The older female primitive thought so in her heart, but quickly put the idea behind her. How could this be possible?

Now, he and others were surrounded by these people. If they needed, they could kill him and others at any time, and they could also take away all the food that he and others had collected with great effort.

Under such circumstances, how could I and others possibly obtain these precious things?

Moreover, the other party also had reason to kill him and others, after all, he and others occupied their cave.

At the beginning, the older female primitive people stubbornly believed that the strange cave grew out of the ground just like a big tree.

As for these people saying that this was built by them, the older female primitive people simply didn't believe it. How could such a thing be built by humans?

But now, they have believed what these people said, and believe that this strange cave was built by the people before them.

It’s not just because the people in front of us are dressed strangely, but more importantly, they can produce so many precious things!

They are richer than the tribe that brought things to theirs for exchange!

In front of those dazzling weapons, exquisite pottery, and delicious white things, they unconsciously agreed that these strange caves were built by them.

"Would you like to have something like this?"

While the old primitive people were in a daze, Mao, who had received instructions from Han Cheng, conveyed this meaning to them and pointed to the pottery on the ground and the salt contained in the pottery.

When expressing these ideas, Mao's whole face was smiling, giving people the feeling that he was trying to coax a child with a lollipop.

Mao is very skilled in trading with others. After all, this is another area of ​​his expertise besides fancy translation and living maps.

After understanding Mao's meaning, the older female primitive was stunned at first, and then her smile spread.

Of course she wanted to have these things, she dreamed about them.

Her face was full of smiles, and she nodded vigorously, conveying her meaning like a chick pecking at rice.

At the same time, this urgency is accompanied by a lot of incredible things.

This strange tribe in front of me was so generous that they were willing to give such a precious thing to their own tribe whom they met for the first time...

"Then you can exchange food, fur and other things with us..."

Mao conveyed this meaning with a smile.

The older female primitive person, who had been expecting the people of this strange tribe to give her these precious pottery as a gift, froze involuntarily when she understood what the smiling Mao had conveyed.

You don't ask me if I want it?

How come after I said I wanted it, you didn't give it to me, but instead asked me to exchange it with food or something else?

Han Cheng saw the surprised look on the older female primitive's face and couldn't help but smile to himself.

What are you thinking about?

Do you think those who shouted "Who wants cabbage? Who wants red dates?" in later generations really gave them away for free?

Give it to whoever wants it?

Why don’t you just take it and leave without paying?

Even a hero like Guan Erye who sells dates can wield the Green Dragon Crescent Blade!

Fortunately, the older female primitive was a worldly-wise person. When she was in the tribe, she had seen the transactions between her own tribe and that tribe, so she was more accepting of these things.

So it didn't take long to get out of that deep disappointment.

She looked at the two pottery vessels belonging to her tribe and the white thing in the gourd, and then looked at the two things belonging to this tribe placed next to them.

The things that they once treasured and were so proud of now look so ugly.

Under such a comparison, she quickly came up with the idea of ​​exchanging these things from her own tribe for those from the tribe in front of her.

However, after this thought arose, she quickly suppressed it.

It's not that she doesn't want to own this exquisite thing, but because they can't afford to exchange it.

To exchange these things from the previous tribe, they had to pay a lot of food, which made them feel heavy.

Now, the things in front of them are even more exquisite. If they want to get them, they must use more food.

But their tribe cannot afford to produce so much food.

If there were really so many of them, the people in their tribe would most likely starve or even starve to death.

She seemed reluctant to move her eyes away from the pottery and salt of the Qingque tribe, then looked at Mao slowly and shook her head, conveying her meaning.

"Tell them that they can exchange these things from our tribe at the original price."

Han Cheng said to Mao with a smile.

Mao conveyed Han Cheng's meaning.

After understanding what Mao meant, the older female primitive was stunned again. She asked Mao for confirmation with full disbelief. When she saw Mao nodded very seriously, the older female primitive suddenly became extremely excited.

Not only her, but the others who were squatting here and understood what Mao meant were also extremely happy, and some people even couldn't help cheering out loud.

Even primitive people would know that it is a great bargain to exchange something far more exquisite and delicious than before for the same price.

As a result, these people suddenly became very fond of the people from the Qingque tribe who surrounded them.

Seeing that everything had been discussed and these people would no longer be able to resist or escape, Han Cheng ordered the people of the Qingque tribe to disperse and release these people.

After a brief exchange, the two sides began to exchange.

The older female primitives and the people in their tribes gathered around the pottery brought by Han Cheng and his companions, looking at it, trying to choose one that suits their taste.

The pottery was so exquisite that they wanted every one of them.

After a lot of hesitation, the older female primitive chose a jar.

This jar is much larger than the one they had before, and there are some tadpoles and frogs painted on one side of the jar, which looks extremely exquisite and high-end.

After seeing the pattern, the older female primitive couldn't take her eyes off it and immediately identified it as the jar.

After identifying the jar, she carefully carried the jar to the place where the rice was drying, then called three people and asked them to stretch out their palms with their fingers spread out.

After doing all this, she started to fill the jars with rice.

