In the end, a large part of the construction team members who had just gotten free returned to the pottery team. Under the leadership of One-Eyed and Wu, these people were all sharpening their swords into the mud.
After seeing them start to make mud embryos, Chen Chao explained to the little old man that the pots made this time should be stackable.
After the explanation, Chen Chao led Da Zhuang and his base stove team to work, choosing the place where they usually cook in the tribe.
Just put some of the reconciled yellow mud in the house and put some bricks in a clay pot, and the people who are looking for the grass tribe will bring in a batch of bricks, and the work can be started directly.
Chen Chao used the pottery pot to sign for the space that needed to be reserved, and took Da Zhuang to make the first one. After confirming that Da Zhuang had learned it, he turned his hand to work on other things.
Because he still has something else in his mind, he has recently awakened many tribes and populations. So Chen Chao plans to go out in the near future, bring a group of people back, and bring back some bronze mines by the way.
And Chen Chao has been pondering this matter recently, and now there are several ways to think about the population.
1. Use love to influence each other and let them join the Tianyuan tribe, (Of course it’s impossible. With this strength, it’s good not to be influenced by other people’s force~~)
2. Trade with resources. The tribe now has resources: stone pots, straw sandals, straw ropes, and rattan baskets.
3. Turn on the plundering mode, and those who don’t join will destroy the whole clan.
So the first and third options are directly passed, and the second option is ok. In addition, Chen Chao also made up the idea of another small tribe, intending to absorb their entire clan.
After all, it's winter, and those small tribes will starve to death and freeze to death if they don't have food and animal skins to keep out the cold. So at this time, there should be a great success rate in a wave of charcoal.
And those medium-sized tribes should also be happy to get some pottery pots that can be heated on the fire. If you can reduce a few mouths to eat, I believe they will not refuse.
As for the big tribe, it is the last choice. Because it is not clear whether this large tribe, which can barely survive the cold winter, plans to exchange population. However, if they can exchange some of the animals they raise, some special products can also be exchanged, preferably seeds and other things.
Moreover, Chen Chao is also afraid of being blackmailed by the opponent. In addition, several large tribes are far away from the Tianyuan tribe, and may not be able to go there. Even if they go there, they will not have enough resources to go. exchange.
However, if you choose the second type, you have to consider how the resources are transported. If the problem of capacity is not realistic, the wild horse group is mainly a dozen horses. And Chen Chao felt a little reluctant. Besides, if the Mustang hadn't been domesticated, it would be troublesome to carry people, let alone pulling a carriage for hundreds of kilometers.
Now that the bronze hasn't been back, there is no way to get the bronze horseshoe, plus the heavy objects. After going back and forth like this, the horse is almost no expense.
And there are people in the Tianyuan tribe who believe that the wild horses are alive, otherwise how could they be obediently brought back from such a far place by the deputy leader?
So in the absence of capacity, Chen Chao could only use people as capacity.
Fortunately, he is not interested in carrying a lot of things to go to the big tribes to fight alone, so he will still take a group of people away, but this matter must be discussed with the little old man.
Since people are considered as transportation capacity, it is definitely not possible to carry hundreds of pots and bowls with one's shoulders to replace people. One is unrealistic, and the other is that the efficiency and carrying capacity are too low.
And two-wheeled vehicles can't be considered. There is no way. There is no capacity. It would be great if we can get a batch of buffalo and other animals with good endurance.
Then you can only get on the wheelbarrow. The wheelbarrow is also known as the ‘chicken bus’ and the ‘shofar’, mainly because it keeps ringing when driving, and the two push handles at the front and back are like horns.
The wheelbarrow is usually able to bear the weight of six people at a time, and it does not put a lot of weight on the pulling people or animals, but distributes the weight evenly between the puller and the wheel itself.
And it can run on narrow roads, and its transportation volume is several times larger than human load and animal load. This kind of car can work in the countryside and fields, and it is convenient to walk on rugged paths and hills
But if it's just a wheelbarrow, it will all depend on manpower. It’s too much, I can’t even think about it~
So Chen Chao decided to go directly to the wind wheelbarrow (if you are interested, you can search on Baidu, the keyword is ‘wind wheelbarrow’ to see the picture, it’s an old photo from the Republic of China).
That is, after the unicycle is made, a cross bar is added to the front of the wheel, and a prismatic sail is tied to the bar, but this can only be replaced with animal skins for the time being.
Chen Chao first thought of two styles of wheelbarrows. The first one is a funnel-style wheelbarrow, and the second one is a flat plate at the bottom and some railings around it to prevent things from falling.
The funnel-shaped wheelbarrow is too limited. Although it looks more stable, it is very suitable for loading and transporting building materials (sand and bricks), but the things that can be loaded are very limited.
And the second type, although there are many things that can be loaded, but considering that this time the delivery is mainly pottery and other materials. Pottery is good in everything, but it is fragile and heavy. It is not as good as a wok and an iron bowl. Porcelain is solid!
So Chen Chao decided to combine the two. The surrounding railings were changed to wooden boards, and a movable wooden board was added as a partition. After the pottery was released later, the partition in the middle could be abandoned and the bronze ore could be transported back directly. .
In fact, the pottery is also placed in rattan baskets. There is a barrier between rattan baskets and hay. The problem of fragmentation should be solved well.
It seems that there is no need for wood partitions in the middle, after all, adding movable wood partitions still requires a certain amount of weight.
And this time, I rushed to lead a large number of people to a long-range raid of more than 300 kilometers. Except for the pottery, the unnecessary weight addition was less.
After deciding on the specific style of the wind wheelbarrow, Chen Chao still has two problems to be solved. One is the production of the outermost wooden board, and the other is the top priority of the wheelbarrow, the production of wheels.
As for wood planks, it is unrealistic to deal with long-distance wood planks directly without a saw in the Tianyuan tribe. It is impossible to make them into modern flat and thin wood planks.
It is true that there is a plant with sharp jagged edges, but it is unrealistic to use that to deal with large wood. It is still possible to deal with small branches of the thickness of the wrist. Just be patient.
Therefore, if you can use a stone axe to divide a log with a height of 6 to 70 cm into quarters, you can be called a master.
So Chen Chao could only make do with a pile of thick wood as the outer frame of the car.
In the case of wheels, there are two options.
One is to bake the wood, and then turn it into the desired arc.
The second is to directly find logs of suitable size to make wheels.
It is indeed possible to bake wood, although this method does not limit the size of the wood, as long as it is long enough, there is no problem.
But there is really nothing to fix it now. Therefore, the option of roasting curved wood was directly passed by Chen Chao.
Then there is the second option, to directly find a log of the right size to make wheels.
He went to the Timber Mountain in the cave to find a few logs that were suitable for the size of wheels, because there were really too few logs suitable for wheels.
The main reason is that Chen Chao intends to burn through the logs at both ends in the middle, burn a large enough round hole, and then leave enough space for the spokes.
This means that the wood must be large enough.
In fact, round wood (rolling wood) can be used directly without any treatment. But this is very heavy, and it is easy to crack along the wood grain.
If it is hollow, it will be much lighter. In addition to saving effort, it can also greatly increase the speed of travel.
However, you can make a few more wheels and take them on the road for spare. Putting these woods next to the pottery can also effectively reduce the collision between pottery and pottery.
