When Yang Li found Dugucheng, the fat man was escaping from prison.

A bunch of alfalfa was held in his hand, and he led the half-domesticated bison, and let the big creature arch it with horns behind the barn, arching a hole in the wooden wall behind the barn.

The poor fat man's upper body has already drilled out, but his ass is stuck in the hole, and as long as he pushes a little harder, the whole person will go out.

Yulia grabbed Dugucheng's belt and pulled him back.

"What are you going to do?" Dugu Cheng asked.

"Let's talk, like joining the Riverlands or something." Yang Li said.

"I don't have anything to talk to about with you, I was born a member of the black blood tribe, and I died as a ghost of the black blood tribe, and if you want me to betray the big chief, it is impossible." The fat man flatly refused.

Yang Li smacked his lips: "Hmm...... Let's change the topic, for example, Jiang Rongrong's little beauty, you and her are neighbors? ”

"No, I don't have anything to do with her, she's so lazy that she can eat two meals of food from others, and if I were the chief, I would definitely expel her from the clan."

"That's not what you said yesterday." Yulia reminded.

Dugucheng struggled to climb out of the cowshed, he had no combat power, and everyone was not afraid of him running away, so he wanted to see what medicine he was selling in his gourd, only to see the fat man tidy up his clothes, then cleared his throat, and said seriously: "Make a price, I want to redeem myself." ”

Yulia knocked a stick on his head: "Don't play tricks. ”

Dugu Cheng's head immediately swollen with a bag, but he still shouted: "Our Dugu clan has a lot of unique stones that can be traded in exchange for my freedom." ”

"Huh?" Yang Jiao became interested and stopped Mao Mei's attempt to continue to abuse the prisoners of war.

Dugu Cheng's eyes turned twice, pointed to Xue Pijiang's spear and said, "I saw this magical weapon of yours, this kind of thing is called bronze metal?" Don't hit me, I'm just listening to your own people - you can see that bronze is very powerful, and this is the first time I've seen something like this, both tough and hard. ”

"That's right," Yang Jiao pulled out Yulia's bronze short sword and handed it to the fat man as a gesture of kindness, "You can observe this thing carefully, do you think that the Hewan tribe has such a weapon, and your tribe still has room to turn over, so don't think about running away, and don't plan to redeem yourself." ”

"But you can't make a lot, and this metal called bronze must be hard to come by." Dugu Cheng hit the nail on the head and pointed out Yang Li's weaknesses.

Very careful observation, Yang Li was asked by him for a while, whether to talk to him directly, or fool him to win this fat man to join, Yang Li fell into thought.

Yulia was not convinced, she pointed to Yang Li and said, "Let me tell you, the bronze metal was conjured by this guy with stones, and as for the stones, where can I not find them." ”

This could not deceive the fat man, he narrowed his eyes, stretched out his finger and shook it: "That's not necessarily, as far as I can see, now the Hewan tribe is equipped with a bronze sword except for the young army, and everyone else has flint weapons in their hands." ”

Ha, what he said is right, Yang Li has indeed sent people everywhere to find azurite ore, but azurite is really hard to find, so the bronze smelting workshop has not been able to expand further recently.

Modern copper smelting uses a wide range of chalcopyrite, but the means of smelting are more complex and difficult to achieve in ancient environments, so in contrast, it is more appropriate to directly find azurite ore to smelt copper, but the rare azurite has naturally become a shortcoming of large-scale bronze smelting in Hewandi.

Yang Jiao nodded, not denying Dugucheng's point of view: "I may not let you stay, you can talk about your proposal first, about the materials that Dugu can provide." ”

"The obsidian piled up in half of your fortress," Dugu Cheng pointed to the Luohe Castle in the distance, "You have also seen the weapon in the hands of the black blood chief, although it is not as rare as your rare bronze, but compared to ordinary flint, it can still be much stronger, this kind of stone must be valuable to you." ”

Obsidian is more common in the Americas, more concentrated in East Asia in the Qinghai-Tibet region, and less common in the Yellow River Basin.

But the hardness of this rock is indeed higher than that of ordinary flint, Yang Jiao will continue to develop the economy, and as long as the military has room for self-preservation, then bronze will be given priority to be supplied to agricultural tools, and it will be used to make weapons.

So obsidian is useful at this stage.

Yang Li raised his eyelids: "How far is the Dugu clan from the black blood clan?" ”

"Speaking of which we are neighbors, it's just a few miles away."

"Hold on to the, you have been annexed for a few miles, to speak human words."

"Twenty miles, our settlement is in a natural island in the middle of the lake......" Dugucheng found that Yang Li was not so easy to deceive, so he honestly confessed, "The hillside in the middle of the island is full of obsidian, and it is difficult for other settlements to swim into the island, so in general, most of the tribes choose to ally with us to obtain the right to trade obsidian." ”

Dugu Cheng is the son of the current patriarch, he has a high prestige in the clan, and he is also one of the actual rulers, after joining the conquest and expansion of the black blood clan, he looted a lot of materials, and symbolically got half a village-sized land, and he is a heroic boy in the hearts of aunts within the clan.

The mining of obsidian was in the hands of Dugucheng, who also had a lot of experience in mining, and more importantly, he put an end to the practice of selling cheap raw materials directly, and instead set up a stone processing workshop directly in the island in the middle of the lake, to receive orders from various ethnic groups and make weapons or tools by himself.

This is a very advanced approach, which is equivalent to not only controlling the origin of raw materials, but also taking the profits of processing, and the added value of the product is greatly improved.

Yang Li said I agreed!

Dugu Cheng was overjoyed: "When will you let me go back?" ”

Yang Li smiled sincerely: "Young man, I think you are a character." ”

Yulia and Xue Bijiang suddenly showed an expression of "It's started again".

"So?" The fat man was puzzled.

"So I can't pit you, right, your tribe has also suffered a lot of losses in the battle, and you will continue to do business in the future, there is an old saying in my hometown, once you are born and twice cooked, and three times you are friends, we don't like to buy and sell with a hammer, we prefer everyone to take what they need and contact feelings." Yang Li chirped crookedly.

Dugu Cheng was confused, and still didn't understand what Leader Yang meant: "Contact feelings? ”

"You see that there are so many materials in our village, and today we will transport a batch of grain and pottery to you, why don't you trade it?"

The fat man thought for a moment: "You mean to exchange pottery?" ”

"Eh, pottery is only part of it, the main thing is that I want to know about the situation of other tribes and understand what everyone needs."

Dugu Cheng helped Yang Jiao to sum up: "So I can be ransomed, plus open up a trade route between our two clans?" However, Great Leader Yang, you have to think about it, the distance between the Dugu Settlement and the Hewan Land is seven days and nights, and the caravan has traveled such a long distance, and the safety on the road cannot be guaranteed. ”

"Safety aside, so you agreed?"

The fat man took a breath: "Since you added a condition, then I will also add one, in the battle, there are many middle-aged men in our clan who were captured by you, and when I return to the Dugu settlement, I am not good at explaining to the clansmen, so these people, I want to take five back." ”

"Absolutely." Yang Li sincerely agreed.

Dugu Cheng was overjoyed: "Then let's set the time and the details of the ransom." ”

"Good! The first detail," Yang Jiao smiled treacherously, "Jiang Rongrong will be taken hostage and held in the riverbend settlement until you pay the ransom and build the trade route." ”

"You ......" Dugucheng was seen through the plan, and he was angry, and suddenly a mouthful of old blood sprayed on the green grass outside the cowshed.