Chapter 36: The Secret of Salt
At the end of the day, the men returned with a full load, they carried back a saber-toothed tiger, two deer, a number of rabbits and mice, a dozen large fish one meter long, the mammoth was so heavy that it had to be skinned and fleshed on the spot and transported back to the tribe little by little. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
It was the biggest hunt ever in the history of the salt department, and the harvest was so great that the women were ecstatic and almost insane, and they had to pay homage to the gods again.
The first thing to do is to deal with the processed ingredients, the women first use polished sharp stone chips to peel off the skin of the prey and process it separately, the high-quality leg meat and breast meat are salted together, and the remaining edges and corners, including the internal organs and the head and claws, are eaten on the spot, and a woman cuts the deer's stomach and takes out the half-digested things for her child to eat, the taste is very bad, but the five or six-year-old child does not dislike it, and eats it with relish.
Liu Yanzhi and Zhen Yue didn't laugh at these primitive people, they almost fell to such a point that they had to eat what was in the stomach of a vegetarian dinosaur in order to supplement vitamins.
The most popular thing for the people in the salt department is not the meat, but the fat, the fat under the skin of the mammoth is ten centimeters thick, and the white plate oil is greasy to look at, people use a wooden spoon to dig up the board oil on the spot to eat, and the food is so beautiful, it is not eating fat, but eating HΓ€agen-Dazs.
"They're so short of oil and water." Zhen Yue said, "Look at it, everyone is as thin as a monkey, and no one has high blood pressure, fatty liver, or high cholesterol." β
"Yes, fat has the highest number of calories, and eating it converts energy." Liu Yan said straightly, suddenly a flash of inspiration, why modern people are afraid of eating high-calorie food, and they are more respectful of lard, this is because high-calorie food is easy to convert into fat, making people become big fat, while primitive people do not have this situation, their labor intensity is high enough, fat in the body is the existence of energy reserves. In other words, fat is the ultra-high-energy fuel for life, but humans don't use it well.
If fat is an energy reserve, then what is a nedan?
Liu Yan fell into thought, until Zhen Yue touched him: "Hey, what are you doing with a pile of wood?" β
"Oh, this one is called yew, also known as yew, and it is a good material for making bows and arrows." Liu Yanzhi said that yew is very famous, and the English longbowmen in the Middle Ages used longbows made of purple wood, which is hard and tough, and can store energy to launch arrows far away.
The bow arm was available, the bowstring was used to wrap the hair around the deer tendons, and the making of the arrow was also more cumbersome, requiring the use of thin wooden branches to roast straight over the fire, the front to tie a sharp bone axe, and the back to glue the feathers with a fish bladder to increase the range.
Liu Yanzhi made a simple bow, let people put a chicken out of the cage, the chicken spread its wings and flew, flying higher and higher, people were anxious to scratch their ears and cheeks, and did not dare to urge the god grandfather, said that it was too late and that was fast, Liu Yan straightened the bow and set up the arrow, shot the chicken down with an arrow, collected the bow in a dashing manner, and said: "Eat Kung Pao chicken at night." β
Zhen Yue quipped on the side: "People shoot eagles, you shoot chickens, can you still pursue a little?" β
Liu Yan smiled: "For them, bows and arrows are already cross-era progress. As he spoke, he threw the bow for everyone to admire.
The men of the salt department had never seen such exquisite weapons, and they were amazed one by one, and then they bowed and worshipped, this time not to worship the gods, but to worship bows and arrows.
For the Neolithic Age, the bow and arrow were tantamount to the function of nuclear bombs in the twentieth century, an absolute weapon of great destruction, but Liu Yanzhi was not satisfied with this, and he also wanted to improve the spear for the salt department.
This improvement is relatively simple, fill a stone pot with mammoth fat, pile firewood below to refine oil, refine the fat into oil, and then put the sharpened wooden stick in front of the boiling oil pan to fry, the treated wood is harder, and it will not break when hunting animals, of course, the cost of doing so is too high, in order not to waste oil, Zhen Yue led the women to put the meat pieces into hot oil and fry a bunch of delicious meatloaf.
Since he wanted to live in the salt department for a long time, sleeping in the pit was not a way, Liu Yanzhi found a vacant land in the village, drew a square with an axe, and then ordered a few men and ordered them to work with him, the men took tools, of course, some stone axes and stone chisels, etc., and followed the gods to cut wood, and the gods used axes made of meteoric iron, and it was a matter of two or three times to cut down the big trees that the two of them hugged together, which stunned the people.
In an instant, dozens of trees were cut down by Liu Yanzhi, and he showed a magic power, resisting the thickest trunks, returning to the village to peel the bark and build houses.
You can imagine the shock in the hearts of the people of this matriarchal society, the gods are the gods, not to mention the infinite power, but also teach everyone the technique of building a house with wood, look at the wooden house built by the grandfather of the gods, it is simply a palace where the beautiful gods can only exist in dreams.
Liu Yanzhi and Zhen Yue lived in the palace, at least they didn't have to worry about moisture and rain leakage, and the food reserves of the salt department were enough, so he finally started alchemy.
But how exactly does this Dan practice? Liu Yan couldn't find the way, he had heard Chen Tuan talk about some methods, but it was as obscure as a book from heaven, and he couldn't implement it at all.
The so-called Neidan, could it be that the existence of kidney stones is like a crystal, and a crystal is formed in the body?
He took out the colorful ball to look at it, but he couldn't see the doorway at all, and tried to connect with his mind, but it was also in vain.
Tossed for two days, to no avail.
