Infrastructure Throne

After the molten iron was cooled and cast into pig iron ingots, Shen Qingze handed over the work of blowing the wind to Father Li, and held the tongs by himself, and put the wrought iron sheets that had been prepared in proportion according to the system requirements in advance, and placed the pig iron ingots at the furnace mouth .

The temperature in the furnace continued to rise, and the pig iron ingot with a lower melting point began to melt. Shen Qingze moved the pig iron ingot with one hand, and quickly stir-fried the wrought iron material with the other hand.

Pig iron is used as a carburizing agent, and it can be evenly poured onto the wrought iron when he moves back and forth.If you are not an experienced master blacksmith, you can't judge the carbon content of the iron material at all, which leads to uneven quality of steel.

Fortunately, Shen Qingze doesn't need to worry about this problem, the system will give precise guidance.

After three days of non-stop practice, Shen Qingze's primary forging skills have reached 80% proficiency. After several degrees of smelting, the iron slag was separated, and with the system's "ding" sound, the steel smelted this time finally met the requirements , stamped with a stamp of excellent quality.

Before solidification, it is cast in a clay mold, followed by a series of processes such as forging, quenching, and grinding, and finally installed with a gun shaft made of eucalyptus.

After seven days of effort, a steel spear with a cold light was carved and cast.

The rhombus-shaped spear-point ridge is high and the blade is thin, tough and sharp, implying a strange pattern. In front of it, decisive is no longer an adjective but a fact. It is enough to rank among the best even in the list of famous weapons in the entire Dawn Continent.

A prompt appeared on Shen Qingze's system panel again:

[System: Congratulations to the player for completing the apprenticeship course and becoming a junior blacksmith! 】

[Upgrade reward: The player's charisma value increases by 10 points! 】

A question slowly appeared on Shen Qingze's forehead: "?"

What does this thing have to do with charm?Could it be that... the man who blacksmiths is the most handsome?

Old man Li held the gun case in front of Yan Zui, his eyes were glued to the sharp weapon of the magic weapon, and he almost couldn't bear to move it away.

Yan Zui grasped the barrel of the gun with a heavy hand, casually wrapped a spear in his hand, gently stroked the sharp edge with his thumb, and a very thin line of blood cut open the fingertip in an instant.

The long gun seemed to be aroused fiercely by the soaring evil spirit, and the threatening cold light forced the onlooker Li old man back several steps.

"...Unprecedented." Yan Zui murmured in a low voice, as if he couldn't feel the pain, he fondled the gun body as if he were treating a treasure.

Father Li's eyes were burning, and he was full of emotion: "I never thought that the old man would be able to personally participate in the creation of such an unworldly magic weapon in his lifetime. He will have no regrets in this life...Your Excellency, it is yours. Give it a name." .”

Yan Zui pondered for a moment, then raised his eyes suddenly, and looked at Shen Qingze who was calm and silent: "Since this gun was made by you, why don't you name it?"

Today, the skills of the craftsmen in the Dawn Continent require a skilled craftsman to forge a fine steel weapon for several months or even a year.

With system assistance and advanced technology, Shen Qingze can refine high-quality high-carbon steel in just one week. Although the quality and quantity are not enough in the face of modern technology, it is shocking in the present.

From the perspective of a modern person, Shen Qingze only builds one in a week, which is really inefficient and outrageously low.

When can the cost be greatly reduced, high-quality steel can be smelted on a large scale, and everyone can use it, and it will no longer be an ornament hanging on the waist of dignitaries to show their status, that will be meaningful.

"Name?" Shen Qingze lost interest, and said casually: "This is a gun."

Yan Zui: "..."

Old man Li hurriedly said: "He means... the world-defying gun! I am so impressed, it is the world of the world!"

Yan Zui sneered, and flicked the tip of the gun with his fingers: "Death? What a good name."

"As long as you are satisfied." Father Li heaved a sigh of relief, and bumped Shen Qingze with his elbow.

The latter said dryly: "Welcome to Li's blacksmith shop, welcome to come again."

Yan Zui glanced at him sideways, and casually looked around the shop: "There is a blacksmith's shop in Yuanliu City that hides dragons and crouching tigers. I didn't know it for so many years. Could it be the descendant of a master blacksmith?"

Shen Qingze didn't blush and didn't breathe: "I learned all my skills from Father Li."

Father Li was stunned: "Ah? No, I..."

Yan Zui glanced at him with a half-smile but not a smile: "So that's the case, I will definitely come to visit again in the future."

He took out the jade pendant hanging around his neck from the skirt of his clothes, and the pale golden scales were infiltrated by the slanting warm sun.

