Some of the indigenous people on the island were confused by Chu Qing’s eyes: some of them had iron tools such as hatches and hoes, but were bought and sold. Now most iron farm tools are concentrated in the village where Chu Qing first rescued malaria, because there were fields there.

But the people who sell farm tools only get some purple shells. The purple shells are their currency, but they are useless to keep them, and they are not suitable for eating or drinking.

Xiaobao and the others can find Sand Gold, but the people on the island are still using shells as currency. I don’t know if it is the production tools that restrict them or the way of thinking that restricts them.

The mountain people once said that they had blacksmiths, but later they were lost and no one could make iron tools. They also said that there was iron ore, but they didn't know where it was.

This may be a kind of "free and carefree", just like the "mother" priesthood that is passed down by men but not women, and if no one inherits it, you will give up.

But in Chu Qing's opinion, this is a very negative lifestyle - it's enough for someone to know one thing, everyone depends on the one who knows it, but if that person dies, the matter will be lost.

As the saying goes, if you rely on a mountain to fall, you will rely on everyone to run away; as the saying goes: No one has as good as having it.

A skill and a skill. Don’t let go if you can learn it. This is a positive attitude towards life.

But this phenomenon is not limited to the island, the same is true for the people of Daxuan, and even the people in Chu Qing's world.

Chu Qing's father and ancestors have very strong hands-on skills. When the sofa first appeared, it was still economical. If you want to buy it, you need to "rely with your ticket".

Chu Qing's scholar's father simply made a pair of single sofas by himself, which were beautiful and sturdy, just like the ones in the store.

If the materials were not available, maybe the TV or washing machine could be made.

When it comes to Chu Qing's generation, he can't embroidery, but he can do it by sewing and repairing it. He can't make a wardrobe or bookcase, but repairing tables and chairs is not a problem.

For Chu Qing's generation, he came into contact with computers late and only came into contact with them in high school. However, before learning programming and compilation principles, he had already started to think about assembling computers.

Just like the saying that women put on makeup: There are no ugly women, only lazy women.

For Chu Qing: There is nothing you can't do, only things you don't want to learn.

I don’t want to learn, it’s naturally because I’m lazy.

Lazy thinking.

Shui Maomao's attention was focused on what Chu Qing said about building guns and cannons. He asked: "You just said that you want to build guns and build guns?"

Chu Qing: "Yes, this is the most important thing; we calculate that one person can eat less than one pound of grain a day, one person must eat at least three hundred pounds of grain a year;

The total population of the island is nearly 30,000, and nine million kilograms of food are needed a year;

If we calculate the average grain harvest of 300 kilograms per mu of Daxuan, at least 30,000 mu of land is needed. But after we visited along the way, how much arable land they have reclaimed?

Let’s roughly calculate that if the land reclamation on the plains of Daxuan, three adult laborers can only reclaim one acre of wasteland in a day. How long does it take to reach 30,000 acres, let alone the mountain?

It takes a lot of time to open mountains, dig canals, divert water, and build fields and ridges. How much can the wasteland produce in the first two years? So we cannot completely count on farming;

We have found two iron ore now. So if we don’t talk about steel making, it is always not difficult to make iron making. You also see what I have done, isn’t it difficult, right?”

Chu Qing pointed to the dagger and hatchet in Shui Maomao and Li Hu's hands: "It's not difficult to create some tools, right?

Our ship is not very good at present, and it is expected that transportation from the mainland is very unstable. If we can produce it on our own, wouldn’t it be more certain?

While reclaiming wasteland and farming, mining and smelting, we will defend our island, and then... Others will store grain and guns, and there are granaries everywhere in the world!"

Shui Maomao: "…"

Li Hu: "…"

Gan Lai: "It makes sense!"

Chu Yuan: "I listen to my sister and my wife!"

Chu Xinghai: "Gun! Granary!"

Eight Maomao: "Xiaobao's mother is so fierce, does Xiaobao know?"

Some of the boys who followed him came back from Vos Caiyu. They had seen Chu Qing's "strength" and therefore heard Chu Qing say "there are granaries everywhere in the world", and they shouted directly: "That's right!"

In fact, for Chu Qing, with iron ore, the first thing he needs to build is cannons and mortars, which have long range and great lethality. The most important thing is that Chu Qing wants to install the cannons on the ship.

In this way, if one day Chu Qing can't make it in Daxuan anymore... she will be a pirate!

Li Hu nodded quickly and agreed, because he saw Chu Qing's iron smelting process with his own eyes. Although he had cheated a little, the basic big steps were really done with bare hands.

Not only Li Hu, Chu Qing's actions shocked everyone.

In Daxuan, there are 360 ​​professions. Basically, no matter which profession is used, all ancestors have been doing the same profession for generations. Those who can cross the border will be regarded as strange people.

Because there is a saying that "there are a journey across the mountain", being a carpenter can't work as a blacksmith, and being a blacksmith can't work as a potter can't work, this is what people think is normal.

If a man grows a good land, can weave baskets and make some simple furniture, he will be the easiest person in the village to marry a wife.

If this man could do some bricklayer work, he could simply choose girls as his wife in a village within a radius of hundreds of miles.

A man can reach such a level, he is already an all-round talent in people's eyes. Chu Qing is a woman, making pottery, weaving baskets, making timbers and fans, making kilns and charcoals and iron... How many industries have they entered? What are they not a strange person?

Also, how did she know that she could smel iron by doing this?

But in Chu Qing's case, these are just turning knowledge reserves into practical applications.

This is a backward process.

Chu Qing first knew the principle of iron refining, and then looked for suitable materials and completed them step by step.

But Li Hu and the others should say that people in this era do not know this knowledge. All their inventions and creations are positive and progressive step by step, and they need to summarize experience through continuous attempts.

Chu Yuan and others, as Chu Qing's earliest family, personally participated in the operation of the blast furnace, but they never thought about why they did this, nor did they think about these steps. They only knew that Chu Qing would do whatever he ordered.

So when they heard that Chu Qing was going to smelve with bare hands, they would remind her that there was no blast furnace, no coke, no this or that.

Without blast furnaces and auxiliary materials, not being able to make steel does not mean that they cannot make iron. They could not imagine this principle.

Perhaps, this is the difference between craftsmen, the difference between ordinary workers and technical workers, and the difference between workers and engineers.

Another more important point is the difference in cognition.

The work done by men and women, or the division of labor between scholars, farmers, industry and commerce, all hindered people of this era from gaining knowledge.

Chu Qing can't change the times alone, or even affect the people around her, because the people around her have mature and stable views like her.
Chapter completed!