Chapter 396: Brick kiln on the agenda

At the beginning, people in the tribe were very worried about placing such a large swarm of bees within the fence of the tribe, fearing that these bees would sting people.
If it is just placed outside, I am afraid that such delicious honey will be taken away by something else, so I am still in entanglement and recognize the survival of bees in the tribe.
After being in contact for a few days, I found that these bees are busy flying around collecting pollen every day. As long as they don’t attack the hive like Xiaofu did at the beginning, and directly attack the hive, these bees will not actively attack people. People completely relieved this time.
There are even many children who stand not far away from the beehive when they are okay, watching the bees go in and out of the beehive, watching some of them involuntarily put their fingers in their mouths to suck.
Sweet honey is attractive enough for children who like to eat sweets. Just say, work well and drink a bowl of honey water. These guys work harder than anyone else... …
After the turmoil brought by the bees gradually subsided, the spring planting of the Qingque tribe was basically completed.
The first millet planted had already emerged from the ground, revealing tender buds receiving the caress of the spring breeze.
Outside the Qingque tribe, near the small river, smoke is now rising.
This is the person who has already freed up from the spring seed, and there began to make tiles with mud to prepare for the big blue brick house that the son said.
Nowadays, Heiwa basically stopped intervening in making tiles, and left it to two people who often beat him to complete it.
Compared with more demanding pottery, tile is relatively easy to use.
But he was not idle either, and he had more important things to do at this time.
Compared with burning tiles, burning bricks is more difficult. The kiln used for burning tiles is not suitable for burning bricks.
It's not that the firing is impossible, but it is too much labor.
They tried to burn them once before, and the fire burned for three days before finally burning the bricks through.
After spending so much time and materials, no more than a hundred bricks can be produced in a kiln, and half of the bricks are broken out of the kiln, so it can be used.
According to this progress, the big blue brick house that Han Cheng wants to build will really not appear until the year of the monkey...
Facts have proved that tile-fired kilns are not suitable for making bricks. The solution is of course to build a new kiln suitable for burning bricks.
The first requirement of the newly built kiln is to be large enough to hold a lot of bricks at once, at least more than 1,000 pieces.
The second is firmness.
Because of the living environment of later generations, Han Cheng saw an earthen kiln that burned bricks, and earth kilns were not uncommon in those years.
Of course, most of the brick kilns he had seen were abandoned.
In my impression, the small brick kiln made by the indigenous method looks like a cone with a height of about four or five meters and a diameter of more than 15 meters, with a thin top and a thick bottom, similar to a huge grave.
Inside such a large mound, there is an arched space built up with bricks, and there are also arched openings on the side that are used to transport the bricks and people enter and exit from here.
Inside, the space is relatively large, and the manufactured and dried bricks are placed inside...
The construction of such a kiln is also a big project. Even if Han Cheng intends to reduce the kiln by half, it is undoubtedly a big deal for him and the people of the Qingque tribe who only know the general structure but have never done it. challenge.
Especially the arched roof is a thing with high technical requirements.
However, there is not much to think about, only to catch the ducks on the shelves and learn while fighting.
Many things are actually the same. If you don't try it, no one knows if you can do it.
For example, the previous charcoal burning and iron smelting, which Han Cheng had never thought about before, but what can he do if his life has reached this point? Can only bite the bullet.
Man! You don’t have to do it yourself, you never know how good you are!
Han Cheng sighed and encouraged himself, and then began to arrange manpower to do things.
The first is to let some people continue to make bricks, which is very necessary.
At the same time, they let them continue to burn bricks in a small earthen kiln that is not suitable for brick burning.
There is no way, the brick kiln to be built later needs to be built with bricks, so it can only be fired in this way first for use.
It's just that the bricks fired in this way are not cyan, but stained with some khaki red.
If you want to burn blue bricks, you also need a procedure that cannot be carried out in a small earth kiln for burning tiles.
After a few days of such things, under the leadership of Han Cheng, part of the Qingque tribe began to excavate sites not too far from the original small earth kiln.
A round hole with a diameter of about eight meters and a depth of about one meter and twenty was dug out.
After the completion of these works, to see if there were not enough bricks burned out, Han Cheng thought about it, and asked someone to chop some more tree sticks and prepare to build a hayloft near the earth kiln.
Of course, this straw shed is not for people to live in, but for bricks.
The bricks are the same as the mud embryos of pottery, and they don't see the sun, especially in summer.
Nor can it withstand rain.
Therefore, Han Chengcheng took advantage of this opportunity to let someone build a hayloft to shelter the bricks from the wind and rain. This way, even if it rains in the future, there is no need to be frightened.
The people of the Qingque tribe are familiar with the things of building thatched sheds. After Han Cheng marked out a place to build the sheds, he basically didn’t need to worry about the rest. The people in the tribe could take care of the rest. Everything is done well.
The people of the Primordial Bone Tribe once again marveled at the abilities of the Qingque tribe.
How could they have so many things?
After this feeling, ~EbookFREE.me~ began to invest in this kind of labor, to contribute to the tribe, and to learn these novel skills as soon as possible.
When the people in the tribe were busy for this, Han Cheng, as the chief engineer, did not idle after arranging all the affairs. Instead, he used the bricks that had been burned out and kept arranging things, a bit similar. To play with building blocks.
First, two ‘walls’ that are no more than 30 centimeters high and no more than one metre long are put out. The distance between the two walls is one metre.
Then, using bricks, start to stretch the vault out little by little between the two ‘walls’.
The vault is a hurdle that cannot be circumvented in the construction of brick kilns, because it is the same choice whether it is load-bearing or heating.
This matter is nothing for people who are used to doing the building work, but for a novice like Han Cheng, it is much more difficult.
"Wow..."
The arches extending from the two ‘walls’ have collapsed before they are smoothly handed over...