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The grand and lively group wedding on the river beach is in full swing under the warm spring sun.

After watching the teeth of young men who were married, a group of patriarchs sat on the grass to exchange the amount of betrothal gifts.

The others all divided into piles of large and small, forming a circle, with the sound of spanking and howling sounds of ghosts and howling.

The crowd burst into laughter.

The hunters who were standing guard and patrolling in a row also felt much more relaxed. Most of them stood outside the circle and looked at each other on tiptoe, and couldn't help but shout loudly and beat them hard.

Mother Ba was a little absent-minded and looked up from time to time.

Not long ago, Xu Chen went up the mountain to find Ye, but I don’t know if he found it.

She could roughly think of the reason why Ye suddenly disappeared, because the Mother's Day wedding ceremony was too stimulating to her.

However, Xu Chen also asked the great witch to personally plead for the mercy of Ye's coming-of-age ceremony, so she had to agree.

But no matter what, Ye did this, which disrupted the serious atmosphere of the Old Mother Festival held by the Ba people for the first time. She must criticize her when she comes back.

Fortunately, this incident did not spread and did not cause chaos in the sacrificial activities. The Ba tribe also achieved great success on this Old Mother Festival. In all tribes, including the Gonghuo Alliance, a total of twenty young and strong men chose to join the Ba tribe.

This is a glory that the Ba tribe has never had before, and it is also the best proof that the Ba tribe has received recognition from all tribes.

These twenty new members, the Ba people, have already negotiated with other tribes one by one, and will pay a lot of pottery and a small amount of linen for exchange of betrothal gifts.

With these twenty young and strong new members, the strength of the Ba tribe will expand significantly. In terms of population and strength, it will surpass most tribes of the Six-Clan Alliance and become the third largest tribe after the Cang tribe.

A prosperous population is a sign of a prosperous and prosperous tribe and family.

Looking back on the Old Mother Festival a year ago, only three people were willing to join the Ba tribe.

After counting several years, the number of adults of the Ba people did not increase, but instead married a few.

With a simple comparison, you will know how much Xu Chen's contribution to the tribe should be.

The Ba tribe even said that the prosperity of the six tribe alliance is now created by him.

It’s a pity that he doesn’t seem to be very interested in marrying Ye.

The two have a good relationship, but as long as they don’t get married for a day, they are worried that Xu Chen’s tension will not disappear for a day.

"Chenga~~"

A hunter greeted him in the distance.

Mother Ba turned around and saw Xu Chen walking along the small path at the foot of the mountain toward the river beach.

Ye followed him, holding his clothes tightly with both hands, following him, his face full of shyness and satisfaction, and looked like a little woman who had just become a wife.

Mother Ba let out a long breath, and the worries in her heart disappeared instantly.

It seems that the two of them had done what adult men and women should do just now in the mountains. As long as Xu Chen does not conflict, it will be much easier to arrange this in the future.

So Muba stood up in a good mood and ordered the Ba people to prepare pottery, linen and other items, and began to deliver the betrothal gifts.

After Xu Chen returned to the river beach, he announced that the transaction period would begin before the lively wedding was over. The Ba people brought out all the pottery that had accumulated for half a year from winter to spring and placed it on the river beach, allowing all tribes who came to choose to exchange freely.

This time, all the tribes that came here were prepared and placed all the fur, beast horns, bones, stones, feathers, etc. they brought with them on the river beach and grass, bargaining and exchanging the items they needed.

The Ba people's pottery is still the most needed and most popular items in various tribes.

Especially the clay pots used for cooking food, pots and pots for eating, etc., are the targets that all tribes compete for exchange.

For this Old Mother Festival, the Ba people have been preparing for a long time. Although the ceremony has only been half a month, the pottery and weaving has been preparing for half a year. It has officially begun since the witch master's meeting was successful in creating witches.

The Wu tribe made of these pottery was exchanged for some of the copper ore, and some were given as military rewards to the tribe hunters who helped the Cang tribe last time, and some of them brought the Gonghuo tribe to the inheritance conference.

There are thousands of pieces left now.

With the gatherings and exchanges over the past two years, the pottery of the tribes of the Six Clan Alliance has gradually become richer, but it is still not enough. First, the pottery is not strong and easy to break. Second, the large pottery pots, pottery pots, pottery pots, pottery pots, and pottery pots used to cook, store water and preserve food are not enough. Not only is the output low, but the price is also high. These poor tribes who eat soil cannot afford to replace them at all. They can only exchange them for two or three at a time, which is far from meeting the demand.

Xu Chen was also well aware of the current situation, so he announced at the trade fair that all the Ba people's pottery were purchased on credit this year for all tribes.

Xu Chen also gave a careful explanation of the new term "buy on credit".

After understanding, the entire trade fair was filled with joy.

Because according to Xu Chen, they did not need to pay any money to bring back the pottery they needed this time. They just need to collect all the goods to exchange for these pottery in the next year to deliver them. However, the price of purchase on credit is slightly more expensive than on-site delivery with physical goods, but the expensive price is considered a bargain in all tribes.

After all, there is no place to exchange objects as exquisite and practical as pottery except for the Ba people.

However, although buying in credit is good, it still requires more wealth in the end. Therefore, all ethnic groups are still cautious and do their own strength. There is no situation of large-scale looting.

For the Six-Clan Alliance tribes, Xu Chen's credit purchase conditions have been further relaxed. In addition to using traditional animal skins, gauze, twine, etc. to pay for it, in addition to using traditional animal skins, gauze, twine, etc.

