Nick's rune metal plate workshop covers an area of ​​less than 1,000 square meters. It is a typical courtyard-style workshop with twenty-four workers in poverty, eight of which are craftsmen who are proficient in the manufacturing process of rune metal plates, there are thirteen young apprentices, and three handymen. These people form the processing workshop of this blank rune metal plate.

The workshop's warehouse was managed in an orderly manner by Nick. It was almost obvious what the workshop had. In fact, there was almost nothing except the copper plates.

When we walked into the workshop, several craftsmen were gathering on the workbench next to the pickling pool to play cards. They looked very dedicated. Even if we walked in, we did not put down the cards in our hands. Instead, the young apprentices silently sorted out the hygiene in the workshop in every corner of the workshop, although there seemed to be nothing to organize.

The only thing in the room was the fire below the crucible had already cooled down, and even the combustion chamber below was cleaned up, which shows that the mitril silver had not been melted for a long time.

We stood next to the pickling sink, Nick dispelled the craftsmen who worked hours, but the craftsmen did not seem to be nervous. The craftsmen who gathered together to play cards looked lazy. Although they did not refute Nick in person, they looked natural. The expression on their faces clearly stated: There is no work in the workshop, what's wrong with us playing cards?

Brennan looked at the craftsmen who were walking around casually in the workshop and seemed bored, and said to Nick in a low voice: "Why do you have to raise them at this time? You should give them a long holiday. They are all kept in the workshop. You have to pay money every day."

At this time, Mrs. Alia asked Nick to introduce to us the rune metal plate processing process in the workshop.

I thought to myself, no one can know better about these processes than you. As a member of the Babington family, no one seems to be able to compare with the magic metal industry in the Green Empire.

There was no expression on Mrs. Alia's face. She always maintained an aristocratic smile, her steps were elegant, and the powerful aura exuded by her body made the poor craftsmen in the workshop dare not even look directly at us, and were willing to secretly look at us in the corner.

Hearing Mrs. Alia's request to introduce the process flow in the workshop, Nick stood at the forefront of the team without hesitation. When the metal copper plate transported from the blacksmith shop entered the workshop, this will be the first process. Each metal copper plate must be put into the pickling pool for full soaking, and the copper rust on the shallow surface of the metal copper plate must be cleaned. Then, it must be entered into the alkaline pool to remove the grease on the surface of the copper plate, and finally put it in the clean water pool to clean.

Then it will be sent to the grinder for polishing. Finally, one side of the copper plate is polished as smooth as a mirror, and then it will be sent to the crucible and coated with a thin layer of auxiliary alchemy potion. This will be immersed in the mitril silver solution in the crucible. The surface of the copper plate is smooth as a mirror and stained with a thin layer of mitril silver. Of course, the surface of the copper plate without the alchemy potion will not be stained with melted mitril silver, even a small drop.

Before the copper plate melts, it must be taken out of the crucible. The copper plate passes through the wind wall formed by the bellows and will blow the mitril silver coating on the surface very thin, and will quickly cool the blank mitril silver rune plate quickly and place it in the drying area in the workshop for the final aging treatment.

Originally, Marvin and I also opened a blacksmith shop in El City. At that time, we wanted to advance into the field of blank rune metal plates. Unfortunately, we naively thought that as long as we hired a blacksmith master, we could make rune boards. In fact, we did make some blank rune boards with a layer of magical red copper on the surface.

At that time, I didn’t understand the difference between the primary rune metal plates we made and other rune metal plates. Now it looks a little bit worse. Just looking at these complicated pre-processing processes, I know what advantages the rune metal plates made in batches in the workshop have. The most obvious advantage is that the coating is uniform, and the entire copper base plate is polished to be as smooth as a mirror.

Such a finely processed rune metal plate is hard to avoid being loved by inscriptionists who are good at engraving metal plate magic patterns.

