Yan Mo looked out of the window, the animal skin curtain was raised on both sides, and the breeze was sent into the tower. This is probably the most pleasant time of the year in this land, but unfortunately, the time is so short that people don't even have a chance to stay.
Big birds are circling in the blue sky.
"They said that the spring here is very short. Once the snow is melted by this rain, the temperature will rise rapidly. I think the sun salt pond is almost ready to be dug, and I don't have much salt with me. The mermaid has clearly proposed to use red salt for employment The dwarves will probably have the same requirements for their rewards, at least they will definitely bring some with them when they leave." Yan Mo changed the subject.
Yuan Zhan also knew that this person had a dark stomach, seeing that he didn't want to say anything and didn't force him, he followed his words and said, "But the sewers haven't started yet." He just reinforced and raised the embankments on both sides of the inner moat. complete.
"According to the priority, red salt is the most important. Even if there is no exchange, the salt on hand is not enough to support all the people who fall there for a month." Yan Mo took another slate, and saw that some items had already been listed on this slate. .
Yan Mo drew a circle behind the embankment of the inner moat to indicate completion, and drew a tick in each of the three places of drying salt, digging sewers and building houses, "I can't rely on you to do everything, you get to do the most important drying. Yanchi, bring the most reliable people with you, stay with Meng, and help me to see Jiufeng by the way, to see if there is any sign of it coming out."
"I'm not here, I'm afraid those dwarves will make trouble, and those little monsters."
"I've already made an agreement with the mermaids. They will send fighters here first. If there are no problems, they will arrive tomorrow. The mermaids and dwarves can't understand each other. I'm not afraid that they will unite in a short time. As long as they restrain each other, we The Horde is safe."
"I may have to leave for a long time." It will take at least two months to travel back and forth, add the sun-dried salt ponds, and produce a batch of salt.
"I know. You fix the sun-dried salt pool and bring a batch back first. Next time I go there, I can pack more." Yan Mo turned to look at him, "Be careful on the road. If the tribe is really attacked and occupied, I will not stick to it." , I will immediately leave with Meng and the others."
"The weather is getting warmer, and it's time for the man-eating bees to come out of their nests. They can follow Jiufeng all the way from their old nests, and it's not difficult to find you across the grassland."
Yan Mo raised his finger, looked at Yuan Zhan and smiled, if this is the case, then he really doesn't have to worry about the safety of the tribe and himself after Yuan Zhan leaves.
Woods by the lake.
Duo Fei, who was going out with everyone to pick up dead branches and look for wild vegetables, suddenly looked up at the sky.
"Duofei, what are you looking at?" Sand Wolf brushed past her and raised his head to look at the sky.
"Big bird, maybe it's an eagle or a roc." Duo Fei, who still looked like an old woman, smoothed her hair and squatted down.
Sand Wolf looked up again, "Big Bird, Lord Mountain God?"
The sand wolf had no way of judging, the big bird had already flown away.
After Sand Wolf left, Duo Fei tightly grasped the transparent spar hanging on her chest, her breathing became heavier, and her eyes were extremely complicated.
The next day, Yuan Zhan and Yan Mo welcome a hundred mermaid warriors, who will serve as mercenaries of the Jiuyuan tribe to guard the inner city for them.
The main duty of the mermaid warrior is to defend and attack the enemy. Board and lodging are taken care of by themselves, as long as they pay 600 red salt per person on time every month.
The dwarves also basically agreed to repay their kindness in the form of helpers, and Yan Mo also promised them that during the period of help, they will be covered.
After the dwarves visited the mermaid warriors together, they anxiously wanted to build a house, but Yan Mo stopped them.
Yan Mo asked Wu Chen and others to send some stone slabs, pointed to the slabs and said: "To build a house, you must first get a sewer or make stone bricks. Everything must be done according to the requirements on the picture and what I have explained. All the random things don’t count.”
Lang Lang, Elder Chacha and others didn't care to refute Yan Mo first, they were immediately attracted by the crude city planning map on the slate.
"Is this the road? The road should also be paved with stone bricks?"
"Don't forget to do the foundation first before paving. The house, sewers, etc. need to lay the foundation first."
"House can only be built in residential areas?"
"Not necessarily, but there must be differences between the house you usually live in and the house you work in, so you must follow the instructions."
"The sewer... I know, it's for drainage, we have the same thing in our place, but it's not like this, we just dug two ditches on both sides... No wonder we get flooded every year, it turns out that the drainage can be done like this! "
"The shape of the house should follow this picture? Wow, so... beautiful! I like it so much! I want to make my own house like this! What is the open space in front of and behind the house? Why is it fenced?"
"There are four types of houses, divided into bungalows and two-story buildings. There are various functional areas in the house. I will explain this to you in detail later. In addition, all houses have front and rear gardens for the convenience of raising livestock and poultry in the future."
"Farming? Poultry?" The shrewd dwarves caught the point.
Yan Mo just smiled, not intending to explain at all.
