Chapter 396 Brick Kiln on the Agenda

At the beginning, people in the tribe were worried about keeping such a large swarm of bees within the tribe's enclosure, fearing that the bees would sting people.

If it is just placed outside, I am afraid that such delicious honey will be taken away by other things, so I am also in the midst of entanglement, and I agree with the survival of bees in the tribe.

After contacting 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, but directly bite the hive, these bees will not actively attack people. This time, people are completely relieved.

There are even many children who stand not far from the beehive and watch the bees come in and out of the beehive when they are free. Some of them will involuntarily put their fingers into their mouths to suck.

Sweet honey is attractive enough for children who like to eat sweets. Just say one thing, if you do a good job, you can drink a bowl of honey water. These guys work harder than anyone else... …

After the turmoil caused by the bees gradually subsided, the spring planting of the Qingque tribe was basically completed.

The millet that was first planted has already emerged from the ground, revealing tender buds that are being caressed by the spring breeze.

Outside the Qingque tribe, near the small river, smoke is now rising.

These are the people who have freed their hands from the spring seeding, where they start making tiles with mud, preparing for the big tile house of blue bricks mentioned by the Son of God.

Nowadays, Hei Wa has basically stopped intervening in the tile-making work, leaving it to the two people who often help him to complete it.

Compared with more demanding pottery, tiles are relatively easy to use.

But he is not idle either, he has more important things to do at this time.

Compared with firing tiles, firing bricks is much more difficult. The kiln used for firing tiles is not suitable for firing bricks.

It's not that it can't be fired, but it's really too much work.

They tried to burn it once before, and the fire lasted for three days before finally burning the bricks thoroughly.

After spending so much time and materials, only a hundred bricks can be produced from one kiln, and half of the bricks are broken after leaving the kiln. There is no way to use them.

According to this progress, the blue brick and large tile 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 firing bricks.

The solution, of course, is to build a new kiln suitable for firing bricks.

The first requirement for a newly built kiln is to be large enough to hold a lot of adobes at once, at least more than 1,000 pieces.

The second is to be firm.

Because of the living environment of later generations, Han Cheng had seen brick-burning clay kilns before, and clay kilns were not uncommon in those days.

Of course, all he saw were basically abandoned brick kilns.

In my impression, the appearance of the small brick kiln fired by the local method is a conical shape with a height of about four to five meters and a diameter of more than fifteen meters, with a thin top and a thick bottom, similar to a huge grave mound.

Inside such a large mound, there is an arched space built with bricks, and there are also arched openings on the side, which are used to transport bricks inside and people can enter and exit through this.

Inside, the space is relatively large, and the manufactured and dried bricks are placed here...

It is also a big project to build such a kiln. Even if Han Cheng intends to reduce the size of the kiln by half, it is undoubtedly a big deal for him and everyone in the Qingque tribe who only know the general structure but have never done it. challenge.

Especially the vaulted top is a very technically demanding thing.

However, there are not many ways to think about it, only to drive the ducks to the shelves, and learn while fighting.

A lot of things are actually the same. If you don't try it, no one knows if you can complete it.

For example, charcoal burning and iron smelting were things that Han Cheng had never thought about before, but life has come to this point, so what can we do? I can only bite the bullet.

man! You don't have to do it yourself, you never know how good you are!

After Han Cheng encouraged himself with emotion, he began to arrange people to do things.

First of all, let some people continue to make bricks, which is very necessary.

At the same time, let the two continue to burn bricks in a small earthen kiln that is not suitable for burning bricks.

There is no way, the interior of the brick kiln to be built later needs to be built with bricks, so the only way to do it is to fire some of them in this way for later use.

It's just that the bricks fired in this way are not blue, but are stained with some earthy red.

If you want to burn green bricks, you need to have a procedure that cannot be carried out by small clay kilns for firing tiles.

After a few days of such things, under the leadership of Han Cheng, some people from the Qingque tribe began to excavate at a place not too far from the original small kiln.

A circular pit with a diameter of about eight meters and a depth of about one meter and twenty was dug out.

After the completion of the work, Han Cheng saw that there were not enough bricks fired. After thinking about it, he asked people to cut more sticks and prepare to build a grass shed near the earthen kiln.

Of course, this thatched hut is not for people to live in, but for bricks to 'live in'.

The brick adobe is the same as the mud embryo of pottery, and the sun cannot be seen, especially in summer.

Nor can it stand the rain.

So Han Chengcheng took advantage of this opportunity and asked people to build a straw shed first to shelter the bricks from the wind and rain. In this way, even if it rains in the future, there is no need to worry about it.

The people of the Qingque tribe are familiar with building the straw shed. After Han Cheng marked out the place to build the straw shed, he basically doesn’t need to worry about the rest. The people in the tribe can take care of the rest by themselves. Do everything well.

The people of the original bone tribe were once again amazed at the ability of the people of the Qingque tribe.

How can they have so many things?

After feeling like this, I started to devote myself to this kind of labor, to contribute to the tribe, and at the same time to learn these novel skills as soon as possible.

When the people in the tribe were busy with these things, Han Cheng, the chief engineer, did not sit idle after arranging all the affairs. Instead, he kept arranging things with the bricks that had been fired, which was a bit like Playing with blocks.

First, put out two 'walls' that are no more than 30 centimeters high and no more than one meter long. The distance between the two walls is one meter.

Then use bricks one by one, start between the two 'walls', and extend out little by little to place the vault.

The vault is a hurdle that cannot be avoided in the construction of a brick kiln, because this thing is the best choice in terms of load bearing and heat.

This matter is nothing to those who are used to doing building work, but it is much more difficult for Han Cheng, a rookie.

"Clatter..."

The arch extending from the two 'walls' has collapsed before the smooth handover...