Copper smelting has been standardized.

After such a long period of smelting practice, Ye Qing has become familiar with the optimal ratio of copper ore powder to toner.

Ye Qing made several clay pots of the same size. A special person used this clay pot to measure the appropriate amount of copper ore powder and toner according to the proportions set, mix them together and pour them into a cylindrical crucible.

The tribesmen responsible for smelting put the crucible into the fire and then push and pull the bellows.

The fire instantly turned white, and the crucible in the fire soon turned red.

The mixed powder in the crucible also burned violently in an instant, and quickly turned into liquid and rolled.

The smelting tribe members would take a long-handled pottery spoon and skim the scum floating on the surface of the metal liquid.

The scum is almost gone, and the copper smelters will take out the crucible and pour the copper water from the crucible into a template similar to the ice grid.

After cooling, there are pieces of copper of the same size.

These copper pieces will be packed into a bamboo basket and placed on a shelf next to them.

And there are many bamboo baskets filled with copper blocks on the shelf.

The process of tin refining there is similar, but there is no need to add toner, and the melting speed of tin ore powder is much faster.

Stack the refined tin blocks on another shelf.

This is smelting.

From crushing to refining into copper blocks, there is no need for any skills, proficiency, or experience.

All the people of each tribe do the work assigned to them mechanically and repeat it.

Seeing the copper and tin blocks being smelted out in a continuous manner, Shaokang exclaimed:

"It's so fast!"

The amount of bronze smelting and the tools needed to make the tribe are enough.

But Ye Qing was still not very satisfied, and the amount was still too small.

The factor that restricts bronze production is not that the smelting speed is insufficient, but that the ore collection speed cannot keep up.

Cast in another greenhouse.

There are also several stoves in the greenhouse.

Casting requires copper-tin ratio and the respective portions of copper-tin are a bit complicated for the tribe. Even if you try hard to remember, you can easily make mistakes when there are more tools to cast.

In order to reduce the difficulty, Ye Qing made a "database" for the founding tribe members.

He created a big shelf with many grids.

In each grid there is a bronze tool, next to it is copper and tin blocks.

The number of copper and tin blocks is calculated, which is exactly the raw material needed to cast this bronze tool.

The things on this shelf are just for display without using them.

In this way, when casting a certain tool, the tribe members selected the same number of copper and tin blocks according to the number of copper and tin blocks on the rack and trained together, and only cast one tool at a time.

This will save the trouble of memory from the tribe and will not make mistakes easily.

There are many tools that appear in the tribe now, so this "database" is very large and looks very spectacular.

The highest technical content here is a copper rolling device.

This device can be adjusted and can roll out several copper plates of different thicknesses.

Many tools, made with copper plates, will be much more convenient and fast.

Saws, sickles, shovels and other tools are processed with copper plates.

The most lively thing in the entire wall is to make copper.

When you walk into the copper-making greenhouse, you will hear the sound of copper-making.

Shaokang looked at everything in the greenhouse curiously.

There are several furnaces here, but unlike the ones on the smelting side, the furnace here is open.

There is someone busy in front of every stove.

He walked to a stove.

The figure in front of the stove was very burly, and he was staring at the fire with concentration.

Next to him, a boy was pushing and pulling the bellows hard.

This young man didn't have long been involved in the copper smelting workshop. He was not proficient in many jobs, so he started to learn from pulling the bellows.

A long bronze embryo in the fire is slowly turning red.

After the bronze embryo turned completely red, the burly figure stretched out his pliers to clip the bronze embryo, turned around, placed it on a bronze anvil, and then held the tongs in his right hand and the bronze hammer in his left hand, and kept pounding it.

While pounding, the bronze embryo was flipped.

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He was pounding the bronze embryo with all his attention.

The bronze embryo slowly changes its shape under the knocking.

Look at the curved shape, it seems like it is making a sickle.

Shaokang stood beside him, looking, shaking his head, and said:

"You coppersmith is not good at craftsmanship. The dagger is straight. Why do you knock it so bent?"

The burly figure said without raising his head:

"This is a sickle, not a dagger!"

After a while, the bronze embryo darkened and cooled down, and he put it in the fire to heat it.

Only then did he have time to look up and look at Shaokang.

He is Taikang.

I found that it was Shaokang who pointed at me, and Taikang raised his hand and knocked a chestnut on Shaokang's head.

Shaokang ran away with a laugh.

Taikang didn't care if he didn't hit. He looked at Shaokang and Ye Qing and asked with a smile:

"How come you have time to come?"

Since Ye Qing invented bronze smelting, bronze smelting has been managed by Taikang.

The management of bronze workshops has always been confidential.

The tribe members who participated in the smelting only entered but did not leave.

Even though other projects lack labor, Ye Qing did not recruit the personnel from the copper smelting workshop.

Ye Qing also asked them to keep it confidential for every tribe member in the workshop and forbid them from talking about any matters about copper smelting in front of outsiders.

Ye Qing also tried his best to let every tribe member participate in only one part of smelting, so that even if he accidentally missed it, it was only part of the entire smelting process, and tried to minimize the possibility of leakage of bronze smelting technology.

Moving the workshop to the back mountain is also a consideration in this regard.

Although the bronze smelting technology will sooner or later be leaked.

But that day, Ye Qing hoped that his strength was strong enough.

Ye Qing said:

"The output of bronze is still a bit low, I am ready to increase the mining staff!"

Taikang said in surprise:

"The tools in the tribe are enough now. The sickle I created is also to prepare for the reclaiming of new fields next year."

"There are still quite a lot of copper and tin blocks stored here, enough to create enough sickles."

"Why do you think bronze is not enough?"

Ye Qing sighed:

"I still have a lot of things to build, just talk about building a ship. For any ship, the bronze nails needed are not a little bit or two!"

"Then how many people are you going to send to dig copper mines?" asked Taikang.

On the copper mine, the scattered copper ore has been picked up by the children of the tribe. If you want to get the copper ore, it will not be so easy.

Now I need to dig with a pickaxe.

This is physical work, and children cannot do it.
Chapter completed!