Chapter 571: Invitation from the Han Tribe (Please vote and subscribe)

The golden copper coin was displayed in front of Xuan. On the front, a convex-backed bull was struggling forward. A wooden ring was hung around its neck, and two ropes were tied to it to pull the curved plow behind it. A man was holding the plow with one hand and waving a whip with the other.

This was a relief of a spring plowing picture, which vividly showed the spring plowing scene of the Han tribe, and also gave the Jiang family, who had never seen such farming, a more intuitive concept.

Xuan had never seen such a large beast on the coin, and he was quite surprised when he saw it for the first time, so he took the coin and looked at it carefully for a long time before asking You Fu.

"What kind of beast is this? Where did you get it from? Do you have many of them in your tribe?"

"This kind of livestock is called a cow. It is a treasure in our Han tribe. It is used to help people do work. Cows are relatively honest and hardworking. One cow can do the work of four strong laborers. Our leader has ordered that cows cannot be killed. In our Han tribe, if you kill a cow, you must bury it with the cow and you will also be sentenced to death.

As for the number, there are quite a few. These are all the cows we raise. Some are also exchanged from outside. The cows we raise ourselves can also give birth to calves. If we raise them well, each cow can give birth to a calf every year." You Fu continued to introduce.

At this time, Yong on the side also asked, "Such big cattle, they must eat a lot, right? By the way, what do they eat and how do we raise them?"

"Hehe, our cows eat straw, which is the stalks below the grain. People eat the grain on top, and the grass below is given to the cows to eat. Anyway, it won't be wasted, and the cow dung can also be used as fertilizer and finally buried in the fields to grow crops."

Xuan frowned slightly after listening. The image of the Han tribe had quietly changed in his mind. From a tribe that advocated strange and lewd skills at the beginning, it has become a large tribe with developed agriculture. Not only does it have advanced farm tools, but also advanced farming concepts. They even apply the theory of natural cycles to farming. Not only that, they also domesticate wild beasts to help them work, and they also eat grain straw, and their dung can also fertilize the fields. It really kills two birds with one stone and there is no waste. One resource of the Han tribe is used as several copies, truly achieving the maximum resource utilization rate.

However, with Xuan's intelligence, he quickly drew inferences from one example. Since the Han tribe can raise cattle to work for them, can they raise some other animals to provide fur and meat, or for other purposes? Thinking of this, Xuan asked directly.

After hearing his question, Youfu simply poured out all the coins in his pocket, picked out one of each denomination, and showed it in front of Xuan.

"This one-cent coin has our food on it, and this is a bundle of harvested wheat." Youfu took out a coin and introduced it.

"Yeah." Xuan nodded. The bundle of food was indeed very vivid, and such a delicate and small thing had the image of food carved on it, and was carried by Youfu. It can be seen that the Han tribe also attaches great importance to farming. "

This is transplanting rice, which is the scene of planting rice. You must have never seen it, because our rice is to be planted in water, unlike your millet, which is afraid of dryness but not water."

Xuan nodded again, and at the same time, he was also impressed by the diversity of food in his heart. It seems that they are indeed as shallow as Jiang. There are such foods in the world.

"This is using cattle to plow the land. You have just seen it, so I will not say more. Let me show you the face value of several dimes.

Look at this, this is a horse, it also eats grass, it can also eat straw, and sometimes it needs to be fed some grain, such as beans, so that it can have more physical strength." You Fu said, holding a dime coin with a brass outer ring and a silver inner ring.

"Horse? What is this used for?" Yong asked on the side.

"Horses have many uses, they can also plow the land, but our tribe mainly uses them for riding. People ride on the back of horses, so they can run very fast. They can also be used to pull carts. A horse pulling a cart can transport things that can only be carried by more than a dozen people. It can also pull people, just like our boats floating on the water. Cars are ships on land." You Fu continued to introduce.

