The Rise of Primitive Tribes Farming

Chapter 324 The First Green Brick House
In the middle, the spider tribe, inside the wooden house where witches live.

A huge spider web was hung on the top of the wooden house, and a red spider the size of a pottery bowl stayed quietly in the center of the spider web without moving.

Under the spider web, the witch of the Spider tribe flipped through the ancient animal skin scrolls left by the tribe. He flipped through it very slowly, and his face was not very good-looking.

Not long after, the leader came in. He saluted Wu respectfully, and said, "Wu, the Fish Tribe has indeed moved to the Southern Wilderness. Now there are only some empty houses in the territory of the Fish Tribe."

When they first got the news that the Yu tribe moved to the south, the major tribes couldn't believe it. After all, such a big tribe, how could they just move?
However, when they sent people to investigate, they finally discovered that the Fish Tribe had really moved away. This incident caught the tribes including the Spider Tribe by surprise.

The witch rolled up the ancient animal skin roll, sighed, and said, "The Fish Tribe is decisive! Such a large territory, if you give up, you will give up."

The leader said: "Then what should we do?"

The situation of the spider tribe is actually no better than that of the fish tribe. The winter is getting longer and colder. The spiders in the tribe, including their totem gods, are extremely uncomfortable.

Coupled with the threat of the jackal tribe, the spider tribe has actually considered moving south more than once.

It's just that they are not as decisive as the Yu tribe. After all, the foundation has been here for many years. If they go to a strange place, the tribe can continue to grow stronger.

The elephant tribe is an example. After they migrated to the southern wilderness, they still haven't become a big tribe again for so many years.

After thinking about it, the Spider Tribe didn't expect to be overtaken by the Fish Tribe.

The spider tribe witch pursed her lips, looked up at the spider and the big web on the roof, and finally said: "Make some preparations in advance, our life will be more difficult if the fish tribe is gone, and moving south may not Not a bad choice."

"However, I heard that the Mang tribe has become a big tribe in the Southern Wilderness. We have such a big enmity with the Mang tribe. It may not be as easy to move there as the Yu tribe."

Wu Youyou said: "Easy to move, not easy to move, we have no choice. Besides, the Southern Wilderness is so big, how much land can a Mang tribe occupy."

"Yes, I'll give you an order to make preparations." After the leader finished speaking, he turned to leave.

"Wait." Wu called to stop him.

"Wu, do you have anything else to order?" The leader turned his head and looked at Wu.

"Don't let too many people know about this matter for the time being, just prepare secretly."

"Yes!"

The leader of the spider tribe left with a heavy heart.

The spider tribe witch stood in the center of the wooden house, looking up at the big web on the roof and the spider in the web.

"Spider webs can help you prey, but at the same time, it also restricts your movement. Wherever the web is, the spider must be there. Not every spider has the courage to re-weave the web."

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At the same time, the ant tribe and the bee tribe could hardly hold on anymore.

The bad weather and the constant attacks on the powerful enemies at war made them very embarrassed. They didn't know how long they could last in the middle.

However, they are not like small tribes. Small tribes have few family properties, and it is not a pity to lose them. At worst, they have to start all over again.

The big tribes are different, and the price for them to start over is too high.

Therefore, like the spider tribe, they had the idea of ​​abandoning the central part and migrating to the southern wilderness, and they also made some secret preparations.

But until the last moment, they were unwilling to give up such a large territory in the central part.

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Southern Wilderness, Mang Tribe.

Hong Tu led the engineering team to build two huge brick kilns according to the requirements of the pottery workshop craftsmen.

These two brick kilns, like two hills, stand in the open space next to the pottery workshop.

After the brick kiln was built, Chenbei first asked the carpenter to make a batch of molds, and then transferred a group of people to the pottery workshop to help with digging clay, making bricks and other things that required a lot of manpower.

Afterwards, the brick kiln became lively.

Baskets of clay were dug up and carried to the brick kiln by two-wheeled carts or manpower along the road opened by the Mang tribe.

Then, someone is responsible for removing impurities and mud.

When kneading the clay, under Chen Bei's suggestion, some coal powder was evenly added to the clay, which was made by crushing large pieces of coal.

The function of adding pulverized coal is to support the combustion, so that the green bricks will burn faster and better in the brick kiln.

The reconciled clay is first filled into wooden molds and pressed into pieces of green bricks and mud. You can also engrave some patterns on them, such as the totem patterns of the Mang tribe, which will look better.

After completing this step, you need to dry the mud base in the air, so that the water is dry and the mud does not crack.

In fact, it is best to dry it in the shade, just like making pottery.

However, it takes a long time to dry in the shade, and the quantity of blue bricks required is large, so the drying can quickly evaporate the water, and when it is almost done, it can be dried in the shade for a day or two, and then it can be put into a brick kiln for burning.

The process is not complicated, but if you want to make a batch of good blue bricks, you need to make every process perfect, not perfunctory.

Soon, the first batch of blue bricks went into the kiln, and a large amount of coal was also piled into the kiln, and then began to burn violently.

The temperature in the brick kiln is very high, because coal is used, the temperature can reach more than 1000 degrees,

After the inside and outside of the green bricks are fully burned, instead of letting them cool down naturally, water is poured into the brick kiln.

If this batch of bricks were cooled naturally, they would appear red, but if they were water-cooled in a closed brick kiln, the iron element in the clay would not be completely oxidized, and it would appear blue-black.

What Chenbei needs are blue and black green bricks.

After the first batch of blue bricks were successfully fired, Chenbei immediately had people transport the blue bricks to a selected location near the altar, and then asked Hongtu to lead the engineering team to start construction.

The first step is to build the foundation.

Members of the engineering team quickly dug the foundation ditch with a stone hoe, then put down the stones one by one, and poured a large amount of lime mortar into the stone crevices to fill the gaps.

After the foundation was built, Hongtu led the team members with experience in building walls to start building walls with blue bricks.

Although Chen Bei has never built a wall before, he has seen others build walls.

As the saying goes, I have never eaten pork, but I have seen pigs run.

Chenbei told Hongtu everything he saw, such as plumb positioning, horizontal pulling lines, etc.

Hong Tu has a strong talent in this area, he just tried a few times according to what Chen Bei said, and he probably knows what to do.

It is worth noting that, in order to prevent bad weather such as hail, the green brick roof of the Mang tribe is conical, supported by blue brick pillars in the middle.

In this way, even if there is a hailstorm, there is no fear of smashing the roof.

In order to build this conical roof, red clay was tried to build with a few bricks on the ground over and over again. It took a long time to understand how to build it so that it would not collapse halfway.

When the first spacious green brick house with a dome appeared, Chen Bei almost burst into tears.

It's not easy, from living in a cave, to a wooden house, to a mud brick house, and now a blue brick house, Chen Bei finally has the opportunity to live in a spacious, clean and safe big house.

(End of this chapter)