Chapter Seventy-Three: Making Porcelain by Chance
The vigorous wall movement was carried out under the command of Chen Mo.
Chen Mo used the simplest way to cast the wall, because there were too few operators in the tribe, at best, there were only more than forty people who could be mobilized, and other personnel had their own tasks and division of labor, which was really incomprehensible.
Chen Mo also started at the beginning, telling everyone how to ram, how to lay the foundation, how to code the wall, and the rest is to let the crystal take the lead in the operation, and the wall is not firm in the future It has nothing to do with Chen Mo, because Chen Mo did not do it.
If you experience wind and rain in the future and stand tall, then this has something to do with Chen Mo, after all, it is Chen Mo who commands properly!
Chen Mo's little abacus is a horn that sounds, and the clansmen have merit, that is, Chen Mo has a good leadership, and the clansmen make mistakes, which is the clansmen's own problems.
This is also the fine style of all companies in later generations, and Chen Mo, as a successful businessman, naturally brought this fine style to the primitive society.
Seeing that Chen Mo's hand was no longer stretched out to the clay, Pi immediately breathed a sigh of relief, and with a wave of his hand, he cut off half of the pottery team and sent all the people in charge of chopping wood to help with the construction.
Everyone started to build the wall very slowly, but after slowly becoming proficient in the process, the wall was built at that speed, Chen Mo took advantage of the fact that everyone was not paying attention, and kicked a few times with his feet, and the wall was unmoving, but Chen Mo's feet hurt when he saw this, Chen Mo was relieved.
As the chief of the Great Water Army tribe, Chen Mo must remind himself at all times: Set an example in everything! Even if there is nothing to do, find something to do! Do not do heavy work, do what you can!
But the people of the tribe have their own things to be busy, and Chen Mo found that he was fine, and he looked a little idle.
Although Chen Mo is also the captain of the planting team, farming has nothing to do with him, and the slogan that the clansmen are matched with men and women, and they are not tired of working have already squeezed Chen Mo out.
Chen Mo had no choice but to sit in the sunset, looking at the busy and happy clansmen and sighing: "It's good to be carefree!"
First of all, the coal in the cave is piled up into a mountain, and secondly, more and more salt is boiled every day, with salt can be traded, can be exchanged for population, and can strengthen the tribe!
Therefore, contributing to the tribe is the first place, and Han is the first to do it!
There is also porcelain fired from the skin, which also has an indirect relationship with Han.
Chen Mo was gently stroking and chirping, pointing out the mistakes made by Zhengjing and the others when building the wall, and Pi found it with a grudge on his face: "Chief, the logging team has come to build the wall, and I don't have enough wood! How to fire pottery? No, you have to find a way for me!"
Chen Mo was going to send a few people back to cut down the trees, but he thought of the coal piled up in the cave, so he said: "Uncle Pi, isn't there a lot of coal in the cave? ”
"Porcelain? What is porcelain? Can you burn pottery with coal? Don't burn it. Now I'm understaffed, and I'm all supplying you to build ......" Pi was a little unconvinced.
"Uncle Pi, I said that if you can do it, you can do it with confidence!" Chen Mo casually sent away the skin that asked Balabala to complain to him.
Pi had no choice but to lead a few people to the cave to get some coal and try it in the workshop, and if it was not suitable, he would ask Chen Mo to cut down the tree.
Coal burns at a much higher temperature than wood.
Outside the pottery kiln, he felt the heat rolling inside the kiln, worried that the fire would burn the pottery, and when the temperature inside dropped, he rushed into the kiln to see his work, and at the same time hoped that his hard work would not become waste.
What is this porcelain? Pi saw that his work had been baked with coal and turned into something he didn't recognize, and his first reaction was probably the porcelain that the chief said!
The first time he burned porcelain with coal, Pi excitedly handed it to Chen Mo with the pseudo-porcelain that had not yet cooled down.
Chen Mo was shocked when he saw that the surface was smooth and colored, slightly transparent, and the sound was crisp when struck, like porcelain, but not real porcelain. Did you really burn out porcelain?
But the conditions are not enough, and the firing is not real porcelain, which should be regarded as pseudo-porcelain between pottery and porcelain?
Chen Mo now wants to proudly ask others: What is this? This is good leadership! This is strong command! This is the role of leadership!
Although I was shocked, my face showed a look of indifference
Chen Mo put the porcelain in his hand on the ground casually, and asked with a sad face: "How much coal do you use, why are there still some differences between the things you get and the porcelain?"
"What, chief, isn't this porcelain?" Pi asked, stunned.
"Porcelain is a little more beautiful than this. Chen Mo nodded.
Generally, porcelain is made of kaolin, porcelain stone, etc., and has a vitreous glaze on the outside, which is smooth and beautiful.
In addition, the molding of porcelain needs to be fired at a high temperature of about 1300-1400 degrees in the kiln, while the pottery is formed in clay and dried and fired in the kiln at a temperature of 900-1200.
Although kaolin is also a type of clay, some clay cannot be fired to produce porcelain, which is related to the composition of the clay.
Seeing the skin that regarded pseudo-porcelain as a treasure, Chen Mo asked, "Uncle Pi, how much coal do you use?"
Pi thought for a moment and replied, "A small part is coal, and most of it is wood. The outermost pottery this time is much better and stronger than the pottery we made before. ”
Chen Mo nodded and thought for a moment: "You use half of the coal this time, and the temperature is a little higher." ”
"Okay, I'll go back and try again. Holding the porcelain, Pi couldn't wait to walk cautiously to the workshop.
The tribe used wood as fuel to burn pottery, and the burning temperature of wood was about 600-1000 degrees, so there was no problem in making crude pottery.
Since the tribe has coal, Chen Mo has not thought of using coal to burn pottery, this time if it weren't for the lack of fuel for the skin, Chen Mo still can't think of using coal to burn pottery, who knows that by the way, it will be burned out of pseudo-porcelain close to porcelain.
In fact, coal has many uses, and if he finds a metal mine in the future, Chen Mo may be able to try to make coal into coke. The temperature of coke is higher, and it is more convenient to refine metal.
"It seems that I am still a pig's foot, and I have the great aura of a pig's foot. Chen Mo looked at the skin that was slowly moving away, and thought: "Since my pig's foot aura is powerful, if I go out to hang out for a few more days, maybe there will be other gains!"
Now that the tribe has begun to enter a period of stable development, many female clansmen with big bellies walk around the tribe every day, Chen Mo has stopped all the work of these women in order for the second generation of the tribe to be born safely, and only needs to walk around the tribe a little every day.
"With people, the tribe can develop!" Chen Mo looked at the sunset and sighed.