Chapter 138 Xiaodie's Wool (Please vote and subscribe)
Luo Chong took out a prepared wooden board and handed it to the two old men.
"There are 22 surnames on it, all of which I thought of in advance. They are the Mushroom Tribe (Gu), the Fork Tribe (Chai), the Ao Tribe (Ao), the Flying Stone (Shi), the Dan Tribe (Tan), the Wen Tribe (Wen);
the Tiger Tribe (Hu), the Bear Tribe (Xiong), the Sickle Tribe (Lian), the Fire Tribe (Huo), the Hole Tribe (Xue), the Vertical Tribe (Zong), the Thorn Tribe (Jing), the Tooth Tribe (Ya), the Pearl Tribe (Zhu), the Snake Tribe (She), the Han Tribe (Luo), the Tree Tribe (Lin), the Black Rat (Shu), the Xieding Tribe (Xie), the Bian Tribe (Zhi), and the Tu Tribe (Tu).
Each surname is represented by a Chinese character, and this character represents a family. Then add the name after the surname, and it becomes the full name. For example, my surname is Luo and my name is Chong, so it becomes Luo Chong. The
full name can also be two characters. The surname in front represents the family origin, and the name in the back represents the person. In the future, everyone must have a full name and a surname."
The two old men took a look. They couldn't understand it. They only knew that it was a Chinese character, but the leader had arranged it, so they just did it.
"We understand, chief."
"Well, there is one more thing. I want to establish a clan rule. After this census, we will implement household division. Men must have their own women, and children must recognize whose children they are, and then form a family.
Once a family is established, men are not allowed to have an affair with other women. Those who disobey will be directly demoted to slaves and will not be allowed to have women for life. They will be sent directly to the mines to dig. The same goes for women. Once they disobey, they will be demoted to slaves. Since they are willing to have children with other men, let them have enough.
When choosing a spouse, you can only compete when you are just an adult and are dating. Once a family is established, you must abide by the clan rules." Luo Chong then said a clan rule about human ethics.
The two old men also nodded in agreement.
After dinner that night, the three announced this matter in front of all the tribesmen. The tribesmen had no objections, especially the young boys and girls who had just joined. They didn't have children yet, so it was easy to allocate families. After all, the spouses were confirmed at the spring meeting.
The more troublesome ones were the tribes that were merged into the Han tribe as a whole. For example, the Black Rat Tribe was confused about who was whose spouse and which child was born to whom. Luo Chong couldn't figure it out anyway, so he left it all to the Rat Witch to solve. Luo Chong just wanted the result.
The Han tribe was also the same. The issue of household division was left to the elders to solve. The Tree Tribe had a small population, so they could easily sort it out. There were only three adult men left in the Xieding Tribe, but there were a lot of women.
Luo Chong decided to find new spouses and form families among the original tribesmen for those women who were still able to bear children. Those who were past the childbearing age would not form families for the time being, and several women would live together with their children.
Another issue was the name. Luo Chong provided the surnames, but Luo Chong didn't have the time to name them one by one, so he just used the surnames plus their previous names.
For example, Dashu, whose last name is Lin, has changed his name to Lin Dashu, but Luo Chong has gotten used to calling him Dashu and will continue to do so in the future; and Shuda, whose last name is Shu, has changed his name to Shuda, which is homophonic with his original name, but Luo Chong will still call him by his previous name.
On the second day, Luo Chong led Dashu to start the final preparations before building the city, measuring the land, accurately determining the points, and laying out the lines.
There is a very simple and universal method of finding angles when laying out the lines for building a house, or laying out the lines for building a building. When the angles are not required to be very precise, the right angles of the house can be determined by the sideline 'three four five' method. In simple
terms, it is to use the sum of the interior angles of the triangle, measure three meters and four meters on the two right angles respectively, if the distance between the two points is exactly five meters, it means that the angle between the two right angles is already 90 degrees, if it is not yet five meters, then adjust it slightly until it becomes a right angle.
Using this method, you can build square city walls and square houses. Even the locations of those square city areas are determined in this way.
Dashu was helping Luo Chong lay out the lines for a city area in the northeast corner, and asked Luo Chong curiously.
"Chief, isn't it a bit wasteful to build houses in this area that is ten meters long and wide?" Dashu asked in confusion.
"This ten-meter-long and wide area is not all used to build houses. Only three houses are built, and the rest can be used to build a small warehouse to store firewood and tools, or even dig a dry toilet.
Of the three houses, one is for adults, another for children, and the middle room is used for cooking and heating the kang.
So, in fact, each person can't get much space, especially children, who can only sleep in a crowded place." Luo Chong explained to Dashu.
"Chief, how is the brick house built? What is used on the roof to prevent it from leaking?" Dashu asked another question.
"The method of building a brick house is to dig a ditch along the drawn line first, then use heavy objects to tamp the foundation firmly, and then pile up bricks and mortar layer by layer. When the wall is built, use strong logs to serve as beams on the roof, and then lay a layer of straw on the logs, and then paste a layer of mud on the straw, and then lay a layer of tiles on the mud.
Tiles are flat bricks made of clay like bricks, in sheet form, and laid on the roof like scales on a fish, which can be waterproof, just like fish skin." Luo Chong pulled the line while introducing the house-building process to Da Shu.
"So, the soil can be used in this way. Isn't it just like pottery can hold water? The leader must have a way." Da Shu said admiringly.
"Well, your description of pottery is very vivid. In fact, tiles are equivalent to broken pottery pieces. Those waterproof pottery pieces can indeed be used in this way." Luo Chong said with a smile.
It was not until the lunch break that Luo Chong was sitting on a big log eating. Suddenly, Xiaodie hugged Luo Chong's neck from behind and lay on his back.
"Luo Chong, look at what I made." Xiaodie waved a white thread in front of Luo Chong's eyes.
"Thread? Is it made from rabbit hair?" Luo Chong asked in surprise.
"Yes, yes, I'm awesome, right? I use rabbit hair to weave cloth for you. Even my mother can't do it. She can only weave linen, but I can weave woolen cloth. You should praise me." Xiaodie lay on Luo Chong's back and asked for credit.
"Where did you get the rabbit hair?" Luo Chong asked suspiciously.
"It's the hair that the rabbits bit off from their stomachs. I took it because they didn't want it." Xiaodie said confidently.
"Oh my god, that's the hair that the mother rabbits bit off before giving birth to the little rabbits to make nests. You took all the hair away. What will happen to the little rabbits they give birth to?" Luo Chong's mouth twitched violently.
"Ah?...(⊙_⊙;)...Will the little rabbit die?" Xiaodie felt wronged immediately, she didn't know it would be like this.
"Uh, that, it shouldn't be a problem, the weather is so warm now, the little rabbit won't freeze to death." Since the hair had already been twisted into thread, Luo Chong had no choice but to comfort Xiaodie.
"Oh, then I won't pick up the rabbit hair next time, but I really want to weave cloth for you." Xiaodie whispered in Luo Chong's ear.
"Well, since you want to make wool, why don't you try the wool of alpacas? Their wool is longer than that of rabbits." Luo Chong reminded her.
"Who said I didn't try? I liked their hair from the beginning. They are so round and beautiful, but when I plucked their hair, they spit at me. Humph, they are not obedient at all." Xiaodie said with a hum.
Luo Chong: ""
(End of this chapter)
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