In the smelting workshop, Jiang Xuan poured a jar of liquid bronze into a large and long pottery model. He did not fill it up, but stopped when it reached a certain level and placed the jar on the ground.
The clay pot for smelting liquid bronze has been improved several times and its appearance has become very strange.
It looks like a large jade purification bottle.
The upper part of the bottle is divided into two parts, with the larger half bent upward to make a very tall handle, and a small piece bent downward to make a leaf-shaped spout.
In this way, after the bronze liquid is smelted, you only need to wrap the upper handle with animal skin, lift the entire pot, and then pour the bronze liquid into the pottery mold through the blade-shaped spout.
After Jiang Xuan poured the first jar, he waited for a while until the bronze liquid in the Tao Fan gradually solidified, but before it completely solidified, a soldier took out a jar of bronze liquid from another smelting furnace and handed it to Jiang Xuan. Jiang Xuan continued to pour it into the very long pottery fan until it was full.
"Okay, let's wait and see whether two different proportions of bronze can make what I want."
Jiang Xuan and the two warriors waited patiently for the bronze in Tao Fan to slowly solidify and cool down.
When it was almost cool, Jiang Xuan picked up a hammer and smashed Tao Fan piece by piece.
"Pa bang bang..."
Tao Fan continued to break into pieces, and a golden bronze war spear gradually revealed its true face!
"Dang!"
Jiang Xuan used a bronze hammer to hit the war spear, making a crisp metal collision sound.
"Not bad!"
Jiang Xuan picked up the bronze war spear and waved it casually twice. It felt that it was easier to use than the stone spear or the bone spear.
"Congratulations, chief!"
"Chief, this spear is so beautiful."
The two warriors congratulated Jiang Xuan one after another, because this weapon was tailor-made for him by Jiang Xuan.
In order to cast this bronze war spear, Jiang Xuan tried two different ratios of copper and tin, which was the first time for the Teng tribe.
The spear head part, in order to ensure its sharpness, uses four parts copper and one part tin. In order to ensure sufficient toughness and a certain hardness, the spear shaft part uses three parts copper and one part tin.
Because of this, after he poured the spear head, he needed to wait for a moment to allow the bronze liquid in the spear head to solidify, but it could not solidify completely, otherwise it would be disconnected from the spear shaft.
Jiang Xuan waved it a few times, and then carefully observed the connection between the spear head and the spear shaft. He saw that the spear head and spear shaft were integrated and integrated very well.
"Yes, it will be better if we go back and sharpen the spearhead."
Jiang Xuan wrapped the bronze war spear with a piece of animal skin, and then patted the two warriors on the shoulders.
"Thank you for your hard work. If it hadn't been for your help, this bronze war spear wouldn't have been so easy to cast."
The two soldiers hurriedly said: "Chief, this is what we should do."
"I'll go back first, and I'll treat you to something good the next time I come over."
"Thank you, chief."
Jiang Xuan left the smelting workshop with the bronze war spear wrapped in animal skin, crossed the river by boat, and returned to his yard.
After returning, he couldn't wait to polish the tail of the bronze war spear smooth, because this place was the entrance when pouring, and some burrs would be left after pouring.
Then, he found two more whetstones, first sharpened the edge of the spearhead with the rough whetstone, and then sharpened it again with the fine whetstone.
This bronze war spear is made of pottery molded by the lost wax method. The blade of the spearhead is actually very thin. After sharpening it twice, it is even more sharp.
Jiang Xuan also polished the spear shaft carefully to make it smoother.
"Give it a try."
With excitement, he held the bladed bronze war spear in his hand and walked to a large log leaning against the wall next to the house.
"Zheng!"
Jiang Xuan shook suddenly, and the bronze war spear made a crisp metallic trembling sound.
Then, he stabbed the big log hard.
"Dah!"
With the help of Jiang Xuan's huge strength and extremely fast speed, the spearhead of the bronze war spear penetrated deeply into the big wood.
Then, he supported the wood with his feet and pulled out the bronze war spear. The blade of the spearhead was intact.
"What a weapon!"
Jiang Xuan was like a child getting a new toy, he couldn't help but be happy.
"Click!"
He wielded his bronze war spear and cut off the branches of a small tree in the yard, causing the leaves to fall to the ground.
In the bamboo shed, Tang Yuan raised his head and glanced at Jiang Xuan. He was not interested in the shining golden spear and continued to eat meat.
