat bastard is several years older than me. You are alive and well. How could I die?"

"You came just in time. I have something here. You can see if you can copy it."

The foundry room looked messy, but it was really big, covering more than [-] square meters. As the only resident master craftsman in Gengxin City, the high-rise foundry room took up a considerable part of the distance on the fifth floor.

All kinds of messy metals are placed everywhere on both sides. These scraps can even be sold for a lot of money, but here they are just scraps.

In the corner, a dark casting furnace and the same color bellows are burning flames, which are forged from special metals, which can make the furnace temperature higher.

Si Long didn't follow in, and continued to be the guard, while the two who followed Tai Tan didn't speak, just waiting to see what Lou Gao wanted to say to Tai Tan.

Then Lou Gao led Tai Tan to his workbench.

His workbench is in the center of the entire room. It is a circular platform. This platform looks more like a huge metal pillar standing there. It is only one meter high and looks extremely solid.

This height is a bit low, but there is no doubt that it is specially built according to the height of the building. Most of the things in this room do not need to bend over, and they are also slightly lower.

And there is only one thing beside it, a small, unremarkable ball.

But it was this kind of thing that troubled Lou Gao for quite some time.

"what is this?"

Looking at the ball, which was not as big as a grain of rice, Tai Tan showed a confused look.

"The goal given to me by the people of the New Empire is that as long as this thing can be reproduced, then Gengxin City will be my fief. From then on, I will follow the instructions and not listen to the announcement. Everything here is up to me."

The conditions that Lou Gao said made Tai Tan dumbfounded, the conditions were a bit too rich to be true, it was unbelievable.

"And what if you can't do it?"

Tang San asked, there is no such good thing as pie in the sky, if the reward for doing it is so generous, the price for not doing it may not be small.

"Can't do it? If I can't do it, I will help them manage all the blacksmiths in Gengxin City, and obey the imperial order when necessary." Looking at the people brought in by Tai Tan, Lou Gao returned.

"Just two little things, what's the problem?"

Looking at the height of the building, Tai Tan asked a little puzzled.

"What's the problem? Look at this round ball. First of all, it's a very close to perfect ball without any cross section. If it's just like this, I can do it. However, this thing is a part, and the requirement is that it must be usable. .”

Talking Lou Gao threw Tai Tan a pen.

"This ball is the bead in the nib. It must be very wear-resistant, and the ball looks like a smooth ball, but there are grooves on it to guide the ink. Do you still think it is simple?"

The pen ball of the ballpoint pen is the test that Lougao is facing. It seems simple, but the technology contained in it is very complicated.

At least Lou Gao had no clue, he couldn't even find a suitable material.

In fact, what is required is the whole pen. Except for the terrible pen ball, he has already made the other parts. The pen barrel itself has no technical content, it is just a casing, and the spring does not take much effort.

The difficulty is the last ball.

After roughly making it with some reluctant materials, I found that the process is extremely difficult. Ordinary polishing can't do that level anyway. If it is barely made, it will leak oil directly after just one or two strokes.

He didn't know how much craftsmanship is needed to make such a pen bead.

"By the way, what are you here for?"

After explaining to Tai Tan how difficult this thing is, he asked casually.

"Come buy some precious metals, and see if you can find some blacksmiths to come back with us."

"Then it's not easy for you."

"what happened?"

"The new rules of the empire, blacksmiths are okay, people other than Xingluo can go back with you, but if I remember correctly, you are in Tiandou, right? Now there are regulations on the entry and exit of metals in Gengxin City, a large amount of common metals and some rare metals Outflow is prohibited."

Hearing this rule, Tai Tan frowned.

"Ordinary people can't?"

"No, even the most common black iron is limited."

"Then what should the blacksmith do if he wants to make something?"

"Simple, you can either buy it from other places or join Xingluo. As long as the craftsmanship is suitable, they will completely reimburse the cost of materials. Tiandou was struggling.

Or you can make this thing, if you can really manage the entire Gengxin City, I can find a way to help you, otherwise I have nothing to do. "

Tai Tan observed for a long time, but in the end he still had no clue.

"Young master, why don't you take a look too?"

The result did not change. Although Lou Gao was shocked that Tai Tan actually called this person the young master, it did not affect the result. This is a cross-age thing, and it cannot be produced by the means of ancient craftsmen.

"Master Lou Gao, is there no other way to transport the metal out?"

"You can try the illegal route, but how to get out of the border is your problem. Of course, there is actually another way. This pen compares quality, and there is another one that compares quantity. If you win, it is the same. the same."

(End of this chapter)