Chapter 45 Preparation before ironmaking

In the morning, when Stone and others went out, they immediately saw a rattan-like saddle-like thing on their mounts. After summoning their respective mounts, Stone and others immediately sat up and felt it. In addition to pedaling, they even had all the armrests and backrests, which really cost a lot of time. Kung Fu, even if you sit on it and sleep, there is absolutely no problem, completely freeing everyone's hands.

"Zixuan, you did a good job. You don't have to teach them today. Go to the mine with us!"

With that, Xiaoguai began to pick out 30 rattan baskets that Zixuan and others made overnight and tied them to the pterosaurs. Before leaving, he told the giant brothers a few words and began to fly to the coal mine in the distance.

Speaking of which, they are really lucky. Although this coal mine is nearly 20 kilometers away from Carlo's tribe, for some reason, a large piece of the mine hidden in the dense forest collapsed. Those bare/exposed coal seams are readily available, but it takes some money to carry. Kung Fu.

For good, they are not ordinary people. A few energy fists were blown over, and the coal seams that formed into a whole were immediately bombarded into pieces and scattered on the ground.

Under Zixuan's arrangement, except for the pterosaur she rode, all the rest of the saddles were untied. Two rattan baskets are set up on two deliberately high-padded large stones. In this way, when the stone porters moved the coal into the rattan basket and filled them, Zixuan immediately commanded a pterodactyl to crawl in from the empty space between the two large stones, and then slowly stood up and was tied together with a thick rattan. The two rattan baskets connected by ropes hung easily on the back of the pterosaur.

Loading is still continuing. Zixuan began to command the pterosaur to fly in mid-air. After several attempts, it was determined that the medium-sized pterosaur could only mount a 500 catties on its body at most. After thinking about it, Zixuan began to let the stone to control the loading weight within 450 catties. Looking at this pterosaur, the body immediately became light. Many, fluttered, flew into mid-air and fell to the open space on one side under Zixuan's command.

After a total of eight pterosaurs were mounted with rattan baskets full of coal, Zixuan immediately sat on her mount and flew into the air first. Behind her, there was a straight line of pterosaurs and began to fly to the tribe.

When they arrived over the tribe, the giant brothers immediately ran over and guided Zixuan to land slowly. Without anyone else's help, the Giant Brothers quickly unloaded the coal in the rattan basket into a simple wooden fence that had just been completed, which was a temporary coal warehouse.

Watching Zixuan take these pterosaurs away, except for the sentries responsible for guarding, almost all the whole tribe ran to the giant brothers curiously and looked at the black stones and kept asking curiously.

The giant brothers spread out their hands helplessly and said, "This thing is called coal. I heard from several adults that they can burn more than our torches. They can melt metal and are used as fuel!"

This explanation still made everyone a little dissatisfied. They picked up the black and oily stones and looked at them curiously, noticing that their hands and hands were already black.

At noon, Stone and others ate the roasted animal meat and fruit brought by Zixuan from the tribe, rested for a while, and began to move the battlefield.

In one morning, these pterosaurs went back and forth 20 times, and almost transported back nearly 32 tons of coal, and the efficiency was quite amazing. The little boy immediately gave up the idea of preparing to subdue more pterosaurs, and even the idea of preparing to get some large dinosaurs was completely eliminated.

This pterodactyl consumes about 300 catties of meat a day, which is equivalent to the daily meal of 50 people. It's horrible just thinking about it.

When everyone came to the iron mine, because of their previous experience in transporting coal, coupled with the mastery of holy clothes, the iron ore was quickly bombarded out of the stone pile, but the iron ore of the same size was much heavier than that of coal, and the rattan basket made by Zixuan and others could only hold less than two-thirds of it. Location.

However, compared with the distance between coal mountains and tribes, this iron mine is half the distance away, and they began to work hard, hoping to transport enough iron ore before the evening.

For good, these pterosaurs had much more endurance than everyone thought. They persisted until the evening. When they returned to the tribe with stones, they almost fell down from the air because they had exhausted their strength.

Looking at the scars strangled by rattan on the back of these pterosaurs, Zixuan said sadly, "We are indeed abusing them today, and these rattan baskets for transporting supplies must be*."

Of course, the task of * is naturally Zixuan.

As the most powerful Taisui family with life power in history, Xiao Taisui does not hesitate to repair the bodies of those injured pterosaurs and help them recover their vitality, which makes these pterosaurs begin to have a special emotion for Xiao Taisui.

