Chapter 229: The Bronze Emerges
"God makes it cold, it's cold!"
Listening to the shouting sound coming from the stove, Song Xuan was directly speechless, shouting as if he was cold.
Although he was powerless to complain, Song Xuan still ran over, after all, copper is the most important thing, and these details are not important.
Song Xuan touched a few molds with the back of his hand, although it was not completely cool, the temperature was already very low.
Song Xuan also felt that it should already be enough, so he decided to knock on one and take a look first:
"When~"
Because he was too cautious, Song Xuan didn't even break it, and the two glanced at each other, and the atmosphere was still a little awkward.
It was indeed Song Xuan who was too careful, the worst inside was copper, and it was completely impossible for the stone hammer in his hand to break it.
"Knock~"
With some more strength, he smashed the pottery mold outside, and the lower part fell directly, looking at the yellow axe blade, Song Xuan was still very excited.
Although he was very anxious, Song Xuan still knocked down all the pottery shards outside little by little under the direct gaze of the stone.
"Stone, you come and polish it!"
The hands of both of them were a little trembling, whether in terms of color or texture, the copper axe in their hands was very consistent with what Song Xuan said before.
Although when tapping, Song Xuan vaguely felt that the axe was still relatively hard, as for whether it was good or not, he still had to wait until the end of the front to know.
"Click~"
Although it is a bronze tool, the polishing method is still similar, all of them are made of whetstones commonly used in the tribe, and when the stone is polished, it is also felt how hard the copper axe in the hand is, and it has been polished for a long time, but only one layer has been grinded off.
Although the pottery mold is carefully polished out of stone, after all, it is hand-rubbed, and it is impossible to be completely smooth inside, and this thing cannot be modified with a wheel, and the current copper axe is also pitted, but fortunately, it will not affect the use, even so, it is much better than the stone axe.
And there is also a hole in the upper part of the axe for placing a wooden handle, Song Xuan just said to the stone, the mold is still carved out of stone, and the method is not difficult, that is, put a clay stick in the selected position, Song Xuan has already pounded out the clay stick just now, and only need to wedge a piece of wood into it, from the point of view of appearance, there is not much difference from the common axes in later generations.
After grinding for a while, you will test the sharpness with your fingers, then sprinkle some water and continue grinding.
After all, it was poured directly, and the axe blade was not usually rough, and Song Xuan also became a little drowsy from the excitement at the beginning, until the stone gently pushed him, and at the same time shouted with some excitement:
"God...... Divine messenger, grind it well"
!
Hearing the two words, Song Xuan immediately came to his senses, took the axe, and looked at the axe blade shining in the sun.
"Stone, bring the wood!"
The wood used to test the axe was also prepared yesterday, and after Song Xuan came back, he had a breath with the stone, and he was going to refine it today, so everything was ready before what time.
Wood is not far away, and there is more than one, thick, thin, relatively easy to cut, and hard wood.
In this way, the strength of the axe can be seen more comprehensively.
"Click~"
The two-finger-thick wood was easily cut off by Song Xuan's copper axe, although the ordinary stone axe could reach this level with all its strength, but the effect was completely different, at this time, the incision had almost extended to nearly half of the wood, and the ordinary stone axe cut out a gap at most, and the rest depended on the force exerted on it.
Seeing such an effect, both of them were dazzled, and Song Xuan picked up the axe again, but there was no obvious curling blade on the axe blade, and as for the gap, it was impossible to see it.
"Click!"
"Click"
……
Even if it is a wrist-thick wood, although it is cut all at once, it can easily cut a gap around it, and the axe does not hurt much after a few axes.
This effect had already surprised Song Xuan very much, and he thought that this time it was unlikely to succeed, although he didn't know how much tin there was, but how could it be counted as a more qualified bronze axe.
However, for harder wood, the axe is still very difficult to cut, but although there is a curling blade, there will be no gaps, but no matter how hard it is cut, it is wood, and the hardness is still limited.
Song Xuan was also reluctant to take such a good axe to cut stones directly, which was not in line with everyone's usual usage habits.
"Come on, grind everything else!"
Seeing the strength of the bronze axe, Song Xuan also came to the strength, there are two axes left, two copper hammers, the hammer naturally does not need to be polished, and these hammers were originally used to make up the number, but the mold is more convenient to make, Song Xuan let the stone make a few, after all, it must have been tried at the beginning, no one knows if it can be successful, the mold is too fine, not only a waste of time but also a waste of feelings, but these simple tools are easy to make, anyway, it doesn't matter whether they can be formed or not, even if it is not successful, At least not too much time was wasted on it.