Xuan and Yong both nodded. They had seen boats, so it was not difficult to understand the car that You Fu was talking about. Although they had never seen it, they knew that it was a tool that could run on the ground and had a large carrying capacity.

But Xuan thought at this time, horses, as an important part of land transportation, are also very important animals. The Han tribe must not allow them to be killed casually. What about their meat? Did the Han tribe never think about this problem?

But before he could think about it, You Fu continued to introduce it. He took a coin of the same style with a face value of two cents and said,

"This kind of livestock is called antelope, also called high-nosed antelope. I don't know if you have seen it. I guess not. The environment here is not suitable for this kind of sheep to survive.

This kind of sheep is what you said, used to provide fur and meat for food. It is not very tall, about the same size as a deer, only half a person's height, and it is also an animal that eats grass or straw. Moreover, it gives birth to many and fast, twice a year, and can give birth to two or three lambs each time."

"Can it give birth to so many?" Yong asked in disbelief.

"Yes, if it doesn't give birth fast enough, how can it be enough for so many people in our Han tribe to eat?" You Zhi said next to him.

Xuan nodded again, then looked at the other coins and waited for You Fu's explanation.

"This one, you can see, is a giant eagle, a meat eater, and they are very huge." You Fu took out a 50-cent coin and said.

Xuan frowned, wondering what the giant eagle was for? To help the Han tribe hunt? But the Han tribe raised so many animals themselves, so they shouldn't need to hunt.

At this time, You Fu suddenly winked at one of his men, and the young man pulled out a bone flute from his waist, put it in front of his mouth and blew it hard. Within a minute, everyone suddenly felt a black screen in front of their eyes. When they looked up again, they saw a huge eagle hovering above their heads. Its huge wings blocked the sunlight and formed a shadow on their heads.

"What can this be used for?" Xuan asked in astonishment. Thinking of what You Fu said just now that this thing is a meat eater, it made people shudder. This thing might be able to eat a person in one bite.

"We in the Han tribe use it to send letters, such as some not very heavy but very important things, and to pass on messages. The giant eagle flies very fast and can ignore many obstacles on the ground. It is very convenient to use it to send letters. Compared with this fast communication, the meat they eat is nothing. Besides, the giant eagle can hunt by itself, so there is no need to worry about food."

Xuan nodded after listening. All the members of the Jiang family lived in one village, so relatively speaking, there was no need to consider the method of communication. If they wanted to tell others something, they could just find his house directly. It was not far away anyway.

The remaining coins were white silver dollars. The one-yuan coin had a weaving pattern, the two-yuan coin had a blacksmith pattern, the five-yuan coin had a sailboat pattern, and the ten-yuan coin had a city wall pattern.

Youfu only briefly introduced this aspect. After all, if he talked too much, the Jiang clan wouldn't understand. However, their leader Xuan soon noticed another thing. That was that Youfu poured out a lot of coins at the beginning, and there were many repetitions of these exquisite and small things. This showed that they were not works of art, but something with practical functions. But what could these round and exquisite flat pieces be used for?

"Hahahaha, these things are called money, also called currency, copper plates, silver dollars, and there are many names, but they only have one function, which is to be used to exchange things in our Han tribe. In our Han tribe, most things can be exchanged with this thing. This is also the idea of ​​our leader, but it is indeed very convenient. No matter what everyone has, they can use coins to exchange for the amount they are satisfied with.

Look at the back of these coins. This is the leader of our Han tribe."

"Can you use this money to exchange for what you want?" Xuan asked curiously.

"Yes, of course." Youzhi also said.

"Can we exchange it for your rice? How?"

"Yes, you can use this ten-cent coin with a horse on it to exchange for a pound of rice. A pound of rice is a lot, enough to feed four adults."

"Can we exchange it for the boat you came here on?" Yong continued to ask.

"Why, do you still want to exchange it for that?"

"No, I'm just asking, didn't you say you can exchange anything?"

"Of course you can exchange it, but it costs a lot of money. The small boat we rowed when we rescued you can hold forty people."

