Chapter 323 Business Competition (Please vote and subscribe)
"Well, what you said is really a problem. Horse gear, vehicles, and ironware are all very important things. We really can't just give them away casually." Luo Chong couldn't help but think deeply when he heard this.
"Oh, by the way, Chief, we also encountered a bad thing during this transaction. I'm worried that our future grassland transactions may not be easy." You Fu suddenly seemed to remember something, and his expression suddenly became worried.
"What bad thing?"
Luo Chong frowned immediately when he saw him like this. The development and construction of the Han tribe is in full swing, and a large part of it depends on the resources obtained from the grassland. You are now saying that it will be difficult in the future. Aren't you kidding?
"This time we traded with a total of seven tribes. When we were trading with the tribe closest to the southeast, something went wrong. We took out our white salt, but they didn't want it. I took out our clay pots and bowls, but they didn't want them either. They wanted the iron pots and scissors, and finally we traded for some animal skins and wool. We only traded a few cows and horses, which was pitifully small."
"They don't want white salt and clay pots and bowls? Why? How is it possible? It shouldn't be like this?"
Hearing You Fu say this, Luo Chong asked several questions in a row, his head full of questions, looking at You Fu waiting for him to explain to him.
Hearing Luo Chong's questions, You Fu didn't hesitate, and immediately took out a few things from his animal skin pocket and placed them in front of Luo Chong, which shocked Luo Chong so much that he almost cried out.
Holy shit! Holy shit! Oh my God, what am I seeing? !
You Fu took out several things and placed them on the table in front of him. The first one was a yellow bamboo tube as thick as an arm. It was shiny and oily, about ten centimeters high, with a lid on it. You Fu opened it directly to show Luo Chong that there was something inside.
Luo Chong was shocked and widened his eyes. He took the bamboo tube and looked at it. Then he looked at the white particles in the half tube, so he put it to his nose and smelled it. The bamboo tube immediately filled with the smell of the sea. Luo Chong pinched a little and put it in his mouth to taste it, then suddenly spit out a mouthful of saliva. What else could this be but sea salt!
Before Luo Chong could make a comment, You Fu took out another thing, which almost made Luo Chong's jaw drop, because what he took out was a shiny white metal bowl.
The bowl was so big that it could be put on the head as a hat, and it was also very round, with a hemispherical shape inside. The inner wall of the bowl was very smooth, and it could even be used as a mirror. There was also a picture embossed on the outside, and some hieroglyphs that Luo Chong could not understand.
It doesn't matter if you can't understand the words, but Luo Chong can understand the painting. There are several people in the painting. One of them is holding a big bowl with the mouth of the bowl facing the sun in the sky. One of them is holding a torch in front of the bowl. The others are kneeling on the ground, watching this scene devoutly.
Luo Chong has modern knowledge, so he naturally understands it. This painting is clearly a scene of using the dead light reflected by the sun to make fire.
This is a light reflection phenomenon in physics. I learned it in junior high school textbooks. If you use an inner spherical mirror to face the sun, the reflected light will converge to a point. The temperature is so high that it can ignite objects. Even in modern times, this principle of making fire with dead light is still widely used. For example, the solar dead light stoves used by herdsmen in the snowy areas can be used for cooking. In addition, the source of fire for each Olympic Games is the sky fire obtained by using the dead light of the sun on the sacred Mount Olympus in Greece, which is the so-called Olympic flame.
Let's not talk about the picture of taking the fire from heaven. Let's talk about the bowl itself. It has a high-intensity reflective effect and is very heavy. Luo Chong took a bite of the edge of the bowl. There was a tooth mark
and it was quite soft. This is a silver bowl. It is definitely not something produced by the Han tribe. So now, Luo Chong can draw a conclusion from these two things. There is a tribe near the sea. They can make sea salt by drying. In addition, bamboo is abundant in the local area. They use bamboo as a container. There is also a rich silver mine near them. They know metal smelting and casting technology. Judging from the color and style of this silver bowl, the casting level is still very high.
Luo Chong is not surprised by this, because the chemical properties of silver are very stable. It exists as a single substance in nature, which means that natural silver blocks or silver sand can be found directly. However, this is a minority after all. In fact, most of the silver is still stored in the silver mine in the form of minerals.
Another thing is that the melting point of silver is very low. It only takes more than 960 degrees to melt into liquid. As long as the other party knows how to burn charcoal, it is no problem to reach this temperature. Or maybe they have their own coal mines. You
should know that the copper ore refined by the Han tribe needs a high temperature of at least 1500 degrees. With a melting point below 1000 degrees, it is obvious that silver is easier for primitive people to discover and learn to use. This is also a very normal thing.
Then the question is, a tribe that believes in heavenly fire, uh, this is Luo Chong's guess, after all, they painted the process of taking heavenly fire on the bowl, right? If it is not a very important thing, would they paint it on it? Just like the Chinese characters of the Han tribe, it is also a very important thing.
Well, a tribe that believes in heavenly fire, they can make sea salt by themselves, and then put it in bamboo tubes, and run to the grassland to compete with themselves for business?
What the hell, primitive society actually encountered commercial competitors.
Just relying on the information we have in front of us, it is not difficult to analyze that this is definitely a powerful tribe that has been developing for many, many years.
But the leader of the other party must not be a time traveler like himself, because the text Luo Chong saw on this silver bowl is not any kind of text on earth, it is very similar to the oracle bone script evolved naturally. If the leader of the other party is also a time traveler, then won't he spread his own text? It is definitely impossible, so this assumption is not true.
So it should have taken a long time to develop to this level of civilization, but it is actually very normal that it has not spread to the area where the Han tribe is located. If the primitive people do not have a special purpose, who would run thousands of miles away for no reason? Even if there is really a purpose to go, how can he arrive at the destination safely?
To put it another way, even if he wants to go to that place and arrives safely by luck, what if he is killed by the local indigenous people? Or if he sees that the place is good, he stays there directly. This may cause cultural closure, making it a paradise-like existence, and it is not at the same level of civilization as other tribes.
This is actually very easy to understand. For example, the Han tribe today has a very developed civilization. However, in more distant places, those primitive tribes that have no contact with the Han tribe may not have learned to raise livestock or to farm, and may even still be eating raw meat and drinking blood. This has led to differences in the levels of civilization. It is normal that cultural communication cannot be achieved due to the distance.
(End of this chapter)
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