The two days passed quickly, and after taking a sauna and cutting their hair short, the tribesmen who had been well rested put all their enthusiasm into the process of building the city, and their emotions became more and more high.

They experienced something different in the Ding tribe, and felt that the whole soul was free, happy, warm and safe. Someone privately discussed the possibility of joining the Ding tribe, and even asked Ben how to join the Ding tribe.

Ben directly said a pretending B sentence that Ding Qi once said:

"Listen to your heart."

The person who heard this sentence was stunned, but after thinking for a while, the person left happily, and gave Benxing a general thank-you gift before leaving. However, as to whether the other party understands the meaning of this sentence, Ben doesn't care, he just stole and kept warm with his own woman for a while, and now he has to rush to the construction site. I'm about to become a father, and I'm extremely proud in my heart.

When like the spring breeze in the ears!

On the construction site, there is a hot picture. Sweating like rain, people carried a flat shoulder on their shoulders, or carried a basket on their backs, or two people pushed a wheelbarrow, or pulled a flatbed cart to carry the earthwork from the edge of the forest in the distance. There were even people who filled baskets or baskets with earth and carried them to the bottom of the rising city walls, where others filled the earth with shovels or hanging blue, and then the people above smashed the earth with stone rammers.

Every time the wall rises one meter high, it has to be filled with earth. Every 30 centimeters of soil is filled, it is smashed with a stone rammer, then filled, and then rammed until the wall is full, and then the wall is built. Cycle.

Non-stop, of course, the twelve sunken cave kilns, as well as the corresponding cave kilns for burning charcoal, are really burning continuously 24 hours a day.

The charcoal-burning caves used to be used were long gone, and the red deer in charge of this matter dug more than a dozen charcoal-burning caves directly in the middle of the forest, and the wood cut around did not have to be transported over long distances and heavy distances as before, but could be easily transported away by simply burning the charcoal there.

The strength of their arms increased dramatically as a result of the long term of wielding axes to chop trees, and the skill of using axes or machetes became more and more proficient. In particular, the group of recruits led by Zhuang especially like to use axes, and they have developed skills in using axes, such as swinging, splitting, blocking, smashing, throwing, etc., such as arm and finger.

For this reason, Zhuang specially applied to Ding Qi to make a batch of axes to be used as weapons for the soldiers of their three squads, each of whom was equipped with three, one large and two small, which could be used for both long-range and melee combat. With each break between logging, they do axe throwing training, just like they throw spears, and the accuracy is greatly improved.

I remember one time when they were cutting wood, a horned deer crashed into their logging yard, thirty people shot instantly, and finally the horned deer was dismembered by the axe, and when the strong went to count, there were 28 axes on the horned deer, and the two thrown were because they were half a beat slower, and they were dodged by the fallen horned deer.

Ding Qi would spend an hour a day patrolling the rising walls, watching and instructing those who had been promoted to "plasterers" where the plasters were crooked and where the plaster was scarce. From time to time, I will use the reference rope used by the plasterers to see how everyone is covering, and check whether the lime is mixed evenly

But the key to the strength of the walls is whether they are strong.

As early as when building the foundation, Ding Qi was thinking about what mortar to use as a binder. This is the primitive era, there is no cement for the time being, and Ding Qi does not know the cement formula. There is also no large amount of glutinous rice for boiling binders, and the only thing that can be used is lime.

In the past, the mortar used in building brick houses in rural areas was divided into two kinds, one was lime mixed with loess, called white ash clay slurry; There is also a pure white ash mortar. The choice between these two types of mortar mainly depends on the amount of money of the farmer himself. Money uses more white mortar, money uses less white ash clay slurry, and the comparison between the two is definitely that white ash mortar is stronger and more durable.

Due to the large population of the tribe and the proximity to the lime mines, the lime burned out is as if it does not cost money, so Ding Qi decided to use all white ash mortar, which causes white ash to be the three most consumed materials like red bricks and charcoal.

The method of building walls has long been taught to everyone, and many people want to learn this kind of novelty, so Ding Qi arranged for Ben to give ten places to each of the two outer houses to learn how to build walls. The four walls were going on at the same time, and on each wall there were fifty people standing there to build the wall, and when the wall reached a height of one meter, they began to fill it in again, and rammed it, and everyone was very busy.

After inspecting the walls, Tinch would pull the sand with the highest level of masonry to study how to build the arched gates. The city currently being built has three gates, all of which are arches, and Ding Qi has never seen how to build them, so he can only study them with Sha from the Red Bull tribe.

Sha is a master of brickwork found by Ding Qi when teaching everyone to build a wall, built quickly and with high quality, after telling Sha the requirements and rules of wall building, he taught everyone how to build the wall, and selected three people who built well to form the prototype of the plasterer group, and was fully responsible for the construction of the entire city wall.