"You still don't know how to make stone bricks, let alone build a house. I'll let someone teach you. Don't worry, I won't charge you for this teaching." Yan Mo thought that he was not evil enough, otherwise he would just teach how to dig sewers And laying foundations would make these dwarves a lifetime of labor for him, not to mention teaching them how to build a house.
"In addition, as a tribal priest, I am very busy, and I can't follow you all the time to help you communicate. You can only communicate with people in my tribe by yourself. If you have any important matters, please go to my disciple Wu Chen first."
With a small face, Wu Chen shook his hands at the dwarves.
Yuan Zhan standing on the city wall looked up at the sky.
He lowered his head sharply and sharpened the tip of the stick.
"Jiufeng entered the sleep period, and all the other big birds came out." He still remembered that when he first came, there were no other large ferocious birds in Jiufeng's territory.
He raised his head sharply, "I was about to tell you about this. I have seen at least four or five big birds circling in the sky these days."
"Let everyone be careful of children, and remind those dwarves."
"yes."
Yuan Zhan held down the stone pile on the city wall, "Do you remember all the things I told you?"
"Don't worry, protect silently first."
"Anyone who is disobedient can be killed directly without telling Mo."
"Not through the jury?"
Yuan Zhan looked at Meng expressionlessly.
With a fierce grin, he punched his left chest with his right fist.
Arrangements were made on Yuan Zhan's side, and Yan Mo's side also explained everything in general.
On the one hand, the dwarves want to pay off their debts early, on the other hand they are full of interest in the construction knowledge, and they want to live in the stone house they built earlier. After two days of group lectures, they can’t wait to practice it, without strict urging. They got busy themselves.
Two days later, at dawn, Yuan Zhan left the tribe with six warriors including Hu Hu, and only said that he was going to meet the mountain god.
Yan Mo stood by the river and prayed to Yuan Zhan and others.
Yuan Zhan led the six people a short distance away, and looked back at Yan Mo. For some reason, he always felt a strong sense of uneasiness about leaving the city this time, which made him unable to resist telling Meng to guard Mo Mo over and over again.
Yan Mo waved his hand, watched the seven people go away, turned around and went back to the inner city.
"Brutal!" The long cry of a bird came from the sky.
Duofei passed under the East Tower twice, and she was ready to step up the stone steps the second time, but in the end she touched her face, took back her foot on the stone steps, turned and left.
Sand Wolf stood in the shadow of the city wall not far away, frowning slightly. She has always been wary of this foreign woman. Although the other party didn't dare to take everyone's life force in exchange for her youth after being taught by the priest, she still didn't believe her.
The dwarves have their own internal division of labor, and Yan Mo has no intention of interfering at all.
The dwarves divided their hands into two groups, one group went out to hunt and collect dry firewood and food, and the other group stayed to dig sewers, make bricks, and lay foundations.
Their children were free, and under the special instructions of the adults, they all came to listen to Yan Mo's lecture. But this time Yan Mo did not allow them to enter again, and made it clear to Lang Lang and Katie that only the people of the Jiuyuan tribe can learn the inheritance of the ancestor gods without paying any compensation.
The dwarves were itchy and distressed. Itching for that knowledge, and distressed that learning that knowledge requires a lot of money.
"One cow per person for one class, the price is too expensive! Black, really black!" Lang Lang has also listened to several classes, and now he is familiar with certain vocabulary.
"It would be great if our tribe can do this in the future." Elder Chacha lay on the ground and stared at the stone slabs with radiance. They couldn't let them take these slates away, they could only look at them in the square.
"Why do we need such a big place? To form a tribe? Forget it, those warlike guys will never agree to live together." Lang Lang waved his hands and laughed.
"Why not? Human beings can, why can't we." Grid muttered in a low voice.
"Or should we just join the Jiuyuan Tribe? There are so few people in such a big tribe. Anyway, we have to find a new place to live. Why don't we live here too... Ah! Why are you beating me?" The proposed Dede was accepted by all the people including the patriarch. The dwarves had a great meal together.
"Woo!" A strange loud sound suddenly sounded from outside the city.
Duo Fei who passed by the square was startled, and immediately looked up to the sky.
But all the dwarves and the Awu tribe turned their heads to look around, and suddenly asked: "What happened? What's that sound?"
Ye Xing, who was teaching everyone, suddenly jumped up and shouted: "It's the horn! It's the horn that the priest asked us to make for the soldiers to warn the soldiers! Enemy! Enemies are coming to attack us!"
There was chaos in the classroom, and many children were shouting: "Little monsters! Those little monsters must be here!"
However, the expressions of the children are not flustered, and they are even a little eager to try, especially the children who are ten years old and above. They have already started to receive preliminary warrior training with the women of the tribe in advance.
Ye Xing rushed out of the classroom quickly, he was going to inform the priest about this matter.
Yan Mo didn't need to be notified at all. When the horn sounded, the whole city heard it.
