through primitive society

Chapter 1177 Ironware and Bronzeware Are Not Spared (1)
Back in the tribe, a new round of busyness began.

Ti and Mang only stayed in the tribe for three days and then went back to Phoenix Mountain. Matou Mountain began to build the city wall. This time, it was necessary to build on the existing foundation.

Wu Xiyue built the city wall of the Cangcuo tribe based on the one-to-one ratio of the city walls seen in later generations. The men are not afraid of heat, are strong and strong, and they take turns to build it. After half a year, none of the men fell ill.

The city gate was handed over to Tashile and Awen. They went to Mount Taiyan to cut firs and Hui tribes to make the city gate, while Wu Xiyue stepped up time to start smelting the iron in the meteorite.

Wu Xiyue didn't realize how unrealistic her previous thoughts were until she actually came to smelt iron.

Before, she wanted to just throw the meteorite into the stove and burn it day and night with firewood. As long as she worked hard, she would definitely be able to smelt iron.

"Yue, this won't work. Look at the dry firewood that has been thrown for so long, we have burned our faces and peeled off, and we haven't seen molten iron flowing out of the meteorite." Fahe, whose cheeks were flushed by the fire, took it from the women. Peppermint water, and quickly smeared it on the face.

His handsome face was flushed as if he was drunk, and his piercing eyes were slightly watery, causing women to look sideways frequently.

Wu Xiyue stood on the edge of the fire pit, the firewood was still burning, but the meteorite remained unchanged.

Facts have proved that her method of directly digging pits outside to smelt iron was wrong. Smelting iron is not as good as firing pottery. She ignored the melting point of iron.

After burning for three days, even a small fragment of the meteorite did not melt.

"Don't burn it, don't burn it!" This method is wrong, and the time of all the clansmen can no longer be wasted, Wu Xiyue glanced at Fahe immediately and said: "Go fetch water and come over to extinguish the firewood, this method won't work, I thought wrong It’s over, it needs to be done again.”

Fahe was so startled that his hands were still holding his face, the coolness of the mint water made him extremely clear-headed, and he stammered: "This is not possible, could it be that we have no way to smelt iron?"

Several women stepped aside, and they were also responsible for throwing dry firewood into the fire pit, but if they really had to discuss how to smelt iron... none of them could help.

We'll have to see if the men can do it.

"It took such a lot of effort to move the meteorite back, no matter what, I have to smelt the iron." Wu Xiyue gritted her teeth, and pulled a Gobi, so I don't believe it won't come out!

After learning the lesson, Wu Xiyue no longer smelted iron in the open air, but asked the men to dig a fire pit in the house, and began to smelt iron for the second time under the puzzled eyes of the tribe.

It hurts, when taking out pieces of meteorites that were all burnt black in the fire pit, several men couldn't hold back and ran far away laughing.

Naya, who was still in confinement, ran out, and the first thing she said when she saw these meteorites baked into black lumps was: Why is the meat burnt?They can all be burned as charcoal.

The stove was very, very hot, and pieces of meteorites were thrown into the hearth and burned day and night with fire.In such a hot day, it is quite torturous to rely on the stove to add firewood to light the fire.

It is said that there are three hardships in the world: "strike iron, punting a boat, and buying tofu", which is indeed true.In the house, Wu Xiyue persisted for two days, until her cheeks were flushed and she was not overwhelmed.

The house used for smelting iron belongs to Sarai, because he is the only one in the whole tribe, and his house is quite large.A large pit was dug under the main house, and the surrounding area was covered with mud. This is how a simple iron smelting pit appeared.

The fire was blazing, and Wu Xiyue was standing outside to rest in midfield.

The Celestial Dynasty is the country that knows best how to use meteorites to smelt iron. At the latest in the middle of the Shang Dynasty, the ancestors of the Celestial Dynasty had already mastered certain iron forging techniques and were familiar with the processing properties of iron.

However, the widespread use of copper is still higher than that of iron.The reason is very simple, just like picking fruit from a tree, you always pick it from the lower place first. It is much easier to smelt copper than to smelt Xin. Therefore, copper smelting was the first to be born in China. Enter the glory period.

Sarai, who was burning the fire in the house, went in for more than ten minutes, and soon came out profusely in sweat.

Seeing that this person who doesn't sweat easily was so hot that he was sweating profusely, Wu Xiyue felt very sorry.He took out a piece of linen cloth cut into the size of a handkerchief and handed it over, "Wipe your sweat quickly, and then go in after the heat inside has dissipated."

The small piece of sackcloth in her hand seemed to be taken directly from... her bosom. Sarai hesitated for a moment before taking the sackcloth to wipe off the sweat. After wiping the tip of her nose, she could smell a faint scent, like the scent of flowers.

Sarai couldn't help covering her veil tightly, and took a deep breath before wiping off the sweat on her chin, "The bottom is already burning red, and it may take a few days before it turns into water."

Stones can be burned until they turn into water. Well, this is the first time he has heard of it, and he still doubts whether it is possible.

Wu Xiyue pointed to the shade of the tree, "Sit over there and enjoy the coolness." It took four days to burn the lower layer of meteorites red, which shows how difficult it is to smelt iron.

The melting point of pure iron is 1537 degrees. Direct melting of iron was actually quite difficult in the Neolithic Age. If the furnace was not sealed with an arch built with stones, the open furnace from the surface would become In today's closed hearth, it is also possible to smelt iron by keeping all the heat of the fire.

Wu Xiyue herself wasn't sure if she could get it out, but since the bottom layer of meteorite was turning red, it proved to be a good thing.

Under the shade of the tree is cooler than in the house. Wu Xiyue looked up at the tiled roof, and could still see layers of hot air and smoke curling up into the air.

It has already entered the end of summer, and this summer is the fastest summer she has traveled through. It took more than two months to go to the Zhen'e tribe, and she was only three days away from confinement when she came back to Naya.

Before leaving, the cucumbers were tender and tender, but when I came back, Nima was an old cucumber!Both men and women are quite disliked by this sparse vegetable. Poor cucumbers are knotted one by one. Looking back, I don’t know how many cucumber seeds can be harvested.

A leaf swayed down and landed on her shoulder. Just as she was about to raise her hand to brush it off, a pair of hands that were whiter and slender than a woman's by three points came one step ahead.

Holding Ye Weijian between her fingers, she turned slowly, and under Wu Xiyue's gaze, Sarai said in a low voice, "Smelting iron is a difficult task. If we really want to fight, I'm worried that the iron hasn't been smelted yet."

Nima, this is also what she is worried about.

Long eyebrows were raised slightly, Wu Xiyue suppressed the little irritability in her heart, and said: "It has to be refined, and stone tools are no longer enough. This time I went to the Zhen'e tribe and borrowed a lot of stone tools from the chief of Bawang... …I just found out that the tribes in the Cangshan Mountains and the jungles around the Mo River are like frogs in a well. If I hadn’t come out, I would never have known that the stone tools in the tribal alliance outside had reached maturity.”

(End of this chapter)