Chapter 96 Building a house
Now, Xu Chen is built according to normal home houses. Whether it is the walls, the room, the courtyard and height, it is designed as spacious and comfortable as possible under the conditions that can be achieved today.
The yard is planned to be about 500 square meters, with a width of 25 meters and a depth of 20 meters.
The rooms of the surrounding houses are also more than ten square meters.
Especially the place where the fire is made and the meal is cooked, the area is more than 30 square meters, otherwise such a large family would not be able to arrange it at all.
Of course, these are the measurement standards he roughly set according to his memory before traveling through time.
His current height is about 1.6 meters, most adults are over 1.7 meters tall, and the highest wind is estimated to be over 1.8 meters.
This height is actually beyond his imagination.
It is said that people with poor food and malnutrition do not grow taller, but in fact, the Ba men are very tall. And when he attended the witch ceremony, he saw that there were even taller guys from foreign tribes, the Wu tribe warrior who almost died of dragon hunting was at least 1.9 meters tall.
The only explanation is that climate and environmental factors are generally high.
Of course, it is also possible that the survival of the fittest is. In the struggle against the natural environment, the taller and more powerful humans can obtain enough food to survive. Those weak and short primitive savages, because they cannot defeat wild beasts, can only slowly die and cannot leave their genes to pass on.
From archaeology, we can find that ancient Chinese people were very tall. The skeletons unearthed in the Warring States, Qin and Han Dynasties were basically more than 1.7 meters, and 1.8 meters are more common. It is said that Confucius was more than 1.8 meters, and Xiang Yu was even closer to two meters. The height of the Terracotta Warriors and Horses of Qin Shihuang was mostly this standard. Ordinary soldiers were about 1.8 meters, and generals reached 1.9 meters.
Some people say that Terracotta Warriors may exaggerately increase the height of soldiers, but from the perspective of the chariots and weapons of the burial, this is not the case, because the chariots and weapons of the Qin State are both standardized, and such a large scale of burial is unlikely to have another set of standards, because the production of terracotta figurines and weapons are assembly lines. If the craftsmen are not familiar with the unified standards, they will cause great errors.
If you are tall and strong, the larger the natural living space is required.
Therefore, Xu Chen could only try to build these houses into large areas.
The tall building is naturally more difficult, the more demanding the building materials, especially the beams, which must not only be thick but also be long.
Before, there was not enough manpower, Xu Chen was still a little worried, fearing that the scale of his design would be too advanced and that it would not be completed before spring, which would lead to an unfinished project in the rainy season.
But now that there are a large group of foreign workers, these problems have been solved one by one.
Twenty-four pieces of the main beams of the house with a diameter of more than one foot were cut down, and the damaged stone axes could no longer be counted. If a big tree was cut down, six or seven pieces could be scrapped.
In addition, there are more side beams, lifting beams, penetrating beams, lint beams, and purlins needed in the house.
Except for the purlins, all wood at least the thickness of the thigh is required to ensure the firmness and safety of the house.
Therefore, he spent most of his spare time in building a base on weekdays to guide a group of lumberjacks on how to deal with the wood.
The kiln factory has been firing lime on a large scale since the beginning of winter. Without cement, lime is the best concrete adhesive at present and must be used sufficiently.
As the foundation was laid and various building materials were gradually prepared, Xu Chen also decided to officially start building the house.
Because he had no experience in building such a large building, he had to convene a group of Ba people who participated in the construction of the kiln factory courtyard walls and houses to carefully plan and discuss.
First of all, it is natural to ensure that the built house cannot collapse, so tight ropes and vertical lines must be used to ensure that the walls are horizontal and vertical, and there must be no sloppy at all.
In addition, although square mud bricks are convenient for building walls, they are heavier and easy to damage. Therefore, you must be careful during the handling and building walls and do not leave any safety hazards.
In addition, the house is large and it is impossible to build it by Xu Chen alone. Everyone needs to be divided into several groups and start construction from different locations at the same time, so as to ensure the speed of construction.
