Chapter 24 Brick Kiln, Expansion Plan
The dozen or so people who came back from the Haishan tribe are still trapped. They went out and lost their homes.
Fortunately, Hui Mu and the others gave him an explanation, but even so, they were still a little overwhelmed.
Su Yun ignored them and looked at the things they brought back.
Well, he doesn't know these things, so he needs the clan leader to come and see them in person.
After taking one look at it, Su Yun no longer cared about those things. He was going to learn to ride a horse. Last night he saw Hui Mu riding a horse and holding a wooden gun in his hand. It was so majestic.
Seeing the iron gun in his hand, Su Yun became more determined to learn to ride a horse.
"Hui Mu, come and teach me how to ride a horse!"
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After seeing that the matter was handled, Su Xun returned to the tribe and reported the situation here to Su Yu.
"Are the two sons of the leader of the Greedy Wolf Tribe dead?"
Su Yu was surprised when he heard the news. He originally thought that it might take a long time to solve this problem, but he didn't expect it to be delivered to his door so soon.
After the trouble was solved, Su Yu asked about the situation of horse training.
"Chief, I saw that there are already many horses there. To be honest, I also want to learn to ride a horse. The speed of riding a horse is much faster than running on my own." After Su Xun experienced the feeling of being on a horse, he could not forget it and wished he could.
Learn to ride a horse right away.
"I will definitely let you learn, but now I need you to go over and let them bring some horses back. The tribe also needs horses." Su Yu also hoped to use horses to transport the mined coal.
Although oxen can be used, the speed is too slow, and Su Yu plans to use these oxen as farm cattle. For this reason, Su Yu also went to study how to trim the Quyuan plow. Unfortunately, he did not figure it out.
Wrapping up the animal skin tightly, Su Yu came to the blacksmith shop.
Unlike the cold wind outside, it's very hot inside.
The cycad was banging against a piece of red-hot iron.
He is trying to forge the Tang Dao. Although the production process of the Tang Dao is complicated, it is ultimately simpler than the Mingguang Armor.
Although the patriarch is not in a hurry, he wants to give it a try.
The previous iron axes and iron spears could only be regarded as a trial, while the forging of Tang Dao and Mingguang Armor really required skills.
In another room, an iron pot is being made here. This is Su Yu's strong request. With the forged steel technology, how can we not make a pot? Besides, the iron pot is much easier to use than the pottery pot, and it is also stronger than the pottery pot.
Durable and durable.
"Yes, just make it thinner like this. The edge is thinner, not the bottom. The bottom is thicker than the edge."
Su Yu had seen videos of cooking pots, and had also seen the large pots on the stove in his hometown. The bottom was thicker than the edge. Because the bottom was exposed to the most flames, and the closer to the edge, the less contact with the fire. If the bottom is not enough
It's thick and can be burned through easily.
In this way, Su Yu watched him cook for a whole day.
When the iron pot was finished, Su Yu couldn't wait to boil it.
Lard is needed to boil the cast iron pot, and there happens to be wild boar lard in the tribe.
But when the pot was placed on the tribe's stove, Su Yu found that the stove was a little too small to fit the pot.
It's time to build a new stove, Su Yu thought to himself.
Su Yu was going to collect pebbles. When he passed by the earth kiln, he saw Su Tu mixing mud.
"Why did I forget the bricks?" Su Yu patted his head and suddenly remembered, isn't it easier to build a stove with bricks than with cobblestones?
Making bricks is so simple, just like making pottery. Now with coal, making bricks is even easier.
Su Yu also thought of red bricks, but red bricks were more troublesome than blue bricks.
Green bricks only require clay and water, while red bricks require clay, shale and coal gangue mixed together to be fired.
Now that the tribe's pottery demand has been saturated, it's time for them to make something else.
However, bricks cannot be fired in the same kiln as pottery, and a new brick kiln must be built.
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After setting up the stove, Su Yu put the iron pot on and started cooking. He hadn't forgotten his iron pot yet.
"Chief, what is this? A pot?"
Some tribesmen looked at the iron pot and were very curious.
"Yes, this is an iron pot. It is much stronger than a clay pot." As he said that, Su Yu tapped the iron pot with a shovel.
With the iron pot, you must not forget the shovel for cooking. Not only that, Su Yu also wanted them to make all the pots and pans out of iron.
The tribe now has a lot more fireworks and is a prosperous scene.
At night, Su Yu told Su Tu about brick kilns and asked him to build a brick kiln specifically for firing bricks.
The next day, Su Tu got people up early to build the brick kiln.
Su Tu has become very skilled in building earthen kilns.
Su Yu was not sure about the length, width and height of the bricks, so he could only make a brick embryo that was similar to what he remembered and gave them as a reference.
Soon, they completed the brick kiln and brick embryos. Compared with pottery embryos, brick embryos do not take much time.
You can also use molds to make brick embryos, which are faster.
The first batch of green bricks came out of the kiln soon. The green bricks need to be cooled with water to become green bricks. If they are cooled naturally without adding water, they will be red.
There is a lot of clay near the tribe, and Sutu can be found easily.
He even dug a large gap in one place near the river.
The sound of the green bricks was very crisp, and many of the first batch were not fired properly, but Su Tu quickly summed up his experience and started the next firing.
"The coal was brought back today."
Su Tu unloaded the coal that had been transported. Since the discovery of coal mines, the fuel for making pottery has been replaced by coal.
Someone will specially deliver coal every day. They will sort the newly delivered coal, select the suitable coal and transport it to the place where it is needed.
Coal preparation is a very critical step, and the people who prepare coal need to know coal. For this reason, Su Yu gave the mineral encyclopedia to the person in charge of coal preparation and asked him to teach them to understand the minerals in raw coal.
There is also the matter of distinguishing the type and grade of coal. This relevant knowledge is available in the encyclopedia.
Su Yu at the iron mine also gave the mineral encyclopedia to the person in charge there. A special mining team was set up there to transport iron ore to the tribe every day.
Now that the tribe is gradually developing, everyone performs their own duties, unlike at the beginning when Su Yu had to do everything himself.
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"The main purpose of blue bricks is to build houses. It has many advantages, the main one being that it is hard. Compared with houses built with cobblestones and clay, houses built with blue bricks are not afraid of water and will not collapse due to soaking by rainwater."
Su Yu introduced the advantages of blue bricks to the tribe members. Although it rarely rains here in the tribe, it does not mean that it will never rain.
Su Yu wanted to build a town. Now the tribe is getting bigger and bigger, and although the tribe's current living environment is not bad, it is still a bit small.
Nowadays, the tribal houses cannot be built high. The reason is that they will collapse if they are built too high. The soil and cobblestones cannot support too high a height.
It's almost winter now, and Su Yu wants to expand the tribe so that all the people from Langshan can move here.
Chapter completed!