On the other side, Yue Ya slowly chewed the grass and calmly watched Jiang Xuan slash and poke everywhere with his bronze war spear, his eyes very gentle.
After playing with it for a long time, Jiang Xuan was very satisfied with the sharpness of the spearhead and the toughness of the spear shaft. He believed that this bronze war spear would shine in hunting and fighting in the future.
However, he soon became worried again.
"The bronze war spear is good, but this shining golden one is too conspicuous."
Jiang Xuan doesn't want to expose things like bronze weapons just yet, otherwise it will definitely cause endless trouble.
Therefore, although the bronze war spear was successfully cast, many people will definitely notice such a conspicuous thing once it is taken out.
This gave him a headache. Could it be that he had cast a bronze war spear, but could only hide it at home and continue to use the bone spear that he didn't like?
Jiang Xuan sat on the threshold, thought for a long time, and said, "Can you camouflage it so that it doesn't look so conspicuous?"
Jiang Xuan thought about it for a while and tried to apply some grass juice on the spear shaft.
Soon, the luster of the bronze became much duller in the areas where the grass juice was applied, but compared with the stone spears and bone spears, it was still very conspicuous.
However, this attempt gave Jiang Xuan hope. There must be a way to disguise the bronze war spear.
"Maybe my sister is more professional in this kind of thing!"
Jiang Xuan immediately stood up, wrapped the bronze war spear with animal skin, and then walked towards Chi Shao's yard.
At this time, Chi Shao was taking two girls to clean the freshly picked herbs.
When Chi Shao saw Jiang Xuan coming over, he washed the mud off the herbs and asked, "Chief, is something wrong?"
"I really have something to do with you."
After Jiang Xuan finished speaking, he glanced at the two girls.
Chi Shao is a very smart and perceptive person. She immediately said to the two girls: "I will discuss something with the leader. You can go back first."
"Yes."
The two girls put down the herbs and left the yard together.
Chi Shao also put down the herbs, washed her hands, and asked, "What do you want from me?"
Jiang Xuan glanced around, then opened the animal skin, revealing the golden bronze war spear.
Chi Shao looked at the bronze war spear that was taller than a man, and was surprised and said: "What a beautiful spear. Is this a bronze weapon?"
Jiang Xuan nodded and said: "Yes, I have tried this bronze war spear just now. It is very sharp and hard, and the blade is not easy to damage."
"However, the bronze war spear is good, but it is too dazzling. If you take it out and use it, others will be able to tell that something is wrong at a glance, which will cause a lot of trouble."
Chi Shao said: "Then what do you want to do?"
Jiang Xuan showed Chi Shao the part of the bronze war spear that had been painted with grass juice: "I just painted this area with grass juice. Do you think it's less conspicuous?"
Chi Shao nodded and said: "It's really not that conspicuous, but even if it is coated with grass juice, it will at most dim the light of this spear."
"I think so too, so I want to ask my sister if there is a kind of paint that does not fade and can completely cover up the light of the bronze war spear and make it look more ordinary."
"Let me think."
Chi Shao looked at the bronze war spear and thought about the properties of various pigments.
"There really is a kind of paint, just wait a minute."
Chi Shao walked into the house, and after a while, he took out a clay pot and opened the lid, revealing a gray-white paint.
"This kind of paint, once applied, is difficult to peel off, and after it dries, it looks almost the same color as a stone. Let me try it on a stone to show you."
Chi Shao found a dark green stone and placed it on the ground, then dipped a little paint into it with an animal hair brush and brushed it on the stone.
Then, she held the stone between wooden sticks, took it into the house, and placed it on the fire pit to bake.
In the high temperature, the pigment dries quickly, and a gray-white mark appears on the dark green stone.
Afterwards, Chi Shao took the stone outside again and placed it on the ground.
She used a gourd made from gourd fruits, scooped out a gourd of water, poured it on the stone, and rubbed it with her hands, but the gray-white paint did not fall off at all.
Chi Shao said: "You see, this kind of paint cannot be washed away by water as long as it is baked with fire. Your bronze weapon is also made of stone, so it should be able to be painted with this kind of paint."
Jiang Xuan picked up the dark green stone, looked at the paint in the pot, put the bronze war spear on the ground, and said: "Try it on the spear shaft first."
Chi Shao nodded, then used an animal hair brush to brush some paint on the tail of the spear shaft, and then took it to the fire pond to bake.
