What should I do if I accidentally come to the ancient times?

If you have seen ancient costume movies, you will know that what he made were bamboo slips!

It's a pity that none of the girls have watched costume movies, so everyone still doesn't understand what he is doing.

He worked hard for a while, and after making other bamboo tubes into bamboo slips, he tied up all the bamboo slips with cowhide ropes, and then jumped onto the tallest pillar of his tent, hung the bamboo slips on it, and hung them up to dry.

Seeing him jumping off the pillar, Ayun couldn't help asking: "Husband, what are you doing?"

Zhao Hao could only helplessly say: "This is too complicated to say, I said it, you may not understand it, and you will understand it later."

After finishing speaking, he got into the tent again, took out the prepared bristles, horse bristles, wool, wolf fur, etc., put them on the ground, and then tidied them carefully, rubbing them all into finger-thin ones, Tie it with a thin cowhide rope, and then find a few finger-thin bamboo branches, cut off the bamboo joints, stuff the handfuls of mane into it, and scrape it carefully with the magic soldier, and all of them are scraped into pieces. It looks like a writing brush, so I put it in an animal skin bag and hang it around my waist.

His actions were so strange that the girls were dumbfounded. What exactly was he trying to do?

In fact, he just wanted to record something.

Because at this moment, he has sent all eight cavalry teams to search for small tribes on the edge of the grassland. Years ago, they searched the wild jungle within a three-day distance and found more than twenty small tribes. This time, he was planning to search all the wild jungles on the southern edge of the grassland, and it was possible to find forty or fifty small tribes.

There are so many small tribes, some may join the Yanbu like the Beishanbu, and some may be stubborn and refuse to join the Youyanbu. If he does not record the basic information such as the location and population of these tribes , it may be messed up by then.

His idea is very simple, that is to take advantage of the two or three years of respite, first unify the tribes in the south of the grassland, try to gather as many people as possible, and strengthen his own strength, and then explore the grassland completely and kill all the cattle and sheep. The horses waited for all the livestock to be harvested, and hunted all the exotic animals. In this way, he could almost beat the map hard.

His idea is simple, but it is not so simple to implement. At least, he has to write down all the small tribes who refuse to join the Ministry of Salt, so as not to take some coercive measures to subdue some tribes and leave some tribes behind. up.

However, he was too far behind at the moment. With such a simple idea, he had to work for a while, because he had no pen, paper or ink at the moment, so it was not easy to write something down.

Originally, he still wanted to make paper, but unfortunately, he searched his brains and recalled it for a long time, and still had no impression of the paper-making process. In desperation, he could only use bamboo slips instead of paper.

He has been busy for a long time, and the bamboo slips and brushes have been made, but the ink has not yet arrived.

This ancient ink was ground out with ink sticks and inkstones. He has an impression of this. The question is, how did the ink sticks be made? His eyes are smeared. Fortunately, he occasionally sees There is a kind of ink stick, which seems to be called pine smoke ink. This term has given him a lot of inspiration.

Pine smoke, as the name suggests, is the smoke from burning pine needles or pine branches. It is not very troublesome to collect. The trouble is how to make pine smoke into ink sticks. According to his understanding, the ink stick should be a mixture of some kind of gum It is made by drying after pine smoke.

So, he prepared a clay pot, a ox bone, a ox tendon, some resin, and a handful of pine needles.

He worked hard for a long time, and after making his face dark, he finally collected a handful of pine smoke. But I found that it must not be an ink stick after drying, because the color is too light, and the whole colloid soup is just a touch of black after adding pine smoke, and the ink that is ground after drying is not as light as water!

How to do it?

As soon as he gritted his teeth, he simply crushed all the charcoal from the pine branches into powder, added it to the colloidal soup and stirred it.

This time, the color is dark enough, but I don't know what the ink looks like.

In this way, he worked hard for nearly a day and a half, and the bamboo slips, brushes, ink sticks and inkstones were finally ready.

At noon that day, he sat in the big tent, solemnly poured some water into the self-made inkstone, and then picked up the self-made ink stick and began to grind it slowly.

The ink is ground out quickly, but the problem is that it is still not thick enough. The charcoal powder inside seems not fine enough, and many of them are obviously granular. What will the characters written with such ink look like?

He took out a brush, dipped it in some ink, and tried to write the character "Hao" on the bamboo slips, and the effect appeared quickly.

How should I put it, it feels like using the worst ink, the handwriting is very light, and there are grains of charcoal on it.

Well, the powder of this charcoal is not fine enough, it must be fine enough to dissolve into the ink.

This is not very difficult, just make an iron mortar and iron pestle and pound hard, it just takes a little time.

He worked hard for a few more days, and the iron mortar and pestle were ready, and the pine charcoal was also crushed into a finer powder by him, and the ink that was ground after making it into an ink stick was almost the same.

It was at this time that Ah Hua finally came to report and found a new tribe.

