Chapter 21: Another House Is Built
With the completion of a new house, it was already December, and a heavy snow had fallen, turning the surroundings white.
After Yang Heng's family of three helped build a house, after breaking a few wooden planks for building a house because of the excessive strength, the uncles drove Yang Heng's family of three to the side, no need for them, although they are very controlled in their hands, and they also know the strength of the road, but this building is not the greater the strength, the better, and when building the house, even the maximum strength is much smaller than the minimum strength when they hit the iron. This professional thing still needs professional people to do.
That is, because the uncles are busy, and even the aunts are also busy, Yang Heng's family is naturally embarrassed to watch from the side, for the convenience of the uncles to come here, they opened a road with more than five meters along the foot of the mountain in the woods in the west, which leads directly to the village, so that the uncles don't need to go around a few miles every day, and the straight-line distance is only more than a mile.
Looking at the heavy snow outside, Yang Heng fell into contemplation again, he remembered that every time he read a novel about ancient times in his previous life, he would say something about snow disasters, collapse houses or something, but he looked at his own house, it didn't look like it would be crushed by heavy snow.
Yang Heng's house, not to mention the main house, the exterior walls are all wood, which requires a lot of force to be overwhelmed, and the roof is a herringbone fork, hanging on the top of the mountain, even the purlin is also the strongest purlin used, the roof is the top of the straw, by the way, if the time is long, maybe the grass and purlins on it will be corroded by the rain, so it will be dangerous, it is normal to be crushed by heavy snow, it seems that this tile should be fired out earlier, otherwise it is also a troublesome thing to replace the grass every year, Even so, there is no guarantee that the purlins or even the fork beams will not decay.
So Yang Heng made up his mind to first study the firing technique of large tiles in the coming year. Burning tiles, this is a practical technique, and simple, only need to buy a pair of wooden templates, or find a carpenter to make a pair of templates, there is clay and firewood grass can burn simple tiles, in the future the people can suffer less from some wind, rain and snow disasters, although it can not be completely eliminated, but it will also greatly reduce the losses caused by disasters, if you add the foundation and stone skirt wall construction method, then the maintenance time of ordinary houses will be greatly extended.
Some people may say that you have crossed over, and you don't take advantage of the opportunity to make cement, or even generate electricity, or make guns, but in this era, these things may be able to be built by hand, but if you want to mass produce it, it is very difficult, in this crossing place, Yang Heng just plans to invent some things that are more popular in later generations, these things are just a simple layer of window paper, you can't poke it, a poke is the same thing, it's very simple.
Just like the use of the foundation, as well as the construction of the stone skirt wall, this learning will be, that is, to burn tiles, which is also very simple, and when building a house with wood, the surface carbonization treatment of the wood buried in the ground can also extend the service life of the house, simple, practical, and beneficial to the people.
In this way, the people can take out some time to resist disasters to carry out farmland construction, and then Yang Heng plans to make some practical agricultural tools to improve the efficiency of farmers' farming.
Also, Yang Heng naturally will not forget his identity as a traverser, some high-tech things can also be developed slowly, which takes time, and he also needs to slowly find the right talent to assist him in developing these things, for example, things like chemistry can be found by Taoist priests.
Now that winter is coming, the east wing room is also the blacksmith room has also been built, next, Yang Heng is planning to start building farm tools with his father and mother first, and there is also a need to build some carpentry tools, although he can't work outside the house, but he can still continue to do carpentry in the house, Yang Heng plans to let the uncle make a waterwheel, that is, use the water flow, as well as a bamboo tube, or a waterwheel with a wooden barrel to carry water, according to the standard, first build the parts in the house, and assemble them after the ice melts in the next year, and place them in the river of his own house. In this way, these fields can be watered.
His own field should be the best field in terms of soil quality, but there is no water, so no one has come to reclaim it, and now that Yang Heng is here, naturally this field can be reclaimed and utilized, and even Yang Heng plans to let his uncles come down to open up the remaining wasteland, and each of the four uncles will probably be able to reclaim more than 50 acres of land.
"Grandpa, can we strike iron next?" Just do it, and since you think of it, you should implement it immediately. "Not yet, if we want to strike iron, we still lack charcoal." Daddy shook his head and said.
"Charcoal?" "Yes, but don't worry, let's burn charcoal next, there is so much wood here, naturally we can burn charcoal." Daddy said casually.
"Burn charcoal, Lang Jun, you can also burn charcoal, I haven't heard you say you can burn charcoal." The old lady is very curious, not only Yang Heng's child has given herself a great surprise during this time, but now her husband has also given herself a great surprise, when did he learn to burn charcoal, this is a technical work.
"Lady, you have to know Lu Dao, before you saved me, I learned charcoal burning from an old man who burned charcoal for a period of time, but in the winter, because of the war, the old man who burned charcoal had no business, and the charcoal burned out of it was not bought, so I came out of his house, and then went to the county where you were, and then fell at the door of your house, and then the thing naturally happened to meet you." Daddy said something sad.
"Well, what about the old man who burned charcoal." "Alas, this man, what a fate, in the second year, I learned that the old man froze to death at home that winter, this is really a charcoal burner but there is no fire to roast." "I see, I said that you were so depressed during that time, won't you say it, so that I can share it with you." "Sharing, I didn't have the idea of marrying you at that time, you were everyone's lady at that time." Dad's mood got better, this thing has been in the past for a long time, and those who should have worshiped have been worshiped many times, when they should be frustrated, they have also been depressed, and now they have become a government soldier, they should look forward, with their own strength, if they want to say that they will always be ordinary, no one will believe it, Dad comforted himself in his heart.