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Published at 4th of January 2023 11:27:18 AM


Chapter 104

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Mu Feng explained for a long time, but Li Hu was still a little ignorant.

In desperation, he had no choice but to take them outside to choose trees, and then instructed them to cut and tie the logs, and finally how to use the stakes himself.

Watching four or five talents set up a big tree stump and smash it on the ground, the dull "bang bang bang" sounded continuously, which has a sense of sight of the process of modern industrialization.

After the wooden stakes were smashed down one by one, the original potholes on the ground quickly became smooth.

By noon the next day, the foundations for the whole tribe to build houses were all solidified.

Li Hu asked: "Great Chief, what should we do next?"

"Well, now we all go to Mingguang to transport the soil he dug up to the tribe. Then go to the back mountain to pick up the thick black-skinned bamboos and cut them off, leaving some thick ones, and cutting the others into three pieces. The bamboo is divided into four pieces."

"In addition, bring a few more people to collect all the ash from the tribe."

"Yes!" Li Hu agreed.

Cutting black skin bamboo is very familiar to the tribe.

It is not difficult to collect plant ash, because I just collected it a few days ago.

What puzzled Li Hu was that he knew what the chief asked him to do every time, but he didn't know why he did these things.

Especially now that Mufeng asked him to cut bamboo and collect plant ash, he can do both, but he doesn't know how these two things are related.

Before he could react, Mu Feng said again: "Take out the hay stored by the tribe, and we need to use it!"

"Yes!" Li Hu quickly responded.

Although he didn't know why he did these things, he knew that the chief made him do these things for his own reasons.

Mufeng's doing so is naturally reasonable, he wants to build a house for the tribe that integrates living and protection - Tulou!

Tulou is a kind of house built by the Hakka people in southern Fujian in ancient times.

This kind of house is a kind of soil mixed with sandy clay and clayey sand, and the walls are rammed with plywood, and other buildings are made of wood.

The earth building is an outer layer of soil and an inner layer of stone, which is windproof, waterproof and more fireproof-authentic earth buildings can also prevent earthquakes and typhoons.

What Mufeng wants to build is exactly this kind of house, which integrates living and defense together.

It is definitely not as easy to build as an adobe house, but once it is built, it can allow the tribe to live for many years or even multiple generations!

The outer earth wall is well resolved.

After the foundation is laid, the wall base can be piled up directly with stones mixed with hay mud.

The upper wall can be shaped by using black-skinned bamboo as a wall column, black-skinned bamboo slices are used to shape, clay is placed in the middle, and "concrete" made of sand, gravel and crushed hay is added, and then it is rammed vigorously to solve the problem. .

The problem is that the inner wall needs to be piled up with stones or bricks, but stones are piled up to form a wall. Needless to say, the stability is a big problem.

The main reason is that he has no cement right now.

If he had cement, this problem would not be a problem.

In desperation, he had no choice but to turn to the system, and exchanged a method of making cement from the system.

This cost 200 achievement points, which is not a bit more expensive than Jing Zhulu's 50 achievement points.

But fortunately, Mu Feng is now "rich and powerful", with 3400 points of achievement pressing his waist down, he is very rich.

After exchanging the method, he felt for the first time that it was worth exchanging just now, because there are many methods to make cement, and there is one that Mufeng can use right now—the plant ash method.

The material needed for this method is also simple, and it is not difficult to implement.

So he asked Li Hu to collect all the ashes in the tribe.

But he was surprised when he saw the ash piled up like a small mound.

"Why are there so many?" Mu Feng looked at Li Hu.

"Actually, we used these things to bury excrement in the past..." Li Hu scratched his head in embarrassment, and did not continue.

But Mu Feng didn't take it seriously, nodded and said in comfort: "Fortunately!"

So he started to make cement according to the method obtained by exchange.

First, sieve out the floating ash on the skin of the plant ash, then fill the largest stone jars with water, and gently pour the plant ash into the stone jars in batches for secondary separation.

In this way, the light ash in the plant ash floats to the surface of the water, and the heavy ash, that is, the one with higher calcium content, sinks into the water.

After finishing this step, he gently tilted the stone pot again, poured out the water bit by bit, kneaded the plant ash that had been mixed with water and had become "slimy mud" into balls, squeezed them firmly, and put them one by one in the fire to start firing.

Of course, doing all of this is just a demonstration by Mu Feng, and Li Hu led his clansmen to complete it perfectly.

Soon, each one was gray with white, and gray plant ash cement was added to the white, and the cement was completed.

Because dozens of people are doing it at the same time, the amount of work done is considerable.

To avoid waste, Mufeng first found a few ears of cement egg rice, and bonded them to the soil on the ground, sandy soil, and red acid soil at the foot of the mountain to conduct experiments.

It turned out that the soil clods made by mixing acid soil with sandy soil and cement were the hardest.

To some extent, such clods are already close to some concrete in later generations.

Mu Feng became excited. With this kind of cement, together with stones and gravel, the earth building he wanted to build was complete!

(end of this chapter)




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