Chapter 168: Improving Pottery

The election was brought to an end, legal, true and valid, with the witness of the gods, the participation of the elders and all the clans, and was fair, open and just.

Even if someone is dissatisfied, it can't change this fact, and since then, the bear tribe has entered the chieftaincy. Although Matsu became the leader, the other ten elders were not vegetarians, so they couldn't be autocratic, but what they wanted to do was definitely much more convenient than before.

"Hey, hey, hey!"

The celebration continued, and Su Yang rarely took out one and a half times the usual food to give back to the voters, and he was also drunk.

The next day, Matsu began to take the initiative to supervise various constructions, and even took a team of soldiers out hunting in the afternoon, which was actually something that Su Yang was happy to see, he was alone and lacked skills, and he didn't want to take care of everything.

On this day, he finally made a steamer, which is the round shape of modern steamed xiaolongbao, and don't think about the drawer-type steamer of pho.

The small steamer can be placed in the clay pot, and many layers can be stacked at a time, according to the standard, it is generally nine steamers, or eight with a top lid, which can be steamed to eat.

In fact, it is mainly for oil extraction, and the steamer is also an auxiliary product, which will be more troublesome without this, of course, it can also be replaced by a basket, but it can't be steamed so much at one time.

The process of the steamer is actually very simple, that is, the outer layer is more tested technology, choose a section of bamboo, break a gap horizontally, flatten the bamboo after fire, and knock off the bamboo inside, which becomes a rectangle, and then wrap it into a circle and wrap it into a steamer.

A small hole is pierced in the place of connection, and a rope twisted from bamboo skin is used to tie it tightly.

Get the steamer

Later, he made a wooden stake support, which used the roof triangle principle as a beam, and a heavy wooden rod was to be hoisted below, and the oil was squeezed by impact. The principle is similar to striking a city gate with a stake during a battle.

If you can polish the stone mill now, you can also save effort by hanging the push handle in the air. After surviving in such a busy way, Su Yang felt that he was about to become a tool master, and the biggest difference between humans and animals was that he could use labor tools. And the difference between a genius and a mortal is that he can create.

"Click." After trying the stone mill, you can easily crush the camellia fruit, then there is no problem.

Su Yang had a whim, and planned to get a rotating disc base to facilitate pottery making, and if it could be successful, it could be mass-produced. In this way, it can quickly dominate the market and trade, and can also free up more manpower to mine salt mines.

The base has been polished before, but how to turn it is difficult, which requires a round shaft underneath, just like a yo-yo, to be able to rotate quickly.

It was so hard to make this thing, completely hand-polished from the top of the stone tool with a large stone underneath and a stone turntable on top with a wood connection in the middle. The round hole inserted into the wood should be deep, and the wood should be thicker in order to support and maintain the balance and rotation.

It took three days for this thing to take more than 30 people to take turns to polish it, and it was also thanks to the primitive people's hardships and hard work and great strength that they rushed to make it.

However, in order to maintain balance, the distance between the upper and lower stone discs is very low, which makes it impossible for him to use the principle of the yo-yo to pull the thick wooden stick in the middle.

"Su Yang, what is this for?" The merchant girl asked puzzled. He didn't pay attention to such an important thing as sowing seeds, but spent time polishing stone tools, which he really couldn't understand.

And these words stumped him, if it was pottery, but now the stone plate seems to be unable to keep rotating, is it going to be a tragedy?

Su Yang sat next to the stone plate, thought for a while, and suddenly stretched out his foot to step on the turntable, just like that, he stepped on it and turned it with his foot, not to mention, although the speed is not fast, but it can really spin.

"Quick, follow me with a stick."

Immediately he took the wooden stick on the edge of the turntable, and the pestle stirred quickly on it, but he didn't expect it to be real, the stone plate instantly sped up, faster and faster, and when he moved the wooden stick, it was almost able to rotate quickly for about a minute, and the speed slowly slowed down, and it took about two minutes to completely stop.

"This seems to be possible."

The larger the object, the more difficult it is to change the inertia, for example, it is more difficult to make a heavy stone plate rotate quickly, but once it is rotated, it will be relatively long to slow down the stone plate.

"Ma Mu, go and call all the potters."

Soon, forty people came to Hula, ten of whom were the old masters of the rock, and the other thirty were the people of the wolf, who were making pottery these days, and were making pottery kilns according to his requirements.

"Put the kneaded clay in a dustpan."

Su Tianzi directly took off the animal skin on his upper body and went into battle shirtless, he wanted to make pottery in person, mainly because primitive people did not have this concept of turntable pottery, let alone primitive people, even modern people will feel amazing when they see it for the first time.

He took a bamboo bow, and the string was made of hemp rope, this was not a bow and arrow, but to cut the clay with a taut hemp rope, and he estimated that he had cut off a piece, and then he had someone continue to knead it and press it into a large cake.

Bang, Su Yang slapped the pottery cake on the turntable, stepped on the turntable and turned it manually, and then used the wooden stick to stir the turntable again, and when he felt that he couldn't be faster, he hurriedly threw away the wooden stick, and hurriedly poured some water on the pottery cake with his hand.

Then he held the edge with his hand, but who knew that it would turn around in an instant, and it failed directly.

But Su Yang seemed very excited, because he could really do it, but he hadn't figured out the right way yet, he had only seen this kind of turntable pottery before, and today was the first time to practice it, so failure was not terrible, I was afraid that there was no hope.

"Clean this up, be careful not to step on the turntable."

There were dozens of people who helped him, and he didn't even need to stir the sticks, and all the other assistants were hands-on, he just had to wait for the base to turn and try to make pottery.

Once or twice, for two hours, I don't remember how many times I failed, but I finally found the feeling, whether I could turn out the pottery was all on the cooperation of a pair of hands.

Pop, another piece of clay slapped on the turntable, but this time it is not a mud cake, but like a cup, more thick, and so the base turned up, he held it directly with a pair of wet hands, and then pressed the center with his thumb, and waited until he turned out of the hole, then scooped some water in it, and then slowly inserted it with one hand together, so that the opening slowly became larger.

Then is to wipe the water, both hands inside and outside to support the edge of the pottery, so that the edge of the clay pot becomes thinner and higher, the action is all on a pair of hands, or with fingers or with the back of the hand, occasionally use a piece of wood to scrape, the top edge is more test of technology, Su Yang with his thumb to press the edge, slightly flattened.

The speed of the base slowed down, and the clay pot in his hand was fully formed, although it was not exquisite, and it looked more like a bowl, but he did it, and in two minutes he finished a pottery, and it was larger, smoother and more uniform than the pottery he had made before.

There is a final step, use hemp rope to pass through the pottery base for a while, so that the pottery is separated from the stone base, and then carefully hold it and place it to dry, and then wait for the pottery to be burned.

"Well, do you understand?" Su Yang stretched his waist, he spent two or three times here, he hadn't rested, and he hadn't been so focused on doing something repeatedly for a long time.

The audience was silent, everyone was dumbfounded, they didn't expect that it would be so easy to make a pottery, as if it was conjured, but they witnessed the process of starting from scratch, all because of Su Yang, so it became different. (To be continued.) )