Chapter 27: New job (below)

"Master Andrew." When appearing in front of Andrew's laboratory, Gong Hao appeared very stable.
"Ha, it's Glair, come in quickly." Andrew is satisfied. Even now, Hugh Glair still has a lot of respect for himself. Unlike other apprentices, they only listen to Pier.
"How do you feel about your new job?" Andrew asked.
"It's not bad, Ivo taught me a lot, and I found that it was an eye-opener for me. The feeling of opening the door to knowledge was really wonderful."
"Well said, knowledge is the sharpest weapon of the alchemist. Tell me how much you have learned?"
Gong Hao replied: "In three days, I have learned almost twenty ways to make medicine."
"Not a lot." Andrew frowned.
"I mean the part that can be produced independently."
"Oh, that's great. I knew you would never let us down. That being the case, in a few days you will be able to make all the potions soon, right?"
"I'm afraid it's a long way to go." Gong Hao replied, "It's okay to learn just the same, but with the increase in the variety of medicines, many times the materials we need will cause confusion in the mind. If it is only a matter of materials That ’s it, after all, you can always look at the information in advance. However, it is not easy to master the temperature and dosage aspects. After all, the records cannot be so detailed, we need to master and understand them, especially when facing some Special potions often have instability. How to deal with this situation requires that we have absolute rich experience. I think I still have a long way to go before I truly master these potions. "
"Well, you're sober, Glair, you've always been sober, and that's where I admire you the most. Well, now that you've come to me, then I think maybe I can help you? "
"Yes, I hope I can get some glass and all season grass."
"Oh? What do you want that for?"
"Just want to make some more convenient tools."
"If that's the case, you should go to Pier."
"Sir, am I still your servant?" Gong Hao smiled at Andrew. If you let yourself go to Pierre, then Pierre will surely ask why.
For the time being, Gong Hao does not plan to let Piere know his tools.
So at this time it is necessary to pamper yourself. Only with Andrew can he do what he wants without worrying about anyone's perception.
Sure enough, Andrew agreed, asking for some glass is just a trivial matter, and Siji grass is not a precious material.
Fengming's mainland alchemy has never worked hard in civilian use.
This is determined by the characteristics of hierarchical society.
In the magic world, due to the existence of magical talents, the descent is different, which promotes and strengthens the stratification of the system, and the existence of aristocratic systems in the social class also makes the development of science and technology mainly for the upper levels Non-basic services.
This is the basic characteristic of the feudal system. Everything serves the nobility.
Because of this, high-end alchemy often lacks support from the grassroots.
This makes the development of society have great flaws: people do not understand that grassroots technology is actually the cornerstone of high-end technology. Many high-end technologies are often built on sufficiently developed grassroots technologies. If high-end technology is the leader of grass-roots technology, then grass-roots technology is the booster for its development. Without this booster, high-end technology is trying to develop and it will be difficult. It is very, very difficult to rely solely on the front-runner to drive the development of social science and technology.
It is very likely that you have a pen that works well for experiments. A piece of paper comes from folk technology, but the underdevelopment of folk technology has also led to the limitation of high-end technology.
The alchemy of Fengming mainland is actually in such a malformed state of development.
So you can fully imagine that alchemy can create a cutting-edge existence like a samurai warrior, but can not create a thermometer.
This is not because they can't do it, but because they never want to do it. Alchemists are not inventors, and it is impossible to invent everything. Since nobody invented the thermometer, they could only replace it with their own mind and experience. And even if they think about it, they may not necessarily invent it, because once it appears, the alchemist is likely to become worthless.
This is just like what Chaplin is most opposed to is the sound film. Because of the invention of the sound film, Chaplin can no longer use his body language to express his unique artistic thought. The emergence of many new technologies will lay off a group of veteran workers with high skills, but let a group of young people take the lead, for the same reason.
The same is true of the alchemists, who are clearly the beneficiaries, and they are most opposed to these things. This makes it even more impossible for them to think about inventing these basic tools.
However, Gong Hao does not consider these. As long as he can do it well, you do n’t invent it. I invent it myself, is n’t it better?
Gong Hao made the thermometer almost very easily.
A small sealed glass tube, a few drops of sap of the four season grass is successful.
