Volume 1 Building the City Chapter 11 Let's Play with the Mud (2)
Wang Tian made a total of four pottery plates, and then made two discs of the same size out of clay. Use a bamboo knife to cut evenly into strips with a width of 5 cm. After slightly rounding it with your hands, place it on the side with the four naughty placement boards to dry and set aside.
This is used to install under the pottery placement board, and is used to place firewood overhead, so that the firewood burns overhead to improve the utilization rate of fuel, which is a firewood placement rack.
A disc is divided into two, enough for two pottery kilns. Wang Tian made a total of two pieces, which was intended to build four pottery kilns first.
With these two layers, the inside of the pottery kiln can be divided into three sections, and the firewood from the kiln is burned directly on the firewood placement rack.
The firewood is placed on the ground and left empty, and the ashes produced during burning fall to the ground through the hollow on the shelf. After accumulating a certain amount, it is manually hollowed out manually to keep the air inlet unobstructed, improve the burning efficiency of the wood and thus increase the temperature in the pottery kiln.
On top of the burning flame is the pottery placement plate, on which the dried pottery blanks are placed.
After the two kinds of placement plates were ready, Wang Tian made a number of flat squares at will, and then lit a fire around them, and baked them over a low fire to accelerate the curing.
Next, the main part of the pottery kiln will be built.
Select a flat piece of land, and smear the ground with a layer of good soil, and the size of the length and width is larger than the maximum inner diameter of the pottery kiln.
Then build a ring with an outer diameter of one meter two and an inner diameter of about eighty centimeters on top of it, reserve a gap for ventilation and adding firewood, and when the height reaches about 15 centimeters, light firewood in the circle to burn and harden the built part.
While waiting, Wang Tian made the base parts of the other three kilns in one go, all of which were ignited and baked and solidified.
At this time, the first kiln can already be continued, and the previously baked firewood is placed on the rack, one by one, evenly placed on the kiln body, and then the kiln body is continued to be heightened layer by layer. During the period, the water was constantly smeared on both sides inside and outside the kiln to smooth and correct. When the total height reached 40 centimeters, Wang Tian stopped, and then raised the second kiln. After doing this, Wang Tian returned to the first kiln, tried to lift the pottery placement board that was placed aside to dry the water, and carefully placed it on the first kiln.
The placement was successful, the pottery placement board was not broken, and Wang Tian took a long breath. Under the condition of ensuring that the flame in the kiln is not extinguished. Continue to raise the kiln body layer by layer.
During this period, Play Sky constantly shuttled back and forth between the four kilns, grasped the time for the kiln body to solidify, and increased the height of the four kilns in turn.
After most of the morning time passed, four kilns with a height of about 1.5 meters and a shrinking conical table shape at the top were completed. Looking at the four large cigars on the ground, Wang Tian was filled with a sense of accomplishment.
Next, Wang Tian stopped the tribesmen of Heni, arranged to collect firewood, and increased the flames in the four kilns. And he himself began to make forming molds for red brick blanks.
The requirements for the production of this mold are relatively strict, the size of the inner hollow of each mold must be consistent, and the inner wall of the mold should be as horizontal and vertical as possible. Only then can the wall be built horizontally and vertically, otherwise the difference will be thousands of miles.
In order to meet these requirements, it is certainly not possible to understand the way in which it is raised layer by layer as before.
The wall that Wang Tian intended to build was seventy centimeters thick, so the length of the red brick mold should be seventy, and the width should be half of it thirty-three centimeters (three centimeters of mortar). This size must be standard. Otherwise, when the two layers of red bricks are placed horizontally and vertically, there will be gaps. The interior and exterior walls cannot be kept flat. The height of the red bricks was set at half of the width of sixteen centimeters.
There is a reason why this is considered this size, which meets both the need for the construction of a wide fence and the need for the construction of houses in the future.
The walls of a house do not need to be as thick as 70 cm. Then you only need to build a single-layer brick wall. In the name of the posterity, the fence wall is 700 walls, and the house wall is 330 walls, if you do not consider the adhesive reasons, 160 walls are enough, and the later generations of farmers built their own houses with two floors. The exterior walls are mostly made of 180 walls. It is not for nothing that bungalows use 120 walls.
Build a wall 70 meters long. 4 meters high, 0.7 meters back fence. If you use 70X33×16 cm bricks to repair, you need about 50 bricks and 300 bricks.
After the size of the red bricks was set, Wang Tian evenly cut out several pieces of mud with a thickness of 4 cm on the ground, and cut out two sizes of bricks of 70X16 cm and 33X16 cm with a bamboo knife.
After a little shade can be lifted, the length and shortness are combined in pairs to form a square box with a length of 70, a width of 33, and a height of 16 centimeters. The four corners are reinforced with thin mud on the outside, and on the width side, two handles made of mud are glued. A standard red brick mold is made.
After doing twenty in a row, Wang Tian stood up with difficulty. This kind of bonding in two times cannot be directly burned to harden quickly. It must be air-dried. Wang Tian asked someone to pick some large leaves and shield the red brick abrasives from direct sunlight.
After a morning of hard work, four kilns have been erected, and the preliminary preparations have been completed. In the afternoon, I and my group of people all went up the mountain to cut down trees and reserve fuel for the kiln.
After the mold is dried for two days, the red brick mold can be made after the red brick mold is burned.
Thin Toutuo and the others were at a loss for everyone, who had been busy all morning, and only built four earthen pillars. So many people don't go hunting, they don't go fishing, they don't go picking wild fruits. Accompanied by a god stick that was struck by lightning, playing with mud here?
As a god, this shouldn't be. What can these four stacked pillars do? When it rains, it turns into a puddle of mud. The master looked at Wang Tian with a question mark on his face, but Wang Tian didn't explain, and he couldn't explain it clearly.
Time will tell! Time will prove that brother is a legend!
Wang Tian looked at this group of adults who had been playing in the mud for a long time, and their bodies were covered with mud stains, as well as minors who had all become mud monkeys, and secretly muttered in his heart.
After arranging for the people to be cleaned in the creek, they were sent to help the other two groups bring the wild fruits and bamboo back to the cave.
Wang Tian also had to make a kiln of pottery supplies, so he left the sunspot alone to help him get it. I am going to raise Kuroko to be the leader of the firing pottery. I still have a lot to do, and it's impossible to let one thing hold you back.
To make a rough pottery embryo, you need to use a turntable, but now you don't have one, and you just knead the rough shape by hand. Whether it's good or not, beautiful or not, it doesn't matter now. Is there a problem to solve first? Let's solve the problem of whether it is good or not.
Wang Tian and Heizi made a large water tank, three soup pots with a diameter of 60 centimeters, and a depth of 30 centimeters. A dozen large bowls, three spoons for scooping soup.
Looking at these strange-looking rough blanks, Wang Tian could only comfort himself in his heart.