Under normal circumstances, the hammer can be completely replaced with stones, anyway, stones can be found everywhere, and it will not be too distressing if it is broken.
Yi Teng Snake's current conditions must not have this strength, and Song Xuan is also ready to melt these copper hammers to do other things.
Roll up your sleeves and work hard!
Although it was very boring to polish, with the successful case of the axe just now, the two of them were particularly energetic.
It was already noon when it was completely polished, and Song Xuan tried it one by one, after all, there was no obvious difference in the quality of the furnace fired, and it was very easy to cut the wood.
"Oracle, it's time to eat!"
The two of them chopped the wood with great interest, until a child came and called for them to eat.
"Let's go, get it!"
Carefully wrapping the axe and hammer in the skin, the two of them headed out into the tribe.
Recently, the children have not gone out to fish, first, the water temperature is too cold, and secondly, the tribe is too busy, and they need their help, and the older children can also help watch the captives, or go directly to the fields to work, without the older children, these children can only have fun in the tribe.
Shi Yan and Shui Wu had to watch this group of children except for cooking, and of course, the two of them were also starting to teach simple Chinese to the younger children of the wolf tribe.
But these children are not completely idle, and there is no problem with things like calling people to eat and leaving them to them.
Although they were very excited, when the two of them were eating, they basically didn't expose it, if they didn't pay attention to it, they couldn't see the abnormality of the two, but Shi Meng and the others still knew what Song Xuan was going to do today, and seeing Song Xuan's face full of smiles, they still guessed it somewhat, but they all knew that it was a big matter, and it was not appropriate to make a noise, which made a few people itch.
"Xue'er, you should go back first!"
Teng Snake also has a rest time after eating, but it is not long, it looks like an hour.
After all, after a tiring morning, you have to give everyone a breath after eating.
At this time, the leaders of several tribes who remained in the main house were only a dozen people in total, half of them were from the Teng Snake Yuan tribe, and Shi Ban was also left by Song Xuan, like the sheep tribe and the kite tribe, only one person remained, and the dozen or so people from the bear tribe did not stay, and Xiong Mountain was not there, and the others were all followers of Song Xuan, and he was here.
"The Divine Messenger ......"
Song Xuan nodded, everything was silent, glanced out of the door, and saw that there was indeed no one, so Song Xuan and the stone slowly unraveled the animal skin.
Although there is no sunlight or reflections in the room, the color of the axe is still very bright.
took the only remaining piece of wood, and Song Xuan cut it down vigorously under the gaze of everyone.
"Click~"
The wood snapped.
Distribute the previously cut wood to the crowd and show them the incision made by the bronze axe.
The axes and hammers were also passed in the hands of everyone, but after several people got their hands, they didn't want to give them to the next person, and looked at them repeatedly, and even fought for them at one point.
Everyone is not as hard as Song Xuan, even if they are chopping, they are very careful, but it is almost the same as the first time they used a stone, after all, everyone used to polish out stones, so they naturally had to be cautious when cutting things, and it was easy to break the axe blade when they used too much force.
"It's okay, cut hard, it can't be broken!"
After listening to Song Xuan's words, several people dared to gradually increase their strength to play for a while, and Shi Meng finally came to his senses:
"Oracle, this is bronze?"
"Well, it should be!"
After all, it was burned indiscriminately, and the proportion inside was not clear at all, although it had been determined, but there was still room for it.
And Song Xuan also knew that the current bronze axe was definitely not the best proportion, and when it encountered hard wood, it was rolled up without a few cuts, and there should be a lot of room for improvement.
But even at this level, in the Teng Snake Tribe, it is tantamount to an artifact.
"Oracle, give me one for this axe?!"
Everyone looked at Shi Yong in unison, not only feeling that he was a little thick-skinned, but also having a sense of remorse for being the first to be taken by him, and they all yelled at Song Xuan.
"I want one too!"
"Me! I! ”
“……”
If it is really distributed according to status, the dozen or so people in the room at this time are obviously qualified, and all of them are leader-level figures, if they really want to be distributed, they must be used first, but at this time, Song Xuan has his own ideas.
I saw Song Xuan shake his head and say:
"Leave one for Shi Ban, the others won't work!"
Everyone's eyes were focused on Shi Ban, even Shi Ban was a little overwhelmed, everyone else was the leader, he was still a lot worse in status, Shi Meng didn't get it, but he was the first to use it.