In order to build an arch, you must first build an arch bracket model, which is called an arch tire in professional terms. Tinch didn't know the term, but he knew that the arch would have to be built before the arch could be built.

The construction of the arch tire is inseparable from the support of the Jingthey carpenter group, which first designed and manufactured the arch tire, and then the arch can be built after it is firmly supported. This is a huge challenge for Jing and them, and Ding Qi can only guide them on the side, and the specific technical work of making arch tires has to be operated by Jing and them.

With Ding Qi's guidance, after many attempts, he finally designed an arch tire style for the sand to build arches. Due to the trouble of arch construction, Jing and they only made one arch tire, which could only be used alternately between the three city gates.

When building the arch, Ding Qi proposed two methods, one is ring masonry, and the other is the staggered masonry method used when building the wall. After many experiments, the construction of the arch is simple and straightforward, suitable for buildings with shallow arch depths; The masonry is a little more complicated and can be used for buildings with deep arches.

After many trials, Ding Qi and Sha decided to choose both arch construction methods, the main entrance using the wrong masonry method, and the east and west doors using the ring masonry method. The door was designed to be five meters wide, enough to accommodate two pickup trucks that Tinch himself had driven.

The city gate and the city wall were built at the same time, and the progress of the whole project was also very fast.

In addition to focusing his energy on building the city, Tinchi finds time to build it every day

The fish skin greenhouse. After Niu Er tanned all the fish skins, the fish skins were handed over to Qiao of the garment team, and she led people to sew a large piece of fish skin according to Ding Qi's requirements. Between each small piece of fish skin, the stitches are fine, and there is no exposed wind.

Ding Qi had already tidied up the plot, and the surrounding bamboo shelves were also built, and after the fish skin was covered, a warm fish skin shed was built. The fish skin shed is not big, and it is just a piece of land, enough to plant Chinese cabbage, yams, peppercorns and kudzu roots, especially pepper seeds, which should use the warm and humid environment to promote germination.

Chinese cabbage has been planted, and kudzu is only planted in the corner at random, and the yam is cut into small pieces of about five centimeters according to the method of grandfather planting yams in the past, inserted into the soft soil, covered with a thin layer of soil, sprinkled with water, and waited for them to take root and sprout.

As for peppers, millet and soybeans, they are ready to be planted in the same weather as in May and June, lest the weather turn cold and the crops that have just emerged will freeze to death. According to the experience of the weather last year and this year, the climatic characteristics of the location of the Ding tribe are similar to those in Henan in the previous life, with four distinct seasons, which is very suitable for growing crops.

As for the leeks, they have already begun to draw out their tender green leaves, and I believe that in a month, you will be able to eat a hearty meal of fried wild eggs with leeks.

The carpenter group is also very busy, in addition to helping to build wooden molds such as arch tires, the search for tall and sturdy wood is also progressing relatively smoothly, and several have been found, namely cedar, larch, spruce and yew.

For yew, also known as yew, Ding Qi still found a few in the cannibal tribe. But through this search, Jing found a yew community deep in the tribe's forest, about 60 trees. After hearing that there were so many yews, Ding Qi decided to protect them and not cut them down, which would be used as a reserve raw material for the longbow.

As for the abundance of spruce, of course far less than the more numerous cedars and larchs, there are probably five or six hundred.

After much discussion and listening to Jing's opinions, two kinds of wood, larch and spruce, were used as the pillars and pillars of the tribe's main hall.

After determining the tree species, Jing arranged for people to cut it down and use manpower and animal power to transport it back. In the location of the main hall, Ben has arranged for the goshawk and the black bull to be responsible for supervising the construction.

The foundation was also excavated and tamped in accordance with the method of excavation and tamping of the foundation of the city wall, but at a depth of three meters to ensure a strong and stable foundation. According to the plan, the whole hall is a mixed brick and wood structure, the house is 60 meters long and 30 meters wide, and is composed of two spruce trees as the beams, and a larch under the girder supports the entire beam surface. The roof is made of large red tiles, and it looks tall and majestic.

In addition to these things surrounding the construction of the city, Ding Qi arranged for the warriors of the Moo class, each with two horses, to go to the direction of the Yuanyu tribe to find other tribes and establish contact and communication. They placed the pottery in rattan baskets and hung it on horseback for transport.

Dingqi gave them a month to go back and forth, whether or not they found other tribes, and they would come back when the time came. Moo, they brought bows and arrows, machetes and other weapons, and brought some dried meat and headed in the direction of the Yuan Yu tribe, they were familiar with the surrounding terrain, as long as they did not clash with the cannibal tribe, there should not be much danger in the trip.