Chapter 159 Civilization needs inheritance (please vote and subscribe)

"Burning lime? Can lime be used to burn things?" The lame man asked in surprise.

"No, but limestone can be burned into lime powder, and then the lime powder can be mixed with mud to build a house. It will be stronger than clay and waterproof.

It will be dark in the afternoon. You should go to unload the boat first. I will tell you how to do it tomorrow." Luo Chong explained.

"Yes, chief."

The lame man took the order and left. The tribesmen were busy again. A boatload of limestone was shoveled into rattan baskets and then transported to the location designated by Luo Chong by cart.

Luo Chong himself returned to the carpentry group to do the final assembly of the combing machine.

The most critical part of this pure wooden machine is not the wooden gears, nor the transmission rod that looks advanced, but the distance between the surfaces of each roller. It is necessary to ensure that the short thorns on the needle skin feel close and distant, so that the short thorns on the needle skin will not wear each other, and the efficiency of tearing the wool fibers can be maximized.

After all the rollers and transmission mechanisms were assembled, Luo Chong sat there and stepped on the pedal to test it. As the continuous reciprocating motion of the transmission rod was transformed into axial motion, the six large and small rollers started to rotate quickly, and the gear set also made a creaking sound.

"Wooden Pig, go to the elders to ask for a can of grease. Lard or butter will do. Bring it quickly." Luo Chong continued to step on the pedal and said.

"Yes, chief, I'll get it right away."

After a while, when the wooden pig brought the butter, Luo Chong stopped, picked up a small piece of wood on the ground, picked out the butter and smeared it on all the moving parts, such as rollers, gears, transmission rods, in short, all the moving parts.

After applying the butter, when Luo Chong stepped on the pedal again, the grease quickly lubricated every moving part, the speed of the machine was much faster, the stability was also improved a lot, and it felt less vibrating than at the beginning, and it didn't take that much effort when it was just started.

"Chief, is this good?" The wooden pig asked as he looked at the humming combing machine.

"Well, no problem. Install the feed plate and the discharge plate before dark, and it will be ready for use tomorrow." Luo Chong said after testing the machine for a while.

"Okay, let's install it right away. It's simple. Just use the mortise and tenon joints to insert it."

Mutun and the apprentice immediately started working. They inserted the two rectangular wooden boards into the machine one after the other, and then used wooden pegs to fix them. The final work was done in a few minutes.

The combing machine was completely completed. Time passed unknowingly and it was around five o'clock in the afternoon. It would be dark in less than two hours. Luo Chong took advantage of this time and immediately issued a new task to the two.

"Before it gets dark, let's make another stool."

"Stool?" Mutun and the apprentice asked at the same time.

"Yes, it is used for people to sit on. This thing is simple. Just a piece of wood with four legs inserted. You can make one with those scraps. Hurry up, the two of you go find four short wooden squares, each about 40 centimeters long, and find an unused wooden board, three centimeters thick." Luo Chong explained and gave orders to the two.

The three of them immediately found materials and tools, and Luo Chong directed them and started working again.

The four short wooden sticks, 4 cm square, were uniformly sawed into 45 cm long. The wooden board the apprentice found was a piece of wooden board left over from making a wheel clasp, three centimeters thick, 30 cm wide, and half a meter long, just the right size.

The wooden board was flattened with a plane, and four rectangular holes were chiseled from the bottom. The four legs were also connected in pairs with short wooden sticks. Finally, the heads of the four legs were sawed into sockets and plugged into the punched wooden board. All the joints were dipped in fish bladder glue. It took three people half an hour to finish the work.

"See, this is a stool, a flat surface with four legs. If the surface is a little bigger and the legs are a little higher, it will be a table. I will teach you how to make it later. In the future, we will all sit on stools, eat on the table, and write Chinese characters on the table. When the house is built in the future, every household will have one." Luo Chong sat on the stool and said while stepping on the combing machine.

"Do we need to make so many?" The wooden pig said in surprise.

"Yes, everyone in the Han tribe must have at least one stool, and each family must have at least one dining table, and two shorter kang tables. When it's cold in winter, you can eat directly on the kang, or write on the kang. Women can also sew clothes on the kang. In short, there are many uses. When the city is built, you can do it slowly."

"Well, chief, does everyone have to learn to write Chinese characters? I think it's difficult to write Chinese characters. Can we, who work, not learn it?" Mutun said, scratching his head embarrassedly.

"You don't have to learn, but you have to recognize the words I write. Also, it doesn't matter if you don't learn Chinese characters, but you have to learn arithmetic. Otherwise, how can I let you build things by yourself in the future? Do you still need me to teach you step by step? Forget it, forget it, let's talk about it after the city is built. No matter what you do in the future, the children of our tribe must learn."

Luo Chong said very speechlessly. He didn't expect Mutun to raise the issue of not wanting to learn, but Luo Chong would never give in to education. In the future, all children in the Han tribe will be forced to go to school, and girls will also go to school. The Han tribe will have compulsory education.

This is the way to reserve talents. Otherwise, when Luo Chong dies of old age, it will be the beginning of the decline of the Han tribe. Luo Chong will never let the foundation he has worked so hard to build go back. Han civilization needs to be passed down in writing.

"Well, then, let's wait until the city is built before learning." Mutun scratched his head again embarrassedly.

"Ah! Okay, let's do this for today. You all go to rest." Luo Chong sighed and said that human life is limited. He still has to find a way to leave more knowledge. Knowledge is endless wealth.

Luo Chong took the stool and called two tribesmen to carry the machine to follow him. They stopped at the door of his and Xiaodie's thatched house. The machine was placed there in the open air. Let's build a shed tomorrow and find a place to put it.

Xiaodie, who had been shearing alpaca wool for a day, saw Luo Chong brought back a strange thing and immediately ran over to watch curiously.

"Luo Chong, this is the yarn twisting machine you made. How do you use it?"

Luo Chong placed the stool in front of the machine and pulled Xiaodie to sit on the stool.

"Yes, this is a machine for spinning wool, but what is spun out is thick yarn, and the thick yarn needs to be spun into thin yarn.

Come on, put your feet on these two pedals and step down with your feet back and forth, yes, yes, yes, fast, that's it."

"Wow, how come this thing is spinning, it's spinning so fast." Xiaodie's feet were pedaling faster and faster, and the six rollers on the machine were also spinning rapidly.

"Sit still, I'll get you alpaca wool. Don't touch those rotating rollers with your hands, or you'll rub off the skin."

Luo Chong shouted as he ran to the clothesline where the alpaca wool was hung.

(End of this chapter)