Mao's words made Han Cheng admire him more, but also made Han Cheng fall into deep thought.

Han Cheng had never thought about exchanging salt, pottery and other things for people before.

In fact, it cannot be said that he has never thought about it, but whenever such thoughts arise, he will subconsciously suppress them.

As a person who came from the future, when facing this kind of thing, he is always filled with a sense of guilt, which makes him unconsciously avoid this method of increasing the population.

Especially after thinking back to what I once knew about the evil triangular trade, I was even more unwilling to think about it.

Because the triangular trade releases all the evil in human nature, making people no longer human, but devils from hell.

Han Cheng always believed that people living in the world should have some good thoughts in their hearts and also be respectful, because lawless people have basically gone beyond the scope of human beings and are not much different from beasts, or even worse than beasts.

Because of this knowledge, after he arrived, he did not resort to any means necessary when leading the Qingque tribe forward step by step.

On some things, he would rather go slow than touch some bottom line deep in his heart.

At present, it seems that under his philosophy, the Qingque tribe is developing well.

Although it seemed slow at times, or took a long detour, the tribe still grew stronger step by step and led the army.

Whether it is population, food or weapons, there has been a great improvement.

Moreover, the gradually developed tribes had less oppression and less hostility, less intrigue and more unity and cooperation, less chaos and more hard work.

Han Ben's personality tends to be peaceful, so he is very satisfied with the current state of the tribe. Living in such an environment will make people feel happy unconsciously.

Compared with later generations, material and other aspects are naturally far behind, but gradually, Han Cheng felt that living here seemed happier than he had been in later generations.

Well, speaking of this, he has brought shame to the group of time travelers.

After all, many people, after traveling through time, have become successful in some high-level social circles.

And he came to a truly impoverished primitive society, but he actually lived happily, happily starting his shameless primitive life...

With this understanding in mind, Han Cheng was ready to reject Mao's proposal outright. However, what Mao said next made Han Cheng change his mind.

What Mao said was actually nothing special.

Due to the limitations of the times, although Mao's eloquence was much better than that of ordinary people, it was impossible for him to be as eloquent as professional lobbyists like Su Qin and Zhang Yi, who could use their eloquence to fool people.

He just talked a little about the outside tribes' yearning for the Qingque tribe.

Han Cheng was happy to see the situation that Mao described, on the one hand because it proved that the foreign strategy he adopted was correct.

On the other hand, with the existence of this situation, it is foreseeable that the Qingque tribe will have a bright future at some point in the future.

While I was happy, I also thought about exchanging things like salt for population, and I came up with some different ideas.

Compared with those people whose eyes were blocked by gold coins and silver coins respectively, and who could not see anything except these two things, Han Cheng could not commit such a crime even if he asked people to exchange people for things like salt.

Because the people who are exchanged will not be slaves, but will become citizens of the Qingque tribe.

After arriving here, they will have warm houses to live in and enough food to eat. Their labor is to make life better for themselves and other people in the tribe.

Here, they will not be exploited too much, and Han Cheng will not be so cruel as to let people scalp them and use their skulls to make wine glasses or other decorations.

Moreover, this transaction is based on voluntary basis and there will be no forced buying or selling.

By making such a comparison, you will find that two things that seem very similar at first glance actually have essential differences.

From this perspective, there wouldn't be much of a problem even if some were exchanged.

After all, there are not many tribes that dare to take the initiative to provoke the Qingque tribe, which makes the Qingque tribe lose a large source of population.

The "canned plan" that Han Cheng asked the trade team to implement is a long-term thing that takes time to ferment, and it is impossible to produce immediate results in a short period of time.

Therefore, the Qingque tribe is currently in an awkward situation of being in a state of transition when it comes to absorbing outside population.

Now it seems that this gap can be opened.

There aren't many tribes that would choose to exchange human flesh for salt, and this won't happen often, but it's good to have one more person in the tribe from time to time.

After Han Cheng thought about it carefully for a while, he asked Wu to discuss the matter together.

Compared with Han Cheng, who came from later generations, Wu Ke was much more efficient and clear. After learning about this matter from Han Cheng and confirming that it would be of great benefit to the tribe, he immediately expressed his agreement.

He felt that as long as something was beneficial to the tribe and would not bring much harm, it was worth doing.

As for the guilt that arises from this, he would never experience such emotions.

This can be seen from the fact that he used his missing teeth to leisurely gnaw on the rabbit legs that he usually took good care of, and sometimes even hummed some unknown tune. It can be seen that the precious emotion of guilt should not appear in his heart.

The matter of exchanging salt for people had been decided. From then on, when the Qingque tribe's trading team went out to do business, there was one more thing that could be exchanged for salt.

Of course, after making this decision, Han Cheng still carefully reminded Shang, Mao and other members of the trading team of some things, reminding them to keep in mind that such a transaction can only be based on the other party's willingness, and that the people in the trading team cannot use force.

Of course, if any tribe dares to do anything bad to the trading team, then the trading team should not be too polite. On the premise of ensuring their own safety, they can bring back those guys who touched Qingque's buttocks and turn them into slaves.