The Rise of Primitive Tribes Farming

Chapter 408 Casting Gold Coins

For the Mang tribe, it is obviously unrealistic to extract gold from ores with very little gold content. Therefore, if you want to cast gold coins, or even cast larger gold utensils, you need ores with high gold content, or even natural bullion.

Therefore, in the face of that huge piece of gold ore, the only thing Chen Bei can do is smash it with a punch, and then pick up all the gold that is relatively easy to pick up. As for those tiny gold shavings, he can only give up. up.

"Only this piece of gold ore, peeled off at least hundreds of catties of gold!"

Chen Bei used a high-quality animal skin bag to pack the gold, weighed it, and was very satisfied with it.

In the previous life, people were ecstatic when they picked up gold as big as a ring. Now, Chen Bei has obtained hundreds of catties of gold from a single ore. What is there to be dissatisfied with?
What's more, there is also a lot of gold on other ores, plus those gold sands and natural gold nuggets, the amount of gold obtained by the Mang tribe is quite considerable.

Chen Bei led people to dig here for a week, which can be described as digging three feet, and almost searched the whole area. In the end, he got hundreds of catties of gold and was satisfied.

With the current scale of the Mang tribe, the gold is enough for a long time, and it is completely enough to mint gold coins.

And, since this place has gold, there must be other places too, and more will be found in the future.

There must be some gold mines in this place, but they are too fragmented, Chen Bei doesn't plan to search any more, it's time to go back.

"Wow!"

Dozens of flamingo cranes took to the sky, brought the soldiers of the Mang and Chuanshan tribes, the two giant pangolins that trembled as soon as they flew into the sky, and hundreds of catties of gold, and returned to the Mang tribe.

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After returning to the Mang tribe, Chenbei first rewarded the personnel who participated in the gold mining this time, and then stored most of the gold, using about [-] catties of gold, trying to mint it into gold coins.

In the mint workshop, craftsmen are gearing up for this brand new material.

"Let's melt it first."

The craftsmen ignited the furnace, put the refined coke in it as fuel, and put the gold in a refractory crock and put it into it to melt.

Chen Bei stood aside. In fact, he could melt gold with divine fire, but he didn't do it.

Whether it is casting gold coins, or casting other gold utensils in the future, what needs to be done by the craftsman himself is that it is impossible for him to help every time?
So, he watched the craftsmen at work.

"Huhuhu..."

The fan blades in the bellows turned quickly, and the coke in the furnace was quickly ignited, and the fire became hotter and hotter, and the temperature in the furnace became higher and higher.

The melting point of gold is similar to that of copper, and the furnaces of the Mang tribe can easily melt it.

After a period of time, the craftsman stretched two bronze rods with hooks into the furnace, hooked the ears of the refractory jars, and then lifted them up.

"Has it melted?" Chen Bei asked.

"A little bit."

The craftsman put the refractory jar back again, and within a short while, the bronze stick with the hook was already very hot. Fortunately, the warriors of the Mang tribe were not afraid of the heat, and they didn't even wrap the bronze stick with something.

After a while, the craftsman felt that it was almost done, so he lifted the crock again with two bronze sticks with hooks.

This time, it can be clearly seen that all the gold in the refractory crock has melted into a liquid, with a little fluidity.

An exquisite mold has already been prepared next to it, which is the mold for casting bronze coins, and it is the same for casting gold coins now.

"Chichichi..."

As the liquid gold was poured in, a lot of smoke came out of the mold, and then it cooled slowly.

Not long after, Chen Bei touched the mold with his hand and felt that it was almost cooled, and the gold coins inside had already formed.

The craftsman took out a bronze knife and cut open the joint of the two molds, revealing the golden gold coins inside.

The craftsman holds the gold coin in his hand, uses a pot to connect it underneath, and then grinds off the burrs on the edge.

The dropped gold powder will not be wasted, and can continue to be cast into other gold coins.

Of course, for a relatively rough process, this loss is already considered very small.

"Boss, is this okay?"

Chen Bei took the gold coin. Although it was not exquisitely made, the totem patterns of the Mang tribe on it were very clear, and the lines were fairly smooth.

Chen Bei nodded in satisfaction, and said, "That's right, this is very good."

"Then we'll do it like this."

The artisans got busy again, casting more gold and pouring more gold coins.

Chen Bei faced the gold coin to the sun, felt the golden light, and felt very comfortable.

From now on, gold coins can be used as the trading currency of bulk commodities in the transactions of the Mang tribe.

Of course, because of the value of gold, other tribes did not recognize it. Therefore, it is also a difficult challenge to get people to accept gold coins.

However, Chen Bei believes that with the example of the bronze coin, it will be a matter of time before the gold coin is accepted by other tribes.

The premise of all this is that the Mang tribe is strong enough!

Although the currency itself has a certain value, it is actually the credit of the Mang tribe that issued the currency, which can also be said to be its strength.

If the Mang tribe is very weak, even if you mint beautiful gold, silver, and copper coins, they will be useless. They can only be reduced to very cheap handicrafts, but they cannot be used as currency for transactions.

After the gold coins were minted, Chen Bei took twenty gold coins, walked into the trading area, and found Qiao.

"Ding ding ding..."

Twenty gold coins were poured from a small animal skin bag onto the table. The golden color was very eye-catching.

"Boss, this is?"

Qiao's eyes lit up, she fell in love with bronze coins, and liked to hear the sound of bronze coins colliding. Now there are gold coins that are more beautiful than bronze coins, and the sound of collision is just as nice.

"This is called a gold coin, and it is more precious than a bronze coin."

Chen Bei picked up a gold coin and said to Qiao: "We only have bronze coins in the trading area, which is very inconvenient to trade. So I plan to add tin coins and gold coins."

"One gold coin can be exchanged for one hundred bronze coins, and one bronze coin can be exchanged for ten tin coins."

"In this way, whether it is a small transaction or a large transaction, we can use the coins minted by our Mang tribe to carry out."

Qiao asked puzzledly, "Boss, why is it that one bronze coin is exchanged for ten tin coins, and one gold coin is exchanged for one hundred bronze coins? Shouldn't it be exchanged for ten coins?"

Chen Bei explained: "This is because, in the future, I will add another kind of coin, that is silver coin, if we can find it."

"At that time, one gold coin will be exchanged for ten silver coins, one silver coin will be exchanged for ten bronze coins, and one bronze coin will be exchanged for ten tin coins, forming a complete system."

"So it is."

Qiao seems to understand, but she believes that after using it a lot in the future, she will naturally understand.

(End of this chapter)