Chapter 28: Purification of Salt
Back to the Horde, the first thing was to arrange six captives. www.biquge.info First of all, basic interrogation is certainly essential, but due to the language barrier, it takes a lot of work. Fortunately, the tribe group under the mountain and the tribe group where the Baiyun tribe used to be should have come from different branches of the same tribe group, but now they have been separated for a long time. Because during the interrogation, it was discovered after careful communication; The languages of the Shanxia tribe and the Baiyun tribe still have a lot of similarities, and there are some obstacles to communicate slowly, but they are not very big.
After interrogation, it was learned that the tribe group under the mountain was actually divided into three tribes, the lakeside tribe, the Panshan tribe, and the boulder tribe, and the tribes discovered by the goshawks were the lakeside tribe and the Panshan tribe, and the boulder tribe had to go around a hill to see, so it was never discovered. All three tribes worship the salt lake, and they like to use the water of the salt lake to wash their meat, so that the barbecued meat has a delicious taste. They believe that the salt lake is a bowl dropped by the gods on earth, so they can only use bamboo tubes to fetch water from the salt lake during festivals, and bring it back to wash the meat and enjoy the gifts of the gods. Of the three tribes, the Lakeside Tribe is the strongest, so it can be located in the closest place to the salt water lake, followed by the Panshan Tribe and finally the Boulder Tribe is the weakest. In terms of personnel, the population of the lakeside tribe is more than that of the Baiyun tribe, the population of the Panshan tribe is about the same as that of the Baiyun tribe, and the population of the Jushi tribe is relatively small, about 100 people.
The six captives were divided into two specially built canopies, guarded by special personnel, for the hunters of the Baiyun tribe, after the interrogation, they did not beat or scold, but also had good meat and good food to entertain themselves, and several captives were very puzzled.
After interrogating the captives and finding out the situation of the tribe group under the mountain, Li Ming arranged for the goshawk team to closely monitor the movements of the tribe group under the mountain, and at the same time prepared to purify the salt collected this time; Due to the simple and crude process of drying salt, the salt collected is completely unsalt-like, just like some fine sand, and of course, it is indeed mixed with a lot of fine sand.
Li Ming first dissolved the salt into a pile of bamboo tubes with water, then found the washed fresh cowhide, wrapped it into a cone, poured the dissolved salt water into the cone-shaped cowhide, and caught it with a bamboo tube below, and after the bamboo tube was collected with water, it was taken to the sun and let the sun dry the water. In the past, when Li Ming was in school, he did an experiment on the purification of table salt, but at that time, he simply followed the experimental steps and did it again, and whether it was purified or not, in fact, Li Ming himself did not know.
After the above process, it was mentioned three times, and finally it had the appearance of table salt, and the particles of white flowers looked so pure in the sun. This salt purification experiment, Namu has been following the hand, when he looked at the black salt, turned into this white flower, he was so shocked that he couldn't speak; Although Li Ming was purifying salt, he explained the principle of salt purification to Namu and them, but when the salt was dissolved in the water and the water dried up, everyone still didn't understand why. Li Ming also knew that it was impossible for everyone to understand it all at once. Although it is only this simple purification, this is the result of the summary and accumulation of many generations of labor, and if they want to understand it at once, it is no less than a fool's dream.
Three bamboo tubes of black salt, purified and collected most of the bamboo salt, in the evening, Li Ming informed everyone to hold a bonfire party. When the piece of meat poured with salt entered the mouth, at that moment, everyone in the tribe had a voice in their hearts, this is the taste of the fairy food, brought to the world by the son of the White Cloud Divine Mother. Several of the captives were also given food with salt, which was much more delicious than the meat they had washed with salt lake water before, and when someone from the Baiyun tribe told several captives that this was a delicacy brought by the son of the White Cloud Divine Mother, several hunters were convinced that this should be the taste of the fairy food. Because they believe that the salt lake is the rice bowl that God left behind, and this food tastes similar to the food washed in the rice bowl, but it tastes stronger and more delicious than the meat washed in the salt lake.
Because there were so many people, a cow and four reindeer were killed in one night, although the salt was relatively light, but after a bonfire, the salt of most of the bamboo tubes was spent. Because salt was too limited, Li Ming and You agreed to declare: "You can only eat meat with salt once in three days." As a result, on the day when salt is available, food consumption is three times as high as usual, and even a little bit of food is usually eaten, and a large meal is eaten when salt is available.
The total salt collected is more than 30 bamboo tubes, and due to the later purification process is becoming more and more mature, the salt of more than 30 bamboo tubes is finally purified with ten full of bamboo. One bamboo tube is enough to use four or five times, and the salt is consumed day by day, and the goshawks' reconnaissance report shows that after the tribe group under the mountain found that strange humans had touched their holy lake, they had searched everywhere to find out where these strange humans came from, but in the end they found nothing. But after that, the Lakeside Tribe sent a dozen hunters to guard the neighborhood every day. In this way, if the salt is exhausted, it is basically impossible to go to the salt lake to dry salt, unless there is a risk of war with the tribes below the mountain.
Touching the salt lake is the enemy of the three tribes of the tribe group under the mountain, not to mention, his own tribe has come from afar, and he is already the enemy of the tribe group under the mountain. And in the tribal group under the mountain, the Panshan tribe, which is the second most powerful, is equal in strength to the Baiyun tribe, not to mention, starting a war means facing the alliance of the three tribes.
On this day, it was another bonfire party with salt, and after three rounds of dinner, Li Ming told everyone that there was not much salt left, and asked everyone if they were willing to make enemies with the tribes under the mountain for salt. The people in the tribe were divided into two factions, one faction thought that the days when there was no salt in the past had also come, and there was no need to risk provoking the tribal group under the mountain; One faction believes that after tasting the taste of salt, it is impossible to live without salt, and even in the face of the tribes under the mountain, they can fight for it, and they can even secretly collect salt like the previous one. After some arguments, everyone still tends to secretly collect table salt; Because everyone knows that the tribes under the mountain are not something that the Baiyun tribe can defeat; Now that I can't do without salt, it seems that I can only find a way to collect it secretly.
Because this will probably face a war, Li Ming gave the final decision to everyone, but everyone's plan to secretly collect salt will definitely not work. Because there is now a hunting team guarding the edge of the salt lake every day, even if this hunting team is solved, it is impossible for the Baiyun tribe to collect enough salt before the other tribe group reacts.
If you have made up your mind to collect salt, you have to think about it in the long run.