Chapter 47: Lack of Copper
I slept very late yesterday, and Yang Zilu was going to sleep until the third pole before I got up, but I didn't want the sun to just rise, Yang Zilu was called up by Xiaohu and Yuxiao.
"What's wrong!" Yang Zilu asked with sleepy eyes, the person was awake, but he lay on the bed and didn't want to get up.
"Brother Yang, Dongping took people to hunt elephants, how could he be so shameless! This method was come up with by Brother Yang! "The little fox drums these two cheeks, which is quite cute.
"Yes! Master, you go to the wizards to complain, how can they be like this! The Imperial Guard was also angry.
Yang Zilu just heard it, and he was also very angry, but after thinking about it deeply, there is no patent protection law at this time, where is this matter reported to the wizard, it is estimated that in the end, it is not for the wizard to give such a fluttering sentence, "They are all people of the same family, why bother so much!" 'Send it away.
Yang Zilu took a deep breath and said, "Forget it!" ”
Now Yang Zilu can only comfort herself in her heart, and everyone can see whose credit is for this matter. Dongping is now just taking advantage of himself.
But now Yang Zilu has no choice but to go outside to help make bacon, because there are no sharp weapons, the bronze axes, knives and only a few obsidian weapons that Kan Pingtian brought from Yang Zilu's house have become the main force to dismember elephants. Men wreak havoc in the woods, young and old gather firewood and grass, and young people cut wood.
But after a long time, there was a problem with the stone tools, and the two or three trees that were cut down were so dull that they could no longer be used. In the end, Yang Zilu had to divide the manpower into four groups, one group of 30 people, who was responsible for logging, the second group of 17 people, who was responsible for making stone tools, and the third group of 15 people, who were responsible for transportation. If there is no firewood or grass for the time being, help with logging. There are also five people in four groups, who are responsible for dismembering elephants.
Some people will think that five people are too few, but the Shanyue people are worthy of living in the mountains, five people are indeed few, but there are women, they are much more powerful than the women of the Central Plains, more than ten women help, and the rest are responsible for bacon. It's busy, but everything is in order. Yang Zilu stimulated it again, everyone can get five catties of bacon today, and children and the elderly have three catties. At the same time, the ten most industrious people will receive an additional ten catties of bacon. All this was supervised by Yang Zilu.
As soon as the reward and punishment system came out, everyone became industrious, but it took half a day to deal with three elephants, leaving only a miserable skeleton. Originally, these Shanyue people were also preparing to destroy the heavens and make ivory into weapons. Fortunately, Kan Pingtian saw it and hurriedly stopped it. However, they did not give up this idea, and the two sides also caused a temporary stalemate, and finally Yang Zilu personally stepped in to solve the problem.
From Kan Pingtian's mouth, Yang Zilu knew that since the previous dynasty (Shang Dynasty), ivory has been a luxury item among the upper class aristocracy, as small as making chopsticks, it is said that the king likes to use ivory chopsticks the most, but there is a very elegant name in the nobility, called 'elephant chopsticks'. And big enough to make a scabbard. The medium ones are made into balls, small saucers, seals, teacups, and so on. The price is similar to that of ordinary jade.
made Yang Zilu think that he had given Yiguang and Zheng Dan two jade pendants that were just the size of his thumb, and he actually asked him for thirty yuan. How much money does it have to make to sell the ivory that is two circles smaller than his arm?
Thinking that ivory was wanted to be used to make weapons just now, Yang Zilu couldn't help but think of weapons, Confucius said: "If you want to do a good job, you must first sharpen your tools." Yang Zilu agrees with this very much, but how did this bronze come about, Yang Zilu knows, it is copper and tin, what is the proportion of the problem, besides, how do copper ore and tin ore look, put it in front of Yang Zilu, I'm afraid Yang Zilu doesn't know it.
Thinking of this, Yang Zilu came to Kan Pingtian to discuss, and now he can also see that Kan Pingtian must be a nobleman, and he is not too small a nobleman, otherwise Zhao Zhizi's arrogant guy will not favor Kan Pingtian. The aristocracy is characterized by knowing a lot of things and scheming more than the commoners of this era.
"Old Kan, now we are seriously short of bronze weapons, and it is already very troublesome now, let alone in the future. If you buy bronze weapons, you will definitely not be able to buy much! You can only buy it on a small scale! At most, the coins were melted, but it was very troublesome. After all, coins are different from bronze! Yang Zilu said.
Yang Zilu knows that there are a lot of impurities in coins at this time, at least the current monarch is not stupid, and he knows that adding some worthless metals to it is simply impurities. There is nothing to use as a coin, but when used as a weapon, I am afraid that it is not much stronger than some sharp stone tools, and the surname price ratio is not worth it.
"You can cheat!" Lao Kan is worthy of being a black-bellied talent, and as soon as he opened his mouth, his extremely dark heart was exposed.
"How to cheat?" Yang Zilu asked.
"If you want to deceive, you can deceive the famous, you can say where those famous craftsmen don't mind, there is a meteorite outside the sky in the mountain! It's sure to entice them over! Kan Pingtian still said with an expressionless face, but this ploy was vicious enough.
People of this era already knew how to use meteorites, a high-purity natural ore, to make weapons. As for the flickering in the back, I'm afraid I can only use a radish in one hand and a stick in the other, and use both soft and hard.
"That's not good, is it?" Yang Zilu's mouth was not good, but his face was eager to try.
"Chief! Big things are wrong! Big things are wrong! A young man ran over with a panicked look.
"What's wrong!" Seeing this, Yang Zilu couldn't help but panic, and hurriedly asked.
"Yes...... Be...... Be! "The young man was so out of breath that he could say 'yes' after talk.
Yang Zilu interrupted him and said, "You wait a while!" If I don't open my mouth, you won't speak! ”
When the young man heard this, he stopped talking, and gasped happily, Yang Zilu After a while, he saw that the other party's breath was almost smooth, at least he could speak more fluently. Then he said, "Say! What's going on? ”
"Chief Dongping and his men were chased and killed by elephants, and several people died, and finally one of them ran out to ask for help!" The young man said with a panicked expression.
When Yang Zilu heard this, he and Kan Pingtian looked at each other, and they were both deeply surprised.
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