In fact, Suha is the most honest and honest of the four brothers, and the least talented. However, this person is loyal and reliable, and obedient and willing to endure hardships, and is the most honest and reliable in the hands of the 5 falcons, a bit like Guo Jing in the Condor Shooting.

Marin chose him to be the leader of Sauron, not because of how powerful he was, but precisely because he wasn't. Moreover, it is honest and easy to control.

In addition, the status of the four people in the Sauron people is also higher, and their father belongs to the small leader of the tribe under Harada, and he still has a say in the tribe. He went back to his hometown to recruit people, and someone should respond. Unlike them, his father was only a low-ranking Sauron, and he had died a long time ago, leaving only a widowed mother and a married sister in his native tribe. If he goes back to recruit people, he will not have enough voice and it is estimated that there will be few responders.

Moreover, the strength of their tribes is also different. Bai Geri's tribe is only a small tribe of 120 households, and its strength is average. The tribe of the four Suha brothers is a large clan with 300 households. Yes, a large tribe of 300 households......

In the grassland, those tribes often have thousands of tents (tents, one tent represents one household), but in the bitter cold Daxing'an Mountains, more than 200 households of the Sauron tribe can be regarded as a large tribe. And the people of Sauron in the entire Great Khing'an Mountains are only a few thousand households, more than 20,000 people.

In addition, in the mountains and grasslands north of the Khing'an Mountains and west of the Erguna River, there are also many scattered Sauron tribes. These regions included the area of Nebuchu, which was ceded to Tsarist Russia by the Manchu Qing Dynasty, that is, the Trans-Baikal Krai of later Russia.

The reason why the Sauron people live in the grasslands west of the Xing'an Mountains is that in addition to the crowded hunting grounds in the Xing'an Mountains, there will be some salt lakes on the grasslands, which produce some low-quality bitter salt.

According to the five people, it was difficult for the Sauron people to obtain salt, so they could only live on the bitter salt produced in the grasslands west of the Xing'an Mountains.

The reason why the Korqin tribe was able to become one of the two major tribes that dominated the mink trade was that they could get salt from the steppe and then exchange mink skins with the Saurons. Frankly speaking, the quality of the salt obtained by the Horqin tribe from the salt lakes of the Mongol tribes in the west is better than that obtained by the Saurons in the northwest of the Khing'an Mountains. Otherwise, it would not have become one of the two major tribes that monopolized mink. Because there are many salt lakes on the grassland, but not every salt lake produces edible salt. Some salt lakes produce oral alkali, that is, sodium carbonate. Some salt lakes produce miscanthus (sodium sulfate) or even nitrate (sodium nitrate or potassium nitrate), which cannot be eaten.

These salt lakes, which are rich in various salts, are good chemical raw material resources in later generations. However, in this day and age, it is useless. At most, the locals will pick up some frosted soda in winter and sell it in the Ming Dynasty, but the price is also very low.

Moreover, most of the salt lakes on the grassland are salt lakes containing various salts, which contain inedible salts, and only a small part of the salt lakes can be eaten with boiled salt. Moreover, these salts tend to be bitter, that is, they are mixed with impurities such as magnesium salts and calcium salts. Only a very small part of the salt lake can be boiled to produce table salt that is not bitter or slightly bitter. But this kind of salt lake will definitely be looked upon by the big tribes of the steppe and forcibly occupy the past, and become a strategic resource.

Obviously, the Korqin tribe, as a powerful tribe of Mongolia, also occupied this salt lake. However, the salt they boiled was also slightly bitter. Because, the grassland people of this era did not know how to wash off the bitter brine, but only knew that the salty lake water was boiled in a pot until it was dry, which naturally left some bitter salt components, resulting in the slightly bitter lake salt boiled. However, this slightly bitter salt is already a treasure in the grassland and in bitter cold places such as the Great Khing'an Mountains. The Korqin tribe relied on the bitter salt of the lake, as well as horses, bows and arrows and other materials that were urgently needed by the hunters, in exchange for mink skins from the Saurons, and the price was very black.

And the Sauron people have nothing to do, because the salt lake occupied by the Sauron people themselves in the Nebuchu region northwest of the Great Khing'an Mountains produces salt that is not slightly bitter, but relatively bitter. Even so, it is an important salt resource for the Saurons.

