Infrastructure maniacs from the East

Burning pottery, in the eyes of ordinary people, is a very fun activity. It cannot be said that pottery museums can be seen everywhere, but there are never many big cities. You can use the turntable if you are handicapped. You can pat your ass and leave in the stove, and the rest will naturally be handled by technology and professionals. All you have to do is to take the courier or pick up the goods at your door.

Modern ceramics are no longer a rare thing. Piezoelectric ceramics have long been used in lighters, and special ceramic techniques are used in rockets. Porcelain can be seen everywhere in life, but here, let alone porcelain , Not even the most primitive pottery, everyone uses wooden plates and bowls, and usually eats with hands!

And they don't have paper, which means that the hand they use to wipe their butt may be the same as the hand they use to eat, and because clean means unclean... Emmm Xu Tian can't think about it anymore.

Xu Tian does not have a kiln to burn pottery, but he is still ready to start. After all, life is short and you can do it if you don’t accept it. The most important thing is that he found a few in a novel he read before that can burn pottery without a kiln. method, and the feasibility seems to be quite high.

Of course, as a layman who has never even entered a pottery museum before, he actually doesn't know the success rate, but he has all the materials needed in it, and he can fully meet the conditions, so why not try it? Well, maybe you can turn a bicycle into a motorcycle if you give it a try.

Taking ten thousand steps back, so what if he fails, he just wasted a little of his time and energy, and this is what he is not afraid of the most now, after all, the territory is already like this, no matter how much he struggles, he will not be as good as he is now. It got worse.

Therefore, Lord Xu, relying on the descriptions of novels that were unreliable, embarked on the simple pottery-burning method without hesitation. After all, he really wanted to have a sip of soup. I really don’t want to see that after I go to the toilet in the middle of the night, an unknown liquid seeps out of the urinal in the room the next day!

Well, because Xu Tian has a basic sense of shame, he asked someone to find a wooden barrel with a broken handle as his own urinal, and insisted on solving his daily physiological needs in the room, and the servant poured it on the white clay the next day In the pit he dug, the housekeeper understood the importance he attached to excrement and insisted on the policy of exchanging beans for excrement. However, the price of his excrement was much higher than the normal price, so every time someone rushed to help him pour it out. What is that.

Of course, he did not deny that part of the reason the butler worked so hard was because every time the butler filled a pit, he would get a certain amount of beans, which could also be exchanged for garlic-flavored soap.

Humans are profit-seeking creatures, so there is a difference in efficiency between the first two days and the next few days. Xu Tian didn't say anything, but just went to inspect it every day, suppressing his nausea to check whether the housekeeper did what he asked , doing pretty well so far.

By the way, these days when he was big, he always wiped it with leaves. The agricultural officer kindly asked him to find relatively large and smooth leaves for him, and changed them every day, but this does not mean that going to the toilet is a an easy job.

After all, the wooden barrel is thorny, after all, the skin is delicate, after all, if there is no oil and water in the food, it is easy to be constipated...God knows how Xu Tian got here.

Well, Xu Tian, ​​who was tortured enough, finally thought of the ancient Chinese toilet chip. He asked the carpenter to make a lot of thin wood chips the size of a palm, and mixed them with the leaves. By the way, I am glad that I have a male body now. If it is a female, then the special period...well, I dare not think about it.

The emergence of toilet chips has not been welcomed by the majority of the people, because everyone in this place loves nature and yearns for freedom. They usually wipe what they grab and use. They have always been bohemian. In this era when wooden bowls are valuable possessions, they I don't even have the money to repair the roof, so where can I get the coins to buy the wood chips that I just want to make myself comfortable for a short time, and can only be idle at other times.

Burning pottery is a very simple thing, and the soil is not too particular. It's just that Xu Tian doesn't know whether he is ignorant or the world is really so backward. Anyway, he has never seen a piece of pottery since he came here. , there is not even a single piece of pottery, and the materials for the container are only wood, silver, and gold. The simplest and most economical thing like pottery is lost or what, anyway, it has never appeared.

But it doesn't matter, as long as Xu Tian's experiment is successful this time, things like pottery will enter everyone's life at an incredible speed and bring him a lot of wealth.

There are several ways to make pottery without a kiln, but they are all the same—fire, time, and soil.Xu Tian picked out the two easiest ones that he could use now, and asked the agricultural officer to call the slaves to prepare for work.

What did the agricultural officer think? Xu Tian didn't know, but he said that this person is also a very useful subordinate. Although the expression on his face after knowing that he had asked several people just to play with mud was really indescribable, it didn't matter. It does not prevent him from faithfully carrying out the orders of the lord.

