Chapter 2614: Trade and Advancement (8)

Now the entire regiment's quartermaster depot could practically be considered Zhao Chi's personal warehouse.

Though that might be a bit of an exaggeration.

But Zhao Chi couldn't help thinking that way.

It does sound a little arrogant.

But it's almost a fact.

This time, aside from forging and tailoring insights, the quartermaster had quite a stockpile of every other type of insight.

Zhao Chi still held back some contribution points, and didn't redeem every single insight.

For professions with many people, and professions that currently needed vigorous development, he redeemed 1,000 insights each. For example, farming insights, construction insights, mining insights, and so on.

For professions with fewer people, he redeemed 500, such as oil-refining insights and fishing insights.

Among them, hunting and logging currently had absolutely no place to use them.

Logging captain Lin Mei shared the same tragic fate as Yang Lu — the logging squad had become a background squad, basically just following Fang Li's construction squad around to work.

But just because there's no use for them now doesn't mean there won't be later.

So he still redeemed 100 insights of each, and would give them to Yang Lu and Lin Mei later to arrange.

They should be happy, right?

Aside from insights, there were also the manuals.

Before this, Li Ruanyu had also transferred nearly 150 manuals from the regiment for Zhao Chi to use.

Zhao Chi had used them all up during those 100 days.

Only 20 remained in the quartermaster, and Zhao Chi redeemed them all directly.

These things are very useful.

They can reduce the production time of products within a single building by 50%, lasting 100 hours.

This thing is incredibly powerful.

Roughly speaking, it can directly double output.

For ordinary lords and craftsmen, it provides a very nice boost.

If paired with Quick-Work Talismans, output can explode in a short time.

But ordinary lords would still have to consider the cost.

One Efficiency Manual costs 200-300 contribution points, which is equivalent to one "Individual Second-Class Honor Commendation" or one "Collective First-Class Honor Commendation."

Of course, they can also be obtained through missions, but you can roughly consider them more valuable than gold coins.

Aside from the manuals, Quick-Work Talismans aren't cheap either.

If you're just making ordinary equipment, ordinary goods like furniture, carvings, tools, clothing, and so on, it's a complete money-losing proposition.

Basically only lords who possess specialty products would use them.

At the very least, they'd need to have one super-improved product.

For example:

The Zhaojia Society's super-improved gauntlets — those would be worth using, at the very least they wouldn't lose money.

But for Zhao Chi, this thing is an absolute trump card.

Combined with Zhao Chi piloting Qiyue, and the two of them now possessing super-strong resistance to Quick-Work Talismans, the fashion output was even more exaggerated than a production line — completely like Zhuang Ya's kind of massive eruption!

Moreover, with high efficiency, the blacksmiths' and tailors' crafting speed would also increase, and product completion speed could double, so experience accumulation would be faster too.

So... their graduation speed might be moved up by a few days...

Not bad at all.

Once back, he'd use them on all the armories and garment factories.

Armories and garment factories can each hold 100 craftsmen.

Currently there are 1,000 craftsmen working hard to improve their skills, so... one use would consume 10.

Too bad there aren't many left.

This item also needs to be kept in regular stock.

He'd have to find a way to replenish them later.

Too bad these count as military supplies — there aren't any at the trading post outside, though bounties might work.

Let's deal with that later.

Besides Efficiency Manuals, Zhao Chi had also specifically purchased two other types this time: "Quality Manuals" and "Dedication Manuals."

All good items.

【Quality Manual】 can increase the product quality within a single building by 20%, lasting 100 hours.

【Dedication Manual】 can increase the dedication level of craftsmen within a single building by 50%, lasting 100 hours.

Zhao Chi had seen them before, but hadn't had enough contribution points to redeem them.

And there hadn't been a need before either.

Now with so many contribution points, it was very necessary to redeem them.

Among them, although the Quality Manual improves quality, it can also effectively reduce difficulty.

For example, if some critical steps are done wrong, or some steps simply fail, as long as it doesn't exceed 20% of all steps, the quality won't drop.

It greatly improves the margin for error.

It's equivalent to raising the floor by 20%.