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Chapter 457 The Secret of the Salt Mine

Why do people in the tribe value salt so seriously?

When there is no salt, you can actually survive. However, after the salt is fully stimulated.☆→,

Whether it is the people here or the tribes over the sea, they all believe that salt can strengthen their bodies and improve people's minds. It is a gift from God. Only with it can life have passion.

Tribes fought for territory, prey, etc., and salt was also one of the factors that provoked the war.

Wacha said that the salt mine occupied by the tribe was discovered hundreds of years ago. The first person who discovered the salt mine failed to defend the salt mine, and even the tribe suffered. I heard that the entire tribe finally moved to the city. There was no way, but he could not fight the other tribes, and in order to prevent a greater blow, he ran away.

After that, the salt mine dispute entered a fierce attack. The Yanjiao tribe did not give up this piece of fat. Finally, it squeezed away the others and grabbed a position. However, they had to take over the ability at that time. There were fewer people in the tribe at that time, less than a thousand people. They could seize a place. In addition to their own strength, the Taihe tribe had a great role in it. This person in Yanjiao has always remembered that he has been working with the people in Taihe over the years.

Over the past few hundred years, the competition for salt mines has not stopped, but the five tribes have never changed. It seems that the front has been unified and no one else is allowed to get involved. It is so unanimous to the outside world that they have an agreement outside, and the five tribes are cooperating, but in fact, there are secrets here.

The five tribes occupying the salt mine can have fewer people, but no one can have more people!

"That salt mine is a treasure land!" Wacha sighed. This is also one of the reasons why he has always emphasized the need to retake the salt mine.

"Elder, do you know how to repel the reed people?" Vacha asked.

Chi Lu? Shao Xuan thought for a while and nodded, "I heard it. I just heard someone mention it when I went to the city to trade, and I didn't know much."

The Chulu tribe is a tribe that believes in salt. There are many legends about salt in their tribe. It is said that the earliest salt was discovered by them. It is said that a certain ancestor of the Chulu tribe saw a strange animal. The animal took him to a lake, and then he saw miracles. The miracle mentioned is a salt lake.

The totem of the Chulu tribe is the strange-looking animal, called the "salt beast". No one has seen that animal yet. Some people say it was made up by the Chulu people, but the Chulu people have always believed that there is a salt beast.

No one can tell clearly what is true or false, but later the six major tribes rose to build cities and became noble slave owners, which also led to changes in other tribes.

The salt lake of the Chulu tribe was seized, and the salt lake occupied by the six major tribes was not able to take it back. In negative terms, the entire tribe was scattered. The scattered Chulu people entered the cities of the six tribes, and sometimes helped the nobles make salt. They made a living. However, a few years ago, they heard that the nobles discovered a new salt spring and summoned some of the people from the Chulu tribe to build the city there, named Chulu Yancheng. There were quite a few people going to Chulu Yancheng when they heard the sound.

Of course, Wacha mentioned the revelation of the Revelation people. It was not to let Shao Xuan understand the frustrated history of the revelation of the revelation people.

"The skill of the reed people making salt is like the forging technique of the Gongjia family. This is famous among tribes. Even if the slave owners ask someone to make salt, they are mostly looking for the reed people. The salt made by the reed people is very expensive and is mostly enjoyed by the nobles. If others want to buy it, it will cost several times the property." Wacha said.

Shao Xuan could understand this, just like the Jingu produced in the Jingu farm in Jiju, they are famous in various places, and have heard of them from cities to mountain tribes.

"However, except for the five tribes that occupy the salt mine, no one knows that the salt from our salt mine does not require a sophisticated and complex extraction process, and the salt obtained is much better than theirs!!" At this point, Wacha had a sense of pride on his face. Of course, it is worthy of pride that his own tribe can seize such good resources.

No wonder the matter of salt mines is rarely mentioned. This is to deliberately downplay the existence of salt mines and make fewer people realize this. Even the tribes, more than half of them do not know what the salt mine is like. The tribes are only told that the salt they use should not be traded externally. If you want to trade, you will find someone who is responsible for this kind of transaction. They will naturally arrange it. The tribes have always followed this instruction and have never made an exception.

