As soon as Shen Wansan left Qin Wei's study, Xiao Shunzi came over to report: "Your Majesty, Mr. Gongshu and Mr. Xiao want to see you!"
Qin Wei raised his head and raised his eyebrows.
Gongshuqiu and Xiao Yicai are here!
"Let them come over!"
After a while, Gong Shuqiu and Xiao Yicai walked into the study.
"Greetings to Your Majesty!"
"Excuse me, what do you want?" Qin Wei asked curiously.
Gongshuqiu and Xiao Yicai rarely come to see him. Needless to say, Gongshuqiu is responsible for many things and is usually very busy, so he doesn't have time to come and flatter him.
Xiao Yicai has been busy studying magic formations recently, and he is also responsible for some matters of the formation magic association, so he rarely has any free time.
"Your Majesty, we have two pieces of good news to report to Your Majesty!" Gong Shuqiu said with a flattering smile.
"What's the good news?" Qin Wei became interested and looked at him expectantly.
Gongshu Qiu smiled and said: "The first good news is that we found the spirit stone mine!"
"real!"
Qin Wei suddenly stood up, so surprised that he couldn't believe it.
"I dare not deceive Your Majesty!" Gong Shuqiu said.
"Where?" Qin Wei said impatiently.
Gongshu Qiu said: "It's on the seabed forty miles east of Muhai City!"
"Muhai City!"
Qin Wei's eyes lit up, thinking about the location of Muhai City.
Muhai City is located in the eastern part of Nan Qingdao and is one of the important port cities on the eastern coast of Nan Qingdao.
"How did you find out?" Qin Wei was a little surprised.
Although a new shipyard and machine-monument manufacturing factory have been established on Minami Qingujima Island, the location chosen by Gong Shuqiu at that time was the western part of Minami Qingujima Island.
The Giant Scorpion 2 was developed in the Spiritual Wasteland, and was later mass-produced at the Gigamon Manufacturing Factory in the west of Minami Qingdao. It stands to reason that even if you are searching for spirit stone mines on the seabed, you should start searching from the west of Minami Qingdao. That's right, why did you suddenly go to the east of Minamigaru Island?
Gongshu Chou explained: "Your Majesty, this matter is somewhat coincidental."
"We originally wanted to look for seabed spiritual plants there, but we didn't expect to find a spiritual stone mine."
"The favorite thing of the undersea giants is spiritual plants. We think there should be spiritual plants in the areas where the undersea giants often move. According to our investigation, we found that the sea areas east of Muhai City have very frequent activities of undersea giants."
"So we arranged for a dozen Giant Scorpion IIs to search the sea area. As a result, we did not find any spiritual plants, but found a large amount of spiritual stone mines!"
Qin Wei suddenly realized.
According to the activity range of the underwater giants, determine whether there are spiritual plants or spiritual stone mines on the seabed!
This is a very good method.
"How are the reserves?"
Gong Shuqiu grinned, "It's not completely confirmed yet, but we think that the reserves of the spirit stone mine should be very large, and they are exposed on the surface of the seabed."
"But there are many problems there. First of all, there are many undersea giant beasts entrenched there. If we want to mine spiritual stones there, we must find a way to drive those giant beasts away. Secondly, there are often merchant ships passing by in that sea area. If we are in The spiritual stones are being mined there, so I’m afraid there’s no way to hide the news!”
Qin Wei nodded slightly, Gong Shuqiu considered the matter very carefully, even taking into account confidentiality.
A Lingshi mine is enough to cause a large-scale war, and the method of mining Lingshi mines on the seabed will attract the covetousness of countless forces.
There are much more mineral deposits on the seabed than on land. If a force can master the ability to mine on the seabed, the harvest will be beyond imagination.
It is not that there are no forces in the Qiongtian Sea Area that can mine the seabed, but the cost of mining on the seabed by those big forces is very high, because they use large magic weapons that can sneak into the seabed.
A large magic weapon is created by integrating a large number of magic circles and using weapon refining techniques. The cost of such a large magic weapon is not something that ordinary forces can bear, nor can ordinary forces produce.
Moreover, this kind of magic weapon still consumes spiritual stones, so if you want to use it to mine on the seabed, the cost is not high.
In comparison, the Scorpion II designed by Gongshuqiu is simply extremely cheap.
The cost of building a Giant Scorpion II is about 80,000 taels of silver. Although the Giant Scorpion II has many disadvantages, such as being unable to stay on the seabed for a long time, being unable to fight against giant beasts, and having relatively low mining efficiency, etc.
