Chapter 19: Making Iron Tools
Tang Dou cut the goat that was bitten to death by Little Ash and made a delicious meal of brushed mutton, even if there was no condiment, everyone ate it very deliciously.
After Tang Dou strengthened the sheepfold, the matter of feeding was handed over to them, and he continued to hunt with Little Ash.
"I'll go, this is coal, coal that can burn!" Tang Dou crossed a hill with small ash ash, and he found that his feet were full of coal that could be burned, and he could get better coal mines by digging with his hands, better than those large open-pit coal mines.
Tang Dou dug a basket of coal, and then walked back, the coal mine is much more comfortable than burning firewood, it is not easy to extinguish, and it obtains more heat energy, with these coals, there is no need to worry about not being able to survive in winter.
Tang Dou rebuilt a stove with bricks, a stove of about one meter, and made a chimney, Tang Dou took the women to the location of the coal mine, when they were fine, they also helped dig some coal mines, and also saved the work of going into the mountains and forests to find firewood.
"Little Gray Ash, do you think it will be fooled?" Tang Dou said as he hid in the bushes with Little Gray and looked at the grass in front of him.
"It's coming, it's coming! I'm going to say my efforts won't be in vain. Looking at the tiger on the grass that was about to break into the trap, Tang Dou almost screamed excitedly, the two of them had been staring at this big guy for a day or two, and they were finally able to take it today.
With the help of Little Gray Ash, Tang Dou is now hunting with half the effort, every time he can get a large amount of prey, some are bitten to death by Little Gray Ash in the process of fighting, some are shot to death by Tang Dou's arrows, and some are alive, Tang Dou has raised them in captivity, and now there are more than a dozen wild boars, more than a dozen goats, countless pheasants and ducks in the entire residence, even if Tang Dou does not hunt, there will be no shortage of food for a while.
"Tang Doudou, you dig a fish pond!" Watching Tang Dou soak the tiger skin he had just hunted, An Ran said to him.
"Digging a fish pond?" Tang Dou asked suspiciously.
"We can't eat all the fish and shrimp we harvest every day, dig a fish pond and raise it, so that we can eat our own fish and shrimp at any time!"
"That's a good idea, digging a fish pond is a big project, I'll make two big bamboo baskets first, raise the fish and shrimp by the creek first, and when I find the right tools, we're digging the fish pond!" It's not that Tang Dou is unwilling to dig the fish pond, but he doesn't have the tools at hand, if he has a hoe, he can start digging the fish pond immediately.
"That's a good idea, I'll leave it to you!" An Ran walked away with small steps, leaving Tang Dou with a mysterious back.
Tang Dou hung the three tiger skins in his hand on the bamboo poles, which had been soaked in lime water, and the smell of blood had dimmed, which could be used as a cold bedding for everyone.
"Tools, Lao Tzu will enter the mountain tomorrow, I don't believe it, such a big desert island, there is not even a little iron ore, if you find iron ore, everything will be solved!" Tang Dou muttered while weaving a bamboo cage.
"Ding, the gift package once a month is coming, do you want to open it?" Tang Dou just got up, he heard the sound of the system, Tang Dou couldn't help but suddenly, four months have passed so quickly, if he hadn't heard the sound of the system, Tang Dou would have almost forgotten that he had such a tool against the sky.
"Open, open quickly, it's better to have a hoe, I need a hoe!" Tang Dou said anxiously.
"Open the gift bag and get a treasure chest for grandma!"
"Fuck, system, your uncle, what I want is a hoe, why do you give me a treasure chest, I don't play games......" Tang Dou has the heart to die, guarding a treasure land, and the pain of no tools is incomprehensible to others!
"Once the gift package is sent, it will not be returned!" The cold voice of the system sounded, and then a quaint box appeared in Tang Dou's hand, it was a square box twenty centimeters wide, and it was really the grandmother's treasure chest, old enough and quaint.
Tang Dou opened the treasure chest in his hand, there were four layers, the first layer was a sewing box, a few thread balls, and a pair of sharp scissors, as well as some gadgets related to needlework, although he couldn't use these things, but a few women could use them.
