In the following time, the city wall construction team gradually increased by more than 500 people. The more than 2,500 people were almost the limit. No tribes migrated from further north, perhaps because the weather was getting better.

, or maybe people further north have died on the road.

Currently, there are more than a thousand people gathered outside the cordon drawn by Xia Qi. These thousand people are die-hards who refuse to join the Xia tribe. Judging from their honesty now, if they dare to be careful, then

What greeted them was Xia Qi's thunderous tactics.

On the third day after Bai Lang was sent to the player world by Xia Qi, Qing Niu came to visit again. At the same time, he also brought a hundred baskets of rocks. As for the copper ore, there was not one.

Seeing this, Ban asked: "Are the Qingniu brothers here to trade fish?"

"No." Qingniu shook his head when he heard this and said with a smile, "I came here to trade sledges this time."

"I see, but brother, your quantity doesn't seem to be enough." Pan pointed at the rocks brought by Qingniu and others.

Although the price given by the clan leader was not less than fifty baskets of rocks per sledge, you should know that the price he paid Qingniu at that time was two hundred baskets of rocks per sledge. Could it be that this guy wanted to directly bargain in half?

?

Qingniu replied: "Brother Pan misunderstood. There are really too many rocks. We can't bring so many at one time, so we have to do this. Brother Pan, don't worry, there should be someone coming today."

"That's right." Pan nodded.

Then Qingniu said to Pan with some embarrassment: "That's right, the amount of this transaction is relatively large. My leader wants me to watch here. Brother Pan, look, it's not convenient for me to stay here."

It's been a while. Brothers, don't worry, I will never cause you any trouble."

After hearing what he said, Pan laughed and said, "I thought it was something. Brother Qingniu is a distinguished guest of our tribe. These are all trivial matters."

"Then I will have to rely on Brother Pan to take care of me during these days."

Afterwards, Qing Niu turned to the people who came with him and said, "You go back first, I want to live in the Xia tribe for a while."

After listening to Qing Niu's words, these people turned around and left without saying a word. It was obvious that they had discussed this matter from the beginning.

Sure enough, in the afternoon, another group of people from the Qingyan tribe came with baskets of rocks.

After Pan counted the quantity and confirmed that it was correct, he immediately had a sledge pulled out and handed it to them. A group of people from the Qingyan tribe had happy smiles on their faces. They didn't even bother to say a few words to the Qingniu, and pulled the sledge.

left.

I don't know how wonderful the expression on Qingniu's face would be if he knew that if Xia Qi's quotation was followed, the rocks they brought would be enough to exchange for four sledges.

All I can say is that I wish there were no middlemen in the world making money from the price difference.

The rocks were already in place. I found several sledges and prepared to transport the rocks to the construction site. Just after a few people carried the rattan baskets containing the rocks to the sledges, a rattan basket suddenly spread out and the stones inside fell out.

Fallen. If the person carrying the rattan basket hadn't reacted quickly, his feet would have been smashed and broken.

"What's going on?"

"Look, Commander!"

The person carrying the rattan basket suddenly bent down and pulled out a stone about the size of a human head from the pile of rocks. The stone had a yellow color throughout, and it attracted the attention of everyone present as soon as it appeared.

Seeing this, Qingniu couldn't help but explain: "Our tribe has plenty of this stuff, but it's just too soft, just like mud."

After saying that, Qingniu emphasized again: "You only said you wanted rocks at the beginning, but you didn't say what kind of stones you wanted. Don't go back on your word!"

"Brother Qingniu, don't worry, our Xia tribe has always said

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What you say means what you say.”

"That's good."

Qingniu nodded, Pan's words were a reassurance for him.

Later, Pan Daiman pulled the sledge and was about to take it to the city wall construction site. He was still holding the yellow stone in his arms. Qingniu had nothing to do, so he followed him.

Although Qingniu made it clear that this stone was just rubbish, but thinking that the head of his family had been looking for ore, he felt that it was necessary for the head of the family to take a look at this stone.

At this time, Xia Qi happened to be at the city wall construction site. During this time, a pit about two kilometers long, eight meters wide, and more than four meters deep had been dug, and the walls were smooth and the ground was flat.

More than 2,000 people have done so much work in so many days, so they have to be slow, but there is no way, the Stone Age is so efficient. It is necessary to burn fires from time to time to thaw the ground, and to ram the walls with porcelain. These are very

Time consuming.

"In four more days, Bai Lang and the others should be back, right?"

They didn't know what kind of world they had entered this time, what season it was in, and whether there were many prey. Just when Xia Qi was thinking wildly, the people from Bandai arrived.

"Clan leader."

"Um."

Xia Qi turned his head and saw the stone in his arms at first glance. His heart moved and he asked, "Where did you get this thing?"

Pan replied: "Today the Qingyan tribe came over to trade rocks for sledges, and I found this among them."

Xia Qi took the stone from Pan's hand and looked at it carefully, almost taking a bite, and finally concluded that it was undoubtedly gold.

When he was in Blue Star, he was a pauper. He had never seen gold as big as a grain of rice, let alone such a huge natural gold. When he thought that this thing would be built into the city wall together with those rocks, Xia Qi became confused.

