Chapter 244: Building a Granary
Planning area is also a better way to put it, he has not yet developed the countryside, and he can't talk about the prudent word planning. According to Wang Yang, it is the whole territory.
This site is the center of their living area, between the river and the wheat fields.
This vacant land is not big, if each house is 100 square meters, there can only be 20 sets here, roughly speaking, three acres of land.
The area of three acres of land, no matter where you look at it, is considered small, but Wang Yang doesn't care, there is no land bureau in this world, and he wants to occupy which piece of land, anyway, it is enough for everyone to move.
What he needed was to plan the area of the granary.
The wooden strips they process are about four meters long, that is, between the two walls of the granary, it cannot exceed four meters, otherwise the roof cannot be erected.
What Wang Yang needs to consider is whether to add walls behind the two walls to make two single rooms, or simply make a large rectangular room four meters wide.
If it is for people to live, it is naturally good to build an extra wall, but well, in this way, each single room will have to build an extra wall, so how much clay and charcoal will be wasted?
Not advisable! Wang Yang shook his head decisively.
He thought that the current situation is not as good as that of the future generations, and if he can save it, he will save it, and then use it to enrich his life when he has a surplus.
After making up his mind, Wang Yang and everyone immediately put the wooden strips on the ground and laid them flat, drawing two lines, which is the area where the bricks are placed.
Then I took a layer of bricks and spread it up, stepped on it with my feet, and gently tamped the soil.
Then he started building.
Needless to say, after a month, Wang Yang's bricks became more and more numerous. Two two-meter-high parallel walls sit proudly in the clearing.
It's a pity. It's just a tunnel and you can't see the roof. There is no end in sight, and it is very smooth.
Walking in it, looking at the dark red wall, there is a mixture of mud between the two bricks, as if I saw my grandmother's home when I was a child.
In that moment, he had the illusion of returning to modern times.
This illusion is like a sudden smoky wind, which is intoxicated as soon as it blows.
Touching his chin, Wang Yang came to the edge of the wheat field, looking at the green wheat field and squinting slightly. Time is running out, so we have to hurry up and build it.
He called the people to build the roof with him.
It's a very, very, very simple thing, so simple that it's outrageously simple.
Wang Yang took one end of the wooden strip and placed it diagonally on top of a wall, and then took a wooden fork and put this end on the wall in the air.
No fixation is required.
He placed a wooden strip every few tens of centimeters to a meter to support other things.
With this, it's easier to think about something, for example. Tied hay was placed on top of those sticks, and a thatched bungalow was born.
If you really want to make a triangular roof, you can't waste a little more time and burn some tiles. Spread it up, and it would be great.
It is estimated that if it is really made, Wang Yang may be reluctant to release grain. You have to move in first.
Of course, since the wall was built. Wang Yang naturally can't make a hay roof, that's too awkward. And the tile is good, but it needs a sloping roof to play well.
This flat house is not suitable for use, and if you want to add floors in the future, it will be troublesome to dismantle.
Therefore, Wang Yang ruthlessly abandoned the above two ideas, and he thought of another way, which can not only play a perfect shelter from the rain, but also make it easier to build a building in the future.
It didn't take long for him to come up with the idea that he could put some complete plates on it.
A flat and thin plate can play the role of shelter from the wind and rain, simple, simple and practical, in line with Wang Yang's consistent style.
As a result, the choice is greatly narrowed, locking in with a wooden plank, or with a clay board?
There are naturally benefits to using wooden boards, Wang Yang doesn't look at the benefits, he wants the purpose of the roof is very clear, shelter from the wind and rain, and it can be used.
So he only looks at the cons.
After comparing the two, Wang Yang found that there are too many disadvantages of wooden boards, first of all, it is too difficult to obtain materials, and a one-meter-wide plank has to cut down a tree at least one meter thick.
It would be nice to be able to remove an eighty-centimeter-wide board of wood after shaving off the bark and processing it, and besides, the tree is not square, and it is only a small section as thick.
In terms of Wang Yang and others' rudimentary tools, processing wooden planks has always been the last thing they want to do, and I don't know how much effort and time they wasted on the two planks at the entrance of the canyon.
And cutting trees is too tiring, and the craftsmanship is not good, and some corners may leak a little wind and rain.
In this way, Wang Yang turned his gaze to the clay tablet.
The production of clay tablets, in terms of the time it takes, is faster than that of wooden boards, and the labor is also the least spent, and the material resources are spent a lot, and charcoal has to be burned.
But the beauty is obvious, flat, square, exactly the same, easy to put together as a jigsaw puzzle.
The bad part is also obvious, and if you burn the thin clay board, you can't burn the bricks at the same time.
Turning his head to look at the wall that had spread for a long time, Wang Yang thought about burning some thin clay tablets to cover his head first, so as not to suffer heavy losses in the heavy rain.
