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"If you want to advance to the sword-casting master as soon as possible, you can't work so hard." Mu Wanqing's eyes showed a look of care, "Look at you, how have you been working hard in the past month?"

For more than a month, Ou Chuyang has hardly taken a step in the sword-casting room. He is either trying hard to make swords or absorbing amethyst. For him, cultivation is the only time to rest.

Mei Qixin has to cultivate for half a year if he casts a sword once; Mei Aoxue has cast two superb craftsmen in a row, and the sword energy is exhausted and unsustainable. Even though Ou Chuyang absorbs the sword energy at a speed that is too great to resist such high-intensity casting, he himself feels that his mental strength is overdrawn.

Ou Chuyang rubbed his face, relaxed for a while, and said, "I don't want to do this either, but I always have an indescribable feeling in my heart, forcing me to keep accelerating, speeding up, and speeding up..."

"Are you anxious to avenge your master and your senior sister?" Mu Wanqing asked.

"It's not exactly like that." Ou Chuyang replied: "That feeling is very strange, just like if I don't improve my strength as soon as possible, I will be in trouble, and it always makes me restless."

"This should be a premonition." Mu Wanqing put a bowl of soup and handed it to Ou Chuyang, "Let me help you."

"Do you want to learn sword making from me too?" Ou Chuyang asked with a smile. He thought about the scene of Mu Wanqing, a fairy-like beauty, waving the blacksmith's hammer, which was simply...

"I'm afraid I'll get half the result with twice the effort and it won't be worth the loss." Mu Wanqing thought for a while and said, "I can pass the sword energy in my body to you so that you can recover faster."

"Transfer the sword energy to me, then you have practiced in vain?" Ou Chuyang said and shook his head.

"I have just recovered from the peak of the sword servant's realm. It is not possible to break through to the sword master's realm in one or two years. So no matter how much I practice, it is difficult for me to improve my strength in a short period of time." Mu Wanqing analyzed carefully: "Once you can cast treasures, our cultivation resources will increase exponentially, so the most urgent task now is to fully help you become a sword master."

"It makes sense." Ou Chuyang decided very simply, "That's it. As long as we cast a handful of excellent treasures and sell them, we can go to seclusion and practice until we break through the realm."

"Yes." Mu Wanqing urged again: "Then you hurry up and have a good rest, and we will start to attack the sword-casting master with all our strength tomorrow."

"Okay!" Ou Chuyang excitedly took a big mouthful of the meal and praised vaguely: "I didn't expect that your skills are really good, and it was so delicious for the first time to cook."

"I have practiced several times before..." The fire next to me shone, and Mu Wanqing's face seemed to be a little red.

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With the help of Mu Wanqing's sword energy at the peak of the sword service, Ou Chuyang was like a tiger, and his sword casting speed was greatly improved. Four or five superb craftsmen were cast in succession, and he felt that he was familiar with it and was at ease. This shows that Ou Chuyang is not far away from the sword casting master whom he has longed for.

Moreover, Ou Chuyang began to expand the scale of Meixintang and recruited many helpers and apprentices. Because Meixintang has excellent quality and is not worried about sales at all, Meixintang has not had any inventory since the second day of its opening, Ou Chuyang has been rushing to make orders.

Faced with the hot sales situation where you can sell as much as you create, expanding production is the best way to increase profits. In addition to improving his casting speed, Ou Chuyang also thought carefully and prepared to try the assembly line operation of division of labor and cooperation.

Standardization, mechanization and intelligence are several major characteristics of modern industry and are also the core factors of the surge in production capacity. Although Ou Chuyang cannot completely copy the modern industrial large-scale production system, he can also learn from it a lot of valuable experience.

Sword casting is an extremely complicated craft, and each sword can be regarded as a work of art. What Ou Chuyang now thinks is to reduce the artwork into a handicraft and carry out mass production.

To divide the work, the process must be divided into several links.

The first major process is smelting, which is relatively simple, because there is no need for the sword gate. Ou Chuyang became a smelting apprentice before the sword gate was opened. Moreover, many of the sword materials purchased by Di Zhenjie and the sword materials provided by the customer themselves are already finished products and can be directly forged.

Ou Chuyang hired two smelting apprentices with a high salary of one or two taels of silver per month, and eight helpers who had previously "bicycle-based power generation" formed a smelting workshop, which was specifically responsible for smelting sword materials.

There are many steps to make swords, including forging, ventilation and four fires, three key processes, must be completed by Ou Chuyang himself.

However, the processes such as cold forging, plastic surgery, edge opening, inlay, seal carving, gold engraving, polishing, and light cultivation are mainly for beauty and do not affect the quality and performance of the sword. As long as you are patient and slow to work, it is fine. Therefore, Ou Chuyang also hired people to divide the work, form plastic surgery, and the decoration workshop is responsible for these processes.

The four parts of the sword hilt, the sheath, the sheath, the guard ring, and the sword mark that make up the scabbard can also be handed over to the apprentice to make. Ou Chuyang is only responsible for casting the air valve and engraving the sword spirit array.

In the end, the excellent craftsmanship produced by Mei Xintang will be made up of more than a dozen people in division of labor and cooperation. Ou Chuyang's workload has been reduced by more than half, and Mei Xintang's production capacity will be more than doubled.

Ou Chuyang took the first assembly line product, carefully examined it, and said with satisfaction: "Good! The quality is not much worse than what I created by myself, and it is decorated more exquisitely and has a better appearance."

"Your method is so good!" Mu Wanqing praised, "Why haven't other sword-casting masters thought of it for thousands of years?"

"No." Ou Chuyang smiled and shook his head and said, "It's not that others could not think of it, but that they disdain to do it. Sword casting is an art and a belief and a Tao. For sword-casting masters, swords are like their own flesh and blood, and every trace of their own hard work is how to use the hands of others?"

Mu Wanqing asked, "Then why don't you have such awareness?"

"Because there are more important things, waiting for me urgently. This is just a temporary solution forced by the situation." Ou Chuyang stood with his hands behind his back and looked into the distance.

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"Dad, Mei Xintang has been open for more than three months, and its business is getting better and better." Chen Yajing asked her father, Master Chen: "Why can a mere swordsman casting worker cast three superb craftsmen a month? Is there anything wrong with this?"

"It's nothing more than hiring someone to cooperate in making swords. Leave the process that does not require sword energy to the assistants and apprentices." Master Chen snorted coldly, "It's hard to become a great man if he takes advantage of his chances. As long as the boy named Mei can't become a swordsman, it will not pose any threat to us. Let him jump to the door."

"But what if he advances to the sword-casting master?" Chen Yajing asked worriedly, "Dad, do you really let it go and ignore it?"

"Have you learned a lesson in the last incident? The fourth young master was clearly protecting him. Don't make things boring again." Master Chen reminded him and continued: "The wood is so beautiful that the forest wind will destroy it. Let's just wait and see what happens."

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(The right shoulder seems to have symptoms of periarthritis of shoulder. It is very sore when lifted flat. You can hear the sound of bone rubbing and giggling when you move. It is quite sensible... If you have any good treatments, please leave me a message, thank you.)
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