In trade, a small packet of bitter salt can often be exchanged for a good mink ......

At this point, Marin stood up:

"Wait, you mean to say that the Saurons are in need of salt? What about the salt of our North Sea Country? ”

Bai Geri was stunned for a moment, and then said:

"The salt of the North Sea Country is the best refined salt I have ever tasted, and this kind of salt, when I take it to the Sauron Department, I am afraid that only those Haradas can afford to eat it...... Moreover, even the Mongols lack this good salt ......"

Marin slapped his thigh excitedly and said:

"That's right, let's go and exchange salt for mink, and let the Saurons eat salt until they die......"

"Eat salt until you die...... Bai Geri and the five of them all showed yearning looks, what a happy way to die......

That, of course, is the idea that they retain their previous habits of thought. In fact, they served the Beihai Kingdom, and their treatment was higher than that of ordinary soldiers, and it was already a common thing to eat salt. However, their tribesmen who are far away in the Great Khing'an Mountains are afraid that eating salt is also a luxury. Many poor Saurons only eat salt once in a long time.

Not to mention the Saurons, even the Jurchens are very luxurious in eating salt, and they often eat meat without salt. After the establishment of the Qing Dynasty, they often distributed unsalted gizzard meat to favored ministers and guards, so that they could taste the unsalted gizzard meat.

In the later generations of Yu Ma's "Yanxi Raiders", Qianlong explained that the ancestors originated in the white mountains and black waters, it was difficult to start a business, life was hard, and salt was a luxury. And Qianlong often took the ministers and guards to eat gizzard meat, just to taste the hardships of the ancestors, and then to think of the hard-won wealth and wealth......

You know, the Jianzhou Jurchens are relatively wealthy forces in the Northeast, and they can't afford to eat salt, let alone the weak Sauron?

Of course, this also has to do with the geographical environment. Because, the Jianzhou Jurchen is located in the Jilin region, not by the sea, separated by the Ming Dynasty Liaodong to the south, and the East China Sea Jurchen to the east. So, their salt source is very difficult. The Mongol tribes are much better, because there are salt lakes in the steppe. Even if it's bitter salt, it's salt, isn't it?

And the Jurchen tribe and the Sauron tribe in the northeastern inland region are miserable. Salt, for them is a luxury. Even the little chieftains of the tribe had a hard time eating. In order to obtain salt, they had to exchange mink.

It is one way to exchange grassland lake salt with the Horqin Department, and it is also a way to exchange salt with the Haixi Jurchens. The Haixi Jurchens did not produce salt, but the Haixi Jurchens were close to Liaodong and could exchange salt with Ming Dynasty merchants. The salt they get in exchange is of higher quality, less bitter, and belongs to the best salt. This kind of salt can only be eaten by the big guys of the Saurons. Moreover, it is still rare to eat......

"What the hell...... What the hell ......," Marlin walked around happily. Then, ordered:

"Give Kong Tai an order to use the coal found on Dongfan Island (Kong Tai's people have already explored the Keelung coal mine) to build a salt boiling base in Keelung. I'm going to use the salt of the white flower flower and go to the Northeast to change mink! ”

"Well, there are tiger skins, tiger bones or something...... "In these years, tiger skins are definitely a sharp weapon. Tiger bone soaking wine, well, is very popular in Daming...... Two things sent to Daming, absolutely valuable. As for animal protection, there are no muskets in the Northeast these days, and the tigers are free. Even the brave Sauron people did not dare to challenge the Siberian Tiger easily. Therefore, the number of tigers is still very large. Even the South China tiger became a rarity after the liberation of the people who used modern rifles to search the mountains and fight the tigers......

In addition, the sika deer on Taiwan Island were quickly killed in the 20th century after hunters had modern hunting rifles. The North American bison is also the same as the old United States, which sold modern shotguns in the late 19th century to the Indians, and it was almost extinct. Without a sharp musket, the danger factor of using a bow and arrow to challenge the Siberian tiger is too high......

"Great Khan, and Dongzhu...... On the Jurchen side, it is the one that produces Dongzhu...... Moreover, they are also short of salt...... "Muren, the youngest of the four brothers, reminded.

Marin gave Mu Ren a deep look, and then affirmed:

"Yes, and Dongzhu! Well, wild ginseng can't be missing......"