[Infrastructure] After being mistaken for a god

The wheelbarrow went around the village of Tibila, causing all the men, women and children in the village to come out to watch the excitement.

"Tsk tsk tsk, it's so pretty, Miss Nan looks great standing on this pottery wheel!"

"Beautiful, so beautiful!" Everyone commented one after another.

Yinan: ...

Come on, she's not juggling, this wheel has a practical purpose.

It's a pity that except for the shepherd beside her who has been leading her forward, no one knows what kind of changes the wheels under Yinan's feet have brought about.

Dumuzi loudly explained to Yi Nan: "I can take Miss Nan forward without much effort..."

The same is true for Yinan. She has walked such a large circle around the village, and she has not lifted her foot at all, and she has not exerted any strength.

Unexpectedly, all the villagers watching the excitement looked at Dumuzi with smiles and said, "Of course, with...by Miss Nan's side, of course you don't think it's too difficult for you to do anything!"

Yi Nan had already jumped off the wheelbarrow, and just said to Dumuzi: "Go find a rattan basket, and then bring a handful of wooden sticks made of hardwood, and bring some rattan along the way." Dumuzi" "Alas", he walked away.

She turned to the eldest son of Hamti's family and said, "Go and get those weights you use to practice weight-bearing."

The fat boy rubbed the back of his head, not understanding what Yi Nan was going to do.But he didn't dare to disobey Yi Nan's words, and hurried home with his companions.After a while, the young people really all came out of the house with huge backpacks on their backs, and gathered in the small square at the entrance of the village.

At this time, Dumuzi had already sent Yinan a rattan basket, a long wooden strip and a roll of rattan.

Yi Nan moved quickly, and immediately made a bracket in the shape of a "冂", one end supports the bottom of the rattan basket, and the other two ends are respectively supported and fixed on both sides of the wheel axle.

She passed two long wooden strips through the rattan basket, fixed them with rattan, and made a pair of handles—this was the prototype of a wheelbarrow.

"Come on, pack your luggage." Yi Nan waved his hand.

Seeing such a novel thing, the eldest son of Hamti’s family had already felt itchy, so without saying a word, he threw the heavy sack on his back directly into the rattan basket.

"Easy—" Yi Nan was taken aback by this posture, but fortunately, the bracket she made was quite strong, and it held up without being crushed.Yi Nan handed the handle of the wheelbarrow to the fat boy.

"Hold on to the pair of handrails and try to push them forward—yes, pay attention to control the balance!"

With Yi Nan explaining and demonstrating, little Hamti decisively pushed the wheelbarrow onto the path at the entrance of the village.

At the beginning, the boy couldn't grasp the balance well, and the whole person walked staggeringly.Yi Nan and the villagers around her watched with trepidation, watching the young man push the cart forward, wondering if he would make a joke about "overturning the cart".

Unexpectedly, after a period of implementation, little Hamti has mastered the skill of mastering balance.The faster he pushes the car, the easier it is to maintain his balance.

The chubby boy simply pushed the car and ran along the road, laughing as he ran, "Dad, look at me!"

"Look at how much luggage I've transported!"

"Not tired at all, not tired at all!" The little fat man blushed as he ran, and his head was sweating with excitement.

Yi Nan breathed a sigh of relief.Next, let's see if the villagers can realize the purpose of the wheelbarrow.

"With this thing...the car, why should we practice carrying weight?" The teenagers reacted quickly and guessed the key.

When the boy from Hamti's family ran back, the teenagers rushed forward, loaded the luggage they had carried on the wheelbarrow, and then tried to push it.As the weight of the cargo on the vehicle increases little by little, pushing the unicycle requires more and more effort to maintain balance.

But in general, the car can carry at least three or four times the weight that a person can carry.

After all, the significance of the invention of the wheel is to allow people to quickly move items that greatly exceed their own capabilities.

At this time, a large group of villagers crowded over and surrounded the unique "wheelbarrow" in the world. Some people squatted down and reached out to touch the "modified" wheel of the pottery wheel.

"Is this really a potter's wheel?"

"Then why not? It's the one at my house!"

"But if the potter's wheel is erected, wouldn't it be impossible to make pottery?" Parents who had their potter's wheel unloaded by their own children questioned at this moment.

After a brief conversation with his precious son, Hamti looked up to the sky and laughed loudly: "This thing can be used to transport wheat, a lot of wheat! Let's transport out the wheat that we can't finish, and exchange them with other villages. I made pottery pots, so why does our village spend that kind of thing making pottery?"

"Makes sense!"

All of a sudden, the villagers rushed to try the unicycle.

Yi Nan simply stood aside and observed quietly.

From the wheel, to the wheelbarrow used by a single person is only the first step. In the future, there will be two-wheeled vehicles that are more stable and easy to maintain balance, and ox carts, donkey carts, and horse carts that use draft animals...

She changed a deep-rooted concept of the villagers - the pottery wheel can not only be used horizontally to make pottery, but can also stand upright and be assembled into a vehicle.

