The painted pottery is made of pottery after the pottery is dried in shade, polished and smooth, then painted with pigments made from natural ore, and then put into a kiln to fire.

After the pottery is burned, different colors will appear on the pottery and there will be beautiful pictures.

This is painted pottery.

In fact, what Chen Bei wanted was porcelain, but he didn't know much about how porcelain was fired, so he could only let the craftsmen in the pottery workshop play their freely.

Unexpectedly, although the porcelain was not made, they actually fired the painted pottery.

The painted pottery is so good. After the silver-white tin ware was originally made, the pottery seemed dull. Although many tribes could not afford tin ware, their desire to buy pottery was not that strong.

It’s different now. Now that we have painted pottery, even if we put it together with tinware, they have their own advantages.

Chen Bei asked curiously: "How did you find out that you can color the pottery?"

Wu Teng replied: "At the beginning, there was a piece of pottery that was accidentally stained with pigments. If it was scraped hard, the pottery would be ruined, so I put it in and burn it."

"I didn't expect that the fired pottery seemed to be like a cloud in the place where the paint was stained, which looked very beautiful."

"Later, we tried to use various pigments to color the pottery. The pigments made of plants and trees were the worst, and they faded as soon as they burned. The pigments made of colored stones basically won't fade."

"After solving the problem of pigment, we tried to draw on pottery, and it turned out like this."

Chen Bei looked at the pottery in his hand and saw a fish on the front. It was painted vividly and very beautiful.

People in the Mang tribe are different from other tribes. The lines drawn by other tribes are extremely simple and exaggerated in shape, and they do not look like the original object at all.

People from the Mang tribe basically learned Chenbei's realistic painting style. What is the original object? They just draw it according to the painting, and the things they draw are naturally much more beautiful.

"No, very good. In the past, I used to reward you with some salt, animal flesh or skin. I believe you don't lack it now."

Chen Bei thought for a while and said, "Let's do this, I'll reward you with five tin coins. There are a lot of things in the trading area. If you like, buy whatever you like."

"Thank you, leader!"

Wu Teng and the craftsmen were a little excited. Although the rewards in the past were also very good, no matter how good they were, they would not be better to choose them yourself?

The value of tin coins has been widely recognized among the tribes of the Mang tribe, because no matter who gets it, he can go to the trading area to buy things, and everyone has changed from doubt to trust.

"Keep working hard. Since you can make painted pottery, you will definitely be able to make something better."

"Yes! We must work hard to make something better."

The pottery workshop originally divided a group of people to make tin ware and tin coins, so it belonged to the tribe. Now, Chenbei personally sent five tin coins to each of them, which belonged to them.

Chenbei opened the precedent for the tribe to directly reward money, and it was also the beginning of personal savings. It can be foreseeable that in the future, people with abilities and skills in the tribe will definitely live a better life.

When the tribe was at its most difficult time, everyone worked together and didn’t have time to care too much, but now the tribe is gradually becoming rich, and it is no longer appropriate to continue the previous model.

It’s a very simple truth. If a person with strength and hard work lives the same life as everyone else, why should he continue to work hard?

Chen Bei knew that giving money would definitely widen the gap between the rich and the poor in the tribe, which would inevitably happen.

People with abilities will be rewarded with more money, while ordinary people will have much less chance of getting rewards.

If this continues, the emergence of rich people will inevitably be inevitable.

However, even if the money is not paid, those people in the tribe who have real power, even their family and friends, will occupy more resources and become rich.

For example, the large tribes in the middle have appeared aristocratic class, ordinary class, and slaves.

The emergence of money only makes this gap more obvious.

At the same time, Chen Bei felt that he should be alert to another problem, and it would be best to deal with it before something happened.

He walked around the pottery workshop and said to Wu Teng: "Now everyone in the tribe knows that tin coins are valuable and can buy things, and the same goes for those who fall outside."

"If someone comes to steal, then our losses will be huge."

Wu Teng immediately raised his brow and said with a sharp look: "Who dares to steal, I will beat him to death!"

Chen Bei waved his hand and calmed down Wu Teng.

"No one steals it now, so it's hard to say in the future. For the sake of eating, there are a lot of people who risk their lives, let alone money."

"I think it's necessary to prevent this from happening in advance."

Wu Teng's face turned up and said, "Chief, tell me, how should we prevent it in advance."

Chenbeidao: "The place where minted tin coins is set up near the altar, where the totem god is guarding it. No matter how brave a person is, he will not dare to steal things."

Wu Teng said: "Where is the tin utensil?"

"Tin utensils are still made here, and tin coins are the general money in the trading area, and tin utensils are not."

Chen Bei carefully considered this matter when the tin coin was born, and he found that there was no safer place in the entire tribe than near the altar.

It is perfect to open the place where money is made near the altar.

Wu Teng nodded: "We all listen to the leader."

"There is another thing. You have also seen the weather last year. Hail and heavy floods are coming. Now the mud bricks and tile houses cannot be stopped."

"So, I want to burn a brick for building a house called blue brick."

"Now we already have coal, it is not difficult to burn blue bricks, but we need to build larger brick kilns, which will take longer to burn."

"Blue brick?" Wu Teng had never heard of this word, but he had seen mud bricks, so it must be something similar.

Chen Bei took a piece of clay for making pottery and slapped it into a rectangular brick, saying, "Just like this, the soil does not need to be very good. Then make some molds, press the clay into this shape, and then put it in a brick kiln to burn."

"After the boiling, pour water and cool it on the bricks, and it turns into blue bricks."

This thing is not complicated. Wu Teng has experience in making pottery and can understand it at first. The only thing he is more confused about is why he needs to sprinkle water to cool it down.

The pottery is cooled naturally. If water is poured, it will be hot and easy to crack.

However, since the leader said that, there must be a reason to do so. Just do it as the leader said.

In fact, the reason why Chenbei wanted to burn blue bricks instead of red bricks was because the building materials in this era were relatively poor and the weather was so bad. Blue bricks were much better than red bricks in erosion.

The only difference between the firing method of blue bricks and red bricks is natural cooling and water cooling.

The Mang tribe leans against the Lobster River and now has a moat, and there is no shortage of water at all. Naturally, it is necessary to burn blue bricks that are better than red bricks.

Chenbei decided that the first blue brick house of the Mang tribe was built near the altar to mint coins.
Chapter completed!