From Chief to Ball

Everyone feels like they've earned it, and that's the deal.The basis of this deformed transaction is that summer is here.

The peaches are about to ripen, and all kinds of tubers are about to swell, and they can live by collecting them, so people like Hua can study here for a few days without worrying about the affairs of the clan.

Summer is always easy to get through, but winter is hard.Every tribal leader can always see farther.

This year is a big year, the mountains are full of hazelnuts and acorns, and they will not go hungry in winter.But their experience also told them that a big year must be followed by a small year, and the trees may not bear fruit in the second year.

They have to think about the tribe's winter next year, so I hope these people can learn how the Chen Jian tribe lives.

Chen Jian didn't worry about this problem, and he didn't plan for the tribe to live on acorns next year, but this winter there will definitely be a lot of greedy wild boars who ate too many acorns and died of swelling.

All kinds of food collected are not enough. It rained heavily a few days ago, and the grass river swelled, and some river forks that were originally dry were also covered with water. He and his tribe blocked the fork with wooden sticks side by side, and waited until the water receded. Fish will stay.All kinds of grasshoppers and honeycomb pupae of Scolia can be eaten after being fried.It's not a problem at all if there are more people.

So on the second day, a few people from the tribe came and wanted to stay for a few days. After discussing with the tribe, Chen Jian easily agreed.

All kinds of stones were replaced by clay pots. It was said that only different stones can be replaced, but now there are overlaps with each other, but Chen Jian still accepted them and told them to remember these stones, and the same stones cannot be replaced next time.

Those people felt that there might not be any stones to change next time, and they had to use other things if they wanted to change things.

In three to five days, 80 to [-] people came one after another, and there were more or less people from each tribe.The ones who came more often learned from one, two, three, four, and knew that if there were fewer people, they would not be able to carry them on their backs;

Pottery rings were introduced as an intermediate product of barter when most people thought it was superfluous.

Chen Jian didn't expect currency transactions to appear now, but coinage is easy, and it is difficult for people to accept currency.It will take several years or even ten years for these people to accept the concept of currency as a general equivalent.

His appearance only speeds up the process of history, but cannot control history.History is created by people, and people's thoughts can only be changed subtly. Relying on the development of spontaneous transactions, God knows how many years it will take for the concept of equivalents to appear.

The current effect is that these foreigners feel that Jian is very strange, but they still accept this transaction method.

After storing the items of their respective tribes, they followed Chen Jian and others with curiosity to try a different life.Since Chen Jian decided to use these people as his future base and the foundation of his countrymen, he naturally hoped that their population would be as large as possible.

The main purpose of these people was also to eat, so Chen Jian asked the women to take them to fish on the first day.

He himself led the clansmen to prepare for future development.

The copper ore is just a hundred miles away, whether it is far or not, it is not close.In the next two or three years, there are three things that are most important to the tribe.

Plant, Bronze, Destroy the Meteorite Tribe.

Chen Jian heard from his grandmother about the migration. His people migrated from the southeast decades ago. He has no idea what the level of the tribes there is now. Today's information flow is too slow, and my own tribe is obviously the westernmost branch of a tribe in the southeast.

Without him, when the population increases many years later, it may continue to migrate westward to disperse the population.

The west side is empty?Or are there ethnic groups that are not a branch of them?This question is a bit far away, but the meteorite tribe in the northeast is a real threat.

They have simple sponge iron, they have strong and intelligent leaders, and they can maintain the population of their tribes in the form of tribute.

The longer the time, the greater the probability of them discovering and raising and planting, and the greater the threat.

Once they appear, they can jump directly to primitive slavery. Because of the difference in weapon generation, the ratio of slaves to slave owners can be slightly higher.They are located on the east side, and there must be other tribes in the east. The technology on their own side and the technology on the east side will gradually spread to that side, and it will be troublesome at that time.

To prepare for war, you need enough off-duty time.Planting can make up for the time problem. Simple bronze can improve the efficiency of planting. Conversely, planting can also provide enough non-foraging time for smelting bronze.

These three things interacted with each other, the planting was already prepared, and all that was left was to melt and cast the bronze.

How many steps does it take to cast bronze?Regardless of the ratio of copper, tin and lead, Chen Jian thought it was very simple. It was nothing more than copper ore plus charcoal reduced at high temperature and poured into the mold.

But when I really planned to do this, I found it very difficult.

Just like teaching Yu Qianer how to build a house, I also wrote the four words copper mine, high temperature, charcoal, and mold on the bark, and when I opened it down to see what I needed, I was dumbfounded.What was originally thought to be completed in four steps, was densely written on a large piece of bark.

Because I understand it, I am even more in awe of the things that the ancients who just walked out of the wilderness have left for future generations. The things on the bark are too cumbersome, far from being as simple as I thought.