But she was not in a hurry to tell these villagers all the applications of the wheel.She wanted to see if there were any capable people in these two villages who would think of two-wheeled carts, ox carts and donkey carts on this basis.

——If they can't think of it, what kind of opportunity do they need to break through?

From this day on, the villagers of the two villages of Tibila and Bud have been attached to this "wheel" all day long.

They really took down all the pottery wheels in the village and tried them one by one like Yi Nan did.

Soon they found that only a smooth and flat pottery wheel with equal distances from the axis to the center of the wheel was the most suitable wheel - so that the trolley ran stably and would not knock all the goods on it.

Immediately afterwards, the villagers had another difficulty. After all, these pottery wheels were made of cross-sections of big trees, and the lower plains of Mesopotamia lacked such tall and strong hardwoods.

But someone immediately came up with an idea: put a long hardwood strip on the outside of the pottery wheel to bend it into a circle, and then cut the joints into tenon joints, wouldn't it become a hollow pottery wheel?

The villagers tried it decisively and found that it didn't work-the hollow pottery wheel had no place to put the axle.

Everyone was worried again, and a group of people even proposed to find a way to go up the Euphrates River, go to the upper middle and upper reaches to find those villages living near the forest, and exchange some logs to the lower reaches.

Inan held back and didn't tell them directly about the spokes of the wheel.She just let the group of teenagers tinker with their parents to tinker with the wheel, and she worked with the group of crop handles in the village to finalize the specific methods of irrigation and drainage of the farmland.

After they discussed the design of irrigation canals and drainage canals, the most skillful villagers in the village made a clay model out of clay.

At this time, when Yinan had time to look back at the progress of the wheel, she was surprised to find that the villagers had already made a wheel with spokes—a number of hardwood strips of equal length that not only connected the axle and the outer ring, but also Firmly support the wooden strips that are not too hard on the outside.

Yi Nan was quite surprised by the speed at which this result appeared.

It seems that as long as the "pottery wheel can only be used flat" is broken, a series of problems will be solved. For the first time, a practical and easy-to-make wheel appeared on the banks of the Euphrates River.

In the next few days, someone finally fiddled with the two-wheeled vehicle.

The two-wheeled cart was pushed quickly and steadily—the Hamti family had practiced keeping their balance for a long time, but now it was useless.The young man pouted, very dissatisfied with this.

But for other young people who are not as strong as little Hamti, the advent of two-wheelers is great news.

For a while, the two villages of Tibila and Bud were processing wheels and two-wheeled vehicles, preparing to send Yinan and the young people to Uruk.

Everyone's full attention is on how to improve the unicycle and two-wheeler, after all, these two tools can greatly relieve their shoulders.The villagers no longer have to carry the weight on their backs, risking calluses and straining the waist and shoulders, and carry those heavy objects by themselves.

But no one invented the bullock cart... As for donkeys and horses, Yinan didn't see them in these two villages either. It is possible that these two animals have not been domesticated by humans.

Yinan looked at the progress of the two villages, and felt that the wave of inventions about the "wheel" might stop here temporarily.

She left the village in the afternoon and went for a walk on the nearby hills.Suddenly hearing the melodious sound of a flute, Yi Nan knew that the shepherd was nearby, so he immediately quickened his pace.Sure enough, Dumuzi was seen on the hillside.

Dumuzi kept his back to Yi Nan, concentrating on playing the bone flute in his hand.

Yi Nan quietly leaned over from behind him, wanting to take a good look at the flute in his hand.Ever since the night when the priests were sent away, Yi Nan had never heard Dumuzi play the flute again.

I saw that the bone flute was a clarinet, which was probably made of the ulna of large birds such as cranes and ibis, and round holes were ground on it with sharp stones.When Dumuzi is playing, he will press the round hole with his fingers sequentially or at the same time, and the flute will play high and low tones.

Yi Nan was fascinated by watching, and was also fascinated by listening, until the end of Yoyo, when Dumuzi turned around, and a young smiling face was facing her, Yi Nan realized: Dumuzi had heard her movement a long time ago— —People living in this era have far more sensitive senses than hers.

But Dumuzi still played a complete song for her, and then turned around with a smile.

Yi Nan felt as if her face was turning red. Could it be that she... was caught peeping?

But if he was caught, he had to pretend to be calm, Yi Nan stretched out his hand directly, and asked Du Muzi to borrow the bone flute to watch: "Excuse me, can I?"

Without further ado, Dumuzi handed it to Yinan.Yi Nan took it in his hand and looked at it carefully, and saw that the flute was about twenty centimeters long, with seven sound holes drilled in it.

The ink lines drawn with charcoal can be vaguely seen on the bone of the flute. Presumably when the bone flute was made, the sound hole was drilled out with a sharp instrument after the position was determined in advance.

When the ancestors were making flutes, they already had a very clear awareness of scales.

Yi Nan handed the flute back to Dumuzi and asked softly, "Is this left to you by your ancestors?"

