Seeing that the fleet was about to arrive, Lu Yuan turned around and said to the few people behind him: "Lu Ran, Mu Liu, give it to the two of you this time." ”

"Yui"

Lu Ran and Mu Liu accept the task given to them by Lu Yuan.

Lu Ran is the "old man" of the Ministry of Commerce, he was in the first trade fleet before, Mu Liu is a newcomer to the Ministry of Commerce, and it is the first time to go out with the fleet, Lu Ran Mu Liu is an old and a new combination.

Mu Liu can't be regarded as a newcomer, after all, the Third Trade Fleet has already contacted the tribe on this trip, and Mu Liu has also followed Lu Ran on many missions, except for a few small mistakes in the beginning, and then he has performed very well a few times.

The flotilla slowly stopped in an area more than three feet away from the river bank, a small boat was lowered from the head boat, and Lu Ran and Mu Liu rowed to the shore with gifts and goods.

Seven or eight feet away from the riverbank, there are three or four hundred fishermen of the tribesmen, mainly adult women, accounting for about two-thirds of the number.

Most of them were armed with weapons, but they were very haphazard, with bows and arrows, stone spears, stone axes, wooden sticks, stones, and even fishing nets, interspersed with less than twenty bronze weapons, which were also made according to their own habits to resemble spears and axes, and were somewhat irregular in shape.

It can be seen that the end of copper smelting in the fishing tribe is still at a relatively low-end level, while the dragon tribe has developed to a high-end level and smelted bronze.

Lu Ran Mu Liu walked forward with gifts and goods, and did not stop until he was three or four steps away from the crowd, while the Yu tribesmen ran directly to the front of a dozen people and surrounded Lu Ran Mu Liu, and the weapons in their hands were all pointed at Lu Ran Mu Liu.

"Lay down your arms! Hurry up and lay down your arms! A young man who was suspected of being the leader of the squad shouted at Lu Ran and Mu Liu.

The language of the fishing tribe Lu Ran Mu Liu and the two naturally couldn't understand it, but according to the current situation, the two of them almost guessed the meaning, and put the things they were carrying on the ground one after another, and raised their empty hands slightly, indicating that they did not pose any threat, but the dozen or so fish tribesmen around them still remained the same and did not relax their vigilance at all.

Seeing that they didn't make many moves, Lu Ran showed some joy in his heart, Lu Ran had encountered all kinds of things, such as the two sides had not started talking, and some people on the other side directly snatched the gifts and goods that Lu Ran carried, fortunately, that tribe was not a crazy tribe, and finally successfully completed the first transaction with it.

The tribe in front of him didn't snatch the things brought by Lu Ran Muliu, and it should belong to the kind that is easier to communicate.

"Who are you? Why come to our tribe? How do you have such a big wooden boat? The fisherman who spoke before asked three questions in a row.

A careful study of the language of the fishing tribe shows that the language of the fishing tribe is the most lexical language of the tribe that the dragon tribe has come into contact with, and there are pictorial characters corresponding to it in the fishing tribe, and the pictorial characters of the fishing tribe are more concise and regular than the pictorial characters of other tribes.

A comparison can be made, the dragon language is equivalent to the language of the fishing tribe compared to the Chinese language compared to other dialects.

Faced with a dialect that he had never heard before, Lu Ran naturally couldn't understand it, so he could only gesture and say: "Please use gestures to communicate, I don't understand the language of your tribe." ”

The fisherman who spoke looked at Lu Ran's gesture and was a little dazed, he could understand some of the meaning of this gesture, and some of it couldn't be understood, and he still couldn't understand it together.

A middle-aged man walked out of front of the crowd, and the middle-aged man gestured to Lu Ran, "Who are you?" Where did it come from? Why came to our tribe? ”

As an official of the Ministry of Commerce, he has carried out foreign exchange tasks many times, and Lu Ran's sign language level is as high as level 10.

"We are from the West and want to communicate with your tribe, where is the leader of your tribe? I have a gift for him. Lu Ran gestured.

For the time being, he didn't feel any malice on the part of Lu Ran Muliu, and the middle-aged man replied in a friendly manner: "Wait a while, our tribal leader will come over soon." ”

Early in the morning, some people ran back to the tribe to tell the chief, the leader was already on the road, looking in the direction of the residence of the fishing tribe, nearly a thousand adults ran towards the riverbank, they joined the Yan tribesmen in the riverbank area, and the last fisherman tribesman with slightly old eyes seemed to be shining brightly walked to the front under the escort of eight or nine sturdy warriors.

It can be seen that the weapons held by the guards are all copper weapons, and there are not many copper weapons in the fishing tribe, and the clansmen who can have copper weapons have some status in the fishing tribe, and can be guarded by such warriors, and this slightly old fishing tribe definitely has a very high status in the fishing tribe.

In a moment, Lu Ran analyzed many things from the pictures in front of him.

"He's the leader of our tribe." The middle-aged man gestured to Lu Ran and introduced.

Looking at the gesture of the middle-aged man, Lu Ran's eyes widened, this person who looked to be in his fifties was actually the leader, how could this be, shouldn't the most powerful person be the leader of the tribe, this old man is the strongest person in this tribe?

Like Lu Ran, Mu Liu also opened his mouth wide in surprise.

"Strange visitor, I am the leader of this tribe, what is the matter with you coming to our tribe?" The fishing leader didn't care about Lu Ranmu Liu's surprise, and asked directly with a gesture.

Seeing a lot of strong winds and waves, Lu Ran was just surprised, and soon regained his calm, Lu Ran took Mu Liu and first bowed slightly to the fishing leader, and then gestured and said: "Respected leader......"

Offering a bronze sword as a gift, the two sides exchanged favorably, and Lu Ran expressed his intention to the fishing chief, who also said that the two sides could make a trade.

The bronze sword and the bronze spear and copper axe that Lu Ran Muliu brought over as commodities were very interesting to the fishing chief.

At first glance, the fishing leader knew that these were the same copper weapons as his own tribe, and at that time, compared with the copper weapons of the dragon tribe, the copper weapons of the fishing tribe were too rough, and the first thought of the fishing leader when he saw these copper weapons was to get this technology, so that the fishing tribe itself could smelt and cast such a good copper weapon.

In addition to being interested in these bronze weapons, the fishing leader was also interested in the big ship of the dragon tribe, and the fishing leader learned from Lu Ran that the dragon tribe relied on this big boat to sail on the big river for dozens of days, and the difference between the fishing tribes was too far apart.

Although the fishing leader is interested in the dragon tribe's copper weapons and the manufacturing technology of armor boats, the fishing leader also knows that these two technologies are very final for the dragon tribe, and I am afraid that they cannot be easily obtained, not to mention that the two tribes have just come into contact, so they will trade some small commodities first.

Bronze weapons, rattan shields, rattan armor, white salt, peppercorn powder, pottery...... The size of the fishing tribe is so large that there are many things that can be traded, but the dragon tribe needs very few things, and in the end only the fishing tribe can exchange the two crops of animal skins and millet and millet grown by the fishing tribe.

Lu Ran preferred the fishing tribe to exchange population, but the fishing leader was very serious and said that the fishing tribe did not like war, let alone use people to trade, and Lu Ran never mentioned the topic of population again.