Primitive tribe, my people are all beast ear mothers

Soon the shallow pit Lin Ye needed was dug.

Lin Ye drew a little circle with a branch on the side.

Let the beast ear girls and the wing girl girls dig out a similar shallow pit in that circle.

Lay a layer of refractory bricks in the dug shallow pit.

Then cover it with a layer of cement.

Then lay a layer of fireproof bricks on the cement.

And the paved layer of fire bricks is just flush with the ground.

When laying the foundation of this first furnace.

The Beast Ear Girls and the Wing Girl Girls also dug a shallow pit at the location of another furnace.

Repeat the same trick again, and lay the foundation for the shallow pit.

Lin Ye began to officially build the first furnace for iron smelting.

Furnaces used to smelt iron require two layers, inner and outer.

The outer layer is where the fuel burns.

The inner layer is like a small platform.

At that time, the iron ore will be packed in a container and smelted on this small platform.

Although this method of ironmaking is called blast furnace ironmaking.

But the so-called blast furnaces are only taller than those furnaces that are only twenty or thirty centimeters high.

In fact, the so-called blast furnace is only about one meter high.

Taking the refractory bricks, Lin Ye started to build the furnace piece by piece.

Because this time the furnace cannot tolerate any air leakage.

So when Lin Ye plasters the cement, he will paint all three sides of the refractory bricks.

To ensure that no gaps are left.

And be careful when applying cement.

Because the shape of the furnace is slightly inward.

So when Lin Ye was plastering cement on the 02 refractory bricks.

The cement at the bottom must be thick on one side and thin on the other.

In this way, the refractory bricks were built one by one in a circle.

When the outer circle was halfway built, Lin Ye started to build the small platform inside the furnace.

That's what the platform does.

Stacks of refractory bricks are piled up from the foundation.

These two stacks of refractory bricks are not close together.

It's like a stove.

There is still a little distance in the middle.

The height of this platform only needs to reach the middle part of this melting furnace.

Lin Ye built the platform in a short time.

Then began to build the outer furnace walls.

The beast ear girls and the wing girl girls have already carried out almost all the refractory bricks.

All gathered around Lin Ye, watching Lin Ye build the furnace.

The refractory bricks were handed to Lin Ye one by one.

Soon the furnace for iron smelting was built.

Lin Ye took the cement again.

Carefully spread a layer on the periphery of the built furnace.

Wrap the entire furnace.

After everything is wrapped up.

Lin Ye also nodded in satisfaction.

In this furnace, there is a slightly larger furnace opening for adding big fat on the front.

Eight small vents are also left around.

This is used to provide oxygen to the charcoal as it burns.

These eight vents flow out according to the air outlet of the bellows.

At that time, the two bellows can be placed in any vent you want.

The beast-eared girls and the winged girls blinked their big eyes.

Looking at the furnace built by Lin Ye, his eyes were full of curiosity.

"Ye, is this a furnace? It looks like an earthen kiln."

Shi looked at Lin Ye's completed furnace and said to Lin Ye.

The other beast-ear girls and wing-girl girls were reminded by Shi Yi.

They all realized that the furnace built by Lin Ye was indeed very similar in shape.

In particular, the entire furnace is wrapped in cement.

Even the color is similar to those of those kilns.

"Really, it looks like an earthen kiln."

"No, look, there is no such thing in the kiln."

"Hey, why are there two stacks of refractory bricks in this furnace?"

The beast-ear girls and the wing-girl girls studied the furnace carefully.

See the two platforms built by Lin Ye inside.

Lin Ye looked at the animal-eared girls and the winged girls.

Shaking his head with a smile, he explained to the beast-ear girls and the wing-girl girls.

"It is true that furnaces look similar to clay kilns, but they are very different.

"No matter how much the kiln is fired, it will not reach the temperature that can melt iron ore."

"However, a furnace built with refractory bricks can turn hard iron ore into molten iron."

The Beast Ear girls and the Wing Girl girls listened to Lin Ye's words.

All of them showed amazed expressions.

