Volume 1 Building the City Chapter 15 The Birth of the Axe (2)
The abundance of fish and the novel cooking method made everyone in the tribe very happy, and they were still scrambling to see the bamboo tube and prepare to cook the fish soup to taste. And the five bamboo tubes made by Wang Tian were immediately snatched up by everyone after the witches finished eating, and they didn't wash them.
The crowd did not want to be arranged, and was automatically divided into several groups, some specialized in washing fruits, some specialized in pitting, some specialized in cutting fruit grains and fish pieces, and some specialized in building stoves, all of which learned to assemble line operations. The energy of a foodie is infinite. And it is very dangerous to make fires everywhere in the cave and cook fish. If it weren't for the fact that there were two other vents in the cave, this mouthful of fish soup would have to bring everyone down!
The protagonist NG, the story is over!
Wang Tian is powerless to complain about this group of crazy foodies. That's where it goes, and there's not even a single salt. the five flavors of sour, sweet, bitter, spicy and numb in later generations; white, yellow, red, green, and black; Ten methods of frying, exploding, boiling, frying, cooking, frying, boiling, pasting, gouging, and burning; Sichuan, Shandong, Cantonese, Fujian, Suzhou, Zhejiang, Hunan, Hui...... Wait, wait, what's the matter now, just this clear soup and little water are satisfied?
Wang Tian despised everyone in his heart, but his body was very honest and drooling. Brother, am I easy, I, now my brother just wants to eat with salt!
Forget it, sleep.
When you fall asleep, you won't be hungry.
I didn't have a dream all night, and I thought I could see it in my dreams: mapo tofu, Dongpo elbow, nine turns of large intestine, sweet and sour carp, sweet and sour pork ribs, lion head, Buddha jumping over the wall, and roast suckling pig...... I didn't dream of a single one.
With a full sense of getting up, Wang Tian finished washing. Pull the boss of the witch return together to discuss the division of labor of everyone today.
said that it was a discussion, but in fact, it was Wang Tian's words.
With Wang Tian's current prestige in the hearts of the people, there is absolutely no doubt about it. Even so, Wang Tian would respectfully ask Wu and the leader for their opinions every time.
"Son of Heaven, you say," Wu said with a smile. Wu is the most intelligent and wise man in the tribe except for Wang Tian. Mandarin has been spoken very slippery. Simple sentences are completely stress-free. The leader is not good, he and Wang Tian don't get along much at all. The little spirit beside him translated to him. After listening, he patted his chest and signaled that he would listen to Wang Tian's arrangement.
Wang Tian divided the men into three groups, the first group of leaders led twenty warriors out hunting. Although there is no shortage of food in the tribe now, the fur for the winter is still one person. In addition, it is not enough to eat fish and wild fruits in winter, there is no salt that can be eaten directly, and it can be eaten by eating meat.
Of course, this is not the main thing, everything is done with the safety of the tribesmen in the first place. Wang Tian especially emphasized that Xiao Ling must make it clear to her father. The leader nodded in understanding.
The second group of thirty women, under the protection of the second brother and ten warriors, left the tribe to collect wild fruits in a distant place. In autumn, there are many prey, and there are many hunters. Wang Tian deliberately emphasized that he only picks wild fruits and does not hunt. If there is danger, immediately retreat and take refuge.
The rest were organized into a group, with nine adult men and fifteen adult women (including pregnant women) taking care of the dried fish at home. All minors have to come and help. There are so many more fish caught this time than last time, and if you don't handle them well, they can easily spoil and spoil.
After breakfast, everyone dispersed, and Wang Tian called the second brother to ask him to take out two of the bamboo baskets he had made yesterday and give them to the leader, two for the tribe, and all the rest for him. And he took the little horse on the hand, and threaded the two baskets together with a rope and hung them on the saddle.
Although the little Fu horse has become smaller, it is still a good animal, and there are no idlers in the tribe, and the same is true for horses.
After the hunting party and the gathering team left together, everyone went their separate ways. Wang Tian first asked people to tie a few sets of tall platforms with timber and teng sticks, such as the kind used on the decoration sites in later generations, and took some long bamboos to cut off the branches and put them on the platform, which was used to hang dried fish. The roof of the cave should also be prepared for drying fish and hanging bacon poles. All of this food is to be moved into the cave at night and stored. It will also need to be hung on the roof of the cave for preservation in the future.
But before that, Wang Tian planned to tidy up the sanitation in the cave first. Last night's barbecue was full of charcoal and bones.
Wang Tian arranged for four male primitives to build bamboo poles inside and outside the cave, and six pregnant women with big bellies lit firewood in the cave and smoked it, and then used a broom made of tree branches to completely clean the garbage in the cave.
Two male primitive people were arranged to use one of them to take soil and mud from a back basket, and fill the uneven places in the cave with mud and tamp them. Wu and Huo, one fire, two and three old men are in charge.
After arranging the people, Wang Tian asked people to find the barrel of the gun, divide it into several sections with a saw, bend it and smash it into a pile with stones, so that it can be easily smelted.
The melting point of iron is about the same as that of clay, which is about 1500 degrees, and if you want to melt iron, you have to use graphite tongs. Natural graphite particles were found near the creek near the cave, which is the main raw material for making graphite tong pots. Wang Tian made one when he made a pottery blank last time. Very rough method: graphite particles are made into powder form, evenly mixed in clay and kneaded into shape. It is made by firing pottery in a kiln. Whether it can be used to melt molten iron can only be known after trying it.
Wang Tian now wants to make a model of forging an axe first. In the afternoon, I went to the kiln and burned out the graphite tongs and red brick molds used to make axes.
Wang Tian picked up a little weathered stone carved last night, carefully cut it into the shape of an axe with a bamboo knife, scraped both sides of the blade edge with a bamboo knife, and polished off the right-angled corners.
What he is doing now is not a model, but the shape of an axe, and when making a mold, the pattern of the axe carved with a bamboo knife is pressed onto the mud brick, and the shape of the object pressed is what the gravure surface of the embossing is the shape.
You can press your face out of the mud brick, then pour the molten iron into the intaglio, and when the molten iron cools down, you will get a solid lump of iron that is exactly the same shape as your face. What is the look, what the look is, what is the like. If such a mold is used to make a statue, then it is already possible, if you want to make a mask, this is obviously not possible, and it is very simple to do it: the iron lump obtained by casting can be reduced to a certain size in equal proportions. If you want the mask to be 5 mm thick, you can polish off the entire surface of the iron bump facial features by 5 mm, make sure that both molds are in the center and fix it on the horizontal plane, and then pour molten iron into the gap of 5 mm.
If there is no requirement for accuracy, just lift the inner mold directly by 5 mm or cut the horizontal surface of the inner mold by 5 mm, fix it and then inject molten iron.