=====The weekend is over========In the third month after winter, early in the morning, on the bank of Bailong River
Looking over, you can see that the entire Bailong River has been covered with a thin layer of ice due to the cold temperature. Except for its source, Shenglong Pool is still as surging and turbulent, with lang flowers splashing all over the pool. The huge white horses on the pool are rising from the cliff as always.
The upturned plate cascades down, forming a large waterfall
Although the winter is cold and long, and travel is inconvenient, for a tribe with nearly ten thousand people, everyone cannot stay at home and not do anything. The daily work of the tribe is still operating in an orderly manner, but the free manpower still accounts for the majority.
Naturally, Hua Xi will not let these tribesmen sit idle every day with nothing to do.
papermaking!
Since humans got the wheel, the pace of civilization has been advanced exponentially; with paper, human civilization can be recorded and preserved, and it can continue to develop.
"Paper?" When he heard this word for the first time, everyone around Hua Xi exclaimed, with confused but slightly excited expressions on their faces.
"Hey, did you know that the patriarch is going to teach us good things again!" An elder whispered to the elder next to him.
"Hey, that's not true! Listen carefully!"
"Um……"
There were low voices of discussion all around.
"Chief, what is the use of this paper?" Hua An asked in a low voice.
"Haha! It's very useful!" Hua Xi did not answer Hua An's inquiry immediately, laughed a few times, turned to everyone at the foot of the steps and shouted in unison: "When you use animal skins and bamboo wood to record things, do you feel it?
Is it inconvenient?"
"Uh, no! It's much easier to carve on stone than before. Now I just use some charcoal to write on it. It's not too strenuous!" one of them said in a loud voice.
Hua Xi was speechless for a moment, thought for a moment, and then said: "Then when we finish defecating, we wipe our buttocks with leaves and you won't feel any pain?"
At this time, there was an uproar at the bottom of the steps, and they shouted: "It hurts!"
"Yes." Hua Xi nodded with satisfaction at this moment.
Hua Xi did not continue to explain to the current group of people. Past experience told him that explaining to primitive people was far less practical than making it with his own hands for them to experience.
As the old saying goes: Facts speak louder than words
Hua Xi selected a thousand young Zhuang people from the city and began a vigorous papermaking operation that attracted worldwide attention and was unprecedented.
First of all, Hua Xi took a group of idle elders and rode around to see where there was an ideal location for paper making. Hua Xi naturally knew that there are many raw materials for wood pulp. Basically, they use rice straw, bamboo,
Wood is a natural and good material for making paper. What the tribe lacks most at present is these. Looking up, where are there not patches of woods and grasslands?
However, good fortune and misfortune have been interdependent raw materials since ancient times. Hua Xi does not have to worry about it. However, Hua Xi does not have and cannot make the stirring machines needed to produce wood pulp. Of course, human wisdom cannot be underestimated in this barbaric era.
The best ideal power can be replaced by water energy or wind energy. Since Hua Xi came up with the idea of papermaking, he has already thought of a good place, which can be used as an ideal place to build a papermaking workshop.
The source of Bailongjiang---Shenglongtan
The surging waters of Shenglong Pond give rise to the Bailong River, which flows through the Sunset Fort with the momentum of thousands of horses galloping and merges into the vast sea.
At the source, the water is too strong, and next to China City, there is an artificial moat that diverts the water. Thousands of people in the city get their daily drinking water from the moat. If a papermaking workshop is built at the source, it will not only be dangerous, but also harmful to the city.
The drinking water quality of the tribe has caused great damage.
What Hua Xi has to do now is to carry out a series of terrain reconstruction projects downstream about two or three miles away from China City. Most of the thousands of selected tribesmen were arranged by Hua Xi to carry out terrain reconstruction according to Hua Xi's wishes.
The rest of the transformation is responsible for cutting down wood from distant forests and transporting it here, and then some tribesmen cut the wood into strips.
