If in later generations, there was a symposium of historians discussing what the most important contribution to the development of human civilization was, I am afraid that nine times out of ten it would be said that it was the use of fire, or the invention of bronze and other things.

But those are floating clouds.

For Lin Yuan, at this moment, he believes that the most important invention of the current civilization should be the thing to be done now, pottery.

Because the current Yan people have been extremely skilled in artificial fire, and the refining of bronze is not at all, because no copper mines have been found, and there is not so much productivity to drive.

On the contrary, pottery technology is the scientific breakthrough they lack the most.

In the past few months, Lin Yuan has eaten enough barbecued meat, and every day he eats dryly, just in the cold river water, there is no comfort, not to mention the feeling of dryness and swelling every time he goes to the toilet to get a tuba, every time it seems to be a purgatory experience.

They urgently need a container that can be customized by hand, the size and style of the container can be produced according to their needs, and the most important thing is that this container is not afraid of fire and water.

Before discovering the clay, Lin Yuan had asked primitive people to try to use stones and bones to chisel into round pots, and try to boil water.

First of all, they used bones, because the largest bone was only the pelvic bone of a wild boar, and they could not make a cauldron container, so they could only carve a bone vessel the size of a bowl little by little, and then carefully filled it with water, and put it on the fire for a few minutes before it snapped, and the bone cracked.

Then with stones, they deliberately chose the lightest weight of white bubble stone, but even so, after finally carving out a groove, they could not set up the fire at all, they had to dig a pit under the stone, put the fuel under the burn, but because the stone thermal conductivity was too poor, and the stone wall was too thick, it was roasted for a day and a night, and the water in the middle of the stone was still cold and cold, and it failed again.

The failure of the two experiments did not discourage Lin Yuan's enthusiasm, but on the contrary, provoked Lin Yuan to research out some kind of container that could be customized as soon as possible without fear of fire or water.

Only then can they use water and fire together, use fire to heat water, steam food, destroy bacteria, and take civilization to the next level.

At this moment, the discovery of clay gave Lin Yuan an excellent opportunity, although he did not learn the technology of making ceramics professionally, but with the experience of reading novels......

Clay + fire, maybe you can bake something.

He arranged for several slaves, each of whom took some water and sprinkled it on the clay to keep it sticky.

Then he took a few women to take out a few pieces of clay demonstratively, and let them knead them into the shape of the container they wanted, and several women had a great time, some pinched out flat and wide dish containers, some pinched out huge bowls, and some women tried to pinch out some pot-bellied and large-capacity containers, but they pinched less than halfway, and the clay collapsed, and several women looked at the failed work and sighed.

Lin Yuan smiled, and he slowly rubbed the clay with his hands.

A thin and long strip of clay appeared from Lin Yuan's hand, like a rope made of clay, coiled at Lin Yuan's feet.

"King Yan! Aren't you asking us to make containers, what are you doing, are you going to make ropes? Hou Yi asked curiously behind Lin Yuan.

Everyone looked at Hou Yi in admiration, because they actually wanted to ask this question, but because of their respect for Lin Yuan, they didn't dare to take the initiative to speak out, but Hou Yi, a child, was bold and careful, and asked the question that had been circling in their hearts for a long time.

Lin Yuan smiled and replied:

"Of course it's containers, you see!"

After speaking, Lin Yuan coiled the mud sticks he had finished rubbing round by circle, the circle at the bottom was the largest, and then gradually shrunk circle by circle, and finally to the top, the circle that came out was nearly half smaller than the one below.

In this way, a container with a small mouth and a big belly comes out in this way.

Then Lin Yuan dipped his hand in some water, reached into the inside of the container, squeezed the outer wall hard, and squeezed the clay strips together up and down.

Everyone was amazed, worthy of their King Yan, who could come up with such a clever method, those women, who only knew how to use a piece of clay to press and knead and knead, but they couldn't make a container with a big belly and a small mouth.

But Lin Yuan only changed the shape of the clay, first kneaded it into mud strips, and then coiled the mud strips into the desired shape, in this way, he solved the problem that the mud could not stand up because it was soft.

Hou Yi jumped up happily and shouted Long live King Yan, for a small child, there is nothing happier than when he sees the king he worships showing his abilities.

Lin Yuan rubbed the mud on his hands and ordered:

"That's it today, these pottery are our test products, come on! Carry these things to the campfire, yes, put them in gently, don't break them, and light a big fire around the campfire, yes, bigger than usual! ”

A few slaves obediently removed the pottery.

Lin Yuan stretched his arm, he was still quite tired from rubbing the mud just now.

He looked at the setting sun on the horizon and was very satisfied with the progress of the day.

The temporary camp has been set up, and they can live in this future city tonight, although they can't build city buildings immediately due to lack of materials, but Lin Yuan has already arranged for Big Tooth to take the slaves to the valley tomorrow morning to cut wood, and with the wood, they can build some houses that are slightly better than tents.

In addition, he was pleased to see that Ye had already taken a large number of slaves to reclaim the swamp behind Huadu, which was the top priority of the Yan people at present, and only by ensuring the supply of food could they really have no worries.