After filling the jar, press it with your hands and add some more rice on top to make it level with the upper edge of the jar. Then, hold the jar and walk to the side and pour the rice inside onto the ground.

Then he would carry the jar back to the place where the rice was drying and continue to fill it with rice.

After she finished this, the person next to her curled a finger.

In other words, thirty jars of rice were needed to exchange for one pottery jar.

Han Cheng couldn't help but be shocked by this scene. That unknown tribe was so cruel!

They dare to exchange jars like that at such a ratio.

However, he did not call for a price reduction. It would always be a good thing to exchange more rice, and their tribe would not suffer any loss anyway.

After some operations, the fingers of the three people who acted as counting tools all curled up, which also meant that the transaction regarding this pottery jar had been completed.

The older female primitive people were so happy when they saw the jar that belonged to their tribe that they couldn't let it go.

Han Cheng was also very happy when he saw the pile of rice there. According to this exchange ratio, they would soon be able to have a lot of rice.

After completing a transaction, the older female primitive people were excited for a while and then began to select.

After some operations, they exchanged five bowls and two gourds of salt.

For things like bowls, the ratio is also thirty to one, that is, thirty bowls of rice in exchange for the bowl used to hold the rice.

As for salt, it was packed in jars from their tribe. Thirty jars of rice were exchanged for one gourd of salt.

A pottery jar, five bowls, and two gourds of salt were enough to exchange for more than half of the rice that the older female primitive people had collected.

This made Han Cheng couldn't help but sigh that as long as there were customers, doing business was indeed a good way to make a fortune.

After exchanging these things, the older female primitives stopped. Although they still looked at the remaining things with desire, poverty and high prices stopped them from continuing to exchange.

"Why don't you continue to exchange? Is our stuff not exquisite and delicious enough?"

After getting the communication from Han Cheng, he conveyed this message to the older female primitives.

The older female primitive people who understood Mao's meaning quickly shook their heads.

It’s not that your things are bad, but that ours are too poor.

“Isn’t there still some there?”

Mao pointed to the remaining rice and expressed his opinion to the older female primitive.

The older female primitive looked at it and shook her head.

These remaining delicious little fruits cannot be exchanged, otherwise they will have to eat dirt when the time comes.

"You can exchange the food from your tribe with us, and then use the pottery and other items you exchanged with other tribes. You can use more food than you exchanged with us to exchange with other tribes."

Mao continued to convey Han Cheng's meaning and persuade him step by step.

After understanding Mao's meaning, the older female primitive's eyes suddenly lit up.

Her eyes moved back and forth between the exquisite pottery and rice, and the more she looked, the brighter her eyes became.

yes!

You can exchange these things from this tribe first, and then trade with other tribes!

The pottery of this tribe is so exquisite, and the white delicacy is so delicious, far surpassing the things of that tribe.

Even if I asked the other tribes to exchange more food, they would definitely be willing.

Such exchanges are much faster than collecting and picking the small fruits personally. This is a truth summed up by the older female primitive people through various exchanges.

Thinking about these things in her mind, the older female primitive's eyes became brighter and brighter, and her face was full of smiles.

Then she couldn't bear it anymore and put the urge to buy things into action.

Han Cheng's face was also filled with happy smiles as he watched the older female primitive people, who had finally gotten the hang of things after being taught step by step by him, and were now happily using the newly selected pottery to pack rice and conduct transactions.

After experiencing a series of changes in external conditions, Han Cheng's ideas on how to deal with those people living in the tribal slave huts also changed.

After some thought, he felt that it would be best to develop these people into middlemen whose supply of goods was controlled by his own tribe.

On the one hand, this method allows the tribe to obtain a large amount of rice and other food without having to allocate any manpower to search and collect.

On the one hand, these foods supplement the food of their tribe, and on the other hand, they can lay a solid foundation for the rapid expansion of rice planting in the coming years.

As long as there was enough rice, they would be able to develop rice cultivation quickly, without having to wait for several years of planting and harvesting like they did with millet before they had enough seeds for large-scale planting.

Secondly, he could use these people to find out about the situation of the tribe that also possessed bronze.

If these people run a business in a similar area and sell the same kind of goods but of completely different quality, they will definitely encounter that unknown tribe.

Even if they don't meet them during their business, if they find that no one is buying the pottery and salt soil that their tribe is exchanging, they will definitely take the initiative to look for people who are trying to steal their business.

In this way, the two sides will definitely have intersections, it is just a matter of time.

In this way, we can get some information about the other party, and the older female primitives can become a perfect buffer zone.

Thirdly, we can learn more about the situation in this area through the walking of the older female primitive people.

After all, people of this era tend to stay at home and don’t interact much with each other.

Even the older female primitives who have lived here for a long time do not have much knowledge about the situation around them and further away.

Through communication with them, Han Cheng learned that they only knew how to get to the four tribes next to them, and they didn't know more.

But it doesn’t matter. As long as they have tasted the benefits of being middlemen, they will actively look for more tribes, just like Mao and his group did in the beginning.

In this way, Han Cheng and his team will be able to get more information about this area.

Fourthly, they can use their hands, salt and pottery to exert some influence from the Qingque tribe on the rest of the people in this area.

And the Qingque tribe didn't pay much in this process...

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