Dumuzi nodded, his face a little heavy.Yi Nan put his right hand gently on his shoulder to show comfort.

Suddenly I heard a dog barking.

Xiao Hei, who didn't know where to keep the sheep, suddenly appeared at this time, and rushed towards Yi Nan with joy.

Yi Nan took a look at the appearance of the shepherd dog, and immediately stretched out his hands to support his forehead, and then he had to quickly stretch out his arms, hug Xiao Hei, rub the dog's neck, and then check the pile of bits and pieces hanging on it. I don't know what is broken.

The little black dog was very lively and would not stop for a moment, jumping around Yi Nan.There are two loops of linen cloth around its neck and waist, and the two loops are fastened together.

Two long ropes were pulled out from this rope circle, and a toy car was dragged behind it?

Yi Nan collected himself, and waited for her to comfort Xiao Hei to be relatively quiet, and then looked carefully: it was indeed a small two-wheeled vehicle, the body was made of reeds or straw, and the wheels were made of serious hardwood chips. Yes, but relatively small, about a special design based on the "height" of a shepherd dog.

Yi Nan squinted at Du Muzi beside him.

The young shepherd blushed, looking at his posture, he seemed to want to dig a hole in the ground and hide in it.

Yi Nan was really embarrassed to blame him, so he could only ask: "Then do you understand now?"

Dumuzi nodded vigorously—see what happened to those two-wheeled vehicles by Xiao Heidian?

"I originally thought, since humans can push carts, can other animals also pull carts." Dumuzi reviewed very sincerely.

"But I really didn't expect that Xiao Hei is so lively and active, and he can run... It seems that he is really not suitable for pulling a cart——" The shepherd sighed, shook his head at the little black dog, and looked at him with hatred. It doesn't look like steel.

Yi Nan thought: Dogs pulling carts?In fact, it is not impossible.After all, there are places on earth where dog sledding works just fine.

But the car designed for the little black dog must at least be a heavier one, so that the little guy will not be "flyed" so easily.

Yi Nan hugged Xiao Hei and rubbed his neck for a long time before he had time to check the "rope loop" tied around his neck.I saw that the whole set of rope loops just clasped Xiao Hei's front legs and shoulders, so that when Xiao Hei exerted strength, it would not tighten its neck, and would not make the dog feel uncomfortable.It's no wonder that this guy doesn't resist at all, and can drag this "toy car" around the world.

Yi Nan thought to himself: That’s amazing——according to this idea, the yoke and harness for the oxen and carriages will be invented soon.

So she changed into a very pleasant tone, and praised Dumuzi: "You are very smart, although Xiao Hei may not be suitable for pulling carts, but other animals may be able to do it?"

"In this way, there will be no need for everyone to work hard to pull the cart."

Dumuzi was still blushing, but Yi Nan's compliment obviously made him very happy.Scratching the back of his head, the young man asked Yinan's opinion in embarrassment, "Then I'll try to pick the strongest ram?"

Yi Nan smiled: "Go to the village and borrow a cow to try."

"The villagers will be very happy if you can figure out how to use the oxen to pull the cart. They'll be glad to lend you the oxen."

Dumuzi finally mustered up his courage and nodded, "Okay, I'll borrow a cow tomorrow and see how I can get the cow to help pull the cart."

At this time, the sun had already slanted to the west, and the sheep were still scattered on the hillside to graze.Du Muzi took back his bone flute from Yinan's hand, and as soon as he gave it to his lips, a melodious and loud tune came out.

As if hearing a special signal, the sheep on the hill raised their heads at the same time, bleating, and gradually approached Dumuzi.

After being untied from the "rope" by Yi Nan, the shepherd dog ran happily on the grass, circled Yi Nan a few times, and then ran to gather the sheep together.

Dumuzi continued to play non-stop.The more Yinan looked at him, the more he felt like a character who had stepped out of a fairy tale, and the tune he played seemed to summon the flock of sheep to follow him.

Thinking of this, Yi Nan couldn't help showing a smile.

Dumuzi's face turned red again, and he turned his face away, not daring to look at Yinan.

The two of them and a large flock of sheep returned to the village of Tibila just like this.

It was dusk, and the teenagers who gathered in the square in front of the village and practiced their "car skills" for a day had already returned home.Cooking smoke has also risen from the ceramic ovens in every household, presumably the bread is swelling in the oven.

Dumuzi put away the bone flute, looked back at Yi Nan, with a questioning look in his eyes, as if he wanted to know which restaurant Yi Nan wanted to "condescend" to go to for dinner tonight.

But as soon as he turned his head, he saw Yi Nan standing still in place, with vigilant eyes, staring at the alley between two rows of village houses in the distance, silent.

Seeing Du Muzi's eyes turned, Yi Nan quickly winked at him.

Dumuzi followed Yinan's gaze, and saw the corner of a linen robe behind a village house in the depths of an alley in the twilight——

This piece of robe is dyed royal blue with precious lapis lazuli dye.