Rise of Rurik Chapter 296

The ceremony for paying homage to the dead is more like a foundation laying ceremony for the settlement of the Corvins.

The iron squirrel tribe was formally settled, and the construction of large-scale settlements began immediately.

A road from the town to the mine began to be opened, and a large number of people holding axe marched into the forest. They were moving in the direction of the mine to cut a path in the dense forest of the good cold zone!

A large number of felled pine trees were pulled to the construction site. The relatively slender trunks of each tree were cut out to build the cone-shaped ends, and were directly buried in the dug pit, and then buried in the mud and the pebbles in the river to fix it. .

The Corvins are building a brand-new circular wall, which is the barrier of the brand-new mountain fort. What is completely different from the past is that the Ross fighters participate in the construction of the mountain fort.

It took only five days to be named the settlement of Ayron Orava Fort, and its town walls have already taken shape. It is a large number of frame structures, and a large number of towering tree stumps surround the settlement, forming a large circle with a half diameter of nearly 400 meters.

In fact, such an area is only equivalent to the area of ​​a small residential area more than a thousand years later, but for this era, it is already considered a fairly large "city" in Europe. Oh, if the locals really want to call it a city.

In Rurik's view, the permanent settlement he requested to build is still a village, even if it is surrounded by walls, it is still a small village.

For a long time, the Kewen people used building materials in accordance with local conditions to build their own mountain fort.

They know how to make pottery, but they don't have the luxury of firing clay bricks to build houses. They used large trees at their fingertips to build a wall, put it together to form a wall, piled up soil, and rammed it until it was firm.

In the new world, they still use their inherent routines to build.

Rurik has his own thoughts on this.

"The speed of building with wood is fast, but the biggest problem is that it is not long enough."

Rurik thought for a while, and he gave Mezzasta a new task: "Your people shouldn't just be busy cutting logs and piles, and don't think that just making wooden fences can fulfill my requirements. I ask for more walls. Be strong! You must use stone for reinforcement."

At this, Mezzasta was taken aback: "Huh? We have hands? Are we really going to do this? As for?"

"Are you questioning me? This is my order, do what I tell you to do."

Rurik didn't want to give any explanation. Seeing that the master was determined, Metzasta and his people had nothing to say.

It's the turn to build a house with stones, and the Ross people have some skills in this area.

How to build walls with stones is more time-consuming than just using wood. Nowadays, it is quite easy to get stones, just get big stones, and the only good source of stone is in a mine not far away.

The construction of pure wooden woodcuts, the construction of wood-stone walls, the heavy manual labor is the responsibility of the Ross warriors and the Corvin tribesmen. Like the children under Rülik's command, they are also assigned tasks within their capacity, such as acting as "donkeys" that carry ore.

Compared with supervising their construction, after settled down, Rurik's energy has almost been transferred to the smelting of ore.

After all, he insisted on heading north to mine this big mine in the future.

Everything is a strong coincidence. It was Kawei who discovered that the ore in the mine had a distinctive color, which caused the high sensitivity of the spirit of Rurik.

If you just smelt iron and use the ore from the hills near Roseburg, you can already fulfill your needs well.

Rurik has taken a good look at the local ore. It is black all over. When you look closely, you can see that the surface of the ore is densely packed with shiny objects, and this is the ore itself.

His soul is telling his mind that there must be something else in this ore.

In fact, as of now, Rurik is still not sure what the extra metal in the ore is. Or manganese, or chromium, or even zirconium. He actually hopes that the additional substance is manganese, so that theoretically he can make more flexible steel, thus making a stronger steel-armed crossbow, so that he will become more virtuous.

However, the relatively primitive smelting methods of the Ross tribe made him worry about the future of smelting.

However, the experienced and self-confident blacksmith completely ignored Lururik's worries.

Kawei is going to build his brand new blacksmith's shop by the river, and in a small furnace built, he will smelt the ore into iron, and then repeat the forging routine of steelmaking.

