The Li tribe has a large population, about 120 people, including nearly 30 women, about 70 people from the hunting team, and more than 20 people are old and weak and children. In addition, according to what Lan Hu said, they still have more than 30 slaves to raise, these slaves will help the tribe hunt and gather in addition to the usual mining and power stones, and they are also some qualified warriors.

Such a tribe is already a very powerful tribe, and there are nearly a hundred people in all the available warriors, even the big tribes who often come to trade do not dare to easily attack the power tribe, and the situation of losing both will only give other tribes an opportunity to take advantage of.

However, due to this year's world-destroying fire, the food and hides obtained by the tribes have been drastically reduced, and the number of tribes who come to exchange power stones with them has also been reduced by half compared to the past. The other tribes didn't have enough food and hides to exchange for power stones, resulting in the force tribe now saving much less food this year than before. Especially the big tribes in the south and the north have only come to exchange once this year, and it seems that they will not be easy either!

With less food, there are fewer people to feed. Therefore, the leader of the Blue Tiger wanted to reduce the expenditure on food, and also wanted to exchange some slaves for some meat and other things. If it weren't for the fact that the pottery that Ding Qi exchanged for could bring to the tribe very much, he really didn't want to exchange these pots and bowls with Ding Qi that didn't seem to have any effect, they were really not as useful as food.

When Ding Qi heard this, he knew that the Blue Tiger Leader was planning to exchange these existing slaves in exchange for food. There are a total of thirty-two slaves, twenty-seven male slaves, and five female slaves, this is the number that Ding Qi got after looking at it himself, if you let the primitive people who can't count to compare, I don't know when the comparison will be. These slaves look a little thin, but their bodies are still relatively healthy, and this thinness is also relative to the tribe, compared to some small tribes such as the previous deer tribe, the physical condition is also good.

Blue Tiger counted the number of slaves with his fingers, and after counting for a long time, Ding Qi was so anxious that he couldn't do it, which also made Ding Qi painfully determined that he must grasp education when he returned to the tribe.

Then Ding Qi inquired again if there were any fish in the river and whether there were enough of them, and after receiving a positive answer, Ding Qi began to negotiate an exchange with Blue Tiger again. The exchange of food for slaves, twenty fish for a male slave, and forty fish for a female slave, required a total of seven hundred and forty fish.

But obviously, this number was incomprehensible to Blue Tiger, and Ding Qi had to put forward the idea of exchanging a large number of fish for this group of slaves, so that Blue Tiger could accept it. Of course, this result Blue Tiger also put that joy in his heart, and it was particularly cost-effective to exchange some slaves who were very likely to lose their lives in winter and consume a lot of food for this large pile of fish. Moreover, these lost slaves will be replenished to the miners by other exchange tribes after the snow melts.

But what he didn't know was that Ding Qi was happier than him, and he definitely made a lot of money by exchanging some fish that could be caught at any time for more than thirty people, and there was nothing more worthwhile than this. Now the development of the tribe needs a large population, and it also needs some people who can follow and be loyal to themselves.

What is most important in the 21st century? Talent! What was most important in primitive societies? Population!

And when these slaves change their original identities and get food and clothing to survive, Ding Qi Enwei and some small means are used, and their loyalty to Ding Qi will definitely reach a very high level. In terms of the loyalty of pets in the game, that is, the loyalty is instantly full value.

During the small talk, the two reached an exchange deal, and they were both happy. The leader of the Blue Tiger took Ding Qi and Ben to the cave, where the leader and the witch rested, and where some of the distinguished guests rested when they came to the tribe.

There is hay on the ground, and there are large pieces of animal skins, which are more comfortable to look at if you don't consider the various unpleasant smells in the cave.

The blue tiger turned to leave, Ding Qi put his backpack near the stone wall as a pillow, and the mountain knife was also secretly taken out and pressed under the backpack to prevent accidents at night. Although this force tribe still looks relatively friendly, it is indispensable to guard against people, and it is best to be careful.

As soon as he cleaned up, Lan Hu came back, and also brought four women over, about fifteen or sixteen years old, except for the very obvious primitive human characteristics, there was not much difference from modern people, except for dress and temperament. In primitive society, at the age of fifteen or sixteen, children can already be born.

Just when Ding Qi was confused, the four women split into two, came to the left and right of him and Ben respectively, and made a gesture to pull Ding Qi to the ground.

"What are you doing, what are you doing?"

Ding Qi, who looked confused, pushed the two women away and looked at the two and the blue tiger behind them vigilantly.

Blue Tiger was also surprised, and asked puzzledly:

"Leader Ding, aren't you interested in them? This is a tradition among the tribes, and for our honored guests, we will arrange for women to accompany them for the night, you see, your people are more active and proactive than you! ”

When he turned his head to look, Ben had already twisted together with the other two women, touching each other and checking up and down, which made people blush.

Ding Qi turned around, his little heart fluttered and pounded, and he felt like he was about to pop out. How could he not know what the other party wanted to do, it was nothing more than to get some healthier and stronger offspring through the emotional exchange between the guests and the women of his tribe. It's just that Ding Qi can't accept this kind of behavior, and uses the women of his tribe to please the guests and improve the quality of life of the tribe. What's more, those women are only fifteen or sixteen years old and have no adult Lori characters, so it's not funny!

Repeatedly declining Blue Tiger's kindness, Ding Qi moved his resting place some distance inside, away from the bad Ben and the bad things he was doing. It's just that the sound of mmmmm kept coming into his ears, making Ding Qi, a young child of primitive society, full of heat.

In particular, there were other places in the cave that also heard that kind of humming and chirping, which made Ding Qi more and more irritable, and he wanted to take a headphone and put it on, but unfortunately he didn't have headphones, and there was nothing to fit in his ears.

