The battle miracle created by Bihu made him a well-deserved absolute leader of the tribe, and the gods and witches also had to retreat by three points. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 infoIn this case, everything he organized was easy to go on. It took him only three days to mix the captives with his people. Five hundred soldiers were re-selected to fill the army, and the original sergeants were used as ten-captains to form a new army.

In addition to the army, he formed two Huaihu Lake fishing and hunting brigades, each of which was divided into small teams, which were responsible for fishing and hunting in the upper and lower Huaihu Lake.

In addition, old and weak women formed workshops such as shipbuilding, bow and arrow, net weaving, and pottery, forming the rudiments of the handicraft industry. The food ration was still distributed to him according to the original collective distribution, and he did not learn from the river tribe to run any big canteens. It seems that he has also had enough of the pigs in the big canteen.

In these three days, Wang Chuan also wrote a development plan for Bihu. The basic content is to establish stockades on both sides of the Huaiya and Ganliubu ruins, open roads, set up beacon towers, gradually establish villages along the way, develop farmland, actually control the Huaihu Lake and then expand the scope of control in the upper Huaihu Lake, and gradually form a production model that attaches equal importance to farming, fishing and hunting, and radiate its influence outward.

The plan is good, but Bihu can't help but have a headache when he sees such a scope of construction: "You go, there are only a few pieces of iron left in my hand, how long will it take for these things to be built?" ”

Wang Chuan said: "Don't make up your mind about the iron tools I brought. I'll have to use them to get a wife. ”

Bihu is now in control of a tribe independently, and only now does he know the weight of the burden, so he can't help but salivate and say: "These are also your people, can you bear to let us still use stone tools?" Can't you think of any other way? I remember when you gave me a plan to send troops, you said that you can equip my people with sharp weapons, and it's not too late to start equipping them. ”

Wang Chuan showed my expression of convincing you: "I really thought you were so angry that you couldn't listen to anything at that time, it seems that you want to take advantage of me to squeeze me a little more." Now that you have acknowledged that they are my people, I will give you another gift before I leave. It also saves you from saying that you don't have any goods to exchange with the River Tribe. ”

As he spoke, Wang Chuan handed the blue malachite he had exchanged to Bihu.

Bihu looked at these things not like iron ore, and was a little puzzled: "These are?" ”

Wang Chuan said: "This is the copper ore I talked about on the road, which was found in the market across the river. Casting these into tools is not much worse than iron tools. ”

Bihu smiled like a flower: "I'll let people go to the opposite market to find these back." Immediately let people burn charcoal, burn bricks, and build blast furnaces. ”

"It's all waiting for you, it's too late. I have found the source of this ore. Tomorrow we will take a few good bows, bring a few dozen people, and we will go to Shiwanbu. Wang Chuan felt that Bihu's face was really unreadable, when he was in the River Tribe, he was so arrogant that he was like a master in the world, and the leader Fan was full, and now he looks like this, it seems that it is not much different from the bark of a tree.

"Elder Chuan is clever." It's rare to be a sycophant than a tiger.

Here, arrange people to burn bricks and charcoal, and let Zhuang Niu stay to supervise the work. The next day, Bihu led people down the river to Shiwanbu.

Shiwan is a small tribe downstream, with no more than a hundred people. Seeing Bihu come to the door with dozens of people, he almost knelt down and surrendered. Hearing that Bihu had come to look for a tent, the people in the tribe hurriedly went out to find the tent that was fishing.

When Zuo tent saw the bow that Bihu had chosen for him, he couldn't walk. Fishing or something had already been left behind, and he immediately took a group of people to the place where he picked up malachite.

The place where the malachite was found was a mountainous area covered with copper grass. Not much malachite can be seen on the ground, but when you shovel through the soil layer on the surface, the rocks below are almost all ore of the same color.

Malachite is a water compound of copper ore. In other words, there is a large amount of copper ore here.

"Rich. Ha ha. Wang Chuan saw these copper mines as if he saw golden copper coins, and he couldn't help laughing out loud.

A common currency is the most important guarantee for the development of society. With this copper, in addition to making tools, a large number of copper coins were made, and its effect on the development of society was no less than the use of words and arithmetic.

Bihu remembered that the last time he saw Wang Chuan lose his temper like this was when he made the first iron tool, and later it proved that iron tools are infinitely useful. So it seems that these things are not inferior? He turned his head to look at the tent, and immediately decided to incorporate this man and his tribe into the Huaiya. As for whether they agree or not, Bihu doesn't want to ask them.

Wang Chuan laughed loudly and rode around on a baby elephant to see the approximate size of this copper mine. It's a pity that later generations did not study geology, so there was no way to analyze the trend of underground copper mines. He could only look around to see the growth of the copper grass, and then keep digging to see the depth of the ore underground.

This is a relatively large mine, with an area of more than a few hundred meters near the surface alone. With current technology, it should be enough to mine for decades. Seeing this result, Wang Chuan couldn't stop himself from being silly for a while, and when the little elephant saw Wang Chuanle, he also followed silly music.

When the fun was almost over, Wang Chuan calmed himself down: "I still have to find something, I have to find another thing, see if there are any green stones?" ”

Copper ore is easily associated with tin ore. The harder bronze in copper products is copper-tin alloy. As long as the tin ore is found, Bihu no longer has to worry about the tools. The bronze is well cast, the hardness is not much worse than that of ordinary steel, and there is no problem in making weapons and tools, etc. Moreover, the melting point of bronze is lower, and the production is simpler, perhaps the popularity of tools on the Tiger side is not much slower than that of the River Tribe.

