Volume 2: The Loose World Chapter 209: (Retest) The Iron Age
To be honest, from the time he took refuge in the Wind King's Department, Mu Huo expected that there would be a time when his secrets would be exposed, but he didn't expect that it would come so quickly, and the Wind King himself touched it and found and recognized the Jianmu Totem.
didn't expect that the Wind King would take a fancy to the tribal system and ask him to teach it to the Wind King Department, and even he took a fancy to him, and asked him to be the Wind Queen and give birth to an heir with her, and he could really give birth to a child, which was even more unexpected by him.
When he was in the wood tribe, the Wind King did not conceive a child for a long time, in addition to the difficulties of the feather people themselves, there were also reasons why he was hindered, and the great witch who controlled his life, whether he wanted a child or not, was a matter of whether he wanted to have a child or not.
He didn't want to, so he could drain all his vitality, but he didn't expect that after arriving in the stone forest, she was still so persistent, not only to avoid causing trouble, but also because his mentality had changed, so he let go of his authority.
Now back on the ship, gradually moving away from the stone forest, he suddenly regretted it, feeling that he was simply crazy at that time, he only wanted to use the Wind King Ministry, just like the Wind King Department used him, how could he leave a shackle?
In September, the wood fire returned to the tribe, and instead of being abolished, the Coastal Trade Team was now expanded in size and added new sea routes, the land route was for the tribes, and the sea route was only for the Sea Weather Department and the Wind King Department.
The strength of the Muhou Department was limited, and after the war, there were only 32,000 people left, and only 12,000 soldiers left, building stone roads, building houses, building huge walls, smelting ceramics, casting bronze, planting and breeding......
It requires a large number of people, and it is really inseparable from more people to carry out foreign trade, and more importantly, the harvest of the trade team has also weakened a lot for the wood waiting department, and there has been no substantial change.
At the beginning of 174, the seafaring team divided into two routes and set off again, one to the north, the other to the south, the trading team to the north, the pioneer team to the south, the Maritime Waiting Department and the Wind King Department.
When I went to sea the first two times, there were people from the Wang tribe who followed, thinking it was a good thing, but the result was to open up a desert island, drift on the sea for a few months, suffer heavy losses, and suffer a lot, and now the sea has changed.
However, what they didn't know was that this time it was still overseas, but the goal was no longer a desert island, but a real island, and after two months of drifting, the fleet rode the wind and waves and came to the Black Cat Sea again.
The islands in the sea are the last spark of the tribe, and they are also the only remaining privacy, and they have always been the most closely guarded.
Over the years, he has often been busy preparing for the war and the aftermath, and Mu Huo has not come back for many years, and even missed Mu Yu's coming-of-age ceremony, Mu Yu has reached the age of twenty-two, and he is the peak of a blood warrior, as burly as a strong bull.
He is a witch disciple of the tribe, and his abilities have all awakened, and feathering is an incidental ability, real power, and lightning strikes, he can summon thunder and lightning to attack enemies, and his destructive power is amazing, and his strength is very terrifying.
When they met again, Mu Yu was patrolling the island, and when he saw the wood fire, he was stunned at first, and then, his face quickly showed a look of surprise, and he was ecstatic, but he forcibly suppressed it, and only said: "Father." ”
Mu Yu is no longer a teenager, his temperament is much calmer, it is impossible to jump over again, hugging him happily, but Mu Huo opened his arms, he showed a look of relief, and also stepped forward and hugged the crook of his arm.
Lin Lin's appearance is still young, but she is a little more tired, when Mu Yu is an adult, she doesn't need her to watch, she has fewer private affairs, but more official affairs, after all, she used to be Lin Wu, and she has the most influence among the witches.
She also had to deal with a lot of things, and the environment on the island was even more difficult, with ferocious orcs, sinister hurricanes and thunderstorms, safety, food, drinking water, and communications, which made her anxious.
After the family of three finished dinner, Mu Yu went back to the room to rest, Mu Huo hugged Lin Lin tightly, he was reluctant to let go for a long time, and after hesitating for a long time, he still told her about the Wind King, and the two pairs of eyes met.
"You've worked hard. Lin Lin suddenly spoke, his eyes were full of pity, and he held his face with both hands.
Mu Huo didn't react, he was stunned, and suddenly realized that in primitive society, three wives and four concubines were not a big deal, and the stronger the strength, the more spouses there were.
Even in his place, it's the same, as long as the strength is enough, as many spouses as you want, you can have as many spouses, but then again, what kind of place is his place?
Lin Lin looked at him with pity, I heard that the alien race is extremely vicious, the leader of the alien race, how vicious it should be, he committed himself to such a monster for the sake of the tribe, and gave birth to a child, it is really hard.
Shaking his head and shaking off the superfluous thoughts, Mu Huo looked at her gaze and guessed her thoughts, smiled helplessly, but did not explain again, kissed her on the lips, and carried her into the room......
After living on the island for half a year, Muhuo left again and went to the main island, this time, he went very smoothly, and heard that the Muhou Department had taken refuge in a royal department, and the threat of the war king department was eliminated, and the black cat was even happier than him.
