The Rise of Primitive Tribes Farming

Chapter 281 Post-disaster reconstruction
After the hail came, the Mang tribe suffered heavy losses.

On the contrary, those small tribes other than the Mang tribe suffered much less losses.

On the one hand, they are not mainly planting. Hailstorms will at most frighten them to hide temporarily, but it will not affect their hunting and gathering afterwards.

On the other hand, these tribes live in dense virgin forests, and most of the damage from hailstones is borne by those big trees. Moreover, even if a few holes are smashed in their dilapidated houses, it is nothing more than patching a little thatch and bark That's all.

Therefore, when the hailstorm came, these small tribes were not only not sad, but excitedly ran around to pick up the birds or beasts that were smashed to death.

This feeling of being able to pick up the prey without any effort is really great. If it weren't for the terrible hailstorm, they would all want to play a few more games.

This is probably because some people are happy and some are worried.

After the hailstorm, the Mang tribe immediately set about repairing the damaged roofs.

Fortunately, the Mang tribe has burned a large number of tiles in recent years and has a lot of reserves. The main houses can guarantee that the tiles will be replaced as soon as possible.

As for those less important houses, they can only be temporarily covered with bark and thatch.

After all, there is a lot of rain in summer. If you don't hurry up and fix it, it might rain sometime, and there will be nowhere to hide.

"The city wall will be suspended for a few days. Red earth, please work hard and bring people to repair the smashed roof. I will let the pottery workshop burn more tiles as soon as possible."

"The roof of the granary must be done as soon as possible, otherwise if it rains, all the stored grain will be gone."

Chen Bei and Hong Tu inspected the smashed roofs in the tribe to decide which ones to repair first.

"Leader, don't worry, before dark, the roof of the granary will be temporarily covered with large sheets of bark, and the tiles will be replaced tomorrow."

Chen Bei nodded, and said: "I'm very relieved when you do the work, time is tight, so I won't say anything else, let's fix the granary first."

"Yes!"

Hongtu left in a hurry, it was already afternoon, and he wanted to lead the engineering team to fix the roof of the granary as soon as possible, even if it was dark, it had to be done by lighting a torch.

Chen Bei looked at those roofs and sighed slightly. He originally thought that the houses of the Mang tribe were already very strong. Compared with other tribes, the houses of the Mang tribe were already very advanced.

But with the arrival of extreme weather, he suddenly found that the mud-brick house could no longer cope with these extreme weather.

Floods and hailstorms are just the beginning. With the advent of the Little Ice Age, disasters like this will happen frequently in the future.

These mud-brick houses simply cannot cope with extreme weather.

Unless, the Mang tribe can make a strong brick and concrete house.

But Chen Bei knows very well that bricks and cement can still be found, but the roof needs reinforced concrete.

With the current capabilities of the Mang tribe, not to mention steel bars, it is enough to make bronze.

Food needs to be eaten bite by bite, and the road needs to be walked step by step. I really can't rush.

"Can you use wooden beams instead of steel bars?"

Chen Bei seriously thought about this problem. He had seen people do this in his previous life. Because he didn't have money to buy steel bars, he directly erected wooden beams, spread wooden boards on the wooden beams, and spread a layer of five-centimeter thick cement on top of them.

But thinking that such a house would soon have cement cracks, Chen Bei gave up this idea again.

"It's really hard for a clever woman to cook without rice!"

Chen Bei felt a headache. Could it be that he could only live in a cave when encountering these natural disasters like other tribes?
"No, there is another method of construction, which can be done without steel bars!"

Chen Bei's eyes lit up, and he thought of a kind of house that he had seen by chance in his previous life: a stone igloo.

This kind of house is made of stones, not even cement, and has an oval roof, which is still very strong after thousands of years.

Chen Bei naturally didn't plan to use stones to build a house, because just polishing these stones into smooth stone bricks would be a time-consuming and labor-intensive project.

He only needs to find a way to fire the bricks and cement to make a solid domed cement house. If a few more pillars are added to the house, even if there is a bigger hailstorm than before, he will not be afraid!

The Mang tribe already has rich experience in firing pottery, and has even developed towards firing stronger and more beautiful porcelain.

On this basis, it shouldn't be too difficult to fire some blue bricks and cement.

Right now, though, the most important thing is rebuilding after the hailstorm.

The matter of firing blue bricks and cement can only be put aside for a while, and we can talk about it later when we have time.

Chenbei walked to Qingzhu's yard, called Qingzhu and the twin sisters, took a lot of healing medicine, and went to visit those tribe members who were injured by the hailstorm.

The leader and the witch came to visit together, and personally delivered the medicine, which was a great honor for the injured clansman.

Even those clansmen who were not injured felt a little jealous, wishing that they were the ones who were injured.

Chen Bei said gently: "Take good care of your wounds, the tribe will need your help in the future to grow stronger."

A clansman whose head was smashed said excitedly: "Don't worry, leader, this injury is nothing, I can go to work tomorrow."

Chen Bei deliberately lowered his face, and said: "If you are injured, you should take good care of it, so why rush to work? The sun is so bright, what if the wound is burned? Let me heal the injury before going!"

The clansman's eyes were filled with tears by Chen Bei's words. He nodded and swore in his heart: The leader is really kind to me, and he must do more work in the future.

Chenbei and Qingzhu went around the tribe, basically all the seriously injured people went to see them, and gave them medicine.

Under the joint encouragement of Chenbei and Qingzhu, not only those injured were full of fighting spirit, but the hopes of other clansmen were also rekindled.

No one complained anymore, everyone was working hard to save the hail damage as much as possible.

A few days later, with the efforts of everyone, the roof of the Mang tribe was repaired again, and it was stronger than before.

The number of engineering teams led by Hong Tu has increased a lot, and their proficiency has also increased rapidly, and their work efficiency has steadily improved.

The planting areas that suffered the most losses have also begun to be replanted. Those crops that were killed by crushing or freezing were all shoveled and re-spread with food crops or vegetables with a shorter planting cycle and higher yields.

The orchard trees also suffered heavy losses, and many unripe fruits were damaged by the hail and fell to the ground.

These immature fruits are all cheap for the livestock in the breeding area.

Those fruits that did not fall were taken care of intensively. Those who were in charge of planting fruit trees wished they could stare at them day and night.

The days passed day by day, and one month later, that is, the third month of summer, the Mang tribe basically resumed normal life and production.

Things like floods and hailstorms have never happened again. Disasters like this will not happen often, otherwise it would be really hard for people to live.

(End of this chapter)