Chapter 293 Let's work (please vote and subscribe)
It was April, and just when the market in Hanyang City ended again, the new city preparation advance team also arrived at the destination. It was the location that Luo Chong had already decided in winter. It was two kilometers away from the river in the east and between two mountainous areas in the north and south. After the
team arrived here, they immediately set up camp. More than 100 people were mobilized to cut down bushes and small trees, first enclosed the land here, and then built huts with local materials, as if they were going to make it a place to live.
Such a situation would naturally be noticed by someone. Some people from the tribes in the mountains on the north and south sides discovered this situation while hunting by the river. It is said that there are more wild animals near the river. Although the safety factor is very low and it is not suitable for living, it is still good to use it as a hunting ground. Therefore, the hunting teams of the surrounding tribes often come here to hunt. It is not difficult to find people active here by the river and settle down here.
What puzzled them was that this new tribe was very strange and powerful. There was not a single woman among the 175 people. Was this still a tribe? It looked like a hunting team from a super large tribe.
Moreover, a large part of the people in this team wore the same red clothes and black armor, and looked like the guards of immortals. These people behaved very strangely. Every day, they would line up in neat rows to do some strange things. The serious atmosphere did not look like normal people. The weapons they held were even more unheard of. Therefore, the hunting teams of the surrounding tribes did not rush to contact them. Who knew whether these people were good or bad?
Until one day they met by the river. At that time, these hunting teams were hunting a deer by the river. The bone spears had already been inserted into the deer. Seeing that the deer was about to die, at this time, a small flag spearman of 12 people happened to drive a bullock cart to the river to fetch water, which scared the hunting team of that tribe away at that time, and even forgot to bring the prey.
But they were unwilling to just give up the prey and leave. The women and children in the tribe were still waiting for food, so they didn't run far. They wanted to see if these people would take their deer. If they didn't, they would go and pick it up after these people left. So they just watched from a distance.
The small flag of the Han tribe naturally discovered them, but they didn't try to steal the other party's prey. Before leaving, Luo Chong told them not to easily conflict with the surrounding tribes, otherwise it would be detrimental to the future development of the market. As long as other tribes didn't actively attack them, they couldn't offend them first.
What's more, snatching prey between tribes is a taboo and is the easiest to cause conflicts. After all, it's food and can be fatal. So the sergeant of the small flag didn't care about the dead deer, and didn't even get close. He just waved and greeted the hunting team over there from a distance, and then a group of people fetched water and washed their faces.
But when they were washing their faces, a group of people took off their helmets, revealing their hair tied on top of their heads, which was seen by the hunting team in the distance.
"Chief, look, the hair of those people looks so familiar, I seem to have seen it somewhere." One of the young men in the hunting team reminded his leader.
"Well, it really looks a bit familiar, where have you seen it?" The leader couldn't remember it.
"I remember, I remember, last winter, a tribe riding wild beasts came to our tribe and exchanged a few people for white salt and pottery pots. At that time, their hair was tied on top of their heads, but those people were wearing animal skins at that time." A person next to the leader suddenly recalled.
"Well - now that you put it that way, it does look like it. Why don't you two go over and pick up the deer, and ask about their identities by the way?" The leader said half-asking and half-commanding.
As soon as he finished speaking, the others instantly took a step back, and the angry leader wanted to curse.
"What a bunch of cowardly rats! Come on, let's go and ask together."
This time with a leader leading the way and so many people following, they finally dared to go forward and make contact.
A dozen people dawdled and came ten meters away from the water-drawing flag. Some of them picked up the dead deer on the ground, while others looked at the Han tribe's flag soldiers vigilantly, fearing that they would suddenly attack.
The flag chief just smiled when he saw them, then handed the spear in his hand to his teammates and walked over with only the shovel on his waist.
"Friends, do you want to come to our tribe to buy things? Our tribe has moved here now and will live here in the future." The flag chief walked over and gestured to the other party.
"Um, who are you?" The leader asked in confusion.
"Why, have you forgotten that last winter, people from our tribe went to exchange clay pots and white salt for you." The flag chief reminded.
"Oh! It turns out that it was really you. What do you mean by buying things just now?" The leader continued to ask.
"It's like this. Last winter, our leader asked us to sell things here. We found that there are many tribes here. In order to make it more convenient for you to eat white salt, we were sent here to set up a market. Uh, it's a gathering for trading with various tribes. If you need white salt and pottery, or other tools, or even cloth, you can come to us to exchange. We will live here forever and won't leave." The little flag chief explained to the other party.
This paragraph is very complicated, but the leader almost understood the meaning. This tribe with white salt and pottery will stay here permanently, and will also hold a long-term gathering for the purpose of trading goods, called a market. This seems to be a good thing. It is indeed convenient for them to eat salt in the future. It's just
that the white salt of the Han tribe is too expensive. The white powdery crystals can make people addicted. If you don't eat it for two days, you will have no strength in your body. It's really weird and powerful, and it's so expensive.
"But, but we don't have so many people to exchange your things." The leader said with some embarrassment.
"You don't have to worry about this. We trade population just to find more people to help us with the work. So if you are willing to help us with the work, you can also use labor to trade goods. For example, you can send a few people to help us build a house. After the house is built, we will exchange it with white salt or other things. And these people who come to work are still your people. What do you think of this idea?" The little flag chief introduced it according to Luo Chong's statement.
"Oh? It can also be like this. As long as you help you do some work, you can exchange goods, and the people are still our people?" The leader asked in surprise, and then suddenly seemed to think of something and frowned again.
The little flag chief glanced at the leader, as if he could read minds, and hurriedly added another sentence.
"Oh, I forgot to tell you that if you come to help us work in exchange for things, in addition to the final reward, we will also provide three meals a day, and we will add white salt to the meals. In this way, not only can you exchange white salt in the end, but if you come here to work every day, you can also save a lot of white salt for your tribe."
(End of this chapter)
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