Although Jia Lei had a preliminary understanding and preparation for the living environment of the Hantyman Mansi people, he was still shocked after he really brought people over.

"You tell me what this is?" Jia Lei asked Sasa as he looked ahead.

"Road!" said Sasa.

"Road, you say this is the road! Are you blind to me?" asked Jia Lei angrily stepping into the mud that was a foot deep.

The previous road was fine, although it was only a simple dirt road, but the car was no problem driving.

Unexpectedly, after passing a large river, the road changed!

At first, Jia Lei thought it was just the road by the river, because it was normal for the river to flood in summer and there would be silt after the water overflowed the roadbed!

But Jia Lei didn't expect that they had now left the river for nearly ten kilometers, and the road had not changed at all!

"This is the 48th time we've been stuck in the mud, and we've walked less than 10 kilometers in two hours!" Jia Lei said angrily.

"Don't be angry just yet!

"Oh! I kind of understand, why no one wants to come to this hellish place!" Jia Lei said angrily and kicked the tires.

"Why?" Chen Dong asked.

"Because everyone can't go in at all!" Jia Lei said angrily.

"But there is no city here, and how are they, the Mansisks, usually come out?" asked Kerr.

"There is a city, and the road to the city is indeed better than to the mountains, because the roads are professionally measured and will not be flooded by the summer floods. Our tribes rarely go to them, and if the Mansiysks come out, they do so in the winter or early spring, when the ice has not melted and the roads are still solid. Sasa said.

"You mean to say, 'It's not time for me to come?'" Jia Lei asked back.

"That's true!" said Sasa.

"Then why didn't you tell me earlier?" asked Jia Lei frantically.

"I didn't think it would be so difficult to walk here! Besides, you said that you wouldn't change your route, so I didn't mention it. Sasa said.

"Forget it! I'm not going to the mountains, let's turn around and drive the car to the field next to the road, and then go back!" Jia Lei said helplessly.

"No! Don't go down the road, it's a semi-swamp now! People and cars can fall into the swamp at any time if they go down. Sasa hurriedly stopped.

"What does this mean?" asked Jia Lei with wide eyes.

Khantymansiysk is a plain region with abundant rainfall!

The river floods most of the spring, causing the land along the river to become overly wet and form swamps, which make up almost half of the area of the autonomous region.

"I hate swamps the most, they don't work at all, and they always make people unable to walk. Why didn't they move out of the swamp?" Jia Lei asked after listening to Sasa's words.

"Actually, the swamps are not all useless, at least the swamps of Khantymansiysk are a kind of mineral deposit! Sasa said.

"What? I heard you right, did you? You said that the swamp could be sold for money?" Jia Lei asked in shock.

"Yes, it's a peat bog! It can be sold for money. Sasa said with a little envy.

"Then tell me, how can this thing be sold for money?" Jia Lei raised his foot and shook it, and asked with the thick mud on his foot.

"Jia Lei, do you know what peat is?" asked Sasa.

"How do I know? I'm not a scholar!" Jia Lei said as a matter of course.

"Peat is the original form of coal, and it is in the middle process of turning plants into coal!

"Coal? How can this thing be coal?" Jia Lei asked in shock, looking at the mud on his feet.

"In physics, when peat is dried, it is coal!"

"Oh, so this thing can be sold for money, and it's not good for me to buy coal directly with this money!" Jia Lei complained.

"This thing is not only used for this purpose, it can also be used as fertilizer and flower fertilizer! Flowers that use this thing will grow well! Peat is said to regulate the balance of water and soil and the balance of microorganisms!" Luo Nan said.

"In other words, no matter how you use this thing, it can be turned into money?" Jia Lei asked in shock.

"In fact, peat is very useful in medicine, in chemical companies, and even in architecture, but it is a non-renewable resource! Mining is very damaging to the environment, and countries have established protected areas. You are not allowed to mine at will!" Luo Nan said.

"Oh my God! this Khantymansiysk is a place that is different in every way! Jia Leisheng said without love.

"I don't think we'll be able to get to that amazing tribe! Jia Lei said dejectedly.

Just as Jia Lei decided to return, a team of reindeer came over on the road ahead.

"Is it a friend of the Udo tribe?" the visitor asked.

