If a tribe wants to prosper and climb the peak of civilization, one of the conditions is to leave the valleys and caves and move towards the plains, land and oceans. Only by expanding the area of activity and increasing knowledge can the emergence of new civilizations and new things occur.
It will take about two months to cultivate the fields. Judging from the time, it seems to be a lot of time. But what Hua Xi needs to do next is to build a house to cope with the severe cold in a few months. Judging from the current environmental climate, it is expected that in midsummer
The weather begins to feel a little chilly after dusk. By mid-autumn, it seems to be much colder in early winter. Snow and ice are not a strange thing here in the south. You can imagine how difficult and rare it is to go hunting by then.
Hua An once told him that there were thousands of people from the Shui Tribe who originally migrated here. However, in the process of fighting against nature over the years, they died of cold, starvation, or were killed for various reasons.
Seventy people. Hua Xi saw on the popular science channel that the severe cold season in the primitive Stone Age could last for more than half a year in the north. Even in the south, there are four or five months a year in a cold climate.
The severity of the weather can be imagined, so it is imperative to build houses to escape the severe cold wind.
Before the late rice seedlings can be transplanted, Hua Xi must build as much as possible a house that is enough to shelter the entire clan of people and livestock from the wind and rain. When he was a child, Hua Xi’s brick house in the countryside was built by his father, himself and his neighbors and relatives.
It doesn’t matter if there are no building materials such as lime, cement, sand and gravel when building a tile-built building. The original stone tools were mostly made of wood and stone.
The site of the village is located on the vast plains near farmland. Hua Xi did not plan the area of the village. He built one room first and then the next until he thought it was enough. Due to technical issues, Hua Xi had to do
The house should not be too big or too high. It should be stable enough to accommodate people and sheltered from wind and rain.
The project task of building a village can be said to be the biggest project that Hua Xi has encountered since entering the primitive Stone Age, let alone for these primitive people, but they still don't understand what the village is used for, they only know that it can do anything.
What the clan leader said is absolutely correct. It is definitely the will of God. Anyway, you can never go wrong if you do what the clan leader said.
The amount of wood needed for the house is huge. What if I just rely on stone axes to cut it? I'm afraid it won't be completed by the end of next year. Hua Xi thought of the steel saw that her father used when cutting wood, but now let alone steel, even steel
There are no metals like bronze. Just when Hua Xi was troubling his hair about tools, Hua Xi suddenly caught a glimpse of a tribesman using pottery pieces to cut a large piece of pork for bacon.
An idea flashed in Hua Xi's mind: "Yes, we can make a pottery saw to split trees. Although pottery is not tough and easy to break, it is hard and suitable for making pottery saws. When sawing trees at full load, even if the pottery saw breaks.
Don't worry, pottery saws can be manufactured in large quantities in a short time, but stone axes are obviously much more time-consuming and extremely inefficient.
Now that we had the idea, the next step was to take action. A steady stream of pottery saws were produced from the earthen kiln and transported by Shui people on ox carts to the forest near the village. In this way, two of the pottery making team
Under the leadership of the core tribe, more and more tribesmen have learned some techniques of pottery making. Of course, starting from the selection of clay, Hua Xi has divided it into several processes. All tribesmen who are studying can only learn a few of them. Regarding pottery technology, Hua Xi
Xi plans to wait until the tribe grows stronger and then spread the word slowly. Now pottery can be considered a sharp weapon.
In addition to the hunting tribesmen, the elderly and children, all manpower capable of working participated in the largest wave of village building in the history of the Shui tribe. The trees were cut down, and the tribesmen divided them according to the length specified by Hua Xi and put them on the cattle.
The cart was pulled to the plain; some tribesmen used stone shovels and oxen to dig ditches, foundations and deep pits in the plowed grassland; tribesmen in charge of transportation transported buckets of gravel to the foundation; women were responsible for collecting and cutting
A large amount of rattan was delivered to the foundation; Hua Xi took more than twenty people from the Shui tribe to further cut the transported wood, and the large logs were used to make the frame of the house. Hua Xi repeated everything for several days.
