Since we have decided to ask the mountain stream tribe to pay more attention to the wild cotton fields, we naturally have to make it clear what some things to pay attention to.
From Xuan's description, Meng Yuqing knew that the Shanjian tribe was a very good tribe, otherwise the Qingshan tribe would not have maintained such a good relationship with the other party for so many years.
"That's not a problem." Che nodded, then continued, "Can we take care of that area and send the cotton we gather every year to your place? We can use part of it to exchange for the winter supplies you make. We don't need to exchange the cotton for anything else."
He also thought clearly that the knowledge of other people's tribe would definitely not be taught to him for no reason. It was already very good that they were willing to share so much information with him.
If it were any other tribe, they might not even say so much to me, just collect the things and send someone to look for it directly.
Or they might try to find out where the place is in a roundabout way, or even use force to force their tribe to tell them where that place is, which means that the Qingshan tribe is willing to treat a small tribe like theirs fairly.
Moreover, that place is not close to the Qingshan tribe. It would be very troublesome for them to go there by themselves. It is reasonable for their own tribe to send people to look after the place and then collect and exchange them.
Hearing Che's words, Meng Yuqing raised an eyebrow. He didn't expect the Shanjian Tribe to be so sensible.
Xia and Xuan also nodded. They thought so too. The Shanjian tribe was a very good tribe. If the two tribes could communicate frequently, the relationship might become closer.
"Of course we can exchange. Winter is the most difficult time, and everyone needs to get through it well." Xia looked at Che seriously and said, "If you have any difficulties at that time, you can come to our tribe for help."
Hearing Xia's words, Che smiled brightly, "That's for sure. I won't be polite with you."
After a pause, he continued, "But how do we calculate the amount we exchange?"
Xia Hexuan and Qiu Ye immediately turned their attention to Meng Yuqing.
Meng Yuqing was slightly stunned, and the pressure suddenly came.
Meng Yuqing coughed lightly and turned serious. "We use cotton to make clothes and pants. We'll know the exact amount of cotton needed for a set after we make one, but I estimate that you'll need to use two parts of cotton to make one part of a piece of clothing, because it takes a lot of time and we have some materials that our tribe has."
After hearing what Meng Yuqing said, Che raised his head with a confused look in his eyes. It was not until the little beastman in his arms made a "yo yo" sound that he reacted. "Oh, I understand. Then let's do as you say."
Do you really understand? Meng Yuqing wondered with some doubt.
Che's tribesmen brought the cotton they were going to trade this time, ten bags in total, each bag was bigger than a person.
Meng Yuqing walked over and pressed the animal skin bag gently. It must have been stuffed in casually without being pressed.
Opening a hide bag, he casually picked up a bunch of cotton and looked at it. The Shanjian tribe only carried out a simple cleaning of the picked cotton and did not remove the cotton seeds inside.
The most troublesome part of cotton processing is picking out the cotton seeds. In the past, when there were no cotton gins, cotton seeds were picked entirely by hand, and one person could only pick half a pound a day.
However, he remembered that there were drawings of wooden manual cotton gins in the system. Although it was not as good as modern machines, it was much better than picking cotton seeds by hand.
After thinking these things through, Meng Yuqing nodded towards Xia.
"What do you want to exchange for these cottons?" Xia Wenche.
"Let's use these to exchange for salt first. Then we will collect more and send them to your tribe. We can use them to exchange for winter supplies." Che said after thinking for a while.
Meng Yuqing returned to Xuan's side and looked at Xia. "Based on the size of the sub-beast, this bag is enough to make six sets of winter clothes and pants. There are ten bags here, so we can make sixty sets. If we make them for small sub-beasts, we can make even more, and one set can last for several years."
He explained to Xia the function and amount of cotton, and asked Xia to judge how much salt should be given.
Xia pondered for a moment, then untied the animal hide bag of salt from Li and gave it to the sub-beasts of the Mountain Stream Tribe, enough for a year's supply. "I'll give you enough salt for a year. The extra you have will be paid with your horns."
Meng Yuqing took a look at the amount Xia gave. It was definitely more than what the three major tribes gave. However, people in this world were very frugal with salt, so compared to the amount of salt consumed by about 300 people in the modern world in a year, it was more than half less.
Che took the salt Xia gave him without hesitation. To be honest, the amount of salt he could get from the cotton was much more than he had imagined. He had only intended to use the cotton as a novelty item, and the bulk of the exchange was still for the horns that the orcs in their tribe exchanged every year.
It's also because there are too few people in their tribe and they are unwilling to go to the market for fear of being bullied by other tribes. Otherwise, their things are definitely no worse than the teeth of crocodile orcs and the skins of python orcs.
However, since Xia and others attach so much importance to these cottons, the things made of cotton must be very good. Thinking of this, Che nodded to express his affirmation of his own cleverness.
Seeing this, Che's tribesmen dragged over a few bags and opened them in front of everyone from the Qingshan tribe. They were full of deer antlers.
Deer antlers! Although they are not velvet antlers, they are still rare. I didn’t expect there would be so many here at once, Meng Yuqing sighed in his heart.
He couldn't help but take a few steps forward and wanted to take the antlers out of the bag to have a look.
"Be careful, our antlers are really sharp. We often sharpen them when they are on our heads. They can easily pierce small beasts." Che warned.
Meng Yuqing nodded and looked at it carefully. Because the orcs were all huge, the antlers were much larger than ordinary antlers, and it was difficult for him to hold them.
At this moment, a hand reached out from behind and easily picked up the deer antler he had his eyes on. Then, he felt the person behind him pulling him back a few steps and taking the entire deer antler out of the bag.
Xuan placed the entire antler on the open ground, and only then did Meng Yuqing see the full appearance of the antler.
Because they fell off naturally, the antlers were very complete and huge. When placed on the ground, they were taller than him. Under the sunlight, the tips of the antlers actually emitted a cold light.
"After we take these back, we still have to process them before we can use them." Xuan said as he looked at Meng Yuqing who was circling around the deer antlers.
"Do you need to deal with it further?" Meng Yuqing avoided the sharp part of the antler and reached out to touch it. The antler was so beautiful and majestic.
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