The movements of the Qingyan tribe were much faster than Xia Qi imagined, and on the third day, they reappeared in the Xia tribe.

The leader is still Qingniu, but this time there are many more people than last time.

Perhaps, this Qingyan tribe really suffered from a food crisis, but it was not particularly serious.

However, Xia Qi didn't care about this, in other words, even if the current Qingyan tribe really had a shortage of food, he would carry out this transaction normally, and the fall would not happen between the Xia tribe and the Qingyan tribe for the time being.

After all, a tribe with metal weapons, and the number is several times more than the Xia tribe, the most important thing is that this tribe is already crazy because of food, just ask, such a tribe, what can Xia Qi use to resist?

"This is the weapon we brought on this trip, Patriarch Xia will see if you are still satisfied?" said so, but the proud expression on Qingniu's face had already exposed the true thoughts in his heart.

Xia Qi looked at the things these people brought, and there was a disappointed expression on his face.

Qingniu and these people bring weapons that have been forged, in the eyes of other people, these may be rare treasures, but in Xia Qi's eyes, but that's it.

It's just because the forging technology of the Qingyan tribe is still too poor, and the weapons created look very unsightly, not to mention the holes, and there are even cracks on several axes.

If such a weapon is taken out to fight, I am afraid that it will be shattered to you in minutes.

Seeing the expression on Xia Qi's face, everyone in the Qingyan tribe showed dissatisfied expressions, but because of the bear standing next to him, he didn't dare to attack for a while.

In their eyes, these are already very good weapons, and you, a small tribal patriarch who has never seen the world, are still not satisfied with this?

Xia Qi explained: "You may have misunderstood what I meant, what I want is ore, that is, those stones that have not been treated. ”

In Xia Qi's view, the reason why these weapons have cracks and the problems of forging are that the smelting technology is probably not up to standard.

After the smelting is completed, there are blisters and gaps in the inside of the copper ingots.

Hearing Xia Qi's request, Qingniu was stunned for a moment, and then he breathed a sigh of relief in his heart.

In his opinion, these weapons were the most precious things in their Qingyan tribe, and they really shouldn't be traded, because there was a shortage of food in the tribe before, so they had to do so.

Although he didn't know that Xia Qi only needed ore and no weapons, he was relieved in his heart.

"Yes."

Qingniu put down the basket on his back, and then put it in front of Xia Qi.

I saw that inside the back basket, there was a small half back basket of ore, and the whole body showed a purple red.

Xia Qi took out a piece of ore and put it in front of his eyes to observe it, and found that it was a kind of copper with good purity.

This discovery made Xia Qi's heart a little disappointed, because the hardness of copper is much smaller than that of brass and the like.

Forget it, something is better than nothing.

After discussion, the two sides finally reached an agreement on the transaction method of three baskets and one basket of copper ore.

Although the copper ore brought by Qingniu this time was far less than one-third of the basket, Xia Qi still gave them a basket of fish.

Subsequently, Xia Qi asked people to put these ores in a warehouse.

The amount of these ores is still too small, Xia Qi plans to save a certain amount first, and then talk about it, and he has not yet found a qualified person to use that skill book.

Time passed, and although the temperature did not drop again, the snow fell for three days, and the trade between the two tribes became more and more frequent.

Judging from the trading volume of the Qingyan tribe, the food gap of the other party is gradually increasing.

Because of the heavy snowfall, many tribes have reached the point of exhaustion, and there are only two large tribes around, Qingyan and Xia, and in this case, they began to gather towards the two tribes.

It's just that the food of the Qingyan tribe is not enough, so they do not take these tribes in, and sometimes they even expel them.

On the other hand, the Xia tribe, at the beginning, no matter how many people came to Xia Qi, they accepted it all, but as time passed, the burden on the tribe began to gradually increase.

As a last resort, Xia Qi began to increase the number of fishing teams.

However, the snow spread so far north that the snow disaster will be affected more and more.

In the following days, more and more tribes came to the vicinity of Daxia Lake, and some chose to join the Xia tribe, but some showed strong hostility.

Xia Qi also found that these tribes were having a tendency to gather, which made him have to guard against it.

