The reason is very simple. In the end, the young men in Taoyuan Valley couldn't hold it in anymore, so they formed teams one by one and went out to find wives.
Fang Xiaoyue was not there at the time. When he came back, he found out that these guys had gone out and almost made him angry.
But when those young men came back, they actually brought their wives with them.
When asked, the reason is simple.
These days, as long as you have something to eat, it's too easy to find a wife.
When young men like these go out, they bring a lot of food with them.
What about roasted potatoes wrapped in banana leaves, what about pancakes, what about honey water, etc.
These stupid boys are really stupid. When they go to other villages, when they see a girl, they ask: "Will you come with me and become my wife?" Then they show off with food.
Unfortunately, after being exploited again by the county magistrate, Suping County has become even more impoverished. Those girls are willing to sell themselves on the Little Red Boat if they can have enough to eat, let alone become wives.
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So ten young men went out and brought back fifteen wives.
Well, of course the five extra wives were found for the bachelors in Taoyuan Valley.
Therefore, Fang Xiaoyue did not hold weddings for them one by one, but simply held a group wedding that was beyond the trend of the times.
They would never have agreed to this kind of thing in the past, but in Taoyuan Valley, where the system is close to a large family in primitive society, no one would object.
As a result, things got out of hand, and every now and then, young men would go out to look for their wives under the pretense of buying salt, cloth, or something like that.
In just over a year, the population of Taoyuan Valley has rapidly increased to one thousand!
In addition to many of them being new wives, some are newly born babies.
In short, this Taoyuan Valley can be considered to have a new look now.
After bringing a group of young men who couldn't bear to part with their beautiful wives, Fang Xiaoyue dug out a large amount of ore and transported it back, Fang Xiaoyue began to use the small blast furnace to smelt cold iron.
It should be said that this cold iron is difficult to refine. According to the previous steel-making method, add ore, limestone, coking coal, etc., and burn it for four hours. When you open your eyes and take a look, you will find that the cold iron ore is only warm.
Hot, not melted.
Obviously, the temperature generated here is not enough to melt the ore.
In desperation, Fang Xiaoyue used a killer weapon and made two large bellows. Several strong men took turns pulling them to quickly pour air into the small blast furnace to increase the furnace temperature.
At the same time, he also made changes in the materials for making iron.
For example, the coke is broken into small pieces and the amount of coke is increased to increase the combustion speed and total heat. At the same time, some pig iron is put into the small blast furnace to speed up the reaction.
In short, this time, after two full days of refining, there was finally a reaction in the small blast furnace.
When the cold molten iron was poured into the groove, it turned into fiery red thin iron bars.
Fang Xiaoyue just breathed a sigh of relief.
Fortunately, this cold iron looks like it has an extra word, but in fact its refining method is not much different from that of iron, it just consumes too much.
Just such a furnace of cold iron is refined, and the coke, pig iron, limestone and other things consumed are enough to refine many kitchen knives and hoes.
You must know that the iron products produced in Taoyuan Valley are now the stars of the black market in Suping County.
Good quality, durable, not easy to rust, etc., this reputation has spread and it can be said to be a household name.
If it were not for the lack of a blacksmith shop to manufacture these farm tools, I am afraid that many famous merchants would have crowded Taoyuan Valley.
Han Tie, who turned into a thin iron bar, finally revealed his detailed information to Fang Xiaoyue.
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Cold iron that has lost its cold property: After losing its cold property, this cold iron can no longer cause any special damage to spirit creatures.
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Well... Fang Xiaoyue was a little stunned after seeing the information.
Was this thing discarded after it was refined?
This result was not something he was willing to accept.
However, as a fitter, young man, and science enthusiast from the modern world, he still came up with some ways to restore the coldness of the cold iron.
For example, take these thin iron bars to a snowy mountain and bury them in the freezing ice.
Not to mention, this method is really effective.
It just takes more time.
Fang Xiaoyue estimated that it would take at least 2 months for Hantie to fully recover.
And just as he was preparing to make a pair of gloves with cold iron, Peng Xianguo began to promote potatoes in Yuanping Guiguo, which naturally included Suping County.
When this news reached Fang Xiaoyue, he couldn't help but be stunned.
He wouldn't be surprised if this potato thing spread, but for Peng Xianguo to attach such importance to it was a bit beyond his expectation.
It seems that some changes are going to happen in this plane?
Fang Xiaoyue had some guesses about this.
After all, the magic weapon Potato once performed quite a few miracles in his world.
For example, a large country with a population of more than 200 million relies on potatoes to support the entire country's food system. As for a certain dynasty, it relies on potatoes to rapidly increase its population to 400 million, thereby realizing a prosperous potato dynasty and so on.
In this plane, the key point of the war is that the people don't have enough to eat. In order to expand their territory, those careerists have to expand outwards, and the people have to expand outward in order to have enough to eat.
To put it bluntly, whoever has food will have strength in this plane.
Fang Xiaoyue was unwilling to get involved because he felt that Taoyuan Valley was quite nice.
If you have nothing to do, practice boxing, meditate, hit iron or make something.
Two months later, he took out the cold iron from the top of the snow mountain and found that the cold nature in the cold iron had recovered, and he also learned the true information of the cold iron.
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Cold iron: This is a material from the fantasy world. It is usually produced six hundred meters underground in the fantasy world, but it is also produced in some planes on the verge of advancement. Cold iron has special damage to monsters and monsters.
Due to its fantastic properties, when it is made into a weapon or armor, it can only be made at low temperatures, and a certain amount of destiny points need to be consumed for finalization.
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Does it have a special damage effect on spirit creatures?
Fang Xiaoyue nodded. He deserved to be busy for so long and put in so much effort. For this reason alone, the value of Hantie was much higher than that of other alloys.
Since the information mentioned that making weapons and armor can only be done at low temperatures.
After Fang Xiaoyue dug out all the cold iron bars, she did not return to Taoyuan Valley. She took out the mechanical converter on the top of the snow mountain, converted some tools, and got busy on the extremely cold snow.
To put it simply, the whole process is to use tools to continuously stretch the cold iron bars into flat thin iron wires, then clamp the thin iron wires into small sections, and then use the small sections of cold iron to hook each other, and finally make gloves.