Copper mines, the following issues need to be considered after development: food acquisition technology to ensure that the tribe has time to mine; stone tool drilling technology, making rollers or mortars, smashing copper mines; wire sand cutting, used to process large stones Make mortars; weave wicker baskets and carry ores.

High temperature, after unfolding, you need to consider: burning bricks to facilitate stacking out of the kiln chamber; enough bones to facilitate excavation of the kiln pit and clay; the bricklayer technology of the coupon dome can build a dome that does not require supporting columns, so that it can be upgraded Furnace temperature; burning charcoal, because chopping wood is too difficult, and charcoal can be smashed to facilitate burning to increase the temperature; boiling salt, used to nitrate leather; firing pottery, used to make pottery rings; tanning skin and pottery rings are used to make simple blowers.

For charcoal, bricks and charcoal kilns should be considered. This is the least step, but it is also the most difficult to make. If you are not careful, it will collapse and cause death.There are no slaves yet, so he must consider the survival of his tribe and himself.

To pour the mold, you need to prepare in advance: burn pottery to make a crucible, so that the second-melted copper juice can be melted in a high-temperature furnace; make a long handle and place it on the crucible, wood and stone are not good, high temperature will burn and shatter It is even worse to pinch the crucible with bare hands; enough beeswax is used to make a wax mold, and the outside is covered with clay and heated. The beeswax is melted and discharged to form a hollow structure, and it can be formed by pouring copper juice into it...

Chen Jian stared at these things on the bark in a daze, complaining about all of this, and hadn't considered the most difficult problem of copper-tin ratio.It is hard for him to imagine how many hardships the ancestors who were the first to use bronze went through to create such a splendid bronze culture.

For everything that is densely packed, tick the ones that have been done, and circle the ones that have not been done.This is just a theory, and when you actually start working, you will encounter all kinds of strange problems.

For example, for burning charcoal, burning bricks, and issuing coupons to build bricks and onion-head kiln roofs for furnaces, this is the key to evaluating whether a bricklayer is qualified in rural areas in previous lives.A bricklayer who can’t issue coupons is not a good bricklayer. A bricklayer relies on experience and practice, and using science to deduce it is even more troublesome. He can’t do this, he can only grope a little bit.

It took a day to dig two kiln pits on the downwind slope of the river outside the village, one for pottery and the other for bricks.

Acorn has started to use simple tunnels to fire pottery, but the fragmentation rate is still very high. This time, it is just time to improve it by using the time of building brick kilns.

"Knowledge is easier than practice..."

Squeezing the bark in his hand, looking at the dug holes, Chen Jian felt uneasy for the first time, and he knew that this kind of feeling would only increase in the future.

With the social division of labor and the advancement of science and technology, the days of strategizing between talking and laughing are gone.

The clansmen were waiting for him, and he silently clenched his fists to cheer himself up, and began to ask the clansmen to use mud to build the surrounding walls.

The walls are easy to hang, pull the ropes, and increase the height layer by layer. The people of the clan cover the house, and their eyes are still a little bit accurate.

The wall was soon finished. Chen Jian chose a few younger people to follow him, and the rest went to build the wall of another kiln.

Now the clansmen have gradually begun to take care of their own work. Considering the need for a professional mason in the future, the candidate for this mason has to be cultivated from these few people.

He touched the stone shovel very heavily, stood on the wall that had already been piled up, and lowered the first block of mud at a slight angle.

The following people served mud and bricks in an orderly manner.In the era of the apprenticeship system, these apprentices who handed bricks and mud needed talent and eyesight in order to be apprentices at the fastest speed, or they might only be able to hand bricks and mud all their lives.

As an experiment, the dome span of this kiln is not very large, only a little over two meters.Do this well to try a wider span.

The sticky yellow mud is more or less, and stone flakes are stuffed into the gaps, trying to squeeze the mud as much as possible, extending and closing up little by little.

It is easy to know whether it is qualified, because these mud slabs are not stuck by yellow mud, so after building a few layers and having a curvature, go up and step on it to see if it will collapse.If it collapses, it proves unreasonable, and it is stuck by mud, so it needs to be dismantled and remade.

In one day, the few tribesmen who handed bricks and mud saw Chen Jian build and dismantle, dismantle and build again, tossing back and forth.

The clansmen who built the wall next to them not only finished building, but also started to make bricks with smaller pottery molds, and the flat ground in the distance had already dried a lot.

When the Golden Crow was hanging down, Chen Jian looked at the results of his day's labor: zero.

With a self-deprecating smile, he waved his hands at the clansmen and said, "Let's go, go to the riverside to line up as usual."

For three days in a row, as always.

Most of the foreigners left, and they learned what they wanted. The place where they live also has river fork and tree bark. With pots, they can boil oil, and they can marinate meat with salt...

Compared with the exhaustion of making bricks and mud these days, they thought it was better to go fishing and hunting, and they went back with what they thought was enough knowledge, imagining how the tribe would be jubilant.