Chapter 238: Made in the Han Dynasty (Seeking votes and subscriptions)

After obtaining planting technology and seeds, the Cha tribe decided to start planting rice as soon as possible. Other tribes were no exception, but not every tribe had a suitable geographical environment like the Cha tribe. So in order to grow crops, they began to look for such places around their tribe, and even moved for this purpose.

Crop planting is a way of obtaining food. Anyone with a brain can see its potential, that is, stability, which is an advantage that hunting and gathering cannot match. Fishing is barely stable, slightly easier than hunting, and less dangerous.

And those who can become leaders in each tribe are naturally not stupid. Even if the leader does not understand, the elders or witches can see the value of planting. Therefore, planting crops is imperative, no matter how difficult it is.

Of course, those tribes that moved for this reason did not move far, and were still within half a day's journey from their original residence. Those places were areas they were familiar with, and they were not at ease moving to a completely unfamiliar place.

In the following days, some tribes were moving, some had already started to cultivate the fields, and some were digging canals. Because their planting area was much smaller than that of the Han tribe, there was no need to dig a river directly like the Han tribe did. A small ditch was enough for irrigation.

However, there were still some tribes that had begun to search everywhere for the things that the Han tribe wanted, animal skins, special plants, live animals, strange stones, and healing herbs. They planned to use these things to exchange with the Han tribe for the necessary supplies at the market at the beginning of next month.

Luo Chong was not idle in the Han tribe either. He was making those goods that could be sold and adding the brand of the Han tribe on all the goods.

The copper branding iron first carved the Chinese characters on the wooden board, and then pressed it on the clay block of refractory clay to make the brand head of the reverse word. In this way, after the branding iron was heated red, the branding would be a positive word.

This text iron can leave Chinese characters on all wooden products. For example, the wooden buckets that the Han tribe is about to sell are branded with the words "Made by the Han, special bucket for water" or "special bucket for salt".

Other products are even more crazy. Since the Han tribe has already produced a batch of pedal spinning machines, they also have the flywheel technology of artificial power. Therefore, under the guidance of Luo Chong, the woodworking group quickly used this technology to produce a new equipment, the pedal-powered pottery wheel.

It is a pottery embryo pulling machine. The rotating wheel is as high as a stool. Below is a small flywheel and a transmission crankshaft. There is a pedal at the bottom. People sit on the stool to work, and step on the embryo pulling machine. They can start pulling clay embryos on it. The pottery making technology of the Han tribe has finally been liberated from kneading mud by hand.

The invention of the embryo pulling machine has made the pottery making of the Han tribe not only faster, but also more beautiful. For example, in the past, even if a bowl was kneaded by hand, although the workers were very careful, it was not necessarily round. But now with the pottery wheel and the embryo pulling machine, the bowls can be as round as you want.

Of course, making a pottery throwing machine is not the ultimate goal. Luo Chong's goal is to print words on pottery.

Printing words on pottery, that is, coloring, is actually no different from the production of porcelain. The Han tribe has no shortage of materials. This thing is actually very simple, just hang a layer of glaze on the outside of the semi-dried clay.

White porcelain glaze is directly mixed with kaolin and water to make a slightly viscous glaze. Put the glaze in a bucket, and then roll the semi-dried clay into the glaze. What comes out is white porcelain. After drying again, it is fired in the kiln, and the finished product is pure white ceramics.

Other colors of glaze are also made in this way. Grind the malachite mined from the copper mine into powder and add it to the white glaze to make a green glaze; grind azurite and copper ore into powder and add it to the white base glaze to make the corresponding color.

Iron oxide crystals were put in to make a reddish-brown glaze. The bright red mineral pigment had not been found. The Han tribe had not yet discovered cinnabar. If they had cinnabar, they could also find a way to extract mercury, but it was useless now.

With these colors of glaze, the pottery of the Han tribe immediately changed a lot. The clay embryo was covered with a layer of white base glaze. After drying, the bottom of the bowl was printed with red glaze with "Made in the Han Dynasty".

In order to unify the standards and speed up the production, Luo Chong carved a square seal with wood, which was the seal of "Made in the Han Dynasty". When working, he directly dipped the wooden seal in the paint and pressed it on it.

As for the colorful patterns on the bowl, most of them are striped patterns. Because it is easy to make, just put the white clay embryo on the embryo machine and turn it, then take a simple brush dipped in the color pigment and directly press it on it. Because the ceramic embryo rotates itself, a circle of color stripes will be left on the pottery. Coloring is so simple.

In addition, some Chinese characters will be printed on the outer wall of the bowl with a seal, such as "good weather, good harvest, livestock and livestock, God bless the Han people", "happy family, many children and grandchildren, peace in all seasons, surplus every year", etc., and the final product is very unique.

The bowl with a white background has a square "made in the Han Dynasty" printed on the bottom of the bowl, and two or four colored stripes on the wall of the bowl, with auspicious words for a better life printed between the stripes.

In this way, those who use these bowls will be curious about the symbols of Chinese characters. It doesn't matter if they don't understand, they can directly ask the people of the Han tribe at the market.

And Luo Chong can use this method to spread Han culture, such as "happy family", what is a home, what is the composition of a home, Luo Chong can explain to them the human relations, husband and wife, parents, children, and these human relations.

"Peace in all seasons, surplus every year" can tell them what the four seasons are and what a year is, and also teach them the concepts of solar terms and time. "Good weather, good harvest" can tell them the impact of weather on crop planting.

They would eat from such bowls every day, and every time they saw these words, they would think of the explanations that Luo Chong had said. Over time, they would deeply engrave Han culture in their minds. As for the "made in the Han Dynasty", it was purely to improve the status of the Han tribe in their minds and let them know that the Han tribe was a superior existence.

There were many words on such pottery, which did not look particularly good, but it didn't matter. Luo Chong just wanted to add more words.

Luo Chong did not miss other things that could be added with words. Since you have grown grain, you must need sacks, right? It is impossible to use animal skin bags to carry them. There are not so many animal skins to make bags, so Luo Chong also printed words on the sacks.

The plant dye made from the juice of the red grass was printed on both sides of the sack. The middle of one side was "Han" and the middle of the other side was "Liang". There were also eight small words on the bottom of each bag. One side was "a bumper harvest of grain, a full warehouse of grain", and the other side was "fireproof, waterproof, rat-proof, and bird-proof".

(End of this chapter)