Chapter 17: Major Projects (Contracted)

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Because of the production of the fish cage, Su Yan became a divine envoy and was respected by everyone in the snake tribe, and his status was still above the leader of Wu He, but this did not mean that Su Yan could mobilize the power of the entire tribe to do something, such as making bricks and building walls.

It is okay to mobilize a few adult clansmen, but if too many clansmen are mobilized, it will affect the normal life and rest of the snake tribe, and the witch and the leader are very likely to oppose Su Yan's transfer, even if Su Yan has the identity of a divine envoy, but this body is still a half-old child, and it cannot completely convince others.

The Snake Tribe can only mobilize the entire tribe if the witch and the leader make a decision together.

So Su Yan first mobilized a few people to burn the adobe bricks and build a short wall, Su Yan needed to use the sample to persuade the Wu and the chieftain, prove that building a wall around the clearing is beneficial to the tribe, and tell the two of them that making bricks and building a wall is the knowledge that God has passed on to him.

In fact, it proved that Su Yan had indeed succeeded, and the leader pushed the short wall with his hand, looked at the pictures Su Yan drew on the ground, and after thinking for a while, he made a decision with Wu and agreed to mobilize the entire tribe to burn bricks to build a wall, and use a brick wall to enclose the main activity area of the tribesmen to block the invasion of wild beasts.

In addition to the brick wall, you can actually use tree branches to build a fence wall, but Su Yan feels that building a fence wall is more laborious than a brick wall, the snake tribe is in the Stone Age, and it is more difficult to use stone tools to cut down a large number of slightly thicker branches to make a fence wall.

Su Yan, Wu, and the leader unanimously agreed to build a brick wall, and in the name of God's will, announced the order to make bricks and build a wall to the tribesmen, and made arrangements for the tribesmen, the main labor force is adults, and minors over 1.3 meters tall will also do some labor.

In the future, the hunting team will spend only one day of the two days going out to hunt, and the rest of the day will be spent making bricks and building walls, and the fishing team will fish every morning, and the rest of the time will also be spent making bricks and building walls, and those pregnant women, the disabled, the elderly, and even children in the tribe who cannot do much work can be responsible for the last item of brick-making, burning the adobe bricks with fire.

This is a big project, and it takes at least 80,000 adobe bricks to enclose the area where the tribesmen are active with a brick wall.

Halfway through spring, the whole project must be completed by the beginning of autumn at the latest, when the fruit is ripe, and when there is no salt and the temperature does not drop to freezing, many of the fruit will be stored for much longer than meat.

Every autumn, the snake tribe will go around collecting fruits and storing them for winter.

When the temperature drops in late autumn, the people will spend most of their time fishing, trying to harvest more meat in the shortest possible time, because of the low temperature, the meat can be stored for a longer time, if the temperature is low below freezing, the meat will be frozen, and the meat will not spoil until the weather warms up.

This year, the snake tribe is expected to be able to use it to build a wall with bricks and build a wall, and it is expected that it will be able to complete the project of building a wall, but Su Yan is still thinking about building a house.

The cave inhabited by the Serpent Tribe was so small that the people were crowded together, and the environment in the cave was extremely poor and was close to reaching the maximum number of people it could live.

Building a house with bricks is the best option, and a brick house is more resistant to the cold than a grass house.

Moreover, the population of the snake tribe is too small, only more than 150 people, and the adult labor force is about 50 people, just a small project of making bricks and building walls in front of the snake tribe has become a big project, and it needs the mobilization of all the snake tribes.

If some houses are built with adobe bricks, the snake tribe can fully accommodate more people, and the snake tribe naturally increases its population slowly, but it can quickly increase its population through mergers and plunder, so that the labor force of the snake tribe can increase rapidly.

Well, whether it is building a house or increasing the population, it is not something that can be done in a short period of time, and even the matter of making pottery has been arranged by Su Yan, and these two things must also be arranged, and the wall will be built first.

The day after Su Yan built the short wall, the work officially began, and the hunting party remained in the tribe today.

Most of the adult labor force of the snake tribe gathered by the river, and the few tribesmen who followed Su Yan to make bricks taught the other tribesmen the experience of brick-making, and then the tribesmen were busy on the clay soil by the river.

They dig out the clay with a stone knife or directly by hand, knead the large clay clay, then add gravel and grass straw to the clay, and finally knead the clay into a regular cuboid, and then use a stone knife to divide the large cuboid clay into small rectangles of similar size, and then leave it directly in place to dry, waiting for the adobe to be moved back to the tribe for the final flame burning.

The process of making bricks is very simple, people with flexible brains learn it the first time, and people with developed limbs and simple minds like Dali can also learn it after watching it a few times.

After carrying the adobe bricks is a strength, Su Yan also took out the very practical tool of the flat pole, which was replaced by a slightly bent thick wooden stick, and the multiple adobe bricks were divided into two piles and tied to the two ends of the flat pole with straw rope, and finally the flat pole was carried on the shoulder.

The weight of an adobe brick is about five catties, and it feels very easy to pick a hundred adobe bricks at a time (the flat shoulder is thickened), and if it is changed to other ways, it is too much to carry twenty adobe bricks at a time.

Digging pits, putting bricks, plastering soil, and continuing to put bricks, the height of the brick wall is slowly increasing.

In addition to Wu and Derpy, even the leader also joined the project, Su Yan as an envoy can not participate in the work, but this project was initiated by Su Yan first, Su Yan has an additional responsibility to supervise the work, and he has to walk around every day to prevent accidents in this project.

When the wall was built to a certain height, the leader personally pushed the brick wall hard, and after seeing that the brick wall could withstand his own strength, he grinned happily, and a beautiful scene had already appeared in the leader's mind: surrounded by the wall, the clansmen rested in the open space with peace of mind.

There are times when it rains, and when it rains, the bricks that have not yet been fired may turn into a puddle of mud in the rain.

When Su Yan saw dark clouds in the sky, he hurriedly asked the clansmen to move the unfired adobe bricks under the big tree, which would reduce some losses.

Especially in the summer, the increase in rain will greatly delay the construction of the fence.

Fortunately, with the improvement of the efficiency of brick-making by the tribesmen, even with the influence of rain, the construction progress of the fence is still gratifying, and it is expected that the construction of the fence will be completed by the arrival of autumn.