Shortly after Shi Wansui left, Cui Yingyou walked into Ouyang Shuo's office. Ouyang Shuo asked her to sit down with a smile, and said teasingly: "You'er is coming to the door without any trouble?!"

He said this for a reason. Through this period of time, Ouyang Shuo was shocked to find that this sister was actually a workaholic. If she wanted to put it in modern society, she would definitely be a strong woman.

"Brother, you are even here to make fun of me. Isn't it just for my brother's territory if my little sister works so hard?" Cui Yingyou said coquettishly with a slightly red face.

Ouyang Shuo quickly apologized and coaxed him and said, "Okay, okay, it's the big brother. Don't be angry." In order to avoid embarrassing her, he quickly found a step and asked, "What's the progress in the junior mining farm?"

Although Yingyou is generous in her work, she is her daughter's house after all, and she is teased by her elder brother who is closest to her and trusts her the most. She feels a little embarrassed. She originally wanted to report on her work, but now she is not easy to speak. She breathed a sigh of relief when she heard Ouyang Shuo talk about work actively.

She calmed down and said calmly: "Yes. As early as three days ago, I found the blacksmith Master Li and asked him to lead people to start looking for the mine. Yesterday, good news finally came. They found an open-pit iron ore farm at the foot of the mountain in the southwest of the territory. The mine not only has a large area, abundant ore storage, but also extremely easy to collect. Some are exposed directly outside the soil, while others only need to simply dig a layer of the soil to collect iron ore."

Ouyang Shuo nodded happily, "This is really good news. Although the current demand for ore in the territory is not very large, when weapons can be built, the demand will skyrocket. Now with this open-pit mine, you won't have to worry about iron ore for a long time in the future. By the way, can you find skilled talents who are more familiar with mining?"

"Well, I came here today to report this matter to my elder brother. Among the refugees I have released today, there is an intermediate miner named Yuan Shaoping. My younger sister suggested that he be responsible for the operation of the primary mining farm."

Ouyang Shuo did not hesitate at all, "Yes. You bring him, I will meet him. If there is no problem, he will be appointed as the director of the junior mining farm and assigned him to the management of your Material Reserve Department."

Yingyou was very moved by Ouyang Shuo’s trust, “Thank you for your trust, hehe!”

Ouyang Shuo waved his hand and said with a smile: "You are my little sister, with strong abilities and accurate vision. Of course, my brother trusts you. But don't work too hard either."

Yingyou whispered, and the two of them became much closer.

After Cui Yingyou left, Ouyang Shuo was no longer going to stay in the office. He thought that it was time to go to the woodworking workshop to take a look.

Since I handed over the "Technical Manual for Compass Manufacturing" to carpenter Lu Guangzhi last time, I don't know how he has done research and whether there has been any progress. This guide car can be related to whether he can get that exciting reward in the map of the first battle not long later.

The woodworking workshop is built on the commercial street on the central axis, next to the blacksmith shop. When Ouyang Shuo walked into the woodworking workshop, the carpenter, who was said to be a descendant of Luban, was taking two apprentices around a wooden car.

Ouyang Shuo was stunned and surprised. He stumped Lu Guangzhi to have mastered the technical manual and built the guide car?! This is too amazing! You know, this is a difficult technical job.

Unlike modern compass that utilize geomagnetic effects, ancient compass cars used the principle of differential gears. The compass cars used gear transmission systems to indicate the direction by the wooden man on the car according to the rotation of the wheels. No matter where the car turns, the wooden man's hands always point to the south, so that the car always guides the hand even though it returns.

A carpenter apprentice looked up and saw Ouyang Shuo and quickly reminded the master who was still staring at the car.

Lu Guangzhi came back to his senses, bowed and said in panic: "Xiaomin was immersed in the moment and neglected his lord. Please punish him!"

Ouyang Shuo smiled, "Master Lu is selfless in his work, and deserves everyone's admiration and learning. What's the crime?"

Lu Guangzhi smiled embarrassedly and said embarrassedly: "I'll make you laugh!"

Ouyang Shuo did not want to bother and pointed directly at the wooden car, "If I guessed correctly, it should be the guide car described in the "Compass Car Manufacturing Technical Manual"?! I don't expect that in just three or four days, Master Lu made such progress."

After hearing Ouyang Shuo say this, the man's dark face turned red in an instant, with unconcealed shame. "Xiaomin is ashamed and cannot be praised by adults. Xiaomin has indeed built a guide car according to the records in the book these days. Unfortunately, the car cannot indicate the direction as recorded in the book."

Ouyang Shuo then suddenly realized that it was just a test piece, which was more realistic. "Master Lu doesn't have to do this. As far as I know, this guide car is a very precise instrument. Even if it has a technical manual as a reference, it cannot be mastered in a short time. You don't have to be frustrated, nor should you feel ashamed. Anyway, there is still plenty of time, so you don't rush to do it. Master Lu can study it slowly, and maybe you can take this opportunity to upgrade your carpenter level to one level."

