Chapter 582 The Dawn of Bronze (make up for last night)
Tongshan looks unique when it clears up after the rain.
Many snowflake-sized patinas become clearer and cover the rocks, making them look extremely magnificent.
Nearly thirty people from the Qingque tribe are distributed in and around Tongshan. Carrying wooden sticks or eight-edged hammers made of thick copper in their hands, they divide the grass from time to time, or hit some rocks.
Two hammers.
The people of the Qingque tribe have been here for six days. Because they brought hammers made of thick copper this time, they can mine copper ore much faster, at least faster than the first time they mined it later.
As expected, it is still 'original soup and raw food'. Sometimes it is very necessary to boil beans and burn bean sprouts.
After several months of smelting, the copper ore brought back has been used for 7788 times. Although the technique is a bit rough, a lot of blister copper has been obtained.
Han Cheng's biggest purpose in coming to Tongshan this time was to find tin mines, but obtaining copper ores was also essential.
So after arriving here, he first concentrated his efforts on mining enough copper ore for this transportation, and then Han Cheng asked people to go all out to search for tin ore nearby.
The long-legged man was holding a tree stick in his hand, and was constantly fiddling with the grass, lifting up the dead branches and leaves covering the ground to see if there were any unusual stones here.
After rummaging around for a while, I looked up at the people around me who were doing the same thing. My already good mood became even better.
Among the people who came this time, he was the only one who was a slave, and the rest were citizens of the tribe.
At this time, the citizens in the tribe were doing the same thing as him.
This made Longlegs feel that he was so close to the citizens of the tribe.
It's not just because of this that he feels this way.
Many things that happened on the way here were conveying this news to him.
For example, according to the rules of the tribe, he can only eat food twice a day, but this time it was different.
When sharing food at noon, the respected Son of God would also ask someone to give some to him. Although it was not much and the quality was not as good as others, he was still extremely moved.
When sleeping at night, although he still slept in the farthest place from the fire, it was not as far away as before, and he could sleep close to other people in the tribe...
Long Legs once again took out the lucky charm hidden under his clothes and held it in his hand, full of piety.
This lucky charm was made after the Qingque tribe discovered a large amount of malachite, and then he found a more beautiful piece of malachite.
Long Legs is now more religious about the lucky charm, because he feels that the reason why he is luckier than the other slaves is because of the lucky charm.
After doing this for a while, he carefully put the lucky charm inside his clothes and pressed it against his flesh, and then continued to search here with a stick.
"Wow..."
The stick passed through, and the not-too-dense grass was pushed aside, and some dazzling lights appeared in front of the long legs.
This sudden change frightened him so much that he immediately took a few steps back with his stick in hand, looking there with alertness and fear.
After a while, no unusual changes were seen, and then he tentatively took a few steps forward and stretched out his stick to pluck the grass.
The grass was pushed aside, and the stars and dazzling lights that I saw just now did not appear.
Long Legs blinked in confusion, not understanding what was going on.
He stood there for a while, then took two steps forward again, and the dots of white light appeared again.
"Here! Here!"
He shouted loudly.
Long Legs didn't know what it was, let alone whether it was the kind of stone the Son of God needed to find.
But this glowing thing looks very unusual.
The people around him were alerted by his shouts and gathered around him one after another.
Han Cheng, who was still wandering about halfway up Tongshan Mountain, also heard the sound. He was so happy that he quickly came down from the mountain and headed towards where Long Legs was.
When Han Cheng arrived, a lot of people had gathered here, pointing at the patch of grass that had been pushed aside with a stick, and chatting from time to time, looking very curious.
Han Cheng also saw the dots of light exposed under the sunlight, and his face suddenly showed joy.
He took two quick steps and came closer, and found that the glowing thing was a small piece of rock.
The rocks are a little yellowish, and there are some silver spots of different sizes distributed in the yellowish rocks.
The rock is only the size of a bowl, and the surrounding area is filled with soil and growing weeds.
Is this a silver mine?
This was the first thought that appeared in Han Cheng's mind.
He squatted there and watched for a while, then reached out and grabbed the weeds on the edge of the rock and pulled them up hard. The dense roots brought up a piece of soil, revealing more rocks stained with soil below.
But it must not be a silver mine. At this time, silver is really not as valuable as tin to the Qingque tribe.
However, silver and tin are quite similar in color. Han Cheng, who was not very familiar with both of the rocks that appeared now, couldn't tell whether they were silver or tin.
Han Cheng looked at these rocks containing some metal substances and fell into deep thought, while other people in the tribe looked at the Son of God nervously.
More than half a year has passed since I learned about the metal ore from Shenzi.
During this period of time, the people of the tribe, under the leadership of the Son of God, also made some achievements in this regard, but there was always something missing, and they did not create a metal that was as useful as iron.
Now I come to search again to get a good result.
With everyone looking expectantly, Han Cheng pointed to the exposed rock and said, "Knock some of it off and let us see if it is tin ore."
After saying that, he stood aside. Immediately, an impatient guy came over with a hammer made of thick copper and smashed it with a bang.
The outcrop of the rafter rain hit this sentence first, which was once again an excellent confirmation. The rock that did not stay patiently and had nothing to do but emitted some brilliance was soon smashed beyond recognition.
The perpetrator packed the knocked down rocks in a leather-lined basket and walked to the other side of Tongshan with full of expectations.
Here, there is a not too high shaft furnace, which was built after Han Cheng came here.
It is not to smelt copper ore here, but to identify something suspected to be tin ore.
Among metals, the melting point of tin is not very high, and it is much lower than that of silver.
Han Cheng, who didn't know how to distinguish various types of ores, could only use this method to distinguish silver ore and tin ore.
Yesterday's rain made the inside and outside of the stove a little wet. Such a stove is obviously not suitable for melting metal.
Han Chenggong asked people to light up the fire and bake the stove.
And he used a hammer to smash the ores into finer pieces, and at the same time, he picked out the more obvious metal colors and cleared away the waste that looked like miscellaneous rocks.
This thing is done only by hand, the efficiency is really slow, and it is not very standard.
If it can really be confirmed that these are tin ores, then we will have to think of more ways to speed up the ore processing in future production.
After drying in the furnace, these ores, which are not too much, are basically roughly separated.
Han Cheng took advantage of the fact that the carbon in the furnace was still alive and added another layer of carbon into it.
Spread a layer of rocks that look like tin ore on top of the charcoal, then spread a layer of carbon on top of the rocks, and then continue to spread the tin ore.
Just put one layer of tin ore and one layer of carbon on it, making it look like a sandwich biscuit.
After laying three layers of smashed tin ore, Han Cheng stopped.
The wind gulu began to whir, continuously sending oxygen into this simple stove, accelerating the burning of charcoal and raising the temperature inside.
Han Cheng and other people in the tribe were waiting nervously, looking forward to the results.
After all, this is the closest we have come to finding tin ore since the ore search.
Once you have tin and master the proportions, you can get bronze of good quality.
