Chapter 67

Although we have figured out how to decarbonize as much as possible, Shixiong still doesn't want to make another furnace of steel in the near future.

It's not so easy to make steel. Limestone, iron ore and coal have to be excavated and transported back. This project alone needs hundreds of people to work for several days.

And I have to coking when I come back, so it will take several days just to prepare before I start the furnace. The most important thing is that there are enough iron weapons in the tribe now. Although there are not many iron weapons, the soldiers in the tribe can have an iron knife or spear.

As for the farm tools for sowing, this casting is enough. Weapons made of pig iron may not be up to standard, but they are better than bone spears and bone sticks. The farm tools made of pig iron are more than enough for planting.

Now the only thing missing is steel. You can't make a cow nose ring without that.

However, if the steel is smelted simply, there is no need to start the furnace again. There is plenty of kaolin. Make a bigger kaolin clay crucible, and then stir fry a pot of steel with the method of stir frying steel, which is enough to make a cow nose ring.

It's not easy to control steel making with blast furnace. Is it not easy to control steel making with crucible?

Not to mention the stone bear, I'm afraid even the wooden planer can fry a pot of qualified steel.

Since he came into contact with steelmaking, the wood planer has shown great interest in this field. The most important thing is that he seems to have great talent in this field. It's just like this time when steelmaking was started, the wood planer did at least half of the work.

The weighing and proportioning of materials are all based on this guy's idea.

Shi Xiong also wants to cultivate him. If he can really cultivate this guy, he won't have to spend more energy on steelmaking.

Therefore, in addition to taking out some unusable farm tools and using crucible to refine enough steel, Shixiong does not plan to start steelmaking in the near future.

"What are you thinking, big bear?" Red cloud's words awakened the stone bear from his meditation. Looking up, the stone bear almost fell by the thunder of red cloud.

At this time, Hongyun was dressed in ordinary animal skin clothes, with a hoe with a wooden handle on his back, a freshly sharpened kitchen knife in his left hand, and a freshly sharpened peeling knife in his right hand. If Shi Xiong didn't know her, he would have thought that she was Sun Er Niang who specialized in making human flesh steamed buns.

See the stone bear that can't help laughing, red cloud very puzzled turned a body, "how? What's wrong with me? "

"No, no problem! Absolutely no problem! " The stone bear waved his hand with a smile, "what are you going to do?"

"Why not? I've just come back from the planer, and I want these things from him. " Red cloud raised two knives in his hand.

The stone bear patted the forehead and said helplessly: "well, you'd better not move this thing easily, especially the skinning knife, which is very sharp. If you're not careful, you'll cut your hand."

The skinning knives used in the tribe were polished with stones or ox bones. The sharpness can be imagined. Cutting meat with a blunt knife is not enough to describe the sharpness of those skinning knives.

But fur was also an important material for the tribe's foreign trade, so when casting farm tools this time, he specially made 20 small skinning knives.

After this thing is sharpened, as long as it is often polished and peeled, it's a pleasure and deeply loved by the people.

"It's not that I don't know how to use a Skinner. I used to skin my prey with my people. Well, this knife is very easy to use. I like it very much. "

"Just like it. However, the quality of this knife is not very good. After that, we will successfully produce better steel. I will use the best high carbon steel to make the sharpest skinning knife for you, which is the envy of all the people. "

This made red cloud smile.

Even though she is a mother of two children, she is still as pleasant as a child.

"In seven or eight days, the trading team of vasichus from the East may be coming. The trading teams of these vasichus usually come once every three months. I want to ask if you have anything you want. I'll prepare something for you in advance. You are only busy with tribal affairs these days. You don't even go out hunting. You don't have any fur or precious stones or yellow iron in your hands. At that time, those vasichus will come. If you don't exchange things with them, you won't get what they have. Those vassichus are very cunning. "

Hearing Hongyun's words, the stone bear's interest came immediately.

"Is vasichu's trading team coming soon?" Stone bear some uncertain asked.

"It should be coming soon, maybe earlier or later. But this year's weather is good, and those vasichus should not be late. "

This words immediately let the stone bear's brain quickly turn up.

The most favorite thing of European colonists was "yellow iron". The so-called yellow iron was the name of North American Indians for gold. Even though they had been in contact with vasichus for such a long time, they still couldn't figure out why they were so obsessed with the useless yellow iron.

Yes, in this era, gold, a precious metal that can make anyone crazy in the old world, seems to be useless in the eyes of North American Indians. At most, it is used to decorate themselves. They don't understand the value of gold at all.

This can be seen from the fact that North American Indians call gold "yellow iron"（ PS: it's not old Mo's nonsense. Before the middle of the 19th century, North American Indians didn't value gold as much as iron.)

Besides gold, there are all kinds of gems and furs.

In fact, the Appalachian Mountains are also rich in all kinds of gems. Later, the Appalachian Mountains in western North Carolina are rich in rubies and sapphires, emeralds, moonstones and other gems. The area where the gaoshu tribe is located is not only rich in gems, but also small pieces of yellow iron can be found in the mountain streams from time to time

Later generations call the Appalachian mountains a treasure mountain, which is not nonsense.

As for fur, let alone fur. Although the Cherokee people are now half farming and half hunting people, hunting still occupies a very important position in their life. After shaving the fur needed to make clothes and tents, a lot of fur can be left in the tribe every month.

It's just that these things don't exist now.

But it doesn't matter if you don't have these things. There is a precious material in your hand that is not inferior to gold and precious stones!

Stone bear's mind can't help drifting to the little salt mountain that he saw when he was digging limestone some time ago