Chief don't slap in the face

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"What is coal?"

Mo Wuheng continued to ask questions.

"A dark mineral, which is a combustible substance that was gradually formed by ancient plants buried underground after thousands of years of changes in the earth's crust!"

Xia Ye said this, and added another sentence: "This time I went out on Friday and found an open-pit coal mine. Everyone will see the real thing soon."

In fact, there is no coal, and firewood can also represent it. Anyway, tall trees are the most indispensable thing in the ancient forests of the barren land. As for deforestation and environmental damage?Sorry, no one cares about this in this day and age.

Mo Wuheng took out a small notebook and recorded it carefully.

The reserves of iron ore are much larger than that of copper ore, and its versatility is wider. The most important thing is that through iron ore, steel can be smelted. This is the metal that Xia Ye wants.

Xia Ye loves to read historical novels about farming, and when he was a child, he also heard adults say that in the past, every family built a blast furnace, made iron and steel, and held production competitions.

Ironmaking technology is not difficult.

After Xia Ye finished telling what he knew, he became the hands-off shopkeeper and handed everything over to Mo Wuheng.

A temporary camp was erected, and a captive group of more than a hundred people was brought in. Their task was to mine ore, grind it into powder, and after screening, send it to the blast furnace.

On the third day, the first furnace of molten iron flowed out, but it was not enough to smelt iron ingots that could be used to make weapons.

The molten iron has a lot of impurities and must be removed.

Lu Lingxi is very interested in new metal, so she put down her breeding business and came to visit. For so many years, she has been traveling all over the world, exploring various ruins, and collecting those lost knowledge.

Among them is some knowledge about forging. Lu Lingxi didn't seem to understand it before, but after listening to Xia Ye's popular science class, he suddenly realized it.

With the addition of a Mohist genius, Chaoge's pace towards the Iron Age has become more and more stable.

I haven't seen my younger brother for nearly 20 days, Xia Lingyue misses him very much, so when Elena came to report to Xia Ye about this expedition after her triumphant return, she followed her.

Death Canyon, Song Guo disliked the name, so it has been changed to Red River Valley, and a large flag has been erected, with the corpses of the public losers hanging on the nearby trees to warn intruders.

In fact, in order to keep it secret, Xia Ye pushed the cordon to ten miles away. In addition, there are few people in the wilderness, so it is still very safe.

As soon as Xia Lingyue approached the Taniguchi, black smoke and dust billowed up and drifted into the distance with the summer wind.

A sneeze!

Elena sneezed.

There was a pungent smell in the air, which made the nose a little uncomfortable.

"Take this!"

Song Guo distributed the linen masks to everyone.

After going deeper into the canyon for tens of meters, everyone saw a camp with more than a dozen tall furnaces erected on the west side.

As soon as it got closer, a heat wave hit our faces.

"Add charcoal! Add charcoal!"

Mo Wuheng commanded.

"Molten iron is about to come out, if you have anything to say, we can talk about it later!"

Xia Ye was shirtless, and was sweating profusely at work. There was a giant spirit god next to him, and he was temporarily working as a blacksmith.

Elena shook her head, putting the Giant Spirit God on the battlefield is definitely an overwhelming force, but Xia Ye is lucky to let it do odd jobs, it is a waste at all.

"The Great Chief can do it!"

Eileen murmured, but she didn't complain at all. With Chaoge fully upgraded, now a giant spirit god can be born in ten days, and as long as it doesn't face those big tribes, the appearance of five giant spirit gods will completely crush the situation !

The blast furnace was opened, and a stream of red molten iron slowly flowed down the stone trough.

The blacksmiths immediately started to process the molten iron.

laugh!

As it cools, pieces of iron ingots take shape.

"Looks good!"

Mo Wuheng nodded, at least the quality of the iron ingots produced a dozen times before was much better.

Fortunately, iron ore and coke don't cost money, otherwise Xia Ye would be so heartbroken if it wasted like this

Next, it's Guinevere's performance time, she is the swordsmith of Timeless Isle.

There was a tinkling sound, and no one felt annoyed. Instead, they watched the iron ingot with great interest, gradually turning into a sword embryo.

Xia Ye took a moment to meet the summer moon.

"Don't get tired!"

Xia Lingyue felt distressed, and took a towel to wipe Xia Ye's sweat.

"Wu Heng and Lu Niang are more tired than me!"

In addition to Xia Ye's popularization of knowledge, Mo Wuheng and Lu Lingxi took over the specific operations. To be honest, without these two, Xia Ye would not have seen an iron sword after working on it for a year.

"Is this iron?"

Elena picked up an iron sword curiously.

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Elena held the sword and slashed towards the nearby stone platform.

Ding!

Sparks fly wildly.

"Good sword!"

Eileen praised that the bronze sword cannot be made too long because of its toughness. To make it long, it must be made wider to make up for it. Therefore, most bronze long swords are in the shape of a palm-width epee.

But the iron sword in front of him was more than one and a half meters long, but the blade was only two fingers wide, and it was extremely sharp.

"That's a defective product!"

Xia Ye laughed, the shape of the cold weapon is not just what you want, but it has to be determined according to the quality of the wrought iron to achieve the strongest and sharpest.

"Defective products?"