"That's what you have to ask about it." Everyone listened to Lin Ji's words and turned their eyes to the side. In that corner, Katsu was cowering by the campfire, sipping on a drink.

Sheng Liang saw that everyone looked at him, and only then did he know what Lin Ji said when he heard others mention it, so he immediately gave himself a mouthful, and shouted in annoyance: "King, the little one should be damned, I haven't eaten tiger meat for a long time, and I drank good wine, so I ate a few mouthfuls of it, and I didn't listen to the king's words, and the small one should be beaten." ”

Facing this living treasure-like character, Lin Ji was also helpless, waved his hand and said: "Don't come to this set, talk about things, do you know?" ”

"I've always wanted to report to you." But because of my humble position, I never found an opportunity. ”

Shenglu is also aggrieved. Now he did not dare to get too close to the forest trails, for fear of being disliked by the forest trails, and he did not dare to go too far away from the forest trails, lest he be abandoned by the upper echelons of the kingdom, so he was in a dilemma, and he also suffered from gains and losses, and lived a good life without comfort.

"If you do it again, I'll tell Xiao Hei to beat you." Lin Ji was also a little impatient.

Xiao Hei and Xiao Bai are eating their own hot pot by the same pot, it doesn't understand what raw and cooked is, and when it puts the meat in the pot and dips it in water, it will scoop it up and chew it with a colander. The meaning of hot pot to it may be just a little more seasoning. Hearing Lin Ji call its name, it looked over at Lin Ruins, and then danced the big colander in Sheng's hand.

The colander in the Titan's hand was also a weapon, and Shenglu didn't dare to delay any longer, so he hurriedly untied a few skins from his mount, and said while unraveling: "There are three strange things in the west, which once caused many tribesmen to rob them. These three strange things, one is called food that does not go bad. One is called the Gold Making Cheats. The last one is called the picture of mountains and rivers. The controversy caused by these three strange objects once spread from the Jinghu area to a distance of 1,000 kilometers. Many tribes say that these three strange things are sent to the world by their respective gods, but these three things are all from our Huaxia. Guess what these things are? ”

Seeing that Katsu Scales deliberately bought the guanzi, those who had already heard the story shut up, and those who had not heard it looked sideways and thought about it.

Seeing that someone was listening to him, Katsu was very interested, and continued: "Let me give you some hints, this first thing is said to have been in people's hands for nearly ten years, and it has not deteriorated at all in the past ten years. And this thing is said to be able to sit for decades or hundreds of years without breaking. ”

"Canned?" Someone spoke boldly. The cans made by the forest trails will not break for a year or two. It is said that as long as you keep it properly, it can last longer. The canned food made by the Asabayashi people can also be stored for up to a year if it is properly kept.

Sheng Liang was afraid that Lin Ji would be impatient, so he didn't dare to continue to show off, and took out a fist-sized black lump from a leather bag, and showed it to everyone: "This is it." ”

Katsu handed it to the others and licked it. The licker quickly gave the answer: "Honey? ”

Everyone suddenly realized that Lin Ji had told them that honey is the only food in nature that will not be corrupted. According to the forest traces, if preserved properly, they can be stored for thousands of years. It is said that honey from thousands of years ago was found in the pyramid of the pharaohs and did not deteriorate.

Presumably, those savages did not know this truth, so after discovering such strange things, they discovered the new world and generally began to scramble.

After lamenting the ignorance of the savages, everyone looked at the water stains on the honey, and suddenly understood why the lumps were black all over, and suddenly there was a chill.

Shenglu thought that Lin Ji was the most hygienic, and he didn't know how many people had licked this piece of honey that he didn't know how many people had licked, and now that he had achieved his goal, he threw it to Xiao Hei, who was eyeing him on the side.

Xiao Hei didn't care at all, opened his mouth to catch the honey and chewed it. For Xiaobai's protest, it is naturally irrelevant.

Sheng Liang clapped his hands and said, "This is an ordinary piece of honey, but because some people say that this piece of honey is not bad, it has been blessed by the gods, etc., at least three tribes have been destroyed because of it." And some warriors just lick it when they get it, and then they think they can be brave, and they can really kill a few or even a dozen people. If the king hadn't told us that honey wouldn't be bad, I would have almost believed it. ”

"It is said that this piece of honey was picked by the king, and I didn't believe it much when I got it at first, but I didn't believe it until I saw the second object." Katsu said as he didn't sell it anymore and took out the second item.

It was a skin roll. Katsu Scales carefully opened it and handed it to the folded tooth next to him. Folded Tooth looked down, nodded quickly, and handed it to Po Tu next to him again, Po Tu saw it, also nodded, and passed it to others.

After passing on a few people, the animal skin scroll was passed to Lin Ji's hands. Lin Ji looked down, the expression on his face was a little crying and laughing, he wanted to put it in the fire and burn it, but after handing it out, he took it back and continued to pass it on to the curious people next to him.

