From Chief to Ball

Yu Qian'er thought for a while, and asked with some headaches: "But 150 steps, 140 men, how much is each person's share?"

"Idiot, you won't let them dig one step each, and dig the remaining ten steps together?"

Yu Qian'er said happily: "Yes, everyone digs more than one step, that is, ten steps are divided into 140 people..."

But then he frowned again, this wouldn't count.Besides, even if it is calculated, how can a rope that is one step long be divided into so many shares?

Chen Jian looked at the frowning younger sister and said with a smile: "Think about it slowly, I have to go out. Don't forget to talk to your mother and grandmother more. The grandmother likes to recall the past, so you can ask her more about the past. What’s the matter, don’t keep saying things she doesn’t understand. Remember to boil water with platycodon and almonds for the old grandmother, she always coughs these days.”

"Understood, I'm not a child anymore, I remember it all. Brother, do you think mother will give us a younger brother or younger sister?"

Chen Jian laughed and said, "Ask mom, do you want to drink vinegar? Or eat mustard seeds. If you drink vinegar, you are a younger brother, and if you eat mustard seeds, you are a younger sister."

Yu Qian'er rolled her eyes, thinking that at dinner time, she would put vinegar and mustard seeds in front of her sisters and aunts, and secretly see what they were eating.They can tell whether they are a boy or a girl in their womb, and they will definitely feel that they are very powerful after they are born.

With this excited thought, I ran off to get ready.

Chen Jian watched his younger sister run away with a smile, found the most capable fighter among the ten tribes, took a former member of Hua with him, and left the village on a horned deer.

"Do you remember where Birch found the green stone?"

"Remember, not far from our previous cave, there are some puddles where the water is blue-green, but you can't drink it. Some people in the tribe drank it before, and the waist hurt the next day, and then they died."

"What are you drinking that stuff for?"

"It was blue, the same color as the sky. Some people said it was the sky that fell to the ground, so they drank it. After he died, none of us dared to drink it."

"Take us to the mountain."

Knowing that Chen Jian would never go looking for something for no reason, Wolfpi brought the horned deer to Chen Jianjian and asked, "What are those green stones used for? They can't be used as hairpins for women, right?"

"Of course not. Those stones can make spears and axes sharper than stones."

"Impossible! We tried it a few days ago when we were drilling, and the green stone is much softer than the white stone."

"You'll find out later."

Two days later, a sleet fell in late autumn. It was only a dozen miles away from the mountain. I found a cave to rest. From a distance, the top of the mountain was covered with snow, but the bottom of the mountain was still unique to late autumn. Dim yellow.

After the rain cleared, a group of people came to the bottom of the mountain. Because of the rain, some copper salt seeped out of the mountain, dyeing the stones on the mountain with green spots the size of snowflakes.

Walking around the mountain, looking at the mottled verdigris, Chen Jian felt that there should be a lot of copper mines down the mountain.

The clansman took them to see a small pool hidden on the top of the mountain. It was indeed blue-green, holding it in his hand like holding the blue sky.

The surrounding area is full of rocks, and there are no big trees. There is a piece of gravel at the bottom of the mountain. It is said that it is there that Hua picked up the malachite.

Chen Jian led his men to search for a long time in the pile of rubble, and found a few pieces of malachite that were not of very good quality.Holding a large piece of granite, he smashed it a few times when he saw black stones, and finally found a few pieces of natural copper.

The black oxide on the outside was exposed, and the yellow metal inside shone brightly in the sunlight. This was the first metal he saw after coming to this world.

Iron is easy to rust and oxidize under natural conditions. Meteorite can be stored for a long time because it contains nickel and chromium, which has a stainless effect. He has no chance to see these two kinds.

There is natural copper in nature, but copper is too soft, and using copper directly as a weapon can only be blunt, and copper shrinks severely when it cools, and it is easy to break.

Copper mines are usually associated with tin-lead ore or silver mines, so it is not a big problem to smelt alloys, and the smelting temperature of tin is only three to four hundred degrees, so there is no difficulty.

