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The fat witch sneered and asked, "Do you think it's possible?" As a qualified shaman, you have to know everything, and you have to be proficient in everything. If you can't even do that, you're a fart wizard! ”

Tang Ge said angrily: "I have my own fortune in my heart!" If you use this excuse to force me, I don't want this name! ”

The fat witch's eyes flickered, he thought about it for a long time, sighed, waved his hand and said, "If it's okay, it's all gone." Between the words, there seems to be infinite sorrow in it.

Tang Ge was also unhappy in his heart, all he wanted was a name, an identity that he could handle. Fat Witch's set, in fact, he is quite disgusted. He felt that those were the things that were the dancing gods to fool the people, and to fool everyone with those things of the gods and gods, so as to stabilize the position of the wizards. As for curing the sick and saving people, it is a doctor's method, and it has nothing to do with the magic of the sorcerer.

Fortunately, the fat witch didn't push him too much, Tang Ge didn't know what this fat woman thought, but he had already made up his mind, the identity of this wizard's successor was just used by himself, and he would never really be a god who danced the gods.

When I got home, I took out a few chickens called flower and returned to the fire. It's not bad, it's not baked or it's too dry, the chicken is very tender, and the chicken juice is very full.

Tang Ge tore a chicken with deer bone soup and ate it. After filling his stomach, he took Adam and went to the Sword House.

Nowadays, the scope of the sword house has expanded a lot, and the middle is divided into two, one side is the carpentry room, and the other side is the smelting room. Tang Ge went to the carpentry room first, asked the carpenter to make more than a dozen sets of single tables and chairs for himself, drew the pattern, and explained the details, then turned his head and went to the sword house.

The clansman who rushed back last night was called Gouzi, and he not only brought back the news of the far-away trading team, but also brought back the various ores collected by the trading team. Tang Ge was drunk and stunned at the time, so he didn't know about it, or if he secretly told Tang Ge at the end of the tribal meeting just now, let him pick and choose and see if it was suitable.

The dog had a limited load, and only brought one piece of each ore back, Tang Ge checked them one by one, and his heart was faintly excited.

The yellow-brown rusty ore was iron ore, and he knew that if this ore could be mined in large quantities and armed with iron weapons, it would surely make the tribe's force reach a terrifying height in this Stone Age. From now on, the tribe will no longer have to worry about any enemies or beasts. A warrior in iron armor and holding an iron sword will be a god-like invincible myth in this era.

He also knew the copper mine. There are also all kinds of gems, which he doesn't really like. As for the other strange ores, they need to be refined to know. In particular, a kind of milky white and a kind of black and shiny ore, although Tang Ge had never seen it before, but he was eighty percent sure that these two ores were the tin ore and lead ore he dreamed of.

As we all know, bronze is an alloy composed of three metals: copper, tin, and lead. The tribe has now smelted a lot of pure copper, but because the texture of copper is too soft, it cannot be made at all, so it can only be stored. And with tin and lead, bronze will no longer be a dream.

Red copper and tin were smelted together to create the famous bronze. The higher the tin content, the harder the quality of the bronze. As long as you have a good grasp of the proportions, you can make a suitable bronze. Not only can it make swords, but it can even make "important weapons of the country" such as bronze tripods.

Of course, if you want to make a proper bronze weapon, you must have the right proportions, otherwise the bronze sword will become brittle and very easy to break if it is too long. The Qin Dynasty is estimated to be one of the most glorious eras of bronze craftsmanship in the world. Generally, the longest bronze weapon is only about half a meter, but the bronze weapons of the Qin Dynasty can reach more than eighty and ninety centimeters, which means that a Qin-made long sword can be twice as long as the bronze sword of other eras. As for how the people of the Qin Dynasty did this, it is still an unsolved mystery in the world.

Tang Ge only knew that the inner and outer tin content of the Qin Sword was different, with the outermost tin content being the highest and the hardest being the largest, which was to ensure the sharpness and solidity of the sword. And the further inside the sword body, the lower the tin content, the softer the texture of the bronze, and the greater the toughness of the sword, and it is the large internal toughness that ensures the quality of the Qin sword, even if the sword body is very long, it is very difficult to break. It is said that during the archaeological excavation of the Terracotta Warriors and Horses Pit, a bronze sword was bent by a fallen Terracotta Army, and after the archaeologists moved the Terracotta Warriors, the sword immediately straightened and was restored to its original state.

However, Tang Ge was not worried about the technical problems, because in his mind, bronze weapons could only be classified as "export products". That's right, it's export. Tang Ge planned to use all steel products for the clansmen, as long as the amount of iron ore mined was sufficient, then the quality of steel products was incomparable to that of bronze. After the clansmen were armed, Tang Ge didn't mind using some short and easy-to-break bronze weapons in exchange for a large amount of precious materials.