Spinning and weaving cloth, the tribes of the six tribes have learned it, and the tribes have also begun to promote linen clothes to replace fur.

Because the linen takes a long time from collecting tree bark to reinforcing hemp, washing, rubbing, spinning, weaving cloth and other complex links, and the yield is also very low, so the wealth value carried by linen is also very high, which is an extremely in short supply for all the primitive tribes at present.

And as the tribes and alliances expand and develop, the demand and value of linen will become greater and greater.

Human needs for cloth until the founding of New China in the 1970s and 1980s, but it still did not reach the point where it fully meets the daily needs of the people.

In the West, the huge changes in the textile industry have driven an industrial revolution that swept the world, leading to a rapid development of human civilization.

Therefore, starting from Xu Chen's invention, Bu will always be expensive and scarce materials for a long time in the future, and even become an item as important as food, taking on the role of currency trading.

Although the production of linens in various tribes has just begun, he felt that it was possible to promote the replacement of linens with relatively low value in advance with relatively low value, which not only accumulates more wealth for the Ba people, but also quickly promotes the popularization of pottery.

After all, for all primitive tribes, eating is still their biggest need. Without linen, it will not affect survival, and you will live well in fur.

Linen is a wealth created by surplus labor. It is created by women in their spare time and will not affect the survival of primitive tribes. Therefore, this is also a disguised means to promote the increase of the total amount of social wealth.

Replacing linen with pottery, both sides were happy.

Unlike the Six Alliances, the Gonghuo Clan Alliance tribes had a greater and more obvious demand for pottery because they had just started to come into contact with pottery and were eager to get this magical vessel that could cook rice, meat, water, and store water.

However, they are too far away, and the goods they bring are all the most ordinary goods such as animal skins, horns, bones and teeth, and the exchange value is not very high.

As for linen, they have not reached this level of demand yet, and Xu Chen has no intention of teaching them the weaving techniques easily.

Faced with the hot but hesitant look of a group of patriarchs of the Gonghuo Clan Alliance surrounding piles of pottery, Xu Chen said that the conditions for purchasing purchases from the Ba tribe are equal to all tribes, and that any valuable items are accepted by the Ba tribe. If the Ba tribe can get several ores urgently needed, the pottery can even be given for free.

Although Xu Chen's condition was so exciting and surprised that all tribes were, everyone was at a loss for what the Ba people needed.

Almost all tribes that came from the Gonghuo tribe this time brought some gems and ores, but Xu Chen did not find the minerals he thought were useful.

He now urgently needs lead, tin and salt.

It would be fine if there was coal.

Unfortunately, he didn't find these. The most collected by these savages were gleaming and colorful gem minerals, such as amber, crystal, fluorite, gold, agate, bluestone, cat's eye, tourmaline, calcite and other good-looking crystal minerals.

In the eyes of savages, any shining and crystal clear stone is a rare treasure with decorative functions. Of course, they also collect some ore pigments, such as cinnabar, graphite, realgar, green alum, pyrote, azurite, etc., and there are even a lot of colorful soil such as yellow mud, black mud, Guanyin soil, gypsum, etc.

The things collected by primitive people are adapted to their current life and decoration needs, and in Xu Chen's opinion, there is no industrial value.

Although he was disappointed again and again, under the current difficult transportation and survival conditions, he needed to do all means to find it.

In order to change the current living conditions and once again improve the level of civilization, salt and bronze are almost two unsurpassable items.

Salt is a necessary nutritional supplement to enter the agricultural civilization. Without salt, it is impossible to fully enter the agricultural civilization unless it develops into another animal husbandry civilization.

However, animal husbandry civilization not only requires an extremely large ranch to meet the population expansion, but also the mobility of living by water does not conform to its living habits.

The living environment in front of him is destined to have only one way to go.

With the promotion and development of farmland cultivation, in order to reduce the dependence on uncertain harvests such as hunting, salt is a necessary thing.

Whether farming or living, it is essential to support a large number of metal tools. From slash-and-burn cultivation to intensive cultivation, metal tools are the only way to advance. Otherwise, with just a few broken stone swords, stone axes, stone hoes and wooden hoes, the low labor efficiency cannot support more people, and cannot afford his appetite for overbearing the king's dominance.

Therefore, Xu Chen introduced several ore styles and colors to the Gonghuo tribe in detail, hoping that they could search carefully after they went back, and even encouraged them to communicate with other alien tribes to inquire about the existence of these ores. As long as they could be found, the Ba people would be willing to exchange large quantities with them in pottery in the future.

With Xu Chen's encouragement, in addition to using the items they brought from the Ba tribe to some pottery, several tribes of the Gonghuo tribe also purchased a batch of pottery based on their own strength.

Regarding the special ores mentioned by Xu Chen, all tribes said that they would inquire carefully after going back and report them as soon as possible once there is news.

As the saying goes, "Watching grass and catching rabbits", Xu Chen can only search on a large scale.

The pottery is not very useful at the moment. It is better to go on credit like this. It can not only gain the favor of the Alliance tribe, solve their urgent needs, but also stimulate them to have the motivation to take the initiative to explore and find.

With the addition of the Gonghuo Clan Alliance, his hands can now reach hundreds of miles away, contact more strange tribes, and obtain more extensive information.

He believed that as long as his net was cast big enough, these problems would be solved one by one.

There is already copper, and if he can't make a solid bronze, he will never be able to rest in peace even if he dies.

The current situation is that he was obviously walking around the kiln with a handful of gold and silver, but the madam told him that he only collected copper coins today, and nothing else was easy to use.
Chapter completed!