Chen Yang and his team experimented with it, and although it hadn't been refined, the iron hammer was still very easy to use, and its power completely surpassed that of the stone hammer.
"Next, let's make the axe. This requires constant folding and hammering. I think we should call Hong Gui; he's the most suitable."
Chen Yang smiled and said, "Okay, then Brother Jiang and I will go and exchange him and Li Sen. Whether we can successfully enter the Iron Age depends on you."
Guo Zifeng laughed and said, "Ordinary ironware is no problem. Give me a month, and I can forge all the ironware that everyone needs. After finishing the axe, I will make iron pots and hoes first, as these are more urgently needed."
“I agree, with an iron wok we can cook,” Jiang Bo said.
They mainly cook soups and barbecues now, and rarely stir-fry dishes because it's inconvenient to stir-fry in pottery.
"There shouldn't be any domestic pigs in the micro-world. Wild boar meat is too firm and difficult to render into lard. Otherwise, we would have lard."
Chen Yang said with some regret.
They used to render oil from various animal meats, but the taste wasn't particularly good. However, nowadays they mostly cook stews and barbecues, so their need for oil isn't very high. But if they use an iron pot, then they need a lot of oil.
"Don't worry about that. Many plants can be pressed for oil. We'll figure out how to press the oil when spring comes." Jiang Bo grew up in the countryside, where many elderly people press their own oil to eat. There are many ways to do it.
Chen Yang and Jiang Bo quickly rowed back on the bamboo raft before it got dark, planning to have Hong Gui and Li Sen come over tomorrow.
These two trips made them realize that they needed at least two bamboo rafts, otherwise only one side of the island and the mainland could use the rafts.
"Let's design a cloud-like propeller that can be pedaled, which is both labor-saving and efficient," Chen Yang said.
Jiang Bo nodded. He and Yun had already collaborated on building houses, so building another bamboo raft wouldn't be difficult. It was just a pity for that bamboo forest.
When the bamboo raft stopped by the lake, Grandpa Yun was tending to the fishpond. He was cleaning it barefoot in the pond.
Chen Yang quickly pulled the old man up and said with a wry smile, "Old man, you're too old to go into the water. If you catch a cold, your son and grandson will not let me off the hook."
“They wouldn’t dare!” The old man’s eyes widened. “It’s alright, I’m in good health.”
“That won’t work either. Let Yun Shi help you. His supervision will be more effective,” Chen Yang said.
Grandfathers love and fear their grandchildren the most. Although Grandpa Yun is strict, he still loves Yun Shi very much. Yun Shi even dares to scold his grandfather in some ways.
If it were Yun Hulai, would he dare to reprimand the old man? He'd be lucky not to get beaten up; that's the difference between a son and a grandson.
As Master Yun's apprentice and being of the "grandson" generation, Chen Yang could say a few words without being scolded by Master Yun.
After bringing Grandpa Yun back to the camp, Chen Yang told everyone about the situation. Li Sen and Hong Gui also expressed their willingness to go to the island. Li Sen, in particular, thought it was very romantic and that he and Hong Gui could live happily ever after on the island.
However, when he mentioned the phrase "flying together in pairs," an unpleasant image inevitably flashed through everyone's minds, giving them goosebumps.
Chen Yang observed the dozen or so deer, who seemed unaccustomed to captive life, scurrying about restlessly within the enclosure.
"Just finding food for them every day is a huge undertaking," Ye Wu said with a bitter face. He rarely goes out hunting these days, spending almost all his time searching for food for the animals.
"Food will be easier to find when spring arrives," Chen Yang said with a smile.
These are all wild animals, and we dare not let them roam freely. Letting them go out to find grass to eat on their own is no different from releasing them into the wild.
"Look, we have a baby duck!" Xiao Chenliu brought a baby duck over to show Chen Yang.
With time flowing at three times the normal rate, the animals reproduced and grew much faster, and the ducklings had already been born. However, for some reason, the chickens hadn't incubated their eggs.
The weather is not so cold now, making hunting much easier. Not only that, the fish in the pond are multiplying rapidly, attracting many animals to steal them. So they simply set traps next to the pond and have a very good harvest, even catching a fox.
This has led to them wearing increasingly high-end furs, including tiger, wolf, leopard, and fox skins, making them look more and more like a primitive tribe.
However, some of their facilities far surpass those of primitive tribes. Putting aside the two modern items, the tenacious blade and the watch, their houses are something that people from primitive tribes could not build.
The complex mortise and tenon structure is the culmination of thousands of years of Chinese civilization, along with mature breeding methods, reasonable dietary combinations, woven straw mats and clothing, all of which far surpass those of primitive tribes.
And now they're even going to start smelting iron directly. The entire knowledge of human society is supporting the progress of the micro-world.
However, Chen Yang knew that they still had a long way to go.
He didn't want to make the micro-world like the human world, with all sorts of high-tech products and abundant entertainment activities.
He only hopes that everyone has enough to eat and wear, something to do, and the leisure to do what they want.
They are still far from their goal, and they cannot settle down in the camp yet, as many facilities are inadequate.
He no longer needed to participate in the iron smelting; he could just wait for the results. So he started planning to do something else.
Brewing wine—that's his next plan.
Humans have a long history of brewing wine. Thousands of years ago, before many other technologies had been developed, humans had already learned how to use fermentation techniques.
In fact, there are many things in the micro-world that can be used to make wine, especially fruit wine. It's just that they haven't had the time or energy to do so.
If they can brew sake, they can also make medicinal wine.
The micro-realm has many medicinal herbs, but they haven't made full use of them. Even the precious ginseng Chen Yang brought back from Changbai Mountain was used to make medicinal wine.
We still need to consider what specific ingredients to use for brewing Chen Yang; perhaps it can also be used to brew a variety of wines.
Besides winemaking, oil pressing, and vinegar brewing, these can also be included in the plan.
The seven necessities of life are firewood, rice, oil, salt, soy sauce, vinegar, and tea, and there are still many things that the micro-world hasn't achieved yet.
"Spring, please come quickly," Chen Yang murmured.
He now truly understood the meaning of the two idioms he learned in first grade: "Spring returns to the earth, all things revive."
"Are you in heat?" Li Su'er asked, leaning closer after hearing Chen Yang's mutterings.
"As a girl, you should be more simple-minded," Chen Yang said.
Li Su'er pouted dismissively and said, "I call this a tomboy, you know? Tomboyish women are very popular these days."
“That’s right, tomboys are very popular.” Xiao Qi came over to join in the fun.
Her meddling instantly changed the meaning of Li Su'er's words, causing Chen Yang to burst into laughter.
"Alien Yang, do you have some kind of special fetish? How many people are there in our micro-world? There are already three 'comrades': Xiao Qi, Li Sen, and Hong Gui. Isn't that a bit too high a ratio?"
Chen Yang was taken aback. He had never thought of this before, but now that he saw it, it was true; the proportion was too high.
Seeing that Chen Yang didn't refute her, Li Su'er looked at him suspiciously. "I'm such a beautiful and youthful girl, and you haven't been moved at all after chasing you for so long. Alien Yang, you wouldn't really be..."
"……roll."
(End of this chapter)
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