Interesting, even in primitive society, they knew about labor export? Haha! Ma Yue laughed.
The limestone mines are almost exhausted. Further mining will gradually become more and more troublesome.
The white ash made from burning limestone is not easy to preserve for a long time, so the Hai tribe does not have a large inventory.
What about next year? The large-scale construction of the new city will indeed require a lot of lime. Can we just rely on the few people in the Second Branch? After all, the people in the Second Branch also need to farm and herd.
The surrounding tribes, except for the Niupi Tribe and the more distant Purple Tribe, were mostly very poor. How could they afford the salt from the Sea Tribe? Many tribes didn't even have salt.
"How much limestone will we need next year? Iron Lion, High Priest, you two should discuss it with Lu and Huangpi. Considering the actual labor situation of the Second Branch, it's possible to hire some labor from other tribes in exchange for coarse salt."
Even if the calculation is not that precise, we should at least have a rough estimate, right?
"Okay!" Iron Lion and the high priest nodded.
"The principle of our Hai tribe is that we will not be recruiting people in the near future. If there is a shortage of labor, hiring labor from other tribes like the second branch is also a good way out." Ma Yue continued.
"Charlatan, if you open your mouth, I guess there will be a lot of people working in our sea tribe." said the second priest.
"We can't hire outsiders to make salt," the high priest said. "And what about building the city? It'll require a lot of labor, and I'm afraid the secret of our lime will be leaked."
Indeed, the emergence of lime is very important. If others also build cities, the Sea Tribe’s biggest advantage will be gone.
Everyone looked at Ma Yue.
"Forget it. We can't keep secrets for long. It's just salt making. Didn't the Purple Tribe learn it? We need a lot of manpower to make salt and build cities. When there are too many people, it will be impossible to keep it secret, right?" When Ma Yue said this, everyone felt that it was really the case.
Salt boiling was kept secret for many years and indeed created huge profits for the Hai tribe's early accumulation.
"Over there on the grassland, after all, we are constantly under the threat of large cavalry. If the new city can be built as soon as possible, revealing the secret of the lime will be worth it."
It is said that the threat from the neighboring grassland army is basically gone, but what if they come?
Nothing is completely foolproof. Next year, a branch will relocate 900 people, mostly the elderly and weak. That's not 900 warriors!
Although the Sea Tribe's field combat capabilities were not bad, how much defense force would be needed to build a new city there? After all, the Sea Tribe didn't have many truly able-bodied men.
The grassland cavalry, with a strength of one or two thousand men at a time, is too much to bear! What if a large number of grassland cavalry use the tactic of flanking attacks? The biggest advantage of cavalry is the speed of flanking attacks, not the stupid direct head-on charge.
"That makes sense!" Luo Bai had the deepest understanding of this aspect. Facing two thousand cavalrymen and the overwhelming charge, Alexander was shocked!
"Since someone has come to us to sell labor, Tieshi, you should discuss it with the second priest. It would be a good idea to hire more labor from other tribes next year," said Ma Yue.
"It shouldn't be expensive." The second priest said. For primitive people, it is good enough to have something to eat. It is even better to drink hot soup with salt. How much can the sea tribe pay?
The best people to bargain with in the Hai tribe are the second priest and Hai. Are you used to it?
Building the Stone City required moving the massive stones, which really required a lot of strong labor. The weaker ones could only help out. The walls were all five meters high, and without cranes or anything like that, it was truly difficult.
You hire people to do heavy work, so you have to ensure a basic supply of salt, right? Without salt, how can you guarantee physical strength? Food and shelter are provided, but what about wages? People come to work to help their families earn a little extra money... and wages are usually settled in coarse salt.
No matter what, the most important thing is salt.
Fortunately, the sea tribe's salt-making operation was growing larger and larger, with thousands of concrete basins and stoves along the coast. When it came to salt-making, you could light the fire in the stove while you continued to gather firewood, rather than just sit there and watch, right? So, with hundreds of people boiling salt and thousands of concrete basins, the job was perfectly manageable.
The Hai tribe's experience in salt boiling has become more and more rich, and the use of salt boiling labor has become more and more efficient.
"We don't recruit people, but hire them. This is indeed a good idea, haha!" The high priest figured it out.
Is hiring people also a trade?
"Okay, leave it to me." The second priest also became motivated, "I'll go back to the second branch with Iron Lion later."
The city will be built in the early spring of next year, so the issue of hiring labor must of course be negotiated as early as possible.
While eating, they decided on a major matter that would be crucial to the future development of the Sea Tribe. For Ma Yue, whether the hired personnel possessed the power of faith or not was irrelevant.
The second priest did what he said. After eating, he pulled the iron lion and went to the second branch.
Even in winter, some news could spread. The Sea Tribe wanted to hire people and offered them salt as compensation, which was a pleasant surprise for some smaller tribes that were desperate for salt but couldn't afford it.
Primitive people are most accustomed to working. Is it easy for them to stutter?
One, two, three... Small tribes are small, some have less than 20 able-bodied men. It doesn't matter, if you can provide five or seven able-bodied men, it's not too few.
It is impossible for a small tribe to have all its men working as laborers. After all, the tribe also needs its men to hunt and feed itself. It is good enough if some of them can contribute labor. For the sake of salt, what is there to be reluctant about?
"Haha!" The second priest looked at Niutou, the chief of the Niupi tribe. He laughed. "Can you Niupi tribe be any more shameless?" "Do you want to do labor? Is that really necessary for you Niupi tribe?" "Aren't you just trying to learn how to build a city with stone?"
"Second Priest, the labor fee we want is the same as that of people from other tribes. If that doesn't work, can we catch fish and eat them ourselves for the labor we provide? You don't need your sea tribe to provide food for us. How about that?" Niutou was really generous.
"Are you doing labor or catching fish?" asked the second priest.
"Of course, the laborers are helping you build the city. We'll also provide some people to fish for a living. We'll also bring our own pottery plates for cooking, so they won't take up any labor quota."
"Where's the salt?"
"Second Priest, you can't go too far. We can't work for nothing."
After a long argument, the two sides finally reached an agreement. In order to learn the purpose of building the stone city, Niutou made a lot of concessions.
The Niupi tribe provided one hundred strong laborers, and the contract was signed from spring to late autumn.
Is it really possible to only build the first phase of the project?
Tribes one after another signed up to export labor. With so much labor, it takes only one phase of the project?
The second priest went to the Iron Lion again. After all, the supply of lime was also very important. Without the desired amount of lime, no matter how many people there were, what good would it do?
Plans can't keep up with changes. The number of hired workers far exceeded expectations.
The second priest's request received a "call back" from Ma Yue, who said, "You are the general manager of the new city construction, you can handle it yourself."
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