In the Qingque tribe, many people gathered not far from the bamboo clump, staring at the copper ingot in the shape of a pottery jar bottom with wide eyes.

After being caught in the rain on the way, the copper ingot was no longer as dazzling as when it was just cast.

Perhaps after waiting a few more days and coming into contact with more water vapor and oxygen, these yellow metals will slowly rust and turn into colors that match their names.

This heavy piece of copper turned around in the hands of the people around it, and when it returned to the slate table, it had become shiny yellow again.

Following this trend, it may not be easy to make it covered with patina and have a sense of history.

"Son of God, I can use a hammer to beat it into a round ball, and put it into a sling and throw it farther."

The second senior brother, who Han Cheng intended to train as a blacksmith, took the hammer with the wooden handle that he had polished to a smooth finish and began to ask Han Cheng for a job.

After using the sling for a long time, he has discovered that the rounder the stone, the easier it is to hit a distant target, and compared to ordinary stones, it can be thrown farther.

The reason why he asked to make the first piece of bronze into a metal egg for throwing was because Junior Brother Sha, Shang, and some other people in the tribe were equipped with some weapons made of iron.

This made the second brother very envious.

It was just because the tribe had not obtained much iron through iron bacteria before, and the iron was too hard, making iron balls difficult to make. In addition, each usable iron ball consumed too much iron, and the iron ball thrown far away with a slingshot was easily lost, so the second brother had always been envious.

Now, after seeing this bright yellow bronze and testing its hardness with a hammer, the second senior brother immediately came up with the idea of ​​using this metal to make some metal balls.

After all, such a golden ball is easier to identify after it is thrown.

As the Qingque tribe's materials became increasingly abundant, production surpluses became the norm and increased in number. As the social division of labor became increasingly detailed and the gap between people's occupations continued to widen, people began to have some different ideas.

I gradually understood the difference between what I own and what the tribe owns.

This is actually the fundamental reason why Second Brother spoke up at this time and wanted to forge the bronze ingot into a metal ball.

Han Cheng, as the top leader who was closely watching the Qingque tribe, naturally knew about these things, but he didn't have any special thoughts about it.

Because in the long run, this is a great progress, and it is also the direction that the tribe will inevitably go after it prospers.

"Son of God, use it to make a hoe. Once you have a hoe made, you can dig the ground more often without worrying about it breaking like a stone hoe."

"Son of God, use it to make a sickle. With a sharp sickle, I can cut more grass for the deer and sheep in the tribe..."

The tribesmen expressed their opinions on the use of the copper, hoping that the wise Son of God would adopt their suggestions.

If it were in the past, many people would have become a little disappointed, but this time it was different.

Han Cheng smiled very peacefully at this time. He looked at the people with eager eyes and seemed very calm and generous.

"Don't worry, don't be anxious. This time we found a metal mine and brought back a lot of ores. We can get a lot of metals and make a lot of things to fulfill everyone's wishes.

Even if the stones we bring back this time are not enough, we can still go there to transport more stones back, or directly smelt copper there..."

At this time, Han Cheng looked like a big liar with capital in his hands.

Yes, this time is different from before!

After hearing what Han Cheng said, many people couldn't help but shift their gaze away from the yellow bronze and look over the thick wall towards the direction of the quarry.

There was a furnace standing there, and beside the furnace were piled many stones, which were brought back from afar by the Son of God and his companions...

There was a burst of cheers in the courtyard. After the cheers died down, some people couldn't wait to open the kiln to refine copper and tin, and then make various utensils.

The people of the Qingque tribe, who have deeply experienced the usefulness of metal tools, are more enthusiastic about metal tools than many people of this era.

However, Han Cheng remained calm and did not comply with the wishes of these people. He immediately arranged for people to refine the copper-tin alloy.

Because there was no model at that time, if you forcibly refine bronze, the result will only be some pot-shaped copper ingots. Apart from being labor-intensive and time-consuming, there will be no other results.

However, we can first arrange a few people who regularly refine copper to refine tin ore according to the method of refining copper and produce crude tin.

After things were arranged, the men immediately went to the quarry. Half a day later, smoke began to rise from an unused boiler.

There are now three furnaces near the Qingque tribe’s quarry.

The two extra ones were newly built by Heiwa according to Han Cheng's instructions during the time when Han Cheng led his people away from the tribe.

The two newly built furnaces, one was used to melt copper ingots for refining bronze.

When the time comes and there is enough time, manpower and materials, the three furnaces will start working at the same time, and with more people added to polish the bronze artifacts, a lot of bronze artifacts can be made in a day.

As for the skillful Heiwa, Han Cheng kept him behind to work with him on making clay molds.

Also staying there were three people who often helped Heiwa make pottery, as well as two other half-grown kids who were very interested in pottery making.

With the emergence and development of bronze ware, the bronze clay molds that are closely related to it will become more and more important. Later on, their complexity and technical requirements will far exceed those of pottery.

Therefore, when Han Cheng just started casting bronze ware, he consciously wanted to select people in the tribe who were talented in making clay molds, train them, separate them from pottery making, and make it a specialized system to prepare for the future development of bronze ware.

For Heiwa, who often plays with mud, it is actually not easy to make a good mud mold.

Because most of the pottery he made were round.

Round bowls, round pottery jars, round jars...

He has mastered these things very well. As long as someone turns the stone plate, he can easily make extremely exquisite clay pieces.

But clay molds are different. They are not round. Instead, they are made by making holes of different shapes in the mixed clay according to the different objects being made.

Heiwa had done this once before, when he was casting a hammer out of crude copper.

He sweated a lot after struggling for so long that he finally managed to make a decent clay mold and a suitable copper hammer...

(I overestimated my typing speed, I will make up for that update tomorrow, I will definitely make it up tomorrow) Fupin Chinese