Zhen Yue had some results, she put the clay pot into the fire pit and burned it, burned it into pottery, and carved all kinds of simple geometric figures on it, and a group of women gathered around Zhen Yue to study, chattering excitedly.
"Look, what's on it?" Zhen Yue presented a burned clay pot in front of Liu Yanzhi, and the bottom of the pot outlined a man and a woman with childish lines, as well as a big dog, and a huge airship above his head.
"This children's drawing level is enough for the standard of a large class." Liu Yan praised directly.
In fact, he understood that the invention of pottery was no less important to the tribe than the weight of bows and arrows.
Liu Yan simply stopped practicing, and took the men to practice archery, and the women in the salt department were ingenious, and they had made hundreds of arrows in the past few days, which was enough for them to laugh.
The men of the salt department are also very competitive, almost all of them are natural archers, and when they get the bow and arrow, they are like poor children who have obtained unattainable and expensive toys, cherish and love, study hard, get started very quickly, and become very skilled so quickly that in two days, they can already shoot birds and small beasts that run fast.
The foundation is solid, Liu Yanzhi sighed.
Winter to spring, the earth warms up, and it's time to trade between tribes, in this land lives more than one tribe of salt, in addition to the fish department across the lake, there are many tribes, every spring and autumn, the tribes will choose a flat place, with the tribe's specialties, material exchange, there is no currency in this year, are bartering, if the mind is complicated, just dumping goods can make a fortune.
The salt department is a small tribe, and the only thing that can be used is table salt.
Cuiwei Mountain is located in the mainland, not near the sea, human survival is inseparable from the dependence on salt, so salt is a hard currency, can be exchanged for a lot of food and tools, but it will also bring disaster, after all, salt is too precious, everyone wants to get this big secret of salt production.
Where does the salt of the salt ministry come from, even the people don't know, the only one who has the secret is the leader, the old woman named "Hui" by Liu Yanzhi, because she looks a bit like South Korean President Park Geun-hye, in fact, the people of the salt department only have surnames and no names, and people with status like Hui only have honorific titles, and it is the first time that their own name is exclusive.
Hui went out alone at night and returned early in the morning, with an extra skin of coarse salt on his back, which was the main commodity of the Spring Fair, and there were also a batch of mammoth fat, pickled jerky, and fired pottery, the women carried the goods on their backs, and the men wore armor made of rhinoceros skin, held spears, carried bows and arrows, and guarded the front and rear of the procession, Liu Yanzhi and Zhen Yue were also in the caravan, and they were eager to see the market of the new era.
After a day's walk, the caravan of the salt department arrived at the market, and they were relatively close, and it is said that there were more than a dozen sunrise and sunset merchants who came to trade.
The market is very large, everyone occupies a place, sits on the ground, puts the goods away, and lets others choose, and takes out their own goods to compare, and says "dry!" if they agree! "If you don't agree, you will boo to end the transaction, the primitive people are very simple, and the buying and selling transaction does not consider the cost performance, only considering the importance of the commodity to their own family.
Those clay pots and pots are Zhen Yue's works, and she is the goddess worshiped by the tribe, so she has the right to dispose of these goods, out of the nature of a woman, Zhen Yue exchanged the clay pots for some worthless things, these things are the most important non-necessities of life in the primitive tribe, but when you get the benchmark time and space, they are all priceless treasures.
After half a day, Zhen Yue exchanged five clay pots for two one-meter-long ivory, a small pile of turquoise red agate, a large piece of crystal, a handful of beautiful emerald feathers, and a piece of white jade with a delicate texture.
The salt of the salt department is the most sought-after commodity, in fact, it is not that there is no salt to sell, the caravan that came to trade for half a month is sent by the tribe that lives by the sea and is mainly engaged in drying salt, they have gone so far that they want to live in strange goods and sell them at a good price, but there are also tribes that produce salt in the mainland, which makes their road in vain, the price cannot go up, and this trip is a big loss.
The people of the seaside tribe have a great opinion of the salt department, their caravan is large in number, and the weapons are also sharp, made of sharp shark teeth tied with wooden sticks, this group of people want to trouble the salt department, but the salt department is not easy to bully, wearing leather armor, armed with spears, and new weapons with long range, which is enough to deter those who have evil intentions.
The market is not peaceful, because there is no one who administers justice, so forced buying and selling occur from time to time, disputes together, rarely have to fight, and then bring out the old hatred between the tribes in the past, the life is light, and it is possible to cause war.
However, this Spring Fair, other tribes have the same hatred, and they all pointed the finger at the salt department, accusing them of raising prices, last year ten deer skins can be exchanged for a jar of salt, how can it rise to fifteen today, this is a monopoly, bullying and dominating the market, it must not be allowed, of course, this is just what they want to express, in fact, the language can not be so rich.
Hui understands that if someone is sowing discord from it, it is likely that the seaside tribe is a ghost. With the presence of the gods, she didn't dare to make an assertion, so she asked Liu Yanzhi what to do first.
Liu Yan asked her directly, how to solve this contradiction in the past?
Hui used his newly mastered vocabulary to tell Liu Yanzhi that in the past, there were three ways to solve similar problems: one was to find a person of high moral standing to mediate, who was often the most powerful tribal leader, the second was that the tribe elected representatives to compete in martial arts, and the winner could get the right of first choice, and the third was the most extreme solution, which was to fight an all-out war, ending with the destruction of the other party.
Liu Yanzhi said, you go and tell the other tribes, tomorrow the competition, we won, we are in charge of the price, they won, and the salt will be given away for free.
Megumi is glad that she knows that the golden age of the tribe has come.
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