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Chapter 328 News from the Salt Mine

In the following time, the Ba hunters who had packed up their weapons did some simple treatment and bandage for the injured Tu Group savages, and then a large group of people returned to the cave where the Mongolians lived and began to make a fire and cook.

In order to make the action smoother tomorrow, after dinner, Xu Chen called the Mongolian patriarch and some Mongolian hunters who were familiar with the territory of the indigenous savages to communicate carefully, and also caught several Tumen who were not seriously injured, and asked the Mongolians to interrogate repeatedly to obtain more detailed situations.

The message is very simple. Following the attack of the indigenous savages, we continue to advance to the deep mountains and forests in the south for most of the day. It is another valley. This group of indigenous savages live near that valley. There are a few places in the valley that do not grow in grass. A large number of wild animals often gather to pick up this salty stone.

Because the Mongolians cannot defeat the harassment of these indigenous tribes, they do not always sit and wait for death, but occasionally they will take the initiative to attack, hoping to completely eliminate these monkey-like savages of the Tu tribe, but their strength does not allow it.

Although they had attacked the other party's territory several times, they were quickly repelled, but they would also take the opportunity to pick up some such salty stones. They would lick them a few times when they were in trouble when they had headaches, brain heat, and they would lick them a few times. Unexpectedly, they would sometimes get better. Therefore, the Mongolians always thought that these stones could cure diseases and treasure them as treasures given by God.

Xu Chen is not sure whether salt can cure diseases, but he knows that salt deficiency will definitely cause many diseases in the body. Therefore, sometimes when the body is extremely deficient in salt, supplementing some salt can definitely improve the body's functions.

Because the Mongolians had few opportunities to attack the savage territory, they also had very few stone salts. They brought them back and slowly licked them away.

The rest of the area is always treasured as a treasure in the clan leader. When the clan is sick, he will find it and lick it a few times.

This is how Xu Chen looked at this black, plain and rich patina.

It is impossible to lick it, but in order to verify his thoughts, Xu Chen asked the Mongolian patriarch to come and said that he wanted to smash it open and take a look.

Although the patriarch was reluctant to let it go, he did not dare to refuse. Moreover, if Xu Chen succeeded in this operation, the Mongolians would have endless stones to lick in the future, so they finally agreed readily.

Xu Chen found two stones and smashed the stone salt. The exposed section confirmed his judgment. There were a large number of translucent salt crystals inside, standard salt ore, and carefully beat the stones into pieces, picked out a transparent salt crystal from it and licked it. A long-lost familiar smell of salt made him breathe a long breath.

It takes time to find a place to find a broken iron shoe.

The salt he had been looking for for a long time finally found him, and he was almost at hand with the Ba people, and the two places were only two or three hundred miles apart.

If this distance was in the past, it would take only half a day to go.

But at present, there is almost no way outsiders know about the Mongolians and the local savage tribe.

And even the Yu Gong tribe and the nearby tribes didn't know how closed the life of human beings was in this era.

Logically speaking, there are still some gatherings and exchanges between tribes every year. The Mongolians can completely exchange stone salt mines for more useful wealth with other tribes, but they seem to have never done this before.

With this question in mind, Xu Chen still had a communication with the Mongolian patriarch while flirting with the Yu Gong clan.

But the answer he got made him feel a little amused.

It turns out that the problem still lies in the battle for the great witches that once led to the division of the tribe.

The Mongolians have always supported the La tribe. In the past, they and the La tribe were the same tribe. After the great witch inheritance, the La tribe retreated and fled, divided into two. The La tribe fled to the north, while the Mongolians fled to the south. In order to avoid the pursuit of the Yu Gong tribe, they fled all the way to the primitive jungle farthest from the Yu Gong tribe. After wandering for a long time, they finally found this hot spring area with indigenous savages, and finally occupied the hot spring at the cost of heavy casualties.

Even though the La tribe in the north lost their witch, they never surrendered to the Yu Gong tribe until all the men were killed by the Mao Tun tribe not long ago.

The Mongolian tribe in the south has been reluctant to submit to the Yu Gong tribe for a long time, but later, in order to continue the ethnic group, they had to choose to compromise and submit to the commander of the Yu Gong tribe's great witch in order to gain the power of marriage and communication.

In short, the tribal alliances are almost the same. Although they belong to the same alliance, there are constant grudges and hatreds, and the contradictions cannot completely disappear.

Therefore, except for getting along with other tribes every year, the Mongolians refuse all collective activities on the grounds that the journey is too far and inconvenient. Naturally, they will not take out the good things like Shi Yan to exchange with other tribes.

Moreover, stone salt is not easy to obtain, and it is not enough to use it yourself, so it is unlikely to take it out and exchange it.

