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084 Kiln

Zhao Hao did not explain to Cangwu how to build the city wall, because it is too troublesome to explain it clearly, so it would be better to do it directly for others to see.

The next morning, he took Ayun and Ayue, under the leadership of Cangwu, and walked towards a secret place in the Black Stone tribe.

What's the secret of the Black Stone Tribe?

This secret is naturally firing pottery.

The people from the surrounding tribe had no idea how the Black Stone tribe could burn real pottery, but Zhao Hao had already guessed it.

Sure enough, after entering an inconspicuous valley, he saw a simple ceramic kiln.

This ceramic kiln is actually a small cave dug by hand, but the inside of this "cave" is a rough semi-spherical structure, and it also has a chimney.

The ceramic kiln in the Black Stone Department is not big, and it looks like two or three cubic meters inside. If you want to go in, you have to hang out. Moreover, you can bend down and get in every time. If you have to go in one more person, you can't squeeze in and move inside.

At this moment, it was the gap between burning pottery. Several old handkerchiefs from the black stone were digging clay outside and pinching pottery. The ceramic kiln was empty, with no fireworks or a piece of pottery.

Zhao Hao bent over and walked in and saw that as expected, the Black Stone Department used coal pottery, and there was still uncleaned cinder in the soil pit in the middle of the ceramic kiln.

He looked around inside, then came out and said to Cangwu, "Can you build a larger ceramic kiln?"

Ceramic kiln?

When Cang Wu heard this, he was a little confused again because there was only pottery and no porcelain at this moment.

However, he still understood that what Zhao Hao was talking about was the hole they took out to burn pottery.

He was stunned for a moment, then nodded and said, "Of course the bigger ones can be dug out, but there are only a few people in our Black Stone Division who can make better pottery. Why do you dig a bigger hole?"

Of course it is used to burn cottage tiles!

The clay and coal are both ready-made, and there are several old-hand-made styles, but there are only a few brick molds and a large brick kiln.

However, this thing is still troublesome to explain.

Zhao Hao thought about it, then pulled out his magic weapon, walked directly to a nearby tree that was thicker than his waist, and slashed it, cut it off at the same root, and then kicked the trunk directly to the ground.

Immediately afterwards, he took the tree trunk and brushed it a few times. Soon, a wooden brick mold appeared in his hand.

He didn't say anything, and took the brick mold and came to a stone platform where he worked in an old style, signaling him to give it to him first. Then, he picked up the clay that had been dug out next to him and made it in one go. After a while, several square clay bricks appeared in front of everyone.

He pointed directly at the clay brick and said to Cangwu: "If this thing is burned in the kiln, will it become as hard as a stone? We will use this thing to build the city wall. Do you think, how many months are enough?"

The table where the square things piled up is naturally square. Cang Wu finally understood what Zhao Hao meant. It turned out that this guy wanted to use the square pottery pieces burned to build the table!

Well, the platform built is naturally fine. The problem is that it takes several months to enclose the entire Black Stone Residence with a high platform built with this square pottery block. How many square pottery blocks will be like this!

Cang Wu thought about it, then pointed to the old hand-in-law next to him and said, "It may be difficult for these people to make so many square pieces in a few months, right?"

Square pottery block!

Zhao Hao shook his head and smiled bitterly, "This is not called square pottery blocks, this is called ceramic tiles. You saw it just now. Making ceramic tiles is actually very simple. As long as there is a mold, lift the clay quickly, throw it hard, and then scrape off the excess clay with wooden boards and bamboo slices. This is what you usually do, right?"

Well, this is not difficult.

Question: How big a hole does it take to burn enough tiles to build a table in a few months?

Cang Wu thought for a while, but still couldn't estimate it. He simply asked, "How big a hole do you think you should take out is enough?"

Hole?

Zhao Hao shook his head helplessly and said, "I have said that this pottery hole is called a ceramic kiln. As for how big the hole is, it depends on how many people you can find to make ceramic tiles. I guess, at least ten ceramic kilns that can stand in a dozen people will have to pay at least ten."

Cang Wu was stunned when he heard this.

How big is it to be able to stand in a hole of ten people!

That was even bigger than the pit that was dug into the trap of Dangkang, Pig Demon, and Mountain Paste. Moreover, the hole was not dug on the soft mud, but on the hard hillside. One could kill someone, and ten more were dug out!

He thought for a while, and then he said, "I'm afraid I'll have to take a few months to just dig a hole?"

Zhao Hao said indifferently: "It doesn't matter. We have time. The people from Xue Man tribe will not come after at least ten months."

Anyway, he doesn't need to dig this hole, so he doesn't care.

Cangwu frowned and said, "It seems that time is enough, but I don't have enough manpower. If I want to call most of the young and strong people to dig holes, who will go hunting? If there are not enough people to hunt, my Black Stone tribe will starve to death!"

Will people starve to death at this time?

Zhao Hao was also stunned when he heard this.

He really didn't think about this problem, because now there are members of the Salt Tribe who can't finish eating meat in one day, so how could he have thought that the Black Stone Tribe would starve to death?

Of course, it is easy to solve this problem.

He was stunned for a moment, and then said generously: "You don't have to worry about hunting anymore. I'll send you 10,000 kilograms of bison meat every day, which should be enough, right?"

Ten thousand kilograms of bison meat a day!

Cang Wu was stunned again when he heard this.

He had never visited the current settlement of the Salt Tribe, so he had no idea that the Salt Tribe raised cattle, let alone how many cattle it raised in the Salt Tribe.

He was stunned for a while, and then he said curiously: "Where are you going to hunt so many bisons?"

Zhao Hao said proudly: "There are too many wild buffaloes on the grassland. Now we have collected three groups. There are at least 20,000 to 30,000 kilograms of bison meat, which is the business of ten cows. Ten heads a day, only 300 heads a month. After ten months, there are only 3,000 heads in total. Don't worry, we have salt to offer this little buffalo. By the way, if you think it's greasy to eat beef, we still have 10,000 to 20,000 heads, and it's okay to slaughter you about ten heads every day."

Can you still eat bison meat be fed up?

Even the old hand style next to him fell into a daze after hearing this.

Cang Wu was stunned for a while, then nodded heavily and said, "Okay, since you have caught so many bisons and wild sheep, I will trouble you with food. I will let all the young and strong people in the clan come and dig the hole!"

After hearing this, Zhao Hao thought about it again, then nodded and said, "Okay, you can wait for three or four days first. I will order people to drive the cattle to come and slaughter them next to the river valley not far from you, so that I can save time for sending meat."

It is really difficult to send 10,000 kilograms of meat a day from the current settlement of Youyanmen. It would be different to drive the cattle to the nearby canyon and kill them. You can just cross two hills on your back and arrive.
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