Compared to Leurik, Kawi just believed that there were other mysterious substances in the ore. But so what? As long as you burn the ore into sponge iron, your own forging can produce iron ingots with good plasticity. It doesn't matter if you think of more miscellaneous materials. Because he had seen the strange smelting of his father Clavasson, which was to burn copper ore, iron ore, and tin ingots together, in order to see what the results could be.

As a result, the iron ore actually melted in the clay crucible, but the quality of the final tool was not outstanding. The addition of a small amount of iron ore makes the new tin bronze harder, but it is still not as good as wrought iron. Cravason didn't study it anymore, and it wouldn't help if he added more iron ore. Only a small amount of iron will melt into the molten tin and bronze metal at the smelting temperature that the existing Rus can reach.

In the final analysis, the biggest obstacle restricting metal smelting in any era is that the temperature is not up to standard.

If it were not for the temperature, the ancients would not use the method of burning and forging sponge iron to make iron.

Although the East has invented the blast furnace technology, its ultimate high temperature can only reach 1400°C and it cannot be sustained. It can generally be stabilized at close to 1300°C, thereby producing molten iron, but it does not want to melt the wrought iron ingot.

For this reason, before the birth of gas furnace technology, the blast furnace could not directly smelt molten ferrochrome water, and it is even more impossible to smelt ferromanganese alloy liquid.

However, if these special metals exist in iron ore on a small scale, their existence does not affect the blacksmith's burning of sponge iron and subsequent forging.

Fortunately, the iron ore occupied by the Rus people is not extremely rich in chromium.

Rurik dispatched thirty boys and ordered them to carry their small sacks and carry the ore mined from the top of the mountain, which was identified as a concentrate by Kawi. In addition to the ten blacksmith apprentices under Kawei's command, as well as small blacksmiths with full experience like Kamnier, they all became porters.

A child can carry one or two kilograms and walk for five or six kilometers at noon, which is really a feat for the child.

Behind their feats are the high quality of their physical fitness brought about by their long-term physical training, as well as the strong stamina provided by a large amount of high-quality food, and they also have a fiery heart that shows loyalty to their owner and "big brother".

The other children also have jobs of their own, just like the ten named maids from the White Tree Manor of Novgorod in Rurik. Their current job is really playing in the mud.

They are all playing mud, this mud is really not fun.

They are looking for clay in the forest, they have to pull out the thick pine needles and dig deep into the earth instead of using the meaningless soil rich in sand on the river beach.

Although clay is widely distributed, it takes a bit of luck to find a good product.

They did not find very high-quality, only some darkened deep soil, but they were still sticky and plastic.

The girls' job is to build a smelting furnace that Kawei needs.

With their darkened hands, they rubbed the mud dumplings in their hands with the water of the river, and piled them up like building blocks, so that they accumulate more and more into the shape of a stove. Of course, this was not enough. Kawei asked the top of the tandoor to be more immediate and the height of the furnace to be raised.

A brand new clay pot was made higher and higher, and in the end, these relatively low girls needed to raise their arms to pile up the mud.

On the sixth day after arriving at the mine for the second time, the girls' "great work" finally had results that satisfied Kawei.

They still don't know what this stove can bring. After all, they are a girl, and they have completed the important task assigned by the master abruptly, and everyone is very happy.

It was a quiet evening, with smoke wafting from the large-scale settlement.

A large-scale wooden fence has already begun to be piled up with pebbles in some parts of the river. It is simply to use a shovel to lift up the soil to reinforce it. It has been busy all day, only at this time, the men will stop and eat the steaming oatmeal and a lot of fresh grilled fish.

The supply of materials in the settlements has undergone a huge improvement. Those fishing boats returning to Roseburg soon brought materials and technical personnel from their hometown with the support.

A group of excellent carpenters are in the mindset of fighting for more wealth, and even for themselves and their children and grandchildren, to obtain political wealth by the side of Rurik, and go to the desolate, bitter and more bitter place.

A large amount of oats and a larger amount of fish were transported to Ayron Orava Fort on a large scale. Not only did the working people have no worries about the future, some scientific and cultural people are also actively using the animal resources in the area to obtain more meat through hunting.

