Chapter 114: Metallic Lead
Lin Ji lowered his head and sighed, and said, "Originally, I wanted to get these out and then talk about the question of the king's choice. Once these things are figured out, everything becomes traceable. It is also possible for you to elect a capable person to preside. It doesn't matter if I'm the king or not, I want to look around. ”
"But we have to hurry up now. Now your Tiger Zhu is busy sifting through manpower, and he doesn't have time to make trouble. When he frees his hands, maybe the situation here will be ruined immediately. Therefore, I hope that the people here will accept the concept of the state first, give up the consideration of interests first, and listen to me first. I hope we'll have some adherents before you disagree. In this way, when you Tiger Zhu comes out to make trouble, we may stick here and complete everything below. ”
At this time, Human didn't even have a basic food reserve, and it could take three to five months to select people on a large scale. Lin Ruins hopes to take advantage of this time difference to leave all the people who come here and become the cornerstone of the new country. At that time, no matter what moths Tiger Zhu comes out again, they may have a certain strength to fight.
Of course, these things must be approved by a few tiger bosses here.
Izukatsu was stunned, or rather, her mind was full of what the whole country would look like after it was built.
Using the city as her brain and the roads and rivers as channels to communicate with all parties opened her eyes.
Lin Ji said that for the time being, she didn't care too much about his words. This is mainly because Lin Ji is frank enough, and at the same time, she finds that Lin Ji is also very reasonable. Because she didn't understand these things very well, no one could do it except Lin Jizhen.
"Of course, I know what you're worried about. But let's not forget the original purpose of the country. As long as I contribute to this original intention, no matter who it is, I can ensure that I will not treat them badly. You can also see how they are now. You know what I mean, right? Lin Ji said in the end, and there was a hint of desire in his tone.
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Izuka left Lin Ji half an hour later, holding another map drawn by Lin Ji in his hand.
Soon after, she asked Dunmu and the others to accompany her and leave. She was going to see the road from Youda to Ji Lin, Ji Lin's existing villages, farmland, mines, and so on.
The Orca has come back these days and has not left yet. She also wants to go to the port by the Yangtze River. She even had to see what the map of the forest was drawn on, and what it looked like to be able to communicate the Yangtze River and Gouhu Lake when she dug it up.
In addition to Hu Yi'er and Xu Yu, another high-ranking tiger man finally went in the direction of the Ji Lin tribe. What she sees and hears after she returns will also influence the decisions of most of the Tiger Barbarians.
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Due to the abundance of manpower, in addition to building the city wall, Lin Rui also began to arrange manpower to build houses in the city, build fortresses, villages, etc. on the hunting passages.
Nowadays, whether it is a house built in the city or a fortress village, it is made of brick and earth. Because there are not enough trees to build a wooden house, it will take more effort to transport them back from other places. Moreover, wooden houses are easy to rot if they are not well maintained, and people in this era are estimated to not maintain their houses very much.
The speed of brick burning could not keep up, so Lin Rui adopted the method of building a wall with mud bricks.
Mix the yellow mud into mud, mix hay into it, put the mud into the wooden mold more than ten centimeters high, twenty centimeters wide, one foot long, step on it, take away the wooden mold, leave the mud embryo to dry, and the mud embryo will become a thick mud embryo brick.
The bottom floor of the mud brick house should be based on green bricks or stones. Before the built wall is capped, firewood is piled on both sides of the wall to burn, which can help the wall to be pottery and make the wall stronger and more waterproof. Of course, applying lime has the same effect.
The houses built by this method are sturdy and economical, warm in winter and cool in summer, and have been used in many places in later generations.
Some dwellings in the city or villages, the forest ruins use this kind of mud embryo house, which is built much faster than the brick house.
In addition to residential buildings, the first large-scale construction of schools in the city were schools, workshops and granaries.
In mid-August, Saiyu moved from Ji Lin, along with many teachers and students. The first grade of elementary school here is also officially enrolled.
The teachers of the first grade are students of the next level. The first-graders are selected from thousands of school-age children. The number of students is only 200 in five classes. The selection ratio is five to one, and those children with slightly lower IQs will not be able to take care of them.
Children who don't go to school also have things to do. The children taught them how to make rat catchers and nets, and they had to protect the cornfields along the entire road.
The first workshop to move over was the Bronze Workshop.
Now there are oxen and elephants in Jilin, and under the requirements of deep ploughing, the forest traces need to get the plowshares out. At the same time, other tools are needed to cooperate with the subsequent construction. So Lin Ji moved the Eagle and Bronze Workshop over.
However, Lin Ji did not move all the bronze workshops, but left the smelting part in Ji Lin, and only moved the casting part.
In this way, bronze has formed a mode of operation of mining, smelting and casting. It's good for technical secrecy.
The eagle came, and Luo Que and Xiao Yue'er naturally followed. Lin Ji has another big child and a small child to take care of, which is also annoying.
In addition to the eagle coming over, Lin Ji also called Huo Nan, who was helping in the copper mine, over.
This innate masculinist is very fond of the atmosphere on the construction site where the man has the final say. However, he didn't stay here for a few days before he was sent out by Lin Ji. His main job was to go out and look for mines.
Now that the population here is getting bigger and bigger, bronze alone is no longer enough. Forest trails require more minerals such as iron, lead, coal, etc.
Lin Ji found a book on minerals with an atlas for Honan, and then gave him a map of the nearby mines in the future, and asked him to lead people on the road.
Huo Nan will first look nearby, then cross the Yangtze River, and after collecting samples, he will first take them back to the forest for analysis. After that, it is up to the forest to decide whether to establish a base and excavate.
Lin Ji thought that Huo Nan would not come back until it snowed at least, but he came back after going out for a few days.
They discovered an open-pit lead mine nearby.
Lead is a very soft, malleable metal that is easy to extract. Adding it to bronze can improve some of the quality of bronze, and at the same time can reduce the cost of bronze and expand the production of bronze.
With it, Lin Ji knew that there was hope for the bronze plowshare. At the same time, there is no need to worry about the number of bronze spearhead daggers for payment.
That's good news. Lin Ji immediately decided to organize mining, establish a base for smelting, and then transport the lead back, so that people could try to make various bronze objects with lead in proportion.