Chapter 124 Show of Skills
At this stage, as Zhou Xu's tribal base camp, the total population living in the Black Moon Camp for a long time is 87 people.
This number does not include Zhou Xu himself.
In other words, the construction team will have to build at least 87 dormitories, covering a total area of more than 1,000 square meters.
This workload is undoubtedly too much for a construction team of only seven people who rely solely on manual labor.
And in a short period of time, I'm afraid it's impossible to get this done.
In this case, it is imperative to add more manpower to the construction team.
After all, considering the construction of the camp, the workload of the construction team will only increase, and its importance will also increase day by day.
Spreading out the piece of animal skin paper he used to record the personnel deployment, Zhou Xu glanced at it a few times and finally set his sights on the logging team.
The logging team and the construction team actually belong to the same construction engineering department. When the laborers were being assigned before, considering the workload, Zhou Xu arranged most of the manpower to the logging team.
After all, at that time, the construction team only needed to dig a canal that was not in a hurry to use, while the logging team's job was to provide wood for the entire tribe.
Even today, Zhou Xu planned to separate a quarrying team from the logging team to be responsible for collecting stones.
In the past, the materials used by their tribe to build or polish stone tools came from roughly two sources...
One is the mine in the salt lake camp. During mining, a lot of stones will be produced. These stones will also be transported here regularly for use in tribal construction.
The other is the daily collection of the collection team.
The gathering team was one of the earliest organizations in their tribe, and in the early days it was mainly responsible for gathering various resources.
Like picking up sticks, picking up rocks, catching bugs, looking for new things nearby, basically doing everything.
Later, with the development of the tribe, under Zhou Xu's planning, many corresponding collection tasks were handled by special department teams, and the early collection teams gradually shifted their positioning towards miscellaneous work.
The reason why they did not disband directly was because their tribe really needed such a team that could do miscellaneous tasks and go wherever help was needed.
But now, the work of the collection teams has been further reduced.
In addition, the Construction Engineering Department is now setting up a new team, and manpower is beginning to become scarce.
Zhou Xu naturally disbanded the collection team and formally incorporated it into the Construction Engineering Department, and then made new arrangements and transfers for the personnel of the Construction Engineering Department.
First, we added fourteen new members to the construction team, and one old member was responsible for leading two new members.
Although the new team members have not accumulated any construction experience, they are still capable of doing the hard work.
This will also allow veteran team members to devote their time and energy to other work.
After simply arranging the work for the construction team, the personnel of the two collection teams, the logging team and the quarrying team, were divided equally.
Although the demand for timber is higher at this stage, compared with quarrying, logging is obviously more efficient.
Therefore, even if the manpower is divided equally, the amount of wood they obtain every day is much more than that of stone.
After reallocating staff to the Construction Engineering Department, Zhou Xu's work was obviously not finished yet.
The construction team and the logging team both have fixed work locations, so he doesn't need to worry about that, but the newly established quarrying team does not.
Some people may think, aren’t stones everywhere in the wild?
Indeed, one can pick up a piece of it from time to time in the wild, but for camp construction, this amount of stone is not enough.
In order to obtain a stable and sufficient amount of stones, they need to open up a quarry!
The location is not difficult to choose, it is the Gobi Desert outside the Salt Lake Camp.
The quarrying team can work in the quarry during the day, and return to the salt lake camp to rest after dark.
Under this premise, there is also additional stone output in the Black Forest Mine.
The stones on both sides can be combined into one batch and transported over, which would be much more convenient.
Upon receiving the order, the newly established quarrying team immediately set out for the Salt Lake Camp to prepare to start quarrying work.
At this stage, the construction team is still digging the foundation and does not need stone for the time being. However, once the foundation is fully dug, the demand for gravel will suddenly increase.
Therefore, the work of the quarrying team must undoubtedly be accelerated.
After that, there is the issue of transportation to consider.
Although there are wooden carts nowadays, the stones are heavy after all. In addition, they cannot handle them carefully, so the stones are not regular and cannot be placed stably on the wooden carts, which in turn increases the difficulty of transportation.
Faced with these problems, Zhou Xu naturally thought of the animals pulling the cart again.
As long as there are animals to pull the cart, this problem can basically be solved.
But the problem of livestock obviously involves the problem on the grassland. The "copy" there is really too difficult for him now.
While his thoughts were racing, Zhou Xu went to the equipment department to check the progress of the bamboo bow.
Simply making a bamboo bow is definitely not difficult for Zhuang Mengdie, because Zhou Xu has basically drawn a relatively complete design with clear ideas.
The point is that Zhou Xu wants this bamboo bow to shoot farther, with greater power and higher accuracy! This requires improvements on the original basis, and this is exactly where Zhuang Mengdie is tested.
When Zhou Xu arrived at the equipment department, he saw Zhuang Mengdie fiddling with a bamboo bow in his hand.
“Is this the latest product?”
"Yes, Chief."
After seeing Zhou Xu coming, Zhuang Mengdie hurriedly stood up and handed over the bamboo bow in his hand.
After taking the bamboo bow, Zhou Xu's eyes immediately fell on the main body of the bamboo bow, and then he was completely stunned...
"This is……"
"This is inspired by the combined structure that the leader taught us before. I found that a single bamboo piece, although very flexible, has limited strength. This also results in the arrows having limited power and range, and poor stability..."
Zhuang Mengdie doesn't talk much on weekdays, but when she talks about the bamboo bow, she becomes a chatterbox in minutes and talks nonstop.
"So I thought, can we increase the strength and stability of the bamboo bow by stacking bamboo pieces, and make the bamboo bow more durable at the same time?"
"But there is a problem here, which is that the bamboo strips need to be fixed..."
Zhou Xu had undoubtedly considered the problem that Zhuang Mengdie mentioned at this time, so he came here this time to discuss the matter of making "glue" with Zhuang Mengdie.
Speaking of glue in this era, it is the colloid substance in various animals, which is what everyone calls collagen. To put it more simply, it is the sticky part that people eat in their mouths.
But Zhou Xu never expected that before he could even say anything about the glue, Zhuang Mengdie used her deft hands to create a grand masterpiece for him.
At this moment, the bamboo bow he was holding in his hand, with the bamboo pieces pressed together on the main body, was actually put together by her with an extremely delicate and complex mortise and tenon structure.
How can this be called a bamboo bow?
In Zhou Xu's opinion, this was just a show of skill!!
(End of this chapter)
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