It is best to find lead ore. If the scalping tribe has already formed a settlement, it is estimated that it will have a transaction with its own tribe.

Time to see what the skin is.If it weren't for the yellow skin, the lead ore would be dissolved in vinegar to make sweet lead candy, and sold to them together with the sour wine to exchange for horses. It is estimated that in ten or twenty years at most, that tribe would almost die out, saving trouble.

It's just that he has never seen lead mines before, but tin mines are easy to recognize. They are unique crystals, which look like diamonds with edges and corners. It seems that he can only try a little bit.

Put those pieces of natural copper away, and asked the guide, "How far is it from Caohe River?"

"It will take half a day to go out along the valley."

"so far?"

Chen Jian climbed to the top of the mountain, looked at the mountains in the distance, and thought about how to mine these copper mines.

This place is too far away from the city of my own tribe, and now it must be mainly farming. There is not so many people to mine for the time being, and it is impossible to build a village here to be responsible for smelting.Because the smelting technology must be in the hands of their own tribe, it is impossible for their own tribe to give up the land and run here.

The only way is to mine the ore back to the edge of the Grass River and send it downstream by boat. If a village with a population of more than 2000 is replaced with bronze weapons and agricultural tools, at least one ton of copper will be needed. The ore here is not bad in quality, but twenty tons of ore are needed.

Bronze farm tools and weapons are the top priority. As for things such as ritual vessels and sacrifices, you can wait for a while. Once farm tools and weapons become popular, the speed of population integration will speed up, and there will be enough people to mine.

It seems that everyone has to be mobilized to recite the mine once.

The first batch of bronze was smelted to make a saw and axe, and a simple road could be built.With the road, you can consider the wheels, which should be able to meet the daily needs of the tribe.

After calculating all this, he called the clansmen who were still looking for stones at the foot of the mountain, and returned along the road.

There is still a lot to do when I go back. I need to build a copper furnace, build a few small docks, and try to get a copper forceps before the children are born. It is not too technical, but it can save too many babies and babies. woman.

Looking back at the hill full of boulders, the copper flowers leached after the rain are particularly beautiful.

That seemed to be the dawn of the Bronze Age.

Chapter 32 Unaffordable Industry

After returning to the village, Chen Jian went to visit his grandmother first.

The old grandmother had been coughing badly for the past few days, and Yu Qian'er was asking some stories about the past and bringing up some topics of interest to the old man. As expected, as Chen Jian told her, there was not a single new word.

The old grandmother's eyes were shining brightly, recalling the past, telling her grandchildren, and chatting about some stories that have been told many times.

Yu Qian'er always finds out what the grandmother most wants to say, and even says some stupid words deliberately, so that the old grandmother has the opportunity to show her wisdom and experience.

Seeing Chen Jian, the old man asked with a smile: "Why don't you go to your business? I'm just coughing, don't worry."

Chen Jian knew that the greatest filial piety was to make the grandmother feel useful, so he asked, "Grandma, how old is the newborn child?"

The old grandmother looked at Chen Jian, smiled and shook her head and said: "Very small, wrinkled all over. When you were born, you couldn't cry. Your mother was so frightened that she froze. It was I who slapped you hard. Your ass is what made you cry."

Recalling the past, he smiled and felt warmer.

She has always been cold recently, even though the children have sent a lot of furs and sewed overshoes and gloves out of rabbit skins, the blood is still like cold and sticky mud. After the rain, she thought of her gradually cooling blood.

Chen Jian laughed when he heard his grandmother talk about his own birth.

"By the way, grandma, let Yu Qian'er make a clay figurine the size of a newborn child out of mud, especially the head should be about the same size. She hasn't seen it before when she was young, so you tell her how to make it."

"Okay, Yu Qian'er, go digging now."

When Yuqian'er went out, the old grandmother stretched out her hand to touch her grandson's hand and said, "Jian, how long will it take for the wheat to turn yellow?"

"A few months."