During breakfast, Xu Chen also asked someone to throw some unfinished bones to these savages for food.

This action once again dissolved part of the hatred. After seeing Xu Chen and others, many women and children no longer struggled and screamed like yesterday, but were timid and bowed their heads or even took the initiative to avoid them.

Of course, there is definitely no gratitude. Killing so many of them, causing so many casualties and injuries, hatred is not so easy to eliminate, but at least it can be seen that this hostility has begun to develop to the point where it can be communicated.

In order to try the possibility of subdue, after these savages were fighting for the bones, Xu Chen asked someone to find out the older women, and then let the Mongolians participate and start some simple gestures and communication.

Communication between completely different ethnic groups and civilization levels is extremely difficult, and language is almost useless, and it depends entirely on gestures. Xu Chen feels that he is not communicating with a group of humans, but talking to a group of monkeys.

However, monkeys are also considered primates, with certain wisdom, and can still understand some of the occasional movements and simple sounds, let alone real humans. Therefore, this complex and painful exchange lasted for two hours. During this period, Xu Chen also invited these savages to eat dried vine fruit, jerky meat and aphrodisiac fruit tea.

Xu Chen's kind-hearted behavior finally made a breakthrough in this difficult exchange.

These older women no longer have hatred and alertness towards everyone, but start to gesture, and even regard Xu Chen as a trustworthy person, pointing angrily at a group of Mongolians to accuse their crimes.

It was a bit embarrassing that a group of Mongolians dared not speak out.

Because before the exchange, Xu Chen asked the Mongolians not to get angry or get angry or provoke conflicts no matter what happened. Therefore, a group of barbaric natives pointed at their noses and screamed, and they could only pinch their noses and recognize them.

Xu Chen is the greatest help to be able to defeat these century-old feuds so easily this time.

No matter how it develops in the future, these savages will never pose a threat to the Mongolians again.

Now it depends on how Xu Chen dealt with this barbaric tribe.

According to the Mongolian people's ideas, it is best to kill them all, and it will be clean if you lose your eyes.

But it seems that Xu Chen didn't want to do so, but these people were all Xu Chen's prisoners, and they did not have the right to participate in the disposal, so they could only obey Xu Chen's arrangements.

"I... give you fire...you give us...salt..."

Xu Chen pointed to the burning bonfire and the brine area above the valley, and took out a piece of stone salt crystals and kept explaining.

Several female savages seemed to understand and squatted together and started to communicate with each other.

"You... go and discuss with your tribe members. The Mongolians will deal with the salt here in the future. They must not attack them, otherwise you will all die..."

Xu Chen pointed at the Mongolian people with a serious face, and pointed at a pile of corpses that were still thrown not far away and repeatedly warned.

Several women nodded in horror, then returned to the group of tribe members and began to communicate in a whisper.

Some of the indigenous savages screamed, some were angry, some were silent, and some were timid, and some were simply hiding behind their companions and trembling.

The conditions proposed by Xu Chen are both tempting and extremely insulting.

For savages who have simpler thinking than other tribes, they remember hatred more firmly.

But in the face of the temptation of fire and the threat of death, the mentality of the ethnic group has undergone huge differences.

Give up their hatred with the Mongolians naturally makes them feel angry, but if they don’t agree, they are afraid that they will all die today.

Especially some women holding babies and toddlers kept screaming at some angry men, and some even pounced on them and scratched them.

Faced with the threat of death, the motherhood of these primitive savages finally emanated.

Hatred can cultivate children's desire to fight from an early age, but for those newborn babies, they have nothing to do with this hatred. Motherhood is the most firm and rich at this moment. They do not want their children to be killed by foreigners because of hatred.

Moreover, the conditions proposed by the other party are still very fair.

For them who are not short of salt, fire is the wealth they need most urgently at the moment.

With the fire, the remaining people can survive this cold winter safely.

The men have suffered all casualties, leaving only a group of women and children who are still injured. If they continue to fight angrily, there will be only a dead end.

Adults can tolerate it, but children will starve to death and freeze to death.

But if the adults resist, can the children survive?

According to previous traditions of war between tribes, this is impossible.

A group of indigenous savages quarreled and screamed for more than ten minutes before slowly calming down.

A group of injured men were dejected and stopped making any more noises. A few older women moved carefully to Xu Chen again, squatted on the ground, and gestured to show that their tribe members were willing to accept Xu Chen's proposal.

"Very good!" Xu Chen finally breathed a long sigh.

Although the exchange negotiations were heartbreaking, it finally reached a relatively perfect ending.

