A group strode briskly, passing through the tall greenstone walls of the inner layer and by the bowing samurai standing guard, arriving at an exceedingly spacious open-air workshop, the center for bronze production.
Xiulote surveyed his surroundings, his eyes gleaming. This was his first time seeing a large-scale metal smelting and casting site.
The vast workshop, like a square in its breadth, had an outdoor working area at the center, surrounded by a ring of sturdy storage stone houses. Heaps of red copper materials, white tin materials, and dark charcoal piled up like mountains in the corners, with rows of copper vessels, copper farm tools, and bronze weapons laid out in arrays, emitting red, yellow, and even blue glows. At the outermost layer of the copper utensils, a bronze cannon, just over a meter long, lay silently on the ground, shimmering with a dark golden hue.