As for the bricks, there will be time to burn them in the future.
The chaser pulled Wang Yang over and offered him a suggestion.
He pointed to the kiln, then to himself and the others, and then to the food, which means that since we can make a kiln, why build a wall and a roof, and then make a big kiln to live in?
Not to mention, the idea of the exorcist is quite good, and Wang Yang has also thought about it.
But he began to draw pictures on the ground, speaking earnestly to the chasers.
The cellar, let's not do it, the soil here is too soft, it doesn't matter if the top is not, I'm afraid that the rain will hit and the mud on both sides will slide down.
Moreover, the water flows to a low place, take that kiln as an example, when it rains, the water must not be poured in? We'll have to make some preparations to deal with it.
The kiln does not live with people, it doesn't matter if the tower is flooded, the cellar can be lived, and the quality of the soil must be considered.
If not, bother thinking about what the foundation is for.
At the end, Wang Yang gave a concluding remarks, who loves to live underground if you can live on the ground?
The exorcist was estimated to be stunned by Wang Yang, and nodded in a daze, not knowing whether Lu Dao understood or not, but laughed anyway.
Nothing more special, they put their energy entirely into the firing clay tablets.
The clay tablets are extremely thin, no more than one centimeter thick, and the area is about one square meter.
According to Wang Yang, as thin as you can, try to save a little clay, anyway, I didn't think about it as a tile, I burned it, and I couldn't burn it down.
For this point, Wang Yang is very relaxed, and he doesn't have any requirements, but he has put a lot of effort into the template, requiring everyone to strictly follow the template.
Everyone naturally has no opinions, it is estimated that everyone wants to have a good time, and they are very serious about it, their eyes are wide open, and they don't want to make mistakes, so as not to waste more time.
The thin clay tablets were sent into the kiln and grilled under the scorching heat of the charcoal.
Wang Yang is looking forward to it, the feeling of burning out of the thin clay board should be different from the bricks, otherwise what kind of pottery and porcelain, this piece of shape, should be regarded as porcelain, right?
He vaguely felt that ceramics were not divided according to shape, but rather by the difference in craftsmanship and temperature.
Shaking his head, he didn't get too entangled, this thing, just like that, don't have to take it to heart.
He was eager to see how burning such a thin plate and burning a much thicker brick had changed, or had it not?
To be honest, he would have liked to try adding something else to the clay, or changing the kiln to something else.
But he really doesn't have that much to work on for the time being, and if he fails, it will be a waste of materials and demoralization.
So for the time being, he decided to be conservative and solve the immediate problem first.
Wang Yang has mastered some of the skills of firing the kiln in these few practices, and he has found a problem several times, the water vapor cannot be dispersed quickly, resulting in the temperature not going up, and the charcoal is wasted.
And some bricks seem to be broken because of this damn thermal expansion and contraction, at that time only heard a dozen "clicks" in the kiln, splashing a place of dust and smoke, Wang Yang listened to the sound, the little heart thumped, for fear that the bricks below would be unstable, and the top ones would fall down again, and all of them would be smashed.
But luck was on his side that time, and it was the top dozen bricks that broke and burned twice, and he learned to be obedient, not daring to heat up quickly, but letting the charcoal burn on its own in the early days.
Without the impetus of external force, the water in the brick slowly evaporates, and when the evaporation is almost complete, the gas also comes out, and the real high-temperature firing begins.
As it turned out, there was no such thing since.
Wang Yang thought about it, after all, the plate is thinner, easier to burn through, it is estimated that the temperature will reach higher, and the kiln can be opened earlier, which seems to be very good.
He still chose experience, slowly drove away the water vapor on a low fire, and when the thin clay board was dry, he increased the fire and burned it violently.
There is no skill at this time, and Wang Yang doesn't care so much, he adds charcoal and burns it to death.
This time, it only burned for a day and a half, and Wang Yang sealed the kiln and waited for the day when the kiln was opened.
That day came three days later, and the moment the kiln opened, as it had done several times in the past, smoke billowed out and killed people.
After taking it out, Wang Yang's eyes shone brightly, the plate is really slightly different from the bricks, in terms of color, it is brighter than the bricks, but it is almost the same to the touch, and it is still rough.
Wang Yang estimated that this was because of the high temperature? Or is the ratio of clay to water wrong this time?
It seems that after the wheat harvest, it is good to find a leisurely time to study it carefully, and it is good to be able to make ceramics.
He came to the bottom of a wall, let the chasers take the handle, stepped on his shoulder, came to the top of the wall, then took the thin board that had been handed over, and laid it gently, so that the small area of the roof of the square meter could no longer rain.
Wang Yang took a few more pieces up, and his eyes turned into crescent moons: "Well, it's all paved today, move in first!" (To be continued......)