Chapter 242 Health Products of the Snake Tribe (Please vote and subscribe)
"Your animal skins are really good, there is not even a hole on them, so I can raise the price for you a little bit. Let's put it this way. If you all trade with this kind of animal skins, I can agree to exchange two animal skins for three pottery pots and a pair of sheep horns for a porcelain bowl, but..."
Luo Chong had just said half of his words when the other party opened his mouth to continue bargaining. Luo Chong immediately pressed his hand and signaled him not to speak.
"Listen to me first. I give you this price because your animal skins are good enough, but just because of this, I won't give you so much cheaper. This is unfair to other tribes, so I have other conditions." Luo Chong talked to the other party with gestures.
"What conditions?"
The other party was a little confused when he heard that Luo Chong had other conditions. He thought Luo Chong had already given in and it would be easier to negotiate next, and maybe he could bargain again. Who knew that he would only reduce the price by half and still have other conditions to propose.
"I want this kind of antelope. I don't care what method you use. Next time, bring me at least 100 live ones. They must be young, preferably two or three years old. 20 males and 80 females. Otherwise, our Han tribe will not sell you anything in the future.
Oh, by the way, don't try to deceive me. I know you have this kind of antelope, and there are a lot of them, more than the people in your tribe. You can't have fewer people." Luo Chong stated his conditions very confidently and domineeringly.
"You, how did you know?"
The other party was surprised by Luo Chong's reaction, because Luo Chong was right. Their Sharp Horn Tribe did have a large population, more than 500 people, and they did raise antelopes, and the number was very large. The number of sheep reached nearly 2,000, and on average, three antelopes per person was still rich.
But this was their first contact with the Han tribe, and they hadn't even been to this year's Spring Festival. If they hadn't just gone to the nearby Tiger tribe to do business a while ago, and hadn't seen the pottery and white salt that the Han tribe sold to the Tiger tribe at the Spring Festival, they wouldn't have known that there was a tribe called Han, let alone that the Han tribe had a lot of good things. So how did Luo Chong know so much about their tribe?
"Your antelope skins are all raw skins, very hard, and haven't been nitrated yet. If they were from last year
, they certainly wouldn't have been preserved so intact, so these sheepskins are all new this year. If you don't raise a lot, how can you kill more than a hundred in a few months? And there's not a single hole on this sheepskin, so it's certainly not the antelope you hunted, so it must be the antelope you raised yourself.
Also, you have so many animal skins and meat, how could the population be small? At least there are more than 500 people, am I right?" Luo Chong told him his analysis.
After listening to Luo Chong's explanation and analysis, the other party was dumbfounded. Oh, what kind of brain is this? He can analyze so many things just by looking at their animal skins, as if he had seen it with his own eyes. Is this still a human? I'm afraid he is a god.
"You, you, I can't agree to what you said. I'm not the leader of our tribe. This matter must be agreed by the leader." The man from the Sharp Horn Tribe stuttered.
"Well, I understand. You can tell your leader when you go back this time. Just tell him what I said. If you don't bring 100 antelopes next time, don't even think about buying anything from our Han tribe, especially white salt. There are so many people in your tribe. Even if you don't use containers such as pots and bowls, you still have to eat salt.
Besides, 100 are really not many for you, right? There must be thousands in your tribe." Luo Chong threatened directly.
"This, this, I can't tell you, I will tell the chief when I go back, but I don't know whether he will agree or not.
Well, our tribe is too far away from here, can you exchange things for us first, we have to go back immediately after the exchange."
The other party only promised to convey Luo Chong's words when he went back, and then urged to exchange things and wanted to leave immediately. He was very nervous in front of Luo Chong, always feeling that there was a strong sense of oppression from Luo Chong, especially Luo Chong's eyes, which made him feel scared, as if the whole person was seen through by Luo Chong, making him want to escape immediately.
That was Luo Chong's very confident performance, as well as the dignity of a superior as the leader of a large tribe with thousands of people. To put it bluntly, it is confidence. If you have thousands of younger brothers who do whatever you ask them to do, you will also be very domineering, which is all natural.
"Well, you go and exchange things for them, just at the price I just said. "Luo Chong said to the tribesman who had just led them here.
"Yes, chief."
The tribesman nodded excitedly. As an ordinary tribesman, he usually had few opportunities to contact Luo Chong directly. Luo Chong's orders were conveyed by the team leaders below. Today, he saw Luo Chong's wisdom and extraordinaryness with his own eyes. It is estimated that he can brag to the tribesmen for a while. Bah, no, it's for Luo Chong to brag for a while.
The tribesmen quickly took the people of the Sharp Horn Tribe to exchange goods, but they did not ask for the rice seeds and farm tools of the Han Tribe. The Sharp Horn Tribe did not need those. They could not eat all the meat, so there was no need to grow rice.
Other tribes also completed transactions with the Han Tribe one after another. The main things used in the transaction were still animal skins, but some tribes also brought their own specialties, such as the flint used by the sickle tribe to make fire, and the spearheads and stone knives made of flint. They were all semi-finished products, and they could be used as long as they were taken back and added with a wooden handle.
The Han Tribe purchased some flint, but did not take their semi-finished weapons. However, the medicinal herbs of the Snake Tribe were all purchased by the Han Tribe, including plant roots for hemostasis and mushroom caps for anti-inflammatory. There are also herbs that drive away insects, and a plant seed that treats diarrhea. The Snake Tribe's knowledge of medical skills really broadened Luo Chong's horizons.
What Luo Chong could not have imagined the most was that the Snake Tribe also had a kind of health product that could be eaten frequently. It was said that eating it frequently was good for the body. Luo Chong took a look and found that it was a food made from plant tubers, but this thing did not grow in the soil, but grew on the ground, something that looked like an onion.
But that thing was not an onion. After being half-dried in the sun, it would turn translucent yellow. The surface shape was a bit like the skin of a pitaya. It tasted crispy and had a spicy taste, like the pickled mustard on Earth, but it was not the same thing as the pickled mustard that Luo Chong had seen in his previous life, but an indigenous specialty of this world.
Luo Chong did not hesitate and immediately asked the Snake Tribe to provide a large amount of this tuber. They could dig up the living plants and send them over. If there were seeds, they could also bring them. In the future, the Han Tribe would use this thing to pickle pickles, and it would be just right to eat this white porridge in the morning.
(End of this chapter)
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