Of course, as a farming officer who is very busy all year round, it is impossible for him to accompany the lord all the time to do these trivial things that seem meaningless to him. After a polite request, Xu Tian readily agreed—— The son temporarily replaced the agricultural officer and accompanied him to do such trivial things as supervising the slaves.

Xu Tian unreasonably asked the carpenter to make a few long and wide boards and put them on a relatively flat ground. The mud bricks by the river had been dried and collected piece by piece and placed in the shade of the castle.

One method is to add crushed plant leaves and stone powder to it, this will not trouble Xu Tian, ​​just divide two slaves to do this, and then Xu Tian digs a handful of clean yellow mud himself, Add water to test the viscosity.

Very good, not up to standard, and there are small stones and litter in it, it needs a thorough cleaning.

The son of the agricultural officer is called Jack. He is a half-adult with the size of two palms and three fingers. It is easy to have children in this era, but it is very difficult to raise children, especially raising children. And cherished, most of the children from poor families have no names before they grow up, and the upper-class people usually take a baby name, Jack is the baby name, he dreams of getting his own name after two fingers.

Xu Tian didn't know the twists and turns, but simply asked Jack to help check the qualification of the materials, such as the viscosity of the soil, whether the impurities in it were picked out, and whether someone was lazy on purpose.

By the way, in fact, there are only ten people on Xu Tian's side, all of them are women, and seven are still underage. In fact, Xu Tian can manage it alone, but the agricultural officer knows how generous the lord is, so he is generous. The cheek stuffed Jack over, hoping to let him eat a living, after all, half a child eats a poor man, and the farm officials are almost hungry.

Ten people, the two youngest crushed the leaves of the plants, smashed the small stones into powder with big stones, and carefully collected them aside to prevent them from wandering with the wind.

The remaining eight people dug out the yellow soil from the river and put it on the board, crushing it by hand in small pieces, carefully picking out the gravel, litter and fallen leaves inside, as well as all kinds of soil that might be there. Plant a small worm that has never been seen before, then add water to wet the mud, and then stretch one of your hands to the sky (the lord is called raising your hand), and let the lord judge their results.

Xu Tian... Xu Tian doesn't know, but the stickiness is definitely not enough, and the amount is obviously not enough.

So, under the gaze of a group of people who couldn't see the facial features, the ruthless lord began to let them continue to make this qualified clay without hesitation, and did not say the required quantity.

Yes, the lord only pointed out at the very beginning how crushed the leaves should be, and how the stones should be smashed into powder, and after confirming that Jack had learned it, Jack would act as the supervisor. It was the time when he had a strong desire to express himself. Before he came, the agricultural officer had also earnestly told his son to listen to the lord's words, so Jack took it seriously, learned quickly, and had very strong supervision, which made Xu Tian very satisfied.

The efficiency is very low, but Xu Tian has tried his best. Even Little Jack dug a lump of his own soil to make the mud embryo under Xu Tian's order, but it was still difficult to reach Xu Tian's heart, until the two responsible The slaves processing stones and fallen leaves came into view, and Lord Xu thought of the division of labor that he had neglected.

As a result, the team's efficiency finally began to improve.

Two people are responsible for dredging, one for picking up small stones, one for cleaning litter inside, one for removing insects, one for watering and mud, and the last one for making mud embryos. Several boards are placed as close as possible. So that the slave can reduce the speed of walking.

The efficiency after the specialization of labor was obviously not comparable to the hodgepodge just now. Soon, several piles of yellow mud, which were about the size of an adult's head, were initially reconciled. The lord signaled everyone to turn their attention to Jack, who was in charge of verbal command.

Wrestling, beating, kneading, making clay is not as difficult as people imagine, it's just boring.

In order to test the success rate of adding various materials, Xu Tian did not hesitate to use the variable control method on the few mud embryos, adding different amounts of plants to several, adding different amounts of stone powder to several, and adding different amounts of stone powder to several Both stone powder and crushed plants were added, and nothing was added to the last few.

In order to facilitate the distinction, Xu Tian ordered according to a straight line, first adding plants, then stones, and finally adding nothing.

Although the novel said that plant leaves and stone powder are called clinker, which can make the pottery not easy to break when firing, but Xu Tian, ​​as a complete newcomer, felt that he had better be more cautious.

Beating and kneading the soil is very simple, but very boring, but none of the slaves here is lazy, not only because of the beans yesterday, but also because they know how easy and rare it is to do this compared with farm work .