"The Great Elder told you to go."

"Okay, I'll go."

The bear tribe has changed dramatically, forming a complex of buildings where everyone has a house to live in, clothes to wear, and food to eat, the elderly do not have to choose to die, children have space to move, women have things to do, and men can walk freely in the jungle.

But this is not a Datong society, it is just the beginning of civilization, and it is also a continuation!

"Matsu, what are you looking for me?" His relationship with the old man is very close now, he is an ancestor and grandson, what can he not do.

I couldn't learn witchcraft at the beginning, but now I can learn it, and the old man took the initiative to give him the lotus seeds before, and he has asked his opinion on everything in recent days, it can be said that Su Yang has a lot of power in the Xiong family, and he is full of brilliance.

"What do you do about the salt mines?" The old man is thinking about salt.

He scratched his head, is it really hard to solve? Actually, no, because he hadn't been to the salt mine since he came back, but he had heard that he had dug up a rock layer, and I don't know what the specific situation was.

"I'll take someone over to see it."

"Dig up the salt early and take it to learn witchcraft."

He understood what the old man meant, and wanted to use salt as tuition, so he ordered thirty people, and set off with all the supplies. The speed is faster, and it will take you about 50 minutes to arrive. When the matter of salt mining is resolved, let's go back to training, and don't delay.

After arriving at the place, the place has also changed greatly, the wooden shed has been erected a long time ago, and the people who remain here are building the fence.

"It's Sue here."

The crowd ran out, about sixty-seven people, and the boiling salt had been moved here, and it was enough to come and get the salt every few days, and his two aunts were in charge.

"Take me to the salt cave!" He was a little lazy before he came, but now that he came, he immediately got into the state, and after all, he was a man of action.

Immediately followed into the salt cave, with a fire stick lighting to the bottom, the further down, the worse the air became, this is normal. The length of the salt cave is strictly controlled to ensure the slope, and the length is about 70 meters.

"Sue, you see it's all rocks down there, we've dug up a big piece."

He has already seen that the bottom has dug an area of more than 20 square meters, which is not a small space, including the salt cave, all of which are erected with wooden sticks, which are relatively stable.

It is that the sole of the foot is indeed a stubborn stone layer, and it is a large piece, if you want to dig to the edge of the stone layer, I am afraid it is not easy, the best way is to chisel through.

He has not been idle in the tribe these days, and he has thought of many methods, but he feels that it will not work, so he put it aside and is not in a hurry.

"Help me illuminate."

Su Yang lay on the ground and poked the stone layer with a sharp flint, which was feasible and could poke out traces. As long as the kung fu deep iron pestle can be sharpened into a needle, why can't the stone layer be pierced, he is almost sure that there is salt under the stone layer.

It's just that I don't know the thickness of the stone layer, no matter what, let's chisel first. Immediately called in the manpower to act, he watched from the sidelines, and after a while, he made a major discovery.

Unexpectedly, this so-called stone layer is a bit similar to sandstone, the material is soft, and it can be slowly chiseled with hard flint, but this is a long-term project, and he does not expect to be completed in an instant.

In the process of chiseling, he gradually found a more labor-saving method, at most only chisel a hole as large as a basin, chisel a little and gouge a little, and add a little water to it, which is conducive to speeding up.

"Hey, hey, hey!"

Four strong men erected a heavy boulder, up and down, the bottom of the boulder is an irregular tip, when it falls down and touches the stone layer, it will inevitably hit out debris, a bit of a feeling of killing a thousand enemies and losing eight hundred.

When people are tired, they change people, and when the stone is broken, they will replace the stone, and in the era when there are no metal tools, there is only a stupid way.

He mobilized all the tribesmen to find suitable stones, and sent them here in a steady stream, and many batches of people were changed, and more than 200 people went down to dig the stone layer, thinking that even the Great Wall could be built in the future, and now it is just a salt mine, and with him as a modern man, there is no reason to fail.

Ten days later, the stone layer had been carved out more than two meters deep, and the further down it became, the more difficult it became, and just as he considered whether to use a different method, he finally saw results.

Salt ore particles were scooped out of the stone pit, and the old people with salt recognized it as salt at a glance, just like the salt one.

"It's done!" Su Yang wiped the sweat from his forehead, it was not easy, he had been in this cave for ten days, and his skin was a lot whiter.

As soon as they heard that they had chiseled the salt mine, the soldiers became even more energetic, even if they wore out their skin, smashed their feet, and exhausted their strength, they were gritting their teeth and persevering, and people were determined to win the day.

Two days later, they began to pour clean water into the pit to dissolve the salt mineralization into brine, which they then had to transport to boil into salt. This seems to be a bit redundant, but it is already salt, but it is dissolved and then cooked. But in the long run, that's the best approach.

As long as there is such a small stone pit, using water dissolution, you can get a steady stream of salt underground, although it is a little troublesome, at least there is no waste of manpower to dig.

He boasted about Haikou before, saying that it is not difficult to produce fifty catties of salt every day, as long as more than three hundred catties of brine are collected, so much salt can be boiled, and it is still white refined salt, it should be said that it is coarse salt, and the particles will be larger than sea salt.

This salt has no additives in it, and it will taste saltier and naturally more durable than modern bagged salt.

When the first batch of brine was boiled into salt, all of them cheered, and from then on, they finally had a real salt mine, and at the same time, it also pushed Su Yang's prestige to a new height. The salt was chiseled out by Su Yang and others, and he is the one who brought the salt!

Matsu was in charge and mobilized two hundred people to the salt mine, but in fact, it really didn't need so much, usually one thirty or forty people could operate normally.

But it can't stop the elders from paying attention to the salt mines, and there are four elders who will be in charge of the salt mines. After careful consideration, he felt that it was okay to make the salt mine self-sufficient in the future, not only to mine the salt mine, but also to reclaim the land, which was very close to the savage area, which was equivalent to leaving a station here, which was of great significance.

It just so happened that he wanted to select soldiers to divide them into arms and reorganize them, so he would mobilize a group of adult soldiers with poor combat effectiveness to the salt mine.

As soon as he said his thoughts, the elders agreed that for them, the first thing now was the salt mine, and as long as it was beneficial, it would be passed by unanimous vote.

In this way, Su Yang didn't plan to be polite, and deliberately asked the gang to make the food salty that night, telling the clansmen in disguise that they were not bad for salt now. But it is also more dangerous, and if the Xiyi people find a salt mine with bears, the consequences are unimaginable.

Well, in fact, there is no need for tricks to conscript, because all primitive people are already compulsory soldiers from birth, and they are still lifelong occupations.

In addition, he used the Boy Scouts for the first time, that is, after reaching the age of ten, the men became reserve soldiers, and most of the women were integrated into the ranks of pottery, planting, and salt boiling. No way, relatively speaking, the team of children is too large. (To be continued.) )