The man threw the jade pendant to Shen Qingze: "This Dragon Scale Jade was given to me by my grandma. Apart from it, I don't have any other valuables on me for the time being. Let's mortgage the food, lodging and medicine expenses for the past few days."

"And this." Pointing to the mask on his face, he said calmly, "Don't lose the jade, I will redeem it."

Seeing the back of the man leaving, Father Li sighed: "This officer has already given us a lot of gold coins, and we only took him in for a few days, how can you accept such a valuable thing?"

Shen Qingze stroked the jade pendant in his hand, thoughtfully: "It seems that the bottle of healing potion is indeed effective for curses..."

Father Li was taken aback for a moment, but didn't hear clearly: "What curse did you say?"

"It's nothing. Speaking of which, your son has also been conscripted into the guards. Would an ordinary officer be so rich?" The young man shook his head, saw the disappointed look in Li's father's eyes, and immediately changed the subject, "By the way, the second son in the family Has the ten acres of land been left uncultivated?"

Father Li became more and more strange: "Yeah, why did you suddenly ask about that field?"

While Shen Qingze returned the remaining scrap iron and steel to the furnace for remaking, he explained: "The last time I went to the city to buy grain, the price of grain has already doubled to the usual level, and it's a waste to leave it on the ground. I plan to recultivate it again. , Plant some winter food."

"Where is there any winter food? You haven't seen the winter in our northern land. Bears can freeze to death, let alone crops." Father Li shook his head and sighed.

"Since the old woman and the baby left, I have to take care of the shop by myself. I can't grow so much land, and I can't afford to hire tenant farmers. They are all low-grade fields, and the left and right are barren. There are neighbors who want to plant, and they will gradually grow. Just take up some land."

Being taken advantage of by others and not making a sound?

Shen Qingze frowned and then opened it, and wrote lightly: "It's okay, I will take it back for you."

Father Li was dubious: "But do you know how to farm?"

Shen Qingze thought to himself, he didn't know how to blacksmith in the first place.

As for the Quick Dragon Scale Jade, it is a top-grade inlaid gemstone in the game settings, and it can produce special effects when put together with things containing dragon energy.

After thinking about it, he threw the jade into the water tank where the golden dragon carp was placed, and then he didn't care.

The bag of money that Yan Zui gave was almost two hundred gold coins, and after getting the first start-up capital, the first thing Shen Qingze had to do was to improve Old Li's [-] acres of barren and poor land into fertile soil.

In this dilapidated small village, it takes less than ten minutes to walk from the beginning to the end of the village on two legs. The fields of the villagers are all close together. The ancestral land of Mr. Li’s family is not a large piece of land that is completely connected, but a piece on the left and a piece on the right. Scattered, the left is next to the house of the widow Aunt Wang, the right is next to the house of the village head Lao Mu, and there are several other houses behind.

Due to the lack of labor force, most of the Li family's land was abandoned, and those next to the neighbors were more or less planted with wheat by others.

Shen Qingze visited each door one by one and explained his intentions.

The daughter-in-law of the village head, Lao Mu's family, witnessed him using a machete to drive away the usury hooligans. At first, she still had some respect for this gentle and decent young man.

Unexpectedly, just when he said that he would take back Father Li's land, the village chief's wife immediately turned her face, turning her face faster than turning a book.

"How can it be called 'occupation' when it comes to the field? At the beginning, we made an agreement with old man Li that we would help him take care of the field, and we had to spend a lot of time and effort. If it weren't for our help, the land would have been deserted long ago." Well, now that it’s well organized, you can take it back if you say so, so why?”

The village head looked embarrassed, tugged at the hem of his wife's clothes, and said in a low voice, "I also promised to give ten catties of grain, but I didn't give it later..."

"Isn't that old man Li didn't come to ask for it? What do you know? Shut up!"

Widow Wang seemed enthusiastic: "I am willing to exchange the land adjacent to my family's ancestors, which is twice the size of mine. If you want someone to help you, sister, I can help you. Come tonight my home……"

The wife of the village chief rolled her eyes: "Come on, the land adjacent to your two families has been abandoned a long time ago because of repeated reclamation a few years ago, and the soil fertility has declined so much. Go to your house, can it stand upright after going there? You haven't squeezed it dry yet, tsk tsk..."

"You are talking nonsense!"

"You are!"

Most of the neighbors in the back were also reluctant to return it. The room was full of noise, Shen Qingze's temples twitched twice, took a deep breath, suddenly slammed the table, and shouted: "Quiet!"

Everyone was startled, and all turned to look at him.Shen Qingze took out the contract letter from Father Li's ancestral land, glanced at everyone's faces one by one, and spoke slowly:

"The [-] mu of land owned by Father Li's family is undoubtedly owned by him, and there is no business relationship with you."

