Xu Chen is building this large house according to a normal house. Whether it is the wall base or the bay, or the courtyard and height, it is designed to be as spacious and comfortable as possible under the conditions that can be achieved today.
The courtyard is planned to be about 500 square meters, 25 meters wide and 20 meters deep.
The rooms of the surrounding houses are all over ten square meters.
In particular, the area where fires are made for cooking and gatherings is more than thirty square meters, otherwise it would be impossible to accommodate such a large family.
Of course, these are roughly the measurement standards he set based on his memories before the time travel.
His current height is about 1.6 meters. Most adults are over 1.7 meters tall. The tallest person is estimated to be over 1.8 meters tall.
This height was actually beyond his imagination.
It stands to reason that people from lack of food and malnutrition will not grow taller, but in fact it is just the opposite. Men of the Ba tribe are all very tall, and when he attended the witchcraft conference, he saw that there were even taller guys from the foreign tribes, and the dragon hunter was almost there.
The Uzbek warrior whose son died is at least 1.9 meters tall.
The only explanation is that climate and environmental factors lead to generally higher levels.
Of course, it may also be survival of the fittest. In the struggle to survive against the natural environment, the taller and stronger humans are, the more they can obtain enough food to survive. Those weak and short primitive savages can only slowly die out because they cannot defeat wild beasts.
, unable to leave genes to pass on.
It can be found from archeology that people in ancient China were very tall. The skeletons unearthed from the burial pits of the Warring States, Qin and Han Dynasties were basically over 1.7 meters, and 1.8 meters was more common. It is said that Confucius was over 1.8 meters.
Xiang Yu is even close to two meters tall. Most of the Terracotta Warriors and Horses of Qin Shihuang are also of this standard. Ordinary soldiers are about 1.8 meters tall, and generals reaching 1.9 meters are everywhere.
Some people say that the terracotta warriors and horses may exaggerate the height of the soldiers, but judging from the chariots and weapons buried with them, this is not the case. Because the chariots and weapons of the Qin State are all standard, it is impossible to have such a large scale of burial.
Develop a set of standards, because the production of pottery figurines and weapons and chariots are assembly line operations. If the craftsmen are not familiar with unified standards, huge errors will occur.
The taller and stronger you are, the larger your living space will naturally be.
Therefore, Xu Chen could only build these houses as large as possible.
The taller the building, the greater the difficulty, and the greater the demand for building materials, especially the beams, which must not only be thick but also long.
There was not enough manpower before, and Xu Chen was still a little uneasy. He was afraid that the scale of his design was too advanced and that he would not be able to complete it all before spring, resulting in an unfinished project during the rainy season.
But now that there is a large group of foreign employees, these problems have been solved one by one.
Just twenty-four of the main beams of the house with a diameter of more than one foot were cut down. It was impossible to count the damaged stone axes. If a big tree was cut down, six or seven of them would be destroyed.
In addition, a house needs more side beams, cantilever beams, through beams, lintels, and purlins.
Except for the purlins, all of them require at least thigh-thick wood to ensure the strength and safety of the house.
Therefore, he spent most of his spare time building foundations on instructing a group of lumberjacks on how to handle the wood.
The kiln has been firing lime on a large scale since the beginning of winter. In the absence of cement, lime is the best concrete adhesive at the moment and must be used in sufficient quantities.
With the foundation laid and various building materials gradually available, Xu Chen also decided to officially start building the house.
Since he had no experience in building such a large building, he had to summon a group of Ba men who had participated in building kiln factory walls and houses to plan and discuss carefully.
First of all, we must ensure that the house we build cannot fall down, so we must strictly use tension ropes and vertical lines to ensure that the walls are horizontally and vertically, and there must be no carelessness.
In addition, although the boxy shape of mud bricks is convenient for building walls, they are also relatively heavy and easily damaged. Therefore, care must be taken during transportation and wall building to avoid leaving any safety hazards.
Furthermore, the house is so large that it is impossible for Xu Chen to build it alone. Everyone needs to be divided into several groups to start building it from different locations at the same time, so as to ensure the construction speed.
Xu Chen was unfamiliar, and a group of primitive people were even more unfamiliar.
