Chapter 031: Faith in the Leader
If someone wants to ask, what are the most cutting-edge technologies in the wilderness?
At the top of the list, of course, is metallurgy.
There is no doubt that humans in ancient times acquired the technology to smelt metals by boiling salt. This technique was mainly found in bronze objects, especially to create the basis for the improvement of bronze objects.
So what is the second high-end technology?
Maybe it's pottery.
In addition to the excessive number of tedious processes in the preparation of pottery, it does not ensure the success of the final pottery production. The result could be a magnificent evolution with a fire, or it could be a fire that burns everything clean. Mud, or mud, is clumped mud, that's all.
As for the third kind of high cutting-edge, I am afraid that it is the most primitive weaving industry.
Metallurgy, Lytton doesn't think about it, and he can't think about it, there are no mines with value around the Manniu tribe. Besides, there is a mine, can he be seen by a layman? As for weaving, Lytton wants to mix it, but the problem is that whether it is linen or cotton, there must always be raw materials, and it can't be made with bark crumpled as fiber, so how uncomfortable it is to wear!
Fired pottery.
It is the only work that Lytton has been able to prepare for and achieve results in a very short period of time. First, the material of pottery is easy to find, if you don't need to consider practicality, even the floating soil on the surface can be used to burn pottery, but this kind of pottery can not be used, the pores are large, too soft to be used as water, storage, or even cooking utensils. Lytton did this by choosing a different type of soil that he thought was valuable, taking a sample, and then making a separate clay embryo and waiting to be fired to see what the result was.
Second, the mashing and screening of clay or clay after collection, try to record each process as much as possible to form a standard.
The purpose of this is to have several advantages, the biggest advantage is that once the sample is successful, as long as the sample is repeated according to the successful firing, you can get pottery of similar quality.
Third, if the tribe has the process of making pottery, it is equivalent to opening up the means of the tribe to open source. When food can satisfy the survival of the tribe, the warriors can even form caravans and trade with the surrounding tribes with relatively harmonious relations. Get the goods that the Bull Tribe desperately needs.
With the technology of firing pottery, the Manniu tribe can be regarded as having the capital to gain a foothold.
As soon as they thought of it, Lytton took the rocks with them, and the two of them got up early and worked greedily in the hills and valleys around the camp, looking for all the dirt that they felt different.
"Chief, what do you think of this soil?"
Lytton scraped some with a bone shovel, rubbing his index finger and thumb constantly, feeling the delicate feeling of the dirt in the friction between them. The standard of good clay, Lytton is not too clear. But after collecting samples in the past few days, he has some sense that the more delicate the soil, the worse the water permeability, and the denser the fired pottery may be, and the better the quality may be.
After feeling it with his eyes closed for a while, Litton nodded and said: "The grain is very small, almost you can't feel the hindrance of the soil particles, it is a very fine soil, and judging from the dryness of the collected soil, the water permeability should be very poor, you can feel it." ”
When it comes to obedience, Rock is definitely one of the most obedient in the tribe, he is already a fanatic of Lytton and will uphold Lytton's authority more than his own life.
"It's delicate." The rock followed Lyton's example, and felt it with his eyes closed, but ...... The calluses on his fingers were thicker than his fingernails, and where could he feel the delicate feeling that Lytton was talking about? He followed Lytton and said that he was here to learn, but the problem was that Lytton himself was groping, how could the rock learn the real skill?
In the words of the witch chief to the rock: "If the leader is in danger outside, you must go to the top." You just have to remember one thing, you are going to work with the leader, don't ask what you shouldn't ask, don't know what you shouldn't know. If you can learn the skill, it is your creation, and if you can't learn it, it is your ......destiny."
But the rock eats this way, and he stubbornly thinks that the witch manager is for his own good, giving him a chance.
As for whether Lytton will be able to overcome the jewel of the science and technology books of the wild world, Manager Wu is not hopeful.
It's not that the Manniu tribe hasn't studied firing pottery, and even used a lot of unconventional means in order to fire pottery. Stir the dirt with blood, sacrifice prey, and pray to the Holy Spirit......
Anyway, it's not very useful, and the Manniu tribe has not once succeeded in firing pottery.
Pottery burning is a technical job.
It is a top-secret technology in the hands of a few.