After the wounds on the pterosaurs were fully recovered, more than a dozen women in the tribe immediately carried various water containers and began to scrub the pterosaurs with a towel-like thing made of hair-like plant fibers. Finally, the giant brothers came with a stretcher full of barbecue. In front of these pterosaurs, these women immediately began to feed these pterosaurs that had worked hard all day. It can be said that this treatment was not enjoyed by any human in the tribe.

They are now standing in front of two hills. Of course, this is not a real mountain, but coal and iron ore that have been transported back after a day.

"How about it, little boy? Can we start ironmaking tomorrow?"

Xiaoguai said, "Shitou, you are too eager. There were still two days left for us to be miners according to the plan, but we have completed the task today. This ironmaking is easy to say, but the specific operation is still quite complicated. We have to do some preparatory work.

Stone asked, "What else do you need to prepare?"

Xiaoguai said, "Many conditions are not available in the world we live in now, so we can only imitate the ironmaking process of the ancients. Although it is primitive, swords such as Mo Xie are really created by these ancient people with this primitive method."

Stone smiled and said, "What on earth are you trying to say?"

Xiaoguai said, "The ancients' process of ironmaking is extremely simple, but there are many processes. However, we still have one very important thing to do now, that is, to make a large number of molds, from nails to iron pots and so on. Of course, what we need most now is a large furnace. In a word, these things all depend on your progress, because we can dissolve iron water at any time, but it depends on your molds to make something.

The stone finally understood and said, "This is not difficult. You can see a melting pot made of energy crystals tomorrow morning."

Mo Yu suddenly asked, "Isn't it a little too exaggerated to spend on a thing as big as a furnace?"

Stone smiled and said, "We have enough energy now. If possible, I really don't think I need to get these irons and so on. Replace them directly with energy crystals, and the effect is better."

The little boy glanced at the stone and said, "If you can really do this, the world will definitely fall into chaos. In the hands of ordinary people, the things created by those energy crystals are just a life-threatening charm. After all, these energy crystal products are really going to flood the world, and we are afraid that we will have no prestige by then!"

Stone nodded and said, "All things should be done step by step. These things will be handed over to me. Everyone go back to your room and rest!"

The reason why Xiaoguai and Xiao Taisui didn't leave is simple, because they don't need to sleep at all.

Seeing that the two partners did not leave, Stone Sober discussed the size and size of the furnace with them, and even conceived all the details that could be thought of.

The furnace is not mysterious, but just a container. In order to better improve the temperature inside the furnace, the stone even imagines a blower next to the furnace.

Of course, the task of this blowbox is given to Xiaoguai and Xiao Taisui. Anyway, they are also idle.

Closing his eyes, the stone began to carefully imagine every detail of the furnace in his mind, including how to make the melting iron water in the upper space not be polluted by the cinder below, and to ensure that the part connected to the bellows will not be affected by high temperature. In short, the stone is more detailed the idea at this time. The furnace will be more perfect.

After dawn, when people opened the door and came out, they immediately found a strange thing that was almost transparent and shiny next to the two hills in the distance. Driven by curiosity, the people immediately came down the wooden ladder, ran over and began to watch.

Hearing the bustling voices outside, the stone rubbed his eyes and sat up from the rattan mat on the ground, yawned a few times, and stood up and walked out.

Looking from afar, the furnace did have some artistic beauty. This is because the stone changed some of its naive ideas in time with the help of the holy clothes, which made the furnace into a handicraft. According to the estimation of Xiaoguai and Xiao Taisui at that time, this big guy with a diameter of five meters and a height of only four meters had a whole Two tons, I really don't know how much energy is consumed.

The stone looked at the pointing crowd, suddenly laughed, rinsed his mouth randomly by the sink, washed his face, and ran down.

Seeing the stone coming, the crowd immediately gave way. They saw Xiaoguai and Xiao Taisui also squeezed into the crowd. The stone was a little surprised. It turned out that the two were assembling the blower, but the stone was not seen before.

"Stone, give us another half an hour, and we can officially put it into production. Let's see what the effect is!"

Stone smiled and said, "I'm going to prepare for this kind of scene. Giant Brothers are indispensable."

As soon as the words fell, a loud voice shouted, "Deputy captain, our brother is on standby at any time, waiting for your instructions."

Stone smiled and walked to the giant brothers standing in front of the coal pile and said, "After your two teachers are ready, you will put the coals on the bottom according to their requirements, and put some iron ore on them appropriately. Some places still need to be explored, so you can wait for orders at any time."

The giant brother nodded and said, "What else do we need to do besides this?"

Stone said, "Leave the rest to me. You just need to watch carefully. In the future, you will have to be responsible for these ironmaking things."

The two brothers looked at each other and said, "We remember!"