In just a few days, they did not forget to use their bows and better arrows to shoot all the squirrels they found while cutting wood.

They have killed more than one hundred squirrels. The hunter has eaten the barbecue. The leather is naturally handed over to Rurik. The so-called tribute given by the servant to the master is in a sense that the Corvin exchanges squirrel skins for Rurik's oats.

The young men were talking about the busy and fulfilling time of these days, as well as their comments about the women of the Iron Squirrel Tribe.

Rurik, he didn't want to mix in the vulgar chats and laughs of a large group of rough men, such as talking to them about which tribal woman carrying wood is more beautiful.

He, Kawei, and a group of loyal partners guarded the damp tandoor that had just been piled up, with the high-quality charcoal blocks piled up next to the stove and brought from hometown, and the children took a lot of effort to carry them. Selected ore from here.

A group of children, men and women, gathered around the four bonfires, holding wooden bowls and eating salted oatmeal porridge, whether they would eat another bite of the grilled fish they made by themselves. Compared with those vulgar and brawny men, the topics that children communicate with are much simpler. As for the ten maids, they or Slavic, chatting about things that others don't understand.

No matter what the children were talking about, Rurik heard clearly. In the final analysis, everyone still wants to see the results of their many days of hard work, which made their hands dirty and even grinds out their cocoons.

Kawei just sits casually on a lying tree trunk as a stool.

Seeing that Rurik had finished his porridge, he outputted what he was holding in his stomach: "By now, I think I am ready."

"Is it finally going to start?"

Rurik's calm attitude surprised Kawei, "Why, you are not looking forward to it? Yes, I can start now."

"Then let's start! I hope... we can succeed in the traditional way."

This made Kawei a little confused. traditional method? What, is there something different than the "traditional method"?

In fact, Rurik's silence was only because he was thinking about some questions. He has been supervising his maid to build the soil, and even he himself has given some guidance, such as teaching them how to pile it up without collapsing.

This tandoor is not ordinary. Through the rough measurement of a rope ruler, its height has exceeded a stika. In fact, its height has reached 130cm. Compared to the furnaces of Clavasson and other blacksmiths, this furnace is the highest.

Afterwards, the inner chamber of the furnace was refined, and iron ore was used as refractory bricks, and a layer of heat-resistant inner chamber was laid. Kawei calculated it very clearly that when the smelting starts, the **** will be removed from the designed hole, and the iron ore in the inner chamber will stick to each other as a whole. Due to the ash and slag, the sponge iron is basically unable to stick to the furnace, thus achieving a heat-resistant, stable and strong crucible environment.

The dirt road has a bit of a blast furnace, and Rurik estimates that Kawei has realized the correct way to increase the temperature of the furnace.

Want to make a real blast furnace?

Rurik recalled the knowledge in his brain. Although he knew the principle of blast furnace smelting, it was really difficult to reproduce it entirely on his own theoretical basis in this era. Of course, there is a blast furnace. He does not expect to reproduce the "ancient blast furnace" technology in a short time and let his tribal blacksmiths master it well.

Based on the current situation, the demand for ironware by the Rusians is not so great that it is necessary to develop blast furnace technology for mass production of cast iron.

Rurik decided to smelt on the river beach instead of going straight to the mine to dig in the early morning of tomorrow~www.mtlnovel.com~.

Before that, Kawei stood up, he had to complete a very necessary job.

"Rurik, I am full of energy now. I don't have to wait until tomorrow. As long as the furnace fully meets my requirements, I can smelt immediately. I have all the raw materials and tools I need. The only thing I lack is a dry Stove."

Rurik understood it right away, "You want to burn the furnace and let it solidify?"

"Yes!" Kawei said to himself, "That will take some time. In order to make my brand new stove last longer, I will do it now."

Ever since, Kawei began to act.

He wants to incinerate the entire furnace to clay, and the ore in the furnace can be bonded to each other.

As long as his efforts are successful, then he can proudly tell his father Clavasson: "I have a better stove than you. Grandpa and other ancestors will be proud of us."

Chapter end