After seeing the entire process, I asked Nick: "Is every blank rune metal plate that walks out from here made of this?"

Nick showed a puzzled look on his face, and then asked me strangely: "Sir, is there anything wrong with me?"

"No, no, no, you did a great job." I said quickly: "I have never seen how to produce a blank rune metal plate before, I'm just a little curious."

"This kind of finely processed mitril silver rune board is only suitable for small and medium-sized workshops. Because the copper plate is polished into a mirror, the output is severely limited. It is difficult for ordinary large workshops to polish each copper base plate as smooth as a mirror, as long as it is flat." Mrs. Alia explained quietly beside me. This is also the reason why these small and medium-sized rune board workshops were able to survive under the oppression of large-scale rune board workshops.

To put it bluntly, most of these surprise blank rune boards will be provided to the laboratory of the Magic Academy, the Magic Academy, the Magic Guild Inscription Research Institute and other research and development institutions. The inscription designers here design new magic pattern arrays. Of course, they do not want their works to fail in the experimental stage due to the quality of the rune board.

The magic red copper rune board with gold fine magic patterns printed on the surface of Qige and I need to plate magic red copper on the copper substrate, and then draw the fine gold solution on the red copper rune board. According to the different uses of the rune board, the patterns on the red copper rune board will also be very different. Moreover, the thickness and depth of the lines of the fine gold magic patterns directly affect the processing cost of this mixed rune board.

Of course, extremely thin and shallow lines of fine gold magic pattern will minimize the material cost of the rune board. Unfortunately, the inscription masters want to repaint magic patterns along the extremely thin fine gold magic pattern line, and the difficulty will be infinitely magnified, which will increase the manufacturing cost exponentially. So Qige and I have been thinking recently about how to bypass the high inscription master's hand-carved magic runes.

Using a fixed mold to directly print the fine gold magic pattern on the red copper rune board is some of Qige's extremely bold ideas. She believes that as long as the impression is made more refined, it is still very feasible to use the fixed mold to batch process this fine gold magic pattern red copper rune board.

Mrs. Alia and I walked around the workshop, but did not directly say that we would buy the workshop directly. Instead, we told the workshop owner Nick to go back and consider it. Nick didn't think there was anything wrong with this, but a faint disappointment appeared in his eyes. His workshop was priced at about 1,200 gold coins, which was really a bargain. Although this is a slum, such a courtyard-style workshop, even if it is not counted as various facilities, the value of such a courtyard is not less than one thousand square meters.

In the slums in the sixth district of the imperial capital, the approximate price of attic houses here is generally between 200 and 300 gold coins, which is five times the price of Elcheng houses. Even if you don’t open a workshop, just buying the courtyard here with 1,200 gold coins is a sure thing.

On the contrary, Brennan kept asking us indirectly about the bottom line of what we wanted to pay for when buying this workshop.

I originally wanted to decide this before leaving, but Mrs. Alia stopped me with her eyes, so she had to make an appointment to renegotiate in that restaurant the day after tomorrow.

When the magic caravan drove away from this alley, I sat in the magic caravan and asked Mrs. Alia in confusion: "Isn't this workshop worth 1,200 gold coins? Why don't you buy it directly?"

Mrs. Alia did not answer my question immediately. Looking out the window at the houses on both sides of the slums, I saw some poor women and children sitting under the shade of the street trees on both sides of the street, and magic caravans drove past them. I realized that in the summer afternoon, the number of poor people who walked out of the house to cool off was still quite large.

"Of course we're going to buy it, but it's not today." Mrs. Alya said, pursing her lips.

Her eyebrows were lightly locked, as if she was thinking about something, and her concentration looked so beautiful.

She turned her head and said to me, "Since we have no dispute about the price of this workshop, the biggest problem between us is how to accept the craftsmen in the workshop. Between the whole reception and selective reception, I prefer to selective reception. This workshop would rather recruit a group of craftsmen again than those casual craftsmen. Their laziness in this workshop has been developed and it will be difficult to change for a while. I don't want these casual craftsmen to stay in the workshop in the future."