Open the second layer, there are some seeds, there are peppers, eggplant, cucumbers, but also cabbage, greens, carrots.
The third layer is pumpkin, winter melon and watermelon seeds.
The fourth layer, is a bag of millet seeds, after opening, a faint smell of rice came, Tang Dou couldn't help but swallow his saliva, sure enough, it is a treasure chest, it is really everything, Tang Dou finally understood why it is not called Auntie's treasure chest, nor is it called Uncle's treasure chest, only the grandmother does it so carefully, what kind of melons, fruits and vegetables, will leave a copy as the seeds of the second year.
With these seeds, the desert island will be developed into a fruit paradise by Tang Dou, and now all he needs is a hoe to level the desolate land, and then plant the seeds in the treasure chest.
Tang Dou put the seed back into the treasure chest, carefully placed it on the beams and pillars of the house, took out the sewing box separately, handed it to the girls, hurriedly picked up the axe, took the little gray ash, and ran towards the deep mountains.
After obtaining this treasure chest, Tang Dou's desire to make a hoe became even stronger, and he couldn't wait to find iron ore that could make iron.
Hard work pays off, in a deep mountain, Tang Dou found an ore that can refine iron, and it is a kind of iron-rich ore, higher than the imported iron ore content, the whole mountain is such ore, if all mined, there should be hundreds of millions of tons.
Tang Dou put the scattered iron ore in a basket, and then walked back with the little ash ash, he was going to come back and carry it twice, so that there was a lot of use for refining more iron.
Ironmaking needs to have an iron-making blast furnace, which is difficult for Tang Dou, he uses clay to burn into bricks, and uses clay to apply a layer in it, so as to avoid the passage of heat, can melt iron ore faster, in the stacked one-meter-wide blast furnace, Tang Dou also opened two mouths, one is the air supply port, that is, the oxygen port, the other is the tap hole, the position of the air supply port is slightly higher than the tap hole, to avoid the spread of iron to both sides.
Tang Dou ignited the fire of the iron furnace, added a large number of coal mines, and after the temperature was about the same, added the newly collected iron ore, and then added some coke, coke is used to reduce the iron components in the iron ore, feeling the temperature from the blast furnace, Tang Dou is a little worried about whether the blast furnace will collapse, if the blast furnace collapses, not only can not obtain iron, but also cause unnecessary damage, in the calcination process, Tang Dou is frightened, several women have long been chased away by him far away, the fryer is not a good thing, if you are not careful, your whole person will be disfigured。
After waiting for a long time, the blast furnace was still burning, Tang Dou's hanging heart finally fell, he took advantage of the fact that the molten iron had not yet come out, first made a scoop that could catch the molten iron with porcelain clay, and made a few molds, the first thing to do was a hoe, although he knew the shape of this thing, but he knew that it was not so simple to make a mold, and the thickness was not very easy to master.
After trying to do it for a long time, a hoe model was finally made out by him, and the molten iron in the blast furnace also overflowed and flowed into the finished porcelain clay scoop.
Tang Dou added some coal, coke and iron ore to the blast furnace, and made a model, this time it is to make a pot, a total of one pot, boiling water is also this pot, cooking or this pot, everything is wrapped in this pot, the iron pot is not easy to do, it is arched in the middle, and the iron pot can not be done too much, so the weight of a pot is enough, not to mention stir-frying and cooking in it, and so on, and finally Tang Dou thought of using porcelain clay to make an iron pot model, make two identical arched porcelain clay, and then put the two pieces of porcelain clay together, leaving a thin gap in the middle, gluing the interface, leaving an interface on each side, making the ears of the iron pot。
After the model was made, Tang Dou poured the molten iron between the iron pot models, a thick iron pot was baked like this, Tang Dou wiped the sweat on his forehead, and began to make molds again, there were knives, hammers, shovels, shovels, shovels, sickles, etc., everything that could be thought of, Tang Dou made them one by one.
After filling the mold with molten iron, Tang Dou saw that there was still a lot of molten iron, and he built all the remaining molten iron into iron nails for emergencies, so that all the molten iron in the blast furnace was used up.