Choosing to build a papermaking workshop here naturally has its advantages. There is a big gap between the high and low points of the terrain slope. The lowest point is a large low-lying land. As long as the high and low-lying land are combined,
After some adjustments and modifications, the river water was excavated and introduced from the nearby surging Bailong River, leaving low-lying land through the highlands. During this period, the kinetic energy generated by relying on water energy was definitely not small. In this way, it would not cause any damage to the Sunset Fort downstream.
What big impact on water quality?
"Okay, this is it!" Hua Xi pointed to the low-lying land below and said
The elders looked around, following Hua Xi's gesture, and turned their attention to the low-lying land below, but they all looked puzzled.
Hua Xi said to herself: "The low-lying land below can be used to dig out a pool to load the sewage in the wood pulp tank so that it will not flow around and pollute the surrounding environment, haha!"
After hesitating for a moment, Hua Xi pointed to a place a little behind the connection between the high ground and the low-lying land and said: "Here, dig a pool here. I want to build a large water truck for beating water."
"Beat the pulp? Chief, are you asking the tribesmen to beat them there with wooden sticks? What is the water wheel?" Hua An on the side asked puzzledly.
"Haha, of course it is not under the will of the God of Fire. The god who controls the river will let the water from the Bailong River help us beat the water," Hua Xi laughed.
"Ah! Almighty God, please..." The prayer suddenly sounded in the crowd
The construction team quickly got into gear. Hua Xi asked them to dig pits at several locations they had designated. The trouble was the construction of the water wheel. Hua Xi didn't know how to do it, but it was not a difficult problem.
, the only difficulty is the manufacturing of bearings, gears, wheel accessories and other parts of the waterwheel.
Fortunately, after experiencing work experience in the construction and upgrading of three towns, the resulting carpenter played a key role at this time in the manufacture of bearings, wheels, gears and other parts, which are often used in daily life.
The waterwheel may be a little different, but the similarities are similar. After Hua Xi put the blueprint on the animal skin in front of them and patiently explained it in detail, finally, after a day of hard work, the carpenters began to understand the working principle of the waterwheel.
The elders also roughly understood what the river water introduced by the excavation was used for.
To make the wood for the waterwheel, Hua Xi chose an unknown tree as the construction material. There is a tree in the forest that is hard, fine in texture, and very willful. Hua Xi named the wood rosewood. As for the wheels,
Huaxi uses bronze as the material for the bearings and gears connected to other large parts. Bronze has three qualities: hardness, toughness, and wear resistance. It is a good material for manufacturing waterwheels.
The best thing to do is to set up a waterwheel. It is not difficult to secure the bottom parts. The weight of a waterwheel here cannot be said to be small. It weighs hundreds or even thousands of kilograms. Using wood to make the bottom is not only insufficient.
, and it is easily corroded by water. It is extremely wasteful to use bronze as a material. The amount of bronze consumed is not one or two spoons.
Hua Xi was thinking about it while scanning around with her eyes. When she kicked her right foot randomly, she accidentally mentioned a small stone and couldn't help but shout out.
Under everyone's surprised gazes, a flash of inspiration suddenly flashed in Hua Xi's mind: Stone
Stone is used as the bottom material for erecting waterwheels. Stones are not afraid of being corroded by water. They are also heavy enough and are not afraid of being washed away by strong currents, causing the waterwheel to collapse and be scrapped.
Naturally, it is not your turn to carry the stones. Free tribesmen and slaves will do it. What you have to do is to dig out holes the size of waterwheel brackets in those big rocks to load the brackets and use manpower and bronze tools to knock and chisel them.
The time and manpower consumed in the process is not trivial, and it is extremely difficult. It is extremely laborious to hammer and chisel.
Everyone was also talking about what method to use to drill holes in the stone, but in the end, there was no other suggestion except hammering and chiseling.
Hua Xi looked at the group of elders in front of her who were quarreling over this matter, and quietly walked to the edge of the highland, looking at the stones under her feet and thinking deeply.
Since it is laborious to do it manually, is it possible to use the power of nature? Wind energy, water energy and other natural forces can provide us with huge power, so what is the method to make holes in stones? Hua Xi touched a piece with
Looking at the stones covered with a little snow, I pondered...