Xu Chen is not familiar with him, and a group of primitive people are even more unfamiliar with him.
Therefore, Xu Chen and a group of mature and steady men spent several days studying and familiarizing themselves with the process of building mud bricks and walls, and arranged for people to continuously transport mud bricks, clay, lime and other building materials to various locations on the construction site.
In the blink of an eye, it was late November and the construction of the mansion officially began.
Except for a group of carpenters who cut trees and wood, all the men on the construction site were divided into four groups, each with eight people, and the walls were built simultaneously from four directions, southeast, west and north.
Two of the eight people are responsible for building walls, two are responsible for transporting mud, and four are responsible for moving bricks.
The Ba people, women, young and old, were dispatched again to go down the mountain to observe the construction of the new home.
A group of hired workers such as Wu, Muya, Hu, Ji, and Cang were also excited about being able to participate in this unprecedented huge project.
After staying in the Ba tribe for more than a month, everyone seemed to be reborn.
Although they worked hard every day, their knowledge increased day by day while eating and drinking. Driven by Xu Chen and the Ba people, they not only learned a lot of new languages, but also learned how to build walls with stones, how to make mud bricks, and how to make simple doors, windows and tenons with wood. They also learned how to combine these materials into houses through ropes, vertical lines, mud bars, etc.
When building a house, Xu Chen didn't hide anything from them. He even saw that some of them were eager to try, and would teach them step by step how to build walls, how to see the vertical lines of ropes, how to make the walls flat and solid, etc.
Although Xu Chen himself is also a master of two swords.
But these are indeed unprecedented innovations and creations.
Once these people learn, they can also start building houses when they return to the tribe and work hard to change their living and living environment.
Of course, what they brought back were how to weave nets and fish, how to make fish balls, how to divide the labor and cooperate, etc.
This is an unprecedented life experience and an unforgettable learning experience.
In this short period of more than a month in the Ba people, everyone felt a sense of excitement and excitement that they had never experienced before.
With the passionate construction and thriving changes of the Ba people, our tribe will always be a boring and monotonous life year after year.
Every day, I am waiting for the patriarch's arrangements in a daze. Apart from hunting, life is no fun.
But the Ba people never need any arrangements from the patriarch. They are full of passion every day. Men and women work hard in the busy work. Women spin yarns and weave cloths, make food, take care of the elderly and young, men make pottery and kilns, build houses, hunt and fish. Everyone is full of vitality because they can see the hope of life. Under the leadership of Chen, a mysterious boy, they are working hard to build and create a new future for the tribe.
When all foreign workers move bricks with mud, cut trees and wood, they always use an extremely hot eye to watch Xu Chen, who is only busy all day long, feel the mysterious halo of his body, feel and learn his words and deeds, and imitate every move of his movements.
He is a wise man greater than the great witch.
Give everyone an urge to worship.
In the busy construction, the huge house looks taller and taller every day.
Four groups continue to extend and connect from four directions.
A large number of mud bricks are piled up layer by layer, and the reserved doors and windows are constantly reinforced with ceramic tiles and lintels.
Half a month passed in a blink of an eye, and the structure of the house gradually took shape, slowly building a huge building complex covering an area of thousands of square meters.
As the house becomes more and more complete, the Ba people are becoming more and more excited. Women and children go down the mountain to watch almost every day. Ye and a group of children build a simple fire stove on the construction site to help boil water and provide logistics services.
In his spare time, Xu Chen will also train little wolves, monkeys and pony. A group of adults and children will naturally watch it with relish. Although he doesn't understand why Xu Chen does these seemingly boring things, this is indeed an entertainment activity that has never been seen before, allowing them to experience a different and pleasant atmosphere of life.
The speed of building walls with mud bricks is very fast.
But as the walls continue to rise, construction becomes increasingly difficult.
In order to transport the heavy mud bricks to a height, Xu Chen used the cut wood to make springboards and wooden ladders, and even built a simple three-legged crane with wood, and used ropes to hang mud bricks and mud upwards.
With the help of these amazing aids.
Chapter completed!