Chapter 44: Bronze

To say that Chang Jiang and the two were left, Lu Ning found that his biggest gain was not two more capable coolies.

The knowledge and ability of these two people is his biggest surprise!

Chang Jiang said that he has some experience in such things as mining, and Lu Ning happens to have a cellar furnace here.

Although the things needed for pottery and copper smelting are certainly not universal, in short, the problems can be overcome, and you can find a way to try it when the time comes!

Lu Ning said that this suggestion was too much for his appetite.

Indeed, since there is a direction, then just do it and be done.

And Lu Ning remembered that Li Yuanzhou, who was not here now, had said that he had worked as a blacksmith and carpenter before, and he really couldn't wait for him to come over and help make some suggestions.

Although Lu Ning didn't understand why Chang Jiang had the ability to mine.

"We're talking about real mining, not computer mining!"

Lu Ning felt that he still had to be reminded.

Chang Jiang looked at Lu Ning with strange eyes.

"Isn't this nonsense, I don't have the tools to mine with a computer here."

Although Lu Ning felt that he was not discussing the issue of tools, since the other party had sworn a promise, he could only believe the other party for the time being.

Then Chang Jiang carried a stone pickaxe into the mountains and disappeared.

On the other hand, Su Susu's harvest here is also remarkable.

She made a simple fishing rod out of twigs, animal bones, and ligaments, and she caught a dozen fish in one afternoon.

Even the dinner was made by Su Susu.

"That...... I don't know anything else, but I'm still a little confident in making fish. ”

Su Susu served fish soup to the two of them.

After this day's contact, Su Susu, who was originally timid and a little not good at communicating with people, also became able to chat with the two of them.

Chang Jiang praised Su Susu's fish stew skills, and even turned his belly over the flatbread to show his surrender.

In the future, this will be the new boss of this beast!

What Lu Ning? I don't know you, who you don't know!

Lu Ning also expressed his praise: I am almost tired of eating meat every day, and today I can finally change my taste and drink a bowl of delicious fish soup.

These words caused Chang Jiang to be very angry, and even Hu Luning was in Versailles.

Like in the days before them, it was good to have grass to eat, and to eat meat, you had to run into a rabbit that died outside the door to open the meat, how could you still pick and choose!

"By the way, how's your mine looking?"

Lu Ning changed the subject.

Speaking of this, Chang Jiang made a puzzled look.

"I looked for it as the game says, but I couldn't find it at all."

Lu Ning immediately squirted out a mouthful of soup.

Su Susu leaned back and silently moved away from the two.

"What you call 'some tips' comes from the game?"

Lu Ning deeply felt that he might have made something wrong.

This person doesn't seem to be very reliable, huh?

Chang Jiang laughed: "Just kidding." I've been there before, out of interest in playing games. Although there are huge differences between plants and animals due to environmental reasons, metal ores are not much different from ours.

"I went around the mountains today, and there are a lot of malachite-like copper mines here. There is also iron ore, but I guess it can't be handled at our current level, so I don't care. Oh no, I dug up a sample for you and came back. ”

Chang Jiang said, taking out a small stone the size of a fist from his pocket.

Colorful.

Lu Ning looked at it, took the ore, and took it to his own hands.

"Congratulations to the Captain for discovering [Copper Ore] for the first time and receiving the Inspiration Reward. Do you want to receive it now? ”

In the soul connection, the information of the manufacturing station relayed by the ghost came after a long time.

Lu Ning was surprised that this was also his discovery of the copper mine, and at the same time, he also replied in the soul connection: "Don't accept it yet." ”

After playing with the copper mine in his hand, Lu Ning returned it to Chang Jiang.

"If you can find it. Then you can get a few trips of water in the morning and continue to look for ore in the afternoon. ”

Lu Ning nodded, and assigned a bunch of jobs to the other party without any pressure.

"Sister Su will help me take care of the two fields under the mountain, and then catch some fish every day and come back. By the way, remember to bring flatbread when you go out, this thing doesn't have fun during the day and doesn't sleep at night, it's too noisy. ”

Su Susu nodded.

Fishing is her forte, and she also learned quickly how to take care of the farmland after Lu Ning's explanation.

Compared to staying with a group of people, staying alone in the field and talking to plants, fishing by the river is quite in line with her interests.

……

"Receive supplies."

"Data reconstruction transfer in progress."

"Issued to the captain: Bronze axe casting drawings, please check it."

Since Chang Jiang and Su Susu were not in the camp, Lu Ning directly chose to receive the supplies.

Bronze, a metal material that has played a major role in the history of Blue Starfish, but according to the Ghost, it seems that the use of bronze is not very common throughout the universe.

Bronze has many advantages, such as the natural occurrence of copper ore in nature; Copper has a low melting point, and even the flame of charcoal can refine it.

Moreover, the hardness of bronze is very high, and the hardness of pig iron is even inferior to that of bronze under the premise that the quenching method is not used in the same way.

Therefore, before people can afford to handle iron ore, bronze is an ideal transition material.

Needless to say, the difference between metal tools and primitive stone and bone tools is a world of difference.

It may be said that it is a kind of luck to be able to easily find copper ore in this world.

But this kind of luck must have nothing to do with Lu Ning.

Lu Ning quickly read the drawings, and already had a general idea in his heart.

The stone cellar used for pottery is a good place to make copper ore.

In fact, bronze was originally a by-product of pottery.

It's just that Lu Ning's luck is really not good, because he burned so much pottery, and he didn't even see a single bronze.

"The work of refining copper ore may be handed over to Chang Jiang," Lu Ning rolled up the drawings and threw them into the jar he specially used to store these parchments, "Anyway, he himself said that he has some relevant knowledge, and I will just teach him the things on the drawings." It was a wise choice to keep a few of them, and although there was a gap between me and the self-fortified one, it was fortunate that it allowed me to leave more space. ”

Lu Ning, who left all kinds of chores to Chang Jiang and Su Susu, was finally able to do more of what he wanted to do after saving a lot of time.

For example, how to use virtual energy in practice.

Although the "hand of carrying the car" was limited by the tools, Lu Ning always struggled to complete the carving steps to reproduce the effect.

But this time, with the bronze casting method, the problem can be solved quickly.

And judging from the time that Ye Rang Qin Ke had mentioned before, it wouldn't take much time for him to come over again.

However, what no one expected was that Ye Rang Qin Ke had not returned yet, but Chang Jiang had brought back some disturbing news.