Three days later.
The tribe has good news, that is, the Yanfeng tribe, after Zhuo Hao discussed with several elders, decided not to leave and will belong to the Ye Qiong tribe from now on.
Since then, the Ye Qiong tribe has officially accommodated the third tribe, and its population will soon exceed 2,700, nearly 3,000.
With the addition of new blood, the tribe's vitality has become even greater.
Because of his previous experience with the Yanghe Tribe and the Yutang Tribe, Ye Tianlong is already very experienced in tribal reorganization.
So in less than half a day, the Yanfeng tribe members moved out of the simple tents.
The day after the Yanfeng tribe arrived, Ye Qiong asked Ronling to start building a wooden house.
After all, Ye Qiong still has this confidence. After this experience, Ye Qiong plans to get more reserve houses. Even if the Yanfeng tribe really wants to leave, it will not be a loss anyway, leaving it for the next one to come. Just tribe.
Although the work efficiency of the tribesmen is very high, after all, in three days, the wooden houses were simple and the outlines were completed. The subsequent refinement of details will have to be done by the tribesmen of the Yanfeng tribe themselves. If it is built slowly, they can decide what it should look like based on their own preferences or family size.
Since he had expressed his ownership, the supplies and food of the Yanfeng tribe should be confiscated. Ye Tianlong specially arranged for Tang Ying to handle this matter, and Ye Qiong was pulled over by Tang Ying.
Zhuo Yan looked at Ye Qiong and Tang Ying and acknowledged their relationship between his eyebrows, so he took out a list of supplies and food and handed it to Ye Qiong.
Ye Qiong handed it to Tang Ying casually. After all, he had no idea about this thing and had no interest in it. Now the Ye Qiong tribe is fat and oily, so the supplies and food confiscated by the Yanfeng tribe are just a formality. That’s all.
What Ye Qiong values most now is people.
If Ye Qiong wants to make a difference before winter comes, he must find a way to expand the population to more than 10,000 people before winter comes.
Only when this population base is reached, Ye Qiong can rely on various theoretical knowledge in his brain to rapidly develop technology and put theory into practice.
The southern city wall is expected to be completed within half a month. With the mass production of giant crossbows and repeating crossbows every month, Ye Qiong is not worried about Warcraft or madmen attacking the tribe in spring and summer.
However, just in case, Ye Qiong budgeted to build eight watchtowers at the center of the tribe within the stone city wall.
It is taller than the wooden tower built on the ice wall in winter. It is combined with stone and wood to ensure that the tribesmen are absolutely safe in the center.
If one day the stone city wall outside is really broken through, then the city defense construction in the center will be the final guardian of the tribal people.
The weather has been nice these days...
Ye Qiong would go for a walk on the south wall from time to time, cheering up the soldiers and helping out with a little help.
On the other side, we are starting to study steam engines.
This time, Ye Qiong waved his hand and brought half of the excess iron from the Yanfeng tribe to the blacksmith shop and the other half to his laboratory.
The bearing has been built, and there are still many things that need to be poured by Ye Qiong himself.
After all, Kuang Baichi can make iron. If he was asked to get these things, he didn't know how to get them at all. If there were banknotes in this world, Ye Qiong could draw them. It's a pity that papermaking has not been invented yet, and Ye Qiong has not yet Find the right raw materials.
Therefore, Ye Qiong couldn't draw the steam engine and let others help pour it. Ye Qiong could only do it by himself, researching and tinkering at the same time.
What Ye Qiong wants to do now is relatively simple, which is the base of the steam engine, that is, the chassis.
Although this thing is simple, it is relatively expensive...
Coal was burning in the stove built by Ye Qiong. Tang Ying sat in front of the bellows that Ye Qiong had built, pulling the lever of the bellows back and forth.
With sufficient oxygen, coal burns very vigorously!
After boiling the molten iron, Ye Qiong used the oldest pouring method to pour the molten iron into a mold made of clay.
"Zizzizi..."
In order to ensure safety, Ye Qiong did not toss the molten iron himself, but made a drainage device, which was also made of clay soil and was very resistant to high temperatures.
The advantages of clayey soil in this aspect have been brought out.
After pouring the molten iron into the mold below, wait for the molten iron to cool naturally.
Compared with weapons, the base of this steam engine does not require too complicated craftsmanship, as long as it is strong and durable.
The next step is to wait patiently for the molten iron to cool down, and then it will turn into a base that is one meter and a half long and eighty centimeters wide.
Ye Qiong originally planned to use wood as the base, but after testing the toughness and corrosion resistance of several types of wood, he decisively gave up.
However, we still need to make a larger wooden base and place the poured iron base on it. In this way, the steam engine will be more stable after it is running.
After all, it is a piston movement. If the base is not stable enough, even if the steam engine is pulled out by Ye Qiong, it will not be able to hang around for a few days and it will probably be destroyed.
Therefore, the base is like the foundation for building a house. Within a reasonable range, the more stable the better.
He divided half of the excess iron from the entire Yanfeng tribe to himself. Now Ye Qiong...
Just got such a base.
Although I still want to meet the construction deadline of the steam engine, it is difficult for a clever woman to make a meal without straw!
Without iron, there was no way to continue. Ye Qiong could only dream of finding an iron mine as soon as possible.
But having said that, iron ore is much more difficult to find and exploit than coal mines, and even if it is mined, it will continue to be refined.
So it is very troublesome. The current iron tools on Snow Planet were all obtained by human beings in some nook and cranny positions over millions of years by chance, and then gradually accumulated until now, and have been used over and over again. That's about it.
It can barely satisfy human beings' daily life and weapon manufacturing. As for the development of science and technology...
We still have to solve the problem fundamentally, and finding large-scale iron mines is the way to go.
At night, the molten iron had completely cooled down, and the base of the steam engine was completely completed. What made Ye Qiong more gratified was that because the gravity of the snow star was relatively strong, the flat surface formed after the molten iron melted would not have bubbles or cracks. waveform.
The surface is very flat, which adds a lot of stability.
Ye Qiong asked Tang Ying to help, and together they buckled the poured base from the sticky soil, then lifted it out and stood at the door to continue weathering.
The work on the base was finally completed. It was getting a little late, and the blue mother star could no longer be seen when looking up. Ye Qiong looked at the base standing at the door, clapped his hands, rubbed it on his body a few times, and took Tang Ying's hand. Little hands, heading towards their cabin...
