Chapter 67 (1/2)

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.