The clang of hammers rang out across the camp. Dozens of craftsmen from the Han Tribe were busy in a hastily assembled workshop, with quite a few apprentices from the camp spontaneously coming to learn the trade. Of course, the apprentices could not even touch the hammers yet. Their only tasks were adding coal and working the bellows.
Although they were all dressed lightly, each of them was sweating from head to toe.
Blacksmithing was a skilled trade, but it was not particularly difficult. Put simply, it was rather like kneading clay: both involved shaping materials, except one used hands while the other used hammers.
The young apprentices watched as the steel ingots unloaded from the ships were transformed into all kinds of exquisite implements in the master craftsmen's hands. Deep envy filled their eyes.
Kitchen knives, farm implements, and tools—these were the things the camp lacked most at present. Fortunately, once the workshop began operating, the shortage of these supplies was eased.
The men of the camp's Hunting Team were now all equipped with newly made poleaxes and cleavers. While there was still no snow on the ground, they had to hurry and chop more firewood to bring back. The firewood and grass already stored in the camp had nearly been enough, but so many more people had arrived, and the blacksmiths and carpenters also needed wood and charcoal to make things. They had no choice but to head into the mountains and fell trees again.
The other older children and some of the men in the camp, as long as they were not involved in hunting, logging, or patrols, had more or less all been organized to learn various skills.
Farm implements were already being produced under great pressure, but having tools that nobody knew how to use