Mrs. Alia squinted her eyes, rubbed her temples with her green onion fingers, and said in distress: "The last insistence of this workshop owner Nick is probably to let us accept all the craftsmen here, but I don't want any of them!"

I stared at Mrs. Alia with wide eyes and thought to myself: I didn’t expect that she didn’t even want a craftsman. I was about to ask her why.

Before she could ask, she said again: "In the future, we will make a new form of rune board. The price of magic red copper in the imperial capital is not high, so when making red copper rune boards, these craftsmen do not need to do fine processing. In order to make up for the quality of the red copper rune board, we can even thicken the coating a little and waste more magic red copper, which will make the production process much simpler. The apprentices in the workshop are qualified for these tasks. They are better managed than those craftsmen with loose personalities."

After all, Mrs. Alia will still need to manage this workshop for making runes boards in the future, so I certainly would not have any opinions on Mrs. Alia's layoffs of those loosely disciplined craftsmen.

Mrs. Alya smiled faintly and said, "Only by squeezing Boss Nick's appetite can he convince him to give up his persistence. Otherwise, I would rather open the workshop in the third district, a residential area near the Royal Academy of Magic."

She took out a parchment booklet from the drawer, then opened it page by page, silently recording it on it.

After a while, he bit the pen, raised his head and said to me, "In addition, we have to do two things next."

She stretched out a finger to me and said, "The first thing is to find a way to obtain the formula of the refined gold solution. Of course, even if we can't get that formula, we have to find a way to convince the alchemist to at least not leak the refined gold solution. In fact, this kind of pure gold magic pattern red copper rune board is not difficult to process. The core of this rune board is the invention of the refined gold solution. Without this special magic metal solution, it is impossible to solve the problem of this special metal rune board technology. We should be able to control the formula in our hands."

Extend the second finger and then say: "The second thing is how to reduce the cost of the magic rune metal plate. If you want to reduce the cost of the rune board, you must achieve a fixed mold that can directly print the golden essence magic pattern on the red copper rune board. If we can print the golden essence magic pattern on the red copper magic pattern board, then think boldly, can mold printing replace the inscriptionist's handmade seal carving magic pattern?"

I looked at Mrs. Alia speechlessly, she really dared to think about it!

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The magic caravan continued along the long street of the Sixth Block and headed out toward the outskirts of the Imperial Capital.

The further away from the central area of ​​the imperial capital, the more dilapidated the attics on both sides of the streets. Ying Li and I were here two months ago when we were wandering around the alley of the imperial capital in a magic caravan, we had been here, and we saw that the area seemed a little depressed.

Those lofts independent in the courtyard seem to be arranged neatly from a distance. I heard that four or five poor families live in each loft, even the living room is partitioned and beds are placed. Some old lofts are even built on the balcony, and some recommended awnings are built. In the hot summer, people can also be lived in the shed.

"Hey, the most painful thing in this plane war is the poorest people at the bottom. Maybe they have to worry about whether their jobs will be messed up by themselves every day. At this time, a large number of workshops in various blocks of the imperial capital have been closed one after another. It is hard to imagine how the poor people working in the workshop will live after they lose their jobs?" I sighed to Mrs. Alia and said.

"No matter what, those poor people will not starve to death." said Mrs. Alya.

"Why?" I asked Mrs. Alya.

Mrs. Alia pointed to the floating royal city with her finger, then lowered her voice and said: "That supreme emperor doesn't want to see anyone starving to death in the imperial capital, so once she finds poor people who are extremely embarrassed, the civil officials of the imperial capital will find ways to arrange some heavy work for them."

"For example, go to the dock at the airport to carry a bag?" I smiled and asked Mrs. Alya.

"Hmm, it's almost the same." Mrs. Alya glanced at me.
Chapter completed!