Chapter 162: New Opportunities (Please vote and subscribe)
After a while, the warrior who came to report the news was brought to Luo Chong. He was a member of the original team of the Black Rat Tribe, and Shushan, who often followed Shuda, was always with Shuda when the Black Rat Tribe and the Han Tribe came into contact. He was one of Shuda's few confidants.
"Chief." Shushan knelt on one knee and clasped his hands together, performing a military salute.
"Well, get up and answer."
"Yes." "
What did Shuda ask you to say, and how was the situation of this battle." Luo Chong asked directly.
"To reply to the chief, when we arrived at the Fire Tribe, they still had 45 adult men. It was night, and the captain led us to attack the Fire Tribe camp at night. We died two people in the battle, and several others were slightly injured. All the adult men of the Fire Tribe were killed, and there were more than 1,200 women and children in the Fire Tribe, who have been brought back by us. However, forty
or fifty of those women and children died on the way." Shushan reported, and his voice was a little low when he said the latter part, as if he was afraid that Luo Chong would blame them.
"So many dead? It's almost a small tribe, right? How did those dozens of people die?" Luo Chong asked calmly, and it was hard to tell whether he was happy or angry in his tone.
"More than half of the women in the Fire Tribe were pregnant. The women who died were 27 pregnant women. Some died of bleeding from the lower body, some died of fever, and some died of exhaustion from walking. The rest were children. Some died of high fever, and some died of vomiting and diarrhea. The captain asked us to bury the dead along the way." Shushan knelt on one knee again and answered.
"Oh! Okay, you get up and go change a horned deer. Now you go back and tell Shu Da not to rush too much. You just need to get to the tribe before sunset today. Don't let those people get too tired. We will arrange accommodation and food in the tribe."
Luo Chong sighed deeply. He didn't blame Shu Da, but he felt a little sad about the fate of these people and the difficulty of survival in this broken world. A fever can kill people. This is probably the most unwilling way to die.
"Yes, chief."
Shushan took his leave, turned around and changed a horned deer, and went back to report to Shuda without rest.
After Shushan left, Luo Chong called the elders and the rat witch again, and asked them to gather the collection team to build thatched huts. The location was set around the previous group of huts. According to 10 people in a hut, 120 more huts were needed. However, it was also easy to build a pointed hut. With hundreds of people working together, it should be built before dark.
The women of the collection team picked out some long branches as thick as arms from the pile of firewood brought back by the logging team to build the frame of the hut, and then put some thatch and branches and leaves on it. Some directly pasted a layer of bark. There were all kinds of things, which gave full play to their creativity.
After arranging the things to welcome the new tribesmen, Luo Chong returned to the carpentry group again. Now there was still more than half a day before dark, and he must make the spinning machine today.
The three of them had a clear division of labor. The apprentice made the bracket, the wooden pig fiddled with the two wheels, and Luo Chong was responsible for the transmission device and the spool. The cowhide transmission belt on the wheel was ready, and there was no problem with the transmission rod. That thing was just a few wooden strips. The core technology was the crankshaft and spindle, that is, the spool.
The spool must be movable because it needs to be replaced frequently and the quantity required is large, so the simpler the production of the spool, the better.
The material used was the branches of the tung tree, which were sawed off from the two new trees today. As for why the tung tree branches were used, it can only be explained by coincidence.
The first point is that the wood of the tung tree is relatively straight and very light; the second point, and the most important point, is that the center of the tung tree branch is hollow, which is simply a natural material for making spools. It has a built-in drilling effect. I wonder if you will accept it.
However, the hole is not very big. The diameter of the hollow inside is about the same as that of a pencil lead. It needs to be enlarged with a hand drill. But this is already very rare. After all, the wood of the tung tree is not strong, so it is easy to drill. Moreover, the hollow inside can also keep the direction when drilling, and it is not easy to drill crooked.
In addition, the tung tree grows quickly and can be supplied in large quantities. There is no need to worry about the lack of materials. The two crowns sawed off this time can be directly processed into materials for hundreds of spools. After all, the spool only needs a small section of wooden tube. Of course, it would be better if there was a universal material like bamboo, but unfortunately there is none.
Insert the round thin baffles at both ends of the drilled tung wood tube, and then glue it with fish bladder glue, and a simple spool is completed.
When this spinning machine is working, the bobbin is fixed, and the "U"-shaped winder fixed on the side of the small flywheel is used to wind the thread. When the small flywheel rotates, the winder will quickly rotate the wool fiber into a thin thread and wind it on the bobbin. The entire small flywheel, winder, and spindle are arranged vertically and worn together on a hollow shaft. The spindle and the shaft do not move, and the work depends entirely on the small flywheel and winder.
The winder is sawed from an oak board, and there is a row of wire grooves sawed on the two winding arms, which are then polished smooth to hang the thread on it.
Another three hours passed, and the transmission wheel was installed on the bracket. A crankshaft made of oak was worn on the transmission wheel, just like the crank of a hand-cranked engine. The end of the crank is connected to the foot-operated transmission rod, but this spinning machine has only one pedal, so you can keep it working with one foot.
The small flywheel and the winder were also installed. The spindle was movable. Just plug it in when you need it. Luo Chong stepped on the pedal to test it. The transmission wheel rotated very smoothly. There was no problem. Now all he had to do was put the transmission belt on the two wheels, one large and one small.
"Okay, I'll do the rest of this spinning machine myself. You two can make a few more stools according to what you did yesterday, and then make more bobbins according to the method I just used. Don't worry about the others for now." Luo Chong looked at the spinning machine that was basically completed and said to the two of them.
"Well, leader, how many more stools do you need to make?"
"Make as many as you can. They don't have to be the same size. Just pick some scraps and use them. One of you will make the stools and the other will make the bobbins. The bobbins will be made in the same size. They must be the same. I'll leave you one as a sample. Make as many as you can before dark." Luo Chong thought for a while and put down another bobbin for them.
"Yes, leader." The two of them responded in unison.
Luo Chong waved his hand and carried the spinning machine he had just made to Xiaodie. This "shoddy" machine, apart from a frame and a big wheel, was not as heavy as two wooden benches and could be carried by one person.
When Luo Chong came to Xiaodie, the silly girl was still stepping on the pedal of the combing machine. She was wearing a bamboo hat bought at the Spring Fair. Her two little hands were tearing wool balls into the machine. There were already five or six baskets of coarse yarn strips processed next to her. She was a model worker.
Seeing Luo Chong bringing another new machine, Xiaodie finally stopped, stood up and stretched.
"Luo Chong, is this the spinning machine you mentioned that can twist the yarn? How do you use it? I have been making wool strips for a whole day, but I haven't twisted any yarn. I am just waiting for your machine. Let me try it."
Xiaodie complained to Luo Chong, but her enthusiasm for trying the machine was not low at all.
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