Within the Qingque tribe, many people gathered not far from the bamboo clump and opened their eyes to look at the copper ingot shaped like the bottom of a clay pot.
It rained on the road, and the copper ingot was no longer as dazzling as when it was first cast.
Perhaps after waiting a little longer and being exposed to more water vapor and oxygen, these yellow metals will slowly develop a patina and turn into a color consistent with their names.
This heavy piece of copper was turned around in the hands of the people around it, and when it returned to the slate table, it became gleaming yellow again.
Following this trend, it may not be easy to achieve a patina and historical heaviness.
"Son of God, I can use a hammer to shape it into a round ball, put it in a sling, and throw it farther away."
The second senior brother, who was deliberately trained by Han Cheng to be a blacksmith, took the hammer with a wooden handle that had been polished smooth by him and began to ask Han Cheng for help.
After using the sling for a long time, he has discovered that the rounder the stone, the easier it is to hit a distant target, and it can be thrown farther than ordinary stones.
The reason why the first piece of bronze was made into a metal egg for throwing was because Junior Brother Sha, Shang, and other people in the tribe were equipped with weapons made of iron.
This makes the second senior brother very envious.
It's just that there wasn't much iron obtained through iron bacteria in the tribe before, and the iron was too hard, so it was difficult to make iron balls. In addition, each suitable iron ball cost too much iron, so it could be thrown far away with a sling.
The iron ball that goes out is easy to lose, so the second senior brother has always been envious of it.
Now that he saw this yellow bronze and tested its hardness with a hammer, the second senior brother immediately came up with the idea of using this metal to create some metal balls.
After all, such a shiny golden ball is easier to identify after being thrown out.
As the Qingque tribe continues to enrich its materials, production surplus has become more and more normal, and the social division of labor has become more and more detailed. As the gap between people's occupations continues to widen, people have developed some different thoughts.
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Gradually I understood some of the differences between what I own and what the tribe shares.
This is actually the fundamental reason why the second senior brother spoke at this time and wanted to turn the bronze ingot into a metal ball.
As the top leader of the Qingque tribe who closely watched these things, Han Cheng naturally knew about these things, but he didn't have any particular thoughts about them.
Because in the long run, this is a great progress, and it is also the direction that the tribe will inevitably go after it prospers.
"Son of God, use it to make a hoe. After you make the hoe, you can dig more ground without worrying about it breaking like a stone hoe."
"Son of God, use it to make a sickle. With a sharp sickle, I can cut more grass for the deer and sheep in the tribe..."
The tribesmen expressed their opinions on the use of these coppers, hoping that the wise Son of God would adopt their opinions.
If it were before, many people would be a little disappointed, but this time it is different.
Han Cheng smiled very peacefully at this time. He looked at the people with eager eyes and looked very at ease and generous.
"Don't worry, don't be anxious. This time we found a metal mine and brought back a lot of ores. We can get a lot of metals, make a lot of things, and fulfill everyone's wishes.
Even if the stones brought back this time are not enough, we can go there to transport stones back again, or we can directly smelt copper there..."
At this time, Han Cheng looked like a big liar with money in his hands.
Yes, this time is different from before!
When Han Cheng said this, many people couldn't help but look away from the yellow bronze, looking over the thick wall towards the direction of the quarry.
There was a stove standing there, and there were a lot of stones piled up next to it, which were brought back from afar by the Son of God and others...
There were cheers in the courtyard. After the cheerful cheers ended, some people couldn't wait to open the kiln and start refining copper and tin, and then make various utensils.
The people of the Qingque tribe, who have deeply experienced the usefulness of metal utensils, are now more enthusiastic about metal utensils than many people in this era.
However, Han Cheng was still very stable and did not comply with the wishes of these people. He immediately arranged for people to refine copper-tin alloy.
Because there is no model at this time, if you forcibly refine bronze, you will only get some jar-shaped copper ingots. Apart from being labor-intensive and time-consuming, there will be no other results.
However, you can first arrange for a few people who often refine copper to refine the tin ore and get rough tin out according to the method of refining copper.
After things were arranged, the few people immediately went to the quarry. After half a day, green smoke was rising from an unused boiler.
There are now three furnaces near the Qingque tribe's quarry.
The two extra ones were newly built by Heiwa according to Han Cheng's instructions during the period when Han Cheng led his people away from the tribe.
Of these two newly built furnaces, one is used to melt copper ingots and refine bronze.
When the time comes, I have enough time, manpower, and materials. If the three furnaces are started together, and a few more people are added to polish the bronzes, I can produce a lot of bronzes in one day.
As for the skillful Hei Wa, Han Cheng stayed with him to study and make clay models.
At the same time, there were three people who often followed Heiwa to make pottery, and two other half-grown children who were very interested in pottery making.
With the emergence and development of bronze utensils, the bronze clay molds closely related to them will become more and more important. Later on, their complexity and technical requirements will be much higher than that of pottery.
Therefore, when the casting of bronzes just started, Han Cheng consciously wanted to select people from the tribe who were talented in making clay models and train them so that they could be separated from pottery making and become a specialized system.
, to prepare for the future development of bronze ware.
For Heiwa who often plays with mud, it is not easy to make a good clay model.
Because most of the pottery he made were round.
Round bowls, round clay pots, round vats...
He has mastered these things very skillfully. As long as someone turns the stone plate, he can easily make extremely exquisite clay embryos.
But the clay molds are different. They are not round. Instead, they have to be made of different shapes of holes with mixed clay according to the different utensils.
Heiwa had done this once before, when he was making a hammer out of rough copper.
He was so embarrassed that he broke into a sweat, and he finally managed to make a more decent clay model and a more suitable copper hammer...
(I overestimated my coding speed, so I’ll make up for it tomorrow. I’ll definitely make it up tomorrow)
