Chapter 118 Work Begins
Zhou Xu thought about the waterwheel briefly and felt that he could basically handle it.
Since they have mastered the technology of polishing wooden carts, making a waterwheel is not difficult for them.
Even the polished wooden cart axles can be used directly.
If all else fails, you can probably just use a ready-made bamboo tube.
Just like he said before, it is rare to see a plant that grows so neatly like bamboo without any polishing.
But Zhou Xu was not in a hurry for this thing.
Compared to the waterwheel, seeing the weather getting hotter day by day, he wanted to build a house quickly.
So that the tribal members can have a more comfortable resting environment after hard work.
Therefore, at this moment, Zhou Xu did not plan to mention the water truck, but directly took the design drawing he had drawn and talked to the other party about building a house.
Wang Dashi didn't mind at all that new job came his way so suddenly.
People of this era are generally hardworking and there is basically no complaint.
In their minds, as long as they have something to do and food to eat, the world will be peaceful! Zhou Xu roughly told them his ideas, and Wang Dashi and others listened beside him.
It wasn't a particularly complicated matter, and Zhou Xu also took care to explain things simply and clearly, so naturally there was nothing Wang Dashi and the others couldn't understand.
"Did you understand everything?"
After finishing his speech, Zhou Xu turned and looked at the seven members of the construction team, including Wang Dashi.
Faced with the question, Wang Dashi looked down at the design drawing spread out by their leader, and after pondering for a few seconds, he nodded.
"clear!"
"Well, you guys take a break first, then we'll get to work!"
At this moment, it was just past noon and it was still early before dark and time for dinner. The construction team's day naturally could not end like this.
After letting Wang Dashi and the others take a rest, Zhou Xu turned around and found the logging team. Although they belonged to the same construction engineering department, the logging team was much larger in size.
After all, many things in the camp require wood, and the wood resources in the grassland camp are not abundant, so their logging team is basically responsible for regularly supplying wood to multiple camps at the same time.
With this as a premise, if the scale is not expanded, the daily supply of wood will not be able to keep up.
When building this thatched house, Zhou Xu took convenience into consideration. Although he planned to use bamboo as the main material, the frame of the house is still very important.
It needs to be strong enough and heavy enough, otherwise a strong wind may blow your house over.
For this purpose, Zhou Xu planned to use the trunk of a large tree directly to make the entire frame of the house.
After talking about this matter with the logging team, Zhou Xu returned to the camp and saw the construction team headed by Wang Dashi, who were already waiting for him there.
"Are you all rested?"
"Good rest!"
Wang Dashi answered straightforwardly, and Zhou Xu didn't bother to argue with them. He led the construction team directly towards the residential area.
Since we are going to build houses, they should naturally be arranged in residential areas.
He had undoubtedly given careful consideration when dividing the various areas of the camp, and even now, there was no problem.
Taking into account the increase in tribal population after development, a large space was naturally reserved in this residential area.
As for the first house that their tribe was about to build, Zhou Xu had already decided where to place it.
After bringing the construction team to the location, Zhou Xu estimated the area of the house with the wooden stick in his hand and directly drew a rectangular area on the ground.
"Let's dig up all the soil in this area now, and dig it to about one person's depth."
They don’t have any particularly accurate measuring tools at the moment, so Zhou Xu can only measure the length and width based on his own height, and then slowly make adjustments.
In this era, the function of houses, to put it bluntly, is to allow them to sleep and rest.
Theoretically, the space in the house only needs to be enough to accommodate a bed.
Of course, as the tribe continued to grow, they would certainly need more interior space in the future.
It would undoubtedly be difficult to rebuild the entire house at that time, so the same method should be used to reserve the necessary space in advance.
Zhou Xu undoubtedly built this first house for himself. Based on the measurement of his height, the area of the house is roughly 50 square meters.
This is definitely not small. If you put only a bed in a house of this size after it is built, the interior of the house will probably seem too empty.
Zhou Xu naturally knew this.
Therefore, in addition to the bed, according to his plan, he also intends to install a desk here. In this way, he can handle some of his daily work here without having to borrow space in the sheds of other departments every now and then.
The area is 50 square meters, and the digging depth is one person deep. Considering the digging efficiency of this era, it is obvious that the foundation digging task cannot be completed in one afternoon.
On the contrary, the logging team had basically prepared and delivered all the wood needed for Zhou Xu to build the house frame in just one afternoon.
The logging team processed the wood quite smoothly, saving Zhou Xu and his team a lot of effort.
During dinner, Zhou Xu called Wang Dashi, the captain of the construction team, and Zhuang Mengdie, the director of the equipment department, and told them how to process the wood.
There is no need to explain the reason for calling Wang Dashi over. As for calling Zhuang Mengdie over...
"What I'm going to teach you next, Mengdie, you should listen carefully, it will be useful when you make things in the future."
If he wanted to build a house, then before officially taking action, Zhou Xu would definitely go over all the possible problems in his mind.
In this era, the biggest problem in building a house, to put it bluntly, is how to fix the frame of the house.
After all, he didn't have any nails now, so he couldn't just tie it with bark ropes, right? Putting this thing on the house frame made people feel a little unsafe.
With this idea in mind, while constantly pondering, Zhou Xu suddenly thought of something, building blocks!
The building blocks can be firmly fixed together by combining concave and convex parts. So can this be used to build the frame of a house?
After this idea came to him, he, who was drawing the design at the time, quickly found two pieces of wood, and after some simple processing, made a set of very rough connecting parts to try.
After trying it, he found that it really worked! He was overjoyed.
What Zhou Xu didn't know at this time was that the method he was thinking of was exactly the structural method used by their ancestors, called "mortise and tenon structure."
By accident, Zhou Xu, who had never studied this kind of thing, ended up thinking the same thing as his ancestors.
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(End of this chapter)
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