I am a primitive

The pimples on the top are loose, not regular at all.

It feels lighter in hand.

It is much lighter than an iron block of the same volume.

When Han Cheng took this extremely unattractive mixture of iron and impurities and looked it over carefully, the second senior brother had already started mixing mud, and re-sealed the hole that was previously opened on the furnace wall.

After doing these things, I took some firewood from the side by the way, put it in the stove, and ignited it.

This is to dry the newly filled piece of wet soil as quickly as possible, and then continue to burn the iron ore that has not melted.

While the second senior brother was doing this, there were quite a few people around, all staring at the mixture of iron and impurities in Han Cheng's hand.

Many people couldn't help scratching their heads with their hands.

Because what they saw in front of them was very different from the few tools made of meteoric iron they had seen before.

People who have seen meteorite iron tools really can't figure out what method can be used to turn the iron in its current state into a regular and usable tool.

"Son of God, why didn't you use a mold to catch it? Don't you have to melt it again after a while?"

After standing beside Han Cheng for a long time, someone finally couldn't help asking out the doubts in his heart.

Many of the rest of the people followed suit and nodded.

This is indeed what confuses them the most.

Because of the increasing popularity of tribal bronze tools, many people in the tribe have seen how to smelt bronze and how to cast bronze utensils.

They think that the making of ironware is the same as bronze. When the iron juice has just flowed out, a mold is placed underneath, let it flow into the mold, and then the tools they want to have are cast.

It is not surprising that they, who lack knowledge and have a certain understanding of bronze casting, would have such an idea.

Because many times, people's imagination is based on some things they know and come into contact with.

In the case of pure molten iron, using this method, of course there is no problem in casting many utensils.

Things like plowshares.

But what is being made now is obviously not pure molten iron.

And the number is really too small.

Basically, it's not enough to cast things.

"Wait a minute, now there are too many impurities and the quantity is too small..."

Han Cheng said to these people and explained.

While saying this, he began to direct some people in the tribe to raise another stove nearby.

This stove is different from the stove that is being covered with wet mud by the second senior brother, it is much lower.

This furnace is not for smelting steel, but for forging iron.

That is the so-called blacksmithing stove.

After the second senior brother over there pasted up the iron-smelting stove, the flames here also started to burn.

Under the impetus of the bellows, the charcoal is burning.

Bright red.

Seeing this, Han Cheng placed the lump in his hand on the stove and let the charcoal fire burn it.

After doing this for a while, the lump was completely burnt red.

Seeing this, Han Cheng used a bronze pliers prepared in advance to clamp it out of the furnace and placed it on a prepared bronze ingot.

In the other hand, holding a small hammer, he beat the lump.

It doesn't take much effort, because the gap between the lumps is too big at this time.

If you use too much force, it will not be easy to beat them together.

As Han Cheng hit it with a hammer, the thing began to deform.

The gaps between them began to shrink, their shapes began to change, and they began to gradually become regular.

Moreover, as he knocked, some things would fall off from the main body of this lump and fly to the side.

Someone at the side saw it, and after waiting for a while, after the color of these flying things changed from red to black, they bent down and reached out to pick them up.

It's a pity that my own tribe only got such a little thing now, and it collapsed.

It is better to pick it up and let Shenzi continue to beat it.

He picked it up very carefully, not letting go of the smallest crumb.

Such a move was soon seen by Han Cheng.

Faced with such a careful move by the tribal people, while he was a little dumbfounded, he also felt a little moved in his heart.

"Don't pick them up, these are impurities, not iron.

Only by beating and separating as many impurities contained in it as possible can we obtain useful iron."

Han Cheng stopped the man with a smile and gave the reason.

Hearing what Han Cheng said, the man threw away some of the dregs he picked up in his hands, and looked a little embarrassed.

After Han Cheng knocked on it for a while, the color of the lump was not so red anymore.

Seeing this, Han Cheng stopped beating, picked it up with pliers, and put it back on the iron stove for burning.

The bellows next to the stove are not moving when the iron is not being burned.

Only when an iron block is placed on it for burning will people push the bellows.

In this way, not only can the consumption of charcoal be reduced, but also the person who pushes and pulls the bellows can take a break without being too tired.

With the push and pull of the bellows, the blacksmithing stove, which had looked dim not long ago, soon became bright red again.

It didn't take long before this lump of stuff became red again.

Seeing this, Han Cheng took it out with pliers again, placed it on the copper ingot and beat it...

Blacksmithing is something that requires a lot of repetition.