Chapter 18 Digging a pit can dig out the land of northern Liaobei

Wang Li is not stupid, on the contrary, he is a rare smart person with brains.

But he is obviously the kind of child who is protected by the family, even if he is talented and intelligent, he is managed by his father as a fool.

However, it is also understandable that the Wang family, which is basically a powerful family in the Qin Dynasty, should uphold the fine tradition of 'rich but three generations', with Wang Qian, Wang Ben, and Wang Juan two generations of ministers, if the third generation also has successors, then the impact on the royal family can be imagined.

It is impossible for the royal family to tolerate a family that has deep roots in the court and has monopolized power for three generations.

Especially the domineering character of the first emperor, after adding the unification of the six countries, the military power will naturally be weakened unlimitedly, if the Wang family only has military power, it doesn't matter, there are still many ways to empty military power in peacetime, but in internal affairs, the Wang family also has a prime minister Wang Juan, then you have to make another plan.

This kind of family nobility with both civil and military skills has always been a major trouble for the emperors of previous dynasties, and the Wei Huo family in the Han Dynasty is an extremely rare example, but there are also reasons why Wei Huo is a relative of the imperial family.

The rest of the civil and military, three generations of immortal big families generally have only two ways to go, rebel or wait to be liquidated by the royal family.

The Sima family of the Wei and Jin dynasties could only choose to rebel, the Huan Wen family of the Northern and Southern Dynasties could only go to the road of rebellion, the natural choice of the Li family of the Sui Dynasty only had an 'uprising', and the eldest grandson family of the Tang Dynasty did not end well in the end.

The Wang family fully meets these conditions waiting to be targeted by the emperor, so the prescient old man Wang Jian will naturally raise the third-generation Dumiao Wang Li into a fool.

It's a pity that even so, the emperor doesn't seem to have any plans to let go of the Wang family.

Dare to calculate the Wang family's only seedling, if it is impossible to say that there is no acquiescence of the emperor behind it.

I thought that even a political enemy of life and death would not make a move at this juncture, because if this incident affected the plan to unify the six countries, it would be a sin that ten heads were not enough to cut off.

Looking at Wang Li's mentally retarded appearance of sharpening wood thorns, Wang Xu became more determined, he would never participate in the struggle in the Central Plains before he had enough ability to protect himself, these politicians were all devils who killed people without seeing blood.

"Emperor, I can't dig it here!" The ink wolf shouted at the top of his voice.

"Then change places." Wang Xu replied casually, cutting down the wooden thorns for a long time, making his hands extremely sore.

After a while, the voice of the ink wolf came again, "Emperor, I can't dig here." ”

Wang Xu frowned and looked over, originally thinking that he had dug granite or other rocks, but after looking at the distance between the two excavation points, Wang Xu felt that the soil quality of this piece should not have such a large range of rock layers, and he had measured it with a Luoyang shovel.

Suspiciously, he walked over, looked at the hole that Mo Wolf and the others had dug more than a meter deep, and knocked on the bottom of the pit with a Luoyang shovel, and the crisp sound of gold and stone collision made Wang Xu let out a sound of surprise.

Archaeologists who have been fighting with the land for half their lives know that this voice is definitely not a rock formation.

Squatting at the bottom of the pit and picking up one of the gravel dopings, he gasped and laughed.

Listening to the loud laughter coming from Wang Xu at the bottom of the pit, Mo Wolf and the others were frightened and overwhelmed.

"What did you find?" Wang Li also asked curiously.

"Iron ore." Wang Xu laughed.

"What?" Wang Li was shocked.

"It's a pity that I can't stay here for long." Wang Xu sighed, "Give me the stone hammer." ”

Taking the stone hammer handed over by the ink wolf, Wang Xu squatted on the ground and began to smash the iron ore, the more he knocked, the more excited he became.

I have long known that the Northeast region is rich in mineral resources, but I didn't expect that the mineral resources in the undeveloped Northeast region are so rich that you can dig a pit and dig an open-pit iron mine.

Iron ore as the main ore resources, in fact, in the early Qin Dynasty was not widely popularized, the main is still bronze-based, knowing that the Han Dynasty from the Western Regions to the 'steel frying method', iron ore was vigorously excavated and utilized.

The excavation of minerals, an important strategic resource, gave Wang Xu a real sense of excitement about picking up gold on the ground, and if he could make a large number of iron tools, at least in terms of equipment, he could crush the primitive tribes in the entire Northeast region.

I dug more than a dozen catties of raw ore and studied it, although it is a pity that the quality of the iron ore here is not high, it belongs to the poor ore level, but it is enough.

"You still know how to smelt iron?" Wang Li looked at Wang Xu, who was squatting on the ground and studying the stone, and asked.

"I understand a little." Wang Xu said with a smile.

"There are less than 100 craftsmen in the entire empire who know how to smelt iron." Wang Li sighed: "Xianmen is really omniscient." ”

"If you want to learn, I can teach you." Wang Xu picked out the waste rock and said with a smile: "If you dig a little by yourself, you can feel the gap between iron ore and ordinary stone." ”

After hearing this, Wang Li jumped off the pit excitedly with a hammer.

