Liu Feng nodded, he understood now.
Then his expression turned serious.
In other words, Qian Mu had traded with them not once or twice, and the most recent one was not long ago.
"Then how much did you trade with people outside?"
"Also, how did you discover your iron ore?"
"It's a long story. About five or six years ago, a man from outside attacked our tribe. He was alone, so I fought him off."
"Then we tracked him down and ended up tracking him to the cave in the iron mine."
“That’s how we discovered the iron ore.”
Huiqiu explained everything clearly.
Liu Feng's expression became even more serious.
In other words, the iron ore was not discovered by these people themselves, but Qian Mu was the first to discover the iron ore and then deliberately lured these people there.
They only thought about how to survive and reproduce, so they didn't think too much.
So consider all this as a gift from God.
To put it bluntly, Qian Mu was taking advantage of these people.
But why is this?
With Qian Mu's military strength, even if these people hid in the ground, Qian Mu could find them as long as they were still around Dasan Pass.
Liu Feng suddenly thought of the salt and iron monopoly.
If Qian Mu carried out the mining on a large scale, it would inevitably arouse the suspicion of the imperial court. Even if Qian Mu asked the merchants in Dasanguan to take action, they would still face high taxes.
If Qian Mu did not follow this procedure, he would be openly violating the laws of the Dali Dynasty.
As a general, he knew the law but broke it. This is a serious crime.
So, Qian Mu needed this tribe, and needed the tribe as a middleman to support him. After all, the imperial court had no way of collecting taxes from these primitive people, right?
What a good plan.
Qian Mu is a man of extraordinary brains.
However, this idea may also have been thought up by one of Qian Mu's advisers. You know, Qian Mu had two important advisers, one open and one secret. The open one was An Shirong.
According to Liu Feng's understanding, An Shirong's subordinates also manage dozens of guests, big and small, and a variety of talents.
It is said that one of the people in the dark holds an important position in the army and has always been a good helper for Qian Mu to control the army.
When you think about this, everything makes sense.
What puzzles Liu Feng now is Qian Mu's real purpose in bringing him to this place.
Wouldn't it be better not to lure myself here and then conduct business with this primitive tribe normally?
Didn’t he ever think about what he would do if his men were cruel and destroyed the tribe?
Who can we trade important strategic materials like iron ore with?
Liu Feng couldn't figure this out.
He turned around and asked Huiqiu.
"When was the last time you mined iron?"
"Is it because of some reason that the iron ore mining has been put on hold?"
Hui Qiu was stunned. He didn't expect that the person in front of him was really like a god. The other party knew everything they had done.
"How do you know?"
It's not that Liu Feng knows, nor is he stupid enough to predict the future. Apart from this possibility, nothing else makes sense.
Because from the places where livestock were kept that we had seen before, it seemed that the tribe had a large number of livestock. If they reproduced naturally, they would have enough to survive without having to hunt.
So their reluctance to engage in dangerous iron ore mining is completely in line with human instinct.
But Qian Mu couldn't wait. Since Linghu Zheng was arrested, the power of the Tiandihui has been growing. Qian Mu must have felt unprecedented pressure.
So he wanted to get more iron ore.
But these primitive tribes don’t care about that.
They think it's simple.
Iron mining is just a sideline in exchange for livestock and food. They would not regard it as the main business of the tribe.
Now that we don't need so many livestock, why do people still mine?
As a result, Qian Mu and the tribe lost the basis for cooperation.
In other words, Qian Mu planned to use his own hands to wipe out this primitive tribe and then find someone to mine it.
This time, Qian Mu used salt as bait, completely using Liu Feng as a gun.
What a good plan.
Qian Mu miscalculated. If he had not led himself to this place, this tribe would have completely disappeared in this vast and endless forest along with this serious disease.
Qian Mu never expected that he was not only skilled in martial arts and military tactics, but also had unparalleled reasoning ability.
Now I have completely figured out his plan.
"Okay, I understand everything about you."
"This is enough for me to know for now. Pack up the people you're going to follow me and follow me."
The situation of this tribe is not optimistic now because too many of them are sick.
This is not the scariest thing. What is even scarier is that this is an infectious disease. If it goes on like this, I am afraid the entire ethnic group will really be wiped out.
But if we take the tribe members away from Dasan Pass, we will definitely be discovered by Qian Mu's people.
Qian Mu will definitely show up by then, and that will be difficult.
So now, the most important thing is the medicinal materials.
But it took too long to go back to the village to get the herbs. It would take at least five days to go back and forth. The longer it took, the more people would die.
Therefore, Liu Feng had an emergency solution in mind, which was to find some herbs from the mountain people outside after leaving the mountain.
They all live halfway up the mountain behind the mountain, so they spend less time there.
Fortunately, when Liu Feng collected medicinal herbs last time, he only took some of the most important ones because they were difficult to carry.
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