Traveler Major League

Chapter 100
The so-called kiln is built with previously fired bricks against the mountain. It looks like a small workshop, and it can also be built seven or eight meters high.

In the end, an upside-down jar was built. Fortunately, both Kong and Zhang Pu had seen the real thing, which saved the process of continuous experimentation from childhood to large-scale.

The stacking in the kiln is also very particular, the bricks are placed first, and then the tiles are stacked on top.

During the placing process, there must be a gap between the bricks, otherwise the hot air will not get in, and it will become a waste brick.

It should be stacked from the bottom to the top, and then covered with mud to seal it.

There are three smoke outlet holes on the top, and then a wooden shelf is built on it, and a straw shed is covered.

The kiln cannot be stopped once it starts firing, and firewood needs to be added continuously for three consecutive days.

Afterwards, the smoke outlet and the stove door were sealed with bricks and mud, and then water was poured in from the upper kiln roof.

In order to achieve the effect of accelerated cooling and catastrophe.

It sounds simple, but it still takes a lot of trial and error to actually do it.

Added some water to the clay, and kicked it back and forth as hard as noodles. Liu Ze dealt with the lump of soil with his hands and feet. He exhausted his mind. He never thought that this little thing would help him regain his childhood memories. .

Liu Ze was the most mischievous when he was a child. He would often ask a few friends to go to the riverside to build a fort with sand after school. He would build a tall city wall, a few gorgeous palaces, and some carriages and people. . . .

Liu Ze likes to do this very much. Watching the fortress made of sand under his hands gradually improve, Liu Ze feels that his heart is gradually being filled.

He often played and played until the sun went down and all his friends went home. He was still immersed in this "game" and couldn't extricate himself until Liu Ze's mother came to the bank of the river and twisted it with his hands. He turned one of his ears vigorously, and he woke up after suffering the pain, and called out "Mom" timidly.

But these are all memories from 20 years ago, Liu Ze smiled bitterly, and continued to focus on the work at hand.

Knead with both hands to form a round strip shape, and then mix with mud to make a big cake.

Then Wang Shanbao was called to work together, using a long strip of mud to circle around the edge of the round mud cake, making circles on the wall of the basin, and then pasting the gaps with muddy water.

In this way, a large pot can be made.

Looking at the big pot, Liu Ze finally smiled happily.

"It's done! Commander, why did we make this mud pot?" Wang Shanbao looked at the masterpiece in his hand and loved it, touching left and right and playing non-stop.

"This is the water basin I made. It can be used for washing face and feet. According to this method, we can make plates, bowls, and pots in the future, and they can be used after being fired in the kiln."

"It turned out to be like this, so I'll get some bowls too." Wang Shanbao pointed, "Commander, what is this round ball for?"

Liu Ze laughed aloud, picked up the ball and pointed to the round hole in the middle and said, "I want to make this into pottery too, and thread it with a rope to make it a necklace. Let's commemorate our first kiln firing."

Wang Shanbao didn't expect Liu Ze to have this kind of fun, and he grinned happily with his teeth showing. As a commander, Liu Ze is always serious in his speech and smile in order to establish his majesty. Ten men, but no matter how hard-blooded a man is, he also has a tender side. Wang Shanbao thinks this is very good, as long as the commander is happy, he will be happy.

At this time, Zhang Pu came over like Xianbao and said, "Commander, it's done."

"Oh? Let's go and have a look." Liu Ze was startled, and hurriedly dragged Wang Shanbao along.

Following in the footsteps of Zhang Pu, several people came to several wooden turntables, which were auxiliary pottery-making tools made by carpenters. With them, it is possible to make some fine and simple pottery conveniently and effortlessly.

Its structure is a wooden wheel that can place pottery. There are wooden sticks connected to the base on the west side. There is grease in the middle of the base. It can be used directly, or you can add a small wheel and connect another wooden wheel with a belt. Drive, so that the size of the middle roulette is different, which will make the wooden roulette on which the pottery is placed rotate very fast.

Wang Shanbao pulled the disc twice, and there was a harsh friction sound between the wood and the wood. He couldn't help asking: "What's the use of this? Didn't we just play with the mud and make it well?"

"Little brother, this is very useful. If you want to make rough pottery, you can beat it however you want, but if you want to make all kinds of fine things, this pottery plate is indispensable."

Zhang Pu leaned against the wall proudly and said that he was very happy with the set of tools he made.

"Then you need someone to help you around?"

Liu Ze was spinning the pottery plate. It was the first time he was playing with this thing, but it was a bit laborious to spin it because there was no bearing. He smiled and said while turning it: "If there is no other way now, two people can cooperate. Of course, One person can do it easily, and when we build waterwheels tomorrow, we can use water power, which will save labor, and we can use steam engines in the future. We have been growing up, rest assured, everything is possible.”

Zhang Pu glanced at Wang Shanbao beside him, and wanted to ask him what a steam engine was, but seeing Wang Shanbao's expression of admiration for Liu Ze, he thought it was useless to ask.

A soldier turns the large driving wheel, while another person sits aside and puts the mixed clay on the pottery plate. As the big wheel turns, the power transmitted by the belt drives the pottery plate to rotate faster. , the clay that was originally out of shape also quickly rotated with the pottery plate underneath, and the fast-rotating pottery clay turned into a circle at an extremely fast speed under the pressure of the fingers, the fingers were inserted in the middle, and the middle finger and index finger pinched the clay wall, a perfectly round small jar gradually took shape.

As the pressing force increases, the clay wall becomes thinner and thinner, which is far more perfect than that made by hand-kneading mud.

Beauty is fighting power!

This kind of pottery, which can be made with only simple operations, instantly conquered the laymen standing outside the pottery. Everyone looked left and right around the pottery, wanting to reach out and touch it, but afraid of damaging the pottery. I had no choice but to retract my hands and leaned over in amazement, and kept exclaiming.

"It seems that we need to assign a few people to make bricks and pottery." Liu Ze saw that everyone was very satisfied with the firing results of the pottery, so he ordered again.

Suddenly there was a voice from a distance, Wang Shanbao quickly patted Liu Ze on the shoulder, interrupting his contemplation, and said with surprise: "Commander, listen!"

Chao Zhongchen waved his hands and ran out of the distant mountains and forests. The afterglow of the setting sun shone on him. He kept running and jumping like an ape returning after harvesting a lot in the woods.

At this moment, the running and shouting under the setting sun will always be imprinted in the memory of the parties involved.

"There is land! You can see land from the top of the mountain!"

(End of this chapter)