As for the clay mining in front of him, he still maintained the scale of 10 slaves, because first of all, the current pottery making technology has not been completely successful, and he has to wait to see the effect after baking; Secondly, the Yan people currently have less than 1,000 slaves, many of whom were lost during the migration, and with the current human resources, it is really not suitable to allocate people to dig clay mines when ensuring farming.

It's better to wait for productivity to come up, there are still a lot of things to be done.

It's hard to get started, but, at least, they've got off to a good start.

The celebration of the establishment of Waldo was held in the evening.

A grand bonfire party lit up half of the night sky on the hills.

Lin Yuan did not relax his vigilance, he arranged all the hunters, divided into four shifts, and took turns to guard around the hills to prevent the wild wolves from attacking again, for the terrain of Huadu, Lin Yuan is still very confident, here is surrounded by deadly swamp quagmire, except for the trails that only the clan hunters know, it is difficult for ordinary people, including wolves, to quickly approach Huadu, in addition, Huadu is built on the higher hills, whether it is the field of vision or the angle of defense, it is an easy to defend and difficult to attack.

Maybe it was the hunt for the wolf king the night before that hit the wolves harder, or maybe the bonfire in the sky made the wolves survive and fear, in short, this night, the wolves never appeared again.

However, there was a person who surprised Lin Yuan.

Avo.

The first to find Ah Fu was the blade, after a few days of recuperation, the blade has gradually recovered his strength, although the old injury has not healed, but he still took the initiative to ask to join the patrol team, Lin Yuan arranged for him to stand guard at the entrance of Huadu.

In the darkness of the night, the torch in the blade's hand illuminated a dark shadow in the distance.

"Who! Don't move! ”

Blade hurriedly raised the stone spear and hurriedly reported what his companion had discovered.

It wasn't until a few hunters rushed over in a hurry that they found that it was the timid and cowardly Shennong clansman, Ah Fu.

They brought Ah Fu to Lin Yuan's side, and Lin Yuan was a little surprised.

He had always thought that after Ah Fu was going to leave the heart of the Wild Wolf King that he dug out last night, eighty percent of them had escaped by himself, but Lin Yuan didn't care too much about it, and he didn't arrange for someone to track it down.

Mainly because he had to take Ah Fu as a hostage at that time, in order to prevent the old man of the Shennong clan from doing anything behind his back, but after last night's battle with the wild wolves, he found that although this Ah Fu was timid, he was loyal and honest, and there was no conspiracy, and they had stayed away from the valley, away from the sphere of influence of the Shennong clan, in this wilderness, except for wild beasts, there were no enemies.

If he wants to run, let him run. This Avo has lost its usefulness.

But to Lin Yuan's great surprise, Ah Fu actually came back by himself, what did this **** do?

Lin Yuan brought up the question in his heart, Ah Fu's lips squirmed, and he replied:

"King Yan...... My lord, I've been looking for a few herbs today, in order to make what I promised King Yan to do in the morning......"

Lin Yuan frowned, "What is it?" ”

Ah Fu trembled and took out a small leather bag from his arms, about the size of half a fist.

"This is it, morning, I propose to do it."

Lin Yuan asked, "...... in the morning?" You mean this thing is made from the heart of the Wild Wolf King?? ”

Ah Fu nodded, handed the small leather bag to Lin Yuan, and then added:

"Lord Yanwang, in fact, I wasn't sure at first...... After all, it was a legendary recipe that even the old man had never seen...... Because no one has ever killed a ghost beast, there is naturally no way to talk about it...... The moment I saw King Yan lift the heart of the Ghost Beast King for the first time, I especially wanted to try the legendary recipe, but fortunately, King Yan agreed. ”

Lin Yuan frowned and looked at Ah Fu, but he didn't expect that this Ah Fu was really a person with no heart, he seemed to just like to study herbal formulas, and he didn't seem to be good at things between people.

Lin Yuan took the small leather bag, put it on his nose and smelled it, there was a faint fishy smell, and when he pinched it inside, it seemed to be something soft.

"Inside? It's a wolf...... Ghost Heart? Lin Yuan asked with some disgust, what is wrong with this strange Shennong hostage, what is the use of making such a thing, it may stink in a few days?

The Avobi bent down respectfully, and said proudly:

"Yes! This is the heart of the wolf king I made! Hehe, I didn't expect that I really made it, I spent a day looking for all kinds of herbs today, and finally found all of them...... The process is tedious, with various herbs tanned into the heart and a part of the cumbersome meat being removed......"

Lin Yuan waved his hand, he was not interested in the process of Ah Fu's production.

"What I want to know is, what's the use of this thing?"

Lin Yuan asked.

Ah Fu scratched his head, as if trying to think of something, and then hurriedly said:

"I think about it...... In the formula...... It seems to say...... The heart of the wolf king, the heart of the wolf pack...... What ......"

Lin Yuan smiled bitterly and said:

"Damn! What are you doing, you don't know what you're messing up for a long time, so let's just let me go here first, just right, you're back, then find a place to live, you are a member of the Shennong tribe, our two tribes have not started a war, and I don't need to embarrass you, now that the Yan tribe has found a destination, then when the time is right, we will send you to the Shennong tribe. ”

Who knows, when Ah Fu heard Lin Yuan say this, he pounced, knelt on the ground, and said loudly:

"Ahh No, no, Lord Yan, please don't send me back to the Shennong clan! Please! ”