After breakfast, Han Dashenzi, who was in a very good mood, walked around the tribe and came not far from the kitchen.

Wells are being dug here now.

With the continuous work of the well diggers, the well has been dug down more than two meters and is nearly three meters deep.

The newly excavated soil cannot be thrown out directly with a shovel. Someone needs to use ropes and shovel heads to pull it out.

Han Cheng is no stranger to well drilling. This is mainly due to the fact that when he was a child, the government actively implemented a well drilling policy there.

It seems that each family is asked to dig a well, and each well is given a subsidy of 100 yuan.

One hundred yuan at that time was not a small sum, and was quite a lot for farmers who had almost no other sources of income except farming.

As a result, everyone in the village dug wells one after another, and Han Cheng's family was no exception.

I remember that my family was very busy growing mushrooms that year, but my father still drilled the well at home.

The policy of digging wells is really an excellent policy.

Before wells were drilled in the past, there were hundreds of people in the village, and there were only three wells in total.

What Han Cheng remembered most clearly was the chicken crow in the morning. As soon as Tian Tian fainted, his family had already gotten up, carrying buckets and well ropes to go to the well at the head of the village to fetch water for their home.

If you go too late, there will be no water in the well.

There were several times when I got up late, there was no water in the well, and the family was waiting for water for cooking, so my father took a ladle and a bucket and stepped down the edge of the well into the well, and used the ladle to 'scrape' two buckets.

Take the sandy and turbid well water back, clarify it and use it for cooking.

As for the water for drinking cattle, it is carried back from the big pit in the village.

Later, wells were drilled in every household, and the days of grabbing water at midnight were no longer necessary. Water suddenly became much more convenient, and people became much more relaxed.

When Han grew older, he once asked his father why the people in the village didn't know how to dig wells at home before, so they all relied on the three ancient wells to get water.

The answer I got was that at that time, it was thought that drilling a well was very difficult and it would take a lot of digging before water would come out.

Finally, when I actually started digging, I discovered that digging a well was much easier than I thought.

For example, the well in Han Cheng's house is only a little over three meters old and already has water.

If I had known that drilling wells was so easy, I would have started drilling them long ago, even without subsidies.

This is something Han Cheng heard from his father more than once.

Standing beside the well being dug, Han Cheng couldn't help but sniff as he recalled the past.

Drilling a well sounds simple and easy, but sometimes it is not easy, such as when you encounter a layer of stone when drilling down...

This is really a headache.

Fill it in and move it to another place. It's really a waste of time, so don't hit it again. This slate is really a headache.

Fortunately, the chemical fertilizer called ammonium nitrate was still being produced and sold at that time. I bought some sulfur and other things, set up a broken iron pot in the yard, and burned some fire underneath, and I could fry earthen explosives by myself. (No.

I know how it is made in other places. We use an iron pot to stir, mix and stir-fry it. I have seen it with my own eyes, but it is not very safe. I heard that it caused the house to collapse.)

Coupled with detonators and fuses obtained from the stone mining factory, the stones in the well below can be blown up.

Of course, this process is a bit thrilling, and problems can easily arise if not performed properly.

For example, the second uncle's family, which is close to Han Cheng, did not choose anything to cover the well mouth when they blew up the stones in the well.

As a result, after the cannon was fired, the ox cart plate used to cover the wellhead was blown to pieces, and flying stones fell on Han Cheng's house, smashing several tiles.

This is the reason why Han Cheng sniffed.

In that era, ammonium nitrate fertilizer was available, and you could also buy sulfur and charcoal. After preparing soil explosives, you could deal with the stone layer encountered in the well.

It would be uncomfortable if your tribe encountered a layer of stone when digging a well.

Although I remember how to make it, there is no saltpeter, no sulfur, only charcoal, which is useless.

It is also because of this that Han Cheng feels rather uneasy at the moment. He always comes here to take a look when he has nothing to do, hoping that the well will be able to produce water soon and not encounter the stone layer.

Otherwise, depending on the current conditions of the tribe, once it happens, it will most likely be necessary to refill the well that has been dug very deep, and then choose another place to dig and try your luck.

"Okay! Pull!"

After watching here for a while, there was a sound coming from the well.

When the people guarding the wellhead heard such a sound, they began to grab the rope and pull it up hard. The rope was stretched tightly.

After a while, the soil-filled rafter head came to the ground.

When the people above are pulling up the rafter head, the people inside the well should stand close to the wall of the well, trying not to stand under the rafter head, lest there be soil, or the entire rafter head filled with soil will fall down and be smashed.

to people.

The person above placed the clay-filled rafter head far away from the wellhead, removed the rope with the hook from the curved rafter head handle, hooked the other empty rafter head, and lowered it.

