Chapter 24 Brick Kiln, Expansion Plan

The dozen or so people who came back from the Haishan tribe are still in a circle. I went out this time, and my home was gone.

Fortunately, they had Huimu to explain, but even so, they still couldn't ease up.

Su Yun didn't pay any attention to them, but looked at the things they had brought back.

Well, he didn't know any of these things, and he needed the patriarch to come and see them in person.

Su Yun didn't care about those things anymore after taking a look, he was going to learn to ride a horse, and last night he saw Huimu riding a horse and holding a wooden gun, which was called a majesty.

Seeing the iron gun in his hand, Su Yun strengthened his determination to learn to ride a horse.

"Huimu, you come to teach me how to ride a horse!"

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Su Xun returned to the tribe after seeing that the matter was dealt with and reported the situation here to Su Yu.

"Both sons of the patriarch of that greedy wolf tribe are dead?"

Su Yu was very surprised to hear the news, he originally thought that it might take a long time to solve this trouble, but he didn't expect it to be sent to the door so soon.

The trouble was solved, and Su Yu asked about the horse training.

"Patriarch, I see that there are already a lot of horses there. Seriously, I also want to learn how to ride a horse, which is much faster than I can on my own. After Su Xun experienced the feeling of being on a horse, he never forgot it, and he couldn't wait to learn to ride a horse right away.

"I'm sure you'll be asked to learn, but now I need you to go over and let them bring some horses back, and the tribe needs horses too." Su Yu also counted on horses to transport the mined coal.

Although cattle are also available, but the speed is too slow, and Su Yu is ready to use these cattle as farming cattle. For this reason, Su Yu also went to study how to tidy up the Quyuan plow. It's a pity that he didn't make it out.

Wrapped tightly in the animal skin, Su Yu came to the blacksmith shop.

Unlike the cold wind outside, it's hot inside.

The cycads were pounding on a piece of red-hot iron in the "bell".

He was trying to forge Tang knives, and although the Tang knife production process was cumbersome, it was ultimately simpler than Mingguang armor.

Although the patriarch was not in a hurry, he wanted to try it.

The previous iron axes and iron spears could only be regarded as test hands, and the forging of Tang knives and Mingguang armor was what really required technology.

In the other room, an iron pot is being built here, which is strongly requested by Su Yu, with the technology of 100 forging steel, how can he not make a pot. Moreover, the iron pot is much better than the clay pot, and it is stronger than the clay pot, and it is resistant to falling.

"Yes, just make it thinner, it's thin at the edges, not at the bottom, and the bottom should be thicker than the edges."

Su Yu has seen the video of the pot, and he has also seen the cauldron on the stove in his hometown, the bottom is thicker than the edge. Because the bottom is the most exposed to flames, the more you get to the edges, the less you can touch the fire. If the bottom is not thick enough, it can easily burn through.

In this way, Su Yu watched him fight for a day.

When this iron pot was finished, Su Yu couldn't wait to boil it.

Pig iron pots are boiled with lard, and it just so happens that there is wild boar lard in the tribe.

It's just that when the pot was buckled on the tribe's stove, Su Yu found that the stove was a little small and couldn't fit the pot.

It's time to build a new stove, Su Yu thought to himself.

Su Yu was about to collect pebbles, passed by the earthen kiln, and saw Su Tu and mud.

"How did I forget the bricks?" Su Yu patted his head, and suddenly remembered, isn't it easier to build a stove with bricks than with pebbles?

Bricks are as simple to make, just like firing pottery, but now with coal, firing bricks is much easier.

Su Yu also remembered the red bricks, but the red bricks were more troublesome than the green bricks.

Green bricks only need clay and water, while red bricks are mixed with clay and shale and gangue to fire.

Now that the demand for pottery in the tribe is saturated, it's time for them to fire something else.

However, it is not possible to fire bricks in the same kiln as pottery, and a brick kiln must be built again.

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After setting up the stove, Su Yu put the iron pot on the rack to boil, and he hadn't forgotten his iron pot.

"Patriarch, what is this? Pot? ”

Some people looked at the iron pot and were very curious.

"Yes, this is an iron pot, much stronger than a clay pot." As he spoke, Su Yu also knocked the iron pot with a shovel.

With an iron pot, you can't forget the spatula for stir-frying. Not only that, Su Yu also wanted them to use iron to make pots and pans.

Now the tribe has a lot of fireworks, and it is a thriving scene.

At night, Su Yu told Su Tu about the brick kiln and asked him to build a brick kiln specially used to burn bricks.

The next day, Su Tu pulled people to get up early to build a brick kiln.

The construction of earthen kilns has been handy and skilled for Su Tu.

Su Yu didn't know much about the length, width and height of the bricks, so he could only make a brick embryo similar to the one in his memory for them to use as a reference.

Soon, they had the brick kiln and the brick embryo ready. Compared with ceramic embryos, brick embryos do not need to take too much time.

You can also use molds to make brick blanks, and the speed of using molds is faster.

The first batch of green bricks will soon be out of the kiln, and the green bricks need to be cooled with water to be green bricks, and they will be red if they are cooled naturally without adding water.

Clay is abundant near the tribe and can be easily found.

There was a place near the river that he even dug a big gap.

The sound of the green bricks was very crisp, and there were many unburned in the first batch, but Su Tu quickly summed up his experience and started the next firing.

"Today's coal is pulled back."

Su Tu unloaded the coal that had been transported, and since the discovery of the coal mine, the fuel used to fire the pottery has been replaced with coal.

Every day, someone brings in the coal, and they select the coal that has just been brought back, select the right coal, and transport it to the place where it is needed.

Coal preparation is a very critical step, and it requires the coal preparation person to understand coal. To this end, Su Yu handed over the mineral encyclopedia to the person in charge of coal preparation, and asked him to teach them to know the minerals in raw coal.

There is also the ability to distinguish the type and grade of coal, which is available in the encyclopedia.

On the iron ore side, Su Yu also gave the mineral encyclopedia to the person in charge there. A special mining team was formed over there to deliver iron ore to the tribe every day.

Now that the tribe has gradually developed, everyone has their own duties, unlike at the beginning, everything needs to be done by Su Yu himself.

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"The main role of green bricks is to build houses, it has many advantages, mainly hard, compared to houses built with pebbles and clay, houses built with green bricks are not afraid of water, and will not collapse due to rainwater soaking."

Su Yu introduced the advantages of green bricks to the tribesmen, although it rarely rains on the tribe's side, it does not mean that it will not rain.

Su Yu wanted to build a town, and now the scale of the tribe is getting bigger and bigger, and although the tribe's current living environment is not bad, it is still a little smaller.

Now the tribe is not building houses high, the reason is that if they are built high, they will collapse, and the soil and pebbles cannot support the height too high.

Now that it's almost winter, Su Yu wants to expand the tribe, and when the time comes, he can let all the people on the other side of Wolf Mountain move over.

The advantage of eating a big pot of rice is that you can do all the work together, and you can concentrate on doing big things.