After finding out this information through gestures and communication, Xu Chen had some ideas when he looked at him, and he told the current situation of the La tribe.

When I heard that all the men of the La tribe were killed by the Mao Tun tribe, and the women and children were killed and eaten by them, the Mongolian patriarch and several leaders were both sad and angry, but after learning that the remaining women, children, young and old were sent to the other side of the river by Xu Chen and handed them over to the Thunder tribe, and said that they would take good care of them, the Mongolian patriarch and several leaders were grateful, and some even burst into tears.

For these stubborn savages, their thinking is very simple. Fortitude is grace, hatred is hatred, good is good, bad is bad. Just like their battle with this group of primitive indigenous people, it has never stopped for hundreds of years. No one has ever thought about communicating with these indigenous savages to discuss peaceful life. Instead, they have been deliberately trying to kill the other party and completely solve this disaster.

What's more, the cracks and hatred arising from the belief in the great witch are almost impossible to disappear.

Both the La tribe and the Mongolian tribe regard the great witch of the Yu Gong tribe as a heretic, not the orthodox inheritor, and are unwilling to recognize and accept her leadership.

However, after all, it was a tribe led by great witches. Compared with the indigenous savages, the level of civilization has evolved a lot. They know how to judge the situation and compromise. In order to reproduce and survive the tribe and gain the addition of fresh genes, the Mongolian tribe finally chose to recognize the leadership of the great witch of the Yugong tribe, but it was just a forced compromise. The seeds of hatred and hostility have not completely disappeared.

This made the Mongolian tribe a maverick tribe of the Yugong tribe alliance, living independently in the south and having little contact with other tribes.

Because of psychological sympathy and helplessness for the La tribe, the Mongolians were unable to provide more help. However, after hearing about the situation of the La tribe from Xu Chen, their attitude towards Xu Chen was instantly very close, and they completely abandoned the mentality of following the bargaining. They all excitedly expressed their full efforts to help Xu Chen attack the indigenous tribe tomorrow and grab the salt mine there.

Xu Chen got the answer he wanted and a relaxed smile appeared on his face.

Although the Yu Gong tribe surrendered, the subsequent management is still quite troublesome. After all, there is no bridge or road to travel. Although it is close to you, the exchanges between any tribe are based on the heavens's plan, and there are no manpower. As the area explored in the future, the more tribes it governs, the more management troubles it will be.

The reason why the emperors in ancient times divided the princes was not that they did not want to strengthen their management, but that they could not, because the poor transportation and natural conditions seriously hindered the centralization and had to adopt this method.

In addition, tribes survive alone as ethnic groups and have formed their own strong territorial consciousness. Before the tradition of ethnic life is completely broken, tribal autonomy is also the only choice.

However, the system of feudal divisions based on tribal autonomy will inevitably weaken the rule of the royal power. As the strength of the tribe and princes increases, the demand for territory and power will expand more and more. In the end, the war between the tribes and princes will inevitably be inevitable, and even further weaken and threaten the rule of the royal power.

This led to the emergence of various morals and etiquette.

The purpose of these ruling methods is to win over, differentiate, suppress the disorderly expansion needs of various ethnic groups, and maintain the balance of power between ethnic groups and princes.

Xu Chen does not need to be a solid part of the Yu Gong clan. Just like he deals with the Ukrainian Alliance and the Gonghuo Clan Alliance, he tries to cultivate some new forces as much as possible to fight against the old forces of various ethnic groups and keep the alliance in an unstable state, so as to maximize the control.

Taking advantage of the relationship between the La tribe and the hostility and hatred towards the Yu Gong tribe, it is a good choice to win over the Mongolian tribe.

Although the demand for salt is not obvious at the moment, as the scale of farming continues to expand, salt will surely become the most urgently needed and scarce resource for all alliances and tribes.

By then, he can firmly control the Yugong Alliance through the Mongolian tribe and the salt mine.

Only when you have a mine at home can you live freely and freely.

Previously, the Wu tribe was recaptured through copper ore differentiation.

In the future, he will differentiate and completely conquer the Yu Gong tribe through salt ore.

In order to let everyone understand the benefits of salt ore, Xu Chen cleaned the crushed stone salt ore, put the collected salt crystals into a clay pot and melted them with water, and then cooked a can of salty wheat bean meat porridge.

When the Mongolian tribe leader and Yugong leader Hefeng and other group of leaders at the level of leader tasted this unique salty porridge, they all praised it in surprise, saying that the food made from this salty stone is indeed extremely delicious, and it tastes more delicious than raw and cold fresh meat. Some people even said that some of their uncomfortable symptoms suddenly disappeared.

Xu Chen, who was so shameless, naturally ignored it directly.
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