Vientiane Throne of Civilization

Chapter 118

Zhou Xu thought about the waterwheel for a while, and felt that he could basically handle it.

On the premise that they have already mastered the technology of grinding wooden carts, it is not difficult for them to want to build a waterwheel.

Even the polished wooden cart axle can be used directly.

No matter how bad it is, just use the ready-made bamboo tube, it is estimated that it can be done.

As he said before, without polishing at all, it is really rare to see such a regular plant like bamboo.

But Zhou Xu is not in a hurry for this thing.

Compared with waterwheels, seeing the hot weather, he wants to build a house quickly.

So that the tribe members can have a more comfortable rest environment after being tired.

So at this moment, Zhou Xu didn't plan to pick up the water truck. Instead, he directly took the design drawing he had drawn and talked to the other party about building the house.

Wang Dashi didn't mind the fact that he had a new job as soon as he turned his head.

People in this era generally endure hardships and stand hard work, and there is basically no complaint.

In their concept, if there is something to do and food to eat, then the world will be peaceful!
Zhou Xu roughly told them about his thoughts first, and Wang Dashi and the others listened nearby.

It's not a particularly complicated thing in itself, and Zhou Xu also pays attention to explaining things in a simple and clear way, so Wang Dashi and the others naturally don't have any incomprehensible situations.

"Do you understand?"

After speaking, Zhou Xu turned his head to look at the seven members of the construction team including Wang Dashi.

Facing the question, Wang Dashi looked down at the design drawing spread out by their leader, and nodded after pondering for a few seconds.

"understand!"

"Well, you guys take a break first, and we'll start working after the break!"

At this moment, the time is just past noon, and it is still early to eat before dark. Naturally, the construction team's day cannot end like this.

After letting Wang Dashi and the others rest first, Zhou Xu turned around and found the logging team, both of which belonged to the Construction Engineering Department, and the size of the logging team was much larger.

After all, wood was used for many things in the camp, and the wood resources in the grassland camp were not abundant, so the logging team on their side basically shouldered the task of regularly supplying wood to multiple camps at the same time.

Taking this as a premise, if the scale is not enlarged, the daily timber supply will not be able to keep up.

In the construction of this thatched house, Zhou Xu considered the convenience. Although he planned to use bamboo as the main material, the frame of the house is still very important.

While it needs to be strong enough, the weight must also be heavy enough, otherwise a strong wind might blow your house down one day.

For this reason, Zhou Xu intends to use the trunk of a big tree to make the whole frame of the house.

After talking about this matter with the logging team, Zhou Xu returned to the camp, and saw at a glance the construction team headed by Wang Dashi, who was already waiting for him there.

"Are you all rested?"

"Have a good rest!"

Wang Dashi answered simply, and Zhou Xu didn't try to be pretentious with them. He directly led the construction team and walked towards the residential area.

Since it is to build a house, it is natural to arrange it in the residential area.

When he divided the various areas of the camp, he had undoubtedly gone through careful consideration. Even now, it seems that there is no problem.

Considering the increase in the tribe's population after development, this residential area naturally reserved a lot of space.

Regarding the first house that their tribe is about to start construction, Zhou Xu has already figured out where to place it.

After arriving at the place with the construction team, holding the wooden stick in his hand, Zhou Xu estimated the area of ​​the house and directly drew a rectangular area on the ground.

"Now dig up all the soil in this area, and dig it to a depth of one person."

Right now they don't have any particularly accurate measuring tools, so Zhou Xu can only measure the length and width through his own height, and then slowly adjust it.

In this era, the function of the house is to let them sleep and rest in it.

Theoretically speaking, the space of the house only needs to be able to accommodate a bed.

Of course, as the tribe continues to grow, they will definitely need more interior space in the future.

And when the time comes to completely rebuild the house, it will undoubtedly be laborious, so in the same way, the reserved space must be reserved in advance.

Zhou Xu undoubtedly built this first house for himself. Based on his height, the area of ​​the house is roughly [-] square meters.

This is by no means small. For a house of this size, if only one bed is placed after completion, the interior of the house may appear too empty.

Zhou Xu naturally knew this.

Therefore, in addition to the bed, according to his plan, he also plans to place a desk here, so that he can handle some work on weekdays here without having to go to other places every now and then. Borrow a place in the department shed.

The area of ​​[-] square meters is dug to a depth of one person. Considering the excavation efficiency of this era, the matter of digging the foundation is obviously not something that can be done in an afternoon.

On the other hand, the lumberjack team, in one afternoon, had basically processed and delivered all the wood needed by Zhou Xu to build the frame of the house.

The lumbering team treated these timbers quite slickly, which saved Zhou Xu and the others a lot of work.

While eating dinner, Zhou Xu called Wang Dashi, the captain of the construction team, and Zhuang Mengdie, the head of the equipment department, and told them how to deal with the wood.

Needless to say, the reason for calling Wang Dashi over, as for calling Zhuang Mengdie over...

"What I'm going to teach you next, Mengdie, you should also listen carefully, and you can use it in making things in the future."

If you want to build a house, Zhou Xu will definitely go through all the problems you may encounter in your mind before officially launching the action.

In this era, the biggest problem in building a house, to put it bluntly, is how to fix the frame of the house.

After all, he doesn't have any nails now, so he can't just use a bark rope to tie it tightly, right?
Putting this thing on the frame of the house makes people feel unsafe.

With such thoughts in mind, Zhou Xu suddenly thought of something, building blocks!

Building blocks can be firmly fixed together through the combination of concave and convex parts, so can this be used in the frame of the house?

After this idea came into being, he, who was drawing the design at that time, quickly found two pieces of wood, and after simple processing, he made a set of very rough connection parts to try.

After this test, he found that it was indeed possible!Make him overjoyed.

What Zhou Xu didn't know at this time was that the method he was thinking of now was exactly the structure method used by their ancestors, called the 'mortise and tenon structure'.

By accident, Zhou Xu, who had never studied such things, decided to go with his ancestors.

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