After a while, the paint gradually dried, and the tail of the spear shaft was no longer shiny, but was almost the same color as gray stone, and it looked inconspicuous.
"Here you go."
Chi Shao handed the bronze war spear to Jiang Xuan.
Jiang Xuan took the bronze war spear to the pool, scooped out water, soaked it for a while, and then rubbed it with his hands, but the paint on the spear shaft did not fall off at all.
"Great, this is the effect I want."
Jiang Xuan excitedly walked to the pottery pot filled with paint, then picked up the animal hair brush, first painted half of the bronze spear shaft with paint, and took it to bake.
After drying, the other part of the bronze war spear was completely painted with paint and continued to be baked.
When all the paint was baked, his bronze war spear had changed drastically.
The originally gleaming bronze war spear has now turned gray-white, as if it were made of stone.
In this way, even if Jiang Xuan takes out the bronze war spear and uses it, others will not think that his weapon is actually a new material.
Jiang Xuan said excitedly: "Sister, you have made a great contribution this time!"
"With this kind of pigment, not only me, but also many warriors from our tribe will be able to use bronze weapons in the future without having to worry about being discovered by other tribes."
Chi Shao also had a smile on his face: "That's really great."
The two sat by the pool and chatted for a long time about the impact of bronze weapons on the tribe...
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"The stone mountain and vine wall are exactly what Leader Xuan said. This should be the vine tribe."
On the top of a mountain to the south of the Vine Tribe, the mountain turtle looked at a mist-shrouded stone mountain in the distance and the towering vine walls outside, feeling relieved.
"Keep going!"
Shanjia walked down from the top of the mountain, rode a giant turtle, and led the Shangui tribe warriors towards the Vine tribe.
When we arrived near the Vine Tribe, there were gradually more roads on the ground and more and more people.
There were tourists and people from other tribes, which made the warriors of the Shangui tribe highly vigilant, fearing that someone would attack them.
However, they walked all the way to the vine wall without encountering any attacks, which made the mountain beetle breathe a sigh of relief.
"What a tall vine wall!"
The mountain beetle stood under the vine wall and looked up at the towering vine wall, feeling very shocked.
The Mountain Turtle Tribe also has a wall, but it is a low wooden fence wall, which is far inferior to the vine wall in front of you.
After Shanjia sighed for a while, he saw many people entering the Vine Tribe through a doorway, so he also led people over.
The Vine Tribe warriors on the guard team had seen them a long time ago and sent someone to tell Jiang Xuan.
When Jiang Xuan arrived in front of the door, Jiang Xuan had already arrived in a hurry after receiving the news.
"Chief Shanjia, welcome to the Vine Tribe!"
Jiang Xuan walked out of the door, laughed and gave the mountain turtle a bear hug.
"Chief Xuan, it's so nice to see you!"
Shanjia was very surprised because he didn't expect Jiang Xuan to greet him outside the tribe.
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"Hahaha, leader Shanjia, you didn't say anything in advance before coming so I could send someone to pick you up."
"I must be tired after walking so far. Let's take a walk. Let's go inside to have a rest and eat something."
Jiang Xuan enthusiastically led the mountain turtles inside, and the soldiers brought by the mountain turtles also followed. Only the giant mountain turtles stayed outside for the time being, and were looked after by the warriors of the Vine tribe.
After entering the vine wall, Shan Jia was the first to see a huge jackal skull. He was startled and said: "Leader Xuan, what is this?"
Jiang Xuan smiled and said: "This is the skull left by the patron saint of the Jackal tribe. It is now placed here as a decoration."
The mountain jia was very shocked, but did not say it out loud.
Soon, he noticed a row of houses on the left. People were coming and going in front of the house, many of them tourists and people from other tribes, so he asked: "Chief Xuan, is that the trading area of your Teng tribe?" In the spring, Jiang Xuan went to the Shangui Tribe to trade magic mushrooms and told Shanjia about the Teng Tribe’s establishment of a trading area.
"That's right, that's the trading area over there. It's not very big now and there aren't many things that can be traded."
"Chief Xuan, can you take me there to have a look?"
"Of course."
Jiang Xuan took Shanjia and others into the trading area and introduced him to various shops in the trading area.
After Shanjia read it, he was greatly shocked. The trading area of the Teng tribe had many varieties of goods, which was many times better than the previous trading area of the Shanjia tribe.
He finally realized that Wu was right, the Vine Tribe was much more powerful than he thought.
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