This thermometer does not even have a clear scale, because Gong Hao cannot complete the precise temperature distribution. But it doesn't matter. When the processed medicine reaches the target temperature, Gong Hao directly makes a symbol on the scale of the thermometer, and then marks it. For example, writing the word "some grass" means that when the temperature reaches this index , You can put the material.
This means that a constant standard has come out.
Different medicaments can make different thermometers, and many of them can share one or more. In this way, for more than a hundred medicines, only a dozen thermometers are needed to master all the temperature changes of the medicines.
Gong Hao even made the thermometer directly into a stirring rod, which makes it more convenient to use and at the same time don't have to worry about what Ivo can see.
Basically with this thing, he will never again have a measurement error in temperature. Of course, before this, it must be repeatedly tested to determine that the recorded temperature is the best standard. It will cost him a lot of failure.
Fortunately, the failure of new apprentices is normal, and Gong Hao's failure will not surprise everyone.
After completing the thermometer, Gong Hao made another measuring cup. In the same way, Gong Hao doesn't know how to determine the scale of the measuring cup, but it doesn't matter. It is just arranged according to the use of the medicine.
The measuring cup is mainly used to determine the amount of material to be put. In the past, apprentices always put materials based on experience, but now it is good. Gong Hao directly uses the cup to replace the feel, which greatly improves the accuracy.
He engraved some special symbols on the outside of the measuring cup and thermometer to replace the capacity, which made no one understand. Of course, the best symbol is Chinese characters.
In this case, Gong Hao thought that it would take at least one month to get a general grasp and one year to be fully familiar with the production of pharmaceuticals. It took Gong Hao half a month to solve all the problems.
This is due to his own efforts, on the one hand to the thermometer and measuring cup he invented, and on the other hand to his life in the library.
When he was in the library, he basically read all the records about the production of pharmaceuticals. He was fully familiar with the material formula ratio, dosage, and the order of feeding, but he lacked practical experience. With the theoretical foundation and the combination of theory and practice, for Gong Hao, who is a mentor assistant to the chemical laboratory, it is really easy to do this.
Therefore, when other apprentices took a month to gradually master things, they became so skilled in Gong Hao's hands that it seemed that they had studied for many years, and even Hines was surprised.
What is particularly surprising is not the speed at which Gong Hao got started, but the success rate of Gong Hao.
In addition to the continuous failures that occurred in the beginning to determine the standard temperature and dosage of the medicament, Gong Hao's error rate was greatly reduced later.
Generally speaking, the success rate of a skilled apprentice is only one third, and the success rate of an alchemist is preferably only two thirds.
However, Gong Hao's success rate has reached one-half. At least in the preparation of pharmaceuticals, he only took one month to reach the master level.
This surprised Piere and couldn't figure out how he did it.
Of course, he didn't know that it was Gong Hao's intention to report some more error records. In fact, his chances of error were even smaller. If all the reports were made, he wouldn't even want to hide the potion.
You should know that the potions made by Purgatory Island are rare in the entire continent, and basically no formula is circulated outside. Today, most of the medicines that can be made outside are low-cost, crudely made things. Drinking a bottle of healing potion may not help you recover how many injuries, and it may be possible for you to have a headache and brain heat for a few days.
After all, the production of pharmaceuticals requires not only formulations, but also rare materials. Looking at the mainland, today only Purgatory Island has this condition. The 113 medicines Iwo said are actually standard high-grade medicines. Looking at the mainland, there are no less than thousands of low-grade medicines, which are completely incomparable with those produced by Purgatory Island.
With this opportunity, if Gong Hao didn't grasp it, he would really be sorry for himself.
The increase in success rate leads to an increase in work efficiency. Gong Hao was free to use the large crucible, and each time he could make ten bottles of medicament, which greatly accelerated his refining speed. At the same time, the low failure rate also saves him from repeating work, further saving time.
In just twenty days, Gong Hao completed the standard workload of an apprentice as a new servant, and greatly reduced the amount of materials used. This was still done after he continued to work as a clerk and hunted WoW Yes, everyone was surprised at the progress of this work.
Even though Hines knew this guy was a little genius, he didn't expect him to master it so fast.
