No matter how hard it was, the cheers of the Sea Tribe continued for a long time when they saw the stone walls finally collide.
It's such an important day, so we have to celebrate it with all our might. We all have a day off and eat a delicious meal.
The high priest was a little tearful. After all, it was his own home, with such towering stone walls. He felt full of security and accomplishment.
"Don't worry about the walls and ditches for now. The enemy won't be able to climb up such a tall and solid wall, haha!"
"Too!"
"Housing is the most important issue. Before winter comes, we will build two more rows of large wooden houses."
"Okay! We'll use the materials nearby. The two wood walls inside are useless."
The next day, the men, women, and children of the Hai tribe started another busy day building houses for themselves with even greater enthusiasm.
These days, you can't count on door hinges or anything like that. The main door has to be a thick door panel. It's fine during the day, but it can be blocked at night. With two logs on top of the door panel, no matter how many people there are, they can't push it or get in. Of course, if you can light the door on fire, that's another story.
"There's quite a bit of lime left."
"Stone walls also need a coating. Do you understand the principles of lime mortar?" Ma Yue had seen a lot of rural house construction. If there was no cement, lime was used. Lime, sand, and water, mixed and stirred, made lime mortar.
"Um."
"Applying a layer of lime mortar to the stone wall provides an extra layer of protection from wind and rain."
"I'll do it right away!" Huangpi and Heipi not only made pottery, but also became more and more interested in architecture. Holding wooden trowels...
"The mortar for the covering doesn't need to be too thick, the width of a fingernail is enough."
Plastering is a serious bricklaying job. It doesn't matter if it looks good or not, just apply a layer and it's practical. Even if the plastering is done poorly and cracks occur, it doesn't matter. Compared to wall building, plastering isn't that difficult.
"Spirit, I'm a warrior." Since arriving at the Hai Tribe, Baipi had almost exclusively been making pottery with the five men he brought with him, even though Ma Yue acknowledged their status as third-class able-bodied men. The problem was, weren't able-bodied men supposed to be hunting and fighting? They were always making pottery, yet when food was distributed, they were considered able-bodied men.
White people are a little embarrassed. Most primitive people are honest.
"As you've seen, when work is needed, soldiers do everything, such as digging the ground, building houses, cutting wood, and boiling salt." Ma Yue temporarily needs Bai Yun and others to create exquisite pottery. Why?
The second priest went to Sun City to exchange for delicious salted dried radish, which was packed in an exquisite small ceramic jar... Super reasonable packaging. Ma Yue is a person of the 21st century and understands the significance of good packaging for goods.
Of course, the beautiful little pottery jars of salted radish also had practical value. If you came across a wealthy person like the Moon Tribe, naturally...some of the larger tribes trading in Sun City would also buy a small jar or two. Even after finishing the salted radish, the beautiful little pottery jars would be both practical and eye-catching.
Primitive leaders and high priests also have privileges. Exquisite little pottery jars for drinking water are needed by leaders and priests. What's wrong with that?
We already have pottery jars for drinking water, but what about pottery bowls for eating and drinking? And based on Ma Yue's inspiration, we've developed exquisite little soup spoons. The Second Sacrifice only needs to display a few of these at the Sun City trading venues, and there will be market demand.
Ma Yue somewhat underestimated the primitive people's demand for beautiful utensils. Although the pottery made by the white-skinned people was not as exquisite as that made by the black-skinned people, it was still much more exquisite.
The emergence of pottery kilns and clay has indeed greatly improved the pottery-making level of the Hai tribe. Not only is the pottery more exquisite, but the success rate and practicality have also been greatly improved.
If exquisite pottery could enter a large market like Sun City along with salted radish, what would be wrong? In other words, the greater value created by the pottery created by Bai Yun and his team was exchanged for the most important large livestock, wildebeest.
There are pottery items for sale in Sun City, and the exquisiteness is not much inferior to that of the Sea Tribe. In Ma Yue's words, small pottery jars and salted dried radishes are sold as a package.
Salted radish isn't cheap, and neither are the exquisite little pottery jars. Traveling all the way to Sun City to trade is cheap? So why bother going there? The ultimate goal of commerce is greater profit.
In fact, even so, the relatively exquisite small pottery jar packaging is still cheaper than that in Sun City.
Of course, there's not much demand for small pots, so larger pots can be used to store salted radish. For valuable goods, quantity isn't the key; a large enough price difference and a small transaction volume are sufficient as long as the profit is sufficient.
Besides, what else can we put salted radish in if not a clay pot? You can't just buy the salted radish in the pot and then ask me to bring back the clay pot, right?
Ma Yue estimated that fine pottery with slightly higher prices would be okay in the short term, but in the long run, no large tribe would be able to afford it, as the market capacity was limited after all.
Are short-term high profits also acceptable?
"What else do you want?" Ma Yue asked. Bai Yun has been in the Hai tribe for some time, almost a year, and his language communication skills are pretty good.
"Since you want to trade in Sun City, why not trade in Ghost Town?" Bai Yun said.
"Ghost town? Forget it. It is said that it takes dozens of days to go there." Many prisoners of war from the ghost town are still in the Hai tribe.
"Go to the sea."
Sea route? Is that reliable? Like the so-called sailboat Bai Yun and his companions used when they arrived? Ma Yue was still very afraid of the sea. If the boat really capsized, there would be nowhere for them to escape.
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