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Chapter 0042 Burning blue bricks

The pottery making continues, and the pottery made now are all coarse benzene pottery, jars, jars, jars, etc.

The tribes have a great demand for these pottery.

The tribe's containers are scarce.

On the pottery wheel, some pottery such as jars and bottles are being made. These pottery are not easy to process with stamping devices.

Lulu left in the woodworking area, but the woodworking work has not stopped.

The tables and benches have been made, and now they are processed with doors, windows and wooden boards.

Building a new house requires a large number of doors and windows, and a large amount of wood planks are required before roof tiling.

There are many typhoons around Leize. If the roof is covered with tiles, it will not resist the wind and the tiles will be lifted by the wind.

Before tiling, you need to lay a layer of wooden board on the roof, then a layer of plaster, and then lay the tiles. In this way, the tiles will stick firmly and the wind resistance will be much stronger.

However, there are only a few people making the wooden work area, which cannot meet the needs of building a house.

There are still too few people!

Ah Xing still manages the tribal diet, but now he adds a portion of work and cooks numb!

The pot used to cook hemp is a special pot made by Ye Qing, which is deep and large, and is placed in another direction in the stove area.

The stove area was originally open-air, but after the stove was built, the tribe built greenhouses in this area.

Now the water vapor in the greenhouse is filled with it, and a strange smell is drilling straight into the nose.

It takes a long time to cook hemp. Two pots can’t cook much hemp in a day. It takes a long time to cook all the hemp fibers of the tribe.

However, the cooked hemp is still enough for use in a spinning machine.

Nowadays, those sitting on the spinning machine are children under 10 years old and some older women.

Young and strong people are either busy moving bricks and digging soil in the brick yard, or removing weeds and catching insects in the paddy fields.

In addition to fishing, tribal hunting has stopped.

The management rights of the loom were snatched from A Xing.

Nowadays, there are only three people using the loom, A Zi, A Lian, and the seven-year-old girl.

The three of them are now the stars of the tribe. Whether they can wear new clothes depends on their faces.

A Zi's nature was suddenly exposed, and her tail was about to rise to the sky.

However, A Lian and the seven-year-old girl are still very peaceful and work diligently, unlike A Zi, who speaks more and does less.

Taikang is in charge of the copper smelting area. Now that Taikang is not here, Ye Qing has to take care of it himself.

The copper smelting area is the most important area for the tribe.

There are a large number of technologies that are ahead of this era and a lot of simple equipment for various bronze processing.

Not only smelting, but also copper making operations.

As the requirements for processed bronze products become more and more refined, if they are just cast, they will gradually fail to meet the needs.

Seeing the copper and tin blocks that had accumulated began to exist, Ye Qing felt extremely fulfilled and satisfied.

This is wealth.

The smelting of copper and tin blocks did not stop and continued.

He came to the place where the mine was broken.

The tribe eats rice and grinds the rice into rice. The tribe uses a pestle and mortar to pound it manually.

Naturally, Ye Qing invented the foot pedal pestle.

Now the tribe does not have so much rice to be unshelled, so it is used to crush ores.

It is not difficult to make this foot pedal mortar, and some of the difficulties are in the stone mortar.

However, it is not a problem to have a bronze chisel.

Stone mortars are stone tools, and they are most familiar with the Stone tribe members. After a little guidance from Ye Qing, several tribe members who processed stone mortars were quickly started.

It took two days for the basin-sized stone mortars.

The tribe members were so happy.

In the past, they used to calculate the monthly calculations of processing stone tools. Now, such a large stone tool can be completed in two days. How can they not be happy?

Inspired by this, they were very enthusiastic about processing stone tools. They found a lot of rough stone embryos and kept knocking them with bronze chisels. Soon they knocked out many stone axes, stone plows, and stone spears...

However, these stone tools have been eliminated!

The tribe members looked at a bunch of stone tools they had processed themselves, and after a while, they became sad again... These stone tools would no longer be useful.

The progress of the times is always sad!

...

