I am a primitive

This thing is the bronze shovel, besides the bronze sickle, the second kind of agricultural tool made by the Qingque tribe.

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Bronze shovels have been cast a lot, because until now, shovels and shovels are still the main tools used by the Qingque tribe to open up wasteland.

At this time, there is bronze. When casting farm tools, it is natural to cast a batch of bronze heads first.

As for the bronze plowshare, a suitable mold has not been made yet, so we can only wait later.

First cast a batch of bronze plowshares and bronze shovels to deal with the next year's spring plowing, bronze plowshares and plow walls, let Heiwa study slowly first.

Compared with bronze spears, arrowheads, shovel heads, axes, and knives, the difficulty of molding the plowshares that are '>' shaped, hollow inside, and used to load wood into them is much more difficult.

It is not enough to simply make a model out of clay and then print on the reconciled clay. The mold needs to be upgraded.

For more than a month, Hei Wa stopped playing happily with Zhuang because of this matter, thinking about how to make the mold of the plowshare every day.

The way Han Cheng actually knows a general idea is what is often called a 'model'.

This kind of hollow utensil can no longer be made by a single mold. In addition to the mold, a 'fan' needs to be made.

It's like making a round bronze jar, only using one mold, and only a jar-shaped copper ingot can be poured out.

If you want to pour a pot, you need to put another mold inside the mold, and this mold is called 'Fan'.

Because with the "model", the same shape as the previously expected shape can be cast, and the word "model" later extended the meaning of other aspects.

For example, the "[-]th Brigade" in the land reclamation of Nanniwan is a model. '

The reason why Heiwa was so sad that her hair fell out, and she didn't even do her favorite sports, was because Han Cheng didn't tell Heiwa about the 'model'.

At the beginning, Han Cheng wanted to see how long it would take Hei Wa to solve this problem. After waiting for a while, when he wanted to speak, he found that Hei Wa already had some clues.

So the matter was let go.

According to archaeological data, the use of bronze as farm tools was not too much in ancient times.

Because the unearthed bronze wares are mostly ritual vessels, weapons, and various food-related plates, bronze wine bottles, etc., there are few agricultural tools among the funeral objects.

However, Han Cheng felt that in ancient times, the number of bronze farm tools should not be too small.

After all, when bronze ware appeared and applied in large numbers, farming had already become the mainstream. As a country that has always paid attention to farming, it is impossible to ignore such a good material as bronze.

In Han Cheng's view, the reason why there were few bronze farm tools in the unearthed cultural relics in later generations was nothing more than the following reasons.

First, those who hold bronze farm tools to do farm work are all low-class savages or slaves. As they own little property, bronze farm tools are such useful and precious things. When they die, they are naturally reluctant to use them for burial. , most of them will choose to pass on to their descendants.

The second is that those who can have many funeral objects after death are basically nobles with high status and status, as well as a lot of wealth.

As nobles, only a series of bronze wares such as tripods, chime bells, bottles, and bottles can match their identities. As for the bronze farming tools that are mostly used by the lower class, they will not be buried with them.

Savages or slaves are reluctant to be buried with bronze farm tools, and nobles disdain to be buried with bronze farm tools, so there will not be too many bronze farm tools unearthed in later generations.

Therefore, it will give people the impression that in the Bronze Age, bronze farm tools were not used much.

Regardless of whether his guess is right or not, Han Cheng will unswervingly develop and popularize bronze farming tools in the tribe.

He will not let go of such a powerful tool for farming.

As for bronze ritual instruments such as tripods, bells, and chime bells, the time will depend on the development of the tribe and the needs.

Anyway, now, it will not be within the scope of his consideration.

The lame carpenter was not idle either. At this time, he and a few people who followed him when he was free were removing the handle from the stone shovel head and installing it on the bronze shovel head.

For a craftsman like a lame, this is not such a difficult thing to do.

You only need to put the thicker end of the wooden handle into the hole of the bronze shovel head first, and stick it to the arc on the upper part of the hole.

Then get a small piece of wood with a groove in the middle and a flat side, and place it on the lower side of the hole.

The flat side faces up, the grooved side faces down, and the groove in the middle just snaps over the edge of the hole.

Then get a piece of wood that is thicker and longer, thinner at the front and thicker at the back, and stuff it between the two. Find an ax and nail it in a few times, and the wooden handle is firmly connected with the bronze head.

It is the best way to fix the handle of the shovel head in this way, because otherwise, it is extremely difficult to find a wooden handle with the same thickness as the hole, and it is not easy to fix it firmly.

Of course, when doing this, you need to pay attention to the angle between the wooden handle and the head, it should not be too large or too small.

More than half of the people who smelt copper and cast bronze ware are slaves. It makes no sense that at this time, the citizens of the Qingque tribe are casting bronze in the wind and snow, while the slaves are hiding in the room warming up.

In fact, the slaves in the room were not idle. Some of them were spinning hemp rope into thin threads with spinning tops, and some were weaving cloth with simple looms.

The weaving slaves were not carried out in the small slave courtyard, but in the machine room in the Qingque tribe's large courtyard.

This is to prevent too much material in the slave courtyard, and it is also a way to reduce slaves' destruction of production materials.

Although up to now, the Qingque Tribe has not had such things as slaves destroying production tools, but it is still necessary to pay attention.

The computer room used by the slaves was built separately. In order to distinguish it from the computer room used by the citizens of the Qingque tribe, it has mud walls and grass roofs.

The loom is the same, this thing can't be waited for, after all, the best cloth of the Qingque tribe so far is far behind the machine-woven cloth of later generations.

After kissing his son's chubby face twice, Han Cheng, who went around inside and outside the tribe, made a decision.

After thinking about it in his mind for a while, he went to find Wu who was on the kang, holding a female rabbit's ear, like feeding a mouse cub, who had not yet opened his eyes to suckle the cub, and went to talk about it.

This matter is that he is going to let the long legs who have been promoted from slaves to first-class citizens of the Qingque tribe to manage the slave yard.

The fifty-ninth chapter of being a man can't be too unscrupulous

Wu's kang is very lively in winter.

The source of the liveliness is the litter of bastards.

For example, now, more than half of a good kang is divided into grids of fifteen centimeters by him with adobe bricks.

The inside of the grid is cushioned with soft hay, and on top of the hay are bunnies, which are covered with a layer of fur.

These animals raised by the Qingque tribe are relatively happy to a certain extent.

Because not only do they not need to worry about the harassment of natural enemies, even in seasons like winter, they don't have to worry about food, and they can still eat with their stomachs open.

One of the most direct results of sufficient food supply is that these guys raised in captivity in the tribe are more energetic.

Therefore, in winter, the season when food is scarce, they don't conceive and give birth very much, and many of them break this rule.