"Yes, I'm from the Uyou tribe. Sasa quickly replied.

"We've been waiting for you for a long time, but we didn't expect you to be stuck here! If we hadn't waited for you for a long time, and we didn't see anyone, we would have missed it, right? I just heard you say you want to go back, didn't I?" asked Manhanses.

"Yes, we can't go this way, and we're going to go back. Jia Lei nodded and said.

"That's not going to work! Our patriarch has heard that you are coming to sell grain, and we have prepared the gold and precious stones to buy grain! Manhanses said.

"But as you can see, this road is so difficult! Jia Lei said.

"It's okay, as long as you follow us, you will definitely reach our tribe!" Manhanses said quickly.

"Really, can we really go over?" asked Jia Lei after a moment's hesitation.

After all, the other party said that the gold and gems were ready, and they were waiting for him to get them! Jia Lei was immediately tempted.

"Surely! We've walked this road hundreds or thousands of times, absolutely no problem!" Manhanses assured, patting his chest.

"Then can I try it? Let me ask first, how long is this kind of road?" asked Jia Lei without a trace of reason.

"It didn't take long, and we rode the reindeer out of the swamp for an hour. Manhanses said.

"An hour! That's fine. Jia Lei said with a sigh of relief.

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An hour later

"Didn't you say that we could get out in just an hour?" Jia Lei asked helplessly.

They were sitting on a small dry dirt slope for a morning break, looking at the swamp in front of them, Jia Lei fell into a situation where he couldn't advance or retreat.

"I'm talking about reindeer walking for an hour, not cars!" Manhanses said with a laugh.

"Nonsense! How long are the legs of a reindeer, and how convenient it is to walk in the mud? But car tires can't go that fast, okay?" Jia Lei said with a roll of his eyes.

"Well, don't be angry, I'll tell you the truth! The floodplain between these two rivers is about thirty or forty miles long. After this stretch of road, the rest of the swamp has been relatively smooth, and the road inside is fine! And we are going ahead to the forest where our tribe lives. Manhanses said.

"Forget it, we can't retreat by ourselves anyway!" we can only follow you all the way to the dark......" Jia Lei sighed and said.

"Don't be angry, when we get to our tribe, we'll be sure to entertain you with the best food and drink. Manhanses said.

"Forget about the food and drinks, right? I just want to finish the business as soon as possible and leave you here!" Jia Lei said.

"Jia Lei, I'll go find some firewood and grass nearby, let's raise the fire and cook!" Sasa said as he walked over.

"It's all swamps around here, you outsiders better not wander around!" Manhanses said quickly.

"So what are we going to do? Our food is raw. Sasa said.

"Use this, we Mansiysks use this. Manhanses stood up and took a pocket from the reindeer.

"What is this?" asked Jia Lei when he saw the pile of black dirt he had fallen to the ground.

"Nothing, just mud in the nearby swamp!" Manhanses said.

Then Jia Lei saw him holding a lighter and a small handful of dry firewood and grass, so he set the pile of mud on fire.

"Oh, it's on, it's really on, this is the peat that Luo Nan said, right?" Jia Lei asked in surprise.

"That's right! Manhanses nodded.

"You guys are really good here, you can sell any piece of soil for money, this peat is probably the most valuable soil of yours, right?" Jia Lei asked enviously.

"No!" said Manhanses.

"What? This is not the most expensive soil, don't you even look down on such valuable soil?" Jia Lei raised his head in surprise when he heard this.

"Of course! The peat has to be dug and dried again. It's not sold for much yet, and we don't bother to get it here. If you want to sell the soil, of course it's rotten!" said Manhanses.

"What is that?" Jia Lei asked in surprise.

"It's just a sticky dirt! Wait, there should be one around here, I'll get you some and have a look." With that, Manhanses took a shovel and ran to the nearest digging for the earth.

"Let's ignore him, let's boil water and boil the broth ourselves. Sasa said unconcernedly.

Then the three hundred or so of them began to cook with some soil.

Jia Lei feels that in this case, it is more appropriate to use ignition than to use some soil!

Unexpectedly, before their broth was cooked, Manhanses came back with a lump of dirt!