Therefore, Xu Chen led a group of mature and steady men to spend several days learning and becoming familiar with the process of building mud brick walls. At the same time, he arranged for people to continuously carry mud bricks, clay, lime and other building materials to various locations on the construction site.
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In the blink of an eye, it was late November, and the construction of the big house officially began.
Except for a group of carpenters who were cutting down trees, all the men on the construction site were divided into four groups, with eight people in each group, and started building walls simultaneously from the four directions of southeast, northwest and northwest.
Among the eight people, two are responsible for building the wall, two are responsible for transporting mud, and four are responsible for carrying bricks.
All men, women, and children of the Ba ethnic group once again went down the mountain to observe the construction of their new home.
A group of hired workers such as the Wu, Muya, Hu, Ji, and Cang tribes were also excited to participate in this unprecedented and huge project.
After staying in the Ba tribe for more than a month, everyone seemed to have been transformed.
Although they worked hard every day, while eating and drinking, their knowledge increased day by day. Driven by Xu Chen's exchanges with the Ba people, they not only learned a lot of new languages, but also saw how to build walls with stones.
Making mud bricks, how to make simple doors, windows and tenons out of wood, and also learned how to combine these materials into a house through ropes, vertical lines, mud, etc.
When building a house, Xu Chen did not hide anything from them. He even saw that some of them were eager to try, and taught them step by step how to build walls, how to see the vertical line of the tension rope, how to build the wall flat and strong, etc.
Although Xu Chen himself is also a master of two swords.
But these are indeed unprecedented innovations and creations.
Once these people learn how to do it, they can start building houses when they return to the tribe and change their living and living environment through hard work.
Of course, what they brought back was how to weave nets and fish, how to make fish balls, how to divide labor and cooperate, etc.
This is an unprecedented life experience and an unforgettable learning experience.
During this short period of just over a month in the Ba tribe, everyone felt a sense of excitement and excitement that they had never experienced before.
Compared with the Ba people's vigorous construction and prosperous changes, their own tribe will always live a boring and monotonous life year after year.
Every day I wait blankly for the clan leader's arrangements. Apart from hunting, there is no joy in life.
But the Ba people never need any arrangements from the patriarch. They are full of passion every day. Men and women are busy working in full swing. Women spin and weave cloth, make food, take care of the old and young, and men make pottery, burn kilns, and build houses.
Everyone is full of energy when hunting and fishing, because they can all see the hope of life. Under the leadership of Chen, a mysterious young man, they are working hard to build and create a new future for the tribe.
All the foreign workers, when they were mixing mud, moving bricks, cutting down trees, would always look at Xu Chen with an extremely fiery look at Xu Chen, who was just busy walking back and forth on the construction site all day long, and feel the energy emanating from him.
His mysterious aura, feel and learn his every word and deed, and imitate his every move.
He is a wise man greater than the great wizard.
Let everyone have the urge to worship.
With the construction going on in full swing, the huge mansion looks taller and taller day by day.
The four groups continuously extend and connect from four directions.
A large number of mud bricks are piled up layer by layer, and the reserved positions for doors and windows are constantly and completely reinforced with ceramic bricks and lintels.
In the blink of an eye, half a month passed, and the structure of the house gradually took shape, slowly building into a huge building complex covering an area of several thousand square meters.
As the houses became more and more complete, the Ba people became more and more excited. Women and children would go down the mountain to watch almost every day. Ye and a group of children built simple stoves at the construction site to help boil water and carry out logistical services.
In his spare time, Xu Chen would also train wolves, monkeys and ponies, which a group of adults and children would naturally watch with great interest. Although they didn’t quite understand why Xu Chen did these seemingly boring things, it was indeed an unprecedented experience.
The entertainment activities they had experienced gave them a different and pleasant atmosphere of life.
Building walls with mud bricks is very fast.
But as the walls continued to get taller, construction became increasingly difficult.
In order to transport the heavy mud bricks to higher places, Xu Chen made springboards and wooden ladders out of felled wood. He even built a simple three-legged crane out of wood and used ropes to lift the mud bricks and mud blocks upwards.
With the help of these amazing tools.
By around mid-December, all the main structures of the houses were completed.