How valuable a metal weapon is in today's era, Tang Ge can imagine it with his feet and neck. Exporting ten or eight shoddy bronze weapons would not pose the slightest threat to the tribe and would bring a lot of profits. With such a lucrative business, Tang Ge does not intend to give up.

The ore is crushed, the minerals are screened, and finally the metal is refined. This set of work is very cumbersome, but fortunately, the amount is small, and Tang Ge stayed in the sword house and watched the craftsmen work. In any case, he was going to see that milky white ore refined tonight. Because the stake of this ore is too great.

In the middle of the night, two pieces of metal the size of an egg were finally presented in front of Tang Ge. Lead and tin are both bright and silvery, but one is shiny and the other is black. Tang Ge checked it with his hand, and its weight, color, and luster were no different from the lead and tin he had seen in his previous life. With excitement, Tang Ge used the balance to divide the same fraction according to the ratio of 85% red copper, 14% tin, and 1% lead. Then it's time to melt, mix, and invert.

Bronze manufacturing is actually very simple, just melt and mix various metals in proportion, pour them into the prepared model, and cool them down. As for quenching and cutting edges, it belongs to post-processing. Now that there is not enough time and there is no model of cooperation, Tang Ge asked the craftsman to make a few boxy grooves, and poured the alloy solution into the grooves to become a thin layer of metal plates. Just enough to check the quality and hardness of the alloy.

The cooled metal plate is bright and golden, and at first glance it looks like gold, which is very beautiful. In fact, the original color of the bronze is golden yellow, the color is similar to eighteen k gold, the reason why it is called bronze, is because all the excavated utensils, after thousands of years of oxidation and rust, formed a layer of blue-green patina on the surface, so that the whole utensils look like they are made of cyan metal, and the bronze is also named after this, which Tang Ge knows.

After quenching one of the alloy plates, Tang Ge picked up the metal plate that was still a little hot and broke it with his hands. It was very heavy and very hard, and Tang Ge didn't bend this metal plate of about twenty centimeters with all his might. I picked a strong craftsman and asked him to fold the piece of metal by hand. The craftsman exerted all his strength, and even the green tendons on his neck popped out, and the metal plate was still undamaged. At this point, Tang Ge was finally relieved, what he made this time was indeed bronze metal.

At this time, it was already the middle of the moon, and Tang Ge didn't care whether it was too late or not, so he directly hugged the alloy plate and ran to the fat witch's house.

Unexpectedly, the fat woman hadn't slept yet, there was a torch in the room, and the fat witch was lying on the desk drinking without a sip, and it seemed that she was also worried about the things in the sword house.

Seeing Tang Ge enter the house, the fat witch straightened up and asked anxiously, "How is it?" Is it done? ”

Tang Ge nodded, put the alloy plate on the case, and said, "The iron ore is fine, I have already seen it, just wait for Changshan to come back and refine it together." Other gems and the like don't matter, the most important thing is this thing. ”

The fat witch took the metal plate, knocked it, and broke it hard, his eyes blazing. Rubbing the metal plate in his hand, Fat Wu asked Tang Ge in a slightly hoarse voice, "This is the alloy you are talking about?" Made of copper? ”

Tang Ge nodded and said, "That's right." However, this alloy is almost as good as a weapon, and can only make shorter swords and arrows and the like. The quality is not comparable to that of a steel weapon, but it can be used as a cooking utensil and ritual vessel. I thought that if the iron ore they were looking for in Changshan was large enough, the alloy weapons would be used to arm the tribesmen first, and when the steel weapons were mass-produced, this alloy weapon could be exported and sold to those tribal alliances in the central part of the country, which could exchange countless materials and populations for the tribes. ”

The fat witch pondered for a long time before he cautiously asked Tang Ge, "Can you guarantee that these exported weapons will not cause trouble to the tribe?" ”

Tang Ge nodded and said, "First of all, the amount of export sales will definitely not be too large. Secondly, unless our tribe has all changed its outfits, we don't want to leave a metal weapon outside the tribe. ”

Fat Wu nodded and said, "This matter is too much to do, so it's better to think about it carefully." In short, it is necessary to be foolproof, and it is absolutely impossible to cause trouble to the tribe because of the circulation of weapons. After a pause, he asked Tang Ge again: "What are your plans for the future of the tribe?" Don't try to fool me, this time I'm going to listen to the truth. ”

Tang Ge was silent for a long time before he said to the fat witch: "Some time ago, I went to the Beishan tribe with Dashi and lived in the Beishan tribe for two days. ”

Fat Witch nodded, indicating that he understood. motioned for Tang Ge to continue.