A day later, when the fishing team was fishing, it was attacked by other tribes, killing one person and injuring three, Xia Qi asked the white wolf to lead people to kill all the people of that small tribe, so as to deter other tribes.

However, his methods did not work, but attracted the hostility of other tribes.

In the days that followed, the tribes did not attack again, but they often wandered outside the fishing teams and camps, not knowing what was going on in their minds.

In the end, Xia Qi decided not to sit still.

Outside the camp, a group of people looked at the camp with cold eyes, if it weren't for the camp wall and the deterrence of the tribal warriors, they were afraid that they would have rushed into the tribe long ago.

Sou!

A feathered arrow shot out from the tribe, and before these people could react, one of them thought to the end, only to see his neck come out, and a feathered arrow came out of his body.

What!

The rest of the men were startled and fled into the distance, only to be knocked out by a volley that followed.

The tribal drawbridge opened, and the Xia tribe swarmed out and killed the camp settlements around the camp. Those who are willing to take refuge in the Xia tribe have already entered the camp, and most of these people outside are evil people.

In the face of the sudden attack of the Xia tribe, those tribes instantly became a mess, some wanted to fight back desperately, but most of them chose to flee, this battle was not the slightest accident, and ended with the victory of the Xia tribe.

In the face of a group of rabble with evil intentions, the Xia tribe paid a very small price, and only a few people were slightly injured.

"Surrender! We surrender! ”

Some people simply broke down, kneeling on the ground and begging for mercy.

"Kill them all."

Seeing this, Xia Qi did not show the slightest mercy, and directly ordered all these people to be killed.

"Why, obviously we have already surrendered, why ......"

Someone had tears on his face, repeating a sentence over and over again, not knowing if he was questioning Xia Qi or himself.

For this, Xia Qi did not reply, and asked them to cut off their heads to make Jingguan.

The significance is self-evident.

From this time on, unless the foreign tribe wanted to take refuge in the Xia tribe, they dared to take a step through Jingguan for one person.

Even so, the tribe's population continued to grow, to the point that the nests that had been built up to that point were all inhabited.

There was no way, Xia Qi could only settle the newcomer in the animal skin tent first.

Population growth has led to a gradual increase in the demand for coal and food.

Xia Qi had no choice but to continue to send more people to the Black Gold Tribe and the fishing team.

The fishing team has even set up tents on the ice and started to work in shifts.

In the camp, the first metal weapon forging finally began.

After such a long time, Xia Qi finally found a suitable candidate, this guy is called Chi, although the bravery value is only two stars, but the endurance, intelligence, and spirit have all reached four stars.

So Xia Qi assigned him the skill book of "forging".

Now that the smelting step is complete, the next step is forging.

In fact, the smelting of ore can be complex, but it can also be very simple.

How simple can it be?

All you need to do is put the crushed ore into a muddy crucible and then heat and stir it constantly.

The ore was of high quality and had few impurities.

I saw that Chi chose a piece of copper ingot and put it in the fire to heat, because it was coal, so the temperature of the flame was very high.

Soon, under the continuous heating of the flames, the copper ingots soon became hot and soft.

Then he took a large clamp made of bamboo and took the copper ingot out of the fire, placed it on a flat stone, and struck it continuously with the hammer in his hand.

I don't know what material this stone is, the surface is flat and smooth, not to mention, and it is also very hard, Xia Qi once asked the bear to do a test, and smashed it with a stone, but the stone in the bear's hand was broken into slag, and the stone was still intact.

There is also the hammer in the hand of the cricket, which is made by heating the copper into a liquid, putting it into an iron birch rod as a handle, and then polishing it continuously.

There are usually two ways to make weapons, one is the forging method that the Chi is now formed by continuous forging.

In addition, the metal is smelted into a liquid and then poured into a prepared mold for direct molding.

Both methods have their own benefits.

Although the forging method is slow, the resulting weapons are relatively durable.

Although the weapons made by the forging method are not as strong and durable as the forging method, they are fast.

The forging method is suitable for low-volume production, and the casting method is suitable for high-volume manufacturing.

At present, there are not many people in the tribe, so let's slow down the forging method, besides, the tribe doesn't have the technology to cast now, right?

After watching the iron for a while, Xia Qi, who felt a little bored, left and went to do other things.