MTL - Be a Leader In a Primitive Tribe-Chapter 51

Bricks and tiles will be the most basic materials for the tribe's future development for hundreds or even thousands of years.

The firing of bricks and tiles will also be a long-term job, just like the planting and breeding industry. As long as the tribal construction does not stop, the firing of bricks and tiles will never end.

With this awareness, this project can avoid impatience, and the work rhythm can be better controlled.

Xindi is close to the river and has plenty of water. Moreover, the soil here is fine and rich in aluminosilicate minerals, which are suitable for firing ceramics, clay tiles, and green bricks.

So in terms of raw materials, they have unique advantages.

To burn bricks, you have to set up a kiln first.

Pan kilns also need bricks, and these bricks must be made of cooked bricks, and these cooked bricks can only be fired bit by bit in small pottery kilns.

The kiln for making pottery is different from that for firing bricks. The former is a sealed kiln. The best fuel is fire-resistant pine wood, which can reach the temperature you want.

The kiln used to burn blue and red bricks is a Ming kiln, which does not even need to be capped, and the fuels are more diverse.

Unfortunately, no coal has been found yet. Otherwise, there is no need to rely on the trees on the mountain all the time for fuel.

The firing method of bricks is the same as that of pottery. The clay is first selected and aged before it can be smelted. After the clay raw materials are ready, the bricks can be made and dried, and finally the bricks and tiles can be fired.

Not counting the pre-processing time of soil, firing a batch of bricks and tiles, from making blanks to firing finished products, even took as long as ten days and a half months.

This is also the reason why Sangyu plans to build four to five brick kilns. In turn, it is equivalent to firing a kiln of bricks and tiles in two days, and there will be no bricks or kilns that will be idle.

The molds for making blanks were handed over to the manual team to make. In the absence of iron knives and axes, only stone knives, stone axes and bone knives were used to make molds. The efficiency of making molds was very low, and the finished products were quite rough. But fortunately, these models can be recycled tens of thousands of times, and the hard work is worth it.

The pottery kilns are small, and in three kilns, only a thousand or so cooked bricks can be fired at most at a time.

Five or six batches were fired in a row before barely burning enough bricks for the pan kiln.

Pan kiln is also a technical job, especially this kind of large kiln with a capacity of 10,000 to 20,000 bricks.

Yan once built a small kiln for pottery, and now he is naturally leading the production of the large kiln.

After opening his heart, Yan has returned to the appearance of an honest old craftsman. He can do whatever he is called. He is willing to use his brain and has patience. He can be regarded as a rare productive warrior. Wall, omnipotent and solid.

Of course, Sang Yu likes such subordinates, who are simple and capable and don't like to show off. To be honest, she wished that everyone was like Yan.

But this is impossible. Thousands of people have thousands of faces, different personalities and different urban styles will form all kinds of people. They are not machines and cannot be manipulated by others.

As a manager, Sang Yu's biggest task is to find out the strengths and weaknesses of everyone as much as possible, and arrange them to suitable positions.

The most important part of the Panday Kiln is the top part, which needs to be in the rock. The initial method is to excavate from the middle of a small soil bag.

Because the surrounding soil was compacted, the shape of an air-raid shelter of tens of kilograms and one hundred square meters was dug out, and the top did not collapse.

The outer layer is a soil bag with a thickness of more than three meters, which can well insulate the brick kiln and prevent water and air leakage.

Then use the baked bricks to lay the bricks inside bit by bit, then according to the design of Sangyu, add a chimney, and open a hole at the top to serve as fuel and cooling water inlet for the kiln, and finally Build the hearth and kiln door in the kiln.

This kiln is a green brick kiln, which can mix bricks and tiles. The height is seven meters and the inner diameter is six meters. After the above and this way, a kiln that can burn 30,000 bricks at a time is made.

When Yan was in the pan kiln, Sister Daxue assisted, while the others were busy handling the soil for firing bricks and tiles.

First, the soil is collected. The soil from the new land is dug up, spread out on the empty field to dry and stir, and the cycle goes on and on, allowing the soil to experience the time of "three summers and two summers". The purpose is to remove the violent substances in the soil and increase its flexibility.

Then it is mixed with mud. There is no animal power, only human power.

Watching 20 people stepping on mud and mud every day, beating the mud with wooden sticks is very hard.

Sang Yu looked at the water flowing by the river, and also started to think about making hydraulic vehicles.