However, he also knew that Song Xuan gave him the stone axe naturally to make better tools, and he and Song Xuan had been complaining about the tools for a long time, but they had never been able to change it, and they could only use the most primitive way to make things in the tribe.
Now that there are axes made of bronze, it is naturally more convenient to make things, and the parts that were burned in the past can be cut with an axe.
Everyone also knows the importance of Shi Ban, after all, most of the weapons in the tribe are made from him, even if they are weapons assembled by himself, the raw materials are basically from Shi Ban.
It makes no sense to give the axe to everyone else, after all, only by giving Shi Ban can he exert the greatest power, but for the remaining axe and copper hammer, the divine envoy doesn't seem to want to give them a few people, and he is still a little confused.
This can only be blamed on Song Xuan who didn't expect it to be so smooth at the beginning, and the first refining was luckily drummed out, and the molds that were fired from the stones before were all axes and hammers, although they were easy to make, they were not so widely used.
The reason why the stone axe is so widely used in the Teng snake and even the surrounding tribes is entirely because there is no better replacement, with everyone's previous manufacturing capacity, everyone can only make some small knives, no matter how big it is, it can't be used, if the weapon is abundant, I believe that there will never be too many people who choose the stone axe This kind of top-heavy weapon.
The most important thing is that the materials used for these two things are relatively large, and Song Xuan estimated that if they can be replaced with things like daggers and spears, the bronze used in an axe can make three or four.
The ore in the tribe is already limited, and whether the rest can be made or not is a matter of course.
If it succeeds, you can also make more tools, and if it doesn't work, you have to make the most of the existing ones.
But no matter what, it's always best to save money.
Boom~
I saw Song Xuan draw several weapons on the ground with branches, namely daggers, short knives and spears, plus the current stone axe, after painting, Song Xuan pointed to the ground and said:
"Take your pick!"
The application range of short knives and stone axes is more extensive, especially short knives, in addition to being able to come in handy when hunting, they can also be used directly to cut down a tree or something, there is basically no problem, and even it is relatively convenient to use in life.
However, at this time, Song Xuan thought of a very suitable person, that is, Shi Ying, when he confronted Wu Yu before and pursued him later, he secretly attacked several people, using stone axes and javelins that were not very handy, if he could give him a dagger in that case, it is estimated that there would be a few more people to kill.
However, ordinary people get daggers, and in addition to decoration, it is estimated that they can only be used to cut meat.
The javelin, on the other hand, was used entirely for hunting and fighting, and was certainly not very useful in normal times.
Looking at the several weapons drawn by Song Xuan, everyone fell into deep thought all of a sudden, Song Xuan meant that they could only choose one of these weapons, if they really wanted to say anything, everyone must want everything, but they all knew that the conditions were here, and it was already very difficult for Song Xuan to agree to arrange one for everyone, at first everyone thought that they had to rush to come, so they behaved so positively.
Each weapon has a different application scenario, and if you choose it well, it will definitely not be easy to change, and you should not send them a new one anytime soon.
"Divine Messenger, I want a knife!"
Although a javelin is the best used, Shi Meng finally returned to rationality, and forcibly shifted his gaze to the knife, compared with the spear javelin, the short knife can also be used in ordinary times.
"Oracle...... I want a spear! ”
Shi Yong is still the supremacy of fighting, the spear in his hand, can also increase a lot of combat power, the beasts that may not be able to deal with it before, can now compete with it, at least can stab them, just like the wild boar in the forest, in the past, there was no good way to deal with them in the tribe.
"The Divine Messenger ......"
Others also said the weapons they wanted, as Song Xuan expected, the people who chose knives were the most, but the knife Song Xuan drew was not too big, only thirty centimeters, if you want to use it, you have to have a wooden handle.
And the dagger was only chosen by Shi Hua alone.
Shihua usually doesn't have many opportunities to hunt, and she has to be responsible for the manufacture of clothes in the tribe, and it's not very useful to change other things, but the dagger is usually used to cut animal skins and the like, but it can't be better, there are blades on both sides, and you don't need to polish it often.
In fact, among these kinds of things, only the head of the dagger and spear will need less copper, and the amount of a short knife will not be much less.
However, there are not many people who choose these two options, and most people still want a weapon that is more versatile.
Fortunately, although half of the people chose the knife, Song Xuan estimated that even if the ore that had not been broken could not be refined, it should be able to almost meet everyone's needs.