The village chief's daughter-in-law's face was not very good-looking, and she wanted to argue a few words, but Shen Qingze changed the subject.

"But since you have actually cultivated a part of the land, we cannot ignore the hard work you have put in and enjoy the fruits of it."

The village head's daughter-in-law calmed down, and the widow Wang walked over with a smile: "What brother Shen said is true."

Shen Qingze observed everyone's expressions intently: "I have two solutions here. The first one is that I will pay you the corresponding labor remuneration according to the market price of the tenants, but since everyone did not hand over the harvested grain to Li Dad, so part of the rent will be deducted from it."

The village head's wife and the widow Wang's family pondered for a while, but they were not satisfied. This has become a relationship between tenants and landlords. If they don't take advantage, it means they have suffered a big loss.

Seeing that the time was right, Shen Qingze pretended to think for a moment before throwing out his original plan: "There is a second plan, I don't want the land you are planting, nor do I want land rent or grain rent. Who has a family next to the ancestral land? I am willing to exchange the abandoned land with him, but it cannot be converted on a one-for-one basis. This time, a contract must be made, and it cannot be changed at will in the future."

Widow Wang was overjoyed: "After talking for a long time, little brother Shen still thinks that sister's method is good, doesn't he? I am willing to change it, and change it now!"

"My family has it! It has two acres! I will trade two acres of wasteland with you for the one in the east of the village."

"My family has it too!"

The village chief tugged at Shen Qingze's sleeves hesitantly, and advised earnestly: "What do you want that wasteland for? You don't know how much effort you have to spend on reclamation. When you finish reclamation, winter will come, and the land will not be fertile. Does old man Li allow you to do this?"

"Oh, what do you care about other people? As long as you have a lot of things to do, our little brother Shen can see that he is a person who does big things!" The village chief's wife changed her sneer just now, grabbed the village chief's arm, and smiled prettily.

"Don't worry." Shen Qingze could see the village chief's kindness, and nodded to him without further explanation.

"If everyone has no objection, sign the document here, and ask Village Chief Kim to be a witness, so as to avoid future disputes."

Everyone chattered and discussed, and they all smiled and said there was no problem. As if they were afraid that the young man would go back on his word, they immediately signed the papers.

Exchanging wasteland for cultivated land is simply a blessing in disguise!The food and rent owed in the past, if you don’t want it, you don’t want it. Today’s young people don’t look like those who have been in the fields. Compared with these old farmers, they are still young!

The villagers who consciously took advantage of the boss also felt embarrassed, and gave Shen Qingze some home-grown fruits and vegetables. In front of Shen Qingze, they said they were sensible and capable, and when they turned their backs, they covered their mouths and snickered , took the newly released contract, talked and laughed and went home.

Widow Wang repeatedly told the young people to ask her for "help" when they had something to do, but the village chief hesitated to speak, and was finally dragged away by his excited wife.

Shen Qingze properly collected the contracts certified by the system one by one, and after careful calculation, his family's [-] mu of land, which was empty for White Wolf, increased to [-] mu in an instant, doubled.

What about deserted land?One-click upgrade in the system store!Yellow bad soil turns black soil in a second!

Shen Qingze was holding a basket of fruits and vegetables in his arms, with a bright moonlight above his head, standing in the weedy wasteland, slowly raised the corners of his mouth.

The big white dog squatted at his feet, looking up at him quietly.

As the saying goes, "suffering losses" is a blessing.

He drove back home with stars and moonlight, stored all the fruits and vegetables in the cellar, and used the remaining scrap iron and steel to make a few new iron farm tools at the iron shop overnight. return.

The entire land in the southwest of the village has been assigned to Father Li's name. Standing on the edge of the field, Shen Qingze looked far into the distance, his eyes were full of weeds, dead branches, and unnamed wild flowers.

He burned all the weeds and dead branches, the soil on the surface was burnt black, and plant ash was buried in the soil to fertilize the field.

[Level 1 system store: High-quality black soil, triple the yield per mu, and the price per mu is [-] gold coin. 】

[System: Do you want to upgrade all 40 acres of fields to high-grade black soil? 】

Shen Qingze: "Yes."

In the blink of an eye, forty gold coins flew away with wings. This was the most extravagant money Shen Qingze had spent so far.

[System: Congratulations to the player for completing the soil improvement for the first time, and a set of newbie skins is specially rewarded! 】

Shen Qingze showed a smile on his face: "I didn't expect to give away clothes. It is indeed a transaction of forty gold coins. The system is very thoughtful."

[System Reward: Peasant Clothes and Hat Set, Charm -20.Put it on, you are the most beautiful cub in the field! 】

Shen Qingze: "..."

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