Chapter 580: Preparing to Flip the Table

Wei Yuan didn't rush to the workshop immediately, still worried about Xu Wenwu, so he pulled him aside and exhorted: "Now that you've attained the Dao Foundation, you've entered the door on the immortal path. The karma on you has increased, and you can't be as reckless as you were in the world beyond the heavens."

"This Heavenly Tribulation of yours was triggered by careless speech, and it was exceptionally fierce; this is heaven and earth punishing you. If you can't survive this punishment, you'll be gone! So you must be cautious in your words and deeds from now on, otherwise, if another Heavenly Tribulation comes, no one can save you."

"In the immortal cultivation world, fortune and *feng shui* are very particular; you have to make up for this lesson. Look at me; because I am deeply versed in this Dao, no matter how I speak, nothing will happen..."

Before Wei Yuan's voice had faded, tribulation clouds suddenly appeared above his head, and five Heavenly Thunderbolts fell one after another! Before Wei Yuan could react, he was blasted into a charred mess, and the odds and ends on his body fell all over the ground.

Everyone only felt a blur before their eyes, and Wei Yuan's hidden storybooks were missing a few more.

Wei Yuan looked at the sky in astonishment, and Xu Wenwu looked at the charred Wei Yuan in astonishment. With this, he finally understood that in this world, whoever boasted would be struck by lightning.

Xu Wenwu couldn't help but secretly rejoice; fortunately, there was no Internet in this world, otherwise, it would likely be missing more than half the people.

Wei Yuan's lightning strike was inexplicable, without any warning. Fortunately, the sound of this thunder was extremely loud, shaking a hundred *li*, but its power was really not very good, just like the Heavenly Tribulation of Dharma Form advancing to Master Yu Jing, but it only roasted a layer of his epidermis.

Wei Yuan's body squirmed, and he was brand new, then he grabbed his clothes and put them on. What he was worried about now was that the grade of his Dharma robes and storage magic treasures was not high, and they would be destroyed as soon as they were struck by the Heavenly Tribulation. In just these few days, two sets had already been destroyed.

Wei Yuan looked as if nothing had happened and said to Xu Wenwu: "You should carefully experience what I just said. Later, I'll give you an introduction to *feng shui*, and you can read it first."

Having said that, Wei Yuan got up and flew away, heading to the brocade weaving workshop.

At this time, deep in the Nether Cold Realm, Saint Heart was pulling a beautiful Shaman who looked like an octopus and was a peerless beauty in the eyes of the Shaman tribe, and said sincerely: "... I swear, I am absolutely sincere to you. If I lie, let me be struck by five tribulation thunders!"

The octopus said coldly: "I don't care if you are sincere or not; the key is that you are too ugly and poor!"

She walked away, leaving Saint Heart to grieve secretly in place.

Qingming's brocade weaving workshop was set up in a quiet valley, adjacent to the Weapon Forging Workshop. The guards here were strict, and it was Yu Zhizhuo's fellow apprentices who were guarding it personally.

The exterior of the workshop was a square house three *zhang* high and several dozen *zhang* long and wide, and the walls were maintained with reinforced magic arrays. Qingming lacked giant spiritual wood materials of a hundred years, so it could only be like this.

Wei Yuan walked into the workshop and saw a wide corridor in front of him, leading directly to the center of the array. The workshop was set up with a Four Symbols and Eight Trigrams Array, with two looms placed at each array position, and a cargo truck bed was actually placed in the center of the array eye.

Yu Zhizhuo opened the door of the truck bed, and saw four Dharma positions placed inside, each with a cultivator sitting on it, who was currently focused and inputting magic power into the magic array.

Yu Zhizhuo said: "I installed a Four Symbols Spiritual Track Array on this truck, hosted by four Dao Foundation cultivators, which can provide energy for all the looms in the workshop, allowing them to run at full speed. A batch of four Dao Foundation cultivators can maintain the operation of the magic array for three days."

Wei Yuan asked: "Why set the energy supply magic array on the truck?"

Yu Zhizhuo said: "I looked at the data from the world beyond the heavens, and the places that produce artifacts are all called workshops. As the name implies, there must be vehicles in the workshop. Then I designed this vehicle-mounted magic array, and it is indeed infinitely miraculous."

