Chapter 68: Doing Business with the Natives
After the old man came out, he asked a few questions about the people next to him, as if he was asking Liu Zhi about their identities, but the person next to him didn't know, he said something to him, and then shook his head. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
The old man didn't ask any more, stepped forward, stopped in front of Liu Zhi, looked them up and down, and then asked, "Who are you, why did you break into our territory!" ”
He asked this in his own tribal language, Liu Zhi and the two of them of course couldn't understand it, but this leader was obviously much better than the previous little minions' comprehension ability, Liu Zhi gestured down, he actually understood Liu Zhi's meaning, knew that they came here by boat, and wanted to do business with them.
So he immediately asked people to move out all the things in the village, which were all good things they had stored, including all kinds of animal skins, dried fish, all kinds of medicinal herbs, and so on.
Liu Zhi was overjoyed, they actually knew how to do business, which was great, but he took out the silver and came out, these people didn't know it at all, and they bit it twice in their hands and then threw it away, it seemed that in their eyes, the silver taels were as useless as stones.
Liu Zhi thought about it, they have not yet entered the age of currency, and they are still the most primitive barter trade mode, so it is best to take something out of their own side to exchange with them.
Liu Zhi took off a dagger from his waist and pulled it out in front of this person, the leader was startled, and thought that Liu Zhi was going to be unfavorable to him, and Liu Zhi smiled, looked nearby, and found a stone, so he took the stone in his hand and gently swiped it with the dagger, and the hard stone was immediately cut in half.
At this moment, the people in the tribe could see it clearly, they had never seen such a sharp weapon, so they looked at the dagger in Liu Zhi's hand one by one, and their eyes lit up, in their eyes, this dagger was simply an artifact.
The tribal leader pushed these animal skins and dried fish forward, and then gestured with his hand for a long time, Liu Zhi understood what he meant, he said that he wanted to exchange these things of his own, Liu Zhi shook his head, this dagger was guessed by him with a lot of effort, this was forged by a famous craftsman, but it was not so easy to give it away.
The tribal leader was slightly disappointed, and even a little angry, thinking that Liu Zhi was playing tricks on him.
Liu Zhi hurriedly explained, saying that he didn't have any good things with him, so he asked them to take their things back to their own territory with them, and then exchange them for good things.
The leader was suspicious, and consulted with the people around him for a long time, and finally sent four or five men to follow them with a large number of things.
Zhao Qi and the others were also relieved to see Liu Zhi and the two of them come back safe and sound, Liu Zhi is the backbone of these people, if he has nothing to do, then they will all be messed up.
"Pavilion Master, are they going to follow us to our camp?"
Zhao Qi looked a little hesitant, "I mean, if we leak our position so easily, if we attract their attacks and harassment in the future, wouldn't it be worth the loss?" ”
Liu Zhi smiled slightly and said: "You are too careful, our camp is not built very hidden, you underestimate their strength too much, I am sure that when we came here, they had already discovered our whereabouts, and they did not attack us for a period of time, that is to say, they have no intention of attacking us." ”
Zhao Qi was a little puzzled and asked, "Aren't we a threat to them?" Why don't they fight against us? ”
Liu Zhi glanced back at the few indigenous warriors, and said to Zhao Qi: "It's not that they don't want to attack, but their strength is not enough to support their military operations, our number is more than a thousand, and there are more than three hundred young and middle-aged laborers in it, and there are not so many people in their entire tribe, and there are only twenty or thirty men, it is almost impossible to attack us with such a small number of troops, so they naturally give up, as long as we don't take the initiative to attack them, they will burn high incense!" ”
While they were talking, the group came to the Tamsui River, and Liu Zhi and the others drove a small boat over, and they were just able to sit on themselves, but when these natives saw that they were going to cross the river, they immediately dragged out their own means of crossing the river - rafts!
Their raft was quite large, but it didn't seem to have a strong carrying capacity, and four or five people stood on it and swayed, looking very unstable.
There was no danger, and everyone went down the river, and soon came to the vicinity of the dock they had repaired before.
After seeing Liu Zhi's big boat, the aborigines who took the raft were all like chaff, and they were all frightened, obviously they had never seen such a huge boat, thinking about it, they were only in the stage of crossing the river on the raft, and it was not strange that they had not seen the big boat.
After the group came ashore, they walked forward for a short time, and came to the canyon they had chosen.
At this time, the gate at the entrance of the canyon was being built, and when they saw the row of wooden walls erected by the thick trunks of the trees, the faces of these natives showed solemn expressions, they lacked siege equipment, and they had hardly attacked a camp with such strong fortifications, if they were allowed to attack here, they were afraid that they would be helpless here at the gate of the road.
But after they walked into the canyon, the things in it made them feel dizzy, neat houses, wide roads, busy people, these are all things they have not seen in the tribe, especially these rows of houses, which are not many times more advanced than the simple thatched huts they live in the tribe, and the people in it, everyone is wearing all kinds of clothes, and the tools in their hands also make them feel very envious, they don't know how to smelt steel, Therefore, there is a lack of iron tools in the tribe, and without iron tools, there is naturally no way to cultivate.
Even the weapons in their hands were not made of iron, the spears were sharpened from branches, and the bows and arrows were similar, and there were no iron arrowheads, and here iron tools were everywhere, and the weapons in the hands of the soldiers who were training were made of iron, and the armor on their bodies was made of iron, and even the arrows of their bows and arrows were made of iron, which was simply too luxurious in the eyes of these tribesmen.
Among these four or five people, the youngest is called Ah Tu, he is the youngest son of the tribal leader, these things of these outsiders, the impact on Ah Tu is very huge, and it also makes him involuntarily have a desire to learn and get close to each other. (To be continued.) )