She Only Cares About Cultivation-Chapter 752: [738] Beast World Farming 48 (2 updates)_2

She had also used this method to soften natural copper, but it couldn’t raise the melting point to turn copper into molten copper.

Everyone knew that charcoal could be obtained by burning wood.

The advantage of charcoal is that it easily crumbles; the method is to burn the wood into charcoal, then smash it with stones, gather it up, and thus have fuel for burning even in winter.

But burning charcoal was also a skillful task, requiring timely exclusion of air, or it would turn into ash.

Tangtang filled charcoal into the furnace, lit it, placed the broken up ore on top, ignited it, but using beast skin or large leaves to fuel the fire was too tiring, so Tangtang used her brains and had them make her a bellows. With this, the ore was easily reduced by the charcoal to obtain copper.

Although she conducted many experiments, there weren’t systematic steps involved; in the end, Liang Tian couldn’t bear to watch and gave her some tips.

"Actually, the variety of ores you’ve brought back is quite complete. Do you see? The blue ones are blue copper ore, the green ones are malachite, and the shiny yellow ones are tinstone. You need to first break the copper and tin ores into small chunks; you can use stones to smash them. These ores are not as hard as stones, so go ahead and smash them with confidence."

"I suggest you build several more of these furnaces, one for smelting copper and one for tin, and remember to have a wind gate underneath. Collect more wood and burn it into charcoal. You know how to burn charcoal, just be sure not to let it leak air. Also, you need to build a special kiln, I suggest choosing a natural stair-shaped place to establish a charcoal kiln, which is to pile up a kiln with clay with a small opening on top and a wind gate below, the upper mouth close to the upper layer of the natural stairs...."

Tangtang seriously noted down the steps.

After a month of grinding and repeated trials, Tangtang’s efforts finally paid off as she forged bronze. From then on, this Beast World was qualified to enter the Bronze Age. And she had also brought back iron ore, but that would have to wait for another opportunity because these days of sleepless toil had left her body very exhausted.

She wasn’t a proper blacksmith and naturally couldn’t produce the exquisite bronzes stored in history museums, but she did her best to polish them plainly; with the help of several Beastmen, they together made knives, swords, clubs, spears, axes, leg-irons, hooks, and forks...

And this also meant that the wooden carts made earlier at home might have the chance to be improved.

With the experience of burning bronzeware, fiddling with iron tools seemed much easier, but it still took them more than half a month of effort.

Until the rainy season ended, they managed to make various sturdy defensive tools with iron tools, and they even cast a large iron pot for the home, and having an iron pot meant that their future was even more promising.

As soon as the rainy season ended, the Wanshou City market was about to begin, but Tangtang still had her heart set on the many things she hadn’t collected during a rainy season.

So, she gave this opportunity to go out to Lang Sen and Yin Ye, asking them to bring salt and century eggs and other inventions to trade at the market alongside the tribe, to barter for anything they saw fit, especially items they had never seen before. After all, taking two carts there, they absolutely couldn’t waste the trip, and she was confident that the goods she held could be exchanged for two full carts of items.

During the busy rainy season of smelting, they specifically hired countless temporary workers to help collect grains and vegetables for their home. In return, she gave out transformed eggs and some of the discarded copper or iron tools. Even if they were discarded, they were still useful to them.

Copper, although it couldn’t be used to chop things, could still be used for carving and making various containers and didn’t leak water, which made it a great invention compared to fragile pottery jars; therefore, she felt that what was scrap in her eyes was priceless to others.

Moreover, the food during the work period was also prepared by Lili, as she and the Beastmen had no time.

This time going to the seaside, she didn’t plan to let Lili and the smaller ones go because the pigs, cattle, and sheep at home needed their care.

Although Yin Ye and Lang Sen took a horse (newly captured this rainy season) and a cow to work, the remaining livestock and poultry couldn’t do without people.

Therefore, she instructed Lili to care for the young at home. Being in the tribe, they were very safe, and with their family’s high status in the tribe, others would take care if they were absent, surely helping to care.

She and Jin Han then set out again to the areas where the plants had been found in the rainy season, to harvest rapeseed, peanuts, and sesame seeds.

Pan Lin went first to fuss around at the seaside; they would finish the other tasks and then go meet up with him.

Busy times, Tangtang felt she was now being pulled in all directions.

And those stones, she didn’t miss the opportunity either. Anything useful that could fit in space, she brought back to the tribe, piling up near the earthen kiln to form hills of stone, which would be extremely convenient when needed in the future.

Then, with an empty space, she started going back and forth non-stop with Jin Han to their seaside home, until every storage pit and cave at their home was filled with goods. They returned to the tribe, and by this time, the two months before the Cold Season were left with just one month.

After Yin Ye and Lang Sen returned from Wanshou City, Tangtang barely had time to see what they had brought back before she hurriedly called on the Beastmen to go out to the grove and the prairie, to dig for sweet potatoes, potatoes, cut sugarcane, and harvest lotus roots. If there were not enough hands, they would hire Beastmen.

This year there were more people coming to the lotus pond to dig for lotus roots than last year, but it didn’t matter; she could hire people, and the payment was salt.

Because only the Nandi Clan knew the method of refining salt, even the Xinba Clan could only collect it from salt-alkali lands. With all the salt on the salt-alkali land, it wouldn’t be enough for the two tribes to share, so why would they let other tribes know how to refine it? Therefore, with the costless sea salt, they could gain more benefits.