Poor family mother and son

Chapter 1014 Does Little Treasure Know?

Some behaviors of the natives on the island are confusing to Chu Qing: Some of them have iron tools such as hatchets and hoes, but they are used for trading. Now most of the iron tools are concentrated in the village where Chu Qing first rescued malaria, because there are fields there.

But those who sold farm tools only got some purple shells. The purple shells are their currency, but they are useless to keep, not suitable for eating or drinking.

Xiaobao and the others can find alluvial gold, but the islanders are still using shells as currency. I don't know whether it is the production tools that limit them or the way of thinking that limits them.

The mountain people once said that they used to have a blacksmith, but it was lost later, and no one can make iron tools anymore. They also said that there was iron ore, but they don't know where.

This may be a kind of "chic", just like the "mother" priesthood that is passed on from male to female, and it is given up if no one inherits it.

But in Chu Qing's view, this is a very negative way of life - as long as someone knows something, everyone depends on the person who knows it, but if the person dies, the matter will be lost.

As the saying goes, relying on the mountain to fall, relying on everyone to run; the saying goes: Whoever has it is better than oneself.

A skill, an ability, if you can learn it, don't let it go, it is a positive attitude towards life.

But this phenomenon is not limited to the island, it is the same for Daxuan people, even people who are clear about that world.

Almost all of Chu Qing’s parents and grandparents had strong hands-on skills. When the sofa first appeared, it was still a planned economy. If you want to buy it, you need to “show a ticket”.

Chu Qing's father, a scholar, simply made a pair of single sofas by himself, which are beautiful and strong, just like the ones in the store.

If the materials are not available, maybe TV sets and washing machines can also be made.

In Chuqing's generation, he doesn't know how to embroider, but he can sew and mend, simply knit a sweater or scarf; he can't build wardrobes or bookcases, but it doesn't take much effort to repair tables and chairs.

For Chu Qing's generation, they came into contact with computers relatively late, only in high school, but before learning programming and compiling principles, they had already started thinking about assembling computers.

But in Meng Dao's generation, his hands-on ability is really poor, and he mostly grabs ready-made things to play with, especially those who are attracted by various electronic games and don't even bother to go out to play.

There may be children's own problems here, but now Chu Qing has realized that the greater responsibility lies with the parents, which is the education issue.

Like the saying about women wearing makeup: there are no ugly women, only lazy ones.

For Chu Qing: there are no things you can't do, only things you don't want to learn.

I don't want to learn, naturally because I am lazy.

Thinking lazy.

Shui Maomao focused on what Chu Qing said about making guns and guns, and he asked, "You said just now that you want to build guns, guns?"

Chu Qing: "Yes, this is the most important thing; we calculate that one person can eat less than one catty of grain a day, and one person must eat at least three hundred catties of grain a year;
The total population of the island is nearly 900, and it needs [-] million catties of grain a year;
According to Daxuan's average harvest of [-] catties per mu, it would require at least [-] mu of land, but after we visited all the way, how much arable land did they reclaim?

Let's make a rough calculation, three adult laborers can reclaim at most one mu of wasteland a day on the plains of Daxuan, how long will it take to reach [-] mu, let alone mountainous land?

Digging mountains, digging canals, diverting water, and building ridges all require a lot of work. How much can the output of the wasteland be in the first two years?So we can't totally count on farming;
Now we have found two iron mines. Leaving aside steelmaking, ironmaking is not difficult. You have seen what I did, isn’t it? "

Chu Qing pointed to the dagger and hatchet in the hands of Shui Maomao and Li Hu: "It's not difficult to make some tools, is it?

At present, our ships are not very good, and the transportation from the mainland is very unstable. Wouldn’t it be more certain if we could produce our own products?

While reclaiming wasteland and farming, mining and smelting at the same time, one is to defend our island, and the other is to... other people store grain and I store guns, the world is full of granaries! "

Shui Mao Mao: "..."

Li Hu: "..."

Gan Lai: "It makes sense!"

Chu Yuan: "I listen to my sister and daughter-in-law!"

Chu Xinghai: "Gun! Granary!"

Eight Maomao: "Xiao Baoniang is so fierce, does Xiao Bao know?"

Some of the boys who followed came back from mining jade in Worth. They had seen Chu Qing's "toughness", so when they heard Chu Qing say "everywhere in the world is a granary", they coaxed directly: "That's right!"

In fact, for Chu Qing, with the iron ore, the first thing to build is guns, mortars, which have a long range and great lethality. The most important thing is that Chu Qing wants to install the guns on the ship.

In this way, if one day Chu Qing can't get along in Daxuan...become a pirate!
Li Hu quickly nodded in agreement, because he saw Chu Qing's iron-making process with his own eyes. Although there was a little cheating, the basic steps were really done with bare hands.

Not only Li Hu, Chu Qing's operation shocked everyone.

In Daxuan, 360 lines, basically no matter what line of work you do, your ancestors have done the same line of work for generations, and those who can cross the border will be regarded as strange people.

Because there is a saying that "interlacing lines is like a mountain", a carpenter can't do blacksmith's work, and a blacksmith can't do potter's work, this is a normal thing in people's eyes.

If a man is good at farming, can weave baskets, and can make some simple furniture, he is already the easiest person in the village to marry a wife.

If this man can still do some masonry work, he can simply pick any girl as his wife in a village within a hundred miles.

A man who can reach this level is already an all-around talent in people's eyes. Chu Qing is a woman who makes pottery and burns pottery, weaves baskets and baskets, makes drills combined with fans, builds kilns, burns charcoal and iron... How many professions have she done?What is not a strange person?
Also, how did she know that she could make iron by doing so?
But these are clearly speaking, just turning the knowledge reserve into practical application.

This is a backward process.

Chu Qing first knew the principle of iron smelting, and then searched for suitable materials to complete it step by step.

But Li Hu and others, it should be said that people in this era do not know this knowledge. All their inventions and creations are positive and progressive step by step, and they need to sum up experience through continuous attempts.

As for Chu Qing's earliest family members, Chu Yuan and the others have personally participated in the operation of the blast furnace, but they have never thought about why they did this, nor have they connected these steps to think about it. They only know that Chu Qing does what he orders.

So when they heard that Chu Qing was going to smelt iron with bare hands, they would remind her that there was no blast furnace, no coke, no this and no that.

Without a blast furnace and auxiliary materials, the inability to make steel does not mean that it is impossible to make iron. They couldn't think of this truth.

Perhaps, this is the difference between craftsman grades, the difference between ordinary workers and skilled workers, and the difference between workers and engineers.

More importantly, there is a difference in cognition.

The work done by men, the work done by women; or the division of labor between scholars, farmers, industry and commerce, all hinder people in this era from absorbing knowledge.

It is clear that one person cannot change the times, or even affect the people around her, because the people around her, like her, already have mature and stable views.

Even the special case of Gan Lai who used to be a savage can't change her subconscious nature that she is a woman and doesn't need to learn many skills from men.

(End of this chapter)