Yan Mo walked out of the East City Tower, and walked along the city wall with the guards to the South City Gate. The sound of the horn came from the south.
When the mermaid fighters saw the large group of flying objects flying rapidly in the sky, they didn't recognize what it was before, and when one of them who was more experienced saw the flying objects clearly, he immediately shouted wildly, "Hurry up!" Get into the water! That's a man-eating bee!"
Man-eating bees are well-known in this land, and most people who have never seen them have heard their legends. The longer the history of the tribe, the more oral traditions about them.
The mermaid warriors subconsciously wanted to dive into the water, but at last they had a strong sense of fighting, and they still remembered what they were doing here. At that moment, someone blew the horn they carried with them to notify the residents of Jiuyuan tribe that the danger was coming!
The warriors patrolling the city wall also saw man-eating bees, but the Awu tribe has a relatively short history, and they don't know much about man-eating bees. Those of the Human Bees haven't rushed over yet, and their reactions are more than one step slower than the mermaid warriors. They didn't start to be vigilant until they heard the mermaid warrior blowing the horn, which represented extreme danger.
Someone went to look for Meng at a high speed. Meng Ye was running towards the south gate.
Yuanzhan is not here, so Meng will no longer leave the city to hunt.
But before the priest and Meng spoke, there was a panic scene in the city, and the children ran out of the classroom.
"Everyone, don't be afraid, don't panic, follow me, don't run around!" Wu Chen, who understood the meaning of the horn's sound, called out to the clansmen, telling them to follow him to the emergency place designated by the priest before taking refuge.
But not many people listened to Wu Chen's call, people ran around in disorder, and some even ran up the city wall to see what happened. Not to mention the dwarves, they all left their work and ran towards the city wall. The patrolling warriors simply didn't have that many hands to stop so many people.
The warriors had to stop the tribesmen and dwarves who were running up, and they had to ask the mermaid warriors what the flying objects were, and they had to pay attention to defense.
Yan Mo turned his head and saw the chaos, his face darkened before he saw the enemy.
While everyone's attention was drawn to the outside of the south city gate, amidst the chaos, two men in animal skins walked directly into the inner city from the north city gate.
The two looked surprised when they entered the inner city, and one of them whispered to his companion, "My lord, we came in so easily. Could it be some kind of trick?"
trick? No, he doesn't think so. This is obviously a castle that is just under construction. The castle is new, and the combat experience of those soldiers is also very "new". It's just that the four gates were not installed with gates. When something happened, even the guards who guarded the gates all ran to Nancheng.
This city, just like what he saw in the sky, only has a scary-looking shell. However, he still wants to take a closer look. Although this strange castle is far away from Tianzhu City, but judging from the construction of their walls and the size of the city, if it is not dealt with, it may become the enemy of Tianzhu City in the future.
"My lord, do you think Her Royal Highness will be here?"
Feili shook his head, "Not sure, we haven't seen the princess in the sky for the past few days, have we?"
"But this is the most barbarian tribe we have found that looks like a princess. My lord, look at those barbarians. They are still wearing animal skin clothes, and they only hold wooden spears and stone hammers in their hands, but they build Such a... castle, do you think such a savage could build such a castle?"
"There are also mermaids and dwarves." Fili was also suspicious in his heart. Even if the tribes they found along the way were relatively well-developed, they were just piles of stones or wooden walls. The city wall-like buildings formed like this were the first Looking back, and these city walls were built so high, those moat embankments were obviously repaired by hand. If there was no one who had seen these before, he didn't think those barbarians who still wore animal skins could build such a building. city.
However, Feili still has a problem that he can't figure out. Based on the time since the princess disappeared, can the people he saw in the sky really build such a huge city in one winter? And in winter, the ground is as frozen as a stone.
"Ha! Mermaids and dwarves, it's surprising that these two races can be seen in the same city except for the slave market. Maybe only the beautiful and intelligent princess can attract them here? And let them come here for themselves Used?"
Fili shrugged, "Maybe. Jersey, be careful. There are not many people in this city, and we haven't seen any human visitors. Even if we wear their clothes, we may be recognized."
Jersey nodded, and the two became more cautious in their actions.
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Steelyard production method:
⑴Choose a disposable chopstick and polish it smooth with a knife and sandpaper; ⑵Cut the iron sheet into a circle to make a weighing pan, and tie it around the disc with a string to hang it; (4) tie a small nut about 5 grams with a rope to make a weight; (5) hang the beam, disc, and nut, find out the center of gravity of the whole system, and drill a small hole on the center of gravity , hang a rope as a lifting button; ⑹ keep the steelyard balanced, find out the position of the zero scale line and make a mark; ⑺ put a 20-gram object, and find out the position of the weight when the 20-gram object is balanced, here is is the position of a 20-gram object; (8) Draw an average of 20 scales between the zero scale line and the 20-gram position, and each scale is 1 gram.
⑼ Use a tooth-like object to make the scale angle.