Several vendors not far away saw all this with their own eyes, and they were all envious, imagining that they could also bump into such a fat fish.
"Brother, how many animal skins can you get every day?" Hua Xi asked in a low voice.
"Ah, ah, what?" It seemed that the hunter had not yet calmed down from his excitement. He did not hear a word of Hua Xi's question clearly.
Hua Xi smiled and repeated
"I can't say for sure. Sometimes I can't catch prey, and sometimes I can catch one or two small animals. Hunting and skinning take a lot of time to dry," the hunter replied honestly.
"I see, brother, you must be a good hunter with your body. I guess you know a lot of hunters?" Hua Xi patted his shoulder a few times and said with a smile.
"You're right about this. When it comes to hunting skills, I'm famous in our tribe. In addition, most of the people in our tribe are hunters. But today I came earlier, and they might be hunting during the day.
Go up the mountain to hunt, or come a little later..." the hunter said proudly
"Then is your animal skin easy to sell?" Hua Xi asked with a smile.
"Oh, it's not easy to sell. Except for the good selling point when the weather is cold, few people usually come to buy it." The hunter was suddenly troubled by Hua Xi, and his original proud and excited mood suddenly dissipated a lot.
"Ah, but why? I think the skin you skinned is very complete, so it should be able to sell for a good price!"
"Brother, you don't know something. Most of the hunters within a hundred miles of Changyang take advantage of some market days to bring animal skins here to sell them. There are so many people selling them, so the prices will naturally not go up," the hunter explained.
"So that's it. Haha, brother, I have something to talk to you about. Are you in a hurry now?" Hua Xi said
"If you don't rush, what's the matter?" Seeing Hua Xi's innocent smile, the hunter became even more fond of this generous nobleman.
"It's like this..." As he said that, Hua Xi and the hunter walked to an uninhabited corner away from the street and told him about buying animal skins from him.
"Ah, so you are from "China City". Your shop owner has a great reputation!" When the hunter learned that Hua Xi asked him to deliver the animal skins to "China City", he couldn't help but praise.
"Haha, how about laughing at this matter?" Hua Xi said with a smile.
"Okay, leave it to me. I'll go back and tell all the dozen tribes nearby us. It's not a big problem!" the hunter said excitedly.
"Okay, then I'll wait for your good news, brother," Hua Xi said happily
Before leaving, Hua Xi gave 10 coppers to the hunter. It would be good for him to improve his life and use it to fund activities. Anyway, if you give him a small favor, the recipient will definitely be very enthusiastic.
After sending the hunter away, Hua Xi felt that it was not appropriate to put the animal skin on a hunter. He had to do it himself to increase the bargaining chip he had.
On a new day, "China City" opened the middle door and started business again. The business and the flow of people were as lively as ever. However, Hua Xi was not in the shop or in the workshop behind, but was still sleeping soundly.
The chief and several other tribesmen woke up and led them into the bustling crowd on the street and walked into the market.
After a busy morning, Hua Xi spent more than 200 copper coins and bought all the animal skins from merchants and vendors in the market. The types of animal skins are very diverse, including deer skin, wolf skin, and pig skin.
, cowhide, rabbit skin, etc. are just raw materials, not hand-made products. The main purpose of these animal skins, such as leather, is to make leather clothes to keep out the cold. Only after being processed by the craftsmen of those leather and leather armor workshops can they become
Likewise for defensive leather armor, the price of leather armor is naturally much higher than that of cold-weather clothing.
Leather armor made of the same material is four to five times more expensive than leather clothing. Of course, the process required for leather armor, the time, manpower, and material resources it consumes are also the main reasons for the increase in cost and price.
Hua Xi has no plans to make leather armor now. What he wants is to quickly accumulate funds. Looking at the weather, it should be frozen in less than a month.
After buying all kinds of animal skins, there were more than 400 large and small animal skins in total, which were estimated to be made into 200 to 300 pieces of leather clothing. Hua Xi went to the workshop area and bought 30 cars. The wheel specifications of this era were actually about the same.
size, it can be seen that arithmetic has developed to a certain level
The car has a wide range of uses. It can be used as a handcart, or it can be tied to a horse, cow, or mule and used as a carriage. Since there is not much money now, the car is naturally used as a handcart, replacing animal power with human power. But even
Manpower, now with the help of cars, one person can be equal to six or seven people before, which greatly frees up a lot of labor force
Hua Xi asked the tribesmen to put the animal skins on the car, and then pulled the car back to "China City." When everyone left, there were only about twenty tribesmen left around him.
"Your Highness, what are we going to do next?" Shi Chang asked.
"Let's go to the military camp!" Hua Xi replied immediately without hesitation.
In less than half an hour, Hua Xi and his party passed through the obstacles of the crowds, marched northward "against the current", and finally arrived at the military camp in the north of the city.
Hua Xi easily found the official who bought slaves from him last time. Seeing that Hua Xi, the God of Wealth, was here again, the official and his staff naturally nodded and bowed, and received a warm reception.
Without much counter-offering, the official sold the 300 slaves he had to Hua Xi at a very favorable price for 150 copper coins. After getting the head deeds of these slaves, Hua Xi left the military camp.
The quality of this batch of slaves is similar to the last time, except that they are a mix of men, women, and children. The youngest are only 4 or 5 years old, and the old are only in their early 40s. A large part of these people are from the Huangdi tribe of the Xuanyuan clan.
Some of the tribesmen below have been in this military camp for nearly a year. They have been able to survive until now, both in terms of will and body. However, when Hua Xi brought them out, he could tell at a glance that they
The look in his eyes was very frightening, and his frail body was swaying a little in the slightly cold wind. The complexion on his face was a light cyan color and his eye sockets were pale and deeply sunken. Many people's figures and faces were larger than they actually were.
much older
"Your Highness, although these people are slaves just like us before, although most of them are from the Yellow Emperor tribe, they are all innocent people..." Shi Chang and several tribesmen looked very excited.