But it’s cheap!
Even if a Giant Scorpion No. 2 is exchanged for a spiritual stone, Qin Wei feels that it is a profit.
"Leave the problem of the giant beasts under the sea to the Enshrining Institute, and let the Enshrining Institute send people to drive them away!"
"As for the issue of confidentiality!"
Qin Wei thought thoughtfully and said: "Don't worry, it's best to keep it a secret. Even if it can't be kept secret, it doesn't matter."
Keeping it secret for a short period of time shouldn't be a big problem, but as time goes by, other forces will definitely notice the weirdness.
However, there are not many forces that threaten Dali in the Yuluo Sea Area. Qin Wei does not need to worry too much. As for those outside the Yuluo Sea Area, there is no need to worry about it.
He even offended the Giant Spirit Dynasty, so how could he care about other forces?
"Your Majesty is wise!" Gong Shuqiu said happily.
"Not bad, not bad!" Qin Wei looked at Gong Shuqiu with satisfaction.
Although this guy looks ugly and does not have strong military force, he is the most important chess piece to Dali.
Dali can be without any chess piece, but he can never be without public and enemy.
This is the importance of technical talent.
"What's the second piece of good news?" Qin Wei remembered that Gong Shuqiu had just mentioned two pieces of good news.
Gong Shuqiu looked at Xiao Yicai next to him, and Xiao Yicai said: "Your Majesty, we have researched the communication array!"
"Hahaha~~~"
"Okay, okay~~"
Qin Wei was pleasantly surprised again.
Communication array!
This is the earliest magic circle that Dali came into contact with. After entering the Spiritual Wasteland from Dongfang Pavilion on Yuehai Island, Dali found the communication magic circle from his ship.
After that, Dali replaced the Luofu Dynasty and also obtained several communication arrays.
The communication array is very small, just a disc with a diameter of about thirty centimeters, but it involves many arrays, including more than thirty types of basic arrays.
This thing is also a rare thing in the Yuluo Sea Area, and its function is to transmit messages within a range of 10,000 miles.
With the communication array, the problem of long-distance communication can be solved.
This is one of the most needed items in Dali right now.
There is no way, the sea area is extremely vast, and it is very troublesome to contact the ship after it goes out to sea.
Now it may take dozens of days for Luo Wang to send a message back to Dali.
But if there are enough communication arrays, sending messages will become an extremely simple matter.
Of course, the communication array cannot be used frequently. Nowadays, Dali does not have the luxury to use the communication array as a mobile phone.
"Is it difficult to make?" Qin Wei asked.
Xiao Yicai thought for a while and said: "It won't be difficult for me to make it, but it will be difficult for others to make it."
"Why?"
"Because the communication array is a combination of the array and the weapon refining, especially the array, it must reach the fourth level!" Xiao Yicai said.
The four grades he mentioned are the grade classification of magicians by the Formation Association.
According to the level assessment of the Formation Association, fourth-grade Formation Masters should be relatively rare existences in the Yuluo Sea Area.
There are currently one hundred and thirty-two formation masters registered in the Formation Association, most of them are first and second grade, there are only eleven third grade masters, and the only one above fourth grade is Xiao Yicai.
The array masters in Yuluo Sea are mainly concentrated in the Hundred Stars Dynasty.
Even if Dali wanted to recruit from outside, it would not be easy.
This is a big problem!
Relying on Xiao Yicai alone to create the communication array, let alone the speed of production, it is really a waste for Xiao Yicai to focus on this kind of thing.
Xiao Yicai is currently the leader of Dali's magic circle. Dali still has many things that Xiao Yicai needs to study, such as psychic cannons!
Qin Wei thought for a while and said: "To dig people, go to the Hundred Stars Dynasty to dig people!"
"We also need to cultivate our own talents. You are responsible for this matter. As for recruiting people, I will leave it to the Royal Chamber of Commerce!"
The Hundred Stars Dynasty should have many formation mages of level four or above. Dali doesn't need many now, just two or three.
With these two or three fourth-level formation masters over a period of time, the formation association will be able to train their own fourth-level formation masters.
The so-called training is nothing more than spending resources. The cultivation of formations is different from the cultivation of warriors. Although the arrangement of formations also has requirements for cultivation, fourth-grade formations only require cultivation to reach the innate realm.
As long as you have enough cultivation and a little bit of talent, you can learn the magic circle.
