Chapter 166 Burning Bricks
The earth is filled with countless chicken soup articles, and some of them cannot withstand factual scrutiny, but they are always believed.
Just like bamboo, everyone says that it takes four or five years to grow three centimeters, but after four or five years, it can grow wildly at a rate of 30 centimeters a day, and in just a few weeks, it can form a lush bamboo forest.
I also tell you that in the first four or five years, bamboo has been taking root, taking root deeper and absorbing more nutrients.
Then, use the spirit of bamboo to tell everyone what it means to accumulate strength and fill a pot of chicken soup for those little friends who have grown up in the city and have never seen bamboo.
But in fact, this kind of article is completely nonsense.
The growth of bamboo does not require four or five years of waiting, as long as there are bamboo shoot buds on the roots, plus enough rain and a suitable climate.
In any season or time, bamboo can grow thirty or forty centimeters a day.
During the beast tide, the bamboos in the valley were eaten up by the beasts.
But the bamboo roots buried underground can survive.
During the migration, many bamboo roots had already started to sprout and bamboo shoots. Wang Wei believed that it would not take long before the valley would become a lush bamboo forest.
When leaving, Wang Wei also dug many bamboo roots and took them down.
What I’m afraid of is that the varieties of bamboo at the foot of the mountain are different from those in the valley. The bamboo walls are not that thick, and the bows and arrows made are not powerful enough.
After this transplant, he never thought that in less than a week, under the hard watering of the tribe and the influence of the appropriate climate, in just three or four days, the sharp little bamboo shoots, like pagodas, would break out of the ground in just three or four days.
Looking at the bamboo shoots everywhere and the sword thatch planting site not far away, Wang Wei finally understood what it means to plant willows without intention.
Under Wang Wei's instructions, he became more diligent in watering the bamboo land.
From watering one day to watering three days.
The bamboo shoots in the field have lived up to expectations, changing every day, and in just three days, one person has grown taller.
Just as the thick bamboo grows vigorously, the sword thatch in the ground sprouts slowly.
The successful transplantation of two important plants is a good sign for the village.
There are many more sword thatch seeds left behind.
However, there are no more people in the village who are responsible for land reclamation and planting.
The wooden houses in the village thrived with these plants.
More than thirty wooden houses used to live in a circular shape surrounding the tyrannical rex head hanging in the middle of the village.
And outside these wooden houses, wet mud was covered with weeds.
After being dried by the sun, the soil is tightly attached to the outside of the wooden frame.
Compared to the scorching sun outside, the wooden shed is cool and pleasant.
The only bad thing is that the light in the wooden house is too poor. If you enter the house from under the sun, it will take half a day to adapt to the brightness in the house.
Along the slightly sloped eaves of the wooden house are specially excavated drainage ditches.
When building the wooden house, the foundation was specially raised.
Once it rains, the rainwater can flow along the ditch into the river, and then along the river, into the lake.
The only thing to worry about is the roof of the wooden house.
The roof made of hay is not only not fire-proof, but also has no strong waterproofing ability.
There is no problem with Xiaoyu. It can quickly flow to the lower side along the slope of the weeds.
But once it encounters heavy rain, the rain will definitely penetrate and leak water in the house.
Songye once suggested to Wang Wei that if you stir it with mud and weeds and spread it on the roof, although it cannot completely prevent leakage, it should be better than just laying hay.
However, this suggestion was directly rejected by Wang Wei.
The reason is still the same. If Xiaoyu is concerned, this approach is not much different from laying hay.
Once it rains heavily, the house will not only leak, but also may leak directly.
Just when the wooden house was built, according to Wang Wei's guidance, the group of people led by Wang Siwu also built a simple brick kiln with soil.
The construction of a brick kiln is very simple, it is nothing more than a cave for burning bricks and a chimney.
The more caves there are, the more bricks you burn at a time.
But usually, brick kilns are either built directly with bricks or piled up with stones.
But now, in the absence of sufficient materials, the brick kilns built by Wang Siwu are just piled up with soil.
The strength of the clay kiln is much worse than that of the brick kiln, so the size is half smaller than that of the caves in the countryside.
In such a mud kiln, there will be fewer bricks that can be fired at one time.
And the most important thing is that this kind of mud kiln is almost impossible to reuse. After burning once, it will probably collapse.
But for Wang Wei, these are not problems.
As long as the clay kiln can burn a batch of bricks, it can be used to build a real, reusable brick kiln.
This question is like the first time a iron is in the village, involving the question of whether there is a chicken or an egg first.
However, in the end, whether it was to punch iron or build a brick kiln, Wang Wei found an alternative method.
The wooden brick mold was made.
There are wooden boards under the square mold. After pouring the muddy river soil into the mold, use the wooden board to compact and shovel to level it.
In the past, when the machines that could make bricks were not popular, bricks were burned in the countryside in this way.
In order to make the bricks more solid, you even need to use a wooden hammer to hit the soil inside the mold.
But it is obvious that judging from the powerful power of the primitive man, the tapping process can be obviously omitted.
When two wooden boards are pressed down, the soil will be pressed tightly. After shoveling off the burrs, it will be poured out and a square brick will be turned out.
These bricks were sent into the mud kiln after simple drying.
After being arranged neatly in sequence, fuel began to accumulate.
The fuel is placed in the furnace under the brick blank, and the flue and fire channel are all between the well-coded brick blanks.
Next to the kiln is a row of wooden sheds covered with animal skins.
And under the wooden shed, there are mountains of charcoal.
These charcoals are an important guarantee for the kiln to stop the fire for more than ten days.
Chapter completed!