The main reason why Yanshan was unwilling to let Liu Yun see their tribe's salt was because it was their tribe's means of survival. If others discovered it, they would most likely lose a means of livelihood.
However, when Yanshan heard that Liu Yun had a way to improve the quality of their tribe's salt, he immediately sent someone to get the salt.
Ever since another tribe that could make salt appeared in this area, their tribe's salt has been outcompeted. If they don't find ways to improve the quality of the salt, no tribe will buy their salt in the future.
After a while, the salt was delivered.
"Is this salt?"
Liu Yun frowned when she saw Yan.
The salt she imagined was once again coarse salt, the kind that has been slightly cleaned of impurities and not processed.
However, the salt she got now is not even as good as coarse salt. It is obviously a whole piece of rock salt. At most, the dirt on the surface has been treated, and some stones embedded in the rock salt have not been cleaned.
She felt that the salt of the Yanze tribe was collected directly from the salt mines.
Yanshan was a little dissatisfied when he heard this, "What else could this be if it wasn't salt?"
"Soon you will know what salt is."
Liu Yun did not quarrel with Yanshan because she knew that the cognitive gap between them was too big and the quarrel would have no results.
The best way to prove it is to speak with facts.
"What do you want to do?" Yanshan asked.
"I want to make salt!"
After Liu Yun replied, she stopped talking to Yan Shan and walked up to Zhao Qian and Wang Qianqian.
Zhao Qian and Wang Qianqian did not understand the tribal language at all, so they could not understand the conversation between them at all, just like listening to English in school.
"Xiaoyun, what were you talking about just now?" Wang Qianqian asked.
Liu Yun did not hide anything from the two of them, and told them in great detail about her conversations with Erya and Yanshan.
After Zhao Qian and Wang Qianqian heard this, they looked at the rock salt stone in Liu Yun's hand and asked, "You mean, we want to make salt now."
"That's right!"
Liu Yun nodded.
"This is easy!"
When Wang Qianqian saw this, she didn't take it seriously at all and said: "We can all extract salt from sea water, so it will be easier to make salt pimples."
Salt pimples?
Is this rock salt stone good?
Zhao Qian complained in his mind, and then looked at Liu Yun, "You didn't ask the people from the Yanze tribe to help, and you came to find us. Maybe you don't want to make salt publicly, right?"
Liu Yun was a little surprised. She didn't expect Zhao Qian to see through her thoughts, nodded and said: "That's right, I don't plan to make salt publicly."
"Why?"
Wang Qianqian was puzzled and asked: "What a good opportunity to show off, let Yanshan see what the hell kind of edible salt is."
Zhao Qian seemed to understand what Liu Yun meant and said: "The method of making salt is not difficult. As long as it is refined once, the Yanze tribe can basically learn it... If they learn it, it is equivalent to losing a bargaining chip for us.
"
Wang Qianqian heard this but said: "Don't talk nonsense, Xiaoyun doesn't have as many thoughts as you."
However……
When she finished speaking and looked to Liu Yun for confirmation, she saw Liu Yun smiling awkwardly.
"Xiaoyun, you don't really think so, do you?"
"Um!"
Liu Yun nodded lightly.
Wang Qianqian looked at Zhao Qian in disbelief and asked, "When did you become so smart that you could guess Xiaoyun's thoughts?"
Zhao Qian thought for a while and asked: "Do you think there is a possibility that you are too stupid?"
In fact, he didn't think Liu Yun's thoughts were so difficult to guess. As long as they were separated from the Yanze tribe, it would be easy to understand.
This is like two big countries on the earth. One big country has advanced technology and will definitely impose a technological blockade on the other big country.
Sometimes, they even join forces with other countries to block it. After all, trap technology represents monopoly and wealth.
And they are not a whole with the Yanze tribe. At most, they only have a good relationship with Yu. Naturally, it is impossible to teach them the salt-making technology.
"I'm not stupid, I'm just not as sinister as you." Wang Qianqian said angrily.
"That's what idiots think."
"I'll fight you."
Wang Qianqian wanted to fight Zhao Qian with all her teeth and claws.
"Qianqian, stop making trouble, we have important things to do."
Liu Yun stopped Wang Qianqian and continued: "While we are making salt, we must also set up isolation areas. People infected with the Black Death must be isolated as soon as possible to prevent them from being transmitted to other people."
Zhao Qian thought for a moment and said, "Let's do this. You and Wang Qianqian go to make salt, and I will be responsible for isolating the patients. After all, I have been infected with the Black Death, so I don't have to worry about it for the time being."
Even after the Black Death is cured, the antibodies in the body are only temporary, unlike lifelong immunity like smallpox.
Of the three of them, only Zhao Qian had been infected with the Black Death, so only he had antibodies in his body, so it was safest to isolate the patient.
"Um!"
Wang Qianqian and Liu Yun nodded at the same time.
In fact, even if the two of them were asked to isolate the patient, they would still resist it.
They really couldn't stand the sight of ulcers all over the patient's body.
…
Next, they took action individually.
Wang Qianqian and Liu Yun asked for a secluded cave, found the materials needed for making salt, and started making salt.
At the same time, Zhao Qian asked Yu to find Yanshan.
Yanshan is the tribal chief, second only to Erya in status. If he wants to isolate the Yanze tribe, he must have Yanshan's help.
In fact, Yanshan was not as difficult to get along with as Liu Yun said. As soon as he heard that it was related to the safety of his tribe, he did not hesitate to follow Zhao Qian's wishes and called all the tribesmen out of the cave.
Of course, that includes slaves.
After everyone was called out, Zhao Qian discovered that the Yanze tribe's infection with the Black Death was much more serious than imagined.
The seventy-two people mentioned before are actually severe patients, and there are more than a hundred people who have already shown symptoms of the Black Death. If you include those in the incubation period, at least half of the population of the Yanze tribe has been infected with the Black Death.
sick.
This does not include slaves.
The number of slaves in the Yanze tribe is greater than that of the Yanze tribe. They do not have independent residences and are all kept together in a large cave, which is somewhat similar to raising animals.
It is conceivable how quickly the Black Death spread under such circumstances. There were more than 200 severely ill patients, and even more showed symptoms.
"The chief said...leave the sick slaves alone...let them die."
Just when Zhao Qian was looking at so many slave patients feeling worried, Yu conveyed Yan Shan's message to him.
Zhao Qian was not surprised when he heard this. Now there are so many sick people in the Yanze tribe that even ordinary tribesmen cannot take care of them, let alone slaves.
No matter in any era, slaves have no human rights at all, and they are not even regarded as human beings.
"It doesn't matter to me whether they live or die, but you have to tell him that in order to prevent slaves from being infected with the Black Death, all slaves must be killed."
Zhao Qian hesitated for a moment, but still couldn't bear to abandon the sick slave, so he felt compassion and took retreat as the way forward.
He concluded that Yanshan was not willing to kill all the slaves. For a tribe, slaves were also wealth.
really……
After Yanshan heard that all the slaves were to be killed, he immediately agreed to Zhao Qian's proposal and isolated the sick slaves.
As for other people who did not have any symptoms, Zhao Qian asked them to keep a certain distance, and once they developed symptoms, they must report immediately and enter the quarantine area.
When the isolation was completed, it was evening.
Just when Zhao Qian was about to eat something, Wang Qianqian and Liu Yun found Erya with the refined salt.