Lu Guangzhi's face cleared a little and said gratefully: "Thank you for your trust. Xiaomin will definitely seize the time to study and strive to make a real guide car as soon as possible to repay you for your kindness."

"I'll feel relieved. Then you guys are busy, I won't bother you!"

After leaving the woodworking workshop, Ouyang Shuo walked into the junior blacksmith shop next to him. To be honest, he didn't pay much attention to Li Tiezhu, the junior blacksmith. The reason is very simple. Junior blacksmith cannot make weapons and armor. At most, he can make arrowheads, not the more complicated Mitsubishi-shaped arrowheads.

Because military supplies are prohibited items in the market, there are only three ways to obtain weapons and equipment. The first one is the easiest one, that is, when the military camp changes, the system directly gives away a set of basic weapons and equipment. For example, after the peasant changes his job as a militia, the system automatically gives away spears and leather armor.

The system's setting is just to avoid the embarrassment of soldiers' naked outfits, which is a basic guarantee system. Of course, the disadvantages of this method are also obvious. The weapons and equipment donated by the system are of low quality and are easily damaged or destroyed.

The second way is to smuggle and cooperate with the Chamber of Commerce in the royal city. As long as the price is paid, those Chamber of Commerce with deep backgrounds will dare to take risks. They will arrange private guards to escort all the way and transport weapons and equipment directly to your territory.

Of course, this is not without a price. First, to contact these big chambers of commerce, you must upgrade the primary market to the advanced market in order to open the fourth platform of the market - the negotiation and cooperation platform. Second, the price of smuggled weapons and equipment is very abnormal, and it is not a lord with strong financial resources and cannot afford it at all. Any smuggling can make the territory close to bankruptcy.

Those big chambers of commerce are not living Lei Feng, but natural vampires. They risk raiding their families and transporting weapons and equipment to your territory, and they will not be satisfied without making a few times or even dozens of times the profit. What’s worse is that the chambers of commerce are only responsible for selling weapons and equipment. They are not responsible for the later maintenance. If you want after-sales service, everything is free of negotiation.

The last way is to establish your own military industry. Once the territory has its own military industry, it naturally does not need to be controlled by others. You can produce as much as you want.

This approach looks beautiful, but in fact it is indeed the most difficult of the three approaches. Why? Because weapons and equipment are prohibited items, as long as weapons and equipment that can be called with specific names, they need corresponding technical manuals to create. For example, the Mingguang armor of the Southern and Northern Dynasties, which was more famous in history, needs to be built with the "Mingguang armor manufacturing technical manual".

Generally speaking, these technical manuals cannot be bought in the primary market. There is only one place to buy them. That is, the third platform that will be opened after upgrading to the intermediate market - the limited-time auction platform. The system will hold limited-time auctions on this platform from time to time. At that time, some items that are rare in normal times will appear.

Most of the technical manuals for weapons and equipment were leaked from this auction. Ouyang Shuo clearly remembered that the first auction held in his previous life was in the third month after the service was launched. That is, on the day when the communication point and game currency trading platform were officially opened.

Back to the front. In Ouyang Shuo's plan, at least one senior blacksmith was required to start the weapon workshop. Therefore, he did not expect anything from Li Tiezhu, a junior blacksmith. Unexpectedly, as soon as he walked into the blacksmith shop, Li Tiezhu gave him a surprise.

The burly blacksmith said happily as soon as he saw Ouyang Shuo: "Haha, what a coincidence! Xiaomin was about to go find the adult, but he didn't expect that the adult would come unexpectedly."

"Oh? I wonder what if Master Li is looking for me?" Ouyang Shuo looked at me and said, "When I saw this usually calm and capable blacksmith, showing such an excited expression, Ouyang Shuo looked strange.

"Hehe, there is good news to report to the adults. Yesterday afternoon, when I was building agricultural tools for the Agricultural Reclamation Corporation, I naturally broke through the bottleneck and officially promoted to an intermediate blacksmith."

After hearing what he said, Ouyang Shuo immediately thought of the territory characteristics attached to the Golden-level Village Building Order - the proficiency of production residents' skills has been accelerated by 20%, and the success rate of territorial talents breaking through bottlenecks by 10%. Unexpectedly, they will play a role so quickly, and it is indeed powerful enough.

"Haha, I really want to congratulate Master Li! I want to ask, what do you feel when you break through?"

"I feel? I don't feel anything, everything seems to be natural. Since I came to Shanhai Village, I feel that my ironworking skills are becoming more and more proficient. The problems I have been confused about before seem to suddenly become simple after I got here, and it seems like I have a help from God." Li Blacksmith himself was also surprised by his breakthrough.

"Okay, no matter what, this is a good thing. Next, Master Li can try to create some arrowheads and spears. Soon, the territory will be used."
Chapter completed!