Chapter 64

The development of the tribe has been gradually on the right track, which makes the stone bear more and more happy.

Although everything is not even Xiaohe's ability to show his sharp point, at least it stimulates the cohesion of the tribal people, which is the root of all undertakings.

North American Indians are a kind of people who like infighting, so even though they have lived in the vast continent of North America for tens of thousands of years, they have never produced a complete regime. This is also the fundamental reason why the white people in Europe finally killed the overwhelming number of North American Indians.

To put it bluntly, North American Indians lack a sense of cohesion.

If these two million Indians can be united, how can those white Europeans wipe out the Indians with hundreds of thousands of strong soldiers? Even if these Indian soldiers didn't have hot weapons, even fighting guerrillas could make those European white people miserable.

In those years, grandfather Mao was able to lead the martyrs with knives and millet and rifles to defeat the little devils who owned airplanes, artillery and machine guns. What was the reason? Isn't that a high degree of cohesion?

Chiang Kai Shek's troops had planes, artillery and machine guns, but they were also beaten by little devils? In the end, Lao Jiang also lost his good fortune. Why is this? It's very simple, because Lao Jiang's troops have no cohesion.

If the North American Indians of this era have a high degree of cohesion, those white Europeans will never cross the Appalachian Mountains and go west!

What Shi Xiong did after he came to gaoshu tribe is to stimulate the cohesion of the three hundred people.

Now it looks like it's working out pretty well. Except for a few people who have opinions on themselves, most of the other people are willing to participate in these things. Even five or six-year-old children will spontaneously form groups to help.

Even if these little guys can't do great things, can they help carry some small iron ore?

Those old people, they can't do heavy manual work any more, but they cook for the working people at home, right?

Those women can't build a blast furnace, they can't go out and catch bison, but they plow the fields at home, right?

And why do they do that? It's very simple, because they see a bright future in the things stone bear has done, and they are willing to contribute to a better future.

what is it? This is the concrete manifestation of cohesion.

In the early morning of this day, all the people who had been busy for four days stopped working. After breakfast, they all gathered in the open space in the middle of the village.

Now, in addition to the big pit for coking and the stone house for firing firebricks, there is another big guy more than five meters high, which is the earthen blast furnace built in these four days.

The shell of this earthen blast furnace is built with rock and mud, and the furnace is made of firebricks. There are scaffolds around the top of the blast furnace, which are used for pouring materials. There are four large bellows beside the blast furnace, which are used for blast furnace blowing.

Outside the taphole of the blast furnace, there is a "square pond" built with refractory bricks. Around the square pond, there are many molds made of kaolin on the pit.

Once the molten iron flows out of the taphole, it will directly flow into the pond, and then the crushed pig iron particles will be added to the pond, which will be continuously stirred to decarbonize the molten iron. Finally, the molten iron will be scooped out with a stone spoon and poured into the heated mold.

In fact, the local blast furnace was built yesterday afternoon. After the stone bear taught the people to use scaffolding, the speed of building the blast furnace increased a lot.

Then, last night, the stone bear let the people ignite the wood inside the blast furnace, and the whole blast furnace was completely dried by the burning fire all night.

Today is the day when the guardian is ready to make steel.

The top leaders of these tribes, including Lilei, Hongyun and Dajiao, all came. Even wolf tail came. I don't know what Li Lei said to wolf tail. Anyway, this guy is very honest these days.

It doesn't matter to the stone bear. As long as this guy doesn't make trouble and drag his feet, the stone bear won't target him. However, if this guy doesn't know what to do and has to make trouble and delay, then the stone bear won't mind dueling with this guy again.

Now the situation is very good. The stone bear doesn't want to spoil a pot of broth with a mouse excrement.

The powerful efficiency of the combination of Qu Yuan Li and taming bison in plowing the land, the steel made by stone bear through crucible that day, and his feat of hunting red deer and bison alone, are enough to make him establish a high prestige in gaoshu tribe. Not to mention that he was already the guardian of kabulu.

The people in the tribe are not fools. They can see that the guardian is sincere for the tribe and the people, so they have unconsciously regarded the guardian as the core of sacrifice next only to the leader and kabulu. And they are willing to work with the guardian!

Seeing that Wu's great people were coming, Shi Xiong was also a little complacent at this moment, so he waved his hand and cried out: "load the stove!"

A group of people who had already prepared began to mix the weighed coke, small pieces of iron ore and small pieces of limestone, then put them on the scaffold, and then put these mixed materials into the furnace of the blast furnace with a basket from the scaffold.

When making iron, the materials put into the blast furnace are also particular, and should not be put randomly. Once the proportion is wrong, who knows what kind of iron will be produced.

In the later iron smelting process, the proportion of iron ore, coke and limestone needed for smelting a ton of molten iron is about 16:5:3. In other words, to smelt a ton of qualified hot metal, it needs about 1.6 tons of iron ore, 500 kg of coke and 300 kg of limestone.

Of course, this proportion is not invariable, and it needs to be slightly changed according to the iron content of iron ore.

Stone bear does not have the ability to test the iron content of iron ore now, so he can only take the way of estimation to determine the proportion.

Anyway, it's not just smelting this furnace of hot metal. If the hot metal produced this time is not up to standard, change another proportion next time. These days, there is no Quality Supervision Bureau, and there is no customer complaint. Let's make do with it.

In order to be able to weigh more rigorous, stone bear also let old wood build a seesaw like tool. Lao Mu's eldest son, the cross saw, weighs about 120 Jin. When weighing, let the cross saw sit at one end of the seesaw, and then put separate iron ore, coke and limestone into the big basket at the other end. Finally, a more accurate number can be obtained.

Although it can not be accurate to a few Liang, the error of ten jin is still acceptable.

When there is a chance to make a scale in the future, it's easy to talk about weighing.

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