Chapter 184 Bronze Spear
Southern Wasteland, Teng Tribe, East of Feiyu River.
“Squeak, squeak, squeak…”
In the smelting workshop, Jiang Xuan poured a can of molten bronze into a large and long ceramic mold. He did not fill it to the brim. He stopped when it reached a certain level and put the can on the ground.
The pottery jar used to smelt molten bronze has become very strange in appearance after several improvements.
It looks like a large jade bottle.
The upper part of the bottle is divided into two parts, with a larger part bent upwards to form a very high handle, and a smaller part bent downwards to form a leaf-shaped spout.
In this way, after the molten bronze is smelted, you only need to wrap the upper part of the handle with animal skin, lift the entire pottery jar, and then inject the molten bronze into the ceramic mold through the leaf-shaped spout.
After Jiang Xuan poured the first can, he waited for a while until the bronze liquid in the ceramic mold gradually solidified. But before it was completely solidified, a soldier took out a can of bronze liquid from another smelting furnace and handed it to Jiang Xuan.
Jiang Xuan continued to pour it into the very long and large ceramic mold until it was full.
"Okay, let's wait and see whether the two bronzes with different proportions can make what I want."
Jiang Xuan and the two warriors waited patiently for the bronze in the ceramic mold to slowly solidify and cool down.
When it had cooled down enough, Jiang Xuan picked up a hammer and smashed the ceramic mold into pieces.
“Pah pah pah…”
The pottery continued to break, and a golden bronze spear gradually revealed its true appearance !
Jiang Xuan used a bronze hammer to hit the spear, making a crisp metal collision sound.
"good!"
Jiang Xuan picked up the bronze spear and waved it twice casually. He felt that it was much more convenient to use than a stone spear or a bone spear.
"Congratulations, Chief!"
"Chief, this spear is so beautiful."
The two warriors congratulated Jiang Xuan one after another, because this weapon was tailor-made for them by Jiang Xuan.
In order to cast this bronze spear, Jiang Xuan tried two different ratios of copper and tin, which was the first time in the Teng tribe.
In order to ensure its sharpness, the spear head is made of four parts copper and one part tin. In order to ensure sufficient toughness and a certain hardness, the spear shaft is made of three parts copper and one part tin.
Because of this, after pouring the bronze liquid on the spear head, he needed to wait for a while to allow the bronze liquid on the spear head to solidify, but it could not solidify completely, otherwise it would become disconnected from the spear shaft.
Jiang Xuan waved the spear a few times and then carefully observed the connection between the spear head and the shaft. He saw that the spear head and the shaft were integrated into one and were very well blended.
"That's right. It would be better if we go back and sharpen the spearhead a little more."
Jiang Xuan wrapped the bronze spear with a piece of animal skin and patted the two warriors on the shoulders.
"Thank you for your hard work. Without your help, this bronze spear would not have been so easy to cast."
The two warriors hurriedly said: "Leader, this is what we should do."
"I'll go back first. Next time I come over, I'll treat you to something good."
"Thank you, Chief."
Jiang Xuan left the smelting workshop with the bronze spear wrapped in animal skin, crossed the river by boat, and returned to his yard.
After returning, he couldn't wait to polish the tail of the bronze spear until it was smooth, because this place was the entrance during pouring, and some burrs would be left after pouring.
Then he found two whetstones, first sharpened the blade of the spear with the rough one, and then sharpened it again with the fine one.
This bronze spear was made using a ceramic mold using the lost wax method. The blade of the spear head was actually very thin, and after being sharpened twice, it became even sharper.
Jiang Xuan polished the spear shaft again to make it smoother.
"Give it a try."
With excitement in his heart and a sharpened bronze spear in his hand, he walked to a large log leaning against the wall beside the house.
“Zheng!”
Jiang Xuan shook violently, and the bronze spear made a crisp metallic vibration sound.
Then he stabbed the big log hard.
"Duo!"
With Jiang Xuan's enormous strength and extremely fast speed, the tip of the bronze spear penetrated deeply into the big wood.
Then he propped up the wood with his foot and pulled out the bronze spear, only to find that the blade of the spear was intact.
"Good weapon!"
Jiang Xuan was as happy as a child who got a new toy.
“Crack!”
He swung his bronze spear and cut off the branches of a small tree in the yard, and the branches and leaves fell to the ground.
