A lot of bronze hoe heads are cast, because until now, hoe heads and shovels are still the main tools used by the Qingque tribe to clear up wasteland.
Now that bronze is available, when casting farm tools, it is natural to cast a batch of bronze hoe heads first.
As for the bronze plowshare, a suitable mold has not yet been made, so we can only wait in the future.
First, a batch of bronze hoe heads and bronze shovels were cast to deal with the spring plowing in the coming year. The bronze plowshares and wall plowing matters were first let Heiwa slowly study.
Compared with bronze spears, arrowheads, hoe heads, axes, and knives, the difficulty of molding a '>'-shaped plowshare with a hollow interior for loading wood is much higher.
The method of simply making a model out of clay and then printing it on the reconciled clay is no longer effective. The model needs to be modified and upgraded.
For more than a month, Hei Wa stopped playing happily with Zhuang because of this matter. He was thinking about how to make the plowshare mold every day.
Han Cheng actually knows a general idea, which is what is often called a 'model'.
This kind of hollow appliance can no longer be made with just a mold. In addition to the mold, a 'model' needs to be made.
For example, if you make a round bronze jar and use only one mold, you can only cast a jar-shaped copper ingot.
If you want to pour a jar, you need to put another mold inside the mold. This mold is called a 'fan'.
Because with the "model", something with the same shape as previously expected can be cast. Later, the word "model" extended the meaning of other aspects.
For example, ‘The 359th Brigade was a model during the land reclamation in Nanniwan.’
The reason why Heiwa was so depressed that he lost his hair and even stopped doing his favorite sports with Zhuang was because Han Cheng did not tell Heiwa about the 'model'.
At the beginning, Han Cheng wanted to see how long it would take Heiwa to solve this problem. After waiting for a while, when he wanted to speak, he found that Heiwa had already gained some insights.
So the matter was dropped.
According to archaeological data, the use of bronze as agricultural tools was not common in ancient times.
Because the unearthed bronzes were mostly ritual vessels, weapons, various food-related plates, bronze wine bottles, etc., there were very few agricultural tools among the funerary objects.
However, Han Cheng felt that in ancient times, the number of bronze farming tools should not have been too small.
After all, when bronzes appeared and were used in large numbers, farming had become the mainstream. As a country that has always focused on farming, it was impossible to ignore such a good material as bronze.
In Han Cheng's opinion, the reason why there are few bronze farm tools among the cultural relics unearthed in later generations is simply the following reasons.
First, those who use bronze farm tools to do farm work are all lower-class savages or slaves. As they don’t have much property, they are naturally reluctant to bury such useful and precious bronze farm tools when they die.
, most will choose to pass it on to their children and grandchildren.
The second is that those who can be buried with many objects after death are basically nobles with high status and wealth as well as high status.
As nobles, only a series of bronze vessels such as tripods, chimes, bottles, and bottles can match their status. As for the bronze farm tools mostly used by the lower class, they will not be buried with them.
Savages or slaves were reluctant to be buried with bronze farm tools, and nobles did not bother to be buried with bronze farm tools, so not many bronze farm tools were unearthed in later generations.
Therefore, it will give people the impression that in the Bronze Age, bronze agricultural tools were not widely used.
Regardless of whether his guess was correct or not, Han Cheng would unswervingly develop and popularize bronze agricultural tools among his tribe.
He would not let go of such a useful tool for farming.
As for bronze ritual instruments such as tripods, bells, and chimes, time will depend on the development level of the tribe and its needs.
Anyway, now, it is not within his consideration range.
Lame, the carpenter, was not idle either. At this time, he and a few people who followed him to help him were removing the handles from the stone hoe and putting them on the bronze hoe.
For a craftsman like Ling, this is not a difficult thing to do.
You only need to put the thicker end of the wooden handle into the hole of the bronze hoe first, and stick it to the arc on the upper part of the hole.
Then get a small piece of wood with a groove in the middle and a flat side, and place it on the edge below the hole.
The flat side faces up, the grooved side faces down, and the groove in the middle just fits on the edge of the hole.
Then get a thicker and longer piece of wood, thin at the front and thick at the back, stuff it between the two, get an ax and hammer it in a few times, and the wooden handle will be firmly connected to the bronze hoe.
It is best to fix the hoe handle in this way, because if you don't do this, it will be extremely difficult to find a wooden handle with the same thickness as the hole, and it will not be easy to fix it firmly.
Of course, when doing this, you need to pay attention to the angle between the wooden handle and the hoe head, which should not be too large or too small.
More than half of the people who smelt copper and cast bronze ware are slaves. It makes no sense that at this time, the citizens of the Qingque tribe are casting bronze in the wind and snow, while the slaves are warming themselves by the fire in their rooms.
In fact, the slaves in the room were not idle very much. Some of them were using spinning tops to spin hemp rope into thin threads, while others were using simple looms to weave cloth.
The slaves weaved were not in the slave yard, but in the machine room in the Qingque tribe's compound.
This is to prevent slaves from having too many supplies in their courtyards, and it is also a way to reduce slaves from destroying the means of production.
Although so far, no slaves have destroyed production tools in the Qingque tribe, but we still need to pay attention.
The machine room used by the slaves was built separately. In order to distinguish it from the machine room used by the citizens of the Qingque tribe, it had mud walls and a thatched roof.
The loom is the same. This thing cannot be made in a second-rate way. After all, the best cloth of the Qingque tribe so far is far behind the woven cloth of later generations.
After kissing his cub twice on the chubby face, Han Cheng walked around inside and outside the tribe and made a decision.
After thinking about it in his mind for a while, he went to find the witch who was sitting on the kang, carrying a female rabbit by the ears, feeding it like a rat cub, the little rabbit had not yet opened its eyes to suck milk, and went to talk about this matter.
This matter is that he is going to let Long Legs, who has just been promoted from a slave to a first-class citizen of the Qingque Tribe, to manage the slave courtyard.
