Chapter 165 The Bronze Age (1)
It's beautiful indeed......
Lin Yuan carefully stared at the Heavenly God Stone that had just been dug up, and he didn't have to think much about it, he could already determine that this was the extraterrestrial stone that had been refined from brass. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
In the pile of rubble mixed with brown earth, a large dark blue stone was revealed, and the blue pattern was clearly distinguished from the brownish and yellow granite around it, and a confused color appeared.
"It's ...... This is the Stone of the Gods? My god, it's so close to our Dazhai......"
Jiu Yao muttered, her eyes not taking off the exposed stone for a moment.
"Come on, come here, dig up the dirt around this stone, yes, dig it all up, dig out this stone!"
Lin Yuan calmly ordered, he knew that the stone in front of him was just the tip of the iceberg, it should be a huge stone, all buried in the soil of this valley......
From the descriptions of these Pangeng clans, it is not difficult for Lin Yuan to guess that this should be a space meteorite, an asteroid in outer space, when crossing the earth, was captured by gravity and fell, in the process of falling, the rock surface of the asteroid was burned by the heavy atmosphere friction of the earth, and at a high temperature of thousands of degrees, all the appearance of the asteroid was burned to the end, and finally, only the metal-rich core of the asteroid was left, which became a meteorite and fell here.
I don't know how many years this meteorite fell here, and finally found it by the veteran's mother a hundred years ago, and then it should have been after bringing a few pieces back to the camp, due to the special color of the stone, it may have been used for sacrificial burning bonfires, and finally it was inadvertently placed in the fire and melted into copper, and finally they found the color orange yellow soft and flexible metal copper, and used as jewelry ornaments, widely spread to this land.
No one knows why they forgot about the stone in the end, perhaps because the person who first found it thought it was really some kind of sacred artifact and hid it for fear of being damned, or maybe for some other reason, the meteorite, known as the Stone of the Gods, gradually faded into obscurity......
Only a few brass were circulated among the many tribes, and people began to understand and use the metal, but because brass was too soft to be used as weapons or armor, only as ornaments, and so it was of no use except for some high-ranking tribal elites as ornaments or objects to show their status.
However, this meteorite, for Lin Yuan, has more than that, he has greater ambitions......
"Big Boss! See! A female warrior panted and reported to Lin Yuan.
Lin Yuan came back to his senses and found that during this period of time, a large group of Pangeng female warriors had dug a large pit around the meteorite, and the true face of this meteorite had gradually been revealed.
Sure enough, what was exposed on the ground before was just the tip of the iceberg, digging down, only to find that this is a super huge stone, showing an irregular spherical shape, the diameter of which takes about ten people to hold hand in hand, it is covered with potholes, and the whole looks like a gray-black stone, like a dirty briquette, but if you look carefully, you will find that under those gray appearances, the music glows with a hint of inky blue.
Lin Yuan knew that it was the natural copper stored in this meteorite, because after a long period of oxidation, it turned into an inky blue, and as long as it was melted at a high temperature, brass could be produced.
"Someone! Clean up this area for me, go, get our biggest stone axe, knock some down and bring it back to Dazhai with me! By the way, be careful, this stone of the gods is our most important magic weapon, be sure to take care of it! ”
Several subordinate female warriors nodded their heads again and again, and did as Lin Yuan ordered.
Lin Yuan turned around and walked towards Dazhai with Jiu Yao, who was still a little wooden, and Lin Yuan, who was ecstatic in his heart, showed an excited look, and finally discovered the copper mine! Next, he is about to change the progress of human development, and mankind is about to enter the metal age!
However, if he wants to successfully smelt metal, he still needs some preparations, and at the moment, Lin Yuan must race against time.
Hou Yi !! Hou Yi !! ”
As soon as he entered Dazhai, Lin Yuanyou yelled at the top of his voice, he knew that although he couldn't see Hou Yi, that kid must have been following him all along.
Sure enough, a moment later, a spirit's head emerged from the big tree not far away, grinned, jumped down slightly, came to Lin Yuan, bowed and replied:
"King Yan, are you looking for me for something?"
Lin Yuan nodded and said:
"Yes, how are you going to prepare for the stove that you asked someone to make last time?"
Hou Yi scratched his head and said:
"King Yan, it was done three days ago, but because I haven't found a suitable clay, and the people of their Pangeng tribe say that they don't need pottery, they have been abandoned there."
Lin Yuan nodded and motioned for Hou Yi to take him over.
What he asked Hou Yi to make was a firing blast furnace, and the drawings he designed himself, drawn on parchment, were handed over to Hou Yi, and let him make them, basically continuing the process of firing pottery that he invented in the Yan people back then, except that this time, he designed a deeper combustion trough and a taller chimney.
Because of the refining of metals, higher temperatures are required.
Hou Yi took them, turned a few bays, and came to a meadow behind Pangeng Dazhai, where further along, there was a small river, and several small pits were dug around it, and a large amount of soil was taken out.
"King Yan...... This valley has too little clay, you see, I took a few people with a few people to almost rummage through this area, and only then did I find some barely usable clay and make a stove, but if you want to fire a lot of pottery, it will definitely not be enough. ”
Hou Yi pointed to a mound not far away and said helplessly.
When they entered, they found that it was not a mound at all, but a well-made building, close to a hill beside the riverbank, and a large pit was dug next to the hill, and then parallel to the hill to make a large hole, and finally the hole was made upwards until it came out from the highest part of the hill, forming a chimney-like shape.
The whole blast furnace resembles an L-shaped cavern, flat and wide enough for an adult to bend down into at the bottom, and thin and long, with only a bowl-sized opening at the top.
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