On the afternoon of the day he returned to the tribe, Su Yan convened the five patriarchs of Zhi, Biao, Yuan, Shen and Song to discuss the matter of mining and smelting.

When he came to the temple, Su Yan stood in front, and the five patriarchs of Zhi, Biao, Yuan, Shen, and Song stood opposite Su Yan.

"You all know that Biao and I went out yesterday to do something, and this matter is very important for the future of the Dragon Tribe."

Saying that, Su Yan took out a piece of green copper ore and a little blister copper smelted before from the rattan basket placed beside him, and then introduced it to the five patriarchs: "This is copper ore, this is copper smelted from copper ore, with this copper we can make better weapons, better weapons than stone spears." ”

Hearing Wang's words, even if Biao knew something, he looked at the copper ore in Su Yan's hand and the blister copper with a little purple in his hand just like the other four patriarchs.

Zhi, Biao, Yuan, Shen, and Song are the patriarchs and warriors, weapons are very important to a warrior, they make their own weapons, and they usually take care of their weapons, and now they know from Su Yan that they can make better weapons, and they can't keep their composure.

Although they had not yet seen a weapon forged in copper, they fully believed in the king's words, which was the authority that Su Yan had established over the years in the Dragon Tribe, and Su Yan's words could make the clansmen believe and carry them out unconditionally.

"Everyone is calm, calm, if you want to make weapons from copper, you can't do it now, we need to mobilize a large number of people to mine copper mines, and after mining copper mines, we need to smelt them, and finally we can use copper to make weapons."

"Wang, how many people do you need to mobilize?" Chi asked.

"I'm ready to mobilize all the adult labor force of the tribe......"

Su Yan's half-sentence surprised the five patriarchs again, is it another project comparable to building a new home?

When building a new home last year, the dragon tribe mobilized almost all the adult labor force, even some children who were close to adulthood and even pregnant women were involved in it, and finally besieged the initial construction of the new home before the autumn harvest.

The five patriarchs didn't know anything about mining copper ore and smelting copper ore, but they also knew that the distance between the copper mine and the dragon tribe was relatively long, and it would be troublesome to carry out a big project comparable to building a new home in such a distant place.

“…… Mining copper ore is a hard job, and one person can't do it for a long time, so I'm going to divide all the adult labor force of the tribe into three teams, team A, team B, and team C.

Team A moved directly to the copper mine and mined every day, Team B was responsible for transporting food and the copper ore mined by Team A back, Team C was responsible for fishing, hunting, and building houses. Su Yan continued to finish his words.

The people of the Dragon Tribe have been using the Dragon Language for so long, and most of the words and vocabulary in the Dragon Language are recognized, although Su Yan's words are very long, but most of the content is understood by the five patriarchs.

Hearing Wang's arrangement, the patriarchs breathed a sigh of relief in their hearts, and thought that it was really a big project like building a new home, and it seemed that the work of mining copper ore was easier than building a new home, even if mining copper ore was tiring, the clansmen could get rest after such a rotation.

I don't know what the five patriarchs are thinking, Su Yan won't explain too much, even if there are a thousand laborers, Su Yan can use a thousand laborers to mine copper mines, less labor, less mining and less smelting, it is enough to smelt a few hundred catties of copper a year, and a few hundred catties of copper can fully cast a batch of tools urgently needed by the dragon tribe, such as axes, knives, copper shovels, pickaxes and other tools.

If you think that mining copper ore and smelting copper ore is troublesome and do not carry it out, then the dragon tribe will never make progress, and only by smelting copper and casting better metal tools than stone tools, can the dragon tribe make rapid progress.

In the end, Su Yan selected three of the five patriarchs as the captains of the three teams A, B and C, Zhi served as the captain of Team A, Yuan served as the captain of Team B, and Shen served as the captain of Team C. Biao and Song followed Su Yan to sit in the tribe, and when Su Yan went out, he needed to take a team of people to protect Su Yan, and every few days Biao had to organize a hunting team to go out hunting.

After dinner in the evening, all the adult laborers of the dragon tribe gathered in the open space in front of the temple, and the three patriarchs of Zhi, Yuan, and Shen each selected one hundred and eighty people to form three teams of A, B, and C, each team was composed of eighty male clansmen and one hundred female clansmen, and the remaining clansmen stayed in the tribe and usually worked together with the team of the left-behind tribe.

The next day, Su Yan took Team A to get busy.

Su Yan had considered making stone tools to turn the ground during spring ploughing before, but Su Yan disliked that the efficiency of stone tools was too low to turn the ground, so he gave up this matter for the time being.

The copper ore found by Su Yan belongs to the surface mine, the copper ore fruit is exposed on the ground, and the copper ore can be easily dug out, if you add tools, it will be easier, and when the copper ore on the ground is dug out, you will have to dig out the copper ore buried in the soil, and tools must be used at this time.

Su Yan could only lead Team A to make the stone shovel, which is a tool for digging copper ore, first, and the main difficulty was to find a stone suitable for making a stone shovel.

It took nearly two days for Su Yan to lead Team A to look for stones in the jungle around the Dragon Tribe, and finally everyone had a stone shovel, which was actually a hard rectangular stone chip, suitable for digging soil, and did not need to be tied to a wooden stick, and directly held the stone shovel with his hand to shovel soil.

On the twelfth day of the second month of spring, Su Yan and Zhi led Team A to set off with five days of food, targeting the copper mine area more than half a day's northwest of the Dragon Tribe.

This road went back and forth several times to be a little familiar, and even though they were carrying various items, Team A arrived at the copper mine area less than an hour after noon.

"Zhi, you take your clan to rest here, and I'll take a team of people to find a suitable place to set up a camp." Su Yan said to Zhi.

"I see, King." Zhi replied.

Finding a suitable place to set up a camp is not rushed, this kind of thing is not understood, choose a relatively low place, once the rainy season comes, flooding, this low place is easy to be swallowed up by floods, if the camp is built in such a place, it will be dangerous. ()

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