Ancient wasteland

Jing Que and the Salt Exchange Team came back from the Dahe tribe with a large amount of salt, and distributed it to the tribe according to the rules to solve the problem of salt shortage in the tribe.

With the batch of salt they brought back, the tribe can almost last until next autumn, and there should be no shortage of salt in a short time.

You can sit back and relax and develop the tribe according to Jing Zhu's vision. The first thing he has to do is to get out the cement and glass.

Jing Qu and Ye asked about the location of many marbles around the tribe, and asked Shan to bring back a hunting team to mine many stones.

All the mined marble was violently smashed into powder, and together with the sand and the dried clay dug out, they were all piled up in front of the circular kiln.

Waiting for Jing Zhu to take time to slowly ponder the ratio of cement and glass.

Just when the amount of pottery being used by the tribe reached saturation.

Although their tribe can make pottery by themselves, everyone is still very careful when using it.

Try to handle it gently to avoid breaking it. At the beginning, some fighters were not used to it and could not control the strength of holding the bowl.

Accidentally knocked and smashed my job bowl, and I felt distressed and listless for two whole days, until I got used to using pottery.

There is no human damage, and the quality of wooden pottery is good. The pottery in the tribe is basically not damaged and needs to be replenished.

The pottery in the tribe has not been consumed, and the wood kiln has not been opened much recently. When I am bored, I follow the fish collection team.

I ran around to dig wild vegetables in the mountains, pick wild flowers and come back to dye animal skins and linen. If someone occasionally orders something, report to her first.

First make them and put them in the cave to dry in the shade, and then fire them in the kiln after gathering a suitable amount. There should be an interval of about ten days.

Now I heard that Jing Que is going to use the round kiln to study and make new things. He said hello to the fish not to dig wild vegetables, and came to Jing Que early in the morning without eating.

"Jing, shall we go to Yuanyao today?"

Jing Que was eating breakfast in the cave, the water season was over, and the golden time for digging wild vegetables had passed.

The wild vegetables brought back by the collection team are a bit old, and even after being cooked, it is difficult to swallow, some swallow and some have a throat.

Jing Que sighed while eating with a bowl, lamenting that life is difficult, and he was reduced to the point where he didn't even have food to eat, it was really miserable.

After sighing, he drank the vegetable soup in the bowl in two sips, and then he had time to talk to Mu, "Yes, today I will go to the round kiln to learn how to burn cement and glass.

Instead of following the fish and the others, lead the pottery team to burn more bricks, and I will use them to build a house. "

After listening, Mu tilted his head and asked him, "House? Is it the kind of house they live in in the Great River Tribe?"

Jing Que was a little puzzled, "Have you ever been to the Dahe Tribe?"

Mu belongs to the collection team, and looks slightly thinner than the fish, so he should not be selected for the salt exchange team to exchange salt.

Mu shook his head, "I've never been to the Great River Tribe, but I just heard from people who changed the salt team that the people of the Great River Tribe live in stone houses, and their houses are drier and warmer than our caves.

In the past, the priests tried to build houses with animal skins and stones, but they collapsed for unknown reasons after they were built.

It almost injured the people who lived in it, so I never thought about building a house. The tribes all live in the cave. "

There was still some worry on his face as he said that, obviously he was still worried about the collapse of the house.

Jing Que nodded slightly after listening, "I probably know the reason, so don't worry, wait until I fire the cement.

At that time, the houses built with bricks and cement will be very strong and reliable, and they will not be able to collapse if they want to. "

Stone houses built solely on stones are indeed prone to collapse, and it is difficult to polish stones to the same specifications without tools.

When building a house, there will definitely be some mismatches and lack of support points, which can hardly be compensated by the thickness of the stone wall alone.

The houses would be crumbling, not to mention the collapsed houses of their tribe, even the best stone house in the Dahe tribe, where the priests lived, Jing Zhu thought it was a dangerous house.

Not only that, but the house looked spacious and grand from the outside, but it was dark and narrow from the inside. The reason is that there was no strong adhesive used.

In order to maintain the balance of the wall, the stone wall is too thick... It is estimated that it must be at least one meter thick. It is conceivable how much stone will be used during construction, and how much manpower and material resources will be required to mine it.

He shook his head with a smile, his face showing a proud self-confidence, "It's not the house of the Great River Tribe, but a better house than the Great River Tribe, much better than their stone houses."

In the past, Jing Qu always thought about finding a balanced and spacious place to build a house, and always felt that it would be better to build a neat and uniform house in this way.

