Volume 1 Building the City Chapter 76 Building the Pavilion (2) (Proofreading)

Seeing the long-awaited expression of the thin head tuo, Wang Tian originally didn't plan to let him participate in fishing.

Instead, he continued to work as his contractor to build the foundation, and now it seems that it is better not to discourage him from participating in the fishing operation.

The water level in the river has receded, but Wang Tian is still worried that there will be danger when fishing. With the tall and thin bamboo pole of the slender head, you can also ensure that the fishing process is foolproof.

Fishing and hunting will take place at the same time for two days, so that after the pavilion is built, the lime kiln and red brick kiln that are being fired should also be ready to come out.

In this way, after hunting, the firing of red bricks can be continued, and the building of the brick factory can be vacated for continued use.

After lunch, everyone stayed on the tribal viewing platform, some of them were led by the captain of the contractor, Slender Toutuo, to continue to build the foundation of the wall, and the rest of the people all participated in the construction of the pavilion.

To build a pavilion house, Wang Tian also adopted a division of labor and cooperation: the big hand took three people to lead the little Fuma back to a cart of wood and bamboo;

Ten people began to dig pits in the places marked by Wang Tian after measuring with a rope ruler, which was used to place the posts, and had people sprinkle a large amount of quicklime in the dug pits to prevent insects and moisture;

According to the size given by Wang Tian, the second brother of Jingang cut the straight wood and bamboo into the corresponding length for backup, and made a falcon structure on the wood according to Wang Tian's requirements;

Liu Bei used a stone axe to cut the 5-meter-long and 7-meter-long, 40-centimeter-diameter logs cut out by the second brother into squares, and these cut square logs will be used for the beams (5 meters) and vertical beams (7 meters) of the pavilion frame;

The rest are divided into two groups, one group is responsible for cutting the bamboo, cutting it into pieces of bamboo with a width of three centimeters;

Another group used these bamboo pieces to weave bamboo mats 7 meters long and 5 meters wide like bamboo mats.

The bamboo mats are staggered with warp and weft and leave no gaps, which is used as a template when covering the roof with clay.

This job is the heaviest task and requires the most personnel, so Wang Tian uses most of the manpower here.

In order to be able to build stronger. Wang Tian planned to make the top of the pavilion in a herringbone shape, using a Chinese bucket-type roof truss structure, with a total of three columns in the front and back and in the middle

The front and rear columns are 3.5 meters high, and the top columns are 4.5 meters high, and in order to ensure the space inside the pavilion room, three such columns are erected every 10 meters.

The pavilion designed by Wang Tian is 60 meters long and 10 meters wide, with two meters from the front and rear eaves. This requires a total of 14 4-meter front and rear columns and 7 4.5-meter top columns.

Only 5 meters of bamboo beams are laid on the roof, arranged at 50 cm apart, so that the total amount of timber framing needs to be:

12 front and rear beams, 26 roof beams, 14 vertical beams to connect longitudinal columns, 330 5-meter-long beams, and 60 7-meter-long beams (eaves at both ends).

The 5-meter beam bamboo, which is used as a load-bearing roof, is made of only old bamboo with strong roots, and the entire wooden frame is made of 40 cm thick wood.

The biggest workload of the whole project is in the production of the formwork and the laying of the roof, and the 390 bamboos are also painful, because there are no tools, all of them need to be made with a small saw on Wang Tian's saber.

It seems that it will take two days to complete the gazebo house.

The depth of the 21 pillar pits is 50 centimeters, so that the top of the last pavilion is 4 meters high, and the front and back are 3.5 meters, which is much higher than the three-meter floor of ordinary commercial houses in later generations, and it can be regarded as tall.

After the pit was dug up, all the carbonized columns were erected in the pit, and Wang Tian called Slim Toutuo and handed him the blueprint drawn with graphite pencil on straw paper.

Let him use a rope ruler to check whether the spacing of each column meets the requirements, and Wang Tian started the talent training plan again.

The thin head who was holding the design was confused, and he couldn't tell where it was long and where it was wide, and for primitive people who were used to observing with their eyes, it was normal to suddenly throw him a flat two-dimensional figure, and he couldn't accept it for a while.

