Prehistoric Survival Records

With the previous batch of charcoal as an example, the patriarch sent someone to take over the charcoal-burning activities the next day.

Li Ge evened out some of the first batch of burned charcoal and built a large filter pool for the clan to filter daily drinking water, and another pool was specially used to filter salt water.

Although the salt water pool is some distance away from the tribe, the whole process of filtering the salt water and then transporting the salt water back to the tribe to dry it up is a bit troublesome, but fortunately, the orcs in winter have nothing to do other than finding ways to eat their fill. It's too much trouble.

Lige has already made up his mind that when another batch of charcoal comes out of the furnace, he will build a large pond in the place closest to the collective cave in the tribe. At that time, it will be more convenient to filter and purify nearby and then burn it dry.

Once the two pools are built, there is not much charcoal left. Fortunately, the charcoal burning has already been done by orcs. After two days, new charcoal will be burned out to purify the salt. It is enough to proceed to this step, and the rest of the conditions will not be met no matter how much you think about.

Rigg's work at hand was separated, and he had more time to ponder his mud bricks.

There is nothing complicated about the firing process of mud bricks, but firing bricks, like pottery, requires soil. The most commonly used clay bricks in rural areas were banned by legislation in later generations because of a large amount of waste of soil resources and destruction of cultivated land. The more environmentally friendly coal gangue and fly ash are used as the main materials for firing bricks.

But in this day and age, naturally there are no such scruples.

It is actually very simple to find a large amount of clay. In addition to the clay hills naturally formed on the surface, there are also termite mounds in the forest, which are all sources of clay.

Especially for termite mounds, if you suddenly need to use high-quality clay in the forest, you can dig termite mounds. The clay in termite mounds does not contain any messy things such as stones, sand, plants, etc., and as long as the termite mounds are not completely After a period of time, the industrious termites will work hard to carry clay to repair their homes. It can be said that finding a termite mound is equivalent to finding a renewable clay resource, which is very useful.

However, Rieger is not prepared to search for the above two methods. In fact, the easiest way to get a large amount of clay at one time is to go to the lake, river or stream to dig the sandy land on the bank. Usually these places A large amount of clay will accumulate, which is the so-called lake-based clay.

Compared with the above two, this is the easiest way to find clay.

Riger took two strong laborers to the tribal lake and dug up the lakeshore, revealing a large piece of yellow soil. What surprised Riger was that the clay was yellow because of its iron content, and it could be used Let's burn a good soil for high-quality red bricks!

Anyone who has a certain understanding of the history of ancient China must know that red brick was once the most widely used material in ancient Chinese rural buildings a long time ago. This is not only because clay is very common and easy to obtain, but also because red brick Brick has the characteristics of good air permeability, warm in winter and cool in summer, and is also very strong.

The natural lifespan of a small red brick building can reach hundreds of years. Even if the building collapses, the red bricks taken out can still be reused.

The fact of finding the red bricks and soil has made Lige fall very quickly, who knows that there are even bigger happy events waiting for him.

Gal was digging the soil. Since the clay is yellow in color and fine in texture, it is very easy to identify. He just needs to bury his head in the digging, and he will never make a mistake. But when he was digging, he looked up and wondered, why did the color change? , although the soil here is also very delicate, the color has changed from yellow to white.

In order to prevent himself from digging up useless things, Gal hurriedly called Rigg to take a look. When Rigg looked at it, his heartbeat went straight to [-], and he clutched his chest and throbbed.

How much does the Beast God prefer these big guys? There is such a large piece of kaolin distributed next to the rich loess resources!

What is kaolin? Anyone with a little common sense knows that it is the embryonic material of porcelain. With kaolin, it means that in addition to rough pottery, you can also try to make rough porcelain. If you develop a glaze method, Wouldn't it be that ceramics would be completely born in Lige's hands?

I'm really excited just thinking about it.

However, the geological structure of this place is really amazing. Usually, the iron content of clay is more than 3%, and it is reddish-yellow, while the iron content of china clay is less than 3%, and it is shell white, which is bright when you look closely. Shiningly, the soil of these two components is supposed not to appear next to each other in one place, but they are next to each other right now.

