Chapter 23 New Standards

In the evening of that day, Wei Zhe, the representative of the Hai Clan, came back and brought all the items—90 catties of sea soul silk, 10 pieces of low-level spirit stones, and 30 catties of other spiritual silk threads of various grades.

The 10 standard, fist-sized, and complete low-level spirit stones made Li Xian very happy, and his resentment towards the Hai Clan dissipated a lot. Originally, Li Xian was still thinking: it would be incomplete, low-quality spirit stones.

There are also those 30 catties of various silk threads, including fire spiders, and even a little jade silk, celestial silk, human-faced spider silk, etc. There is also a plant fiber called "immortal vine", which is as high as the second level. (Golden elixir period) materials, but the quantity is pitiful, only seven, adding up to less than five feet long.

There are dozens of other kinds of silk threads, each of which is very small. Inside, there are even hairs of powerful monsters, tentacles of jellyfish and so on.

The reason why Li Xian reluctantly cut off 100 catties of sea soul silk this time was in exchange for these various silk threads. He wanted to study why these silk threads could transmit spiritual energy. If you can study thoroughly, even if you can only study one kind thoroughly, it will be a huge gain.

In addition, there are also the ores promised by the Sea Clan, which will not be delivered until Li Xian delivers the weapons. What's more, the amount of ore is huge, and 1 million catties of weapons have been exchanged for 20 million catties of ore!

After Li Xian verified all the materials, Wei Zhe finally spoke, "Master Li, you promised our princess 1000 mirrors, are you ready?"

"Senior, please come with me." Li Xian took the lead and opened a warehouse. There were already a thousand identical three-foot mirrors neatly placed in the warehouse. These mirrors all have the same decoration, but are all equally perfect.

To be honest, the decoration of these mirrors is beautiful, but a thousand mirrors are all one decoration, which is a bit monotonous and boring.

"Why do they all look the same?" Wei Zhe obviously discovered the problem.

Li Xian smiled secretly, if you don't give you the same, do you want to give you different ones? That is not generosity, but inability to do business; leave a shortcoming first, and then there will be surprises later.

Of course, I thought this way in my heart, but said something else in my mouth: "Senior, I promised to give Princess Ao Qingxue a thousand mirrors, but I didn't dare to change the style without the princess' consent. This is a matter of business reputation. .

If the princess wants more styles, we also have other patterns to choose from, and even accept OEM. "

"Okay, let's leave it like this for the time being. You send all the mirrors to the beach, and I'll ask the shrimp soldiers to come and help."

A thousand mirrors is not much, a few carriages are enough. When he arrived at the beach, Li Xian was really eye-opening. There were really shrimp soldiers coming. Seeing the shrimp soldiers with six legs stretched out and holding big pincers, they dragged the carriage carefully and hard into the sea. It's... speechless, can't you send some high-level monsters here? Although these shrimp soldiers and crab generals look good, they are too cumbersome.

As if seeing Li Xian's doubts, Wei Zhe gave a wry smile, "Human Race, Sea Race, and Monster Race have an agreement, and they are not allowed to randomly send people above the Jindan stage into the other party's territory."

"So that's it!" Li Xian's eyes were as bright as small light bulbs—damn it, this is simply an unimaginable huge business opportunity! It's no wonder that there are so few materials for monsters on the human side.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Li Xian also took a look at the nearby coast, and had to say that the place chosen by the Sea Clan is really good and suitable for building a port.

"Senior Wei, we are going to build a port here, what do you think?"

"Since it has been selected, I will report to the princess. After a few days, I will send crab generals to guard it, so that you can start building."

"That's great. As long as the port is built, we will be responsible for delivering the items that Princess Ao Qingxue needs, or even the items that the entire Sea Clan needs, to the designated location."

"En." Wei Zhe responded without denying it, and Li Xian hit a soft nail a little bit.

Later, when all the shrimp soldiers cast their spells and wrapped the mirrors in blisters to protect them, Wei Zhe left and walked away with the shrimp soldiers and crab generals. Seeing Li Xian's envy - the foundation building period is a cow.

After waiting until all the shrimp soldiers and crab generals could no longer see their shadows, Li Xian happily collapsed to a height of three feet, "Haha, there are not only ports, but also new trade routes.

When we have ports and ships, we will also explore new routes and new continents.

Oh, it's too urgent, too urgent, the industry needs to be developed step by step, and the port needs to be built. For the time being, we will use traditional wooden boats and add engines to make up for it. The most important thing is the cable problem. If this problem is not solved, it will be difficult to develop in the future. I have a headache.

