During the conversation, the situation of chess pieces on the stone table had already been decided.

"I lost." Zhang Shan Shen counted the pieces and smiled, then began to pick up the pieces back into the basket, preparing to start again. Fang Chang put down the teapot in his hand and began to pick up the pieces he held back into his chess basket.

The two of them played chess until afternoon, and the god of Zhang Shan said goodbye with satisfaction.

Of course, he still lost more than he won, but the two of them had a little close to evenly match.

After seeing off the god Zhang Shan, Fang Changcai took the books he brought as gifts back to the bedroom and placed them on the bookshelf, preparing to read them in his spare time.

He walked back to the field, pulled up the hoe that poked it into the field, and continued to work.

For today's lunch, it would be fine for Fang Chang to eat a few less meals, dozens of meals, or hundreds of meals. However, he decided to make more at night to offset the missed lunch.

He moved his hands lightly, and the land in front of him seemed slow but was actually turned aside quickly. At this speed, the fields on the cliff can be turned over at noon tomorrow. The speed of raking the fields later will be faster. The pre-calculation is that sowing will only take three days.

So, three days later, Fang Chang had already finished plowing the fields.

His efficiency is much higher than that of awesome.

The land in the fields is flat and neat, and the seeds are sown, with straight and uniform spacing. The plants in the flower fields and medicinal fields are weeded and loosened, and several fields are carried out from the Jade Pond, and the land is wetted and watered, so the land is suitable for moisturization. I think the various seeds in them will soon germinate and grow.

After the spring plowing ends, Fangchang still has many things to do.

The days on the cliff are never boring, and even more so, as long as you want to work, it will always be fulfilling.

Fang Chang first checked the iron ore collected before going down the mountain last year, as well as a batch of coke refined by the local method, and moved them from the shed to an open space not far away. Next, he was about to take the time to try to smelify iron, but he was not going to put the small iron-smelting blast furnace too close to the Wuming Hall.

Although I don’t know if it will be smoked, I always have to avoid the risk of blackening the house.

However, he did not act in a hurry, but went down the mountain to the bamboo forest and picked a batch of bamboos back. The bamboo essence inside was still a little bit numb and ignored his greetings. Fang Chang didn't care. He dug some bamboo shoots and carried dozens of bamboos as thick as a bowl and returned to the cliff.

Then he split the bamboos, used the bamboo craftsmanship's skills, and made them into bamboo plaques after bamboo.

The remaining part, Fang Chang, made it into rows of shelves, then repaired and cleaned up the hut she had lived in, placed these shelves inside, and then placed bamboo plaques.

He went to the forest behind and found the mulberry tree that was growing fresh leaves. He picked many mulberry leaves, carried them back in a basket, and spread them in a bamboo plaque. Then Fangchang took out the silkworm seeds left before from the cellar, sprinkled them on the bamboo plaque, and then sprayed some water.

It takes a lot of time to hatch spring silkworms, and of course, it does not require careful care.

Fang Chang spent nearly half of this time taking care of mulberry silkworms, and he often went to the back mountain to check out the rest of the time.

The back mountain of Xianqi Cliff is very high and the scenery on the top is also beautiful.

The clouds are like the sea, spreading directly from under their feet to the distance, and are constantly surging, with different appearances and poses, just like everything in the world is contained in it, and you can't get tired of watching it.

In addition, the angle of the sunlight is always different. The sea of ​​clouds you see lying on the top of the peak is colorful and magnificent.

He still remembers that the white-haired monkey Sun Yun looked at the sea of ​​clouds here and broke through the bottleneck and refined the crossbone, which was very popular.

It's worth visiting here often.

If you have free time in the future, you can build stone steps on the back mountain to reach here - and then put railings on the top of the peak.

After all, on the way up the mountain, the strange rocks are messy and steep and dangerous. Although the long climbing of the other party has no effect, the style looks a bit too desolate compared to the cliff, and it is a bit unpleasant. The same is true for the top of the mountain, and it feels more like a circle of artificial objects.

When you come down from the top of the mountain, Fang Chang would always walk around the forest on the cliff and pick a basket of mulberry leaves. After returning, they would slightly dry the mulberry leaves and put them in the bamboo plaque for feeding.

The silkworms inside have hatched and eat a lot when they grow up.

It was not the first year that he had done such a thing, and he was already familiar with it.

The scale of silkworm breeding this year is much larger than in the previous two years. Before, I could only collect silk and make silk threads. Maybe I can make a few handkerchiefs for myself this year.

Walking in the forest, he looked at the green on both sides and the colorful flowers mixed with different shapes, and he was in a very good mood.

Although he has hunted a large number of birds and beasts in order to eat in recent years, due to his cultivation characteristics, the birds and beasts that come and go do not avoid him, but only regard Fang Chang as a "risk-free tree that can move."

Since the "Practice Path" and "Practice Path" are still in the nameless palace, the poisonous insects, snakes and ants around are often encountered, which is a little hindering.

The basket on his back was still woven with extremely thick rattan strips, which were now filled with mulberry leaves.

On the mulberry leaves piled in the basket, there was also a bronze axe he often carried when he was in the mountains.

I think this axe will retire and be left behind after he has iron.

During this period, in addition to raising silkworms and lying down to watch the sea of ​​clouds in the back mountain, he first built several sheds with bamboo and hay in the place where iron ore and coke were piled up, and then began to think about how to use the existing conditions to make a soil blast furnace.

The requirements for iron smelting are much higher than those for copper smelting, and the temperature, furnace conditions, and ventilation facilities are also required.

Fortunately, Yunzhongshan has abundant resources, so as long as you look for it patiently, you will have many things you want. Fang Chang had already discovered the origin of a large number of resources. He only needed to do a few more experiments, and he would definitely build a blast furnace and refine pig iron.

According to the location in memory, Fangchang found several possible refractory materials, and according to different ratios, two types of refractory bricks were trial-made.

Then he used bricks as the outer wall and refractory bricks as the inner lining, and a mixture of white mud and fine quartz as the adhesive to start building on the open space.

Of course, these may not be enough, because iron smelting also has different pH and requirements for the slag resistance of refractory materials.

At the same time, refractory bricks, etc. must also resist impact, urgency, rapid cooling and heat, stable volume and small heat capacity.

In short, it is impossible to find the right materials easily.

The furnace planned by the long-term plan is small at the top and large at the bottom, and then as high as possible, so that the heat can be fully utilized. Fortunately, the iron ore in Yunzhongshan is of high taste and has good iron content. Moreover, according to its spiritual sense, the inside is purer and will not affect smelting too much.

The iron production was also rough, so he dug a trench directly on the ground. If it was really successful, the iron could be solidified directly on the ground into iron ingots.
Chapter completed!