Soon after everyone obeyed the instructions and searched, they found a lot of green tin ore. This suggests that this is also a copper-tin associated mineral.

The copper mine is also on the north bank of the water, and Wang Chuan identified the direction and marked it on the map, and found that it was less than 30 kilometers from here to Huaiya. So after each person carried a basket of copper and tin ore, Bihu decided not to return the same way. Go directly along the straight line back to Huaiya, and by the way, the road will be opened, and it will be convenient to come over later.

A few days later, the group returned to Huaiyabu, and a road from Huaiyabu to the copper mine was basically opened.

With experience in iron smelting, copper and tin smelting are not difficult. When he returned, the bricks and charcoal had already been baked, and Wang Chuan commanded a small blast furnace to be built out of clay and bricks, and then used charcoal reduction to refine the two into a liquid. Bronze is obtained by mixing the two liquids and casting.

The crucible or something, Wang Chuan had already burned it when he burned the pottery before, and it was basically enough.

There is a certain emphasis on the ratio of copper and tin used to make bronze. Wang Chuan remembered that there was a five-to-one ratio, and bronze alloy could be used to make weapons such as knives and axes. As for the other proportions for other purposes, Wang Chuan didn't remember, so he could only tell Bihu these truths, and then go back and let him lead people to experiment slowly.

For the first bronze, Wang Chuan cast an axe using the method of clay casting. There is no need for quenching, and when it cools, it can be used directly with a wooden handle.

When the bronze is cast and cooled, there is a small increase in volume, so trachoma rarely appears in the cast objects. This makes this axe green and beautiful when it comes out. After a little sharpening, Bihu began to chop trees, chop wood, chop bones, etc., and after some use, the axe did not collapse, but only a little wear.

The ease of wear and tear is a disadvantage of bronze, but in this productive situation, it is still much more practical than various stone and bone tools.

Bihu wanted to see how much worse this thing was compared to iron tools, so he was ruthless and took an iron axe and slashed it at it. After a loud bang, there are collapses on both sides, the cracks of the iron axe are smaller, which does not affect the use, and the collapse of the bronze axe is larger, which is about to return to the furnace.

Bihu, who was accustomed to using iron tools, was a little dissatisfied when he saw this result. But Wang Chuan showed Bihu another advantage of bronze. He placed the axe directly on a crucible and heated it, and it didn't take long for the axe to become liquid under the blowing of a blower. Recast it, and a new bronze axe appeared.

Wang Chuan said: "You don't have so many craftsmen here, and this kind of thing is more suitable for you." It's okay to be soft and crispy, and you don't have to fight with people who use iron tools, it's enough to cut down trees or something. If you want iron tools, you will come back and smelt the copper, and I will exchange the iron tools with you. ”

Bihu looked at the new axe in his hand and knew that Wang Chuan was reasonable, and he could only accept this reality. Bronze casting is indeed faster than iron, so the advantage is that he can arm the tribe faster, and he quickly becomes high-spirited again when he thinks of the scene where his people are all using bronze weapons to fight around him.

After the bronze was made, Wang Chuan was also ready to leave. He's going to keep heading north. I didn't follow the path pointed out by the Yi people in front of me, so I could only go in the general direction. Wang Chuan planned to move in the general direction for a while, and then inquire around for a while, and if he didn't find the Yiren tribe before autumn, he would come back to Bihu for the winter. The time to go back and forth and to look for is to be considered, so he can't stay longer.

Moreover, he had heard strange things often happening near Huaiya these days, and he also wanted to help Bihu clean up some of his hand tails.

Since there is copper, Wang Chuan's dowry has a little more bronze. The weather began to get hot, and the leather armor could barely be worn anymore. Iron tools are easy to rust and cause skin allergies when they stick to the skin or linen, and Wang Chuan also replaced several people's heart goggles with copper. This keeps everyone cool and a little more protective at the same time.

I had to come back to Bihu's side, and in order to facilitate the way, Wang Chuan asked Bihu for two people to accompany him. When the Tiger General fought against the Ganliu Division, the fighter who performed eye-catching in the team's breakthrough was given to Wang Chuan. This man's name is Shi. Now that the surname Wang is no longer given to people, Wang Chuan suggested that those who are more meritorious than the Huhuai Yabu can be given the surname Zhang. This person was the first batch to receive the surname Zhang, and his full name was Zhang Shi.

Another one who followed was Geshu. He is the son of Kumo. Previously, he was the small boss in charge of handling the bazaar across the river, and he was the first person to receive Bihu. He didn't join the army before, and after Bihu became the leader, his father was promoted to centurion, and he used his father's aura to actively run in front of Bihu and please many people around Bihu. You can learn a lot from following Wang Chuan, and Bihu gave him this opportunity.

Wang Chuan was a little dissatisfied with Ge Shu, and asked Bihu in private: "He is the son of Ku Mo, this trip is very difficult, he may not be able to come back, can you think about this?" ”

Bihu said: "I have measure. ”

Hearing what Bihu said, Wang Chuan knew it in his heart, so after some preparations, Wang Chuan refused the send-off of Bihu and others, and the group went north.