Chapter 329 Elders Meeting (Please vote and subscribe)
The commander-in-chief summoned the elders of each tribe to discuss matters. The messenger did not dare to delay and immediately sent people to go. Some elders were originally living in Qingquan Valley, and some were out on business. They would definitely not be able to gather on that day.
However, after hearing the news brought by the messenger, the elders who were out also took it very seriously. They quickly explained the work of their subordinates and returned to Qingquan Valley with the messenger. They did not take time to rest and ran to the leader to gather. By noon the next day, ten elders had appeared in the leader's bamboo building.
"Elders, this is what the caravan brought back from the grassland. They were all made by a tribe called Han Tribe. Take a look. You are all elites in various fields. See if we can make these things?"
Chief Xin sat in the main seat at the desk and said to the ten elders on both sides of the long table. The captain of the caravan yesterday also sat at the end, ready to answer the questions of the elders at any time. The elders also observed the things on the table and found their respective areas of expertise to study.
"Chief, this white salt is indeed better than ours, but it's not that we can't make it. If we wash our sea salt with clean water and dry it again, we should be able to make tasteless white salt. As for the fine particles, we can make it by grinding it a few more times, but it's time-consuming and labor-intensive, and it wastes clean water. It's unnecessary, and our people also like the taste of sea salt."
Elder Shang, who is in charge of commodity trade and also in charge of white salt production, was the first to speak.
"Well, then Elder Shang means that the white salt made by the Han tribe is also sea salt, so they are also a tribe near the sea?" Chief Xin asked.
"This? I don't know, maybe!?" Elder Shang said uncertainly.
"No, Chief, I heard from those nomadic tribes that the Han tribe lives in the mountains north of the grassland, and they may not be near the sea." The team leader at the end of the long table took over.
"Oh? A tribe living in the mountains, is there salt in the mountains?" A group of big men were all confused. They had been eating sea salt for generations, and had never heard of mineral salt on land, so they couldn't figure it out.
However, there were too many things that they couldn't figure out, and there was no need to dwell on this point, so Chief Xin turned his head to the three gold elders on the side and asked: "What do the three elders think of this ironware? How does it compare to our three golds? Do you have the ability to make this ironware?"
"This, chief, is called iron gold, which is similar to the gray gold we have been trying to smelt, but gray gold is difficult to smelt, and it won't melt after burning for a long time. It is even more difficult to make tools, and we haven't found any decent gray gold stone. If we want to make this ironware, it may be difficult." Elder Huangjin spoke first.
"This ironware, well, I think it's better than the gray gold we made. Maybe it's not the same kind of gold, but this ironware is indeed much better than our three golds. Not only is it harder, it's also very sharp. More importantly, this iron gold is lighter than our three golds. It must be lighter and more durable to use to make tools." Elder Baijin also expressed his own pertinent opinion.
"Well, I don't understand this gold called iron, but the gold hoop on this wooden bucket looks like the molten gold after our yellow and white golds are combined, but it's lighter and harder than that. It's very likely that they added something else to it. In short, if we want to imitate it, I think it's impossible, unless we learn from them." Elder Hongjin finally concluded.
"So you can't make it?!" Chief Xin asked a little disappointedly. Several elders in charge of metallurgy opened their mouths, but in the end they didn't say a word. It really couldn't be made, and they couldn't refute it.
Chief Xin looked at Elder Qi again, waiting to hear his opinion.
Elder Qi has a lot to say. The department he manages is in charge of technology research and development, especially various tools, so he has researched many things.
"Chief, the buckets of the Han tribe are really exquisitely made, all made of flat and smooth wooden boards. We don't have the right tools, and we can't make such things at our current level. Just talking about the wooden boards, it is not impossible to make such wooden boards with our tools made of red gold, but it may take a long time, so I guess the tools of the Han tribe are also iron.
And these white pottery, no, it shouldn't be pottery, but the soil used must be different. This should be the white soil unique to the mainland, which I haven't seen here.
In addition, this woolen cloth and sack, woolen cloth is used to make clothes for people to wear, this sack is so rough, and it is made into a bag, it is obviously used to hold things, and it is so densely woven, I think it should be used to hold some small things, such as corn and soybeans. I think it is good for holding food, which is much more convenient than using bamboo baskets, and it can definitely store more food.
As for how to make "I just took apart the cord from a woolen cloth and took a look. This thing should be twisted into thin threads with wool first, and then woven together by hand. We can do this, and it is similar to the bamboo mats, bamboo baskets, and bamboo hats we weave, but this thread is too thin. If you want to weave a piece of cloth, it will take a long time, so I think they should have a faster weaving method.
The sack is the same, but it doesn't look like it's made of wool. It looks like the turf of hemp grass, which should be the same thing as our hemp rope, and it is also woven.
If we want to make it, it's possible to make a sack, but it takes too much time. We can't make woolen cloth. We don't have scissors, so we can't collect materials. We can't just pull it from the sheep. We can try to make a thinner sack, that is, linen, but it still takes a lot of time to make it. It's not a simple matter to twist it into thin threads." Elder Qi said slowly.
"So after all this talk, we still can't make anything?" Chief Xin said a little depressed. Seeing so many good things, they couldn't make any of them. Who wouldn't be depressed?
"Chief, actually the Han tribe has another important thing, but they never sell it, so I haven't seen it either. But it sounds very useful, and those nomadic tribes also want it very much, but they just don't have the chance." Just when Chief Xin was depressed, the captain sitting at the end said something that made him even more depressed.
"What is so important? Tell me quickly."
"Yes, chief. I heard from the people of the nomadic tribes that the Han tribe called that tool a cart. It has four round wheels at the bottom and a big box made of wood on top. Well, it can also be called a house. It is very huge and can hold people and a lot of things. It needs two oxen to pull it in the front. It is a tool for transporting things. It is made entirely of wood and gold and iron.
Every time the Han tribe's caravan goes out, there are many such ox-drawn carts filled with all kinds of goods. It is very convenient to transport supplies, much more than we can transport with horses. It should be something like this." After
the team leader finished speaking, he took out a model of a cart from under the table. He made it last night when he was free. The four wheels were made of thin bamboo strips, and the axle was a piece of mud with a circle of bamboo sticks inserted on it and a bamboo ring on the outside. The four wheels were pierced into two pairs by bamboo sticks, and a bamboo board was placed on it to make it look like a cart. There was also a T-shaped bamboo stick extending forward in front of the car, which could pull an ox on each side.
A group of bigwigs looked at the model and their eyes immediately lit up.
"There is actually such a thing in the world???!"
(End of this chapter)
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