Not only the Yanjiao tribe, but also the other four tribes, Liehu, Sen, Shanfeng, and Taihe, they all did the same thing, and they kept it tightly.

High-quality salt can indeed be sold at a higher price, and even the famous Chilu people can be transferred to more things from Liubu Zhucheng, but the danger is equally high.

If they were sold, such things would definitely attract the covetousness of the six cities of Zhucheng. With their style of conduct, they would definitely interfere in the salt mine. The rebirth man was the lesson of the past! Therefore, the five tribes would not leak the news at all!!

Because of this, the five tribes will follow the same rule after discovering the quality of the salt mine. They will never let new tribes intervene, nor will they release the news.

As for the salt traded to other tribes... even in such an excellent salt mine, there is a difference between salt and salt.

"We pick salt in the salt cave. After picking it, we will put it aside. Those are good salt, all for the people of our tribe. They will be transported back to the tribe in secret in the future and will not be found by others."

"The salt on the cave top you mentioned is what we usually eat?" Shao Xuan asked.

"Yes, that's all those salt blocks are a little red when you look at them?" Wacha asked Shao Xuan.

"Indeed." At that time, Shao Xuan found that the salt blocks he had distributed were different in color than he had seen before, but the taste was very good, and everyone was given this. Shao Xuan didn't think much about it at that time, but there was no expectation that there was a secret here.

"The salt from our salt mine is stronger than the lake salt that repels the reeds and the salt produced in the new salt spring of the slave owners. It has a strong and powerful feeling. Usually, when barbecue, you don't add anything else, just add this salt. It tastes great and you are in a good mood. After eating it, let the soldiers eat barbecue without salt. You may not have such a big appetite. We have tried some salt from Amba City, but the taste is not as good as the salt from our salt mine! Sometimes the trading teams who go out will also change some salt, but the quality is lower, just to cover it." Wacha felt that the tribe's practice was very smart, not eye-catching, and can also cover it.

For tribes, what they eat is not meat, but strength! And salt plays an important role in it.

"The salt on the top of the salt cave is picked for your own people, so if you pick it, you can trade it out?" Shao Xuan asked.

"Yes, the salt we traded is from other places in the cave. Although the salt is good, it is not very good compared to the ones on the top. Some places pick the salt more inferior and no one uses it. The salt made will be sold to others."

Tribes don’t save money and leave the things they have to themselves and sell them with better things. This behavior is extremely stupid to them, so what they leave for their own people is the best, and what they sell is the worse quality.

This is true for the Yanjiao people, and so is the other four tribes. Especially in the salt cave they dug out, the salt mined near the ground of the salt cave will not be kept by themselves. The five tribes have the same thoughts.

Therefore, except for the five tribes guarding here, the other tribes have no idea how good the salt quality is in this salt mine. Even if you take the salt bought from the five tribes and go to the city to trade with people, others will not have too many ideas, and even if you have any ideas, it will not be strong. After all, more and more salt springs and salt ponds have been discovered. Although most of them are occupied by the six nobles, there are still some people in the hands of tribes, so they will not travel far away to the mountains and forests just because of a salt mine.

Something happened at the salt mine. Liehu and Sen tribe used salt to win over some people to help them. The salt used was also the second-hand salt, and the core secrets would not be revealed at all.

"Oh, elder, you must have never seen the original appearance of the salt ore we just picked." Wacha said, stretching his hand to his waist, and taking out a skin bag with him, which contained a small wide-mouthed jar. The jar was made of the bones of a ferocious beast, the size of a fist, and it was blocked with a plug.

Wacha pulled out the cork and buckled the clay pot toward the spreading palm.

When the jar was uncovered, Shao Xuan saw the salt block on Wacha's hand for the first time and thought it was a piece of fresh meat! It was distributed red and white, and I don't know if it was melted. It even looked like a piece of meat that had just been chopped out and washed with water!

"This is... salt?!" Shao Xuan looked closer in surprise. If he looked closely, he did have the solid texture of the crystal blocks. When he first mined, the crystal felt more clear, but he was carried by Wacha, and there were some changes.