Conquering an alien tribe is very difficult.

Although he could not guarantee that this savage tribe will no longer cause trouble against the Mongolians in the future, at least this exchange can be temporarily concluded in a more humane way.

What's more, I know what will happen in the future.

As the strength of the Alliance tribe continued to expand, this group of indigenous groups, which were mostly wounded and women and children, was no longer taken seriously by him.

The only trouble is that they may rebel in the future, bringing some hidden dangers to salt making.

But at present, he does need more manpower to develop salt mines.

Of course, it is not without any benefit to leave this tail.

First, with the participation of this group of savages, in the future, we will have a lighter way to continue looking for more salt mines, and it will be more convenient to communicate with other indigenous tribes.

Second, their existence will put some pressure on the Mongolians and will not form a situation of monopolizing the salt mine. If these savages rebel, the Mongolians will have to seek his help, which gives him the opportunity to constantly intervene in the salt mine, so that the Mongolians can always remain loyal.

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After dealing with the indigenous tribe, Xu Chen did not rush to leave.

The discovery of salt is now more practical for him than conquering more tribes.

What's more, he went out this time with the purpose of finding various useful resources.

Therefore, he decided to suspend the new expedition plan and stay and arrange the development of the salt mine first.

Given that there are no salt cooking tools at present, drying salt has almost become the only way.

But if you want to dry the salt, you need a special drying yard and a method to make clean salt.

In order to complete this salt drying plan, he observed back and forth in the pan-halogen area and nearby valleys and mountains for a long time, and designed a fairly reasonable structure according to local conditions.

This valley is not very large. The stream water comes from a mountain spring two miles above. It has water all year round, which provides sufficient and abundant water for the production of salt.

In addition, according to the nearby terrain, there is no possibility of too much mountain torrent here in summer, because the mountains on both sides are not too high and the slope is not very large. They are mainly sandstone and soil. In addition, the water-consolidation capacity of the original forests is strong, so it is impossible to have a terrifying flood scale formed by tributaries like the Wulong River. Even if the heavy rain causes the stream to surge, it will generally fade away quickly.

His speculation was affirmed by the Mongolians and the indigenous savages. After he asked, both tribes said that there were few heavy waters in this kind of valley, and that they usually came and went quickly.

Therefore, as long as the design is reasonable, the drying yard will not be affected too much.

First, find a staggered area near the salt halide area, dig out three pits in a step-like manner, lay several layers of stone, salt and sand at the bottom, and then repeatedly step on it with your feet to form a salt pit with very slow leakage.

Above the salt pit, dig ditches from the stream to draw stream water into the first salt pit, and then use a vine basket to wash the dug-cold mud with water. After dissolving the salt inside, slowly flow along a gentle slope ditches to allow the salt water to flow into the second salt pit below to continue to clarify.

After the salt water in the second salt pit is full, it is placed in the third largest salt pit at the bottom and evaporated. When the concentration of the salt water gradually increases, salt will precipitate after reaching a certain saturation.

Finally, the precipitated salt is taken out in a vine basket and drained, and then it can be stored and transported.

The entire three steps of rinsing, clarification and evaporation are clear and orderly, and there is no too much brain-burning process. Xu Chen believes that these primitive savages can complete it by simply learning, which is much more convenient and safer than cooking salt with fire.

Although it will be slower to make salt in this way, all tribes now have only a few thousand people in total, and they can't eat much salt a year.

What's more, salt needs to be exchanged for wealth and will not be given in vain. Before farming is launched on a large scale and before grain becomes mainstream, the demand for salt will not be too large, and will only be in a very slow growth state.

Now we are just making sufficient preparations for the future.

The scale of the salt drying field is not large, so it does not require too much manpower to build it. Xu Chen divided everyone into three groups.

A group is mainly Mongolian people and is responsible for building salt drying fields according to the plan;

A group is mainly wind-based and is responsible for hunting;

The other group is the Captive Legion of the Fire and some native savage men and women, responsible for building wooden houses.

In order to develop the salt field in the future, in addition to the church and other indigenous tribes using fire, they also need to provide them with a safer and more comfortable living and living environment. In addition, Mongolians will also arrange people to stay here all year round in the future. There are no rock caves here, so accommodation and life problems must be solved.

However, the wooden houses here are much worse than those built by the Gonghuo Clan and the Thunder Clan. They cut down some wooden sticks of varying thickness and built a circle of simple wooden houses in the woods, covered with leaves and thatch, forming a courtyard structure with simple defense functions.
Chapter completed!