But there are too many tools missing at present, the lack of axes and iron knives. But there is no way to do a lot of work. It takes a lot of time just to chop a wheel and chop a board.

So she can only record these ideas first, and then implement them when the time is ripe. For now, she will use the most primitive method to carry out.

After the mud is smelted, it comes to the billet making stage.

Under the arrangement of Sang Yu, the handicraft team cooperated in making brick models.

The mold for making adobe is a square frame made of wood. When operating, put the soil into the frame, press the mud with both hands to fill the corners, then scrape the surface, and finally flip the mold on the ground. Such an adobe is formed.

Similarly, there are molds for making tiles, which are called tiles. These are Sang Yu's efforts to recall the relevant knowledge obtained from TV documentaries and other channels, put forward ideas, draw a rough design, and let the handicraft team The horns led people to go through trial and error before finally making the mold.

With these molds, once the brick and tile team is proficient, one person can make adobe of 1,000 to 2,000 bricks and tiles a day.

The whole process of making bricks and tiles takes a long time. But the longest is also at the beginning. Once the soil is prepared, it will take at most ten days and a half months from the blank making to drying in the shade and firing.

A kiln can burn 20,000 to 30,000 bricks, and as long as there are enough people, a kiln can burn twice a month.

The five brick kilns started working in turn, and they could produce 200,000 bricks a month.

A small house uses only a few thousand bricks, and a small courtyard house uses about 30,000 bricks. If we calculate this way, we know that once the brick kiln is in normal operation, the bricks will definitely be enough.

Burning bricks and tiles is hard work, and Sang Yu doesn't want the clansmen to work desperately, in the end just to keep track of the progress of the infrastructure.

The construction of a city or a regional tribe has never been accomplished overnight. It is often built while living. It is too early to want to be at ease now, once and for all.

So you can't work for the sake of work, work for the sake of progress.

To enjoy life while working, and not to leave work while enjoying life.

This is the stage the tribe is currently in. It is not yet suitable for breaking away from the big pot, nor is it suitable for putting personal efficiency first.

Because productivity is extremely low at this time, and personal skills are almost zero. Without the support of advanced tools, no one person can be separated to complete a task completely. The main work needs to be coordinated with each other, so the fruits of labor should also belong to the entire collective.

The existence of public ownership will continue for a period of time. Only when people can do something independently, for example, a person can catch a prey independently, and can survive alone without relying on others or tribes. When this situation becomes normal, it can start. Consider private ownership.

Only the private ownership at that time can better motivate people and encourage people to constantly find ways to increase productivity, thereby achieving the effect of improving work efficiency, and society can also continue to progress and develop because of this.

But even at that time, it is still impossible to fully operate the purely private system, and the best way to survive should be a mixed implementation of public and private.

But that's another story.

Based on this consideration, Sang Yu's current working method is also a mixed mode, which is to go to work on time and return to rest on time, and at the same time cooperate with the team leader's supervisor to avoid passive sabotage.

In order to give everyone a staged hope, Sang Yu once again carried out a major reform of the work.

That is to arrange rest days, as in modern times, seven days are a week, with one day off every Sunday.

The previous military training was changed to Saturday training.

In this barbaric era, the idea that all people are soldiers cannot be lost.

In this way, within a week, production labor is carried out from Monday to Friday, military training is carried out on Saturday, and Sunday is rested.

When this rule was issued to an individual, the entire tribe was boiling.

This is the first time that they have a rest day justifiably. Everyone is very excited. They feel that such days have become regular and full of hope. It is really cool to have a day off after six days of hard work.

But the people in the breeding team couldn't stop working. Because pigs, sheep and chickens don't care whether you rest or not, they will eat when they are hungry.

For such positions, the on-duty mode is turned on. The people in the breeding team or the kitchen are divided into two shifts, one on duty and the other on rest, and come back next week, and the person on duty will get extra tribal benefits. Compensation, including food, pottery and other tools.

Building a kiln, burning bricks and making tiles cannot be done overnight, and the cycle is long. Sang Yu positions herself as a leader and supervisor. She is responsible for painting cakes, and puts forward design concepts and plans, and other people will realize the drawings. cake.

Of course, in this process, she must follow up and make some suggestions at any time.

The specific work is Yan, Jiao and Daxue.

But even so, the big and small things in the tribe still consumed most of her energy. She almost fell asleep after taking a shower every day. She didn't want to do anything, and she had to wait until the next day to wash her clothes.

She misses the modern washing machine very much. The clothes are finished as soon as they are thrown in, unlike the current washing machine, which is so troublesome.

