Chapter 265 The Crisis of the Lu Tribe (Please vote and subscribe)

The surrounding high-level officials looked at Luo Chong as if he were a monster, listening to Luo Chong's endless introduction of wheat, and a lot of unfamiliar terms coming out of his mouth, noodles, sesame cakes and steamed buns, and his saliva was about to flow down when he spoke, as if he had eaten them before.

As the person who knew Luo Chong best, the elders could be said to have watched Luo Chong grow up. He never believed that Luo Chong had eaten those things, but Luo Chong could say so many things when he saw wheat for the first time, which made them have to have strange thoughts.

Is the leader really a god? Or did he get guidance from the gods, or did he eat it in a dream? In short, Luo Chong has changed too much in the past year.

However, everyone knew the extraordinaryness of the leader. Even if there were many questions in their hearts, no one dared to ask anything. It was still the old concept that things that could not be understood were automatically attributed to theology, and they just regarded their leader as a god. They only needed to follow the arrangements of the leader and act. It was enough to build the tribe better and better. Other things were not important.

Luo Chong carefully collected the wheat and waited to plant it next year. Then he wrote back to You Fu, asking him to collect more seeds of this plant and come back as soon as possible. Don't stay outside for too long. Be sure to come back before winter, otherwise it will be very troublesome.

You Fu also received a reply two days later, and got Luo Chong's confirmation. He was sure that the plant he found was right, and he was very happy. You Fu did not reply again, and began to speed up. A few days later, they returned to the vicinity of the Lu tribe again, where there were 60 spotted pigs waiting for You Fu to receive.

It took You Fu nearly a month from leaving the Lu tribe to entering the grassland and then coming back. Originally, the Lu chief Ju thought that they might have encountered some danger or lost their way and might not be able to come back. Unexpectedly, at noon, a tribe member came to report anxiously.

"Chief, Chief, that Han tribe team that sells white salt has returned. They also brought thousands of four-legged animals, some of which can pull carts, some of which they ride, and a white animal with thick hair. They are now coming towards us." A tribe member ran out of breath and reported to the leader Ju.

After listening to the report of the tribe member, Ju stood up in shock. He was born and raised in the current place where he lives. He also heard about the big lake in the south from the mouth of a dead old man, but he had never been there, and he didn't know there would be so many livestock there.

The Lu tribe is a tribe that raises spotted pigs, so after hearing this news, Ju could directly judge that these thousands of livestock must have been raised by other tribes, and then exchanged for white salt by You Fu, just like exchanging pigs from their tribe.

Ju was very jealous and envious, and at the same time, he was panicked. Now that the Han tribe has found more sources of livestock, will they stop trading with them in the future? Then where can they get white salt?

This is not a blind guess. After all, compared with the pigs raised by their tribe, pigs can only be used for eating, while those cattle and horses can be used to pull carts and ride. No matter how you think about it, it is more cost-effective to exchange cattle and horses. The spotted pigs that were once regarded as treasures are dispensable to the Han tribe.

Even if the Han tribe still trades spotted pigs with them, they will definitely try their best to lower the price in the future, because their Lu tribe is no longer the only source of livestock, which is a fatal problem for the Lu tribe that can no longer leave white salt.

However, Youfu did not give the Lu tribe time to think about how to solve the problem. A huge herd of beasts passed by the Lu tribe, and everyone in the Lu tribe was stunned. The herd of beasts did not even stop. When two ox carts passed by, they unloaded half a barrel of white salt and some pottery from them, and then received the 60 pigs that had been prepared and left.

The reality is so cruel. Now the Han tribe has a broader vision and no longer looks down on the things of their Lu tribe.

60 pigs were caught in the huge herd of animals, like a bowl of water in a torrent, so inconspicuous. Youfu and his men no longer had more tribes to trade with. When they came, they had already ordered what the tribes needed. Now on the way back, some tribes that did not need to trade did not stop at all, and just took a shortcut and left. The speed of returning was much faster than when they came.

Even on the way back, those small tribes with not many people asked if they could trade some livestock or animal skins. Of course, they would not sell livestock, but the Han tribe was not short of animal skins. They had bought a lot of them at the market before, so Youfu sold a small amount.

Time passed quickly, and it was already the end of autumn. Youfu and his men would soon return. This round trip would take about three months, and they would bring a huge herd of animals, making it look like an animal migration.

The construction of the Han tribe was also very rapid. The two planned farms had been built, and a second warehouse had been built to store the recovered grass and dried salted fish pickled throughout the autumn. The food reserve was considered complete.

There is also feed specially reserved for pigs. Pigs are not cattle and sheep that only eat hay. Special food needs to be prepared to feed pigs, that is, silage feed, such as green vegetables, fresh vines and other foods. Of course, nuts are also OK. After all, wild boars rely on nuts or berries that fall on the ground or plant roots buried deep underground in winter.

These things are not so easy to preserve, so Luo Chong asked people to dig a cellar in the warehouse to store these silage feeds.

Fortunately, there are not many pigs in the Han tribe, and most of them are piglets. They can't eat much food in a winter, so they quickly saved enough for the winter.

Although there are only two farms in the breeding area, the large circle of fences has been pulled up. In addition, many simple animal sheds have been built. Fortunately, those alpacas or sheep, as well as animals such as cattle and horses, are not afraid of cold like humans, and they all have thick long hair. Now that there is enough food, it should not be a problem to safely survive the winter.

In addition, after several months of construction, the star-shaped blast furnaces in the smelting area were also completed. One was used to smelt copper, and the other was used to smelt iron. Tin smelting did not require such advanced furnaces. Any small furnace could be used. After all, the melting point of tin was only over 200 degrees, which was very easy to reach.

Blast furnaces, heavy cranes, that is a wooden device similar to a gantry crane, also called a bridge crane, with two very solid wooden tracks below and solid beams above, as well as many ropes and pulleys for lifting. Everything was ready, only the materials were missing.

However, after several months of preparation, the materials had already been fully prepared. A large amount of charcoal and iron ore bricks the size of cigarette boxes, which were made by mixing charcoal powder, lime powder, and iron ore powder in proportion with water and drying, had already piled up like a mountain.

Luo Chong was also busy, working with the carpentry team to develop new mold casting equipment. Winter was coming soon, and the Han tribe was in urgent need of a large number of iron pots that had not yet been found. The reusable molds now being made were used to cast iron pots in batches, which could not only meet the needs of the Han tribe itself, but also serve as reserves and be traded next year.

(End of this chapter)