After doing this, the man carried the soil-filled rafter to somewhere else, poured the soil pulled out from the well into a relatively low place in the yard, spread it flat, and stepped it down firmly with his feet.

It's not easy to lift soil up one trough head after another. The well is not deep enough now, so let's talk about it. When the well is deeper, it will be even more difficult to pull the soil up.

After standing here and looking at it for a while, Han Cheng remembered a simple tool often used with wells - a windlass.

Han Cheng had seen such things as windlass, but not too much.

This is mainly because after every household in their area began to dig wells, a better and more convenient water-drawing device than the windlass appeared.

This kind of water-drawing device is called "well-pressing" among them.

Because of the lever principle, it is very easy to draw water from the well by pressing the well. You only need one hand to draw out the water from the well without much effort, which is much faster than a faucet.

Moreover, there is a prerequisite for installing a well kill made of pig iron and rubber, which is to build a well platform above the ground above the well head and cover it with a relatively heavy cover.

In this way, not only can dust and other things be prevented from falling into the well, but also there is no need to worry about children at home accidentally falling into the well.

Therefore, the windlass, a tool used for many years to draw water from the well, was quickly eliminated.

However, something that would be eliminated in later generations is undoubtedly a sharp weapon in this era.

At least until the tribes are unable to produce a sharp tool for drawing water like a 'well-pressure', the windlass, a simple, practical and low-cost water-drawing tool, will not be eliminated.

It is really not easy for things like well killing to appear in the tribe. Pig iron casting will wait until you find high-quality coal, iron ore, build blast furnaces, etc., and the steel smelting technology will be revealed, and the casting technology will be further improved.

Even if it is improved, it is still possible to create it.

However, the rubber sheet covering the opening below is really a headache. You may need to drive a small boat to travel far away to find some, and then there is a long list of technical problems and other things that need to be solved.

Therefore, things like the technology tree really don’t mean that you can just think about it, nor do you just know how to make it. There are not even the raw materials, so what’s the use of knowing more? It’s not just a matter of staring.

Instead of thinking about something unrealistic, it is better to first come up with some tools that can be used based on the existing conditions and then put them into practical use immediately to improve productivity.

Riding a donkey to find a good horse is faster than just walking on two legs.

Han Cheng naturally knew this, so after standing here for a while, he quickly returned to the room to find paper and pen to draw the windlass.

The structure of the windlass is very simple. You can think of it as an enlarged version of the key to a four-wheeled vehicle that is very stylish when hung around your waist.

It's just that when you put it inside the front of the car, the part used to rock the car is longer, and the middle part is a cylinder that is many times thicker.

This is because if the part of the windlass used to wrap the rope is thick, more well ropes can be wound around it in the same turn, and the bucket can be pulled out faster.

The structure of the windlass is simple, and after repeated 'training', Han Dashenzi's painting skills have improved a lot. Without too much effort, Han Chenggong sketched it out, and then took it

Go find Lame, a master craftsman.

Under Han Cheng's instructions, the second senior brother made saws and plane blades for carpenters out of meteorite iron.

Now, the carpenter's room already has a complete set of tools made of meteorite iron.

Everyone in the carpenter's room, headed by Lame, has still not recovered from the excitement of getting the meteorite tools. Every day when they walk into the carpenter's room and see the meteorite tools placed inside, they can't help but beat them one by one.

Just like chicken blood, the morale bonus effect is simply not very good.

When Han Cheng walked in, several people were still busy working inside.

Even if there is not much work to do, in order to use more of the extremely convenient and easy-to-use meteorite iron tools, I will try my best to find some work to do.

Therefore, when they saw Han Cheng walking in with a blueprint, Lai and others were extremely excited.

Because this not only means that they have new things to make, but also means that they have more opportunities to use meteorite tools.

Han Cheng handed the blueprint in his hand to Lame, who held it and looked at it carefully. The other carpenters also moved aside to follow, and the carpenter's room, which was making clanging noises, became quiet.

"Do you understand?"

After a while, Han Cheng raised his head lamely and asked with a smile.

"Don't worry Son of God, we can definitely make it!"

Lai now has the demeanor of a master craftsman, with the confidence that the top master craftsman of the Qingque tribe should have. When he heard the question from the Son of God, he beat his chest loudly and gave assurance.

A person's temperament can be cultivated, and it also has a lot to do with his position.

For example, Lame became the best person in the tribe in carpentry and weaving. After his status in the tribe was greatly improved, Lame's whole temperament became completely different.

He is no longer the submissive person he was before, being careful everywhere and not daring to look at anything.

Instead, I became confident and could walk with my waist straight.

If it weren't for this, he wouldn't have dared to push his spouse away a few days ago.
To be continued...