The Rise of Primitive Tribes Farming

Chapter 323 Painted Pottery and Green Bricks

Painted pottery is after the pottery is dried in the shade, polished smooth, and then painted with pigments made of natural ore, and then put into the kiln for firing.

After firing, different colors will appear on the pottery, and there are beautiful pictures.

This is faience.

In fact, what Chen Bei wanted was porcelain, but he didn't know exactly how porcelain was fired, so he could only let the craftsmen in the pottery workshop freely.

Unexpectedly, although the porcelain was not produced, they actually fired the painted pottery.

Painted pottery is good. After the silver-white tin ware, the pottery looks dull. Although many tribes cannot afford tin ware, their desire to buy pottery is not so strong.

It’s different now. Now there are painted pottery, even if they are put together with tinware, each has its own merits.

Chen Bei asked curiously: "How did you find out that you can paint pottery?"

Wu Teng replied: "At the beginning, there was a piece of pottery, which was accidentally stained with paint. If it was scratched hard, the pottery would be destroyed, so I put it together and burned it."

"Unexpectedly, the fired pottery looks like a cloud on the place where the paint is stained, which is very beautiful."

"Later, we tried to use various pigments to color pottery. The pigments made of plants and trees are the worst, and they will fade when fired. The pigments made of colored stones will basically not fade."

"After solving the paint problem, we tried to paint on pottery, and it ended up like this."

Chen Bei looked at the clay pot in his hand, there was a fish on the front, it was painted vividly, very beautiful.

The paintings of the Mang tribe are different from those of other tribes. The pictures drawn by other tribes have extremely simple lines and exaggerated shapes, which are not like the originals at all.

The people of the Mang tribe basically learned Chenbei's realistic painting style. They just followed the painting, and the painted things naturally looked much better.

"That's right, very good. In the past, you were rewarded with some salt, animal meat or animal skins, and you probably don't need them now."

Chen Bei thought for a while, and said: "How about this, I will reward each of you with five tin coins. There are a lot of things in the trading area, and you can buy whatever you like."

"Thank you boss!"

Wu Teng and those craftsmen were a little excited. Although the rewards in the past were good, but no matter how good they were, why not choose them by themselves?

The value of tin coins has been widely recognized among the Mang tribe, because no matter who gets it, they can go to the trading area to buy things. Everyone has changed from suspicion to trust very quickly.

"Keep working hard, since you can make painted pottery, you will definitely be able to make better things."

"Yes! We must work hard to make better things."

The pottery workshop originally assigned some people to make tinware and tin coins, so those belonged to the tribe, but now, Chenbei personally distributed five tin coins to each of them, which belonged to them.

Chenbei opened a precedent for the tribe to directly reward money, and it was also the beginning of individuals starting to have savings. It can be predicted that in the future, those with skills and skills in the tribe will definitely live a better life.

When the tribe was in the most difficult time, everyone worked together, and there was no time to worry too much, but now the tribe is getting richer, and it is out of date to continue the previous model.

The reason is very simple, if a person with strength and hard work lives the same life as everyone else, why should he continue to work hard?

Chen Bei knew that such things as distributing money would definitely widen the gap between rich and poor in the tribe, which was bound to happen.

Those who are capable will be rewarded with more money, while ordinary people will have much less chance of being rewarded.

If things go on like this, the emergence of rich people is inevitable.

However, even if no money is distributed, those who hold real power in the tribe, and even his family and friends, will still occupy more resources and become rich.

For example, in the big tribes in the central part, there appeared aristocratic class, ordinary class, and slaves.

The appearance of money only makes this gap more obvious.

At the same time, another problem, Chen Bei felt that he should also be vigilant, and it was best to deal with it before something happened.

He walked around the pottery workshop, and then said to Wu Teng, "Now everyone in the tribe knows that tin coins are very valuable and can be used to buy things. The same goes for people in the outer tribes."

"If someone comes to steal it, then our loss will be great."

Wu Teng immediately frowned, and said sharply, "Whoever dares to steal, I'll kill him!"

Chen Bei waved his hand to calm Wu Teng.

"No one is stealing now, and it will be hard to say in the future. Many people risk their lives for a bite of food, let alone money."

"I think it is necessary to prevent this from happening in advance."

Wu Teng's face straightened, and he said, "Leader, tell me how to take precautions in advance."

Chen Beidao: "Set up the place where the tin coins are minted near the altar. There is a totem god guarding it. No matter how courageous you are, you dare not steal things."

Wu Teng said: "What about the tinware?"

"Tin wares are still manufactured here. Tin coins are the common money in the trading area, but tin wares are not."

Chen Bei had carefully considered this matter at the beginning of the birth of tin coins, and he found that there was no safer place in the whole tribe than near the altar.

It is perfect to open the place where money is made near the altar.

Wu Teng nodded: "We all listen to the leader."

"One more thing, you have also seen the weather last year, with hailstorms and floods, the current mud brick houses can't stop it at all."

"So, I want to make a kind of brick for building a house, called green brick."

"Now that we have coal, it is not difficult to fire blue bricks, but we need to build a larger brick kiln and the firing time will be longer."

"Blue bricks?" Wu Teng had never heard of this word, but he had seen mud bricks before, so it must be something similar.

Chen Bei took a piece of pottery clay and patted it into the shape of a rectangular brick, saying: "Like this, the quality of the soil doesn't need to be very good. At that time, make some molds, press the clay into this shape, and then put it into the brick kiln burn."

"After burning, pour water on the bricks to cool, and they will turn into green bricks."

This thing is not complicated. Wu Teng has experience in firing pottery, so he can understand it immediately. The only thing he is more puzzled about is why he needs to pour water to cool it.

Pottery is naturally cooled. If water is poured on it, it will be suddenly cooled and hot, and it will easily crack.

However, since the leader said so, there must be a reason to do so, just do what the leader said.

In fact, the reason why Chenbei fired green bricks instead of red bricks was because the building materials in this era were relatively poor and the weather was so bad, so blue bricks were much better at resisting erosion than red bricks.

The difference between the firing methods of green bricks and red bricks is only natural cooling and water cooling.

The Mang tribe relies on the Lobster River, and now has a moat, so there is no shortage of water at all. Naturally, they have to burn green bricks, which are better than red bricks.

Chen Bei decided that the first green brick house of the Mang tribe was built near the altar and used to mint coins.

Of course, the premise is that the green bricks should be fired first.

　Thanks to "Huang Aide", the law protector of this book, for the 1500 book coins.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)