But even these three walls, which add up to only 1,100 meters, are still a huge project for the Qingque tribe.
Han Cheng made a simple calculation.
The adobe made by the tribe is a large adobe that is ten centimeters thick, twenty wide and forty long.
Assuming that the wall is built to be two and a half meters high and 40 centimeters thick, this would require 137,500 pieces of adobe.
Yesterday I spent a whole day trying to build a clay pot, including digging soil strips, mixing mud, and moving the finished clay bricks aside.
There are twenty-five people in the tribe participating in labor, which is almost all the main force in the tribe. In one day, they only made 800 pieces of adobe.
Even if all techniques are proficient in the future, based on a thousand adobe bricks per day, just making adobe bricks will take more than four months, almost five months.
This does not include the time it takes to transport the dried items to the required location.
Taking into account the cloudy, rainy, thundering and windy weather, it would take six or seven months just to build and transport the adobes...
And this is when the people in the tribe do nothing else and go all out.
If you include picking fruits, burning trees to plant rapeseed, and getting grass for deer and rabbits, etc.
Just finishing the adobe and moving it into place will take almost ten months...
Later, you still need to dig some foundations and pile up the adobe pieces with mud to form a wall, which also takes a lot of time and effort.
After doing the calculations like this and excluding the two or three months during which he could not work outdoors in winter, Han Cheng discovered that by the next autumn, he didn't know whether the wall he wanted would be available!
Damn it, it’s so hard to make something!
Han Cheng couldn't help but want to curse.
It's impossible to make it this way, it takes too much effort!
For several days, Han Cheng was thinking about this matter that made him frown.
It really gave him some ideas. This method was not to use adobe, but to use the block building method to build the wall.
Until the Qin and Han Dynasties, and even in later dynasties, many city walls were built using the block building method.
This is also the main reason why during ancient wars, when one side diverted water to flood the city, some parts of the city wall would collapse after a few days.
Compared with making adobe first and then gluing the adobe together with mud to build a wall, the block building method is much more labor- and time-saving.
It only needs to use boards to support both sides and ends of the place where the fence is to be built, and then put the mixed mud directly into the space enclosed by the boards, and then beat the mud firmly.
The fence built in this way is integrated. In today's world without steel bars, cement, white ash, and glutinous rice, such a fence is much stronger than one built with adobe.
After Han Cheng thought about the block building method, he slapped his forehead directly, and his thinking was restricted again.
In later generations, the most common materials for building walls were steel bars, cement, and bricks. Nowadays, even white ash is rarely used.
The block building method is basically rarely seen. Even if it is found, it is only when laying the foundation or building the 'ring beam' that a very small layer is used.
So when Han Cheng was about to start building the wall, the first way that came to his mind was to build it with bricks.
If there are no bricks, use adobe instead; if there is no cement, use living mud instead.
It wasn't until he realized that this was too labor-intensive and time-consuming and not very strong that he thought hard about it that he suddenly remembered the ancient wall-building technique of block building.
The most direct reason that reminded Han Cheng of this skill was that Han Cheng encouraged himself.
The difficulty of building the wall made him a little discouraged. In order not to lose confidence, he began to feed himself chicken soup for the soul.
It wasn't until he recited Mencius' "Born in sorrow, died in happiness" that his mind became enlightened as if struck by lightning.
The original text is as follows - Shun Fa was raised among the acres of land, Fu Shuao was raised among the building boards, Jiao Ge was raised among the fish and salt, Guan Yiwu was raised among the soldiers, Sun Shuao was raised among the sea, Baili Xi was raised among the city.
Therefore, when Heaven is about to entrust a person with a great responsibility, he must first strain his mind, strain his muscles and bones, starve his body and skin, and deplete his body...
What greatly benefited Han Cheng in this piece of chicken soup was not the fact that God bestowed great responsibilities on him later, but the sentence at the beginning, "Shun was born among the acres of land, and Fu Shuo was promoted among the buildings."
Sure enough, it's okay, but I still need to read more and give myself two more sips of chicken soup. If I don't give myself enough, I won't be surprised.
The first time he thought of the block-building method, Han Chenggong stopped his elder brother and the others from making adobe bricks.
However, there are some difficulties that need to be overcome when building a fence using the block-building method, the most important of which is the foundation of the fence.
If you don't lay a foundation and build directly on the ground, it will definitely be unstable.
But laying the foundation is also not easy with current tools and methods.
In addition to these, there is also the problem of clearing the forests growing in this area.
The easiest thing is to kill the tree first and then burn it.
To the west of the tribe, more than 3,000 square meters of trees have died. These are the masterpieces of Han Cheng and others.
However, if this is really done, the construction of the wall will need to be postponed, because it will take a long time to peel off the bark of these trees and wait for them to die and dry up.
This was a bit unbearable for Han Cheng, who was in a hurry to build the wall.
But there is no other way. With the current production conditions, we can only endure it first.
Han Cheng led his men to attack the forest on a large scale.
The first to be unlucky were the trees that happened to grow on the line drawn by Han Cheng to build the fence.
The weather in early summer is extremely hot, especially now. If there is no wind, the whole world will be like a steamer, making people breathless.
After peeling off the last bit of bark from the roots of a tree that was too big to be hugged, even the strongest senior brother had to stop, wipe the sweat from his head, pick up the water bottle at hand, and drink the water.
I took a breath that was slightly salty and cool, and then I took a long breath and felt more relaxed.
The eldest brother is actually quite curious, because in the past, in such weather, they would not have much energy left in them, but now it is different. Even though they endure the heat and work, he still feels more energetic than before.
He attributed this to the fact that after the Son of God arrived, he brought them plenty of food so that everyone could eat enough every day.
Looking at the Son of God who was still a child looking up at the sky not far away, the elder brother's eyes were full of respect. It was precisely because of the guidance of the Son of God that the people of the Qingque tribe could live such a good life now.
At this time, seeing the Son of God looking at the sky seriously, everyone including him subconsciously held their breath for fear of disturbing the communication between the Son of God and the God.
