Chapter 3 Ironmaking (Fresh Authors)(1/2)
The next day, Lu Zhou got up early as usual.
First, I came to the newly built cow pen.
[Ding, successful sign-in, congratulations to the host for obtaining 32 adult bulls!]
"It's so dangerous, the adult cattle finally rewarded..."
Lu Zhou was very satisfied with today's sign-in reward.
"According to the sign-in rules, similar items will also change the details according to the occasion. For example, it is a calf in the calf pen, but signing in to the new calf pen is a big cattle, but fortunately, the number has maintained growth..."
Lu Zhou naturally likes to want adult cattle, which can be used directly as survival supplies, and also avoids a lot of artificial and forage in captivity.
This food crisis has been temporarily alleviated!
"Master, are there so many cows?"
Ula got up early today. When she was sleepy, she saw the extra cows in the new cow pen from afar. She was so excited that her eyes were straightened and she jogged all the way.
"Well, let's arrange someone to take care of you today and don't let the cows freeze."
"I know, Ula understands!"
When Ula walked to the cow pen, she happily pulled a cow, and could no longer hold back, and asked happily:
"Master, where did you get these cows?
The appearance is really good!
These cattle are raised until next year, and a bunch of calves are born. Then until next year, and a bunch of calves are born.
After three years, our village will not have to go hungry!"
Ula couldn't help but dance.
Very happy.
"Look at your promising prospect!"
Lu Zhou sneered and made up a reason casually: "These are all rewarded by the Grassland God to this young master."
"oh!"
But Ula believed it without any doubt, nodded without any doubt, and squatted down and pushed a ball of cow dung away, and smelled it: "It is worthy of being the turtle god. This cow cake smells very healthy! In my opinion, it is not a problem to fatten to 600 pounds!"
Lu Zhou curled his lips.
Six hundred pounds are nothing.
In ancient times, there was no scientific selection of cattle breeds. The biggest thing was to raise them to 600 kilograms, and there was still enough forage.
However, the excellent cattle breeds rewarded by this system are estimated to be almost 600 kilograms now, and fattening will be at least 1,000 kilograms next year.
"Well, with these cows, Zhuangzi is still not short of food yet!"
"Old Wu, take me to the pit I dug yesterday to see!"
Lu Zhou turned around and walked towards the other side.
Since I learned yesterday that the situation was serious, Lu Zhou gave up the sleep that would last the whole day. He planned to spend some time every day to see the construction situation in this village.
At this time, a servant was touching a straw.
Lu Zhou took a look more with great interest.
The servant was an extremely thin boy, and in his previous life he should have been waving the keyboard.
But now he is carrying a large bundle of grass on his back, which is very inconsistent with his body, and he walks shakyly.
This servant probably has not been a slave for a long time and his toes have not been frozen yet.
After seeing that it was Lu Zhou, the thin boy quickly put the grass up, then knelt down with a "thump", and crawled on the ground.
Lu Zhou frowned slightly. Seeing this, Ula hurriedly went up and kicked:
"Get up! Get up quickly, the master doesn't like people kneeling!"
But the thin boy didn't move at all, but he just shrank his head tightly into the land.
Ula kicked him hard again.
The thin boy buried his head tighter and curled up.
He began to tremble, endured the pain, and said nothing!
Is it stubbornness or fear?
Lu Zhou was not in a state of confusion, sighed, let Ula stop, took out a piece of leftover meat from her pocket and threw it on the ground. Ula saw it, felt distressed, but she didn't dare to stop it.
Until Lu Zhou and the others walked away, the boy tried his best to grab the meat dump and stuffed it into his mouth frantically.
"What kind of world is this..."
Lu Zhou shook his head secretly.
If a person has not experienced any mental and physical torture, he will never become like this.
Not only this young man, but also the other servants of the entire village, were like walking corpses.
Except for a few people who can say a few words.
Among these people who can say a few words, Ula has an IQ that stands out in the crowd.
Lu Zhou sighed.
Some things need to be changed step by step.
Continue to walk to the other side.
The most urgent task is to make the stove and make iron tools as soon as possible.
......
On the other end of the village.
Lu Zhou finally saw the shallow pit of the furnace, but it was about one meter in diameter. I don’t know how long it took to dig last night, but Lu Zhou couldn’t stand the cold wind at that time, so he didn’t look for it for long, so he went back to the tent to rest first.
Now it seems that the work efficiency in this wilderness is really low. In most of the night, a shallow pit with a diameter of about one meter was dug out.
And not long after the morning, the servants were gathered here again.
Lu Zhou looked at the skinny and shaky appearances, without hesitation, and said to Ula beside him: "Hurry, go and cook a pot of broth!"
"Ah! Again, double boil..."
Ula went reluctantly.
......
After drinking the broth, a group of people soon became more energetic.
Everyone spread out the clay, and then ingested the gravel and sand as Lu Zhou told him to mix it with water and stomp it.
Then add water and then step on it. Finally, cut the cured clay into pieces and surround the pit for a week.
It was like building bricks, just like building them up in circles.
Every process here can be changed to a bowl of broth. After this wave of people finish these work, each of them can change to three bowls of thick broth!
So much so that the people around them looked green, and they could only eat some wild vegetable leaves and bone soup with minced meat. How could they have such thick big meat?
Lu Zhou did not favor one or the other, and tried to find various reasons, including those who moved the soil, fetched water, and even those who could do their jobs today could drink a bowl of thick broth.
Soon, everyone in the farm could drink at least one bowl. Some people had a lot of mind after drinking a few bowls of meat.
Ula was watching from the side with a heartache.
At this moment, Lu Zhou suddenly remembered something and asked Ula: "Lao Wu, why don't our Zhuangzi have horses, and why don't there be sheep?"
I haven't seen it before, and I thought there were no such animals in this world, but since it was the Ming Dynasty, there should be cattle, horses and sheep!
When Ula heard this question, she suddenly said with tears in her nose: "In late autumn and early winter, both the horse and the lamb were frozen to death, and she could only save the cow..."
"Frozen to death?"
"Well, they all froze to death. There was a sudden strange snow, so there was no time to prepare."
"Strange snow?"
Lu Zhou opened his mouth and suddenly remembered that during this period of history, the global temperature became colder and natural disasters continued, especially in the late Ming Dynasty!
During this period, even the Ming Dynasty, which was far south and rich in water and soil, suffered constant disasters, and the people were living in poverty, let alone this distant Siberia.
If I don’t travel through time, this Zhuangzi would probably not be able to survive this winter.
Lu Zhou suddenly felt that the burden on him was heavier.
......
The furnace continues to rise.
However, all the work was done with original bone and wooden tools. After the clay was built, it was already evening and it was probably the same as a vertical furnace.
The principle of the simple iron smelting furnace is very simple, and Lu Zhou commanded the whole process to complete it.
To be continued...