So, he quickly took notes: Starting from the grassland just north of Yanshi City, he traveled westward for three and a half days on a horse, and there was a small river. Going south along the small river, he walked in the wild jungle for about a day. There was a tribe with a population of about two hundred.

Chapter 149 The Sheepskin Scroll

In the early morning, only a glimmer of light appeared in the sky, Zhao Hao got up from the warm animal skin quilt as if the alarm clock had been set, quickly washed up, and then went to the tent specially for storing the offal of alien animals, boiled and poured water on it. Belly slice soup, heated up a pot of kumiss, and had a delicious meal.

At this time, the sky had already brightened, and the girls had already got up. After saying goodbye to the girls one by one, he summoned the white dragon and rode his horse straight to the grassland outside the valley.

For the convenience of the cavalry battalions to report, he has already set up a big tent on the grassland outside the valley. Every morning, he will ride his horse and run to the big tent, and sit there like going to work, waiting for the cavalry battalions to report the latest news. message and record it in detail.

At this time, the cavalry of each battalion had been fully deployed, and 24 cavalry squadrons of one hundred continued to search in the wild jungle. Almost every day, several squadrons of cavalry came back to report that they had found a certain small tribe somewhere, and Zhao Hao recorded the bamboo slips of each tribe. There are more and more, for this reason, he even made a special bookshelf to store the bamboo slips.

Early this morning, he came to the big tent, and habitually picked up the bamboo slips on the bookshelf and began to read them.

There are more tribes in the wild jungle than he imagined, especially in the eastern part of the grassland, where the tribes are even denser. It has only been half a month, and eight cavalry battalions and 24 cavalry squads can barely cover the five-day journey. After searching the wild jungle inside, nearly twenty small tribes have been found.

It is a good thing that the number of small tribes is large, because the more small tribes, the more population, what he needs now is the population, but too many small tribes is also a troublesome thing, because not every tribe will be willing Joining the Ministry of Salt, when the time comes, he will have to arrange some people and use some means to subdue these tribes.

At this moment, he has used the bamboo slips to write down all the basic information of the tribe that he has searched these days. It stands to reason that there should be no mess when subduing them in the future. However, he always feels that this is not very intuitive. After all, every When he thinks of a tribe, he has to go through the bamboo slips, and if there are dozens of tribes, he has to go through dozens of bamboo slips, which is too troublesome.

So, what to do?

This is actually simple, just draw a map and mark the locations and basic information of all the tribes on it. If you voluntarily join the Ministry of Salt, draw a circle, and draw a cross if you don’t want to join the Ministry of Salt. It is clear at a glance.

The problem is that the map on the bamboo slips is really not easy to draw, because there are gaps between the bamboo slips, the map must be drawn intermittently, and it looks uncomfortable. Moreover, if dozens of tribes are to be fully marked, at least they must be drawn. Make a big bamboo slip with a square of one meter, that thing is inconvenient not only to look at, but also inconvenient to carry.

How to solve this problem?

Zhao Hao sat there thinking for a long time, and finally thought of something good.

This thing is sheepskin!

After the sheepskin is dried, most of them are white, and the inner surface is still very flat, which is like thicker paper, which is convenient for drawing maps. Moreover, the sheepskin roll is also convenient to wear, as long as it is rolled up and put on the body. Just tie it, it doesn't matter at all.

This sheepskin is also very easy to find. He called the guards on duty outside and confessed a few words. Soon, they found several dried sheepskins from the nearby clansmen.

The sheep at this time are much stronger than the sheep of later generations. A piece of large sheepskin is almost 1.5 meters square, which is more than enough for drawing maps.

However, after finding the sheepskin, he encountered a new problem, that is, there was not such a big table in his big tent for such a large sheepskin.

If the sheepskin is placed on the ground, it is definitely impossible to draw a map, because it is not easy to draw lines with a brush. If the sheepskin is placed on the uneven ground, it will be strange if the drawn lines are not crooked. Therefore, the sheepskin must be leveled on the table.

At present, many tribesmen from the Yan and Heishi tribes can make tables, but the tables they make are generally only one meter square at the largest, because it is useless to make them bigger, and no one wants them.

In desperation, he had no choice but to let the guards rush to Yanshi City to find the best carpenter and order a two-meter-square table.

Of course, at this time, the Ministry of Salt and the Ministry of Heishi had no standard rulers. No one could understand how long and wide a square of two meters was. He could only tell others that he should be longer and wider than people table.

Fortunately, people from the Salt and Black Stone tribes are very diligent at the moment. As long as they can afford enough meat, they can do their work quite quickly. In less than a day, the large table he customized was delivered to In the big tent.

He spread a large sheepskin on the table, rubbed some ink, and was ready to start drawing a map.

He can still draw simple military maps. Basically, he first determines the size and ratio, then finds a reference point, and then draws around according to the ratio.

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This reference point is easy to find, and Yanshi City is a very good reference point, but the size ratio is a bit difficult to determine, because at the moment he does not have a tool for measuring distance, what is the unit of miles or kilometers? The unit is definitely not good, he simply can't measure such an accurate distance.