"Yes, the things are separated, they are all tied," said the patriarch as he watched the people carry the goods.

Tomorrow, the people from the ghost side will come to collect the goods, and today the Li people are classifying the goods. The people kept the fur and meat of the animals separately and classified the products of the same animals.

Today, Lin Tian had nothing to do, and came to the warehouse with his friends to watch the excitement, watching the adults put the goods in an orderly manner. The little fat man was on the side with a painful face, and the most reluctant thing for Tiewa was that the meat in his bowl flew away, in Tiewa's opinion, this skin and flesh should have been worn on him and eaten in his mouth, but all this was taken away by the damn ghost party, which made him feel painful.

"It's all robbers, damn ghosts, I'll beat you up when I grow up." The little fat man Tiewa muttered on the side.

Lin Tian could see that the Li tribesmen were very dissatisfied with the ghost Fang's unauthorized change of the "protection fee", but their own strength was not strong and they were powerless to resist, so they had to get over their mouths, and often heard the clansmen's curses on the ghost Fang. In Lin Tian's view, in the land of Dongyi, the natural law of the weak and the strong and the strength is the most vividly embodied. Only when you are strong can you win respect and protect your people to get the greatest benefits. After the last "protection fee" incident, Lin Tian often thinks about how to improve himself these days. However, the Li people lack weapons, and the tools for farming and hunting cannot be satisfied in large quantities, let alone weapons. The Li people do not have the technology to smelt iron, and there is no iron ore within the Li people, and the iron of the Li people is basically exchanged from the hands of the big clans.

Lin Tian had a lot of ideas, but Qiao Woman had the trouble of cooking rice, so Lin Tian still planned to solve the fundamental problem from the source. Solve the food problem, everything can be solved. Lin Tian thinks that his fishing plan is a good start. Lin Tian took people to cut a lot of materials in the past two days, and after getting them back, Lin Tian asked people to put the materials into the mirror lake to soak, which had maintained flexibility, and after a few days, Lin Tian was ready to start weaving fish cages.

On the other hand, Lin Tian was ready to propose that the patriarch exchange more iron so that it could be used to strengthen himself. Thinking of this, Lin Tian walked up to the patriarch and prepared to propose to the patriarch.

"It's Xiao God, how are the preparations for fishing", the patriarch said to Lin Tian with a smile when he saw Lin Tianhou.

"The materials are all ready, and we will start in a few days. Uncle Patriarch, I came here to propose to you, see if you can exchange more iron materials when you exchange materials tomorrow, I think our Li people need these very much."

"Do you see the pile of goods on the right, that's what I'm going to prepare for tomorrow in exchange for other supplies", the patriarch pointed to the pile of goods on the right.

Lin Tian looked at it, there were quite a lot, and he thought that there was a play.

"Do you know how much iron I am going to exchange for these goods"?

Looking at that pile of Lin Tian, it is estimated that there are seven or eight hundred catties of meat, fifty or sixty skins. Lin Tian didn't know the market situation and couldn't estimate it.

Lin Tian shook his head and said he didn't know.

The patriarch raised his right hand and spread five fingers.

Lin Tian said happily: "500 catties." ”

The patriarch shook his head, and Lin Tian chuckled in his heart.

No, isn't the food so cheap, impossible!

Facing Lin Tian's disbelieving gaze, the patriarch gave an answer, "Although iron is rare in the Li tribe, the Ghost Fang clan and other big tribes can also smelt iron, and the output is not bad, so iron is not expensive." If we take it all and change it for iron, we can exchange a lot, but we mainly change salt. Without iron, a man can live, and without salt he has no strength to work. The salt we use here was bought and sold by caravans from the south or by people from the north who went to the south to buy it, and I heard that salt was produced from the vast sea. So we have to change the salt we need for a year, and we can't change a lot of iron. The patriarch gave him an apologetic look, indicating that he could not do anything.

After Lin Tian learned the inside story, he said goodbye to the patriarch, and pulled his friends to the mirror lake, looking at the vast mirror lake that could not be seen at a glance, Lin Tian smiled.

Isn't it salt, the Li people don't know that they will be gods and horses after living by the salt, this lake is full of salt, such a big inland lake, the Li people have treasures and don't know it.