Then the beast ear girls and the wing girl girls continued to study the furnace that had just been built.

And Lin Ye went to the other side and started to build another furnace for forging.

This furnace is more like a fuel barrel.

The bottom is full of layers of hollowing out.

Make a fuel basin for burning charcoal on it.

Because when forging.

It is necessary to heat the iron block made of molten iron until it turns red and becomes soft.

Then hit it repeatedly with a hammer.

It's the iron that changes shape to get what you want.

Moreover, when forging, it must be continuously put back on the fire and calcined again.

It only took a few hours.

Lin Ye finished building the two furnaces.

Then move the forging table made yesterday.

Lin Ye watched as the two furnaces and crafting tables were all completed.

Pat the dust off your hands.

A happy smile appeared on his face.

The beast ear girls and the wing girl girls also bared their teeth and laughed.

"Huh~!"

After exhaling a foul breath.

Lin Ye turned to look at the beast-eared girls and the winged girls.

With this smile on your face, start assigning tasks with a smile on your face.

"Tomorrow we will go to the other side of the river to start mining iron ore, so you still have a lot of preparations to do for gold bars.

The Beast Ear girls and Wing Girl girls heard Lin Ye's words.

All eyes turned to Lin Ye.

The smile on his face became brighter.

Lin Ye looked at the smiles on the faces of the beast-eared girls and the winged girls.

After nodding with a smile, he continued to speak.

"First of all, everyone has to tie two wooden barrels to the back of their wild horses to transport iron ore."

After hearing Lin Ye's words, the Beast Ear Girls and Wing Girl Girls immediately started looking for where their wild horses were.

Seeing this, Lin Ye quickly opened his mouth and continued.

"Don't worry, everyone, just listen to me."

"After the wooden barrels were tied to the horses, everyone followed Shi and Ganyu to make a large amount of charcoal.

"This time, the more charcoal you make, the better, just keep making it."

"Fortunately, luckily, the two of you dig some clay and come back, one bucket is enough, I'm going to make some containers for iron smelting.

"Okay, that's all, let's get started."

This time, Lin Ye went to look for his own wild horse after talking about the beast-eared girls and the winged girls.

And Lin Ye began to make various molds on the workbench.

Put the stones of different sizes collected in advance on the workbench.

Lin Ye picked up a piece and began to chisel it.

The first thing to craft is the pickaxe for mining ore.

Although iron ore also has many fragments that split out.

But a large number of ores are still aggregated together.

If you don't use a pickaxe to smash it down.

There was no way that 963 could bring back those large pieces of iron ore that weighed hundreds of thousands of catties.

Even if you bring it back to this furnace, you won't be able to put it down.

Only the first batch of iron ore was brought back.

All of them are made into pickaxes, so that the iron ore can be continuously mined.

The pickaxe looks more like a ship's anchor.

A T-shape, the two heads are slightly bent backwards.

The appearance of a pickaxe chiseled out of a rock.

At that time, the molten iron from the iron ore will be poured directly into it.

After cooling down, forge it again.

A pickaxe is made.

Next Lin Ye made a knife mold.

With iron, all the bone knives in the tribe were replaced immediately.

Lin Ye was also tortured by the bone knife for a long time.

The problem of getting an ax by chance is guessed solved.

But the beast-ear girls and wing-girl girls are still using those bone knives without blades.

Cutting jerky every time I eat is laborious.

Finished making the knife mold.

Lin Ye put away his tools and walked towards the kiln.

Xing Heyun has already placed a bucket of clay dug up here in the kiln.

Then go to burn charcoal with others.

And Lin Ye poured the clay wet.

Immediately began to make various containers.

These containers are all intended to contain iron ore and burn in the fire.

So Lin Ye made it very carefully.

After all, it is to hold molten iron like magma.

After everything is made.

Set these containers aside to dry.

Come to the place where the beast-ear girls and the wing-girl girls burn charcoal.

I took some charcoal that was burnt yesterday.

placed next to the kiln.

In this way, after the containers are completely dry, the firing can be started directly. .