Chapter 190 The Potential of a Diplomat (Please vote, subscribe, and comment)
Ju led Youfu and his party into the settlement of the Lu tribe. The settlement was in a small valley, with a cluster of stone houses built with stones and mud, and the pigsty was further inside the valley.
Ju told the tribesmen to prepare a few stone houses to entertain the guests, and then discussed the specific price of the transaction with Youfu.
"How much white salt and pottery do you have? Our tribe wants them all. As you can see, there are many people in our tribe, and the things you brought are not enough for us. Let's talk about how to exchange."
"We have never exchanged beasts before, but we have exchanged white salt for people. I don't know how to exchange your flower beasts. We used to exchange a bowl of white salt this big for an adult." Youfu said as he took out a small pottery bowl. Ju was
stunned when he looked at the pottery bowl. He remembered that the small bag of white salt that Youfu took out before seemed to be not enough to fill the bowl.
"You brought a lot of white salt?" Ju did not directly say the price, but asked a question in return.
"It's indeed a lot, but not too much. If you want to exchange them all, I estimate that you will need at least dozens of flower beasts." You Fu estimated and said.
"So many!"
Ju muttered in a low voice, feeling a little bit hurt. It's not that he really thinks the white salt is too much, but he thinks the price is too expensive. In his heart, the flower beasts of his tribe are very precious.
"Then can you show me how much white salt you have first?"
"It's okay for you to take a look first, I'll ask someone to get it for you."
You Fu thought about it for a while. His tribe had already entered the other party's lair anyway. Even if the Lu tribe wanted to rob, he couldn't do anything. It's better to be generous. Anyway, he still has a trump card, so it's no problem to leave alive.
Several members of the You tribe took a large wooden barrel from the ox cart. It was the white salt given to them by Luo Chong. On this way, they met more than a dozen tribes, big and small. You Fu only gave a little to each tribe, or exchanged some animal skins and food. Basically, it didn't consume much, so the barrel of white salt was still quite full.
The exquisite wooden barrel was placed in front of Ju, which surprised him. Then he watched You Fu knock off the wooden peg with a small hammer and open the lid of the barrel. A full barrel of snowflake salt appeared in front of him, which made Ju's eyes a little dizzy.
"This, this, this, are all white salt." Ju asked with some stammering.
"Yes, all, can you take it all? This white salt is not cheap."
If such a large barrel is put in bowls, it will probably take hundreds of bowls, and they exchange one bowl of white salt for one person. Can the pigs in their tribe be worth money? Even if they are sold at the same price, it is a big loss for the Naru tribe to sell hundreds of pigs at a time. Ju was a little reluctant, but he was even more reluctant to watch a large barrel of white salt slip away from his eyes. Thinking of this, Ju's eyes gradually became fierce. His
eyes were erratic, and he glanced at the adults in the You tribe. There were only 20 or 30 of them. As long as he gave an order, they could stay forever, as well as the ox cart and the pottery on it.
As if sensing Ju's murderous intent, or perhaps You Fu had been prepared, seeing that Ju seemed to be thinking about something, You Fu spoke directly.
"Leader of the Lu tribe, you can forcibly detain us, or you can kill us all. The white salt here is enough for all the members of your tribe to eat for a year, but if you do that, you will have no white salt to eat in the future.
This white salt is not made by our tribe. We are also commissioned by other tribes to help them exchange white salt for some things. Even if you torture us, we will not make white salt.
Or you can force us to lead you to the tribe that can make salt, and then destroy them and steal the salt-making method. We can cooperate with this, but you will definitely not be able to win. The tribe that can make salt has a lot of people. The people of your entire tribe, plus your flower beasts, are at most half of their population.
In early spring this year, a large tribe with a population of more than 2,000 attacked them, and in the end that tribe was wiped out, so you'd better think it through.
I'm not afraid to tell you that it will take a full month from here to the salt-making tribe at the fastest speed. It's better for us to come here every year to trade with you. Don't you think so? "
You Fu warned with guns and sticks, and directly brought out the Han tribe to scare people, acting like a dead pig that is not afraid of boiling water.
There are only so many of us, we can definitely not beat you, you can kill us or plunder us as you like, but as long as you make a move on us, you can forget about eating white salt in the future. This is a naked soft threat.
"Haha, why would I think so, in fact, I was just thinking about how much I should exchange, and I definitely didn't mean to keep you. "
Ju immediately put on a smiling face and denied it. A breeze blew by, and Ju, who was standing under the scorching sun, felt a chill on his back. He was scared and broke out in a cold sweat.
What Youfu said just now were exactly the methods he had thought of in his mind, and Youfu had guessed them all. If he had really ordered to capture them and tortured them as Youfu said, at most he could only let them lead the way to the huge salt-making tribe, and then the Lu tribe might really be doomed.
As for doubting the truth of Youfu's words, Ju had never thought about it. This tribe could make white salt and use white salt to exchange for population, so it was conceivable how many warriors their tribe could have. If white salt was real, that tribe must be real as well.
"That would be best. Why do we have to be enemies? We can be friends, right?"
"Of course, we must be friends. Since we are friends, can you give us a discount? Anyway, you are also exchanging for others. Otherwise, how about this, we exchange a small animal for a bowl of white salt? "Ju offered his price.
You Fu did not object. It would be better to leave alive now. Just like Ju said, the white salt was not his anyway, so there was no need to haggle over it. As long as he could bring the living flower beast back, he didn't care about its size. So he just asked casually.
"How small is the little beast? It can't be a newborn."
"No, it has to be the one that has just been weaned. I guarantee you can take it back alive. It's from the ones in this circle. You can pick any one you like. "Ju said, pointing to a pigpen full of piglets.
Regarding this point, the Lu tribe did it quite scientifically. Pigs of different sizes were graded and placed in different pens. This was the experience summed up by their ancestors in raising spotted pigs. The piglets in this pen were the ones that had just been weaned. They were only about half a meter long and weighed ten pounds each, which was about the same size as the adult rabbits raised by the Han tribe.
"Well, one bowl of white salt for one small animal, that's fine, but you have to give a few big ones, otherwise I can't explain it. Anyway, I won't let you suffer a loss. You can give the big ones a few more bowls of white salt. That's okay." You Fu also stated his bottom line.
"Well, okay, I can give you a few. After all, we are friends. "
Ju agreed readily, although he was still very distressed. Those big pigs had just passed the estrus period, and the sows were pregnant. If they were taken back, they would give birth to piglets, and they could give birth to several piglets at a time, and they could give birth to piglets every year. It would be more cost-effective to sell the piglets.
Fortunately, You Fu promised the big beast to give more white salt, otherwise he would not change anything.
(End of this chapter)
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