The sun spreads down, and the scorching temperature rises.
This kind of heat makes it easy for people to imagine the world as a big furnace, and people as things like ores suffering in the furnace.
Some people with relatively developed imaginations would even worry about whether they and others would be like ore in a furnace, being roasted and melted by such a temperature...
Under the shade of a tree, Han Youli, sweating profusely, was busy here.
His body was already soaked with sweat, but there was no hesitation in his movements, and he was still busy at a fast pace.
During his busy work, a clay stove with a diameter of about one meter and a height of more than one meter was taken out.
After finishing it, Han Youli didn't even take a break, so he went to the side and brought a lot of firewood, and put it in the newly built clay stove to light it.
This is to dry it as quickly as possible so that it can be put into use.
After lighting the fire and adding enough firewood to ensure that it would not go out in a short time, Han Youli hurriedly walked under the bright sun and came to the side of the large pile of coal piled there.
He picked up a copper shovel placed here and started shoveling coal into a wheelbarrow.
After shoveling inside twice, Han Youli stopped his movements again.
He stood here and thought for a while, then took out the coal he had just put into the cart again.
Then he put the shovel aside and no longer used the shovel. Instead, he directly started loading coal and stones on the wheelbarrow with his hands.
The ones he picked were all larger ones.
This is also the biggest reason why he abandoned the copper shovel and switched to using his hands to install it directly.
With a copper shovel, even if it is deliberately controlled, finely divided coal will still be shoveled and loaded onto the car.
If you install it by hand, you don't have to worry about this problem at all.
The weather is hot and the sun is scorching.
These coals have been exposed to the sun for a long time. In addition, these coals are extremely dark, extremely pure, and absorb heat extremely well. They are all hot to the touch.
Even though there was a thick layer of calluses on Han Youli's hands, he could still feel the burning temperature.
However, he did not stop. On the contrary, his speed became faster. As soon as the large piece of coal reached his hand, he carried it and threw it into the cart.
In a short time, the cart was filled with coal.
Han Youli, whose hands were dark, held the handle of the trolley with his hands and trotted towards the place where he was making the stove.
When they came here, the fire in the stove had become much smaller. Han Youli did not dare to stop and quickly put down the cart to add more firewood.
After adding the firewood, he couldn't help but let out a long breath, took the water hyacinth on the side, pulled out the stopper and poured a large amount of water into it.
After working so hard until this point, he was finally able to sit down and rest for a while.
There is a reason why Han Youli works so hard at things.
The most important thing is of course to verify the ideas in my heart as soon as possible and strive to bring the iron smelting technology in the tribe to a higher level as soon as possible.
Can make better iron and iron utensils faster.
Secondly, I am grateful and touched by the arrangements made by my second senior brother.
After knowing his thoughts, the second senior brother, who is now the largest person in charge of Tieshan Residential Area, not only did not laugh at or reprimand himself, but directly gave himself a holiday so that he did not have to do what he was doing before.
Can safely verify the thoughts in my mind.
Such arrangements and treatment made Han Youli particularly excited.
This is the excitement of being trusted and recognized by others.
So he has been holding back his energy.
That is to verify your idea as quickly as possible!
No matter whether the subsequent results are good or bad.
After verifying it, you can continue to do your previous work with as little delay as possible.
With this thought in his mind, Han Youli sat here and rested for a while. After seeing that the fire in the simple stove was not very strong, he stood up again and added firewood to it.
After adding the firewood, he did not continue to rest. Instead, he picked up the copper shovel beside him and started digging. After digging for a while, he took the clay pot to a distance and brought back two cans of water, which he poured on the shovel.
The dirt started to mix with the mud.
After he mixed the clay, the firewood in the clay stove was almost burning.
Han Youli felt it and felt that the inside of the clay stove was already relatively hard and that it was sufficient for use, so he stopped adding more firewood to it.
After standing here and waiting for a while, when the fire was completely extinguished, Han Youli used a shovel to shovel out the charcoal and other things from the stove and put it aside.
Then he started to use his hands to lift the coal blocks that he had previously pushed with a wheelbarrow and place them inside one by one.
After placing it full, Han Youli dug up the reconciled mud and sealed the top of the stove.
Only a hole about the size of the mouth of a bowl was left at the very top.
After doing these things, he took a deep breath, lit some branches with the charcoal that had just been shoveled out, and that had not been completely extinguished, and then sent these branches and charcoal through the gap at the top.
Go inside the sealed clay oven.
Compared with firewood, coal itself is difficult to ignite, let alone be ignited under such circumstances.
Han Youli went back and forth here for nearly half an hour before finally lighting it up.
After lighting it, Han Youli paused here for a while, then turned and returned to the tribe's kitchen.
First, wash your hands, feet, and face well with water, then go to the pottery jar placed under the shade of a tree, lift the lid on it, and scoop up a ladle of water that has been cooled and boiled with lotus leaves.
After taking a sip, he put a gourd of water into the water hyacinth he brought with him. After closing the lid of the gourd, he left here and returned to where the stove was.
There is smoke rising from the top of the stove, and sometimes the color of the smoke is a little yellow.
Along with it, there are some rather unpleasant smells.
Han Youli came here, put the gourd in his hand aside, and then began to observe the burning condition of the coal in the stove.
