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Chapter 22 Mortise and Tenon Joints, Clay Tablets and Longbows

As we got closer to the village, the chaotic cries of the Wutu people became louder.

Outside the village, there are wooden stakes half a person's height, on which are tied like dogs one by one, with their hands tied, their mouths full of sharp teeth knocked out, barking incomprehensibly.

The wooden piles are placed every ten meters, and they go around the village for a week. There are two floors.

These Wutu people are the village's first line of defense. Although the meat of the Wutu people is poisonous, it is foolish to talk about toxicity regardless of the dosage. If you are really hungry, the wild beasts can still eat some of the meat of the Wutu people in small quantities.

Tether the Wutu people outside the village. Once the wild beasts attack, they will be the first targets. If they are timid and afraid of getting into trouble, they will immediately scream. The voice is high and penetrating, which is completely different from the usual voice. Natural early warning mechanism.

These Wutu people are easy to raise, feed some grass roots and leaves, and irrigate some water, and they can live and breathe for a day. Apart from squeaking and barking, there are no other shortcomings.

Back in the tribe, Zhu Yao asked the others to rest first, while he went straight to the back of the village, where Ke Ni from the former tree frog tribe was cutting wood with the other two old men.

After the three old men died in battle, now all the old men in the tribe are here.

Seeing that they were engrossed, Zhu Yao waited for a moment, then said softly, "How is the research going? Follow the method I said."

Kenny raised his head and said happily: "Master Agudu, this is really a useful method, come and see."

He picked up two wooden boards beside him. The wooden boards did not borrow other external objects, and they were tightly fitted together to form a 90-degree right angle. The corresponding protrusions are made on the top, and the two are spliced ​​together, and it is very firm without external objects."

Zhu Yao took the wooden board and tugged it hard. It was very firm, and he couldn't help nodding.This is actually the craftsmanship of the carpenter in the previous life. It is called mortise and tenon. It uses a concave-convex connection method on two components. The convex part is called tenon and the concave part is called mortise. It is very common in ancient Chinese furniture and architecture. After entering the new century, with the popularity of reinforced concrete and nail guns, such time-consuming and labor-intensive things have become rare.

The mortise and tenon structure belongs to the technology of the Stone Age and does not require high production tools. A large number of wooden mortise and tenon components have been unearthed from the Hemudu site in the previous life.

"Try all kinds of mortise and tenon joints at a faster speed, and then scale up and apply them to buildings. Although the temperature has warmed up these days, I don't know when the temperature will drop sharply. This year's temperature is not normal. We need to build houses in advance. Warm the cold, hurry up and tell me what is missing, and I will find a way to solve it." Zhu Yao instructed.

"Don't worry, Priest Agudu. The tree frog tribe has also used this method of constructing the concave-convex structure, but I didn't give you the details. At that time, we just cut a hole in the log and stuffed another log into it." , the principle is similar to that of mortise and tenon, and I will develop various mortise and tenon shapes as soon as possible.”

Kenny showed excitement, he loved this job to death, and wished he could study mortise and tenon joints 24 hours a day.

This time, it was Zhu Yao who was worried, and said: "Pay attention to your body, and rest when you are tired."

Kenny listened in his left ear, but his right ear popped. He nodded his head, focusing all his attention on the mortise and tenon structure of his hand.Zhu Yao reluctantly made gestures to the other two old men, asking them to pay attention to Kenney's state, and after getting a definite reply, he left lightly.

After the sacrifice at dusk that day, the attitude of the people in the tribe was obviously much more positive, especially the remaining three old people, who no longer shrank to the sidelines and watched coldly, and Kenny even offered to take the lead in building the house.

Death is not terrible, they have seen it a lot.The terrible thing is that people gradually forget them after death. After a few years, only their children will remember them, but when their children die, they will be completely forgotten, and all traces of their existence in the world will be erased.

Now Zhu Yao told them that under the witness of the totem god, as long as you have made achievements and benefited the tribe, you will get a spiritual card and be worshiped by everyone in the tribe.

Perhaps after a long, long time, when parents comfort their children, they will tell their stories.

I have been here, and my deeds prove that I have been here!

The tribe was full of fanaticism.

After walking around the tribe, arranging some tasks, and checking the progress of some tasks, Zhu Yao started to work on his own affairs - and mud.

He wants to make something that can record words.In previous lives, the four major ancient civilizations all had carriers for recording text, such as palm leaves in ancient India, papyrus in ancient Egypt, clay tablets in ancient Babylon, and bamboo tubes in China.Three of them are related to plants. Zhu Yao has not seen plants similar to bamboo, palm trees, and sedges. According to his knowledge, he thinks that even if he sees them, he will know bamboo, and the three are related to more complicated ones. The technology is Zhu Yao's knowledge blind spot.

Only the clay board writing is very simple. Clay is used to make a soft clay board, and then a relatively hard object is used to write on it, and finally dried, and the clay board book is completed.

Compared with the other three, the clay book is thicker, not easy to carry, fragile after the finished product, and has more disadvantages, but there is no choice.

It's good to have it, what kind of bicycle do you want.

Clay is clay, which contains less sand, is viscous, does not allow water to pass through it, and is mostly white. It is the main raw material for making porcelain.

Of course Zhu Yao didn't have this stuff, so he could only try to use other soil to see if it could be mixed into a clay-like effect.

Simply build a rectangular groove with a wooden board, spread the reconciled mud in it, let it stand for a while, wait for the water in the mud to seep out, and then wipe the bottom of the groove as dry as possible, otherwise the water will come into contact with the hot stone board. The slate will explode.

I didn’t know when I tried it for the first time, it made the slate wet, but with a “boom”, the slate exploded like a bomb, and broken pieces of stone flew towards me. If it wasn’t for the miracle of sharing damage, Zhu Yao would have hung up on the spot. up.

He knew that it would expand with heat and contract with cold, but he didn't say it could explode on the spot!

Thankfully no one else was around at the time.

As the water in the mud gradually evaporated, the color of the mud became lighter. Zhu Yao wrote some words casually with a sharp-pointed wooden stick, and waited for the clay board to dry completely. It took about half an hour to an hour. time.

In order to make full use of time, Zhu Yao picked a straight branch and began to peel it. If he could make a bow out of it.In the memory of the original body, the Warcry tribe already had a huge long-range weapon like a siege crossbow. Many people used bows to hunt, but the production process of the bow and crossbow, the Battlecry clan has always guarded against it, and did not disclose it to other tribes, so the Battlecry For the small tribes in the alliance, the long-range strike method still stays at throwing spears and stones.

The Chinese bow has a long history, and it seems to have been used in the battle for the deer, but what Zhu Yao wanted to do was not the Chinese bow, but the British longbow.

He also has little knowledge of bow making skills, all from short videos, and he probably has some impressions.The manufacture of Chinese bows requires "drying, horns, tendons, glue, silk, and lacquer." A good bow takes two to three years to make. He has no materials and no time, so he chooses to make British longbows.

Even so, he needs to gradually explore the detailed steps.

Just as he was concentrating on sharpening his back, the barren defense line in the south suddenly fell silent.

ps: Stones with a lot of water in the wild will really explode when exposed to fire. I saw a video on the Survival Crazy Post Bar, which looks like a bomb.

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