Chapter 16 The Book of Getting Rich: Forging (seeking for further reading)

  Shenghui calendar year 1005, the month of budding.

 It has been some time since Levi's breathing technique broke through to the third level.

During this time, Levi carefully studied the miscellaneous books about wizards and those related to animal training that Fred Knight had collected for himself.

 His animal taming proficiency improves rapidly.

 Just reading a book can improve your proficiency. This is the first time Levi has experienced this.

 It didn’t take long for the skill of taming animals to break through.

 Levi————

 Beast Taming: Level 2 (1/5000)

 …

 As for Levi’s books on animal training, I have only read a small part of them.

There are many circuses in the Emerald Kingdom. Different circuses have their own understanding and uniqueness of animal training techniques. Every time Li Wei reads these books, he benefits a lot. In addition, various ethnic groups , especially those living in wild areas such as mountains and grasslands, many of them know advanced beast-taming techniques. Therefore, just by reading books, Levi felt that he could level up as a beast tamer.

 In addition to reading, he will also apply some of the theories in the book to the practice of Three Little Bears, which can also increase proficiency.

 As for Levi's breathing method, his proficiency level has only increased by hundreds in this month.

If you want to reach the 10,000 mark and break through to the knight level, under normal circumstances, it will take about two years.

 “The secret black snake medicine has to be put on the agenda.”

 Levi started to have a headache, and the territory’s current cash flow was only a few dozen gold coins.

In addition, there are dozens of cows and more than a hundred sheep in the manor. The total value of these items does not exceed one hundred gold coins, and they cannot be sold. These are the basis for the survival of the serfs and are also the basis for Li Wei's daily life. Important source of dairy and meat products.

Li Wei wouldn't do that kind of thing.

If Levi hadn't bought all the mountain wolf skins he had hunted back at a good price during the past period, he might not have been able to open the pot.

“Get rich, get rich, how do I get rich, or how do I use my proficiency panel to get rich.”

At this moment, Knight Fred came in and said with a sad face: "Master Levi, the young blacksmith Milan asked about his father again."

"His father is doing well in the Wild Boar Gang and is already the chief blacksmith. As I said, I will definitely find a way to save his father, but the current situation... wait."

Li Wei suddenly remembered something, and riding the only horse in the territory with Knight Fred, they arrived at the house of the little blacksmith Milan in a hurry.

At this moment, the young blacksmith Milan has a sad look on his face. It has been more than a year since his father was captured by the Wild Boar Gang. Although the lord said that he would help him rescue his father, he has not seen any movement from the lord until now.

"Little Milan, are you still worried about your father?" Levi came slowly, wearing a black cloak and knight's armor, riding a big horse.

"Lord, yes...yes." Little Milan knelt on the ground and said.

 Livi helped Milan up.

"I can understand your mood, but now your father is safe in the Wild Boar Gang. It is a difficult time in the territory now. We can't go to war with the Wild Boar Gang yet. If we have fifty sets of knight armors now, then I can lead the Buddha now." Knight Red kills the Wild Boar Gang and rescues your father."

 Levi said calmly.

Little Milan lowered his head and his voice trembled: "Fifty sets?"

 For this world, fifty sets of armor, let alone a small barony like Li Wei, even some small earls may not be able to obtain them.

Furthermore, Xiaomilan's technology is not enough to make armors, which require superb blacksmith skills. Only formal blacksmiths can make them.

But in Blackwater Valley, the only formal blacksmith is his father, Old Toby. Old Toby can only make two sets of armors a year... Fifty sets is an astronomical number, requiring extremely huge manpower, material resources, and financial resources. .

 “Don’t worry, I will try my best to help you.”

“Starting from tomorrow, you will move into the castle and teach me the techniques of forging and smelting.”

 Levi said.

"Ah?...Lord, why bother you with such dirty work?"

Little Milan said in surprise.

"Ok, deal."

After Levi finished speaking, he visited the blacksmith shop, looked at the forging process carefully, took the only blacksmithing introductory book from the blacksmith shop, and left with Knight Fred.

 “Are you really planning to learn blacksmithing?” Knight Fred asked, dumbfounded. "Yes," Levi said.

This world is plagued by constant wars and extremely low productivity.

 Most of the territories are self-sufficient small-scale farmers.

Levi has thought about it. If we develop other agricultural products, there will definitely be no competitiveness, especially since the Blackwater Valley is not suitable for agricultural development.

  But if you can develop forging by yourself, from the most basic agricultural tools, to weapons, and even armor, this will definitely have good prospects.

As a lord, he knows how valuable things like armor and weapons are.

If you can develop the blacksmithing industry in the territory, then you won’t be short of money to start practicing by yourself in the future.

 The reason why I am so confident is naturally because of my proficiency panel.

 Speaking, Levi opened the proficiency panel.

 There is one more skill above.

 Levi——

 Forging: Level 1 (1/1000)

 …

 For a long time, Levi was limited by the perception of the aristocrats of this world and believed that these physical jobs were done by servants, so he never thought of using the proficiency panel to practice forging skills.

 But now he is too short of money and has no choice. There is a lack of talents and resources in the territory.

So I had no choice but to go into battle myself. It just happened that the brute force and energy brought by my own breathing method had nowhere to vent.

 Just now he observed the entire forging process at the blacksmith shop in Little Milan, and sure enough, a new skill appeared on his proficiency panel: forging.

“As long as it can appear on the proficiency panel, it’s easy, and that’s it.”

 …

In the next few days, Li Wei sent people to move the blacksmith shop, and asked Xiao Milan and other blacksmith apprentices to move the forging equipment around his castle. He also built a traditional smelting blast furnace to make it easier for him to learn forging.

Little Milan was also flattered. He didn't expect that the lord would be willing to be his apprentice. This was too close to the people.

In this way, Li Wei needs more and more skills.

But he knew the importance of it.

  The breathing method is always the first, followed by the Golden Cross Slash, followed by forging and beast taming.

In just one month, Levi's forging reached the second level.

 The speed was much faster than he imagined.

 This kind of life skills can be gained through experience too quickly.

 Much easier than combat skills.

In his previous life, Li Wei heard that if a person can concentrate on one thing for a thousand hours, he can easily master many things that are difficult in our thinking and cognition.

  Time is the best teacher, and human potential is far higher than we imagine, and continuous practice is the most important key to mastering it all.

Coupled with the plug-in such as the proficiency panel that provides positive feedback every time you work hard, you will definitely gain something.

It can be said that it is a piece of cake for Li Wei to learn these common skills.

 Three months later, he had successfully forged a high-quality knight's sword, which was not inferior to the one Xiao Milan gave him.

Of course, this world-standard "high-quality product" could only be regarded as garbage in the previous life. After all, the smelting technology was backward and it was impossible to produce high-quality iron.

 And Levi doesn't know how to improve these, and the proficiency panel can't change advanced smelting technology from scratch.

  No matter what, this perfect casting directly increased his proficiency by 100 points.

This made Xiao Milan, who had been a blacksmith apprentice for four years before successfully forging a fine knight's sword, feel the differences in the world for the first time.

 (End of this chapter)