Volume 1 Building the City Chapter 23 Pottery and Brick Making

This night, Wang Tian fell asleep with a burst of meat fragrance, and when he woke up the next day, it was already dawn. After the body became smaller, it became very lethargic, and at this time, everyone in the tribe had already eaten breakfast, waiting for Wang Tian to arrange today's task.

Wang Tian divided the crowd into four teams.

The first team, a collection team of 30 people, continued to pick wild fruits and stems far away from the tribe under the leadership of Slender Toutuo. Wang Tian instructed them to bring back some grass seeds and edible wild vegetables that they did not know, and he wanted to discover food crops and vegetable varieties that could be used for planting.

The second team, a cutting team of four people, led by the second brother of King Kong, continued to cut down bamboo trees to provide materials for weaving bamboo and building walls.

The third team, the left-behind staff, six pregnant women and two skilled bamboo weavers, stayed in the tribe to care for the babies and weave the dung basket. Most of the adult males of today's tribe are making adobe bricks by the river not far from the cave, and there should be no problem with safety as a direct warning of danger. Wang Tian took out a few whistles made of bamboo, asked Xiao Ling to distribute them to a few people, and taught them how to use them.

Xiao Ling and the other two female minors, who were about to be adults, also stayed in the tribe to weave dung baskets.

The dung basket used to build the wall was finally developed with Wang Tian after Xiao Ling's continuous efforts.

Fire 1 and Fire 2 are responsible for the smoking of meat and the drying of dried wild fruit and fish. There are also several people under the age of 10 who are responsible for driving birds away from pecking at wild fruits.

The rest of the people, excluding Wang Tian and Wu, are a total of 8O people. Among them, 41 were adults and 39 were minors over the age of 10. These are all grouped into the brick-making group.

After the personnel were assigned, the gathering and felling team led the little Fu horse, picked up axes and other tools and set off with weapons. The brick team first helped to move the dried fish, bacon, and wild fruits in the cave out of the cave to dry, and then set off with ten stone hoes made by Wang Tian and his second brother.

After Wang Tian finished washing, he picked up a few wild fruits and dealt with breakfast. Early in the morning, it's a barbecue, and Wang Tian is really not used to it. Today, we have to burn the pottery kiln first, and we can drink vegetable broth tonight and tomorrow morning.

After coming to the place where the pottery kiln was fired, Heizi, Dashou, and Liu Bei took out the red brick mold from the kiln. Of the 20 molds in total, one was broken, and one was badly deformed and unusable, leaving a total of 18 molds.

It takes about 5,000 bricks to build the wall, and about 300 pieces are made for each mold, or about 130 pieces for each of the 40 adults.

The pressing of red bricks is not the most difficult, the difficult thing is to take soil and mud. 5,000 pieces of 70×33×16 cm red bricks, there are nearly 200 cubic meters of earthwork that need to be excavated, and every 100 red bricks need four cubic meters of clay, according to 130 bricks per person, each person needs to take more than five cubic meters of soil, the total weight is more than 200 catties, and the entire wall needs nearly five tons of clay to be built. It takes two or three days just to get the soil.

The leader led most of the people to start digging for soil, and Wang Tian pulled out ten people to level a piece of land of 50×20 meters far away from the river, which was used to pile up the brick kiln and stack the bricks.

Wang Tian planned to fire the pottery embryo he made for the first time first. Make a round fence about the size of a large water tank out of rattan and shrubs, turn the water tank upside down and fasten it to it, and find a pile of large stones and stack them on both sides of the pottery kiln. After tying the rattan tightly, two people carried it with a wooden stick, slowly walked up to the stone pile close to the top of the kiln, carefully put it into the kiln, and then put in a 60 cm diameter soup pot, and the pottery kiln was full.

Wang Tian put the other two soup pots and more than a dozen sea bowls and three long soup spoons he had made earlier in the second pottery kiln.

Then light a fire and start firing pottery.

The production area of the brick kiln is selected to be far away from the river, which is to prevent the river from rising in the rainy season, after all, the house will be built in the future, the brick kiln will continue to be used, and the waterproofing work must be done in advance.

Because it was far away from the river, it was inconvenient to get water, so Wang Tian asked two people to connect the bamboo joints in the middle of the bamboo and make a water pipe to draw water from the stream. After the bamboo pipe brick kiln is used, it can also divert water from the pond to the tribe.

The leader led the people to dig out a batch of clay, which was loaded with dung baskets and carried to the brickyard with flat poles.

The first time everyone carried the burden, the actions seemed a little funny. There is no weight in a load of soil, but all the people of the tribe. He walked like he was drunk.

Wang Tian stopped everyone and explained to everyone the skills of carrying the burden.

People should cooperate with the law of shaking after the burden is picked up, and walk around with the rhythm, so that they can not only walk steadily, but also be more labor-saving and brisk.

In fact, Wang Tian didn't carry much of the burden in later generations, but after retiring from the army, he did a few days of free labor for his girlfriend's family in the film and television city.

Wang Tian has a deep understanding of the hard work of carrying the burden, 100 pounds are pressed on the shoulders, for people who have never carried the burden, the sour is simply refreshing, at the end of the day, the back pain is simply painful everywhere.

After the clay is picked, there are half of the tribes

The older child is responsible for making mud, spreading the mud on the ground, breaking up large pieces of mud with sticks, and then sprinkling water and flipping it twice before piling it together.

According to Wang Tian's method, the leader first slapped the mud into a ball, and then fell heavily into the red brick mold, and after the whole mold was filled, he beat and tamped it with a wooden hammer. Then use a bamboo knife to scrape off the excess mud along the mold mouth. After smearing the surface of the bricks with water by hand, take bamboo slips and buckle two rows of round holes in the middle of the adobe bricks, a total of 12.

Such hollow bricks do not differ from solid bricks in strength. However, it is more material-efficient and much lighter to handle.

After the hole was made, the leader grabbed the two handles on the mold and lifted them up, and a adobe brick came out.

Wang Tian found that it was too time-consuming to make hollow round holes one by one, so he asked people to use a saw to make a male bamboo tube, on both sides of the bamboo tube, sawed out a long strip of card slots, and then used two straight wooden sticks with the thickness of children's arms, respectively stuck in the card slot, wrapped and tied tightly with rattan, and tied six bamboo slips in a row.

In this way, only two children are needed, one person and one head are pressed hard, and then the hole is punched out with a slight shake. One brick is drilled twice to complete 12 holes.

After everyone became acquainted, Wang Tian carried out a simple division of labor, using flow operations, soil transportation and mud brick punching and molding. The punching and moulding of the neutralizing mud is done by children over 12 years old.

Twenty adults are responsible for taking the soil, ten people are responsible for picking up the soil and transporting six people to make bricks, and five people are transporting the reconciled mud to the red brick mold.

The six brick-makers are divided into six groups, each group of three red brick molds, brick-making, punching, molding, and then putting the vacated molds in the fourth position, and then waiting for the second red brick/brick-making to be completed, and so on.