Chapter 237: People are stupid and have a lot of salt
Qin Ze and the others stayed in Liumu Village very domineeringly, for them, what they have to do now is to hide here, and then wait for everything to calm down, and then try to get out of this dense forest.
But none of this should be rushed, and if the suspicion of the other party is aroused, and then the Turks are brought over, then they will have to hide in the dark jungle again. And for Qin Ze, there was a hundred reluctance in his heart.
So in order to be able to stabilize the other party, Qin Ze had to become friends with them. And being a friend is a skill, because there are no eternal friends in the world, and there are no permanent enemies, there are only unchanging interests.
Salt is the benefit that Qin Ze can provide, and he believes that it is impossible for Liu Muzhai to refuse the temptation of salt. But you can't just hand it over casually, you can't do without the heart of guarding against others, what if the other party has a bad heart and does something to yourself and others?
Three days is a good buffer, and Qin Ze can take advantage of this time to figure out the environment he is in.
There are about 100 households in Liumu Village, among which the owner of the village is the old man, that is, the person who speaks to these people. To Qin Ze's surprise, the other party was not surnamed Liu, but Fan Suo.
This is a strange name, Qin Ze prefers to call him Yugong if he can. Because he actually led everyone to open up such a large space here.
The people of Liumu Village were in a sense of curiosity and jealousy towards Qin Ze and the others. Everyone stood and watched them from a distance, but no one came up to talk.
And those children also left in a huff after confiscating Qin Ze and the others. In fact, Qin Ze still has some things on his body, such as the weird copper coin in the Emperor's Palace. He hid it well. For example, the weapon on the second tiger's body, this guy is more important than his life.
At the beginning, they were afraid of encountering mountain people in the dense forest, so Qin Ze hid all their armor and weapons. So now the children searched for it, but they couldn't find a knife.
That's pretty good, at least the identity of the military won't be revealed. You can do it again when the weapon is gone, it's nothing.
Qin Ze was naturally not worried about these people, and he also asked Zhou Cheng to send people to guard the surroundings, once he found that someone had left from Liumu Village, he had to follow him to see if he was going out to tell the truth.
Since the other party wants to get table salt, then the other party naturally has to provide some simple things, such as clay pots, stoves, and the like.
However, before that, Qin Ze still had to make a few saws first, after all, they could only say that there was only this open space now, and it was not even a hiding place at all.
Therefore, Qin Ze planned to make a few iron saws first, so that he could cut down trees faster. The iron saw has high requirements for materials, and if it is forged with the iron-making technology of Liumuzhai, the saw can only be used for a few days at most. And if you're not careful, it will break, so it's better to take the time to forge it all over again.
However, before that, Qin Ze and the others still need to cut down some wood first, one is to build a pigsty for Qin Ze's brother wild boar, and the other is to let Qin Ze burn some carbon.
In fact, according to Zhou Cheng's thoughts, they directly killed the wild boar with one knife, and they could still eat a good meal at night. However, he was stopped by Qin Ze, because he felt that this thing had spirituality, and he refused to leave by his side.
It's a brother who shares the hardships with Xingxing, how could Qin Ze just kill it. Besides, it's not bad to think of it as a material stockpile.
Iron smelting must be made of charcoal, which is not difficult for Qin Ze at all. The most important thing in this dense forest is withered trees, and it can be said that the materials used to make charcoal are everywhere.
The wood is split into wooden sticks one by one, and then piled up in layers to form a round tower. Then use the soil to pile out a bag of grave soil in the mouth of the two tigers, leaving four openings at the bottom and a small opening at the top.
When burning charcoal, the firewood is lit from the top, and the flame will slowly rise down due to air convection. When the small opening at the bottom of the bottom sees an open flame, seal it with mud. After the last four small openings are sealed, it is enough to seal the top small opening.
This thing is extremely simple to make, but in the eyes of the people in Liumu Village, they don't know what Qin Ze is doing at all.
There are many people and great strength, and it only took one afternoon for Zhou Cheng and them to build a luxurious pigsty, so that Qin Ze's pig brothers could have a good rest.
On the evening of the first day, Qin Ze and the others ate the meat of the big worm, and the guy Erhu ran back to the original place and brought back the big worm he had killed.
I have to say that Erhu suddenly came back with a big worm, which directly made those who were still making fun of Qin Ze and they didn't even dare to eat wild boars, and they closed their mouths in an instant.
As a result, the two tigers won, but everyone lost.
The meat of the insect is somewhat similar to beef, but it is more coarse, and if you don't eat it when grilled, it will be like chewing wood.
However, with Qin Ze here, even the most unpalatable thing can be turned into a delicious dish. So a dozen people ate a big worm in one meal.
This is undoubtedly a demonstration for Liumuzhai. As a result, the next day, Brother Jiu and the others also went out to fight a big worm and came back, and then deliberately circled around Qin Ze and them......
It burned for a full night, and when Qin Ze got up in the morning, the charcoal was already fully formed.