In the bamboo shed, Tangyuan looked up at Jiang Xuan. It had no interest in the golden spear and continued to eat meat with its head down.
On the other side, Yueya was chewing the grass slowly, calmly watching Jiang Xuan chopping and stabbing everywhere with a bronze spear, her eyes were very gentle.
After fiddling with it for a long time, Jiang Xuan was very satisfied with the sharpness of the bronze spear head and the toughness of the spear shaft. He believed that this bronze spear would shine in hunting and combat in the future.
However, he soon became worried again.
"The bronze spear is good, but this glittering gold one is too conspicuous."
Jiang Xuan didn't want to expose the bronze weapon for the time being, otherwise it would definitely bring endless trouble.
Therefore, although the bronze spear was successfully cast, such a conspicuous object would definitely attract the attention of many people once it was taken out.
This gave him a headache. Did he have to forge a bronze spear but had to hide it at home and continue using the unsuitable bone spear?
Jiang Xuan sat on the doorstep, thought for a long time, and said, "Can we camouflage it so that it doesn't look so conspicuous?"
Jiang Xuan pondered for a while and tried to apply some grass juice on the spear shaft.
Soon, the luster of bronze became much dimmer where the grass juice was applied, but it was still very conspicuous compared to the stone spears and bone spears.
However, this attempt gave Jiang Xuan hope. There must be a way to disguise the bronze spear.
"Maybe my sister is more professional in this kind of thing!"
Jiang Xuan immediately stood up, wrapped the bronze spear with animal skin, and walked towards Chishao's yard with it.
At this time, Chishao was taking the two girls to wash the herbs they had just picked.
Chishao saw Jiang Xuan coming over and asked while washing the mud off the herbs, "Chief, is there anything wrong?"
"I really have something to ask you."
After Jiang Xuan finished speaking, he glanced at the two girls.
Chishao was a very smart and perceptive person. She immediately said to the two girls, "I have something to discuss with the leader. You can go back first."
"yes."
The two girls put down the herbs and left the yard together.
Chishao also put down the herbs, washed his hands, and asked, "What do you want from me?"
Jiang Xuan looked around, then opened the animal skin, revealing a golden bronze spear.
Chi Shao was surprised when she saw the bronze spear that was taller than a person. She said, "What a beautiful spear! Is this a bronze weapon?"
Jiang Xuan nodded and said, "Yes, I have just tried this bronze spear. It is very sharp and hard, and the blade is not easily damaged."
"However, the bronze spear is good, but it is too dazzling. If you use it outside, others will be able to tell that something is wrong at a glance, and it will cause a lot of trouble."
Chishao asked: "Then what do you want to do?"
Jiang Xuan showed Chi Shao the part of the bronze spear that had been painted with grass juice: "I just painted this part with grass juice. Look, is it not so conspicuous now?"
Chishao nodded and said, "It's indeed not that conspicuous, but even if it is covered with grass juice, it will at most dim the light of this spear."
"I thought so too, so I want to ask you, sister, is there a kind of paint that won't fade and can completely cover up the luster of the bronze spear and make it look more ordinary."
"Let me think about it."
Chishao looked at the bronze spear and pondered the properties of various pigments.
"There really is a kind of paint. Wait a minute."
Chishao walked into the house and soon took out a pottery jar. After opening the lid, a grayish-white pigment was revealed.
"Once this kind of paint is applied, it is difficult to fall off. After it dries, it looks almost the same color as the stone. I'll take a piece of stone and try it out for you."
Chishao found a dark green stone, placed it on the ground, then used an animal hair brush to dip some paint and brushed it on the stone.
Then she picked up the stone with a wooden stick, brought it into the house, and placed it over the fire to bake.
Under the high temperature, the pigment dried quickly, and a grayish-white mark appeared on the dark green stone.
Then Chishao took the stone back outside and put it on the ground.
She scooped up some water with a ladle made from the fruit of a gourd plant, poured it on the stone, and rubbed it with her hands, but the grayish-white paint did not come off at all.
Chishao said, "You see, this kind of pigment cannot be washed off with water once it has been baked with fire. Your bronze weapon is also made of stone, so it should be able to be painted with this kind of pigment."
Jiang Xuan picked up the dark green stone, looked at the paint in the pottery jar, put the bronze spear on the ground, and said, "Try it on the spear shaft first."
Chishao nodded, then used a hair brush to brush some paint on the end of the spear shaft, and then took it to the fire to bake.