After seeing the flame from the hole at the top, lie down on the ground and check the holes left around the bottom of the stove against the ground to see if there are flames burning in these holes.
Before the flames burned to these places, Han Youli sat down against the tree and waited quietly.
This is what he thought of.
The method used is also the simplest method of burning charcoal among the tribe.
His idea and source of inspiration are very simple - ordinary wood is used to smelt iron, copper and other things. The temperature is not enough, but after being made into charcoal through some means, it can be done before.
Something that cannot be done.
Coal itself is very easy to use. Before experiencing these things, its performance was even better than that of charcoal. If I also use this method and treat coal once, will coal be like wood?
In that way, it becomes more useful?
Now that coal has become easier to use, will it be much faster when used to smelt iron?
Han Youli sat here thinking about these things. The more he thought about it, the more excited he became. He couldn't wait to know the outcome of this matter.
Want to verify whether this thing is really what he thought!
After a while, Han Youli stood up from the ground again, came to the stove, and lay down on the ground to inspect it.
The flame still didn't burn down.
Although he felt extremely anxious, he still had to be patient and wait here.
"Do you think he can come up with something good?"
"Who knows, he did it many times before..."
"How is this possible? He is not the Son of God or one of the smart people in the tribe. He is just a person like us. He doesn't have the brain at all..."
"Using charcoal to burn coal, is this the good way he came up with? This guy is crazy for wanting to be famous. Coal is coal, not wood..."
At a certain distance from Han Youli, there were people who couldn't help but speak, whisper, and point at Han Youli who was busy.
His words were full of disapproval of Han Youli's behavior that was different from theirs and others, and there was a hint of ridicule in it.
In their understanding, people should have their duties, and people like them should do the same or similar things as them, and should not do things that are unrealistic or simply not the same as them.
Something different for everyone.
There is no shortage of such people and such mentality in any era.
Han Youli didn't know these things, but he had felt some of them these days.
This made him unable to help but flinch sometimes, but his love for some things still made him ignore these people and continue to work hard towards what he wanted to do.
When the sun was setting in the west, while Han Youli was waiting expectantly, the fire finally spread from above.
He lay on the ground and watched carefully. When he found a hole that turned red and could see the fire inside, he would use a large ball of mud to seal the hole, making it a tight seal.
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This matter lasted for about half an hour before he sealed the holes one by one.
After plugging up the top hole of the stove, Han Youli sat here looking at the stove in front of him, or what could be called a kiln, and was lost in thought, feeling excited and uneasy in his heart.
Full of reverence, but also uneasy.
But it must succeed!
He secretly clenched his fists and thought in his heart.
If he didn't succeed, he would have failed his second senior brother.
Moreover, those people who often work with me should laugh at and talk about themselves again...
Time passed little by little, and the night gradually fell.
Due to the special nature of work here in Tieshan Residential Area, there are still people working under the light of lights in many places at night.
But the people working at this time are no longer those who work during the day.
These people have been replaced by this time.
Many people came to Han Youli's place.
In addition to the second senior brother, there were also people who worked with him that Han Youli didn't want to see.
Because these people always like to give him some advice and ridicule about the things they like to do when they are fine.
However, because this time there was Second Senior Brother, the manager of Tieshan Residential Area, here, these people did not say anything unpleasant this time.
But there were too many of them, and some of the expressions they showed inadvertently still made Han Youli feel uncomfortable and uncomfortable in his heart.
"You can open it and take a look."
After a while, Han Youli gritted his teeth secretly, pushed aside all the distracting thoughts in his heart, and said this.
Whether you succeed or not, you always have to see the result. Even if you can't see it today, you still have to see it tomorrow.
No matter whether these people say something unpleasant or laugh at themselves, they still laugh at themselves.
"Then open it and take a look."
The second senior brother next to him also said with a smile.
Seeing this, all the hesitation in Han Youli's heart disappeared.
He secretly took a long breath, stepped to the side of the sealed furnace, used a copper shovel to knock open the upper layer of the kiln and pushed it aside.
With the sound of things falling to the ground, the entire small kiln also opened.
The second senior brother brought the torch in his hand to the edge of the cracked kiln to see what was going on inside.
I saw that the kiln that was originally full of things had disappeared a lot, and only about three-quarters of it was left.
The color didn't change much, it was still pitch black.
There is some floating dust in some places.
Just seeing this scene, Han Youli couldn't help but let out a sigh of relief.
What he was most afraid of seeing was that after opening the kiln, he would see that the coal that had been put in before would be burned, leaving only some burned cinders.
He stretched out his hand to test and found that the coals treated by charcoal burning were not very hot, so he picked up a piece with his hands and picked it up.
As soon as he bought it, Han Youli felt the difference between this piece of coal and ordinary coal.
This piece of coal is significantly lighter than the previous ones.
If you look closely at it, you will find that there are many small holes on the coal.
Han Youli looked at the thing in front of him, and for a moment he didn't know if he had made it yet.
After all, he had never done this before, and no one in the tribe had ever done this.
The second senior brother also held a piece of burned coal with his fingers and looked at it.
"Tomorrow, let's use this coal to smelt a furnace of iron and see what the effect is."
