Chapter 230 Salt Famine Begins (Please vote and subscribe)
The newly made steel chisel was soon put into use. Luo Chong found a few savages brought by You Fu and asked those with disabled legs and feet to be full-time stonemasons, responsible for chiseling grinding discs and stone mortars.
The clanging sound of knocking stones soon rang out in the Han tribe, and it also made the tribesmen truly realize a problem, that is, steel is really much stronger than bronze. If bronze is used to fight against stone so desperately, it is estimated that bronze would have broken long ago.
In the following time, the Han tribe spent their ordinary and busy life. The slaves repaired the moat under the supervision of the warriors, and Da Shu also transported carts of limestone from Babaoshan. The only wooden boat of the Han tribe was now only responsible for transporting magnetite from the iron mine. Luo Chong was also working with the carpentry team to build a waterwheel.
Until the beginning of the second month of summer, the second season of rice planted by the Han tribe had grown seven or eight leaves, and the individual seedlings were about one foot tall. It was time to plant rice again.
Since the planting area has expanded more than ten times, in order to transplant the seedlings into the fields as soon as possible, Luo Chong mobilized almost all the laborers in the tribe to do farm work. They planted the fields during the busy farming season, and then built houses after the busy season. This may be the first batch of migrant workers in this world.
The changes that Luo Chong brought to this world were huge, and they also deeply affected a group of people. Among them, the Han tribe developed the fastest, but the tribes that had contact with the Han tribe were also deeply affected.
Especially those tribes that had traded with the Han tribe during the spring meeting, a few months later, the pottery and white salt of the Han tribe were also very popular in various tribes, but white salt was really not edible, especially in the hot summer weather, people sweat a lot, so the consumption of white salt was faster, and the tribes returned to the era of salt shortage again.
But as the saying goes, it is easy to go from simple to luxurious, but difficult to go from luxurious to frugal. After they got used to eating white salt, they suddenly stopped the supply of white salt, which was really unbearable, so some tribes came up with the idea of looking for the Han tribe, wanting to trade some white salt with the Han tribe again.
But it's easy to say, but it's really difficult to do. The biggest problem is that we don't know the specific location of the Han tribe.
Each tribe has its own inherent territory, or sphere of influence. Their living area is also very limited. If there is nothing to do, they basically won't go to far away places. Even large gatherings like the Spring Festival are held once a year for the reproduction of the tribe.
But they are not completely unsociable. Just like the relationship between the Han tribe and the Black Rat Tribe, the Li Tribe, and the Bian Tribe, there will be communication and intersection between two or three adjacent tribes in other places.
So tribes like this who want to find the Han tribe naturally want to call more neighbors to go with them. After all, the journey is long, and the number of people a tribe can send is limited. If there are more acquaintances, it will be safer on the road.
The first to take action was the Cha tribe located in the northwest of Rumeng Water Valley. The Cha tribe has a population of about 400 people. They make a living by fishing. The food source is relatively stable and sufficient, so the population is also large, but also because of the large population, the white salt consumption rate of the Cha tribe is much faster than that of other tribes.
There was very little white salt left from the Spring Fair. Now, only the important laborers in the entire Cha tribe could get a little white salt every two days, which barely allowed them to taste the saltiness. But even so, the reserves of white salt could not last long, so the leader Jian proposed the idea of looking for the Han tribe.
However, the elders of the Cha tribe suggested that they contact their neighbors and send people to look for it together, so that there would be more people on the road and it would be safer.
After listening to the elders' words, the leader Jian also thought it made sense, so he immediately led people to the Xiong tribe, which was two days away from them.
Unlike the Cha tribe, which lived near water, the Xiong tribe lived in the mountains and made a living purely by hunting. The tribe was full of brave warriors, including women, who played a big role in the usual hunting.
One day, the bear leader Han was hunting in the mountains with three hunting teams of his tribe, but he unexpectedly ran into the Cha tribe who came to seek partners.
"Hey, isn't this the leader of the Fork tribe? What brings you here today? But let me make it clear first, if you want to exchange white salt with us, then don't mention it.
Our Bear tribe doesn't have as many people as you, but hunting every day is hard work, and the consumption of white salt is also very large. There is not much left now, so if you come here for this, you might as well go back early. We in the Bear tribe don't exchange."
When the Bear chief saw that the people coming were from their neighbor the Fork tribe, he refused before they could say anything. He knew how many people there were in the Fork tribe, and Chief Jian had always wanted the white salt in their hands. As early as on the way back from the Spring Meeting, Chief Jian had proposed to the Bear tribe to exchange some white salt, but the Bear tribe also treasured white salt and were not willing to take it out to exchange with others.
"Haha, you really guessed it right. We are here for white salt today. Hey, don't be impatient, listen to me.
I know that the amount of white salt exchanged by your tribe is also limited. Even if you exchange it for me, it will not be enough for our Cha tribe to eat for a long time, so I am going to get some more white salt. The purpose of coming here is to ask your Xiong tribe if they want it." The leader of Cha, Jian, just started talking, and Xiong Han was about to interrupt him, so Jian immediately waved his hand and told his purpose.
"Get some white salt? Do you know where to get white salt?" Xiong Han asked in surprise.
"This, besides the Han tribe, do other tribes have it?"
"How would I know this? If I knew, I would have sent someone to get it a long time ago. You are talking nonsense, right? Wait a minute, you mean that you want to go to the Han tribe to exchange white salt, so you know where the Han tribe is?" Xiong Han reacted immediately.
Jian shook his head, "I only know which direction the Han tribe is in, but I don't know the exact location, so I plan to send a few people to look for it, just in case we find it.
What do you think? Do you want to send a few people to go with us, so that there will be more people on the road, and everyone can take care of each other. We don't know how far this road is, and the possibility of success will be greater with more people, right? What do you think?"
After hearing Jian's idea, Xiong Han immediately started thinking. Sending people to look for the Han tribe is indeed a solution, and if his own tribe can participate in it, it will be the best result. If the Cha tribe is left to look for it by themselves, they will definitely not share the white salt they get with him, so Xiong Han made a decision immediately.
(End of this chapter)
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