Now he suddenly felt that his thoughts had gone wrong, and it was really nice to build it as neat and tidy as their usual living quarters.

But their tribe now lives on the mountainside, why can't they build a war castle backed by the mountains in ancient Europe? !

Isn't it pretty? !He always wanted to build a small village, why couldn't he build a city? !

Even if the number of their tribes is small and the castle cannot be built, then the core inner city should be built first, and their tribe itself occupies a favorable terrain.

Assisting the city wall sentinel defense built with various bricks and stones will make it easier to defend and harder to attack, and they will be able to defend any good things at that time!

Even if the planting and grazing land is by the lake, as long as the mountain road is paved with concrete, it will wait for wild animals that can replace horses to be domesticated.

If Jing Que makes wheels and cars for transportation, it will not affect the harvest at all. They rely on this area for development. What a perfect plan.

...It's just that although the plan is good, the cement has to be fired first.

Jing Yu was thinking about his new house in the fortress city, but he was also thinking about the grain and vegetables grown in the field.

You have to focus on the present before you can look into the future. After dinner, go to the field with Mu to look at his sweet potatoes and radishes.

The field was full of greenery, and the fish and collection team took good care of the plants in the field, especially the sweet potato vines, which he had just transplanted before going to the Dahe Tribe.

It took about 20 days to go back and forth on the way to change the salt.

With this growth posture, the harvest will definitely not be too little in the wind season.

The radish seedlings are a little short, but they are slowly coming back to life after being transplanted, and they also look tall and energetic.

The pepper next to it has small white flowers, clusters next to each other, and insects such as bees and butterflies are flying and spreading pollen on the flowers and leaves.

Judging by the number of flowers blooming on those pepper branches, the yield of peppers should not be low.

The onion and garlic next to it have been normally supplied to the tribe for use, and the garlic sprouts seem to be about to sprout garlic sprouts.

Jing Qu stood aside with his face propped up and watched, the timing of these vegetables was a coincidence.

Waiting for the garlic sprouts and peppers to come out, you can cook twice-cooked pork and garlic sprouts fried pork. It’s delicious just thinking about it!

He stopped by to see the corn and soybeans, both of which grew very well and grew faster than normal crops.

Especially the tall corn, the whiskers hanging on it began to turn yellow, and it looked like it was about to be harvested.

Jing Que poked the slightly yellowed leaves with his finger. After the corn matured at this rate, it should be possible to plant another batch.

... It is estimated that each corn cob made from this corn plant has 5.600 corn seeds. If another batch can be sown this year.

Then next spring, they will be able to plant corn and sweet potatoes in large quantities. At that time, they will use them to pinch sweet potato tips or break tender corn for food.

It is very good to use it as a staple food when it is mature. It is beautiful just thinking about it.

After seeing his field full of crops, Jing Qu followed Mu to the circular kiln to study how to produce cement.

He knew that the general formula of cement is that after limestone, clay and other materials are mixed, cement is forged at high temperature.

As long as he can get a rough idea, there are a lot of limestone and clay anyway, and Jing Que made a lot of different proportions for him to test.

After the wooden and pottery team has produced a sufficient number of bricks, they will be put into the kiln for firing.

He quickly experimented with the correct proportion of cement, fired several usable finished products at one time, and the one with the best effect was actually the one he accidentally added some green branches and charcoal, which surprised Jing Que a little.

He vaguely remembered that iron ore powder was added to the cement... Could it be that the green branches are so hard because they contain iron? !

But green branches are trees, and iron is the best among metals. The combination of the two is really incredible.

Or is there iron ore on the mountain where the green branches grow? !Uh, the fact that there are trees growing on top of the iron mine makes it even harder for Jing Que to accept.

Later, Jing Que followed Ye to the place where the green branches grew. There were not only green branches growing nearby, but also other trees and flowers.

The growth is very good, and the green branches are everywhere on the mountains near their tribe, it should not grow on the iron mine.

It can only be said that this kind of tree itself is very magical and full of treasures.

Anyway, after the cement formula was tested, Jing Que began to use a circular kiln to burn a large amount of cement, regardless of whether it was because the green branches contained iron or not.

The fired cement is mixed with sand and gravel fragments, and it is given priority to paving roads.

With the advent of the dry season, the weather slowly starts to get really hot. The mornings and evenings are relatively cool, and it becomes hot when the sun comes out around ten in the morning.

The sun at noon was even more vicious. Jing Que went out from the pottery shed to fetch clay, and was just exposed to the sun.

