Chapter 48: Upgrading from a Shotgun to a Cannon (Spring Festival Update 45)
The snow stopped, and the plan to burn bricks was launched. The brick kiln built by the river was not big, and could only burn a few thousand bricks each time. Because the bricks were used to build the city, they were relatively large. If they were bricks for building a house, it was estimated that more than 10,000 bricks could be loaded.
After Luo Chong personally observed the bricks in two kilns, he handed them over to the tribesmen to do it. In fact, they didn't have to work every day, and basically they only
worked once every three to four days. First, the kiln was loaded, and then it took a day to burn, and then it took another day to cool it down with water, and then the bricks were taken out of the kiln, and a new kiln of brick embryos was loaded. Luo Chong thought that no one was willing to do this job in winter, but the facts were unexpected. The tribesmen all rushed to do it.
Later, Luo Chong figured out the reason. Because moving bricks is a physical job, Luo Chong would not deduct their food from the people who moved bricks, and those who participated in moving bricks could eat three meals a day. Those who didn't move bricks had to stay and learn Chinese characters. If they didn't learn well, their dinner would be cut in half. So everyone rushed to move bricks. It was so fucking crazy.
Days passed like this. Every day, they learned Chinese and Chinese characters, fed the antelopes and rabbits, and moved bricks every few days. It was ordinary but fulfilling.
When everyone was not busy, they chatted in Chinese. They couldn't help it because many things could only be expressed in Chinese taught by Luo Chong. The original tribe's dialect couldn't express those new things at all.
Some people also made jewelry to decorate themselves, and most of them were men. They put bone necklaces, stone necklaces, feathers and other things on their bodies.
Luo Chong didn't understand why, but later the elders told him that in order to prevent inbreeding from causing the degeneration of the human race, many tribes would gather together in the spring to hold a blind date, and men and women who had just reached adulthood could participate. If the woman liked the man, she would follow him to his tribe.
The standard for being pleasing to the eye is to see whether you are strong enough, how strong the tribe is, and whether there is enough food. If you want to see this, you can observe from the bone ornaments on the man.
If you carry a particularly long thigh bone as a weapon, then your tribe must have the strength to hunt large beasts, and it also means that your tribe will not lack food. If you are covered with bone ornaments, it means that there is a lot of food in the tribe, otherwise where would so many bones come from.
Well, what you said makes a lot
of sense, Luo Chong was speechless. In fact, this is similar to the meaning of animal courtship. Deer will compete to see whose horns are bigger, cattle and sheep will butt horns with each other, and even birds will build a beautiful nest first to attract the mother bird to return to the nest to lay eggs. Humans are the same, but now humans pay the most attention to the amount of food.
But does the Han tribe lack women? Obviously not, what the Han tribe lacks now is men. Why are you all so active? Don’t you have enough women in your tribe? Luo Chong despised them.
It was just that Luo Chong had wrongly blamed them this time. Everyone knew that there were many women in his tribe, and they came from three tribes. They were not close relatives at all, so there was no need to look for them outside. It was just that they had grown up so big that it had become a habit to make accessories every winter.
And this year Luo Chong also gave everyone a difficult problem. In the past, many of the accessories were worn on their heads, but this year everyone tied their hair up, and everyone suddenly didn't know how to decorate their hair. They could only make some necklaces
to hang around their necks. Now in the entire tribe, only Luo Chong tied his hair with a snake skin headband and inserted a bone hairpin. Others had no decorations on their heads. They just found a random ribbon to tie their hair up, and they didn't even have a hairpin, just to distinguish them from the leader.
Luo Chong himself felt that something was missing. The ancients also had the habit of wearing hats. According to the style of the hat, you could tell what the person did. In addition to hats, there were various hairpins, and yes, there was also a crown.
So Luo Chong made a crown as an accessory. In addition, because the carpenter's tools were also made, Luo Chong asked Mu Tong to make a batch of wooden combs.
A crown is a headband that is put on the headband to tie the hair on the top of the head. The crown is mostly made of gold, silver, leather, jade, or mixed, such as gold inlaid with jade, leather inlaid with jade, and has a variety of styles. It is a very beautiful decoration.
If everyone wears a crown, it is fine. If you want to distinguish them from the leader, just make them different in style and material.
Since ancient times, gold has been a symbol of nobility. The Han tribe did not have gold, but they had copper and tin, which have the same color as gold and silver, so Luo Chong's crown is made of copper.
First, a crown is carved out of a wooden board. Some patterns and words can be carved on it, and hollow carvings and so on can be made. Luo Chong's crown is hollowed out and carved. This is also done to reduce the weight. If a copper hoop is made directly, it will be too heavy. There is also a "Han" character on it.
After the wooden board is carved, a dent is pressed out on a clay block to use as a mold. Then it is cast with molten copper water. The cast is a hollow thin copper plate. Then the copper plate is rolled on a wooden stick as thick as a wrist and knocked into a round shape. Then it is fixed with a copper hairpin.
Luo Chong, wearing a "gold" crown, is naturally taller and more majestic. This time, he also changed his own guns and cannons. He changed himself so that he could not let the tribesmen have nothing on their heads. So he made a silver one for Dashu with tin. The pattern on it is a tree, and Dashu likes it very much.
Under Luo Chong's guidance, other adult men also made some leather headbands, even wooden headbands, bone hairpins, or wooden hairpins. Luo Chong gave them the big teeth of lungfish he got back last time. They were also ground into various shapes and glued to the headbands.
From then on, there was a new rule in the Han tribe: children could only tie their hair or wear headbands, but they could not insert hairpins; adult men could wear crowns or headbands, and they had to insert hairpins to distinguish between adults and minors.
Women had combs, and they no longer had to keep ponytails. Adult women had to wear their hair in a bun, and they could use wooden combs or hairpins as headdresses. Minor girls could tie their hair into ponytails, let their hair down, or braid their hair, and also use hairpins as decorations.
Metal was a strategic material, and it was impossible for everyone to use it to make ornaments, so Luo Chong used metal ornaments as rewards, and anyone who had made contributions to the tribe would have the opportunity to get them.
After a series of reforms, in the Han tribe, now you can tell a person's identity and age group, or whether he has made contributions to the tribe, just by looking at his head.
Qubing's headband was also made by Luo Chong. It was made of python skin wrapped in wood, and there was a copper buckle with cloud patterns on it. It was rewarded to him in the name of learning Chinese characters the fastest. Qubing was very happy. He would touch the copper button on his head whenever he had nothing to do. He was the first child to have metal ornaments.
In fact, Luo Chong worked so hard on ornaments not just to distinguish the classes of the tribesmen, but for the blind date.
Of course, he didn't go on a blind date, but to meet people from other tribes to see if he could do some business.
In the past, the Han tribe obtained salt by trading with the Xieding tribe. Now the Xieding tribe is gone, so before finding the salt mine, Luo Chong wants to find a new seller.
You know, the pottery of the Han tribe is very valuable. Luo Chong not only wants to exchange pottery for salt, but also wants to buy some people back. He hopes that with the current population of less than 200, he won't be able to fill up Luo Chong's city in the next life.
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