When Muhuo proposed to accompany him, he didn't think about it, and directly agreed, the mainland's attraction to it was even higher than he imagined, but it was really cowardly, and he heard that there was a threat, and he didn't want to go.
Now that he heard that the danger was over, he was so happy that at the beginning of the second year, he was ready, took thousands of big cats, hid in the cabin of the battleship, and followed the return fleet to the mainland.
Although the War King Department no longer poses a threat, there is a mid-stage beast guarding it, and the tribe is always much safer, although this mid-stage beast is unreliable, it may not work at critical moments, at least it can deter the enemy.
Originally, Mu Huo was still thinking about what kind of temptation to find and leave it in the tribe, who knows, as soon as he saw the totem tree and saw the spirit plant in the positive piece, it couldn't walk anymore and set up a nest under the tree.
The spirit plant of the wood waiting department, it is naturally very greedy, but it is also afraid of the power of the wood fire, and does not dare to move its mouth indiscriminately.
In the next few years, the fleet successively brought back its people from the sea, bringing a lot of people, and the Muhou tribe rowed an area of two hundred miles in the jungle to give the Black Cat tribe a place of survival.
With the tribes of the mainland, the sea area of the sea has also been handed over to the Muhou Department, and the tribesmen on the sea area are basically gone, and only those big cats are left on the main island, and the clansmen of each island have been transferred to the main island.
The actions of the Muhou Department are very hidden, these people are not sent back to the tribe, they are directly sent to the place of residence, and they are anchored in the corner, and there are many more big cats in the tribe, and the people of the royal department can not contact overseas when they see it.
The area of the main island is larger, the safety is higher, the richer the species, the more abundant the resources, especially the iron mine, the Mu Hou Department has been red for a long time, and the hard work of many years has finally been held in his hands.
The original foothold is all handed over, and in terms of bronze, the Muhou Department still has some advantages, but it can't last long, and it won't take many years to be equalized by the Wang Ministry, or even overtaken.
In today's situation, Muhuo has set its sights on iron, and good iron is much stronger and sharper than bronze, and more importantly, it is tougher, and the higher the plasticity and variability.
If it can develop rapidly, it can be regarded as a new foothold, but the refining of iron tools cannot be known by the royal department, overseas is the best place, and the capture of the island is the most important link in the plan of wood fire.
The Wind King Department and the Sea Weather Department can also obtain a large amount of iron ore, but the Wood Hou Department has never traded it, and they also have iron tools, but the refining methods of iron tools are low, there are more impurities, and they are easy to break, and they are not as good as bronze tools.
Not trading with them was also to avoid unnecessary suspicion, and ironmaking required a higher temperature and more demanding skills, and the wood fire improved the bronze oven and taught the art of ironmaking.
The black cat still regards the main island as its own territory, but it is not so important, in the first few years, I still go back to check it every year, and in the next few years, the time to go is getting less and less, and I am gradually happy.
When the weather is good, under the totem tree, lazily basking in the sun, taking advantage of the fact that others are not paying attention, stealing a few clumps of spirit plants to try it, when the interest comes, it will run around, and you can't see the cat shadow for a few days.
Wood Fire teamed up with the black cat, killed the Panshan Golden Armor, exterminated the green python beast, and originally wanted to make persistent efforts to clear the pine and King Kong communities, but the cat saw that it was the middle stage, and refused to do anything.
The leader of the green python was killed, and the other green pythons were not cleared, and the Qing clan had a secret method, without the hindrance of foreign beasts, these green pythons could be domesticated and become the mounts of warriors, helping to fight or guard.
Immediately afterwards, the wood fire swept the area of the valley and checked out five other dangerous areas, among which there was a strange beast, a foreign plant, and the black cat of the alien vegetation cleaned it up with him, but the strange beast was left behind.
It was a silkworm, with a bloated body like a bucket, although it was a real beast, it had no combat power, and it was a vegetarian, occasionally drinking blood, and the silk thread it spit out was extremely tough, not inferior to spider silk.
The silkworm will form cocoons every once in a while, but will not turn into butterflies, it has the value of cultivation, its silk, can be used as a high-grade material, and it is sustainable, living in the forest, picked up hundreds of cocoons.
The wood fire attaches great importance to it, and when it is cocooned, it takes the whole silkworm back, and raises it in the thousand-year-old mulberry forest in the back mountain.
After transferring the spirit plants stored in the sea to the wood tribe, the time for the black cat to return to the sea became less and less, and the Hou Department also selected two thousand young people from the Lu clan and secretly sent them to the sea area.
Without the black cat to disturb, the tribe added manpower, and the mining and refining of iron ore was officially put on the agenda, divided into several processes, different skills, and different work, effectively exerting work efficiency.
Craftsmen with ordinary skills are responsible for smelting and purifying, removing most of the impurities, and turning iron ore into pig iron;
The most skilled few craftsmen carried out the final casting, turning wrought iron into utensils, and in this way, the speed increased, the difficulty decreased, the efficiency increased, and the iron gradually appeared on the stage.