Jiang Xuan’s words were filled with such confidence that Chi Shao was momentarily stunned. When she snapped out of it, she felt immensely proud because Jiang Xuan was her younger brother!
"Then let’s do it, my sister supports you!"
"Alright, I’ll go to the smelting workshop now and make the ruler first!"
The ruler is one of the most important tools. With a ruler that has fixed units, the Vine Tribe can create things with uniform size for mass production in the future.
Jiang Xuan headed to the smelting workshop, while Chi Shao returned to her courtyard. The first batch of Witch Medical Apprentices had been selected, totaling ten people, both male and female, who were interested in herbs and witch doctor practices.
Chi Shao needed to patiently teach and cultivate these ten apprentices into Witch Doctors, to treat more tribe members.
The east bank, smelting workshop.
Jiang Xuan first used softened insect wax to create a model of a ruler.
After the model completely solidified, Jiang Xuan used a small wooden stick to fold segments and then engraved measurements, ensuring each unit was consistent in length.
After he finished, a ruler model with measurements appeared.
The ruler included the units meter, decimeter, and centimeter.
One meter is equal to ten decimeters, one decimeter is equal to ten centimeters, which is very clear.
Of course, Jiang Xuan’s meter was only similar in length to what he knew from his past life, not identical, because he didn’t have an accurate ruler at hand.
But it didn’t matter. As long as the Vine Tribe becomes strong enough, Jiang Xuan’s ruler will be the most accurate on the entire Primordial Continent!
If other tribes want to measure anything, they must use the length of the Vine Tribe’s ruler; otherwise, it will be very difficult to trade with the Vine Tribe.
Jiang Xuan further refined the ruler made from insect wax and engraved the Vine Tribe’s Totem Pattern on blank spaces.
Afterward, he wrapped the insect wax ruler with clay and used the lost wax method to create the first clay mold for the ruler.
Finally, Jiang Xuan poured bronze liquid into the clay mold. Once the bronze liquid solidified and cooled, Jiang Xuan broke the clay mold, and thus the Vine Tribe’s first Bronze Ruler appeared!
Holding the meter-long bronze ruler in both hands, Jiang Xuan exclaimed excitedly, "This is the Vine Tribe’s first Bronze Ruler and the prototype for all future rulers!"
The warriors in the smelting workshop didn’t quite understand the significance of the first ruler, but seeing Jiang Xuan happy made them cheerful too.
After the excitement, Jiang Xuan went on to make dozens of bronze rulers based on the model and measurements of the first Bronze Ruler.
One of them was given to the smelting workshop for them to use for measuring practices in the future.
The usage of the ruler was not hard to grasp, especially since the Vine Tribe had already started popularizing numbers; the numbers marked on the bronze rulers were understandable to the warriors in the smelting workshop.
After a few teachings, they understood how to use the Bronze Ruler.
"In the future, except for those custom-made weapons and devices, everything else must be standardized in size and length for easier trading with other tribes."
The warriors in the smelting workshop nodded one after another, remembering Jiang Xuan’s words.
After finishing the bronze rulers, Jiang Xuan began making other items related to measurement standards. For more chapters visit novel·fıre·net
First were two square-shaped bronze basins, one large and one small; the small bronze basin filled to one sheng, and the large bronze basin filled to one dou.
Ten sheng make one dou, and ten dou make one stone. The conversion method is quite simple and practical.
Jiang Xuan baked a batch of shengdou basins of the same size for the Vine Tribe’s future liquid or small granule grain measurement tasks.
After casting the shengdou basin, Jiang Xuan also cast a square-shaped bronze block with numerous Vine Tribe Totem Patterns engraved.
Jiang Xuan decided this piece of bronze weighed one jin, meaning all future weight units would be based on this one-jin bronze.
Once the weight unit was set, Jiang Xuan started making the balance scale.
The balance scale is a crucial, highly practical, and relatively simple weighing tool.
Jiang Xuan crafted a balance scale beam from a straight Purple Blood Tree, then used bronze to cast the scale weight, scale hook, and lifting button.