Wacha looked at the salt stone in his hand, his eyes seemed to have a burning temperature, "This is what we picked at the top of the salt cave. When boiled again, the salt will be lighter, just like the one you have assigned to you. However, we guarded the mines usually use it directly, and it has not been boiled. Two days before the accident occurred in the salt mine, I put a small piece of salt stone that had just come out in the jar, and I wanted to put it in when I cook broth with my brothers." When Wacha said this, his burning eyes as he stared at the salt blocks, as if he had thought of what happened that day.

Most of the soldiers who went out would grind the salt blocks with them, but some were more accustomed to bringing whole pieces, just like Wacha, who was stationed in the mines, brought pieces of salt. In addition to making tea with some herbs, the soldiers sometimes consumed a lot of energy and would put a little salt into the kettle and rinse it with drink. This is not because they know any theoretical knowledge, but because they rely on their intuition and body desires, and what the body needs, they follow this intuition.

In addition to the salt you usually use, the hunted prey will also be marinated with salt, because if you apply this salt, the meat will not be easily rotted. If you air-dry it, it can be left for longer.

I heard that some tribes who are good at weaving and dyeing cloth will specially buy salt of slightly inferior quality. Their method of dyeing cloth involves salt, so the dyed cloth can be directly taken to the royal city and sold to the slave owners at a high price.

For tribes, salt is distributed in various affairs in life, and the dispute over salt land has always existed. Even without fire crystals, salt mines, the Yanjiao tribe will be strongly snatched back.

"Elder, when you go to the salt mine, we will grab the salt mine back and you will see more salt. When we sleep in the salt cave, we dreamed of these pieces of salt stones." Wacha carefully put the salt blocks in his hand back into the jar, and licked his palms. When he thought of something, he suddenly said, "I dreamed of fire crystal yesterday, but when I woke up, I forgot. I thought, if we continued to dig down the salt cave, we might be able to see fire crystals."

Usually they dig holes along the horizontal line to mine, and they continued to dig down after finishing the harvest. The mining method on the Liehu side was different. Perhaps, they dug down before the first layer was finished.

Shao Xuan felt that this idea was also possible. In addition to those in the sinkhole, many of the fire crystals he discovered in the sinkhole were deep in the mountains.

Perhaps, the salt in the salt mines is unique and related to fire crystals. How many fire crystals are there in or under the mountain?

"The leader decided to act three days later?" Wacha asked.

Because of the injury, Zheng Luo didn't want Vacha to follow this time. He didn't call him during the meeting, but he kept the weapons he gave Vacha. Zheng Luo wanted to wait until he recovered before giving them.

"Well, three days later, we will go there with the people from Taihe and go there separately. We will go there in three ways." Shao Xuan said.

Wacha grabbed the head, and he didn't want to miss this action. "I went up the mountain to find the leader. Now I have recovered almost. I will definitely be able to go out with the team in three days!"

Seeing Wacha go up the mountain, Shao Xuan didn't follow him, but walked towards the duck shed.

The fat green duck had just poked its head out of the duck shed and was about to go out for a walk when he saw Shao Xuan coming and quickly retracted his head.

When he opened the door, Shao Xuan saw the fat duck squatting in the duck nest and covering the duck eggs with his wings. The hardness of the duck eggs must be good, otherwise he would have been cracked by the fat duck.

Shao Xuan walked over, regardless of the duck's fur, "Raise your wings, let me see how many eggs you have snatched."

The fat duck didn't move, hesitating a little.

"If you don't rob yours, I'll see how many of them are there." Shao Xuan said again.

The fat duck then slowly retracted its wings.

"Get up and stand up. You squat here so much, how can I see clearly?" Shao Xuan waved his hand to the side.

The fat duck reluctantly moved away.

Shao Xuan counted and found that thirty-one eggs had different colors and sizes. They were not robbed from the same litter, but they were all resistant to hatching. If they were the same as those little ducks before, they would have hatched out long ago.

"Keep working hard and hatch it early."

When she came out of the duck shed, Shao Xuan found that snow began to fall in the sky.
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