After all, they are all experts in playing with mud. Most of the earliest batches of pottery pots and bowls came from their hands~
In the end, most of the construction team members who had just been free returned to the pottery team. Under the leadership of Cyclops and Wu, this group of people sharpened their knives in the mud again.
After watching them start making clay embryos, Chen Chao explained to the little old man that the clay pots they made this time should be stackable.
After the explanation, Chen Chao led Da Zhuang and his base stove team to start working, and the location was chosen in the usual cooking place in the tribe.
Just put some of the reconciled yellow mud for building the house in clay pots, and the people from the Zhaocao tribe move a batch of bricks, and then the work can start directly.
Chen Chao used the pottery pot to mark the position that needed to be reserved, and led Da Zhuang to make the first one. After confirming that Da Zhuang had learned it, he became a hands-off shopkeeper and went to other things.
Because he still has something else in his heart, many tribes and populations have been awakened recently. So Chen Chao plans to go out in the near future, get a group of people back, and bring back some bronze mines by the way.
And Chen Chao has been thinking about this matter recently, and now there are generally several ways to get a population.
1. Influence the other party with love and let them join the Tianyuan Tribe
2. Exchange resources. The tribe now has resources: stone pots, straw sandals, straw ropes, and rattan baskets.
Third, turn on the plundering mode, and those who do not join will destroy the whole clan (it is okay to destroy small tribes, but not large tribes, and will only be killed. It is not the original intention, and the future troubles are too great.)
So the first and third options are directly passed, and the second option is fine. In addition, Chen Chao also came up with the idea of another small tribe, intending to absorb their entire clan.
After all, it is winter now, and if those small tribes don't have food and animal skins to keep out the cold, they will starve to death and freeze to death soon. So at this time, a wave of timely assistance should have a high success rate.
And those medium-sized tribes should also be happy to get some clay pots that can be heated on the fire. If there are still a few more mouths to eat, I believe they will not refuse.
As for the big tribe, it is the last option. Because it is not clear whether this large tribe, which can barely survive the cold winter, has any plans to exchange population. But if you can exchange some of the animals they raise, you can also exchange some special products, preferably seeds.
Moreover, Chen Chao is also afraid of being blackmailed by the other party. In addition, several big tribes are far away from the Tianyuan tribe. It may not be possible to go there. Even if he goes there, he will not have enough resources to go there. exchange.
But if you choose the second option, you have to consider how the resources will be transported. In terms of capacity, wild horses are unrealistic, mainly a dozen or so. Moreover, Chen Chao felt that he was a bit reluctant. Besides, if wild horses had not been domesticated, it would be troublesome to carry people, not to mention pulling a carriage for hundreds of kilometers.
Now the bronze has not been brought back, and the bronze horseshoe cannot be obtained, plus pulling heavy objects. Such a trip back and forth, the horse is almost free.
Moreover, some people in the Tianyuan tribe already believed that wild horses had spirits, otherwise how could they be obedient and be brought back from such a far place by the deputy leader
So in the absence of transportation capacity, Chen Chao can only use people as transportation capacity.
Fortunately, he is not interested in carrying a lot of things to the major tribes to fight alone, so he will take a group of people away, but he has to discuss this matter with the little old man first.
Since people are considered as transportation capacity, it is definitely not possible to carry hundreds of pots and bowls on the shoulders to replace people. First, it is unrealistic, and second, the efficiency and cargo capacity are too low.
And two-wheeled vehicles can't be considered, there is no way, there is no transportation capacity, it would be great if we can get a batch of bison and other animals with good endurance when we go out this time.
Then you can only get on a wheelbarrow. The unicycle is also known as "chicken bus" and "claw cart", mainly because it makes a non-stop "cracking" sound when driving, and the front head is pointed, and the two push handles at the back are like horns.
A unicycle can usually carry the weight of six people at a time, and instead of putting a lot of weight on the person or animal pulling it, it distributes the weight evenly between the person pulling it and the wheel itself.
Moreover, it can run on narrow roads, and its transportation capacity is several times larger than that of human load and animal power. This kind of car can work in the countryside and fields, and it is convenient to walk on rough paths and mountains and hills
But if it's just a wheelbarrow, it's all by manpower. It's too labor-intensive to even think about it~
So Chen Chao decided to go directly to the wind-powered wheelbarrow (if you are interested, you can search on Baidu, the keyword is 'wind-powered wheelbarrow', you can see the picture, it is an old photo of the Republic of China).
That is, after the unicycle is made, a cross pole is added in front of the vehicle, and a prismatic sail is tied to the pole, but this can only be replaced by animal skin for the time being.
Chen Chao initially thought of two styles of unicycles. The first is a funnel-shaped unicycle, and the second is a flat bottom with some railings around it to prevent things from falling.
The funnel-shaped wheelbarrow is too limited. Although it looks more stable, it is very suitable for transporting construction materials (sand and bricks), but the things that can be loaded are very limited.
Although the second type can hold a lot of things, it is considered that the goods transported this time are mainly pottery and other materials. Pottery is good for everything, but it is fragile and heavy. It is not as good as iron pots and bowls at all. Porcelain is solid!
So Chen Chao decided to combine the two. The surrounding railings were changed to wooden boards, and a movable wooden board was added in the middle as a partition. After the pottery was sold later, the middle partition could be discarded, and the bronze ore could be transported back directly. .
In fact, the pottery is also placed in rattan baskets, separated by rattan baskets and hay, and the problem of fragmentation should be well resolved.
From this point of view, the middle does not necessarily need to be separated by wooden boards. After all, adding movable wooden partitions still requires a certain amount of weight.
And this time I set off to lead a large group of people on a long-distance raid of more than 300 kilometers, and the unnecessary weight added except for pottery should be as little as possible.
After deciding on the specific style of the wind-powered wheelbarrow, Chen Chao still had two problems to solve. One was the production of the outermost wooden boards, and the other was the most important part of the wheelbarrow, the production of the wheels.
As for wood planks, since the Tianyuan tribe has no saws, it is unrealistic to deal with long-distance planks directly, even if they want to make modern flat and thin planks.
There is indeed a plant with sharp serrated edges, but it is not realistic to use that to deal with large wood, and it is still possible to deal with small branches as thick as a wrist, as long as you have patience.
Therefore, if you can use a stone ax to quarter a log with a height of 6-70 cm lengthwise, you can be called a master.
So Chen Chao could only make do with a pile of thick wood as the outer frame of the car.
In terms of wheels, there are two options.
One is to bake and bend the wood, and then bend it into the desired arc.
The second is to directly find logs of suitable size to make wheels.
It is true that the wood can be bent, although there is no limit to the size of the wood in this method, as long as it is long enough, there is no problem.
But there's really nothing holding it in place right now. So the option of roasting bent wood was directly passed by Chen Chao.
Then there is the second option, just find a log of the right size for the wheel.
He went to the timber mountain in the cave to search, and managed to find a few logs suitable for the size of wheels, because there were really too few logs suitable for wheels.
The main reason is that Chen Chao planned to burn the logs at both ends in the middle to create a large enough round hole, and leave enough space for the spokes to be installed.
This means that the wood needs to be large enough.
In fact, logs (rolled logs) can be used directly without any treatment. But this is heavy and can easily split along the grain of the wood.
If it is hollow, it will be much lighter. In addition to saving labor, it can also greatly increase the speed of travel.
But at that time, you can make a few more wheels and take them with you on the road. Putting the wood next to the pottery can effectively reduce the collision between pottery and pottery.