The alchemy factory and the weapon factory were the two buildings he had been most invested in lately. The alchemy factory had been progressing more slowly due to the need for safety considerations.
But the weapon factory didn’t require as many considerations, so construction had gone much faster.
The concept of the weapon factory had been passed down to Valen, the dwarven Grandmaster Smith, by Li De himself, who had even brought nurous reference materials from Earth.
As for how to construct the factory and how the forging process was designed, that had been entirely handled by the dwarves themselves.
Li De wasn’t particularly interested in weapon forging and wasn’t familiar with dwarven workflows either, so he just let them build it however they saw fit.
After all, these guys who mined all day probably weren’t any worse at construction than they were at forging. They could handle it themselves.
“Let’s go take a look,” Li De said with excitent.
Every ti a new building was completed in Dawn City, it gave him a sense of accomplishnt that was hard to describe.
The weapon factory was located on the western side of the Moonlight Plains, near the steel slting furnace. This entire area had been designated a restricted zone, and outsiders were prohibited from entering.
The region where Dawn City was situated was a canyon. The wind blew through the middle and dispersed to the sides, so the exhaust fus from steel slting would be carried up into the sky and wouldn’t affect the daily lives of the residents.
This had been taken into account when selecting the site.
When Li De and his group arrived in front of the weapon factory, which had already been leveled and paved with bluestone flooring, Valen, having received word, hurried out to greet them.
“Lord Kachar, our weapon factory is complete!!”
Seeing Li De, the dwarven Grandmaster Smith was practically ecstatic. “The weapons we forged using this thod are extrely consistent in quality, and their attributes are not far behind those forged by individual dwarves.
The weapon factory is a stroke of genius!
By the God of Forging, you must be the treasure he bestowed upon us!”
Li De twitched at the corner of his mouth. Damn it, that’s not what you said before.
Weren’t you the one who claid the weapon factory didn’t conform to dwarven forging traditions and couldn’t produce good equipnt??
One mont calling it trash, now calling it treasure.
No one changes faces faster than you do.
“You’ve already started production?”
“That’s right, Lord Kachar. In order to adjust the process, we forged a batch of weapons this morning for sampling, but we didn’t expect the assembly-line thod you suggested to work so incredibly well.
Each person is responsible for just one step of the process. While this thod can’t produce high grade equipnt, it’s absolutely divine for crafting anything below Uncommon grade!
You’re truly brilliant!! You must’ve been granted divine wisdom by the Creator!!”
Valen started sucking up again as he spoke.
Looking at the excited Valen, Li De didn’t know whether to laugh or cry. Just how shaken was this guy?
“Show your results.”
“Yes, you’ll be amazed!” Valen said with a wide smile, leading them into the weapon factory enclosed by high bluestone walls.
Behind him, Harrison and Niko, also full of curiosity, followed Li De into this newly constructed building.
The weapon factory district had no unnecessary decorations. Everything was built from stone, radiating a strong dwarven style.
When Li De arrived at the warehouse and saw the pile of equipnt heaped together, due to the lack of weapon racks, he finally understood why Valen had been so excited.
That mound of equipnt was mixed with Common, Rare, and Uncommon grade weapons, numbering over four or five hundred pieces.
“This is what you forged in just half a day??” Li De was a bit shocked by the sight. Didn’t they just light the furnace this morning? How had they already forged this much by noon?
Valen nodded proudly.
“That’s right. And this was only our first trial run.
Once production began, we forged over five hundred pieces in just one morning, and that was with only fifty dwarves working.
Although the attributes of equipnt produced this way are a bit average and not as perfect as those forged individually by dwarves...
I’m fully confident that once we improve our techniques, we’ll be able to produce gear of excellent quality.
And we can still increase our production speed.”
Compared to the factory’s assembly-line production, the old thod, where a dwarf forged an entire weapon alone, might yield better stats, but the efficiency was just too low.
A production line of fifty dwarves could forge over a thousand weapons in a single day. But if each dwarf forged independently, producing just two or three weapons apiece would already be considered extrely efficient.
Moreover, while the attributes of the weapons forged on the assembly line were slightly lower, they were still well within acceptable margins, no wonder Valen was so pleasantly surprised.
With such a simple operation, dwarven productivity had been magnified fivefold, even tenfold.
And as they beca more familiar with their specific forging stages, production efficiency would continue to rise rapidly.
“We can focus on training young blacksmiths. With such high-intensity forging work in the factory, their strength and skills will improve at lightning speed!
The weapon factory is truly a genius idea, Lord Kachar, praise be to you!”
Watching Valen fall into such a frenzy, Li De couldn’t help but shake his head in amusent.
“Standardize the production process of the weapon factory as soon as possible.
What I want to see is a situation where you can produce whatever grade of weapon I instruct you to.
Right now, the weapon factory is just getting started, it’s still far from the state I envision.
From now on, you’ll take full responsibility for overseeing weapon production in Dawn City. City Hall will assist you.
The weapon factory will be responsible for forging low grade weapons, and the Advanced Forging Division will handle the high grade gear that the weapon factory can’t produce.”
Li De didn’t waste words and directly gave this dwarven Grandmaster Smith his orders.
“The weapon factory can be divided into three production workshops. The Common grade workshop will be staffed mainly with low-level blacksmiths, the Rare grade workshop with interdiate blacksmiths, and the Uncommon grade workshop with advanced blacksmiths.
Each ti a blacksmith is promoted, they can be reassigned to the next workshop level, with increased compensation until they finally move into the Advanced Forging Division.”
Li De had laid out a more detailed division of labor, this way, they could et specific production targets based on weapon grade requirents.
Stability was a critically important tric for the factory.
“Valen, I’m leaving this to you. Don’t disappoint .”
He had high hopes for the weapon factory.
He valued it just as much as the alchemy factory.
Alchemical bombs were indeed powerful, but weapons forged by dwarves were by no ans inferior. This was a fantasy world, after all, powerful armor could completely withstand alchemical bombs without taking a scratch.
Besides, Li De wasn’t planning on trading alchemical bombs externally anyti soon. That trump card was for his personal use only.
But the weapon factory was different. In Li De’s plans, it was ant for export.
Just like the deals with the Centaur Tribe.
One was for internal use, the other for foreign trade to generate revenue, using profits from exports to sustain dostic projects.
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