921 Good News, Bad News (44/50)
In this age of material and scarcity, it is already a luxury to have a full meal, let alone to improve the handling of food.
But isn't it now that a fat sheep named the Lieshan clan has been slaughtered?
Naturally, the people can live more relaxed.
These are enough food reserves for the tribesmen to eat three years of disaster, enough to carry them through this spring, when the harvest is the worst and the animals are the leanest.
When the Rabbit clan sows the first crop of grain, spring turns to autumn, and there is a harvest in the field, the people of their clan will have a little more comfort.
The days ahead can only get better and better, and he Gu Zheng will make things that enrich the material life of the people in advance, what's wrong?
What's more, he had already asked at the rally of the celebration.
Pottery is an important material that can be bartered.
A sturdy clay pot and a sturdy clay pot are enough to exchange nearly 100 catties of grain, nearly 10 pieces of fur, or a meat prey with dozens of catties for the tribe.
With so many materials in exchange for this little thing, isn't it because the production of pottery is a secret skill of Dow?
A product of the imbalance between supply and demand?
If he Gu Zheng didn't take this opportunity to make more capital for Youyi's family, after the pottery making technology was popularized, I was afraid it would be too late.
Gu Zheng, who did what he said, immediately divided the earthmoving team into two, and two of the four people who were separated were specially excavated for him in the center of the stone mine.
The remaining two people followed him to the edge of the brickyard, under the small naturally formed soil slopes, and began to dig tunnels according to Gu Zheng's instructions.
Yes, it's a small tunnel pit dug from the bottom up.
It has a slope of about 15 degrees.
The most peculiar thing is that this tunnel is not completely hollowed, but the middle earth pillar is preserved, and the two sides of the entire passage are dug into a ring hollow.
Then, when the arm they dug was bent and could reach the top of the small slope, Gu Zheng asked them to ...... the top of the middle section of the mud pillar The shovel is made into the shape of a platform.
It was like a hollow altar, except that there was a natural dirt slope on the outside.
Just when the tribesmen were puzzled by this tiny and strange cave, they saw their priest holding a stone awl, and after repeatedly testing its position, he struggled to poke several holes at the top of it.
All of a sudden, the hollowed-out slope was connected up and down.
Then the priest sawed the whole bag with the sharpest stone shovel, and after carefully setting the shell aside, the circular platform inside was exposed to everyone.
Everyone looked at the solemn face of their priest, and couldn't help but start whispering: "Did you say that Lord Hideous is thanking God?"
"It should be, we were able to get here smoothly, all thanks to the protection of the beasts. ”
But Gu Zheng, who heard this, raised his eyebrows involuntarily.
What a beast to bless you, it's obviously your priest Lord Hideous.
Forget it, it's not bad for everyone to be drunk and I wake up, let's be the hero behind this.
Gu Zheng, who turned his head and left the matter of the beast behind, began to make pottery after finishing the excavation of the pottery kiln.
Because it was in the stage of trying, the production process of the pottery on the technology tree was written in detail enough, Gu Zheng did not hesitate, and started with the simplest pottery plate.
The technique he uses is the simplest method of building clay strips.
As the name suggests, the mud is first kneaded into mud strips, coiled upward from the bottom spiral, until the edge of the mouth, and smoothed with hands and wooden paddles inside and out, and various types of utensils are made.
The plate is naturally the simplest of them, tiled into a disc shape, slightly stroked out of a certain arc when smoothing, and then wrapped around a short and thick clay strip at the bottom of the plate, the prototype of this flat plate is completed.
The next process is the most critical step in the pottery process.
Calcination.
Gu Zheng's control of the flame temperature during the iron striking period played a key role in this step.
To shape the pottery, a flame temperature of 800-1000 degrees Celsius is essential.
When Gu Zheng placed these plates containing the beauty of rudeness in the ring table, and buttoned the shell of the earthen bag with holes towards the top, he began the final process of sealing the cellar.
Use the yellow mud of the adobe bricks to smooth out the circle around the cellar mouth to prevent the hot air from flowing through the corners, and after completing all the steps, Gu Zheng turned his head to the direction of the fire mouth under the soil slope.
"Light the fire, the firewood can't be stopped!
Gu Zheng roared in time, and the speed at which the flames started was also very fast.
The bright red tongue of fire suddenly extended along the fire path into the earthen kiln, causing the surrounding temperature to slowly rise.
"After the fire burned through, the flame was sealed, and the ignition port was sealed with yellow mud to seal the stuffiness. ”
"Looking at the temperature, I'm afraid I'll know tomorrow. ”
Gu Zheng, who was standing behind the pottery kiln, commanded the clansmen while looking at the results of his hard work for a day, not to mention how high the momentum was.
But this enthusiasm did not last long, it was in the middle of the night, with the return of the clansmen sent by the Evil Clan to scout in the four directions, and the bad news they brought back...... was extinguished.
The spies who returned from the seas in the east and the mountains in the west brought back most of the news was good.
Because the hinterland of the mountain range is the environment that the people of the Vicious Clan are most familiar with, how it is produced, and whether the prey is fierce, it is just a little exploration to have a general plan.
Just looking at the cart of meat dragged back by the seven brothers of the Hideous Family, Gu Zheng also knew that in the future, the meat intake of the clansmen would have to rely on the western mountain range.
And the tribesmen, who were already afraid of the sea and unfamiliar with it, simply searched for edible species along the coast of the East China Sea, and after observing the weather by the sea, they returned in vain.
The one who brought back the bad news was naturally the clansmen who fled from the north.
If it weren't for the fact that when he sent them out, Gu Zheng specially instructed him to lead the horses out as well, I am afraid that none of the people and horses in the north would survive.
There is no other reason, and I encountered the Northern Barbarians.
In the vast prairie, if you talk about products, it is naturally single and scarce, but if you talk about the herd of animals that are good at running, there are really a lot.
The tribesmen in charge of Beicha had just gone deep into the grasslands when they found a small group of gentle herbivores, and they thought of the priest's instructions to search for species, and began to try to track and capture these small beasts, trying to bring them back to the clan to see if they could be domesticated.
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