At that time, he felt that the skin on his face was a little sore, and when he was exposed to the sun at night, he would get sunburned and peel off.

Jing Zhuo, "..."

Helpless is really helpless, what level of ultraviolet light is this, he was exposed to it for about 5 minutes, and his skin was directly sunburned? !

Two days ago, he was still exposed to the sun all day long, and he walked back from the Dahe Tribe with the salt change team, obviously nothing happened.

With this intensity of radiation, how can people survive! ?

He felt aggrieved, and hurriedly applied the wound medicine to his injured face, and conveniently added two bottles of ointment for sunburn.

As a precaution, wait for someone in the tribe to get sunburned and apply it to them.

As a result... Not to mention the strong and strong warriors of the hunting team, even the youngest grass and water in the tribe.

Carrying a basket on my back all day to mow grass for the bleating beasts, and going in and out under the harshest sunlight with heavy loads on my back, I never saw anyone get sunburned.

Jing Que silently kept the jar of ointment for himself, and rubbed it on when the skin was dry in the cold season.

When the sun was setting and it was not so hot, he took time to cut back a lot of reed leaves from the side of the lake, and wove a straw hat for himself.

Every time I go out, I have to put on my straw hat before I dare to go out, so as not to get sunburned again. He is the weakest in the whole tribe... I'm sorry to say.

The production of cement and bricks has been put on the agenda. Jing Zhue decided to build the road from the lake to the tribe first, so as to facilitate the transportation of bricks and cement for building houses.

Just as the weather is hot and the temperature rises, the production of bacon in the tribe has to stop.

The current temperature is too high. During the curing process of bacon, the salt has not yet penetrated, and the meat used for curing will rot.

As soon as this situation happened, Jing Zhu quickly suspended the behavior of curing bacon in the tribe. What a pity that the good meat was rotten!

If the meat cannot be stored, the hunting team cannot hunt too many prey, especially with the cooperation of bow and spear.

Originally, the prey hunted by the hunting team every day was enough for the tribe to eat for three days, but now the prey hunted that day can only be eaten on the same day.

Most of the people in the hunting team were vacant, so Jing Zhu arranged for them to cut down trees and build a road, which was the road leading to the round kiln by the lake in the tribe.

First clean up the trees and weeds on the road, pave the road with finely crushed stones, and finally pour concrete made of cement on top of the gravel, and wait for the cement to dry and the road will be paved.

After Jing Que came back with the salt change team, the people in the tribe simply obeyed him. He cut down trees when he told him to cut down trees, and built roads when he asked to build roads.

There are two second-level fighters in the tribe, Lishan, who follow the trend and take the lead. Everyone is diligent and diligent, and the work is done very well.

The road finally built is about three meters wide, starting from the position of the round kiln and winding slowly along the mountain.

Arriving at the mountain depression where their tribe is located, the whole is very wide and flat, and the quality of the fired cement is very good and the texture is fine.

After drying, it showed a light blue color, like a carefully polished and complete stone surface, with a load-bearing capacity of more than two tons...not accurate.

This data was tested manually by the warriors in the tribe by Jing Que, that is, to smash it on the dry concrete floor to see how hard it is!

He didn't dare to let the wild test, let the junior fighters in the tribe try the wild strength...Jing Qu was afraid that the newly paved ground would be demolished by violence.

Therefore, this data is not accurate, it is roughly estimated by him, but Jing Zhu is very satisfied with being able to achieve such a load-bearing capacity.

Seeing that the bricks made by the Muhe pottery team are enough, they can all be transported back to the tribe and used to build brick houses.

Jing Que hurriedly made wheels and a flat bullock cart, which were used to load bricks and transport them to the tribe, and wait until the bricks were transported back to the tribe.

Everything was ready, and Jing Que was full of confidence to start repairing the house. Mu Ding came to him with a face full of ashes and told him, "The sand by the lake is used up."

Jing Que, "...?! What!"

To repair a house, cement cannot be used directly. It needs to be mixed with river sand to form a material similar to concrete to achieve a cohesive effect.

The sand they brought back was supposed to be used for firing glass, but the glass firing was not smooth, mainly because there was no soda ash.

Without soda ash, transparent glass cannot be fired, so he put aside the study of glass for the time being, and used sand to make concrete.

Didn't expect it to be used up so soon? !Jing Que was suddenly dumbfounded. The cement bricks were all ready, but they still owed Dongfeng? !

Immediately, he was in a bad mood, and looked towards the direction of the Water Tribe with a sullen face, "Let's go to the Water Tribe tomorrow. There is a river in their tribe."