Volume 1 Building the City Chapter 26 The Simplest House

On the side of the leveled land, Wang Tian asked people to dig shallow pits in the ground every five meters. There are fourteen in two rows.

Next, let the second brother cut all the cedar trees thick with the sea bowl into five, three, five and three meters long.

The three-meter-and-three-meter ones are used for columns, and the five-meter-long ones are used for beams.

One end of the column is cut out of a criss-cross groove (卯) with an axe according to the ancient Chinese mortise and tenon structure. Seven strips in each of the two sizes. The five-meter-long two ends are sharpened into tenons with an axe, and the thickness is just enough to snap into the grooves of the column. After these 36 beams are completed, the factory building will begin.

Let the two of them pole a three-meter-five pole, erect it and stand in the seven shallow pits on the side of the river, adjust the angle, and kick the surrounding dirt back into the pit and step on it. After this operation, all the columns in front of the factory building were erected. Then he erected the seven three-meter pillars at the end of the room on the other side.

Next, you can put on the beam. At this time, Wang Tiancai found that it was so high that it was out of reach. I had no choice but to stop and tie up the wooden platform.

After the wooden platform was tied, the second brother Jin worked in pairs and supported the wooden platform alone. The other person stood on the wooden platform and pulled up the vertical beam with rattan, aimed at the groove on the column and put it down, and the two people on the wooden platform handed over a one-meter-long stump, and the two took it as a hammer and knocked it up. I have to say that primitive people are strong, and the mortise and tenon joint has been compounded under the three hammers.

In this way, one was installed, and another place was changed, and after the vertical beam was installed, the beams around it were installed.

At this point, the framework is all in place, and the roof is erected.

Choose bamboos of more than eight meters, regardless of length, one by one on the beam, and use rattan to tie the two ends tightly. Fifty centimeters apart from each other. The column in front of the door stretches out one meter and five times and then is flush, which can better shield from the wind and rain, and it is also more beautiful after being level. It doesn't matter if it's flat or not.

After the longitudinal erection is tied tightly. In the same way, the horizontal ones are also done, and the two sides are also extended by 1.5 meters. The entire roof of the house is framed.

Wang Tian told everyone to stop and rest. The leader walked over and gave a thumbs up to the second brother, at first he didn't know what Wang Tian was doing, cutting wood and planting trees. It wasn't until after the frame was formed that the clues were slowly revealed.

Second Brother King Kong grinned at the leader, looking at the fruits of his four's labor, his heart was full of pride.

"Son of Heaven, this ...... Well, you just can't stop the beast. "With the wisdom of the chief, he has seen that this man can live.

"Aren't we making bricks? When the time comes, brick the side will be built. Playing with the sky, he pointed to the brick mold and made a hand pose of a flat ground and a tall building.

The leader and the second brother of King Kong had their eyes lit up. Oh, we have bricks now, and these adobe bricks, after being burned with fire, are as hard as stone. Not only sturdy but also rainproof.

It would be better to live in such a spacious and bright house than in a dark, damp cave.

The leader and the second brother of King Kong are not stupid people, and the crowded caves of the tribe are very clear in their hearts, and it is only for the safety of everyone in the tribe that everyone can not help but huddle together.

"Son of Heaven, let's build it with bricks." The second brother said excitedly.

"Not before the snow this year, there is not enough time, so repair the fence first."

After a look of disappointment in the leader's eyes, he immediately turned around and beckoned everyone to continue making bricks. The time mentioned by the Son of Heaven may be enough for the tribesmen to work hard.

"What is the Son of Heaven going to do next?" The second brother also had the same idea. Can't wait to build the plant.

Wang Tian walked to the pillar and pushed it with his hand. "This one is still unstable, now go find a small stone."

The second brother agreed, and took the other three people away in a hurry. After a while, each of them came back with a load of large and small stones. "It's not enough, it's two more times."

Wang Tian also asked the brick-making team to pick up some river sand from the river, and mix it evenly according to the ratio of one load of river sand, one load of clay and one load of lime.

After the mortar is ready, a circle of mortar is laid around each column, and then the stones are mixed and placed on top of the column tightly, and then a layer of mortar is placed to fill the gaps between the stones.

After stacking three layers in this way, another layer of mortar is wrapped in the outermost layer. Find a large leaf and put it on your hand, smooth it and trim it. Such a fake "pillar base" is complete.

The pillars of traditional Chinese wooden buildings are built to protect against moisture and earthquakes, but here they are only for reinforcement.

After Wang Tian made one, he handed it over to the second brother of King Kong. The people followed the example of Wang Tian. The remaining thirteen stone piers were soon made.

"This lime can't be touched directly with your hands, it will bite your hands." Wang Tian told again.

Next, Wang Tian asked the second brother to tie four bamboo poles on the other three sides of the factory gate for reinforcement, and after they were done, Wang Tian and the others made them on the ground and began to weave a fence with thin bamboo branches. The size of the fence is 1.2 × 1.2 meters. The middle is filled with some leaves to make it airtight.

The factory building was 30 meters long and 5 meters wide. The highest is three meters and a half, and the lowest is three meters. and enclose it on three sides. This kind of fence requires one hundred and ten pieces, and if you add the one hundred and fifty pieces of the roof, you need two hundred and sixty pieces in total.

This workload is a bit large, Wang Tian can only stop the brick-making first, and strive to build the plant today. So even if it rains later. It is also possible to make bricks in the field.

There are 81 brick-making teams plus Wang Tian and the second brother's stone cutting team, a total of 86 people, and three or four pieces per person can still be completed.

Everyone started weaving together, and Wang Tian took five people back to the tribe's cave, transported all the fine branches collected by the felling team in the past few days, and called the five people who were weaving baskets in the tribe. The more help the sooner done.

Wu also followed over to take a look, and when he saw the row of factories, his face was full of stars. The tribe had another good thing, he stroked the pillar with his hand, and thought to himself again.

The fence of the three walls must be tied. The roof can be laid directly on it, without binding, and some large leaves are padded on top and then covered with a layer of five centimeters of clay and smoothed. Cover it with a layer of reed poles to protect it from rain, and press it with stones.

Covering clay soil is better protected from rain and increases the weight of the plant. This will also protect against the wind.

After the fence for the wall was completed, Wang Tian commanded everyone to place them one by one and tie them to the bamboo poles. The joints of each piece overlap each other.

Soon all three walls were closed, and the roof was laid. More than a dozen children and five adults stood on the roof of the house to lay it and then cover it with leaves. The people below put the reconciled mud into a dung basket, hung it on the roof with a flat pole, smoothed it evenly, and then covered the next section of the branch.

In this way, it is faster and easier to do in sections.

At the same time, Wang Tian asked people to dig drainage channels around the factory, and the excavated soil covered the roots of the wall and tamped it.

After everyone's efforts, it was finally completed before the sun went down.

The people of the tribe who had worked hard all day looked at the "cave" they had made by themselves, and they smiled one by one, and Wu was even more happy to look here and there and nod their heads.