Han Cheng put aside the iron rod, which was more than 15 centimeters long, about two centimeters in diameter and pointed at one end, and did not immediately explain the function of these things to everyone. Instead, he walked back to the stove and watched Heiwa and his second senior brother making the second piece of ironware that was almost completed.
Blacksmithing is a strenuous job, otherwise why do they say that a blacksmith must be strong himself?
In the Qingque tribe, Heiwa, who specializes in pottery, is not known for his strength. Although he has a talent for blacksmithing, he still has some shortcomings.
Moreover, long-term blacksmithing will make his fingers and arms stiff and not as flexible as before.
These slight changes would not be a problem for others, but it is different for Heiwa. After all, the more sophisticated the pottery, the higher the requirements for craftsmanship. The inflexible fingers will definitely affect Heiwa's development in this area in the future.
So after the blacksmithing skills had made initial progress, Han Cheng called his second senior brother to come and do the blacksmithing. He and Heiwa, two "technical veterans", also assisted and gave guidance.
Second Brother’s belly has become much smaller, and he looks more energetic, but his belly has shrunk too quickly, leaving behind a layer of wrinkled skin.
However, compared with the past, he now seemed stronger, and his strength ranked first in the Qingque tribe.
It would be best to let the second brother do the blacksmithing work.
“Ding Ding Dong…”
The second brother held the axe with one arm and swung it hard, and one blow was enough to counter two of Heiwa's blows.
"Okay, use less force and smash this down."
Seeing that it was almost done, Han Cheng asked his second senior brother to change his approach.
After such a busy period, the second ironware was also produced. It also used a lot of materials and weighed one kilogram.
He called Bo over, used the iron axe to cut out a wooden handle, and put it on the iron lump, and an iron hammer appeared.
Han Cheng picked up the hammer and smashed it on a stone, and the stone cracked. It was much more useful than an axe.
Amid the admiration of the crowd, Han Cheng stood up with a hammer in one hand and an iron rod in the other.
Everyone stopped talking and looked at the two iron tools in Han Cheng's hands with anticipation, waiting for the Son of God to announce their uses.
There is no one who does not desire two things that are related to the field in which he or she is good at.
The reason for thinking this way is that the few iron tools made before, especially the chisel and saw, have almost become Lame's exclusive tools.
The Qingque tribe still has a common ownership system, and the things produced are shared by everyone in the tribe. However, with the abundance of means of production, the surplus things are gradually increasing, and people have vaguely begun to have some different ideas.
However, this idea is only a budding one and is still subject to the common ownership they are accustomed to.
The iron tools that everyone desires to make are linked to the areas in which they are good at, which is the embodiment of this budding trend.
The development of everything in the world, no matter how unpredictable, seems to follow certain rules.
Just as people scattered around the world with different origins will eventually move from public ownership to private ownership.
At some point in the future, it may move from private to public ownership.
From public ownership to private ownership and then back to public ownership, it is not a repetition of the previous path, but a spiral upward. In this process, productivity will be greatly developed...
Under the expectant gaze of the crowd, Han Cheng took the hammer and iron rod and walked to the wooden figure standing at the outermost edge. He raised the hammer and iron rod and explained their functions to everyone with a smile.
This iron rod is actually an iron chisel, which works with the hammer. Of course, it is not used to strike thunder like the Lei Zhenzi, but to chisel stones.
Using more than half of the iron collected this time to make these two things was a decision Han Cheng made after careful consideration.
Stone and wood are the two most common and commonly used materials and can be used in many places.
If you want to make these ubiquitous materials into suitable and useful tools, you must have the right tools. Otherwise, you will not be able to make great progress if you only rely on the original stone and bone tools.
All of this led to the appearance of the axe, saw, chisel last time, and the hammer and chisel this time.
Hammer and chisel are the most basic tools for making stone tools.
With these two things, wood craftsmanship will definitely be able to improve and create better stone tools.
In fact, there were already large stone tools that needed to be made of wood, otherwise Han Cheng would not have been able to produce these two things so quickly.
This thing is the stone roller used for threshing, and the stone shavings (I don't know if the wording is correct) hanging behind the stone roller.
As the grain-planting area gradually increased, the Qingque tribe's original method of using sticks or wooden forks to beat the grains to remove the grain seeds could no longer keep up with the situation.
This method is not only inefficient, but also very tiring. If it is not changed, when the amount of millet planted reaches several hundred acres next year, just threshing will become a huge burden.
Moreover, if one is not careful and the weather is not clear for a long time, the millet harvested in the threshing floor is likely to go bad.
Combine harvesters and threshers, these are things Han Cheng could only think about in his dreams with drooling. After returning to reality, the only solution he could come up with was the relatively old but very useful things that have been used for thousands of years - stone rollers and stone hammers.
When the time comes, put the grains on the field to dry, harness the deer, and let them pull the stone rollers and stone hammers in circles on the threshing field. People only need to lead them.
Not only is it easy, it’s also efficient.
The old deer, who was eating grass in the wilderness and seizing the last opportunity to gain weight in the autumn, suddenly shuddered and all the hair on his body stood up.
It raised its head, stopped eating grass, and looked around vigilantly, ready to run away with its men if anything went wrong.
As a result, the surroundings were as calm as before, and Fu Jiang and the Five Little Fortunes who were mixed in the deer herd did not have any special reaction.
Uncle Deer waited like this for quite a while before he continued to eat grass...
In the Qingque tribe, Han Cheng explained in a simple and clear way the importance of the hammer and the iron chisel, and emphasized the example of the stone roller used for threshing, so that everyone could understand the reason why he did so.
Mu Tou took the hammer and iron bar from Han Cheng, looking stunned and somewhat unbelievable.
He never dreamed that the Son of God spent so much iron to create these two things, actually to use them to make stone tools for himself.
He was a relatively taciturn person and not a very confident one. This was the reason why he stayed at the outermost edge while others gathered in the front to watch the newly forged iron tools and constantly discussed their uses.
In his opinion, whether it is the iron needles that the women desire, the iron knives that the cooks desire, the iron arrowheads that Junior Brother Sha desires, or the iron tips that Shang desires, which can be installed on the top of wooden spears to replace stones and bones, they are all of great significance to the tribe.
All of these can help the tribe develop well.
As for the stone tools he was good at, he didn't think too much about it.
Because the newly appeared iron is harder and sharper than stone, far beyond the reach of stone.
He could sense the decline of what he was good at from people's desire for iron axes, iron knives, iron hoes, etc.
Stone tools will be replaced and become even more obscure, just like the man who was good at making them.
At this time, the Son of God suddenly came to him with a tool made of precious iron and told him that it was used to make stone tools.
Tell him that stone tools still have very, very great development prospects, and that their importance to the tribe will not decrease with the emergence of iron tools, but will greatly increase.
How could he not be excited and dazed?
Like Wu, like the eldest brother, like lame... Generally, this person who doesn't like to talk much also has a very high sense of identification with the tribe and is willing to work hard for the tribe.