After a round of patrols, Ye Qing got busy again.

The fired bricks are enough to build a brick kiln.

This project is a bit big, but it won't work.

In theory, red bricks were made, so it was completely possible to build brick houses.

But after careful consideration, Ye Qing decided to burn blue bricks.

Why did blue bricks be used to build houses in ancient times instead of red bricks?

Firing red bricks is easier than making blue bricks!

The firing of red bricks and blue bricks is the same in the front. The only difference is the cooling procedure after firing is completed. The red bricks are naturally cooled out of the kiln, and the blue bricks are cooled out of the kiln with water.

The different colors are because the iron oxides contained in the bricks are different. The red bricks are iron trioxide and the blue bricks are ferrous oxide.

Did the ancients not know how to adapt?

Of course not!

There are several reasons.

First, because blue bricks are more resistant to decay than red bricks.

The red bricks fired in an earth kiln have very poor quality and will decay after a few winds, frosts, rains and snows.

Why do we use red bricks in a lot of modern times instead of blue bricks?

This is an improvement in the firing process.

The quality of red bricks fired in ancient earth kilns and modern fired red bricks is incomparable.

There is also modern materials such as cement that can be applied and painted, and the red bricks are not directly exposed to the air.

In this way, red bricks have no problem using for hundreds of years, which is enough for the service life of modern buildings.

The tribe is located in a geographical location, with high air humidity and many wind and rainy weather. The key is that there is no extra energy now and there is no need to paint it. The bricks will be directly exposed to the air, which is very prone to decay, and the built houses will not last long.

Building a house is a big project. Ye Qing doesn’t want to build a tofu project, and he doesn’t want to waste his energy on repeated construction.

To build, a century-old project is built.

This is his personality. He either doesn’t do it or does it as best. Unfortunately, he is very arrogant and has no ability to do it as best, so he simply...don’t do it!

This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content later! So, the salted fish in the previous life!

After traveling through time, I can do so many things because of the "golden finger".

Without gold fingers, I want to braid a straw hat? Based on the degree of his hand in his previous life... I want to be a waste of money!

The red bricks burned in ancient earth kilns are not uniform in color, red and black. Such bricks make the houses that are ugly, unlike modern red bricks, all of which are red.

So water and cool it, and make blue bricks uniformly.

One green covers hundreds of ugliness!

The color is the same, neat and perfect!

Ye Qing has already done the structural design of the brick kiln.

But I only know the job of building brick kilns, and the tribe members don’t know how to do masonry work, so it’s even more impossible to do the work that requires technology in brick kilns.

There is no way, I can only guide my tribe members to take their time.

Go on it yourself?

A small body only age six can't afford a big project like building a brick kiln.

After selecting more than a dozen tribesmen, Ye Qing guided him and finally built this small earth kiln in a bumpy manner.

This kind of earthen kiln was seen a lot in rural areas when I was a child, and there was no problem in technology.

After piled up soil outside the brick kiln, he asked his tribe members to pile up dry firewood in the kiln and started burning.

After the fire was extinguished, there was no problem with the kiln, and Ye Qing knew that he could start burning bricks.

Loading a kiln is also a technical job, and it is also required to guide Ye Qing.

Although this small brick kiln is small, it can also burn 20,000 bricks at a time, and the project volume of loading the kiln is not small.

Loading a kiln is not simply stacking bricks into the kiln. It also requires reasonable and clever reservation of gaps and channels. This is to maintain heat and temperature, maintain balance, and allow each brick to be fully heated.

To build a kiln, under Ye Qing's guidance, the tribe members spent three days.

Next, it's ignition.

This time, the fire was ignited, and there was no sacrifice from the clan leader, and it felt like something was missing.

He suddenly felt that the sacrifices of the patriarch were very meaningful.

The blue bricks burned this time are another achievement of the tribe's resistance to natural disasters and control their own destiny, and are a witness to the tribe's transformation.

This testimony requires a ritual, sacrifice, that is, ritual.
Chapter completed!
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