Of course, there is free labor to make the best use of it, after Wang Li knocked out nearly 100 catties of raw ore, Wang Xu asked Mo Wolf and others to fill in the mine, and made a small mark, and began to return.

When I went back, I hunted a red deer.

The size of the ancient animal once again refreshed Wang Xu's cognition, this red deer was two laps larger than the one he had seen in the zoo in his later life, if it weren't for the different antlers, Wang Xu thought it was an elk.

When he returned to the tribe with a full load, he was naturally warmly welcomed.

"Let's take the people to eat first." Wang Xu handed the Swiss Army Knife to Mo Lian.

"The Emperor has worked hard all day, and your meal is ready." Mo Lian respectfully took the Swiss Army knife.

"What about the Tu Shan clan?" Wang Xu glanced at the crowd.

"The Tu Shan clan is still making wooden armor, and today it has already made three sets." Mo Lian replied.

Wang Xu nodded, greeted the ink wolf and the others who were chatting with the clansmen, and asked them to drag the mine to the back mountain.

The location of the Guzhu tribe is an open valley, built on a mountain, and there is a stone altar on the back mountain.

But Wang Xu explored the entire mountain, and there were no traces of caves and mines, and he didn't know how he came here.

Let the ink wolf and others pile the firewood on a boulder, and then light it with a lighter, watching the raging fire burning the boulder, everyone looked at Wang Xu with mentally retarded eyes.

Even they knew that the stone could not be burned, so what did Wang Xu do this for?

"You're not trying to burn the stone, are you?" Wang Li asked suspiciously.

Wang Xu opened a can and poured it into the Guihe porridge that Mo Lian cooked for her, and after serving two bowls for herself, he distributed them to the others, "Wait a minute, you'll know why." ”

Wang Li pursed his lips, took the porridge and drank it all, looking at the ink wolf and others who were gobbling up the bronze kettle, "Waste immortal treasures." ”

Wang Xu smiled and shook his head, looking at Mo Kui and Tu Shan Niangzi, who were wearing a pair of wooden armor, walking over.

"The Great Emperor looks at the wooden armor that has been adjusted today." Mo Kui said respectfully.

Wang Xu weighed the weight with his hand, "It's already very good, how is the defense?" ”

"Within thirty meters, a stone beast tooth arrow enters half an inch, and the bronze arrow shoots through." Murqua replied.

"If you can cover two layers of animal skins inside and outside, you can't shoot through the bronze arrowhead within thirty meters, but unfortunately there are not enough animal skins in the clan, and straw weaving has little effect." Tu Shan Lady said.

"Good work, let's see what we found today?" Wang Xu smiled and pointed to the iron ore piled up on the ground and said with a smile.

Tu Shan Niangzi picked up two pieces and looked at them, and exclaimed, "Is it iron ore?" ”

Wang Xu pretended not to see that Mo Kui's originally gentle eyes instantly became cold, and said with a smile: "Tu Shan's clan is really well-informed." ”

Tu Shanniang was so shocked that the ore in her hand fell to the ground, and she blurted out in surprise when she saw the iron mine, inadvertently exposing the fact that her iron mine knew this kind of thing.

"Since the Tu Shan clan knows this thing, they naturally know the method of refining." Wang Xu smiled, looked at the boulder that had been burned red, picked up the wooden scoop next to him and poured cold water on it.

The cracking sound of "click" caught everyone's attention.

Under everyone's shocked gaze, the boulder shattered apart like fragile glass.

Wang Xu kept pouring water around the boulder, and the hard boulder seemed to be torn apart, and small pieces of irregular gravel were scattered all over the ground.

"Please forgive the emperor, although the courtiers have the method of refining, but there is no refining furnace." Tu Shan Niangzi exchanged glances with Mo Kui, knelt down and said.

"Get up, it's not your sin to have no equipment." Wang Xu smiled, "There are no conditions, just create conditions." ”

Tu Shan Niangzi looked at Wang Xu suspiciously, not understanding what he was talking about.

"Dig a hole in the ground here, too." Wang Xu found a place on the side of the mountain wall.

Mo Wolf and the others skillfully began to work according to Wang Xu's instructions.

The main difficulty of iron smelting in ancient times lies in the various chemical formulas and temperature and energy conversion that they do not understand, so it takes a lot of experiments to sort out the empirical iron smelting.

As a descendant of China who has created the myth of 'super-British catching up with the United States' steelmaking, he knows a very local way of smelting iron.

More than 2,000 years later, a certain great man shouted the slogan of 'super-British catching up with the United States', which plunged the entire land of China into a steel-making boom, and at the same time, many 'local iron-smelting tools' appeared, called earth blast furnaces.

The principle of making an earthen blast furnace is very simple, that is, stone bricks and clay are made into a blast furnace, but due to the structure of the blast furnace, it is not actually able to make steel, but there is no problem for iron smelting.

Without clay and cement, digging a hole in the ground combined with the heat recovery principle of the earthen furnace can also achieve the effect of purifying wrought iron.

Without coal and coal, it may take a long time to reach the melting point of pig iron with the energy of charcoal, so Wang Xu can only make a large fan connected to the earth blast furnace.

Wrought iron is not hard enough in terms of hardness, but it is still no problem to make things like hammers, axes, and arrowheads.