Chapter 118 Start of Construction
Zhou Xu thought about the waterwheel for a while and felt that he could basically handle it.
On the premise that they have mastered the technology of polishing wooden carts, it is not difficult for them to make a water cart.
Even the polished wooden cart axle can be used directly.
No matter what happens, you can probably just use a ready-made bamboo tube.
As he said before, it is really rare to see plants that grow as neatly as bamboo without polishing at all.
But Zhou Xu is not in a hurry about this thing.
Compared with the waterwheel, seeing the weather getting hotter day by day, he wanted to build a house quickly.
So that tribe members can have a more comfortable rest environment after exhaustion.
So at this moment, Zhou Xu had no intention of mentioning the water tanker. Instead, he directly took the design drawing he had drawn and told the other party about building a house.
Wang Dashi didn't mind at all that he had a new job as soon as he turned around.
People in this era are generally hardworking and hardworking, and there is basically no complaint.
In their concept, if they have something to do and food to eat, then the world will be peaceful!
Zhou Xu roughly told them his thoughts first, while Wang Dashi and the others were listening.
It is not a particularly complicated matter, and Zhou Xu also pays attention to explaining things simply and clearly, so Wang Dashi and the others naturally have nothing to understand.
"Do you understand everything?"
After finishing speaking, Zhou Xu turned to look at the seven members of the construction team, including Wang Dashi.
Facing the question, Wang Dashi looked down at the design drawing spread out by their leader. After pondering for a few seconds, he nodded.
"Understood!"
"Okay, you guys take a break first, and we will start working after you take a break!"
At this time, it was just past noon, and it was still early before dark for dinner. Naturally, the day of the construction team could not end like this.
After letting Wang Dashi and the others rest first, Zhou Xu turned around and found the logging team. They both belonged to the Construction Engineering Department, and the size of the logging team was much larger.
After all, wood is used for many things in the camp, and wood resources are not abundant in the prairie camp, so their logging team is basically responsible for providing regular supplies to multiple camps at the same time. The task of supplying wood.
With this as a premise, if the scale is not increased, the daily supply of wood will really not be able to keep up.
When building this thatched house, Zhou Xu considered convenience. Although he planned to use bamboo as the main material, the frame of the house was still very important.
While it needs to be strong enough, it also needs to be heavy enough, otherwise a strong wind might knock your house over one day.
For this reason, Zhou Xu plans to use the main trunk of the big tree to make the entire house frame.
After telling the logging team about this matter, Zhou Xu returned to the camp and saw at a glance the construction team headed by Wang Dashi, already waiting for him there.
“Have you rested?”
“Have rested!”
Wang Dashi answered simply, and Zhou Xu did not pretend to be pretentious with them, and directly led the construction team towards the residential area.
Since housing is to be built, it naturally has to be arranged in a residential area.
When he divided the various areas of this camp, he undoubtedly gave it careful consideration. Even now, it seems that there is no problem. Taking into account the increase in the tribal population after development, a large amount of space was naturally reserved in this residential area.
Zhou Xu had already thought about where to place the first house that his tribe was about to build.
After leading the construction team to the place, Zhou Xu estimated the area of the house with the wooden stick in his hand and directly drew a rectangular area on the ground.
"Now let's dig out all the soil in this area, and dig it to a depth of one person."
At the moment, they don't have any particularly accurate measuring tools, so the length and width , Zhou Xu could only measure it through his own height, and then slowly adjust it.
In this era, the function of a house is to let people sleep and rest in it.
Theoretically, the space in the house only needs to be able to accommodate one bed.
Of course, as the tribe continues to grow, they will definitely need more interior space in the future.
When the time comes, it will undoubtedly be difficult to completely rebuild the house, so in the same way, all the space that should be reserved is reserved in advance.
Zhou Xu undoubtedly built this first house for himself. Based on his height measurement, the area of the house was roughly fifty square meters.
This is definitely not too small. If a house of this size is built with just one bed, the interior of the house will probably look too empty.
Zhou Xu naturally knows this.
Therefore, in addition to the bed, according to his plan, he also plans to install a desk here. In this way, he can handle some of his daily work here without having to go to other places every now and then. Borrow space in the department shed.
An area of fifty square meters can be dug one person deep. Considering the excavation efficiency of this era, it is obvious that digging the foundation cannot be done in one afternoon.
On the contrary, the logging team, in one afternoon, had basically delivered all the wood that Zhou Xu needed to build the frame of the house.
The logging team treated these timbers very smoothly, which saved Zhou Xu and the others a lot of time.
While having dinner, Zhou Xu called Wang Dashi, the captain of the construction team, and Zhuang Mengdie, the director of the equipment department, and told them about the processing methods of the wood.
Needless to say the reason for calling Wang Dashi over, as for calling Zhuang Mengdie over...
"Mengdie, please listen carefully to what I'm going to teach you next. You can use it when making things in the future."
If you want to build a house, Zhou Xu will definitely go through all the problems he may encounter in his mind before officially starting the action.
In this era, the biggest problem in building a house is, to put it bluntly, how to fix the frame of the house.
After all, he doesn’t have nails now, so he can’t just tie it up with bark rope, right?
Putting this thing on the frame of the house makes people feel somewhat unsafe.
With this thought in mind, Zhou Xu suddenly thought of something, building blocks!
Building blocks can be firmly fixed together through a combination of concave and convex parts. So can this be used in the frame of a house?
After this idea came to him, he was drawing design drawings at the time, so he quickly found two pieces of wood, and after simple processing, he made a set of very rough connecting parts to try.
After trying it, he found that it worked! Make him overjoyed.
What Zhou Xu didn't know at this time was that the method he was thinking of now was the structural method used by their ancestors, called 'mortise and tenon structure'.
By some strange combination of circumstances, Zhou Xu, who had never studied this kind of thing, thought of going together with his ancestors.
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(End of this chapter)