It was carried out in an orderly manner under supervision and explanation. Except for some wild dogs and wolves that occasionally appeared during the construction process, they wisely chose to avoid the popular and vocal Youshui people.
In the first week after the construction started, deep crisscrossing ditches appeared in front of the Shui people. Foundations and ditches that were hundreds of meters long and tens of meters wide. The pile pits had been completed. Nearly a hundred large trees had been cut down and divided into
There are more than 300 logs of different sizes, nearly a thousand planks, and countless rattans, which are densely piled up on a hill.
Most of the preliminary preparation work has been completed. Hua Xi started the main stage of building the village with the strong labor force of the clan. He inserted the long logs into the deep pit at a distance of about two meters, and then filled the excavated soil back.
Since the clan members were meticulous in dividing the trees according to the dimensions specified by Hua Xi in the early days, basically every tree stump that was erected was at a height of about 2.3 meters. The process of erecting the stumps made Hua Xi almost fall down from exhaustion. Fortunately,
It only took a long time to demonstrate, but the strong tribesmen, under the leadership of Hua An, had already successfully erected the logs that met the specifications.
It took about three days to install wooden piles in all the deep pits and stomp the foundation. The work of laying down the foundation was also completed. The sand and gravel, mainly gravel, were poured into the one-meter-deep foundation by Hua Xi and others to take charge of transportation.
The pressure on the tribe is huge. The amount of sand and gravel required for the foundation is very huge. The amount of sand and gravel that is often transported in fifty or sixty trains in half a day is consumed by Hua Xi and the others in just half an hour. Hua Xi has to withdraw from the cutting team.
Deploy half of the clan members to support the excavation and transportation of sand and gravel.
After 10 days, the foundation was finally built. The remaining sand and stones were piled next to the foundation. It was enough to cover a hill. After the foundation was built, the task was naturally to erect the wooden beams and brackets for the roof. The most critical thing was how to connect them with the vertical roof.
The wooden stakes must be connected together and must be strong, otherwise Hua Xi does not want to be crushed to death by the wooden beam above his head while sleeping.
The best way to connect is to use metal, but it doesn't matter without these. Otherwise Hua Xi would have lived in the 21st century in vain. All the wooden piles and wooden beams were cut by Hua Xi with a group of carpenters who can be said to be the earliest.
It only took three days to set up the round holes and the uneven joints. The most tedious task at the front was over, and the work behind was much easier. Hua Xi pressed the wooden boards one by one.
The distance between large logs such as wooden piles and roof beams is divided and inlaid with grass and vines. At this time, the grass and vines play a good fixing role. The wooden boards are double-layered, with a hollow in the middle for future watering of sand and gravel.
After the work of inlaying the wooden boards was completed, Hua Xi ordered all the laborers to mix the clay, yellow mud, sand and gravel and wet them using the same watering method as in later generations. The sand, gravel and clay mixture was poured into the wooden boards and pressed firmly with bamboo sticks to prevent air from entering.
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Although this job is not difficult, it does take the longest time. From watering to resting to cooling and drying the sand, it took more than a month to complete a modern building that is hundreds of meters long, dozens of meters wide, and more than two meters high.
When the mud house appeared in front of the eyes of all the Shui Tribe people, the unparalleled and strong feeling of shock could not be expressed in words. All the eyes looking at Hua Xi were in awe at this moment, far more than worshiping such a huge thing.
Since it was created under the leadership of the clan leader, they had never even thought about it before, let alone met it.
The house is divided into 40 small houses with a width of five meters and a length of ten meters. Assuming that 20 people live in each house, it can meet the needs of 800 people. About 300 people in Youshui are simply more than enough.
Hua Xi walked closer and touched the mud wall in the gap between the wooden boards. Damn, that was his first feeling. He picked up the wooden stick and swung it hard and hit it hard. There was a bang. Except for some damage to the exposed wooden boards, the mud wall did not move at all and was solid.
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"Well, it's okay, it's finally done." Hua Xi kept stroking the house built under his leadership, and his heart was naturally filled with excitement. He turned his head and pointed at the house and shouted to the clan leader: "The house... the house
……son…"
"Fang...zi, house..." The deafening shouts resounded throughout the prairie, and some Shui people told the world with loud voices that their time had come.