Wang Tian asked the thin head tuo to hold the design drawing, and pointed out to him on the spot where the length is, where the width is, and where the size on the drawing corresponds to the position of the straw rope...

Then Wang Tian and he confirmed that the spacing of the columns was all correct, and then tested the depth of each pit again to ensure that the overall height was consistent.

This will be a little difficult, and it is normal for primitive people to dig different depths in the pits of the columns.

In order to solve this problem, Wang Tianxian carefully measured the height of the four columns on the four corners of the pavilion room, under the condition of ensuring consistency. Ropes are tied to the four uprights and the level is determined by visual means.

Then, using the same method, the level of the two columns on the left and right of the top was determined.

The roots of the six columns were then filled with soil and compacted, and then a 50-centimeter-high stone foundation was piled with lime mortar for reinforcement.

After all the six stone foundations were piled up, Wang Tian used the wooden plumb hammer he had made earlier to measure the verticality of the six pillars one by one, and determined that three wooden stakes with a thickness of 15 cm were tied to the middle of the column.

This is the same reason that in landscaping, in order to protect the new saplings that have not yet taken root to have wind resistance.

Fix the column with the stone foundation pile again and smooth the surface of the stone foundation all with lime mortar, wait until the lime mortar is fastened, and then determine the horizontal and vertical of the remaining column with the straw rope on the 6 columns now.

After doing this, Wang Tian explained the reason for this to Slender Toutuo in detail: first ensure that the height of the six vertices is consistent, so as to ensure the overall level of the convertible house.

The remaining columns are compared with these 6 columns to determine that all the columns are of the same height, and as for the measurement of verticality, the force of each column is uniform.

In fact, under the existing rudimentary conditions, there must be a large error in such a measurement, but if the measurement is not carried out, there will definitely be a variety of problems that cannot be continued when the roof is finally added.

When making the brick factory building, Wang Tianke was much more casual, after all, it was temporary, and the pavilion, as a permanent building in the tribe, if it was done crookedly, even if it could be used without falling, Wang Tian also felt ashamed.

When all the columns had been corrected, the stone foundations had been laid and fixed with the help of three wooden sticks, there was a need to wait for the stone foundations to solidify, and now all the people who had nothing to do went to help with the weaving of the bamboo mats or to dig the earthwork for the foundation of the wall.

The entire observation deck has become a large construction site, and there are piles of building materials and tools such as wood, bamboo, and stone.

There was only one person in the entire tribe who was not involved in the construction site, except for the young children and the caretakers of the lime and brick kilns, and that was the little spirit who was spinning.

Wang Tian only discovered this after hearing the creaking sound of the spinning machine. At this time, Xiao Ling's side had already piled up a pile of spun twine, and it was estimated that it would have to be taken off from a hundred or dozens of spindles to have so much.

"Ling'er, you've spun so much twine, how about we try weaving first?" Lan Tian gave a thumbs up and said to Xiao Ling.

"Okay, Brother Tianzi, I wanted to try it for a long time, but I didn't call you when I saw you so busy." Xiao Ling hurriedly stood up after hearing this.

Next, Wang Tian taught Xiaoling how to install the spun twine on the textile machine, and after a series of complex operations, the warp thread on the textile machine was finally fixed on the textile machine.

Wang Tian is completely unfamiliar with a textile machine, for the loom with a width of one meter, how many warp threads are appropriate, Wang Tian has no standard in his heart, and can only determine a reasonable data through continuous attempts.

The textile machine made by Wang Tian is the same working principle as the Han Dynasty bias loom, and now there is no reel for receiving materials, so Wang Tian uses two square pieces of wood to clamp the warp instead.

The "heald" used to control the number of warp threads can be added or subtracted at will, and the "reed" integrated with the loom is used for weft beating, and the width of the reed directly determines the maximum width of the fabric that the textile machine can make is one meter.

The reed integrated with the textile machine is more convenient than the original waist machine in the process of use, and the process of beating the weft is only completed as soon as it goes up and down.