Lin Ji asked Shenglu, "What's the story?" ”

Shenglu said: "After our bronze or iron tools are sold to the Jinghu area, the price is at least one Qingzhuang for one piece, only high. And there aren't many of them. Every time it is sold, the scene and the eagle vulture and the jackal find the carrion in general. One day, someone took out this picture and said that he could obtain a way to make bronze, and that he would have to fight for him with a hundred strong men. ”

"The man who took out the picture was killed first. Because no one can understand the above words, this picture appears in other places, and every time it appears, it is almost a corpse, and the picture disappears. But it won't be long before it comes back again. Someone calculated it later. Because there were eight tribes that were destroyed in this picture, and no less than a thousand people died. This can still be calculated, and it is not clear if it is not calculated. ”

Lin Ji laughed at himself, and then asked, "What else?" ”

When he saw the honey block, Lin Ji remembered some of the past. That year, he and Xu Yu met for the first time, collecting honey in the forest west of Ji Lin, and told Xu Yu that honey would not be bad. Xu Yu picked up a piece and put it away. That day was also the day he met Xiaobai.

That animal skin scroll does have the word cheats on it. It was when Xu Yu later asked him how to make bronze, and he wrote a sentence on the animal skin to deal with Xu Yu. Almost ten years had passed, and the hides were stained, and the charcoal writing on them had faded, but they could still be recognized as Lin Ji's own handwriting.

I didn't expect that Xu Yu had been dead for six or seven years, and he would still be able to see these things at this time. He was also quite curious about what had happened to these things and let him see them again.

Sheng Scale's interest in seeing Lin Ji was aroused, and he became more energetic: "The third thing is called the mountain and river projection, guess what it is?" I'll give you a hint, we've all seen this stuff. And probably all used. Let's guess first, and I'll confirm things with someone. ”

As he spoke, Sheng Liang took out a broken horse lantern from a leather bag and said: "The mountain and river projection is not this horse lantern, I just want to ask Earl Dunmu, this horse lantern is the product of our Chaolin back then?" ”

Dunmu looked twice at the lamp and confirmed, "This is what I did." It's been so long, and there may not be much preserved in Chaolin City, where did you get it? ”

This lamp is made of wood and iron frame inlaid with glass, and its appearance is rather clumsy. Because it is handmade, it is instantly recognizable by the maker. Now Chaolin's horse lantern will basically fire the pottery seat, and the process has long been different.

Sheng Liang nodded and said, "I'll talk about this later." ”

After confirming the lamp, Katsu Scales looked up and asked, "But did anyone think of what the picture of the mountains and rivers was?" ”

"Don't you give some hints?" Someone should make peace. There are a lot of things that everyone uses every day, but I can't remember them for a while that matches the name.

"There's a story to tell about this object. It is said that a tribe in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River occasionally got this object one day, and for a time regarded it as a treasure, so it was willing to exchange this object for any price and people. There were big and small objects, but they only recognized one or the other. It is said that because of their collection of this object, the tribe's appeal has increased greatly in two or three years, and the number of people has increased from a few hundred to two thousand, and it has been faintly able to dominate the upper reaches of the Yangtze River. When I heard about it, someone was willing to exchange ten young men for one with me. ”

"What is so amazing?" Someone was finally impatient with the scales and asked directly. Some people also look at the few remaining skin bags of Shengliang and guess what is placed in them from the shape, so as to judge the answer.

Shenglu didn't dare to tease anymore, but he didn't untie the skin, but groped around for a while, and found a crumpled banknote, showing it to everyone: "This is it." ”

It was a ten-dollar bill. The fifth generation of the renminbi in later generations. This is when the forest site was first built in Chaolin City, in order to promote economic activities, it was used as currency. Later, because the number of these banknotes was insufficient, large and small copper coins began to be used as circulating currency. These banknotes are not recycled on a large scale, and some of them are still circulating in the market.

The pattern on the north side of the banknote is displayed to everyone. Above is the spectacular pattern of Qutang Gorge in the Three Gorges of the Yangtze River.

"That's just ten dollars, how can I get ten young people?" Some people asked, unsure.

Turning his gaze to the forest trails, he said with reverence, "I think the king must know the reason. ”

Lin Ji took the banknote and looked at it, smiled and explained: "The pattern on this is the pattern of a place called the Three Gorges in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, and the specific location should be on the side of Kuimen." Apparently someone took this banknote and found that the pattern on it was very similar to that place, so they deified this banknote again. ”

Katsu Scales was amazed: "I've been to see it, it's really exactly the same." ”

When the crowd heard this, they couldn't help but exclaim. This note was taken out by Lin Ji from the box given by the god. What does this mean that the pattern on it is the same as the pattern in that place?

Some people dig deeper and think about it, there are also different patterns on the back of several other banknotes, what do those things represent? If those places really exist, where do they exist?

Some people think about this, and they are already getting crazy.

When Lin Ji took out the banknotes at that time, he just wanted to facilitate everyone's transactions, but he didn't expect this. Does this count as an oolong made by the traverser himself? What will they think? How do you explain it yourself?

However, there are too many things that cannot be explained, and Lin Ji skipped this question after pondering for a while, and praised Sheng Liang and said, "I didn't expect you to have this courage." It's not a good place to walk. ”

The Three Gorges is dangerous, there is no water conservancy project at this time, and I don't know how much risk I have to take on the sailboat, but I have personally seen it, and this courage is really worthy of praise.