This time, Qin Ze burned six mouthfuls of charcoal, and he got three or four hundred catties at once. With charcoal Qin Ze refining iron, it is much simpler.
Covering the wooden box with a tiger skin, Qin Ze made another impeller, and a simple bellows was completed.
The iron-making bellows are absolutely indispensable, and after the simple bellows are blown, the charcoal begins to burn more and more, and the temperature of the furnace is getting higher and higher.
The stove was borrowed from the blacksmith of Liumuzhai and cost Qin Ze a small handful of table salt. This is his shrewdness, although he promised to give Old Man Liu salt in three days, but take out some salt at the right time to better stabilize Old Man Liu's heart.
Not only the stove, but Qin Ze also exchanged some pieces of broken iron from there. This thing was of little use to the blacksmith, but it was very useful in Qin Ze's hands.
Qin Ze was very satisfied with this borrowed stove, and under the whirring and burning of the charcoal flame, those broken iron pieces also turned from orange to dark green, and finally burned red.
In fact, the main thing in ironmaking is to control the carbon content of the iron, and in order to obtain more resilient iron, it is necessary to constantly beat the iron with a hammer.
Of course, Qin Ze couldn't be so stupid as to keep knocking it on. When the iron is almost knocked out, it's the turn of the steel filling method to work. Although Qin Ze is a half-ass, in order to promote the steel filling method, Qin Ze did not wander around the ordnance prison.
So now it's a familiar way to do it. It only took one morning for Qin Ze to build four large saws. Different from the current iron saw in Liumuzhai, Qin Ze's saw has better toughness and is not easy to break when used.
With the iron saw, Zhou Cheng's speed of cutting down trees became extremely fast, and Qin Ze was bored, and Qin Ze made another battle axe, which was used to cut the wood that Zhou Cheng sawed down into planks.
Qin Ze is like an arsenal, as long as Zhou Cheng can say it, he can make it. Not only tools, Qin Ze also burned several kilns of dishes and chopsticks.
Since he promised to refine salt for Fan Suo, Qin Ze naturally would not break his promise. After the first house was built, Qin Ze began the road of salt production.
Three days passed in a flash, and these three days were almost all about to replace all the broken iron pieces from the blacksmith in Liumuzhai. In the end, it was the blacksmith who felt that he still had to maintain his business, so he refused to continue to break iron pieces for Qin Ze.
In order to exchange for these pieces of broken iron, Qin Zeke spent more than a dozen catties of salt. In fact, salt is simply a low-hanging fruit for Qin Ze. Not to mention more than ten catties, even if there are ten catties, Qin Ze will not have the slightest concern.
But for the blacksmith, this table salt can be said to be worth a thousand gold. Every time he exchanged with Qin Ze, his old face could not see his eyes with a smile.
Therefore, Qin Ze must also pretend to be stupid, and strive to create an image of extremely rare salt. Only then will the other party feel that they have taken a great advantage.
He thinks it's good to take advantage, and Qin Ze is happy to do the same. Pretending to be stupid and stunned, Qin Ze is extremely good at it.
The blacksmith's surname is Liu, and others call him Liu Laosan. It's not because this guy is third in the house, but because this guy is not good at learning, and basically building a thing has to go back and forth three times.
So over time, there was such a strange name.
Qin Ze sent the stove to Liu Laosan's blacksmith shop, and it happened that Liu Laosan was soaking barley in front of the door, that is, millet, and after the husking, it was millet.
As soon as Liu Laosan's mother-in-law saw Qin Ze coming, she hurriedly greeted her, serving tea and water. For this honest peasant woman, exchanging worthless pieces of broken iron for salt is bullying a newcomer Qin Ze, so he always feels that he can't get over it.
Qin Ze didn't say anything, and asked Erhu to put the stove back. He took out a large bag of salt from the wooden basket on the side and stuffed it to Liu.
"Yo, Childe, this can't be helped, let's take it back quickly." When the Liu family saw Qin Ze, he took out a large bag of salt, where would he still accept it.
"Aunt Liu, don't refuse, if Uncle Liu hadn't borrowed my stove, I'm afraid we haven't had a place to shelter from the rain until now, although this thing is rare, but it's not enough to express my gratitude." Saying that, Qin Ze stuffed the salt into the other party's hand.
Liu Laosan on the side also stood there hesitantly, rubbing his hands constantly. In the end, seeing Qin Ze shirking like this, he gritted his teeth and asked the Liu family to put it away.
However, he also took out a few dried wild meat from the house and stuffed them into Qin Ze's hands.
In fact, Qin Ze couldn't help it, the Liu family were all honest people, so it was really uncomfortable to calculate them like this.
But Qin Ze urgently needs to tell the entire Liujiazhai now, as long as I am here, you will have endless salt. And I'm a very generous person, even a little silly.
"If you hunt any prey in the future, you will also give Liu Laosan a copy." Qin Ze muttered to Erhu.
He hated the high-ranking officials who had a vegetarian meal, but he liked these people very much. He can bully the lintel of Cui's house without changing his face, but he can't live up to the simplicity of this people.