"Big animals can actually do that..." Seeing the red feather message from the charlatan, Tielin was deeply shocked. What a courageous charlatan!
"Tie Lin, the charlatan's support for our Sun City branch is really..." Huo Yun and He Tu were also shocked after seeing the charlatan's parchment scroll. Large livestock, the main force of farming, are rarely bought and sold.
“Salt production!”
"Tielin, the limestone has been pulled back and the quantity is sufficient." He Tu said.
"As long as there is enough salt ore, our salt production will definitely double," said Huo Yun.
"In this way, we can pay the tribes that send us the most coal by giving them large livestock as their 'salary'." Tielin said gritting his teeth.
"That's good. Livestock are treasures. If we pay them their 'salary', they'll have more snow trucks to haul coal, and we'll have more fuel for cooking salt." Huo Yun nodded. Everything should have a purpose, right? He wasn't just thinking about this year, but the future as well.
Fuel coal is crucial to Sun City's salt-boiling business.
"Tielin, are the salt mountain's reserves sufficient?" He Tu asked worriedly.
"Don't worry, this salt mountain is indeed a rich mine. According to the principle of thermal expansion and contraction as told by the charlatan, mining will be easier." Tielin said that the most troublesome thing about the salt mountain is mining. The charlatan meant that it is rock and it is really difficult to mine. First burn it with fire and then pour water on it. The combination of hot and cold will cause the big rocks to crack.
"Let's destroy the salt mines far away first. In winter, there are snow trucks that can transport more rock salt." Of course, the salt mountain is not in Sun City. The salt mines stretch for several miles, and there are several rich mines. It takes nearly two or three days for the snow trucks to drive to Sun City.
It's a lot harder to boil salt from a salt mountain than from seawater. Mining alone is a struggle. From the mountain, you swing a sledgehammer (luckily, the Sea Tribe now has copper hammers) to pound the rock salt. The large chunks of rock salt need to be pounded into smaller pieces, and the smaller pieces into powder...
After discussing it, everyone took people to the farthest salt mine, built a fire, and roasted the large rocks connecting the mountain walls.
"Splash water!" After the frozen river water nearby was broken open, the water scooped up from below was so cold that it was obvious. With such a mixture of ice and fire, even the hardest rocks would break.
"Great!" Tie Lin was very excited. This was more convenient than swinging a sledgehammer. Besides, you couldn't break the big rock in such a position. After all, human power has its limits.
The principle of thermal expansion and contraction that the charlatan talked about is really awesome.
A piece of rock salt this big must weigh about 700 to 800 kilograms. As for the rest, anyone would know what to do with it.
"With the improvement of the chest harness, the load capacity of the wildebeest snowmobile has increased two or three times. Now we have no shortage of salt ore raw materials, haha!" He Tu also smiled foolishly as he watched.
"Large chunks of rock salt are difficult to transport. Let's crush them into powder and then ship them back," Huo Yun suggested.
"Yeah." Tielin nodded. "We have a copper hammer and a copper axe. They're good tools and will make smashing rocks much easier."
"There are quite a few tribal people nearby, Tielin..."
"I understand. This mining site is very large. It will be troublesome to rely solely on the people of our Sea Tribe. No matter who it is, as long as they send salt ore, we will give them a 'salary'. We don't have much food, so just give them salt." Tielin said. The cooperative management model has long been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people of the Sea Tribe.
"He Tu, you'll be in charge of the salt ore here; Huo Yun, you'll be in charge of the coal trade over there..."
"Okay!" Everyone has a division of labor and a management responsibility system.
As long as the Hai tribe has wildebeests, it has no shortage of snow and ice vehicles. In winter, wildebeest snow and ice vehicles are extremely important transportation resources.
Soon, a lot of fish were caught in the broken river water. Haha! Fishing by breaking ice is an old skill of the Sea Tribe. Is this food? Add some salt, and drink a sip of fish soup in the middle of winter, it's delicious.
Many times, primitive people did not want to break the ice to fish, but in many rivers, the ice was too thick and you couldn't break it, right? The Sea Tribe had copper hammers and copper axes, so breaking the thick ice was much more practical.
Otherwise, as the charlatans said, the emergence of metal tools was a qualitative leap in productivity.
The many small tribes still left near Sun City were envious, but copper hammers and axes were too precious to buy, right? Since the Sea Tribe was willing to cooperate in mining, sure, we could provide the labor.
The winters here are so cold that only able-bodied men with thick fur coats can come out to work. Even so, the sparsely populated small tribes around have gathered nearly 500 able-bodied men to work at Yanshan.
The more salt ore is mined, the more it can be exchanged for salt and even thick sheepskin. In the winter, thick sheepskin is very valuable. The many small tribes that remain in the Sun City area are very poor, so anything they are offered, such as salary, is a good thing.
The Sea Tribe didn't have many sheep, all of which were obtained in exchange from the Flying Donkey Tribe. Even so, to ensure physical strength for mining, the mines here only provided two sheep per day.
Which is more important, sheep or salt ore? If you produce more salt, you can exchange it for more sheep, right?
With the first batch of coal shipped into Sun City, the salt production in Sun City finally doubled.
Tielin sighed, thank goodness the headquarters provided a lot of corn, otherwise, no matter whether the wildebeests were transporting salt ore or coal, they would be so busy, and without corn powder, they would not be able to maintain their physical strength, right?
Thousands of wildebeest snowmobiles were rented out to transport coal, and a lot of corn powder was consumed.
Sun City was cooperating in transporting coal, as was Poseidon City to the east. In the dead of winter, the able-bodied men of the surrounding tribes were running out of time. Is coal the most important fuel for boiling salt?
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