"Is this the rotten mud you are talking about?" Jia Lei asked curiously, poking his finger at the lump of soil.

"It's slippery, it feels sticky and delicate. Jia Lei commented, and then he took his hand back and wiped it with paper, and the paper was full of oil!

"You say this thing is valuable, what can it be used for?" Jia Lei asked curiously.

"Refine!" replied Manhanses.

"Wait, what do you think this thing can do?" Jia Lei asked in surprise.

"Oil!" said Manhanses in a very ordinary way.

"Refine, what kind of oil, gasoline?" Jia Lei hurriedly asked.

"This kind of saprolite, which is darker in color and darker, is used to make lubricating oil! The kind you are talking about for refining gasoline is the kind of saprophyllum, which is not of good quality and has a lot of soil. The outside of that saprolite has given it another name, oil shale!" replied Manhanses.

"Poof!" Jia Lei squirted out when he heard this mouthful of soup.

"Oh my God! This mud is actually the raw material of lubricating oil, how valuable is that? Your tribe makes a lot of money a year from this, right?" Jia Lei asked in shock.

Of course, the most profitable thing in our tribe is to make money by selling gems and oil, and many places in the tribe are rented to outsiders to open oil fields. Because the sludge stays in the ground for a long time, it turns into oil!" said Manhanses.

"Damn! No wonder your tribe is so rich, I asked Sasa which tribe is the richest, and Sasa said it was your tribe. Jia Lei said.

"Of course, everything in our tribe can be sold for money, the trees in the mountains, the fish in the rivers, the saprolite from the fallen leaves on the ground and the peat in the swamps, the oil and gas in the ground, and all the gems in the mines!" said Manhanses proudly.

"I've only heard people say that a place that is rich is described as rich. I've really seen what it means to be so rich that you're not just rich here, we're obviously so rich here that we're all getting oily. Jia Lei looked at the saprolite and concluded.

And it's not oil, it's a small bottle of lubricant!

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Jia Lei originally thought that the Mansiysk tribe was such a rich place that he would not care about a small businessman like him.

Unexpectedly, after arriving in the tribe, Jia Lei and them were actually received by everyone as VIPs.

"Hey, Sasa, why are they so enthusiastic about us?" asked Jia Lei in a low voice.

"Of course, do they want to buy food from us!" Sasa said.

"But that doesn't have to be like this, right?" Jia Lei asked puzzled.

"You don't know, they have everything here! They just don't have a place to grow food, so they value the grain merchants the most. Sasa whispered.

"There's no way to grow food?" No, I saw a lot of vegetables in the vegetable field on the side of the road just now? How could they not grow food?" Jia Lei asked in surprise.

"Do you take a closer look? Isn't it true that most of these fields are grown with vegetables that have a short growing season?" asked Sasa.

"Hmm...... It seems that this is indeed the case!" Jia Lei said as he looked at the vegetables around the road.

"I'll tell you, every time it rains, they turn into swamps and rivers flood everywhere! They can't feed their food crops, and they buy more than 90 percent of their food from outside. Sasa said.

"That's right! Grain won't run, and it won't last long if it's flooded. Jia Lei nodded and said.

"So, a hundred years ago, their main source of income was to raise reindeer! Whether it is a swamp or a saprolite land washed away by the river, it will be very fertile, and the grass on it will grow quickly and nutritious! The reindeer will grow very quickly after eating. Sasa said.

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Most of the land in Khantymansiysk is floodplain, which is suitable for the growth of vegetables and other crops, and the grassland in the floodplain can be used as a fodder base for animal husbandry, but it is by no means suitable for food production!

Along the way, Jia Lei was particularly surprised to see a few acres of fields on the edge of the woods that were guarded by the tribe as a treasure!

In the eyes of the Mansiysk people, food is more important than gold.

Because they have a lot of gold, and here they have all the gold mines!

And there are very few places where food can grow!

The autonomous region covers an area of 523,700 square kilometers, but it has only 10,000 hectares of arable land, but it has to feed more than 1.29 million people, and almost all of its grain depends on imports. I want to talk about "Rebirth 1990: The Invisible Rich" with more like-minded people, pay attention to "excellent reading literature" on WeChat, talk about life, and find confidants~