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

At this moment, there was a break between pottery firing, and several veterans from the Heishi Department were digging clay and kneading pottery outside. The inside of the ceramic kiln was empty, with no fireworks or a piece of pottery.

Zhao Hao directly bent over and walked in to have a look. As expected, the Heishi Department used coal to fire pottery, and there was still uncleaned cinders in the earth pit in the middle of the ceramic kiln.

He took a general look inside, then drilled out and said to Cang Wu: "Can you build a bigger ceramic kiln?"

Ceramic kiln?

When Cang Wu heard this, he was a little confused again, because there were only pottery and no porcelain at the moment.

However, he still understood that what Zhao Hao was talking about was the hole they took out to burn pottery.

He froze for a moment, then nodded and said: "Of course the bigger ones can be dug out, but there are only a few people in our Black Stone Department who can make better pottery, so why dig a bigger hole?"

Of course it is used to fire clay bricks!

The clay and coal are ready-made, and there are several old-fashioned ones, only a few brick molds and a large brick kiln are missing.

However, this thing is still troublesome to explain.

Zhao Hao thought for a while, then simply pulled out the magic weapon, walked directly to a nearby big tree that was thicker than his waist, swiped his knife, chopped it off at the root, and then kicked the tree trunk directly to the ground.

Immediately afterwards, he took another tree trunk, and with a few knives, a wooden brick mold appeared in his hand.

He didn't say a word, just took the brick model, and came to a stone platform where he was working like a veteran, and motioned for him to give way first, then he picked up the clay that had been dug out beside him, and slapped After a while, several square clay bricks appeared in front of everyone.

He pointed directly at the clay brick and said to Cangwu: "Will this thing become as hard as a stone after being fired in a kiln? We will use this thing to build the city wall. You say, a few months is enough time." not enough?"

The table made of these square things is naturally square, Cang Wu finally understood what Zhao Hao meant, it turned out that this guy wanted to use this square pottery block to build a table!

Well, the platform built is of course no problem. The problem is, how much of this kind of square pottery is needed to enclose the entire Heishibu settlement in a few months? block ah!

Cangwu thought for a while, then pointed to the old man next to him and said, "It's probably difficult for these few people to make so many square pottery blocks in a few months, right?"

Cubes!

Zhao Hao shook his head and smiled wryly: "This is not called a square pottery block, this is called a pottery brick. You saw it just now. Making pottery bricks is actually very simple. As long as you have a mold, you can lift the clay quickly, throw it in hard, and then use a wooden plank to make it. Just scrape off the excess clay on the bamboo piece or something, this kind of thing, usually the young and strong will do it?"

Well, this is really not difficult.

The question is, how many holes would it take to burn enough clay bricks to build a platform in a few months?

Cangwu thought for a while, but still couldn't figure it out, so he simply asked, "How big a hole do you think should be enough?"

Hole?

Zhao Hao shook his head helplessly and said: "I've said it all, this hole for firing pottery is called a ceramic kiln. As for how big the hole has to be, it depends on how many people you can find to make pottery bricks. If you go into a pottery kiln with a dozen or so people, you must spend at least a dozen."

Cangwu couldn't help being dumbfounded when he heard this.

How big is the hole that ten people can stand in!

That was even bigger than the pit dug to catch Dangkang, Pig Demon, and Shanyou. Moreover, this hole was not dug on the soft mud, but on the hard hillside. One of them could kill a person. Take out ten!

He thought about it for a while, and then he wondered: "Well, I'm afraid it will take a month just to dig out the hole?"

Zhao Hao said indifferently: "It's okay, we have plenty of time, and the people from Xue Man's department will not come here until at least ten months later."

Anyway, since he didn't need to dig out the hole, he naturally didn't care.

Cang Wu frowned and said: "Time seems to be enough, but I don't have enough manpower. I have to call most of the young and strong to dig holes. Who will go hunting? If there are not enough people to go hunting, my Black Stone Department A large part of the tribe must starve to death!"

At this time, people will starve to death?

Zhao Hao was also dumbfounded when he heard this.

He really didn't think about this problem, because at the moment, the clansmen of the Yan tribe couldn't finish eating meat for a day. How could he have thought that the Heishi tribe would starve to death.

Of course, this problem is easy to solve.

He was stunned for a moment, and then he said boldly: "You don't have to worry about hunting, I will send you [-] catties of wild meat every day, should it be enough?"

Ten thousand catties of bison meat a day!

Hearing this, Cang Wu was dumbfounded again.

He hadn't been to the current settlement of the Ministry of Yan, so he didn't know that the Ministry of Yan raised cattle, let alone how many cattle the Ministry of Yan raised.

He was stunned for a while, and then asked curiously, "Where did you go hunting so many bison?"

Zhao Hao said quite complacently: "There are too many bison herds on the grassland, and now we have collected three herds, let alone twenty to thirty thousand heads, ten thousand catties of bison meat, that's about ten cows , ten heads a day, only [-] heads in a month, and after ten months, there will be only [-] heads in total. Don't worry, we can afford this bit of bison meat from the Ministry of Salt. By the way, if you don't want to eat it all Beef is greasy, and we still have [-] to [-] sheep, so we can slaughter a dozen of them for you every day."

Can you get tired of eating bison?

What he said, even the veteran next to him fell into a sluggish state.

Cangwu was stunned for a while, then nodded heavily and said: "Okay, since you have caught so many bison and wild sheep, I will trouble you for food. I will let all the young and strong in the clan come and dig holes!"

Hearing this, Zhao Hao thought for a while, then nodded and said: "That's all right, you wait for three or four days, I will order people to drive a herd of cattle over, and slaughter them at the river valley not far from you, so that it will save money. Meat is wasting time."

It is really troublesome to send [-] catties of meat a day from the current settlement of the Ministry of Salt. It is not the same to drive the cattle to the nearby valley and kill them.

Chapter 85 It's Not Easy to Invent and Create

The matter of burning clay bricks to build the city wall is actually not difficult. The reason why people can't think of it these days is mainly because they are not so boring.

You know, the clay pots and bowls fired at this moment are not enough, who can burn a square clay brick to play with!

After Zhao Hao demonstrated it himself, even Cang Wudang understood that firing clay bricks is much simpler than firing pottery, it just needs manpower.

The manpower is easy to say, the Black Stone Department has enough, as long as Zhao Hao packs the food, even if it pulls 2000 people to burn pottery bricks, it will be no problem, anyway, the job of burning pottery bricks doesn't require much effort.

After the two made a proper plan, Cangwu began to dig holes in the valley with the most clay, while Zhao Hao took Ayun and Ayue to continue wandering in the forest near Heishibu.

He doesn't need to worry about the matter of firing pottery bricks, Cang Wu will naturally lead people to do it, and he doesn't need to care about the matter of delivering meat. , Grandmother is also very easy to do, and does not need his help.

What he wants to do now is to find iron ore and make iron!

Iron smelting was an idea he had long ago, but he never found iron ore, and he didn't have time, so this matter fell through.

At this moment, he finally had some time, so he took Ayun and Ayue and hurried to find the iron ore.

This iron ore, how should I put it, if it is on the plains, it will be troublesome to find it, but it is relatively easy to find it in the wild jungle covered with mountains, because there is likely to be that kind of exposed iron ore in the forest. stone.

At first, Zhao Hao wanted to find it by himself, but he led Ayun and Ayue wandering around the forest near Heishibu for a day, but still found nothing.

There was no other way, in order not to waste time, he had no choice but to ask Cang Wu.

Of course, the question he asked Cangwu was not where was the iron ore, but where was the reddish-brown stone.