Of course, the learning process requires countless experiments, and each experiment may fail, but if you fail more times, you will become a true formation master.
Therefore, the cultivation of array masters relies on the accumulation of resources.
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After receiving Qin Wei's decree, all the yamen in the court immediately began to operate.
Baixing Dynasty's orders need to be completed by the Ministry of Industry. Both shipyards and machine manufacturing factories are currently under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Industry.
Naturally, the expansion of shipyards and machinery manufacturing plants must be completed under the leadership of the Ministry of Industry.
The Ministry of Industry was very experienced in this matter. After receiving Qin Wei's order, the Ministry of Industry immediately prepared an official document and went to the four states of Linghuang.
When it comes to shipbuilding, the shipbuilding technology in Linghuang Land far exceeds that of the Four Feather Islands, and the wood in Linghuang Land is relatively more. In terms of manufacturing cost, the shipbuilding technology in Linghuang Land is higher than that in the Four Feather Islands.
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The Ministry of Industry is also responsible for the mining of spirit stone mines and magic circles.
At this time, in the Yamen of the Ministry of Industry.
Jiang Wei, Minister of Industry, was in a good mood.
Because their Ministry of Industry has received another promising assignment.
Seabed mining, manufacturing communication array!
These two tasks are crucial to Dali. Jiang Wei couldn't help but think how beautiful it is that the Ministry of Industry can be responsible for these two tasks.
There was no way, Dali's previous reforms almost turned the Ministry of Industry into an empty frame.
The previous Ministry of Industry was divided into four parts: the Ministry of Industry, the Ministry of Construction, the Ministry of Water Resources, and the Ministry of Agriculture.
The Construction Department is mainly responsible for large-scale infrastructure projects in Dali, including building roads and bridges, repairing cities and ports, etc. It is also responsible for the construction and repair of the imperial city, and the repair of various ministries, such as the Enshrinement Court, Ten Thousand Buddhas Temple, Tiandao Temple and other buildings.
The construction department is responsible.
Needless to say, the Ministry of Water Resources and the Ministry of Agriculture are responsible for water conservancy projects and agricultural production.
In this way, the Ministry of Industry lost almost 80% of its business and was only responsible for some trivial matters.
To be honest, Jiang Wei was very dissatisfied with this matter at that time.
But then Qin Wei handed over the shipbuilding and mechanical beast manufacturing matters to the Ministry of Industry, and Jiang Wei felt better.
As the shipbuilding industry and the mechanical beast manufacturing industry became more and more important, the status of the Ministry of Industry in the court became higher and higher, and he, the Minister of the Ministry of Industry, also became one of the most important ministers in the court.
Now, Qin Wei wants to expand the shipyard and the mechanical beast manufacturing factory, and has also handed over the mining of spirit stones and the manufacturing of magic circles to the Ministry of Industry. Jiang Wei is even more happy.
As a minister, Jiang Wei was not afraid that he would be too busy to sleep, but he was afraid that he would be idle and have nothing to do.
"Someone is coming!"
In the study, Jiang Wei shouted towards the door.
Then the door was pushed open and a clerk walked in, "What are your orders, sir?"
Jiang Wei said: "Go and ask someone to prepare the carriages and horses. My officer is going to Muhai City tomorrow. Also, tell Dr. Song from the Government Department and ask him to go with me."
"And send someone to ask Mr. Gongshu~"
"Forget it, I'd better go see Mr. Gongshu in person!"
Jiang Wei felt that Gong Shuqiu should be more sincere towards Gongshuqiu. Although Gongshuqiu was ugly, His Majesty valued Gongshuqiu and he did not dare to show any slight.
Today Gong Shuqiu is still employed in the Ministry of Industry, but it is just a chief position.
Logically speaking, Gong Suqiu was still his subordinate, but he didn't think he could instruct Gong Suqiu.
It was easier for Gong Shouqiu to meet Qin Wei than for him to meet Qin Wei. He could only meet Qin Wei in the morning or when he went to the palace to discuss matters. But if Gong Shouqiu wanted to see Qin Wei, he could go directly to the imperial city and wait outside the Shengtian Palace.
Of course, he was not jealous of Gong Shuqiu. Gongshu Qiu was really capable and he couldn't be jealous even if he wanted to.
In his view, Gong Shuqiu was the Buddha of their Ministry of Works. The future status of the Ministry of Works in the court would depend on how many tasks this Buddha could attract for the Ministry of Works.
"Young man, go get ready now!"
The clerk responded quickly and ran to prepare the carriage.