What a puzzling nature! .

But the emotion is the emotion, he is relentless in digging up the soil, the kaolin can be placed first, after all, the temperature required for firing porcelain is much higher than that of pottery, and he has not even made mud bricks, let alone pottery.

Too lazy to find a new place, Lige directly drew a circle in the area where the charcoal kiln was located as a brick kiln, and disposed of the ice shell on the ground as it was.

Although the clay dug back is of good quality, it is deposited on the river bed after all. The clay contains a lot of gravel, grass roots, stones and so on. First, these things must be sorted out and thrown away, and then the agglomerated parts should be removed. Break it open with a big stone, and after cleaning up the whole pile of clay and mixing it evenly, the two brothers are exhausted, even though they are so powerful.

There is endless work, but people still have to rest, so they went back to each house to find their mothers, and continued to gather at the same place the next day.

After the cleaned clay pile was placed overnight, some water evaporated, and the viscosity became stronger, which also represented higher plasticity.

Rieg grabbed and squeezed the clay with his hands, felt the delicate texture, and nodded in satisfaction.

Mud bricks need to be produced in large quantities, and it is definitely not possible to squeeze them by hand. Before making bricks, brick molds must be made.

Billy asked Rigg curiously: "What is a brick? What is it called a brick mold?"

Rieger explained to him: "Bricks are mud stones of the same size. A brick mold is to make a grid with wood first, throw the mud into the grid to smooth it out, and then pour it out. The bricks will become the same size."

Cal asked again: "What is that grid?"

"The grid is," Rieger scratched his cheek and gestured to them, "the grid is this size, made of wood, and a square bowl."

"Oh!" The two orcs didn't understand. They knew about bowls, but wood can also be used to make bowls, or is it square?

Lige looked at the dizzy mosquito-repellent eyes of the two orcs, and was a little funny. He knew that he couldn't speak clearly, but he understood after instructing them to practice.

"Split the wood like this, it doesn't have to be too thin, and yes, it shouldn't be too narrow—"

"Gal, yours is a bit long, half of this length is enough."

"Yes, it's almost at this height."

In order to facilitate stacking, Lige directed that the size of the brick mold made is similar to that of the red brick in the previous life. It is long at both ends, narrow in the middle, and slightly shorter than his small fist. The standard brick size in the previous life was 240mm*115mm*53mm. Now They don't have a ruler or anything at hand, so they can only measure it visually, basically that's what they mean.

Grab some clay and fill it into the brick mold, smooth it out, and then pour it out, and a square brick embryo is made.

"You see, if you just use your hands, you can't knead a brick embryo with such a flat shape and square sides. With the help of a mold, the brick embryo will be made quickly and well. This is the role of the mold."

In fact, the IQ of the orcs is not low at all. Rigg only demonstrated it once, and they immediately understood the function of the brick mold. Even Gal immediately asked Rigg by inference: "Then if we want to make a thing of other shapes, is it right?" Just make a model, too?"

"You are right, you can make it into any shape you want, and you can make a large batch of things quickly and well, this is the function of the model!"

When Lige explained the function of the brick mold, the first piece of mud embryo that was taken off the ground changed from its original square shape to a soft square due to its high water content.

Rigg pointed at the mud embryo without losing the opportunity and taught: "Clay needs to contain a certain amount of water for easy modeling, but if there is too much water, it will be easy to deform, so it is dug from the river and dried for a certain period of time. It's almost there. If the surface is not smooth, you can sprinkle some water on it, and it will be smoothed easily. But be careful, you must use the gravity of the clay to release the mold when the clay is still wet, or wait until the mud is completely dry It will be very difficult to take it off after it is transparent, and it will also damage the brick shape.”

"In order to ensure that the shape and size of each brick are the same, the standard of the brick mold is based on the first one. No matter how many bricks we make in the future, we must always use the brick mold of this size. This must be remembered. As for It’s good, you will know later.”

The guidance time is over, everyone divides the work and cooperates.

Billy chipped the molds, Cal filled the molds with clay, Rigg supervised the work, and Charlie—

Well, as a cub without avatars, it's fine that Charlie is in charge of being cute.

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