Chapter 362 Undercurrent
"So fast, and it's exactly the same size." Selena said in admiration.
Jiayi proudly picked up a gear. The arc cut on it and the smooth and bright section had a different industrial beauty in his eyes. Although just processing a gear is far from being industrialized.
"Is this much faster than your current gear forging, and the size is the same, which can save a lot of post-commissioning time, and greatly improve production efficiency? And this is just the first one, which can only make gears and threads can be processed at the back."
Jiayi had preliminary assembly line operations in the Valoca Chamber of Commerce and also formulated a standardized part system. However, these gears and other things were hand-made by mages and blacksmiths. There were inevitably some errors. When they were finally assembled into pendulum clocks, final debugging was required.
If the clock breaks and needs to be repaired, the repaired parts will also require the watchmaker to make the final modification and adjustment to use it - although there are not many qualified watchmakers now.
If the processing speed of parts can be accelerated and the final debugging time can be saved, the production efficiency will be greatly accelerated and more pendulum clocks will be produced.
Soon all the copper plates he had prepared were used up, and he stepped forward to close the lathe.
He turned his head and said to the mother and daughter: "Just only need a few machines to greatly increase the production speed, free the mage and reduce the production cost. It doesn't feel like it's useless."
Because forging gears are relatively precise, in order to ensure efficiency, the Valoca Chamber of Commerce is assisted in making gears by formal mages and mage apprentices. What restricts the Chamber of Commerce now is not the cost issue, but the production efficiency issue. As long as it can be done, there is no need to worry about sales.
If there is a lathe, these mages are not necessary, just one or two of them are needed to maintain the machine.
The labor cost of each mage is very expensive.
Although using magic stones as energy is not cheap now, it is much cheaper than mages, and even compared with mage apprentices is very advantageous. In addition to magic stones, it can also use hydraulic or wind, or even manpower as power to drive the lathe.
But in this way, the speed of the tool cannot be controlled, and the cutting accuracy is not as good as that of using magic stones.
Eunice looked at the lathe, turned her head and asked Jiayi, "How many machines do you have? Give it all to us."
She used to be a little bit whispered by Jiayi's solemn act of asking her to send someone suitable to come over, and felt that it was a bit of a big deal. Now she was only glad that she had come here in person. For some of these machines, her own chamber of commerce will definitely become the chamber of commerce with the highest profit margin in the entire imperial capital. Even if it exceeds those old chambers of commerce, it is not impossible.
The advantages of cost and efficiency are too great.
Unfortunately, Jia Yi took action: "No more, there is only this one. Time is relatively tight now. As long as this one is verified, you only need to wait for two months to update your production line."
Selena seemed a little disappointed: "Then why did you come here in such a hurry? Even if we want it, it won't work."
"It's just to make you mentally prepared. This thing will also involve the transformation of the production line. Time and expenses are bound to be insufficient. Do you think these lathes will be cheap?"
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As soon as Eunice and the others left the imperial capital, some people with ulterior motives received news that their whereabouts were not secret, and it was easy to know that they had left.
After the Wolf Mercenary Group of the Forest, Hyenas immediately became interested: "Do you know where they are going?"
Fergus said: "I got on the airship, but I don't know where to go. But it's very likely that the college is the one where the people around her are very tight, so I won't get any news if I have specific details. Do we need to do something?"
In the last sentence, Fergus said a little nervous.
The hyena waved her hand: "No, let's do it first, continue to observe, wait and see what will happen."
Although the hyena is a little crazy, she has not lost her mind. She decided to do more observations.
On the other side, the captain of the Ranger Adventurer Team, Old Cat, also unexpectedly got the same news. The news is still quite difficult to keep among these adventurers confidential.
Laomao and the others gathered together, Laoyu felt a little eager to try: "Would we go to the restaurant again to see if there is any turning point?"
Captain Old Cat reached out and stopped them: "Their president is just going out, not missing. Why do we just run into it? Wait until the rest of the adventure team successfully bought things, we should not get in. The reason why I was able to do this for so long is because I was cautious enough."
Laomao has been an adventurer for more than 20 years. He has been following his father since he was a minor. He is now over forty years old. He is still alive and has no lack of arms and legs, because he is cautious enough.