Seeing that Shi Yan and the two had not spoken, Song Xuan asked:
"Yan, why don't you two get a knife!"
"Oracle, this ...... Yes! ”
In fact, in addition to Shi Ban, the two who need to use bronze weapons the most are Shi Yan and the others, they need to make everyone's food every day, and ordinary knives and stone axes are difficult to cut, whether they are raw or pickled, there is no way, they can only stew them and then slowly mash them.
Not only is it time-consuming, but it is also very troublesome, especially if you are not careful, it is easy to burn, both of them are relatively old, and Song Xuan can't bear to continue to torture them.
Seeing that Shui Wu's lips moved slightly, but he didn't say anything, Song Xuan also knew his thoughts, but at this time, he must still be based on the tools needed in the tribe:
"Wu, wait a little longer for the sacrifice, and make some of the later ones when they are refined!"
The water witch naturally wants to make some sacrificial utensils that can be used, but the first batch must not be able to take the turn, if the refined things do not meet the use standards, it doesn't matter, but now this bronze is obviously usable.
After all, sacrifice is also a very important thing in the tribe, and such things can also strengthen everyone's faith when they are used, and it is not a waste if they have the ability.
And these things don't have to be as particular as tools, it doesn't matter if they're soft or hard, anyway, they can only be used during sacrifices, as long as the color is not bad.
Shui Wu and Shi Jiu heard Song Xuan's assurance, and finally relieved, although the two of them wanted to make a request, but they also knew the priority, Song Xuan let everyone choose weapons, which would naturally be of greater help to the tribe, and although the sacrifice was very important, if the stomach and life could not be saved, then everything would be a floating cloud.
Shi Jiu was exchanged from the Wuyu tribe as a captive, and the entire tribe of Shuiwu was washed away, almost without a way to live, and the things that the tribe had accumulated before were only totems and scepters made of stones.
Teng Snake also fled at the beginning, and Wu passed away again, and he didn't bring any heavy things, so he wanted to carry more living supplies, so he naturally had to make a trade-off.
They are all people who have experienced suffering, and under such conditions now, they can only pick the most important ones, but since the divine envoys have made promises, there will definitely be one in the future.
Seeing that everyone has already chosen, the axe and the copper hammer have also been passed through, except for the one that Shi Ban is holding in his hand, the others have been collected, except for Shi Ban, no one has chosen the stone axe and the copper hammer, of course, Shi Ban can't be regarded as his own choice, but obviously no matter what he wants, the last thing in his hand can only be this axe, after all, the axe has the greatest effect in his hand, and it is also what he needs the most.
It was only at this time that everyone realized that it seemed that Song Xuan had never said what he would use, and Shi Meng asked with some curiosity:
"Oracle, what do you use?"
I saw Song Xuan shake his hand:
"I'll talk about that later!"
Although Song Xuan is very interested in bronze tools and weapons, after all, the number is limited now, and it remains to be said whether the first batch can meet everyone's needs.
The most important thing is that Song Xuan's needs are really not particularly strong, usually he spends much more time in the tribe than in the wild, and when the time comes, if there are bronze tools in the tribe, he can also use them directly, if it goes well, he naturally wants to get a knife or dagger, and it doesn't matter if he can't get it.
Seeing Song Xuan say this, Shi Meng was suddenly anxious, and said angrily:
"Divine envoy, then I have to give it to you first, anyway, I don't have to go hunting recently!"
"That's right! We don't need it now! ”
"If you don't want it, then I don't want it!"
……
All of a sudden, everyone stood up, obviously very dissatisfied with Song Xuan's statement that he would be in the future.
There is such a thing in everyone's hearts, the divine envoy is naturally the first to use it, and even the bronze is proposed by the divine envoy, even now there are people who don't know where the bronze weapon in front of them came from, only that Song Xuan asked them to collect the special weapon on the black feather side at that time, but the one that was confiscated at that time and the shining bronze axe is not at all like a thing.
Shi Meng originally asked casually, wanting to see what the gods used, after all, it was still too late to change it, who knew that he would really ask questions.
But no matter what, if the divine envoys didn't use it, they didn't want to use it either rationally or emotionally, and even Shi Ban handed over the axe in his hand, and the meaning was self-evident.
Song Xuan looked at everyone, it was funny and angry, everyone was still as "cute" as always, although the feelings were very simple, but they were so warm-hearted, but Song Xuan still frowned and glared at everyone, especially Shi Ban with an axe:
"What do you want to do?!"