Vientiane Throne of Civilization

Chapter 131 Smelting
【Fuck? ! 】

Silently swearing in his heart, Zhou Xu took a significantly faster pace, and went over to pick up the stone that shone with a metallic luster in the sun.

[There is no mistake, this should be metal ore! 】

Zhou Xu really didn't expect that there was a mine vein next to his initial camp!
But when you think about it, they were busy solving food and clothing problems every day. In this era where there are no testing methods, who is free to dig stones for fun?
Now this digging made him dig out a treasure!
While signaling the quarrying team to step up their efforts and continue mining, Zhou Xu asked someone to find two empty panniers for his attendants Zhang Xiaoshan and Li Shitou to carry, and then found them in the quarry. up the ore.

After this search, the number is really quite a lot.

The members of the quarrying team have dug up a lot of metal ore without knowing it

At this moment, they are all piled up in one place, waiting for the transport team to transport them.

After all, in their view, a stone is a stone, nothing special.

Zhou Xu was lucky. After spending a lot of time, he filled up the two back baskets. After talking to Zhou Zhongshan and Li Ce, he hurried back to the Black Moon Camp ahead of time.

He doesn't know much about various metal ores, but after all, he is a player who likes to play civilization development games. Mining and forging must be indispensable for such games.

So he still knows some superficial knowledge.

For example, he can now use high temperature to refine metal ores to remove impurities.

This is not a difficult task for Zhou Xu who has coal ore and kiln.

To be honest, the coal ore he discovered earlier can finally be put to some important use. It was basically used for lighting fires and cooking.

Of course, before starting refining, he asked someone to crush all the metal ores brought back.

This method does not come from any professional knowledge, but his common sense of life, that is, things with small particles are easier to burn.

The tribe members who received the order quickly got to work.

And Zhou Xu himself was not idle. Although the kilns in their tribe have always been used for firing pottery, as long as the temperature is high enough, there is no problem in refining metal ore.

At this moment, Zhou Xu has been busy lighting up the kiln and starting to raise the temperature.

If you want to refine metal ore, you can't do it by just lighting a fire, which requires sufficient temperature.

And this temperature takes time to change.

In addition, he also needs to find a suitable container for these ores.

The most suitable one right now is probably pottery...

After all, their pottery itself was fired in this kiln under high temperature, which also proved its high temperature resistance.

While carrying out these preparations, Zhou Xu also called a member of the equipment department over and asked the other party to make a mold for him out of clay.

Although at this moment, he has not been able to determine what kind of metal the metal ore he found is, but Zhou Xu is a person who habitually takes one step to see ten steps.

On the premise of being able to successfully extract useful metals and start casting metalware, Zhou Xu just pondered for a while about how to cast this metalware.

Before time travelling, among the dinner videos he had watched in his free time, there were still a small number of related content.

So Zhou Xu sorted out his thoughts and came up with the following two methods...

The first method is the more typical forging method, which is what he sees the most in the next meal video. The metal is extracted first, and the metal ingot is made, and then the metal ingot is softened, and then hammered with a hammer. , to break the metal ingot into the shape you want.

This method is time-consuming and labor-intensive, but the metal utensils forged after thousands of tempers must be stronger.

As for the second method, it is a lazy method, that is to make a mold first, burn the metal into a liquid, then pour the molten metal into the mold, wait for it to cool and shape, and finally polish it a little. It's finished.

Compared with the first method, the strength and quality of the second method is likely to be worse, but it is more realistic.

People like them who want to arm a large army attach great importance to whether this thing can be mass-produced and the efficiency of mass production.

For example, Zhuang Mengdie made a combination bow like a showman before, isn't that good?

Of course that's good. Considering the background of the times in front of him, Zhou Xu can't find any faults at all, and it can even be said that he has performed beyond the standard.

But there is no way to mass-produce this thing. The manual work is too difficult and time-consuming.

On the contrary, an ordinary bamboo bow glued together with an adhesive is definitely not as good as that combination bow in all aspects, but what Zhou Xu wants is a hassle-saving and high efficiency!
This is a weapon that can be used to arm an army, and Zhuang Mengdie's combination bow is most used to arm his generals.

At this moment, Zhou Xu, who asked the members of the equipment department to dig the mold, naturally planned to use the second method.

As for, what is this first mold digging?
It's actually a hammer...

If the forging work is to be carried out, one tool must be indispensable, and that is the forging hammer.

So Zhou Xu had thought about making the first metal vessel of the tribe a hammer.

The shape of the hammer itself is not complicated, and this member of the equipment department is responsible for kneading pottery. Now, according to Zhou Xu's instructions, it is very neat to make a decent mold.

In this midsummer weather, the mold dries quickly. When the mold is completely dry, the tribe members on the other side have almost processed the ore.

"Leader, according to your intention, we have smashed all those stones."

While speaking, a tribe member ran up to Zhou Xu holding a pottery basin, which was filled with crushed ore.

Zhou Xu glanced at the gravel, nodded in satisfaction, and then simply used the pottery pot as a container, put it into the kiln that had already heated up, and started refining.

The process of refining, to put it bluntly, is to close the furnace and wait. When the temperature is up, the ore is burned into a liquid state, and the impurities in it are naturally extracted.

However, it took a long time to wait. After two confirmations, the metal ore in the kiln had been burned into liquid.

Without time to think about it, Zhou Xu hurriedly called someone over, carefully lifted the basin out with wooden sticks, and then poured the liquid inside into the mold.

During this process, the mold continued to emit thick smoke, but Zhou Xu didn't care about it, and let the tribe members continue to pour it in. Since he didn't have any experience in this field, he simply poured it into the metal liquid from the hole. until it is full.

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