The two companions who accompanied him saw Lin Tian smiling stupidly, and they didn't know why.

"I'll give you a surprise later", after Gesang and Tiewa were made full of question marks by Lin Tian, they were sent to get a wooden basin and firewood.

Why take a wooden basin, it seems that the Li people do not have a large water container, the only larger container is estimated to be the iron pot in the kitchen, but it is used for cooking.

After a while, Lin Tian and the others set up a boiling table, and Lin Tian took a wooden basin to the lake and filled a basin of water and put it on the fire. When Gesang and Tiewa saw Lin Tian's movements, they shouted, "You are crazy, the wooden basin will be burned." ”

"Believe me, the wooden basin can't be burned", Lin Tian cast an expectant look at Gesang and Tiewa, hoping that the two of them would believe in themselves.

Gesang thought to himself: Forget it, it's just a wooden basin, if it's broken, it's bad, only their Lin Tian brother is happy.

However, the two were still very curious why Lin Tian wanted to boil a basin of water. Lin Tian did not give an answer to the questions of the two, and only told the two to wait for the water to boil dry before they knew the result.

Gesang and Tiewa didn't believe it at all at the beginning, but after waiting for a while, they saw that the wooden basin was not burned out, but the bottom of the wooden basin seemed to be blackened, and there was no difference between the others, and the two were surprised, so they waited with Lin Tian.

After waiting for a long time, the basin of water was about to boil dry. Lin Tian complained about this, the heat transfer of the wooden basin was still too slow, and it could not be completely dried, and he was afraid that the wooden basin would be burned through after running out of water.

Under Lin Tian's hard waiting, a basin of water finally came to fruition, and there was a layer of white fine crystals on the surface of the bottom of the basin, like a layer of white sand. Lin Tian asked the two of them to dip a little bit of their fingers into their mouths and taste it, and after the two of them did so, Gesang was the first to be surprised: "It's salt... It's salt, we live next to salt, and wow, that's amazing. Tiewa also jumped up happily and grunted to Lin Tian.

Lin Tian asked Gesang to invite his father and the clan elder over, and the patriarch and the clan elder were suspicious of Gesang's words, and after tasting the crystals at the bottom of the basin like Tiewa and them, they were all amazed, like a dream, and they really couldn't imagine that they had been staying next to the salt.

"How do you know that the salt is hidden in this lake", the patriarch asked in surprise.

"My hometown is not very far from the sea, when I was a child, I saw someone make salt from the seawater, I think the sea water is salty, the water of Jinghu Lake is also salty, I boldly did an experiment, fortunately I guessed correctly, since then our Li clan is different from other clans, we have our own salt farm." Lin Tian said unhurriedly.

"Yes, we will not be the same in the future, but this matter cannot be made public, we are not strong enough to protect ourselves." The clan elder added in surprise.

The patriarch stopped laughing and said solemnly: "Tomorrow I will definitely change it to iron, so that our Li clan has its own strength, our Li clan is not short of warriors, but only lack weapons, now that there is salt, iron will not be worried." ”

"Uncle Patriarch, we still have to act as usual, just change less salt and more iron tomorrow, otherwise it will arouse the suspicion of others, and it is better for less people to know about our ability to make salt, and the longer we hide it, the better, so that we can accumulate our own strength and protect ourselves."

"Yes, what Xiao Tian said is right, since we have salt, the iron thing will be taken slowly, slowly exchanged, in addition to the Ghost Fang tribe, we can also secretly go to other tribes to exchange it, and we can't expose the things we can make salt before we have enough strength." The clan elder agreed with what Lin Tian said just now, and said with a smile: "Xiao Tian is worthy of being a southerner, knowledgeable and smart, patriarch, Xiao Tian is the lucky star of our Li clan!" ”

"That's right, Xiaotian is the lucky star that God has given us to the Li tribe, we are different from other tribes, and the prosperity and strength of our Li tribe is coming."

The patriarch and others praised Lin Tian, Lin Tian was not complacent because of this, what Lin Tian cared about most now was to help the development of the Li people wholeheartedly, so that the Li people would become stronger and stronger, and they would not be bullied by others at will.