"Hmm, how much does it cost?"

"About a thousand or so, well, that is, everyone in your tribe, each person takes one dollar like this, and together they can exchange for two small boats like that." You Zhi thought for a while and said.

"So much?!" Yong was surprised.

"Yes, shipbuilding is not easy. It requires a lot of tools and a lot of people. These shipbuilders also need to eat, and they also need to feed their women and children, so they also need to be paid. A large part of the money for this ship is their wages. By the way, let me tell you, the price of this thing is not set randomly, it all needs to calculate the cost."

"What about your big ship? Is there a price?"

"Yes, but it's very expensive, about more than 20,000 yuan. That is, everyone in your tribe can buy one with 10 yuan each. But no one in our Han tribe can afford such a ship. These ships are all official property of our tribe, and only the leader has the right to allocate its use." You Zhi said again.

The people of the Jiang family realized from these descriptions that the Han tribe was powerful, technologically advanced, and rich, and they were full of yearning for it. If they had the advanced agricultural tools of the Han tribe, they wouldn't have to be so tired when farming. If they could relax a little, who would be willing to work more? People are lazy by nature.

However, Xuan had no special aspirations for these things in the Han tribe. He cared more about the operation mode of the Han tribe and the inheritance of the Han tribe. Facts have proved that no matter how much high technology you have, if there is no effective inheritance, then after a few decades at most, those high technologies will gradually be lost, and finally the tribe will begin to go downhill.

The reason why the Youjiang clan has been passed down for so long is that they worship their ancestors and respect the nature of heaven and earth. The knowledge of the tribe is passed down from generation to generation by the elders, and while passing it down, it must continue to develop and accumulate more experience to pass it down, just like the plow they just learned a few days ago, as well as the concept of breeding, the concept of currency trading, and the concept of natural cycle farming. These can greatly facilitate their Youjiang clan. As long as all of these are integrated, it will definitely allow the development of the Youjiang clan to step onto a new level.

"Yong, do you want to try the ox plowing of our Han tribe?" You Zhi sat beside him and chatted with him, revealing a message in his words, come back to the Han tribe with me.

"Of course I want to, but I can't leave. No matter how useful your ox plow is, it's not our tribe's. I have to come back to do my own work. And if I leave, I won't be able to farm. Then my family will starve, so I can't leave." Yong said very frustrated. From his expression, it can be seen that he really wants to go, but he chose to give up this idea for various reasons.

"It doesn't matter. It's good to take a look. You can go after the autumn harvest. In this way, you don't have to farm this year. Just wait until the beginning of next spring to come back." You Zhi suggested.

"This, this"

Yong also fell into a dilemma. After the autumn harvest, there was nothing to do. Until the spring plowing of the second year, there was no large amount of labor tasks for the Jiang family. There was a whole winter of slack time. It was useless to stay at home for such a long time. If he could go to the Han tribe to see the world and learn something, it would be great. Yong began to be tempted, but he glanced at his leader Xuan with a squint, wondering if the leader would agree.

Seeing them like this, and Yong's expectation, as well as the cold expression of the leader Xuan, You Fu had no choice but to persuade and invite them.

"Leader Xuan, do you want to take a few people to our Han tribe during the slack season? Our Han tribe welcomes foreign guests. Your tribe has so many people, you can also come to our tribe to learn, or discuss some trade matters with our tribe, so that you can also get some better farm tools, right? How about it, do you want to go? If you agree, we can take you back with us on this return trip. Our leader will definitely welcome you." You Fu invited sincerely.

But Xuan still looked very calm. In fact, he was thinking about why You Fu invited him to the Han tribe, what was his purpose, and what benefits would this bring to their Han tribe. His tribe was so poor that there was nothing to exchange even if he traded with them. In addition to the fact that honey was rare, the only thing left was that the population was larger. Yes, that was the population.

Xuan's brows suddenly frowned, "Do you want us to have the Jiang family join the Han tribe?"

(End of this chapter)