Shenglu felt that there was a forest trace, and he was willing to die immediately, so he cried: "King, I followed you to the sea back then, where would I not have the courage to take risks?" ”

"Stop, stop!" Lin Ji saw that this drama spirit was immediately performed, and couldn't help frowning: "Tell me how these things came back to you?" Someone said earlier that someone had counted casualties, but who was that person? Also, what's in the bag? ”

"The king is wise." Katsu wiped away his tears twice, and then poured out the contents of a few skin bags like no one else. That's a couple of shriveled heads. Maybe it was treated with salt or something, and the head was shriveled but not rotten.

"It's the new brute." Someone recognized the heads at a glance.

The new barbarian guard was a warrior trained by Hu Zhu to fight against the forest trails. After Hu Zhu's death, the new barbarian guard, under the leadership of Xu Yu, also assassinated Lin Ji. In the end, a group of people escaped, and they didn't know where they went, and they didn't expect to see their heads at this time.

Shenglu said: "The reason why the three strange things I just mentioned appeared in the Jinghu area in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River is because these people fled through the mountains to the west to the north of the Jinghu area. They founded a tribe over there and named it the Vicious Exterminator. But there is a big tribe over there, that is, the tribe we are familiar with now that maintains the boundaries of the local territory, and these people went to challenge the tribe after three years of development, but they were broken up by the tribe, and they were able to come out of these things in an attempt to gather men and fight again with the mountain. ”

"When I was dealing with the Chaling people, I heard about these things, so I ordered them to collect them back to determine these things. It took them a few years to finally collect them and kill the rest. They sent these things. Most of the casualties were also calculated by them. ”

"The people of Chaling are strange. Their leaders are said to have come from a place called Saltless. It doesn't look like us. Their eyes turn outward, that is, they look long. They are also arrogant and don't listen to our rules very much. When they sent these, they ran over by themselves because they were curious if our Chaolin was really like our legend. As a result, he was caught by our men and sentenced by the House of Elders. ”

"And this kind of thing?" Lin Ji turned his head and asked.

A clerk from the House of Elders nodded, "Yes." A dozen people came, eight of them were arrested, and then those who were still wandering around our village were also arrested by us. The elders thought that they had come to our city without warning, and that their leaders had tried to rush to the city, and that they might have bad intentions, and were sentenced to five years of hard labor in the mines. ”

Shenglu said: "King, Chaling is friendly with us. I haven't been in contact with their big boss this time, so that's why this kind of thing happened. But if we do lock them up, we may be retaliated against by the Chalings. You see......"

Lin Ji looked at the skins of those people with heads and scales, but he had some other ideas. There is no doubt that these are serious things. Because he didn't know much and couldn't write a report, he had to take these things with him and look for opportunities to report to him. Nine out of nine people in Huaxia are currently illiterate, is there a lot of people who have some ideas but no way to let them know?

Although he has been baptized by the information explosion of later generations, it is not a real encyclopedia database, and there may be many things that he doesn't know or can't remember. These aspects may need to be explored by people themselves. If they can tell him the problems they have found in the process of groping, and let him go to the small town to find information and give guidance, this will obviously save the whole society a lot of detours.

Do you want to take time out of your time to visit or accept invitations from ordinary people?

Lin Ji recorded this matter, turned back to his senses and said to Sheng Scale: "The Elders' House has not made a mistake in this matter. As foreigners, they are indeed guilty of entering the hinterland of our land without being notified. It's not wrong to catch and kill. Even if we were only tribal times, it was not their fault that they had intruded into our territory. How much more about us now? ”

"Great King, there are quite a few people in Chaling, and now they are also expanding in the west. If that's the case, I'm just afraid of ......"

I'm afraid that there will be a war. At this time, the center of gravity of the kingdom was population growth. Except for the north, there are no plans for war in other directions for the time being. If there were a war in the west, it would disrupt the kingdom's deployment.

Lin Ji said: "They are at fault, this is certain. In order to deter others, this verdict will not be changed. However, as diplomatic neighbors, they helped us eliminate the traitors. I can open the net. As long as the leader of their team is willing to serve his men for a year, I can get one of his men back. He was willing to serve two more years before he released two people. Five in five years. Their leaders or the rest of them should not be mistreated as long as they are willing to work. And they were allowed to visit once a year from the Chaling tribe. ”

When Sheng Liang heard this method, he couldn't help but shout a few more words of Wang Yingming. In this way, he can explain to Chaling, and it can be regarded as a warning to the Chaling people, so that he can be more coercive in front of the Chaling people in the future, wouldn't it be beautiful?

"It's not a good thing that the people in Chaling are growing." Po Tu said with some concern.

Lin Ji said: "We won't fight for the time being, but there are some things we can solve by other means." At this point, we'll go back and figure it out. ”

Hearing this, Arc's eyes lit up. Every time Lin Ji said this, it was a time to have big ideas, and now that the kingdom is not doing martial arts, won't the benefits fall on him?