The mountains in the distance are withered and yellow, dotted with white spots, which are unmelted snow and look like the hair of a witch.
At the quarry, the wind roared, pouring bursts of wind into the boiler through the clay pot, blowing the charcoal fire, making it burn more vigorously.
Red fire, white gas, and busy people are surging in this early spring when the ice and snow have not completely melted, making this season that has not yet completely warmed up become full of life in advance.
"Turn on the stove!"
The second brother, who had been transformed from a blacksmith to a coppersmith, shouted, and the idle workers nearby moved to one side, leaving a clear space to avoid being accidentally injured by the high-temperature copper water.
Seeing everyone move away, the second senior brother who had successfully lost weight used a special pottery spoon to scoop up the sticky copper juice and put it on top of the clay mold, leaving only a small hole. After tilting it, he
Pour the copper juice inside along the hole.
The strong second senior brother had a steady hand and poured a spoonful of copper juice down the hole with few spills. It was much better than Han Cheng did at the beginning.
Hei Wa's eyes widened, and his hands unconsciously clenched the animal skins he was wearing.
Spoonfuls of copper juice are poured in. Thirteen of the fourteen plowshare models placed here have been poured with copper juice.
The reason why the remaining one is not filled is because the copper juice in the furnace is not enough to fill a clay model. If it is poured in, a clay model will be wasted.
It is not easy to make such a clay model, so naturally the less one is wasted, the less one is wasted.
However, the remaining copper juice was not allowed to cool down like this, but two small copper knives were poured out of them.
"Click~"
Compared with a single mold, this kind of model that only leaves one hole to pour bronze liquid into after being assembled is not only more troublesome to manufacture, but also basically cannot be reused.
If you want to take out the solidified bronze inside, there is no other way but to break the outer mold and the inner mold.
Although it was painful to break the mold that he had worked so hard to create, Heiwa didn't show much mercy when he started. He picked him up and threw it hard on the ground. The outer layer of the bronze plowshare that was first poured had already collapsed.
Already.
A patch of bright yellow light emerged among the flying mud flakes.
Hei Wa quickly found a small crowbar made of bronze and poked away the mud pieces that refused to leave. A plowshare that was slightly larger than an average person's palm appeared in his hand.
The plowshare is bright yellow and looks really good, and it doesn't seem to have many flaws.
"Son of God!"
After looking at it for a while, Hei Wa held the plow that he had worked out with great difficulty, ran to Han Cheng excitedly, and presented it to Han Cheng like a treasure, as cheerfully as a child.
Han Cheng took the hard-won plowshare from Heiwa with a smile on his face, held it in his hand and looked at it carefully.
Compared with the iron plowshares he saw in later generations, which were whitened by the soil, the bronze plowshare in his hand was much rougher.
Moreover, in terms of size and weight, they were not as good as those iron plowshares he saw in later generations.
The reason why the plowshare is cast so small is because bronze is relatively brittle, and if it is cast too large, it will be easily damaged when plowing the land.
On the other hand, the deer in the tribe are weak and the plowshares are too large for the deer to pull.
When Han Cheng was looking at the plowshares, the witches and other people here also came here to plow the land with deer, and they had experienced firsthand the usefulness of bronzes.
Now when these two are combined together, the effect will be exciting just thinking about it.
Everyone was eager to put this bronze plowshare on the plow, and then lead the deer to the fields to plow some time to see with their own eyes how effective this thing was.
"Haha, good!"
Although the plowshare in your hand is a little rougher and cruder than the iron plowshares of later generations, it still has everything a plowshare should have.
There is no problem in using it for farming.
After Han Cheng looked at it carefully for a while, he laughed out loud, then reached out and patted Hei Wa on the shoulder with an expectant look on his face, and praised him sincerely.
Heiwa, who was already in a good mood, became even better after receiving praise from Han Cheng. He was even more beautiful than after eating braised pork.
Then there was a crackling sound here.
This is the remaining twelve models that have been smashed.
There were thirteen plowshares in total, and a defective product appeared among them.
The reason why there was a defect was because when the second senior brother poured bronze into this model, the first spoon was not full and he added a second spoon.
Metal liquids such as copper liquid solidified very quickly. This short delay caused a fault to appear on the bronze plowshare.
Han Cheng took it in his hand, looked at it, and knocked it hard on the stone. The bronze plowshare immediately broke into two pieces.
Of course I couldn't bear to throw away the cast bronze plowshare. When the next pot of copper was smelted, I put it in the furnace and melted it with the rest before using it again.
"Puff puff puff..."
There were some people gathered around a few houses of the Qingque tribe without bed-kangs. The carpenter was lame, holding an ax in his hand and chopping at the lower end of the wooden plow.
After chopping for a while, I picked up the plowshare at hand and put it on it to see if it didn't fit properly. Then I took the plowshare off and continued to rest.
"Dangdangdang..."
After some rest, the lower end of the wooden plow finally fit better with the plowshare. Lame put the wooden plow on the ground with the lower end of the wooden plow facing up, and then put the plowshare on top.
Later, I found a wooden board and placed it on the plowshare with one hand. I took an ax with the other hand and pointed it at the board and hit it down.
The reason why a wooden board is placed is because the wooden board is relatively soft, and with it in the middle as a buffer, it can protect the bronze plowshare from being damaged by the iron axe to the greatest extent.
After a dozen axes were driven down in succession, the plowshare was tightly attached to the wood.
After lifting up the wooden plow and putting it away, Han Cheng held the plow handle behind him and felt it for a while, then nodded with satisfaction.
Of course, it is still crude, but after it is equipped with a bronze plowshare, the plow immediately looks more presentable.
As expected, people rely on clothes, horses rely on saddles, and even plows rely on metal for decoration.
After waiting for a while, we took out the bronze plow wall, stuck it on the plowshare, and after fixing it, the plow will become more presentable.
After installing a plowshare, some people can't wait to see the effect.
Without the plow wall, the soil plowed up by the plow will not move to one side, and the plowing effect is not very good. Han Cheng originally did not want to carry the plow to the ground at this time. He wanted to fix the plow wall after
, I used a complete plow to do the experiment, but when I looked up, I saw expectant eyes all around me. After thinking about it, I nodded in agreement.
In fact, deep down in his heart, he really wanted to see the effect of the bronze plow.