"Look, it itself can store a certain amount of magic power, and it can move at any time. It can supply energy by stopping at the array position. I am preparing to improve it well, so that the magic array of the entire Weapon Forging Workshop can use it to supply energy, so it will be much more flexible. The mortals in the world beyond the heavens are indeed smart!"

Wei Yuan was also full of admiration, and then continued to visit. All the looms in the workshop were uniformly powered by the magic array. At this time, the raw materials were all ready, and the craftsmen were all in place, just waiting for an order to start work.

Wei Yuan nodded, and Yu Zhizhuo ordered to start work. Thus, the four cultivators sat cross-legged in the center of the magic array, constantly inputting Daoist power into the magic array. The array patterns on the truck lit up one after another, extending to the workshop floor, and then extending to the looms at the array positions. Thus, the looms began to run slowly one after another.

A moment later, the operation of the magic array reached its peak and began to run stably. These looms had all been re-calibrated, and their running speed was much faster than what Wei Yuan saw last time. Pieces of brocade grew at a speed visible to the naked eye, and the craftsmen filling the materials ran back and forth, exceptionally busy.

The craftsmen were mainly responsible for continuing the raw materials for the looms, as well as receiving the cotton that had been woven.

Wei Yuan watched until the first complete piece of brocade came out of the loom, and then calculated the time, which took about half an hour.

Calculated in this way, the sixteen looms in this workshop could produce nearly four hundred pieces of brocade a day, and this in Ningzhou would require four hundred craftsmen to work for five or six days. The largest brocade workshop in Ningzhou claimed to have two thousand weavers, but the craftsmen always had this or that matter, so the daily production capacity was equivalent to this workshop.

The full configuration of this workshop was six Dao Foundation cultivators and twenty craftsmen. Among them, there were no special requirements for Dao Foundation cultivators, as long as they had magic power.

Now it is said that because the price of silk in Ningzhou has risen sharply, brocade merchants are brewing to raise prices, wanting to raise the price of brocade to six taels a piece. If calculated at this price, the brocade produced by this workshop in one day could be sold for twenty-three hundred taels of immortal silver!

As for the cost, it was nothing more than silk, machines, buildings, and maintenance costs for people. Dao Foundation was to consolidate cultivation, so except for silk, the rest could basically be ignored, and the entire workshop only consumed a few taels of immortal silver a day.

Wei Yuan was calculating how much immortal silver could be entered into the account, when suddenly he heard a few bangs, and three looms failed one after another, one of which caught fire directly. By the time everyone was in a mess and put out the big fire, the brocade that was about to be woven was also destroyed.

Thus, Wei Yuan understood that this should be the normal state of the workshop, and the result calculated just now was just an ideal number.

Read every single word carefully!

Yu Zhizhuo didn't feel embarrassed at all; similar accidents were no surprise to the cultivators of the Heavenly Craft Hall. When they forged magic treasures, there were many explosions, and often even the roof of the main hall was lifted, so what was a little fire in a machine?

Yu Zhizhuo then introduced the design idea of the workshop to Wei Yuan. His idea was to build all workshops exactly the same. In this way, the frame structure of the workshop factory building and the materials needed for the layout of the magic array were all the same, which could be prepared in advance and supplied uniformly. After the craftsmen were skilled, the speed of building new workshops would also be greatly accelerated.

Added to the fact that Qingming's reinforced concrete technology was now mature, there was no need to use spiritual wood of a hundred years for large buildings, and construction costs had also dropped significantly.

Yu Zhizhuo then asked how many workshops he planned to build in the early stage.

Wei Yuan estimated that in an ideal state, one workshop produced 140,000 pieces of brocade per year. If fifty workshops were built in the early stage, then the annual production of brocade would be 7 million pieces, and the annual production of brocade in the eight counties of Ningzhou would not exceed 10 million pieces.

The key was that the cost of machine brocade was just a little higher than the silk price, and each piece was no more than one tael of immortal silver. So this quantity was enough to destroy most of the brocade industry in the eight counties.

Wei Yuan said: "Let's build one hundred first!"

"One hundred?" Even Yu Zhizhuo couldn't believe his ears. This number was ten times more than he thought.

"One hundred." Wei Yuan repeated.

Since he wanted to flip the table, he would flip it thoroughly. Wei Yuan not only wanted to sweep the silk and brocade industry in the eight counties of Ningzhou and the Zhao Kingdom, but also set his sights on their cotton cloth industry. This thing that everyone needed was the big head.

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