When Lucas arrived at the bamboo forest, he found it very lively. Many people were cutting down bamboo, like the bamboo tubes used by the Drunken Night restaurant were cut from here.
For easy access, many people even cut down small bamboo, which made Lucas frown. Seeing this, Annie next to him asked softly, "Young master, is something wrong?"
"Of course something is wrong. It's fine to cut down the big bamboo, but even the small ones are destroyed. What will everyone cut next year? What about the year after?"
Lucas pointed to the distant Forbidden Mountain Range and said, "Are they going to cut bamboo deep in the mountains in the future?"
Sedona City will only develop faster, the population will only increase, and the consumption of bamboo tubes will only increase. With this kind of cutting method by these commoners, regardless of size, they will all be cut down. I'm afraid that next year, they will have to go very far to cut bamboo.
"I understand." Annie understood. She remembered that her Young master had told her this was called sustainable development.
"Let's go, let's go over there and take a look." Lucas only needed to mention it, and Annie would know how to arrange it. For such small matters, he would let Annie practice her hand, and he would secretly observe afterwards.
Coming to another bamboo forest, the bamboo here was very tall, reaching forty to fifty meters high, with a diameter of thirty to forty centimeters. This reminded Lucas of the giant dragon bamboo on Earth, which was also so tall.
"What kind of bamboo is this?" Lucas turned to ask Nicole. He didn't recognize the bamboo of this era.
"This is hard bamboo. The bamboo wall is very thick, and it won't rot for decades, if you use it carefully. It's harder than some wood, and few people use this kind of bamboo." Nicole briefly told them.
"Have someone cut one down." Lucas instructed Chris. He wanted to see how thick the bamboo wall was.
"Yes."
Lucas and the others retreated to the side. This forty to fifty meter tall hard bamboo falling down was no joke.
"Crackle..."
The steel-forged broadsword cut into the hard bamboo, and found that the cut was very thin. This kind of bamboo was indeed harder than some wood.
"How long does it take for this bamboo to grow so tall?" Lucas asked.
"Hmm." Nicole tapped her chin with her finger, thinking for a moment before saying, "My father mentioned it before. It probably takes ten to twenty years."
Lucas nodded. With such a long growth period, it made sense that it had this hardness. Perhaps this was the kind of bamboo he was looking for.
Bamboo has many uses, such as bamboo flooring, bamboo wall panels, bamboo column panels, bamboo wine barrels, tea barrels, and food packaging boxes, as well as handicrafts. When technology improves, it can also be used to produce high-grade paper and high-quality rayon, etc.
Bamboo can be considered a renewable resource. This large bamboo forest has five or six different types of bamboo. The bamboo tubes used by the Drunken Night restaurant are the kind with thin walls and short nodes, which can grow into mature bamboo in a year.
Moreover, Lucas found information online that said bamboo fibers combined with tree sap and using winding techniques can create pipes that are no worse than concrete ones.
Of course, Lucas hasn't seriously explored tree sap and other materials in this world yet. He decided to have someone investigate it when he gets back, just to be prepared.
"Thud!" A sound of bamboo falling to the ground brought Lucas back to his senses. Several people rushed over and saw a hard bamboo lying on the ground. "The bamboo wall is really thick." Lucas was very surprised.
The hard bamboo's wall was actually four or five centimeters thick. What does that mean? It's basically a natural pipe. As Nicole said, it won't rot even after being buried underground for decades but Lucas can't take the risk. So this hard bamboo has a lot of uses, and the wall is so thick.
As long as the carpenter's skills are good enough, using embedded interfaces can effectively prevent leaks. "Good, have someone watch over this patch of hard bamboo. No large-scale felling without my permission." Lucas instructed seriously.
"Yes." Annie immediately remembered. Lucas still had to go back and design how to lay the hard bamboo, as well as the water source, etc. The pressure needs to be strong enough, otherwise it will be difficult to deliver water to the residential area.
"Nicole, isn't there a waterfall on the mountainside not far from Sedona City? I heard it's very high?" Lucas asked softly.
"Yes, there's a waterfall group there, very spectacular. My father took me to see it once, it's very beautiful." Nicole's eyes were filled with longing. "Good, let's take everyone for a picnic next time." Lucas chuckled lightly.
He just needed to go and check out that high waterfall. "Yay! I want to eat grilled fish." Ayesha was the first to jump up. "Okay, okay." Lucas nodded repeatedly. He had everything he needed. As for the pressure, he didn't have to worry.
As long as he used physics, he could solve the problem of running water. "Annie, go back and have people make more cement pipes, twice as big as usual." Lucas added. "Okay." Annie nodded. In fact, they didn't know what Lucas came here for, or why he was doing all this.
"Alright, that's all for today." Lucas stretched. He had been busy since he left this morning. He had been very diligent today. "Young master, are we going back?" Nicole asked softly.
"No, when you come to a bamboo forest, you have to leave something behind."
Lucas chuckled and turned to Ayesha, "Go to the carriage and bring down that box of wine."
"Okay." Ayesha ran off immediately toward the carriage.
"Young master, are you going to drink here? Then I'll have someone go hunt some wild animals." Nicole remembered that there were some wild animals in this bamboo forest, which were delicious.
"No, I'm going to make some bamboo wine, so we can drink it in winter." Lucas shook his head.
Lucas had wanted to make some bamboo wine last time, but then the Bruce injury incident happened, which made him go back and perform surgery, and then he forgot about it. Now was the perfect time.
"Bamboo wine? What's that?" Nicole and Annie blinked in confusion. They had only heard of wheat wine.
"You'll find out soon enough." Lucas smiled mysteriously.
"Young master, the things are here." Ayesha carried a large wooden box and came to Lucas.
"Come on, let's go over there, we need some greener bamboo." Lucas led the way to another patch of bamboo, hard bamboo was not suitable for making bamboo wine.
They soon arrived at a patch of young bamboo forest. Then, in the bewildered eyes of Annie, Ayesha, and Nicole, Lucas drilled a small hole in the bamboo, then injected the wine into the bamboo with a syringe, and then plugged the hole. He did this to about a dozen bamboo stalks.
"Young master, is this bamboo wine?"
"Young master, you're so wasteful, you're actually giving the bamboo wine, you should give it to me."
"Young master, you're a bit strange today?"