Wire, wire, why is it so difficult for you? Sister, at the beginning of the development of electric power technology on the earth, I have never heard of the problem of wires. There is no place to learn from this thing. Yay, ya, ya, ya, ya, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh

After complaining, why continue. Send all the silk threads, spirit stones, etc. back to the research department, and let everyone study together.

It's just that when they saw ten standard low-level spirit stones, many people's eyes burst into brilliant brilliance; fortunately, what Li Xian was most worried about didn't happen. greedy.

Seeing this, Xu Ren congratulated Li Xian, which meant that Li Xian had really recruited these people! But Li Xian seriously despised it in his heart——ah, you are beating around the bush and boasting. Well, anyway, this is indeed something to be happy about.

In addition, 90 catties of sea soul silk and 30 catties of other silk threads totaled 250 miles in length; this amount is a lot, but compared to the requirements of industrial development, it is still only a drop in the bucket.

Fortunately, it can barely meet the needs at this stage. Except for a part intercepted by the research department, all the silk threads are used to produce the engine and some important components-such as the wires for the external connection of the extra spirit array; and the current engine Mainly used in textile machinery and machine tools, it is enough for the time being. The road to industrialization is finally seeing the dawn.

After being busy for two days, Li Xian finally sorted out all kinds of things.

Machine tools and stainless steel are the primary items, but textile machinery cannot be left behind; the development of machine tools and stainless steel is to obtain a large amount of sea soul silk from the sea tribe, and the construction of a large number of textile machinery is the most important first step in the rise of industry and the accumulation of funds.

Research on engines, improvement of spirit gathering arrays, research on wire materials, etc. cannot be stopped, but they can be postponed.

No, there is another very important thing, which is - standard! Without standards, the industry cannot "mass-produce"; if the industry wants to mass-produce, it must have standards. But in fact, there are divisions such as "Dazhang" and "Xiaozhang" in the Great Xia Kingdom, and all kinds of strange metrics dazzled Li Xian.

Since it is so chaotic, simply plan another set of standards by yourself! Just right, use the hours, minutes, seconds, centimeters and kilometers from other worlds. What's more, the setting of units and standards is also a good means of keeping secrets.

Just do it when you think about it, and after a little tidying up, Li Xian held a meeting that night to implement this standard. Take one-third of the "small zhang" as "one meter", and carry out the remaining millimeters, centimeters, and kilometers in turn; 500 meters are regarded as "one mile", and 1,000 meters are regarded as "kilometers".

In addition, the 12 hours of the past day will continue to be subdivided into 24 hours, and the following hours, minutes, and seconds will be executed sequentially.

In terms of weight, "gram" is used as the unit, and one thousandth of a "big catty" on the market is "one gram". In the back, 100 catties is one stone, and 10 stones is one ton (Jun).

In addition, the amount of aura consumed by a one-horsepower engine in one hour is marked as "one degree" aura.

Water temperature, using the "temperature" standard, referred to as "degree"; the freezing point is 0 degrees, below freezing point is minus, and the boiling water temperature is 100 degrees.

Introduce the concepts of acceleration, pressure, momentum, inertia, friction, resultant force, angle, gravity, density, aura circulation resistance, liquid, gas, solid colloid, fluid, etc., to facilitate calculations by everyone. Of course, there are many concepts in it, which also exist in Xianyu, but they have not formed a unified and open academic.

Update the concepts of mathematics and geometry, and clarify the concept of "laws of the material world", referred to as physics.

There are a lot of things, and Li Xian did not disclose them all at once, but only disclosed one piece every few days to let everyone get used to it.

This set of standards is very good, concise and clear, clear at a glance, and without confusion. After the implementation of the new unit, the work immediately went much, much smoother, especially the research process of the engine and the research process of the formation. There is a basis for mutual reference.

However, there are always some problems with such a unit. Xu Ren was puzzled: "Why is it called kilometers?"

What Li Xian said is righteous: "1000 meters is a unit that is easy to remember. The reason why it is called a kilometer is because I believe that in the future it will become the most extensive unit in the world and a unit of measurement that everyone abides by!"

"Then why is pressure called 'Pa'?"

"Because this force is equivalent to the pressure generated by placing a handkerchief on a flat surface."

"That handkerchief must be made of wire."

"You are very clever, sir. We will immediately weave a handkerchief out of gold thread."

Xu Ren naturally didn't believe it, but he didn't care about such a small matter.

(Note: Many units such as meters, tons, degrees, and pa are transliterated. If we follow our traditional labeling, meters should be called meters, and tons should be called Jun. But for the convenience of reading, we only point out here, the unit Use usual units.)