"A charlatan!"

"Well, what's wrong?" Ma Yue took a look and saw that their faces were not very good. It must be a big deal that made these high-level officials of the Sea Tribe so worried.

"Charlatan, the copper ore of the Hongzang tribe..." It was Shang Yin who was reporting. After all, such large-scale trade was his responsibility.

"I see, it's a psychological problem." Ma Yue listened carefully.

"I've already told you, if it doesn't work out, you Hongzang tribe can go to Ghost Town to exchange coal for the copper workshop of our Lingguo Island branch." Shang Yin was so depressed.

"Charlatan, psychological problems, what do you mean?" asked the second priest.

"Copper is incredibly important to Zi Ya," Ma Yue said. "It's a simple truth. When it comes to labor costs, the Red Tibetan Tribe provides food, even sheep. However, once it comes to coal trading, the Red Tibetan Tribe needs to provide copper ingots, which is a real pain."

Several people looked at each other. What's the problem? Our Hai Tribe's coal is also precious. Of course, we need to exchange it for your Hongzang Tribe's copper ingots.

"With your exchange, the Hongzang tribe feels that they won't have much copper left, so of course they are unwilling to do it." Ma Yue said so, and everyone thought about it carefully, and it was indeed the case.

"Goddamn it, our coal reserves are limited too." The Third Priest was still feeling the pinch. To find coal, the Goddamn had to personally go out and finally find a coal yard in Qiu Haicheng. Coal, that thing... The North Branch was almost out of coal.

"Why don't you go ask Huangpi?" Ma Yue said.

"Huangpi? What does that mean?" Does the Huangpi Ceramics Bureau have anything to do with coal?

"Charcoal! I wiped it!" Shuichong slapped his head.

"That's right." Ma Yue said, "We in Haifan City are short of wood fuel nearby, so we have to burn coal. The Lingguo Island branch has no shortage of firewood. There is firewood everywhere. They don't even need coal to boil salt there."

Charcoal can be used to smelt copper? That's nonsense. Early bronze artifacts were made using charcoal as fuel.

Is charcoal difficult to make? The Hai tribe even makes pottery by firing kilns, so firing coal in kilns is certainly much easier.

A kiln is built with mud, filled with wood, and lit from the kiln door or fire vent. The wood carbonizes inside the kiln, and the volatiles escape, leaving behind charcoal. Of course, charcoal has a stronger firepower than ordinary firewood.

Of course, no matter how powerful charcoal is, it still lacks the firepower of coal. Therefore, in Haifan City, where there is a shortage of wood, charcoal has a weak presence.

"Letting the Red Tibetans burn their own charcoal would be a waste of manpower, and they'd probably be willing to do it." The second priest nodded. Primitive people, despite lacking everything, weren't afraid of hard work. Besides, on the scrub-covered Lingguo Island, the last thing they lacked was firewood.

You can just bring the burnt charcoal yourself. Now your Red Tibetan tribe won’t have to lose copper. Are you satisfied?

"Good!" Sure enough, Shang Yin found Zi Ya again, and Zi Ya clapped his hands in approval.

"Great! This so-called deal was no longer necessary, and everyone was relieved." Of course, the Red Tibetan Tribe didn't know how to make charcoal. So, Shang Yin proposed, "We from the Hai Tribe will teach you how to make charcoal. What will you give us?"

"Five hundred donkeys!" It was a one-time deal, and Zi Ya was willing to do it.

"How dare you?" Shang Yin curled his lips.

"Uh..." Zi Ya was also a little embarrassed. It was an important technology of theirs, as precious as coal. Five hundred donkeys were not enough.

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Eventually, the two sides reached an agreement. The Hai Tribe would contribute nothing, but would send some people to build a branch of Lingguo Island, the Tongfang. The meals for the Hai Tribe staff at the Tongfang would be provided by the Hongzang Tribe.

Whether it was copper ore or charcoal, the Red Tibetan Tribe delivered everything themselves, and the final trade ratio was, of course, three to one. Zi Ya returned extremely satisfied. His biggest reward was the Sea Tribe's willingness to teach him coal manufacturing technology.

Ziya also realized the importance of technology. Without it, you can't do anything. As long as the Red Tibetan tribe can make charcoal, at least in terms of fuel, they will no longer be controlled by others.

A technology that only costs a thousand donkeys and a thousand sheep is a great deal.

"Work, work..."

After returning to the Lingguo Island branch of the Hongzang tribe, Zi Ya and the third leader Tony began to arrange for an army of thousands of people to cut wood, and they could also expand the arable land.

The charcoal experts from the Hai Tribe served them well, and the large group of people building the kilns began to work. Oh, and by the way, mining, the output of copper ore is also very important.

It doesn’t matter, our Red Tibetan tribe just has a lot of people.

As for the Hai Tribe, they unceremoniously shipped a thousand donkeys and a thousand sheep back to their own Lingguo Island branch by sea, thus strengthening the strength of the Lingguo Island branch of the Hai Tribe.

All in all, this deal is a win-win for everyone.

Ma Yue had no intention of attacking the Hongzang tribe. What was wrong with trading? Ma Yue didn't want his Hai tribe to become wealthy while the other tribes became poor. If they were all poor, there would be no point in trading with them in the future.

After all, this is a primitive world, and the population is still small. If they keep fighting, all the people will be killed. In the future, when I need a large number of fans with the power of faith, there will be no one left. Isn't that nonsense?

Everything requires people. Do you think burning coal is easy? Bai Juyi's poem describes the miserable life of a charcoal seller: "His temples are gray, his fingers black." Burning coal is also a highly polluting activity, requiring enormous amounts of manpower and resources.

No matter how easy it is, the more people work, the more people survive. It's better than starving to death, right?

"Charlatan, since you are not worried about the leakage of charcoal burning technology, you can also popularize clay kiln building in the southern branch." said the second priest.

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