There is no need for the Shui Tribe to be responsible for the mining of copper mines. Before leaving, the White Wolf Tribe specially left seven leaders of the tribe who were in charge of mining copper mines to transport the mined copper ore to the Youshui Tribe, and then calcined and cast the rest.
Hua Xi and the others are responsible
Now that we have copper, if we find tin again, hehe, according to the known ratio of 3:7, we can make bronze products. As one of the precious metals, tin is one of the precious metals. Hua Xi is naturally familiar with its uses.
In ancient times, people often put tin blocks at the bottom of wells to purify the water. It is said that in the palace, the carefully brewed royal wine was made of tin vessels as a vessel for holding wine. It has the characteristics of storing tea without changing color, keeping the wine warm in winter and cool in summer, and honest.
It is said that tea made in a tin teapot has a particularly refreshing fragrance. Drinking wine from a tin cup is refreshing and refreshing because of the acidity of the stone. Flowers arranged in a tin bottle are not easy to wither. Tin minerals are lustrous, non-toxic, not easy to oxidize and change color, and have good sterilization, purification, and preservation effects.
In addition to being able to use alloys, there are so many benefits. Hua Xi is naturally particularly concerned about looking for tin mines. But where are the tin mines? Hua Xi can only slowly search for them. Looking for tin mines is something that is hard to come by.
, Hua Xi found a group of tribesmen and told them that they did not need to participate in the labor of the tribe in the future, and that they should bring enough food and leave the tribe to search for some strange stones.
"Weird stone? Chief, aren't all the stones the same?" one of the tribesmen asked in confusion.
"They're not all the same. Look at this stone. It's copper ore. It's dark red. There's also a green stone called malachite green, which is also a kind of copper ore." After that, Hua Xi took a few of the stones he had prepared.
The copper ore collected from the open-pit mine was placed in front of their eyes.
"Anyway, you just need to pick up some stones with rare colors or textures for me. There is no time limit. If the food can't support it, just come back and replenish it. Then those who go out and find the stones I want will become the heroes of the tribe and be respected by thousands of people."
Hua Xi, who explained clearly, did not forget to brainwash these tribesmen at the end, instilling desires for glory and status.
Soon, the first batch of people looking for mineral sources were sent out, and the rest depended on luck. In the following days, Hua Xi built three four-meter-high large kilns in a corner of China City. The kilns were surrounded by mud.
The wall encloses a space of about 500 square meters, which is used specifically for pottery making. The enlargement of the kiln can not only produce larger pottery, but also increase the intensity of the fire and greatly increase the temperature in the furnace.
make porcelain
In addition, Hua Xi also taught the pottery craftsmen that they can mold the adobe into the shape of animals or plants, and they can also carve anything that comes to mind into the adobe and then calcine it. Then ceramics are not just daily necessities.
Instead, crafts make high-quality pottery products into crafts and exchange them with other tribes for more things.
"The transformation and perfection of ceramics depends on your imagination. Do you know what imagination is? It means that if you want to do something special, you can experiment as soon as you think of it. You don't have to be afraid of failure. Do you understand?"
"Yes, got it"
In addition, other tribesmen are strictly prohibited from approaching the ceramics workshop to prevent the rapid spread of pottery-making technology. Although Hua Xi has confidence in his tribe, too many people have been hanging around here since the tribe started trading with other tribes.
, it is estimated that there are many spies. To be sure, Hua Xi specially ordered Hua Feng to send people to keep an eye on this place and not let a mosquito in.
As for calcined malachite, open-pit copper mines and other copper-containing ores, the pottery craftsmen quickly learned how to make clay molds after Hua Xi gave a few demonstrations, and poured the copper juice that was refined and burned into water into the molds.
, cool down and then beat, and learned the art of copper smelting several times. However, except for the copper blocks that need to be given to Ai Zezi according to the verbal agreement, the copper blocks are given to Hua Xi to make plows and some shovels, hoes and other tools needed for work.
Although copper production tools are relatively soft, they are still metal and are much stronger than those stone and wooden tools, so the work efficiency has also been improved. However, the purity of open-pit mines is not high after all, and there are problems such as inconvenient road transportation. Copper production tools
Tools and weapons can only be described as very few.
Within a few dozen kilometers of the Water Tribe, there are more than thirty tribes, large and small, that even the original tribesmen who have lived here for generations do not know. The largest tribes are the Black Bird Tribe, the Keni Tribe, and the
The Suihuo clan numbered as many as seven or eight hundred, and the remaining tribes ranged from two to three hundred to forty or fifty. Slowly, as the number of tribes trading with the Youshui tribe gradually increased, almost all the tribes near Youshui
Everyone knows that there is a water tribe that actually defeated the powerful Kobold Tribe and White Wolf Tribe coalition forces, and has a lot of food and ceramics that can be exchanged with other tribes for production materials.
Food and ceramics are one of the most important materials in this era; the other is the only luxury product in this era, the favorite art of the powerful and powerful class of the big tribes, and the daily necessities of the common people. The Aqua Tribe actually stores enough food to cope with so much.
Tribes came to exchange, and almost all tribes sent envoys to investigate. After confirming that what was said was true, they immediately sent their own tribe's exchange teams to Youshui for trading. The constant exchange of teams and personnel promoted the exchange to a certain extent.
productivity improvements
Time is like quicksand, passing by your fingertips inadvertently...
In the blink of an eye, the hot summer has left, and the refreshing autumn almost did not exist in the Stone Age, replaced by gradually colder weather and dry air
After Hua Xi's artificial high-profile publicity and secret operations, Chinatown has gradually become the most popular market center in this land with a radius of dozens of miles.
Through the trade of high-quality pottery and porcelain, Hua Xi exchanged a large amount of food from the White Wolf Tribe, and then used the food and some defective pottery on hand to exchange people with other tribes to speed up his daily construction and tribal labor due to the rapid acquisition of
With enough labor, the tribe's productivity increases rapidly, allowing it to produce more items
The wishful thinking of the Great Elder Ai Zezi of the White Wolf Clan is exactly the same as that of Hua Xi. The tight-lipped Ai Zezi also exchanged a large amount of high-quality ceramics for more food while concealing it from other elders of the tribe and other tribes.
and weapons, and even the population. With the support of abundant materials, the great elder, who was originally very powerful in the tribe, gradually gained absolute say in the tribe, and was only a stone's throw away from the throne of the tribe leader.
As for the dog-headed tribe, after publicly offending Elder Ai Zezi, and after several raids by the White Wolf tribe, the scope of their activities has also been reduced. However, Ai Zezi does not dare to suppress the dog-headed tribe too much. After all, big dogs also need to look at their masters.
For large tribes like them, everyone has unknown forces behind them. For the Youshui tribe, the series of blows suffered by the Kobold tribe is a good thing. At least the Kobold tribe has not harassed the Youshui tribe's activity area to the north.