Ye Qing chose a place to let the tribe members level the ground, and then dig soil and mud.
Some tribe members were asked to dig sand by the river.
He wants to make bricks and build a house.
He took a few tribe members who followed him to do carpenters and began to make brick molds.
How big is a brick mold?
What should the size of the brick be set?
Ancient bricks had various sizes and no unity.
In the country's large-scale projects, the size of bricks is made according to the requirements of supervisors. For example, city wall bricks weigh 30 kilograms, some weigh 40 kilograms, and some weigh 60 kilograms.
For civil use, the manufacturer personally sets the size.
As a time traveler, Ye Qing, with his modern insight, certainly knows the benefits of standardization.
Therefore, the size of the brick needs to be determined as a standard size.
After thinking about it, Ye Qing did not innovate and innovate. It was not that he was unwilling to waste his brain cells, but that he already had very scientific and humane standards.
That is the standard size of red bricks common on construction sites in later generations: 240x115x53mm.
This size makes sense.
This size is easy to masonry and also easy to calculate.
During masonry, the size of the bricks, plus the mortar of the brick joints, becomes 250x125x63mm, just forming the ratio of length, width and height: 4:2:1.
One meter is exactly the length of 4 bricks, the width of 8 bricks, and the thickness of 16 bricks.
The length, width and height are multiplied, so that the masonry method can be flexible and varied, and the walls built are also flat and neat.
Moreover, no matter what masonry method is used, the amount of bricks can be simply calculated.
By measuring the area of ​​a wall, you can calculate how many bricks were used.
Another thing is that this size is suitable for the right size and weight, making it easy to grasp with one hand.
For convenience of handling and masonry, the bricks must be small and light enough to be picked up with one hand.
For most people, the distance between the thumb and other fingers is approximately 100mm.
With this as long, the bricks will be too small and inefficient.
If this is high, the bricks will be too big and too heavy.
Therefore, the size of 115mm is determined as the width of the brick.
Ye Qing made a brick mold with one mold and four bricks.
The requirements for making brick molds are much higher than those of plows, rakes, and plows.
The combination of mortise and tenon needs to be more sophisticated, and the wooden boards need to be smooth enough, so that the brick molds can be durable and the bricks made can meet the specifications.
However, with the previous experience in making plows, rakes and rattles, the tribe members made much smoother.
Lulu Cao Maoyan is already very skilled. He can be regarded as a real carpenter just by the process of chiseling Maoyan.
After the first brick mold came out, Ye Qing brought the brick mold to the place where the tribe members and the mud were.
Many tribe members were holding cows covered with linen, trampling back and forth in the mud.
There were also tribe members beside them, holding shovels and shoveling the mud that collapsed by the cow back to the mud pile.
Yesterday's typhoon, the escaped cows only recovered more than twenty.
It was a pity that more than twenty cows escaped.
However, it will be retrieved sooner or later.
Escape is nothing more than escaping into the wild, without anyone else in the wild, and will not be lost.
He called Manniu over and taught him how to make bricks.
Manniu took people to look for the child who was blown away by the strong wind yesterday, but he was not found.
The tribe members sighed and then revealed it.
Admit your fate!
Things like missing populations happen from time to time in this era, and the tribe members can do nothing.
Survival is difficult!
But life has to continue.
Although Ye Qing really wanted to find that child, and wanted to see someone in his child and die in his body, he told him wisely...
It's unrealistic.
So, he gave up and continued to spend valuable manpower to find that child.
Although he is cold-blooded, he can only do this according to the current situation of the tribe.
Living people are more important!
Making bricks is simple. Smash a ball of mud of appropriate size into the sand-spread brick mold, scrape off the excess mud, and then turn it on, and the brick embryo is formed.
The mud is now harmonious.
Originally, after the mud was reconciled, it was left overnight to achieve the best results.
But now everything is in trouble, and the first thing is time. The effect of mud is a little bit worse, so it is not a big deal.
Seeing that the tribe members were curious about the brick embryos they made, Ye Qing explained to them:
"This is for building a house and building a wall."
The tribe members suddenly realized.
"Oh, it's really much easier to make the mud into such neat pieces than adding grass to the mud to make a wall. The walls made must look good... but there are no wooden bones, and the grass tendons are inside the wall, will they fall?"
"This is just a hairbrush. After drying, it needs to be burned into a kiln and then bonded with mortar. There is no need for wood bones or grass tendons, and it will be very firm and will not fall."
"Ah! Is it still burning? Isn't that just pottery?"
They were shocked. It was too...too extravagant to build a house with pottery!
In fact, Ye Qing didn't want to burn bricks so quickly.
It was originally planned to reclaim dry land, grow vegetables, and continue to strengthen the need for adequate tribal food.
Accommodation renovation does not require such a hurry. If you can make a purchase, you will make a purchase. I will plan to talk about it at the end of the year.
But now all the tribe's huts have been destroyed and must be rebuilt. In order to save manpower and avoid repeated construction, we can build bricks and tile houses in one step.
It would be less likely that the thatched house would not take long to be demolished after building it.
There are often typhoons here, so it is very unsafe to live in a thatched hut!
During lunch, the news that Ye Qing was preparing to burn pottery to build a house spread.
The tribesmen started to discuss, and the burning of bricks and building houses had a strong impact on them.
Their unanimous reaction was: It was too luxurious!
For them, building a house with pottery is like later generations using pure gold to build a house.
For them, pottery is a very expensive item, and they are very careful when using pottery and food utensils in daily life.
If you break one, it will be heartbreaking for a long time.
The strong wind of yesterday broke a lot of pottery, which was a great fortune.
There are two reasons why pottery is precious.
First, the production aspect.
Nowadays, the production methods are backward and there is a lack of corresponding production tools. It all depends on hand pinching. Most of the pottery produced is crooked and irregular.
Such a pottery embryo can only be kneaded and pinched again.
Therefore, it takes a lot of time to make a pottery embryo that can be used, and it also requires proficiency and superb skills.
The second is firing.
When building kilns and burning pottery, the tribe will do it.
But they know the reason but not the reason.
The tribal pottery kilns burn firewood, and the temperature often does not reach the ideal temperature for pottery firing.
Due to lack of knowledge, they do not understand the impact of temperature on pottery firing, and the firing pottery is sometimes good and sometimes bad.
They don't understand why the pottery sometimes is of good quality and sometimes it's all broken.
Due to the lack of theoretical basis, they will not summarize it, but will only attribute it to the will of the gods.
This method of firing pottery has been unchanged for countless years until coal was discovered and utilized.
In this era, a technological advancement takes hundreds of years or even thousands of years to develop.
In the early stages of civilization, technological progress was quite slow.
Even after thousands of years, many rural areas before liberation did not make much progress compared to tribes, the same earth walls and thatched huts and lavenders.
Old technology continues from generation to generation, and technology will not leap until a genius appears.
But there are few geniuses!
It’s not that there are really few geniuses, but that there are too few geniuses who can become talented.
The patriarch called Ye Qing aside and warned with a solemn expression:
"I know you have been to the God Realm, you also know that you have learned the abilities of those gods, and you also know that you want all your tribesmen to live a god-like life, but you must know that we are human beings, not gods, and god-like life is not something we humans can live."
"How can a house made of pottery be lived in by people?"
"You are very capable, but don't do blasphemy!"
"The gods will punish you!"
“…”
The patriarch tried his best to persuade Ye Qing to give up his plan to burn bricks and build a house.
Chapter completed!