Chapter 563 The years are quiet, and the weight is moving forward (supplementary)
After going back, be sure to smoke the inside and outside of the cave in the tribe!
The frightened Han Cheng made this decision.
That night, the people of the Qingque tribe did not rest in the cave of the Tengshe tribe. Instead, they rested in the open air in a leeward place more than a hundred meters away from the cave entrance because the flames in the cave had not been completely extinguished.
In fact, there was no need to sleep outside in the beginning, mainly because Han Cheng was obsessed with copper mines. After arriving here, he was thinking about finding copper mines quickly. The fumigation of the cave was not done until it was almost dark and he was about to live inside.
Think of it.
Fortunately, it's summer now, so as long as it doesn't rain, there's no big problem in spending the night outside.
A few bonfires were lit, and two people were left to watch the night. The rest slept on the spread skins, covered them with some skins, and soon fell into a dream.
Fujiang and other doglegs and deer uncles were resting around. With Fujiang and these highly alert guys around, camping out at night would be much more at ease.
The next day, after breakfast, a few people watched the deer grazing near Tongshan. Han Cheng and the others came to Tongshan and continued fighting against the mine they found yesterday.
As copper mine pits become larger and deeper, the mining speed of copper mines gradually decreases.
But there are also new surprises.
This is not a big surprise. As we continue to dig deeper, some yellow copper ore begins to appear under the malachite.
Han Cheng felt a little melancholy, and the thing he was melancholy about was copper ore.
Not the mining of copper ore, but its transportation.
In this era, the best mode of transportation was by boat and waterway.
Not only is the volume of transportation large, but it is also light on people and has a low risk factor.
However, Han Cheng could only imagine transporting copper ore by ship, because there was no waterway leading from here to the Qingque tribe.
There are actually two streams here, but after they merge together three or four miles away, they go all the way north.
Han Cheng led the people and walked another seven or eight miles from the confluence of the two creeks, before the creek finally turned into a winding river.
The river water is far less abundant than the small river in front of the Qingque Tribe. A small bamboo raft can barely walk on it. If it is a deeper draft, especially after loading the copper ore, it will be difficult to walk on it.
No more.
This is not the most important thing. The most important thing is that the river flows northward in a meandering way. Han Cheng led people along the river for more than 20 miles, but did not find that it had a tendency to flow eastward.
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Considering the width of the river in front of my tribe and the annual water volume, it is obvious that the river near the Tengshe tribe is not upstream.
Han Cheng, who had been searching for the whole day, had no choice but to give up water transportation and switch to land transportation.
Land transportation is undoubtedly very labor-intensive and very difficult to handle even if there are deer in the tribe.
However, there is no good way, and the only option is to use land transportation that consumes manpower and material resources.
After the loose ore on the surface is excavated, it becomes more and more difficult to dig below, and the speed becomes slower and slower.
But everything is afraid of the word "persistence". Even so, on the eighth day, there was a lot of ore accumulated on Tongshan.
Han Cheng estimated the weight, calculated the time, and then asked everyone to stop mining and began to move the ore to the edge of the mountain and roll it down.
After they were all rolled down, they were put into the leather bags they had brought.
Each pocket does not contain too much, about forty pounds.
After filling it, tie the two bag mouths together, then put it on the deer's back and let the deer carry it.
People were not idle either. They used poles made from tree sticks taken from the local area to carry two bags per person.
But it's lighter than the ones carried by deer, with one bag only weighing about thirty kilograms.
However, you should not travel far with a light load. Things that weigh 50 to 60 kilograms may not seem very heavy at the moment, but just thinking about carrying them for several days makes you feel uncomfortable immediately.
However, with almost everyone taking action, the effect is still very obvious.
In addition to the weapons, food, cooking utensils, some fodder for deer, rain gear, bedding and other things they carried, the ore they brought back during this trip was about three thousand kilograms.
Three thousand kilograms of copper ore should be able to produce a lot of copper.
However, it is regrettable that Han Cheng did not find tin ore or lead ore near Tongshan in the past few days.
It seems that we can only train the copper first, and then consider tin or lead ore.
He had to eat one bite at a time, and many things could not be solved in a hurry. Therefore, although Han Cheng was a little regretful that he had not found the other two mines for the time being, it did not affect his mood too much.
Traveling long distances has never been an easy task, even with empty hands, let alone with a heavy load.
On the way back, the speed was much slower than when we came. In addition, it was summer and the weather was hot. Carrying things all the way made us sweat, which made everyone even more tired.
After a day's journey, Han Cheng immediately changed his schedule, starting early, staying in the shade when it was hot at noon, and waiting until the weather cooled down before moving forward.
As a result, the journey goes even slower.
The sunlight leaked from the branches and leaves, and the terrifying temperature spread unbridled throughout the world.
The shirtless Han Cheng sat on a piece of bluestone with his back leaning against a big tree, breathing heavily and sweating freely.
I pulled out the mouth of the water bottle I carried with me, put it into my mouth and took a sip of cold water with salt, and then I felt that I had saved my life. I turned around and looked around, and there were all a group of disheveled people in poor condition.
Similar to Han Cheng.
If Han Cheng hadn't issued a strict order not to allow people to strip naked in public as linen clothes gradually became more popular, I'm afraid there would have been many more 'free' people by now.
Looking at the bags of ore, and then at the sweaty people and deer, Han Cheng, who was too tired to move, couldn't help sniffing.
There are many bronzes in the tribe. Whether it is farming or fighting, they can be much higher than other tribes. It makes people feel excited when thinking about such a scene. When working hard for such a scene, it will be very painful.
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There don't seem to be many things in this world that you can easily succeed at, especially what you want to do most.
Even if you pay a lot for it, it may not be possible, let alone trying to be lazy and slippery.
"Let's go!"
The sun gradually set in the west. After eating and drinking, Han Cheng stood up holding the tree and shouted to everyone.
Everyone took action one after another, placing supplies on the deer, and began to carry the burden themselves.
After Han Cheng shouted these words, he gritted his teeth secretly, squatted down, and used his somewhat red and swollen shoulders to pick up his burden.
Although he thought about throwing away the ores more than once when picking them, he still did not throw them away. Instead, he picked them all the way down and continued to the tribe...
