Chapter 120: Rammed Earth
Su Yang felt that it might be that the time for freezing was too short, and he didn't put the bait first, anyway, this ice fishing failed, but it didn't matter, there was no shortage of this fish to boil. Well, you have to find some excuse to comfort yourself.
The heavy snow closed the mountain, and there was nothing to do for the time being, so I simply ordered the new tribe in advance and built a model, so that it would be easy to figure out what was missing.
He had considered the problem of houses before, and there were no more than three types, wooden, earth, and stone, each with its own benefits, and it could also be mixed. It was originally a tribal alliance, and now it is a merger tribe, so in the end there is only one big tribe, and the construction of houses is not divided between each other.
The hut already had a rough finish, withstood the test, and did not fall down in the wind and snow, but only a little mending the roof.
As for what kind of materials to choose, it is actually related to the environment, for example, in the Bashu area in later generations, there were the most earthen wall houses, and in the Xiangjiang area, there were more wooden houses, and even a small town was full of wooden houses. On the contrary, on some hills, there will be more stone houses. Of course, this is only Su Yang's own one-sided understanding, because there are very few old houses in modern times, and the renovated ancient town or something cannot be used as evidence.
"Click!" He is grinding wood chips, used to make a tool for rammed earth, the word ramming is big above, and force is below, which refers to the great strength to produce miracles, which is of course nonsense, but the rammed earth wall does need to be strong.
The principle is also very simple, use two wooden boards to clamp the sticky loess, the width is about a foot on the line, the wooden board is filled with soil, and people stand on it and pestle the soil with wooden sticks, which is equivalent to reinforcing the soil, increasing the density, and making it shaped.
Then layer upon layer, and finally built an earthen wall, this method is also called plate building, the history can be traced as early as the Yin Shang period has been used to build houses, city walls and other buildings, has continued until the end of the twentieth century.
Su Yang has never built an earthen wall himself, but he has seen how others make it, and it is not difficult to copy it.
Earth-walled houses are especially cool in summer and many times stronger than caves in winter, so as long as the walls are thicker, they can even resist earthquakes, and even if a herd of fierce beasts run, it is difficult to break down in a short time. As long as you do a good job of waterproofing, that is, don't let the earthen wall get drenched by rain, it can be used for many years without breaking.
"Noko, you take someone to polish the plank."
He planned to build a miniature version of the earthen wall house now, and find problems in the process, because the winter was too long, and it would be too wasteful if he didn't prepare in advance.
Arranged things for others to do, Su Yang himself was sharpening the top, naturally not for playing, but for hanging out the verticality of the house, choosing heavy wood to cut and polish, using hemp as a line, and when the time came, the top could be used to ensure that the angle was positive to prevent tilting and collapsing.
At the same time, the approximate size of the house had been calculated, and he chose a quick open space outside the tribe, cleared the snow, and used the grass ash as lime to plan the route of the foundation; It is also measured by a flat shoulder, although this unit of measurement cannot be equivalent to modern times, but it can be relatively standard. For example, the length and width are five to three, so that the long side is five or ten long, and the wide side is three or six long.
"The bench is wide and the bench is long, the bench is not as wide as the bench, the bench is not as long as the bench, the pole wants to be tied to the bench, the bench does not let the pole be tied to the bench, and the pole is biased to ......" Okay, Chinese is really hard to learn.
Su Yang called Pabu and them to dig a pit along the scattered line, which was much easier than digging a trap, but fortunately he had the foresight to train the soldiers in advance how to hit the base.
After the pit is dug, the stones are buried in it, and the soil will be rammed on these stones, so the size of the stones is very important, the thickness and width should be at least one foot larger, and the length is arbitrary.
Of course, because there are no metal tools for chiseling stones, all natural stones are selected, and it is impossible for each piece to be similar, and there is a difference between width and thickness, which depends on how to use it, such as thicker stones, then the pit can be dug deeper; For example, if the side is uneven, when splicing two stone foundations, you can smash some small stones in the gaps. As for the front of the stone, you should try to choose a slightly smoother one.
He thought of the Simon tribe before, where the Mang tribe now lives, where there is a large area of stones, and there are also a lot of stones along the sides of the river, which can be fully utilized.
And in order to prevent the river from rising suddenly and flooding, although this probability is very small, but for the sake of safety, he decided to withdraw the original location of the tribe and choose a higher place, as for the retreat and vacated space, it can also be used to grow food, but also as a safe place for children to move.
In the beginning, there were certainly not so many houses, so it would be semi-herd, and then gradually the number of houses would be added, perhaps in favor of a small group of people who contributed to the tribe, which was not private ownership, because all property belonged to the tribe.
Su Yang will not stand up and advocate what is the silly thing of everyone being equal and dividing the land into households, because once privatized, all kinds of contradictions will come out, and the question of human nature and selfishness cannot be answered, maybe everyone is born pure, but they are polluted the day after tomorrow, so they have a selfish side; But it is also possible that there is selfishness inherent in human nature, and environmental change may be stimulated.
Let the tribe live for the tribe, live for the tribe, and die for the tribe is what should be done at this stage.
In addition, for breeding, it should also enter the winter break, and he proposed to raise so many rabbits for the winter, which is actually wrong. The normal practice should be to slaughter the livestock before winter, leaving only the mother breed, and then raise a new batch of livestock to breed after the winter, and slaughter them before the winter. In this way, the problem of not having enough food and forage to feed the livestock in winter is avoided.
Just like brown bears, they hibernate when they are full, and then give birth to bear cubs at the beginning of spring, so that they have enough food to raise their cubs.
Speaking of pigs, piglets are born in the spring, because pigs are still young and can't eat much. In the summer, when the pigs grow to half the size, the forage that the tribesmen can collect gradually becomes abundant; In the autumn, all kinds of harvests, fatten the pigs, raise the fat well, slaughter before winter, and reserve meat.
Wait until the tribe's green storage feed or something, and then you can gradually survive the problem of breeding during the winter break, which is more scientific.
Coming back to his senses and continuing to instruct Prabhu to lay the foundation, he designed two models of houses, one horizontal and one vertical, each with its own benefits and one thing in common, both houses consisted of five or more rooms connected to each other, and there was only one entrance and exit.
That is to say, if he lives in the innermost room, he must enter through the only door, and then pass through the second, third, and fourth rooms before he can reach the fifth, and when he comes out, the same is true, and there is no back door to go through.
This is definitely not good for firefighting, but he left a dog hole in the corner of the innermost house, and if he really can't hold it and wants to run for his life, he can also climb out.
Of course, this is just an illusion in my mind, and whether it is reasonable or not needs to be finalized after practice.
In addition, not only earthen walls were built, but also houses made of wood and stone, which may be the first scientific buildings in the primitive period, all by himself, hoping to withstand the erosion of wind and rain and stand tall!
PS: It's back to normal two shifts, and the arrears will be made up as soon as possible!