If the world can invent the first home appliance, it must be a washing machine.

It stands to reason that Sang Yu is the leader, but she really doesn't want others to touch her clothes, especially her underwear, unless they are close people.

It's still early April, and it's still a bit cold for Sangyu.

Yu has been sleeping in her room since the snow fell. Until the weather warmed up and everyone else moved back to their huts, there was no movement on her side.

Sang Yu didn't let her go, she still came to sleep at night as usual.

For Yu, there was nothing wrong with sleeping with the leader. The leader slept very quietly, but his feet were always cold.

Yu stayed and didn't leave, partly because of this.

She had to warm the leader's feet.

She will leave when the weather really gets hot and there is no need to warm her feet.

But when he saw a basin of dirty clothes in the corner of the room, after this happened a few times, Yu knew how much his leader didn't like washing clothes.

Looking at the woman on the bed, who was already breathing evenly, Yu looked at the basin of clothes with some hesitation. It can be imagined that when she woke up, she looked disgusted again, and reluctantly went to the bathroom with the basin in her arms.

Looking at her thinner face, Yu looked at the sky outside, which was still slightly bright at this moment.

In the end, she still hugged the basin and saponins, turned around and went out.

When Sang Yu woke up the next morning, it was already daylight.

These days, she is really exhausted and crazy because of these bricks and tiles. She doesn't know when the little girl will lie down at night.

Thinking that I still have a basin of dirty clothes that haven't been washed, I finally crawled up hopelessly.

But I saw that the basin was empty.

She opened the bamboo door and poked her head out to see that there were a few familiar clothes hanging in her exclusive drying area, not hers but someone else's.

People in the tribe dare not enter their houses without authorization, let alone help them wash their clothes.

The answer is obvious.

Sang Yu felt a little warm in her heart, but she couldn't help but feel a little shy looking at the underwear hanging among the clothes.

She has handled underwear by herself since she was growing up, not even her mother.

Now being helped by a fourteen-year-old girl to clean her underwear, she felt a little shy for no reason.

I don't know what she was thinking when she was washing her underwear.

Thinking of this, Sang Yu quickly shook her head to stop such thoughts.

It wasn't until dinner at night that Yuguan came back from duty at the card office, and the two of them saw each other awake for the first time in the past few days.

Sang Yu just came back from the shower at this time, and habitually left the basin in the corner, just not wanting to do the laundry.

After entering the room, Yu turned his head and met Sang Yu's piercing eyes.

She lowered her head a little guilty, but quickly adjusted her breathing, and walked straight over to pick up the basin.

Sang Yu didn't like to do this job, but she still felt sorry for enslaving such a young child to work for herself, so she hurried forward and snatched the basin.

"I wash it myself."

Unexpectedly, hearing these words in Yu's ears, it had a different meaning.

She raised her head in embarrassment, but quickly shifted her gaze and said, "I didn't mean to touch your things, I just didn't want you to work too hard."

Looking at the girl's injured eyes, Sang Yu knew she had misunderstood.

Busily put down the basin, grabbed her hand, and explained softly: "I didn't mean that, but I'm an adult, you are a child, you also have a job during the day, you have to patrol and be a guard, you are also tired, I I can't give you any more tasks."

When Yu heard this, he burst into tears in an instant.

But still a little unhappy and said: "I'm not tired, it's you who think I'm tired."

Sang Yu sighed, "I wish someone would wash my clothes for me. But these are my personal things. I am too embarrassed to let other people touch them, but I am willing to give them to you, but I feel... Cough, I I really want to be lazy, can I?

If you want, I will wash the small one after I take a shower, and wash the rest if you have time, okay? "

The emotion of laziness will be out of control, and Sang Yu has fallen.

But seeing Yu bit her lip, her voice was like a mosquito: "I also washed those small ones for you."

Washing one is also washing, and washing two is also washing, why bother the leader, anyway, she is too lazy to wash.

"This... this is not very good, I'll wash it myself, don't rob me—by the way, it will be the day of exchange in a few days, will you go to the market with me this year?"

Sang Yu hurriedly changed the subject.

Hearing this, Yu blurted out without thinking: "Of course I'm going, I'll go wherever you go."

The corners of Sang Yu's mouth curled up instantly.

How is it like finding a little daughter-in-law for myself? Not only do you wash your clothes and warm your bed, but you also protect yourself when you go out. Although reticent, she is a very warm girl inside.