After a while, the paint dried up and the tail of the spear was no longer golden, but the same color as the gray stone, and it looked inconspicuous.
"for you."
Chi Shao handed the bronze spear to Jiang Xuan.
Jiang Xuan took the bronze spear to the pool, scooped some water, soaked it for a while, and then rubbed it hard with his hands, but the paint on the spear did not fall off at all.
"Great, this is exactly the effect I want."
Jiang Xuan excitedly walked to the pottery jar containing paint, then picked up the animal hair brush, brushed the paint on half of the bronze spear shaft, and took it to bake.
After drying, the other part of the bronze spear was painted and put in the baking again.
When all the paint was baked, his bronze spear had changed drastically.
The bronze spear that was originally shining with golden light has now turned grayish white, as if it were made of stone.
In this way, even if Jiang Xuan took out the bronze spear to use, no one would think that his weapon was actually made of a new material.
Jiang Xuan said excitedly: "Sister, you have done a great job this time!"
"With this pigment, not only me, but many warriors in our tribe will be able to use bronze weapons in the future without worrying about being discovered by other tribes."
Chishao also smiled: "That's great."
The two sat by the pool and talked for a long time about the impact of bronze weapons on the tribe...
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"The stone mountain and the vine wall are exactly the same as what Chief Xuan said. This should be the Vine Tribe."
On the top of a mountain south of the Vine Tribe, Shanjia looked at a stone mountain shrouded in mist in the distance and the towering vine wall surrounding it, and he breathed a sigh of relief.
"keep going!"
Panicula walked down from the top of the mountain, riding on a giant turtle, and led the warriors of the Mountain Turtle Tribe towards the Teng Tribe.
When we got near the Teng tribe, there were more and more roads and more and more people.
There were tourists and people from other tribes, which made the warriors of the Mountain Turtle Tribe highly alert, fearing that someone would attack them.
However, they walked all the way to the vine wall and did not encounter any attacks, which made the mountain garter feel relieved.
"What a tall vine wall!"
The pangolin stood under the vine wall, looked up at the towering vine wall, and felt very shocked.
The Mountain Turtle Tribe also has a wall, but it is a low wooden fence, which is far inferior to the vine wall in front of them.
After Shanjia sighed for a while, he saw many people entering the Teng tribe through a doorway, so he led his people over.
The Teng tribe warriors from the guard team had already seen them and sent someone to tell Jiang Xuan.
When Jiang Xuan arrived in front of the doorway, Jiang Xuan, who had received the news, had already hurried over.
"Chief Panther, welcome to the Vine Tribe!"
Jiang Xuan walked out the door, laughing and gave Shan Jia a bear hug.
"Chief Xuan, it's great to see you!"
Shanjia was very surprised because he didn't expect Jiang Xuan to come outside the tribe to greet him.
"Hahaha, Chief Panther, you didn't even tell me before you came so I could send someone to pick you up."
"You must be tired after walking so far. Let's go inside to rest and eat something."
Jiang Xuan enthusiastically led the pangolin inside, and the warriors brought by the pangolin also followed in. Only the giant mountain tortoises were left outside temporarily and looked after by the warriors of the Teng tribe.
After entering the vine wall, Shan Jia first saw a huge jackal skull. He was surprised and asked, "Chief Xuan, what is this?"
Jiang Xuan smiled and said, "This is the skull left by the guardian god of the Jackal Tribe. It is now placed here as a decoration."
Shanjia was very shocked, but didn't say it out loud.
Soon, he noticed a row of houses on the left. People were coming and going in front of the houses, many of them were tourists, and some were from other tribes. So he asked, "Chief Xuan, is that the trading area of your Teng tribe?"
In the spring, Jiang Xuan went to the Mountain Turtle Tribe to trade magic mushrooms and told the Mountain Armor Tribe about the establishment of a trading area in the Vine Tribe.
"Yes, that's the trading area. It's not very big right now, so there aren't many things that can be traded."
"Chief Xuan, can you take me over to have a look?"
"sure."
Jiang Xuan brought Shanjia and others into the trading area and introduced him to the various shops in the trading area.
After seeing the whole thing, Shanjia was greatly shocked. The trading area of the Teng tribe had a wide variety of goods, which was many times better than the previous trading area of the Shangui tribe.
He finally realized that what the witch said was right. The Teng Tribe was much more powerful than he had imagined.
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(End of this chapter)
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