Of course, the most important contribution was the thermometer and beaker he made. With these two things, Gong Hao has no need to worry about making potions. If time permits, he plans to build a small test bed to make more sophisticated tools that were previously used in chemical laboratories.
But two months is probably not enough anyway.
If Heins wants to stay, he must make more contributions.
It is obviously not possible to rely solely on potions.
No matter how good the potion is, it is only a skilled trade. If you want to let Hines give up the possibility of being discovered by Gong Hao, then leave him in the alchemy tower for a long time and do what he wants Hines must be made aware of his true value.
Irreplaceable value!
Gong Hao remembered that he had encountered such a thing before reincarnation:
One worker complained that he always did a lot of work, but his salary was the lowest. But some technicians don't need to do anything, but earn several times more. At that time, he said to the worker: The value of man is not determined by how much labor he pays, but by how much you are irreplaceable. If you leave this post now, there will be a group of people behind you who can take over you at any time. Your irreplaceability is the lowest, so even if you put in more labor, the return will be limited.
But if you are sure that after you leave, there are a lot of things that only you can do that others cannot do, then you have the bidding capital.
Yes, irreplaceability must make Hines realize that he has irreplaceable value! Then he would risk himself to stay.
This alone cannot be achieved by relying only on proficiency in making pharmaceuticals. For Hines, the material he squanders every day is far more than Gong Hao can save, and he doesn't care about it. For an alchemy lunatic like him, only unknown, mysterious, and unachievable things are valuable.
Who can do this is irreplaceable.
Improved Elixir Formula! This is the only thing Gong Hao can think of and can do by himself.
"Master Pierre."
Gong Hao came to Pier's laboratory and saluted him respectfully.
"what's up?"
"That's it. The list of pharmacy needs sent by the empire has been completely completed. I would like to ask the Lord what else do you want?"
Pier put down the trial in his hand.
He looked at Gong Hao with interest.
For some reason, he always felt that this was a kid who was a little elusive to him.
This kid is too clever, so clever that he can learn almost all the work quickly, clever enough that he always performs better than others expected, clever enough that it is difficult for you to catch his mistakes, clever enough that you are You can leave everything to him, and let go without asking yourself.
I heard that after Iwo had taught Hugh Iglell once, there was no more opportunity to teach him. Soon after that, Ivo focused on his own work, regardless of Xiu.
Now, less than a month later, Xiu Yi completed the job even earlier than Ivo, and then came to ask for a new job.
Not only smart, easy to learn, but also hardworking.
He did even better than Neil.
It is reasonable to say that you should be satisfied with such a person, but why do you always feel uneasy in your heart?
He couldn't figure it out.
Looking down for a moment, Pier said, "So what do you want to do?"
"It's such an adult. If the adult does not plan to arrange for me to do a new job, then I want to try to use the materials saved in my hand to see if I can further strengthen the existing pharmaceutical formula." Gong Hao answered.
"Do you want to modify your current potion recipe?"
Gong Hao immediately replied: "The formula was developed by people, and future generations always make more innovations on the basis of their predecessors. Since the previous generations can research them, why can't future generations make better ones? In addition, I think I might be able to help other apprentices to do something, but you know I can't go anywhere at will. "
"Don't you think you feel too big?"
Gong Hao immediately expressed his sincerity and fear: "Master, I just want to do my best to do more for you and your master."
"That being the case, do yourself a good job. Okay, I have something to do, you go."
"Yes, sir."
Gong Hao came back abruptly.
For the first time, Gong Hao was rejected by Pierre when he wanted more work.
He was wary of himself, this bastard!
Back in his laboratory, Gong Hao frowned. It was much more difficult to guard his own guy's work at such a time than under Andrew's.
Should I go to Andrew?
No, not good. Seeking Andrew for this kind of thing will only make Pierce more disgusted with himself. It's not worth it.
But to gain access to the deeper secrets of alchemy, Pierre must be made aware of his value.
Maybe Hines can help himself.
Gong Hao's eyes lit up.
Yes, in Alchemy Tower, the person who really talks is Hines. Just as he had relied on Andrew's help in the servant circle to become the servant chief and entered the library, he could also go to Hines.
But now is not the time.