A burst of laughter.

But it’s not surprising that the Qingyan tribe is like this. The texture of gold is softer than most metals, so it is good at making luxury goods. But in this era when most people have enough to eat, luxury goods are of no use. They are not as good as a meal.

Barbecue is a real treat.

So thinking about it this way, it is not surprising that the Qingyan Tribe treated it as garbage and gave it to the Xia Tribe.

But Xia Qi is different. He comes from Blue Star and knows that it is an inevitable choice for human society to move from public ownership to private ownership. With the arrival of private ownership, transactions will emerge. In the economy, gold and silver are two unavoidable pillars.

Open mountains.

Xia Qidu can imagine that after he implements the gold standard or silver standard, the prices of gold and silver will definitely rise. If anyone hears that there is a piece of gold the size of a human head in the city wall, someone will take the risk to dig it up.

The corner of the city wall.

"Let's go and have a look. There must be some ore like this here."

Xia Qi thought of a saying, that is, gold and copper do not separate families, and gold and copper are in a companion relationship.

Xia Qi asked someone to find an open space at the city wall construction site and dumped all the rocks there. Sure enough, Xia Qi found some rocks with gold dots on them. Although not as eye-catching as the piece of gold, the content was

There are quite a few.

Qingniu looked at Xia Qi's actions. He couldn't understand why the Xia tribe leader paid so much attention to something that no one in the tribe even looked at. But he didn't think about it anymore. His attention quickly disappeared.

I was attracted by the city wall construction site.

There was no way such a big project could be hidden from anyone, and Xia Qi had never issued a hush-hush order, so Qingniu soon knew that the Xia tribe was planning to build a city wall.

Because the Qingyan tribe believed that only cowardly cattle and sheep needed the protection of fences, the tribe did not build a city wall. When Qingniu and others first arrived

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When I was with the Xia tribe, when I saw the wooden camp wall, I felt disdain in my heart, thinking that this tribe was just a bunch of cowards.

But as the interactions with this tribe became more and more frequent, Qing Niu discovered that it was not such a gray matter at all.

Looking at so many people working together now, thinking that this city wall will not be small after it is finally built, instinctively, Qingniu felt something was wrong.

Looking at Qingniu's dazed back, Xiang Pan asked: "By the way, you traded sledges with the Qingyan tribe, what was the final transaction price?"

Although it was the first time for Pan to hear the word "transaction price", he generally understood the meaning contained in it.

"Two hundred baskets of rocks in exchange for a sledge." Pan answered honestly.

Ah this...

"Good job." Xia Qi heard this and gave Pan a thumbs up.

Can we only say that this is the legendary monopoly? Sure enough, huge profits!

The days in winter were short, and it soon became dark. Qing Niu was taken to his residence. As soon as he entered the den, a wave of heat hit his face.

It's ice and snow outside the den, but it's as warm as spring inside.

Qingniu took off his animal skin clothes and lay on the warm bed. He wanted to say, is this heaven? Don't bother me, I want to sleep here for three days and three nights!

But soon, he had to get up.

Hearing the shouts outside, Qing Niu had to get up and open the animal skin curtain at the door.

There were two men standing at the door, both of whom worked for Pan, and Qing Niu had met them several times.

"This is food specially prepared by our commander for our guests."

The two men placed the clay pots in their hands on the small table in the pit, then turned and left.

Not to mention, Qing Niu had been running around in the ice and snow for such a long time, and now he was tired and hungry. He opened the lid of the pot without thinking, and immediately, a scent of aroma penetrated directly into his nostrils.

I saw only two earthenware pots, one containing a roasted leg of lamb, and the other a pot of fish soup. Smelling the aroma, the green beef's saliva couldn't stop flowing out.

Even if he is the leader of his own family, he is afraid that his food is not as good as his own, right?

There was a constant aroma coming out of the two clay pots, but the green beef couldn't care less. He just grabbed the roasted leg of lamb and started eating it. He choked on the food, so he took a few sips of the fish soup and looked at the small table.

The bowls and chopsticks on top are empty.

As the clan leader, Xia Qi did not do anything special, but because he knew that his clan leader did not like to eat fish, he changed the fish soup to taro stewed chicken soup.

Xia used his chopsticks to pick up a sliced ​​piece of roast lamb leg and put it into his mouth. He chewed it for a few times before swallowing it, and then sighed helplessly.

The lamb was roasted very well and didn't have much of a mutton smell, but it just had too much flavor and was too bland.

Xia Qi suddenly missed the kebabs on Blue Star. Not to mention the chili powder and cumin, he might as well give himself some salt.

Xia Qi once obtained a salt mine map, but after Xia Qi identified the direction, he found that the salt mine was located northeast of the Xia tribe and was hundreds of kilometers away.

It's such a long distance, and it's freezing and snowy. It's hard to tell how many people will be killed or injured along the way. Besides, even if the salt mine is found, how will it be transported back to the camp?

"Salt, salt..."

Xia Qi muttered, but finally ate his dinner.
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