Ding Qi, who couldn't stand it, had to run to Xiao Erhei and the two of them with animal skins and backpacks, away from those places of right and wrong, and the little cutie who was too disturbed also ran over, with a look of disgust.

It's just that when Ding Qi got up, he inadvertently saw the golden elephant doctor witch sleeping in his corner with the clay pot and a clay bowl in his corner, and he didn't seem to be disturbed at all. It seems that he is really afraid that there is no suitable food to eat, for fear that others will rob her of her things.

Early the next morning, Ding Qi and the others rode their horses and followed the leader of the Li tribe and the others to the back of the cave where they lived, visited their power stone mine, and took an inventory of the power stones that had been exchanged for Ding Qi.

On the way, the leader of the Blue Tiger was very interested in both the black and gray horses, and even wanted to try it on the horse. SEEING THE FIGURE AND WEIGHT OF THE BLUE TIGER, HE DIRECTLY PASSED IT, LEST THE BLUE TIGER CRUSH XIAO ERHEI.

Seeing that he couldn't ride a horse, Blue Tiger made other requests, saying that if he could teach him to train horses or domesticate animals, he could change.

Ding Qi refused again, explaining that this was the inheritance of the tribe's medicine and witches, and could not be taught to others casually, unless these people became members of the tribe. However, Ding Qi promised him that when he met a bison, he would help him tame a bison, so that he could bear the weight of the leader of the Blue Tiger, and by the way, Ding Qi also teased the weight of the Blue Tiger, thinking that he should lose weight, otherwise he would be chased and bitten by the beast.

So many people went up the mountain together, Ding Qi and Ben Youma, so not much tired, not to mention the speed. But when Ding Qi saw that the blue tiger was also walking fast and did not have the performance that he should have as a fat man, Ding Qi and the two saw surprise and shock in each other's eyes. Could it be that the blue fat man is a hidden master? Even Ding Qi was there to carefully examine the fat man to see if he was the same as the little fat man who dragged him down, because the little fat man was very agile.

It is said that it is a Lishi mine, but in fact, in Ding Qi's eyes, it is a salt rock open-pit vein. The mine is on a hillside and has been excavated quite a bit, but it is not known how many of them are in the veins.

There was already a large pile of mined salt rock in the mine, which was orange, pink or orange-pink, the size of a sugar cube, and different in color and size from the yellowish salt rock that the red stone collar had taken out before.

Ding Qi picked up a piece, put it on his tongue and licked it, and the salty taste immediately jumped on the tip of his tongue, mixed with a little bitterness, and there was no doubt that it was salt rock. Standing in front of the large pile of salt rock mines, it seems that the smell of the sea is blowing in my face, just like the first time I am on the beach, facing the sea breeze, and experiencing the salty taste.

Well, to paraphrase an advertising slogan, I know the taste of the sea, Boli seaweed!

The three slaves next to him were weighing the salt rock in a clay pot, and after weighing, they poured it into a simple animal skin bag on the side, doing it very carefully and carefully. When the bag was full, the other slaves carried the animal skin bags down the mountain and went to the small river designated by Tinch.

The other slaves who did not participate in the weighing of the salt rock took stone tools like stone spears and poked a large piece of salt rock down the rock wall. Salt rock mines are very soft, and some hard stones can be collected, but they can't be placed in the open air, and if there is a heavy rain, a lot of it will melt away.

There are many salt wells in Sichuan, and miners will pump water into the mines, and then pump the melted salt out of the mines, and go through a series of processes to produce refined salt for human consumption.

Due to the urgency of time, Ding Qi arranged for Ben to keep an eye on it and secretly observe the way these slaves were mining, which was the task that Ding Qi arranged for Ben before he came.

Ding Qi led the horse and the leader of the blue tiger to the small river full of fish, although the river was small, but it was also three or four meters wide, the water was rippling, and from time to time there were fish making a big wave, the river water was clear, and schools of fish could be seen swimming around at the bottom of the water.

The leader of the Blue Tiger was also curious about how Ding Qi was able to catch enough food in exchange for the thirty-two slaves in a short period of time, so he also followed Ding Qi closely, wanting to witness this hunt that was not a miracle.

Standing by the river, Ding Qi took out the fishing net that had been placed in the animal skin bag from Xiao Erhei's back and spread it along the river. This fishing net is the same size as the previous purse seine net, 20 meters long and 2 meters wide, with some small stones tied underneath, and the mesh is only half a fist large, and no big fish more than a pound will run away.

Seeing this fishing net, the members of the Li tribe, including the Blue Tiger, spoke out one after another, more curious than surprised, whispering, discussing what this thing full of holes could be used for?

Ding Qi turned a deaf ear to the surrounding discussions, picked out three taller and stronger looking men from the hunting party, launched them into the water from a random place of Ding Qi's request, dragged the fishing nets from one side of the bank to the other bank, and then placed them along the river on the opposite bank, and finally dragged the other fishing net back. In the middle of the net, two people stand staggered to open the net, and there are also two strong hunters at both ends who pull the net to both sides, just like fishing in the Ding tribe.

As the nets approached the shore, the river boiled, and the big fish jumped out of the water, shocking the members of the Yiganli tribe, shocked why the fish did not run away, and had to jump in this "invisible" circle.

Gradually, the fish in the net were pushed to the shore, densely packed, and it seemed to those on the shore that they could be caught by hand. There were even two anxious tribesmen who jumped into the water on the shore and caught the fish with their hands, caught them, laughed and threw the fish to the shore; I didn't catch it, and I was splashed by the tail of the fish, but I was not angry and continued to fish.