Chapter 144 Building a Pottery Factory
Although the salt I brought back last time was a lot, it was not open enough to use.
The shelf life of dried fish is not as good as that of dried meat. Even if it is air-dried, the fish will still break after being stored for a long time.
But salted fish can be stored for a long time.
To make salted fish, you naturally need a lot of salt.
It takes people to collect salt, and many people are needed. The salt pond there has never started construction since Wang Wei left.
But before picking salt, a bamboo raft needs to be rebuilt.
This bamboo raft does not need to be too big, at least it does not need to be as large as a bamboo raft that transports wood, but the guardrail must be high.
Otherwise, you will not be able to prevent the crocodile from climbing up in the river.
And building bamboo rafts still requires people.
The reserves of charcoal can be used for a while, but it really doesn't work. Saw the big wood that Wang Wei can use for not knowing what to do to burn charcoal.
But the Lu said that she could bring the deer back, but she could not let her stay in the tribe for a long time.
Unless most of the bucks are killed, the doe and the deer are left behind.
But this is not the result that Wang Wei wants. What he wants is the entire deer herd.
So to stay them, a huge deer ring must be built.
Deer are active by nature and are not like castrated pigs. They just need to have a place to sleep and not starve every day.
But deer must have a place to walk, otherwise they will get sick over time.
Therefore, at least a three or four hundred meters of open space must be built to serve as a deer ring.
This project sounds like the old woman is a little overwhelmed.
Such a huge deer circle God knows how long it will take to build it.
Moreover, it is definitely not enough to rely on the few female slaves who first learned from Wang Wei and a few men who helped burn pottery.
It cannot meet the needs of the tribe at all.
The fire path for burning pottery needs to be expanded, and the personnel who make clay embryos also need to be increased.
After this calculation, there are at least hundreds of people left.
Now, Wang Wei brought dozens of people back in an instant, how could the old woman be unhappy?
After washing his face, Wang Wei was finally willing to speak.
Looking at the messy crowd around, Wang Wei was a little overwhelmed.
There is nothing simple in this world.
A tribe wants to go from scratch, but it is not a few words to make copper, mineral and tools, ore-making, or build a house by firing kilns and salt.
The tribe seems to be developing thrivingly, but everyone is confused about what to do in the future, so Wang Wei needs to do almost anything by himself.
Taking a deep breath, Wang Wei shook his head and began to arrange the next thing.
He first let those tribe members who looked excited and wanted to listen to their experiences on this trip to work, and the story will be left to the evening.
He then praised the tribesmen who were responsible for building the house, praised and affirmed their progress during this period, and pointed out some of their shortcomings in building the house.
For example, the terrain problem is obviously low inside and high outside, so it will definitely accumulate water when it encounters heavy rain.
Then the old woman took the new people away, found some people to count their number, name and gender, cleaned them, taught them some rules of their tribe, and arranged their food and accommodation at night.
Then, he asked Wang Meng and others to settle the tribesmen and slaves who followed this trip together, and asked them to start preparing food for the night.
Finally, carefully store the wheat seeds you exchanged for this trip.
After doing all this, most of the problems brought back were dealt with.
But this is not the end.
After he left these days, many tribe members seemed to have lost their backbone and accumulated a lot of things that were not handled.
When Wang Wei was there, his clan members didn’t think it was wrong. If you talk about any problems, Wang Wei will be able to give a solution soon.
But when Wang Wei was gone, the tribesmen obviously felt that things would be a lot of trouble.
The most serious thing is the bee sting.
These were just raised, and bees that were not completely domesticated were placed in the back mountain.
They are very hostile, but fortunately, no one else provokes them except the old women.
But the tribe members who burned kilns in the back mountain were very unlucky.
Although the fire path of the kiln is 180 meters away from the beehive, this distance is no less than a short distance for flying bees.
Once the smoke in the fire channel is slightly larger, the bees passing by near the fire channel will go crazy and attack people.
Not only people, but even the grass pigs that ate, slept and ate in the pigpen occasionally suffered from their hands. Several tribe members were stung by them near the fire path.
Even though these ordinary worker bees have no comparison with those who are fighting, their tail needles carry venom after all.
It will take several days to get stung.
Therefore, the problem of beehives must be solved.
But it is impossible for this beehive to move too far away.
It is too far away to take care of it. Without the protection of the murderous bees, this beehive has no lethality to many wild beasts with thick skin and flesh.
Once the night is overturned by wild beasts, Wang Wei has been working for several days in vain.
After thinking about it, Wang Wei finally decided not to move the beehive, but to move the fire path that burned the pottery.
Bees have a very sensitive sense of smell, and smoke can confuse their sense of smell, which is the main reason for their madness.
Once the fire path is removed and there is no smoke and fire, the bees will not go crazy for no reason.
What's more, the fire channel is not very practical. It is wasted too much heat for burning pottery, and the carbon consumption is too high, and the forming speed will be much slower.
If you build a pottery kiln to burn pottery, it can save a lot of charcoal.
It will not have much impact in the short term, but in the long run, it will almost save half of the cost.
After all, cutting down the wood from the tree, sawing it into a suitable length, drying it and burning it into carbon, which is a lot of manpower in the middle.
If the amount of charcoal can be reduced by half every time the pottery is burned, the manpower and material resources saved can be much more cost-effective than building a kiln.
What's more, once the pottery kiln is built, it doesn't have to be too big, with a depth of seven or eight meters, a height of three or four meters, and a width of three or four meters. How many pottery can be burned at one time, at most, only two furnaces are needed to burn out all the sent pots.
You should know that Wang Wei sent out a lot of pottery jars during this holiday, and he had not yet figured out how to explain to the old woman.
If nearby tribes change clay pots in a short time, with the slow firing speed of the fire channel, God knows how long it will take to burn enough clay pots.
Once the exchange cannot be made, it will be a huge blow to the reputation you have finally created.
Moreover, in the future, the tribes will definitely be full of people and talking, and firing pottery is not difficult. Even if you have no experience, you can find the appropriate heat even if you try it a few more times.
The only difficulty lies in the formula of clay. The pottery produced by clay formulas with different ratios is very different.
If you burn a lot of pottery, those who are interested only need to observe where the soil is taken, how much it takes each time, and it will not take long to study the formula.
Therefore, in order to temporarily monopolize the world's pottery making, in the future, the pottery burning must be managed in a closed manner.
Ensure that the technique of burning pottery must be in your own hands.
Since he wanted to do it, Wang Wei decided to make a big one.
Let go of the rest of the things you have in your hands and assign the people from the tribe. They are mainly busy with two things.
The first thing is to build a deer ring and expand the insect chamber.
Chapter completed!