Throne of Vientiane Civilization

Although Zhuang Mengdie and Zhou Dachui didn't know what the 'iron' the leader was talking about, they knew from the way their leader looked up to the sky and laughing, that this time, they might have found something good!

Seeing this, everyone shouted in unison...

"Congratulations leader!"

Amid the congratulations from everyone, Zhou Xu's laughter subsided slightly, and then he looked at the iron ingot in his hand again.

"In short, let's smelt all the ores sent into iron ingots first."

After briefly explaining this task, Zhou Xu turned around and went back to his residence, sat at his desk and fell into deep thought.

Now there is a entanglement in his heart, and the entangled question is "should we establish a forging department in the barren mountain village?"

Needless to say, the value of iron, in the field of weapons and even a large number of tools, iron is a superior substitute for copper.

It is no exaggeration to say that with the discovery of iron ore, most of the copperware can be eliminated directly.

But the problem now is that the iron ore production point is deep in the mountain.

In this era, the mining efficiency of ore is not high. After mining, it has to be carried out from the depths of the mountain in baskets, and then transported to Heiyue Village for smelting and forging. The manpower required for this is Incomparably huge, it is definitely not comparable to the mines in Salt Lake Village.

The easiest way to save this batch of manpower is to set up a forging department on the other side of the mountain.

When the time comes to open up a mine and dig out the ore, it doesn't take so much effort to send it to Heiyue Village, and the smelting and forging can be completed in the mountain.

But in this way, there will be a problem.

That is to use Heiyue Village as the base camp. The distance on the other side of the mountain is too far. The words "the mountain is high and the emperor is far away" are really appropriate here.

Under this premise, once the iron ware is forged, it can basically completely suppress the copper ware at the weapon level.

Although he didn't think that Shi Lei would rebel, but from the perspective of a ruler, it was a dangerous move to arrange a forging department in a place beyond his reach, so that he could have the ability to forge iron alone.

In the future, the roads on the mountain will be opened up, and the movement efficiency will be further improved. He will consider this matter, but absolutely not now!

Instead of taking this risk, he would rather choose to spend more effort, which is safer.

In this way, all the forging and repairing of various metal tools are under the control of Heiyue Village.

In addition, with the increasing population, the food produced by the barren mountain village will soon not be enough for them to be self-sufficient. At that time, the food supply will also have to rely on Heiyue Village, directly Can handle it to death.

But in this way, according to the iron ore mining and transportation efficiency over there, it may not be so easy to update and iterate metal appliances on a large scale in a short period of time.

Fortunately, Zhou Xu was not in a hurry.

Now with the copper weapon, he is already running rampant in this area, so there is no need to rush.

There was nothing to say all night, and early the next morning, Zhou Xu, who had cleared his mind, came to the forging department again.

This batch of iron ore was picked up by the villagers near the mine with bare hands. The quantity was not large, and all of them were smelted. Only four iron ingots were melted out. It didn't take much effort from the forging department. .

Four iron ingots, one for a catty, now it depends on what their leader wants to forge with these four iron ingots.

Regarding this problem, Zhou Xu really thought about it.

The first thing that came to mind must have been the spear that Zhou Dahammer had seen before, but he quickly rejected it.

Only one head of the spear needs to be cast with iron, which is relatively material-saving. However, in the current situation where only a small amount of iron can be forged, casting the spear does not feel cost-effective. If it is replaced with a complex mountain and forest environment, the spear cannot be used at all.

Thinking of this, Zhou Xu immediately said...

"Sword! Forge me a sword, but the length cannot be the same as the original copper sword. The toughness of iron is better than copper, so the length of the sword can be increased. Just follow the length of the original design."

At the beginning, because the copper saber of normal length was not tough enough, it was specially shortened, but as long as there is iron, this problem can be solved to a large extent.

At the moment when their leaders had already spoken, as the leader of the forging department, Zhou Dachui had no doubts about him. While signaling to his assistants to melt the iron ingots, he quickly dug out the first version of the sword mold, ran come over.

It takes a lot of work to make a mold. Although the mold was basically useless due to the toughness of the metal, it was impossible for Zhou Dahammer to just throw it away.

Thinking that after this problem is solved in the future, it will definitely come in handy.

And that day has undoubtedly come!

With the help of the bellows, the temperature in the forging furnace continued to rise, and the four iron ingots placed in the furnace were quickly melted.

Seizing the time, after confirming that the iron ingot had been sintered, Zhou Dachui quickly took it out, and then poured the iron juice into the mold.

Afterwards, the process of beating forging and sharpening the blade will undoubtedly take more time.

Not to mention that this was the first iron saber that came out of his hands, and it was for their leader. Zhou Dahammer didn't dare to be ambiguous.

It was impossible for Zhou Xu to just stare here the whole time. During this period, he made a trip to the equipment department. After briefly confirming the manufacturing progress of the bicycle and tricycle, he asked the equipment department to make a few more bellows.

Now that the Iron Age has begun here, ordinary forging furnaces will soon become useless, and they must be equipped with bellows.

As for Zhou Dahammer, it took him three days to present the iron saber in front of him.

Regardless of the unpretentious wooden scabbard, Zhou Xu exerted all his strength and pulled out a sharp blade directly, which made him feel dazzled under the sunshine of spring.

Zhou Xu didn't have much research on cold weapons, but he did have some conventional ideas.

What is he pursuing in making this sword? It is of course durable and can withstand frequent chopping and weapon collisions.

Starting with this idea, the first thing that came to Zhou Xu's mind was the kind of machete with a thick back!

The copper sword they are using now has a blade length of only 40 centimeters due to the lack of toughness of the material. Although it is a one-handed sword, the length is undoubtedly a bit short.

Now, excluding the handle, the newly forged machete has a blade length of 60 centimeters, including the handle, the total length of the machete can reach 80 centimeters.

The back of the knife is thick, the blade is curved, and has a tip. At the same time, blood grooves are specially added on both sides of the blade, which is convenient for bleeding the enemy when fighting.

Undoubtedly, this is exactly the sword Zhou Xu wanted!