Every time he has to carefully evaluate the risks, and he will also understand the other party's background in detail when he is in love. When he should, nothing happened. He has also pulled up such a team like this. Although there is no major development, he has lived in all adventure teams, and the number of personnel changes is minimal.
Lao Yu thought for a moment and suddenly said, "I also heard a news that the Forest Wolf Mercenary Group is also paying attention to the 'Song of Iron and Fire' restaurant."
"Wolf of the Forest?" The blacksmith felt a little uncomfortable when he heard this name, "Why are these cheap things?"
Their team had a conflict with the Wolf of the Forest, and it was obvious that they did not get any benefits. Now, even when they were on missions, they were hiding from each other and avoiding encountering them.
The old cat also said: "The Wolf of the Forest acts as domineering and has no bottom line. They are eyeing the restaurant, afraid that there will be no big news."
Lao Niu said in a muffled voice: "No way? Do they dare to offend the Mage Association? The president of the association has just been invited there not long ago."
"Who knows, the man Hyena has always been arrogant in his work. He relies on his connection with some great nobles. He is their thug and never tells any rules. If he goes crazy and does nothing, I will not be surprised at all. It is best if he touches his head and runs blood on the side of "Iron Fire".
The old cat also has a lot of resentment towards the wolf in the forest, but he has no choice but to curse the other party.
After three days like this, Eunice and the others just arrived at the academy, and Hyena couldn't help but feel a little relieved.
Although he was a little rational, he had no patience, otherwise he would not have been called a hyena. Now, no one has used his real name.
He called Fergus again and asked him, "Is the owner of the Iron Fire Restaurant back?"
Fergus opened his mouth, but didn't know what to say for a while. He paused for a few seconds before saying, "Captain, they have only been out for three days. It's probably just now that they have gotten off the airship. It's impossible for him to come back so soon."
"So slow? Have you found out the situation in their restaurant?" Hyena said dissatisfied.
Fergus quickly said, "I've been inquired about it. This restaurant was opened by the daughter of the president of the Valoca Chamber of Commerce. It has not been long since its opening. The iron pots and kitchen knives in their restaurants seem to be created by the Valoca Chamber of Commerce. Eunice, the president of the Chamber of Commerce, is a widow and the widow of a little noble. After the death of the little noble, she used her inheritance to open a chamber of commerce. She originally sold some magic jewelry, and had some relationship with several down-and-out mages. She collected magic jewelry and sold it to the noble wife. She was still very popular among noble ladies. But a few years ago, she started the business of pendulum clocks and pens, and suddenly she went from a small chamber of commerce to a large chamber of commerce. Now, she has a good reputation in the entire imperial capital business district."
He took a breath and continued, "But because of the sudden rise and insufficient foundation, it is said that it is very hostile to several large chambers of commerce. It is just that the pendulum clock is a new thing, and it has no overlap with these large chambers of commerce, and there is no way to suppress it. However, last year, several major chambers of commerce jointly compressed the raw materials of the Valoca Chamber of commerce, which greatly affected their business. However, later, they seemed to have bought a mine themselves to solve the problem of raw materials being controlled. However, in order to establish a good relationship with the other chambers of commerce, they were still buying some high-priced materials from these chambers of commerce, but the quantity was much smaller.
"And I suspect that the kitchen knives and iron pots they sell are made of steel smelted from their own iron ore. But I didn't expect that they would be so skilled, but I didn't know if they had invited any outstanding blacksmiths to go back."
A dangerous light flashed in the eyes of the hyena: "With such good iron and ironmaking skills, are they sick when they enter to make kitchen knives? Who is their backstage? Otherwise, these big chambers of commerce wouldn't just do anything about the raw materials, and they would have eaten up the mother and daughter in the group long ago."
Fergus lowered his head and said quietly: "This... I didn't find out clearly, but I heard that it has some connection with many mages, and now it has something to do with the president of the mage association. We cannot inquire too deeply about this, but it is said that it has a lot of relationship with a student in the Mage Academy, and it is said that he has considerable shares in the Chamber of Commerce."
Chapter completed!