What Lytton has to do is to fill the gap in the tribe and reach the leading level of the times. This is not just a gap in the technical threshold, but a technical gate. Once successful, the Wild Bull tribe immediately grew from a backward and ignorant tribe to a high-level tribe with scientific and technological reserves.
This sounds a bit, but it actually is.
Why can the Yantu tribe prosper forever by selling pottery?
Isn't it because the pottery of the Yantu tribe is of good quality. What else is there? Is it aesthetically pleasing? In Lyton's eyes, the pottery made by the Yantu tribe has only one use in later generations, as a flower pot, or the kind that costs ten yuan a pot to buy flowers and send a pot. Not even that.
Even if Lytton didn't know anything about firing pottery, if he really tried to think about it, there was no reason why he couldn't succeed.
Pottery is not porcelain, the temperature is 1300, kaolin...... The conditions are harsher than the other.
Pottery can be burned by digging a pit, burned in the open air, and burned by building a kiln. If firing porcelain is compared to a high mountain, then firing pottery is a slope of earth.
In the evening, with the melodious song of birds, Lytton and Rock returned to camp one after the other. As usual, the rock carried a huge basket on its back, and it was easy to guess that the two of them had collected dirt from the field. In the cave, there were many samples of such soil, all of which had been marked by Lytton.
Where the soil was mined from, what are the characteristics, what is the number.
These are also known only to Lydon, after all, the tribal scholar Wu Governor only knows dozens of savage words, and he doesn't know any of the words written by Lydon.
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Two
Three
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"There are already eight samples." Looking at the small mounds, Lytton finally breathed a sigh of relief, and it seemed that he could try to make some pottery and try to burn it. It's not that he wasn't going to look for samples, but after looking for these samples, he and the rock found that the special soil layer around the Brute Niu tribe seemed to have been taken by them. If you want to find a different kind of soil, I'm afraid you will have to go out for a few days to find it, which will outweigh the losses.
Seeing that Li Don was back, Li Zao's bloated body, the flesh trembled and ran in front of Li Don, and asked for credit: "Brother, I have already pounded all the clay you brought back, when can we start firing pottery." ”
"You just move your mouth, where can you do such a hard job?"
Lytton said angrily. Among the tribes, the two brothers are lazier than the other. Lytton really can't escape, his work is irreplaceable in the tribe, it is a creative work. As a last resort, he went out to look for clay himself, otherwise he would have wanted to bask in the sun at the mouth of the cave for a day. When the pottery was fired successfully and the materials used were stable, Lytton was freed from his busy state. And teach the craft of pottery burning and pottery making to the members of the Manniu tribe, train a few qualified technicians, and he will have peace of mind.
Li Zao smiled indifferently, he didn't seem to think that there was anything wrong with commanding people to work, anyway, the children of the tribe were very diligent, except for him: "Brother, you choose so many different soils, do you have to mix them together to make beautiful pottery?" ”
"How is that possible?"
Lytton immediately retorted: "There should be only one type of clay used in pottery, and the reason why so many clays are chosen is that it is necessary to determine which kind of clay is best for firing pottery." By the way, how could you ask such a question. ”
"Everybody thinks so!" Li Zao said as a matter of course.
Even the rock, who followed Lyton's ass every day, nodded, "Yes, Chief." We all feel that the previous failure was to use a single clay to make a qualified pottery. ”
"It's impossible, you only need one kind of clay to burn pottery. The biggest reason why I didn't succeed in firing is that I didn't choose the right clay, and secondly, it may be the relationship between temperature, don't worry, these are all issues I will consider. After Litton finished speaking, he greeted the chief witch who came over and said, "I can start making pottery embryos tomorrow, I need a few people." ”
"Okay, I'll arrange it." As the chief of the tribe, the chief of the tribe is in charge of the production arrangements of the entire tribe.
When the members of the Manniu tribe heard that the leader was about to start making pottery embryos, they immediately became excited, only Lei Ju was a little unconvinced: "It's all about the same soil, how can it be burned successfully." The tribe hadn't tried before, and they all failed. ”
Thunder Tiger, who was behind him like a fart, was bought by Litton with a blank check, and Litton, who defended it everywhere: "It will definitely work." ”
Well?
Lei Ju turned around and found that it was his younger brother, and glared: "You have an opinion about me?" ”
Ji Wei was still there, Lei Hu shrank his head and said nervously: "No." ”
"So you say it will work?"
Lei Hu's expression was very solemn and he said, "I have confidence in the leader. ”