After all, Li Yue is a child's body, and he rushed all the way non-stop, and slept for a long time. When I woke up, it was already afternoon, and the wind and snow outside the cave had subsided.

In the cave, Yue Hefeng was talking to the old people, and when he saw Li Yue waking up, he took more food and handed it to him.

"Hey, Lord Wise, are you awake? Hungry, this is what the Light Tribe has prepared for us. ”

Open the leaves outside, and inside is a fruit, and a bowl of dried vegetables boiled with meat is placed in front of Li Yue. According to Green's description of the tribe, this is probably the best food at the moment, but the wind and the wind do not know it. I feel a little little. He took out the jerky from the back basket and put it in Li Yue's stone bowl.

"You definitely don't have enough to eat, eat some more of our jerky"

"Thank you" Li Yue was also a little hungry, picked up the stone bowl and began to eat.

After eating, the old men slowly walked over with some prevarication.

"We are the stoneware of the Light Tribe, Lord Wise, we have a request" A few old men of Wind and Frost asked Li Yue lovingly and tentatively.

"Please speak" Li Yuehu glanced suspiciously at Feng Feng, who often causes trouble.

"Can we take a closer look at the weapons in the hands of the Warriors? Don't get me wrong, a few of our old men have made stone tools all their lives, but for your weapons are really unprecedented," a few old men kicked their hands embarrassedly.

Li Yue looked at the wind who was a thief and shook his head helplessly.

"Of course it's no problem, a few grandfathers, just look at it, wind, take out the iron sword in your hand" Since you want to show off, show off enough.

Feng knew that he was wrong to show off his sword, but why was he so afraid of the 10-year-old priest? It's a bit confusing.

"This is called the Iron Sword?" An old man took the sword from the wind's hand.

"Interesting name" several old men immediately sat on the ground and studied.

"This thing is heavier than a regular stone tool!"

"I just don't know what it was made of, is it the kind of black stone we found?" The blade was black, similar to the kind of stone they knew.

"No way, that black stone is brittle"

"That's made of another kind of black stone!"

"I don't think it's made of stone, you see these patterns and handles are glued!"

Li Yue didn't want to eavesdrop at first, but as soon as he heard about the black stone, he suddenly came to his senses. There aren't a lot of black stones, and if there's still a little brittleness, it's probably coal!

"Excuse me" I have to ask if they have any of this kind of stone in their hands.

"Huh? What is the matter with you, Wise Man? The old man was a little nervous holding the sword and dagger, they had just gotten the sword, and they didn't see the reason! I was afraid that Li Yue would ask them to go back.

"I want to ask, do you have the black stone you were talking about?"

"Black stone? Who of you has it? The old men all looked at each other, and in their opinion this stone was brittle, what was the use of not being able to make stone tools? I gave up on it, and now I have to look for it and really think carefully about whether there is any stock around.

"I don't"

"Neither do I"

"I've given a big piece to my grandson before, but I don't know if it's still there. Wait for him to come and see me, I'll ask him."

"Well, thank you so much!" If this tribe had coal, then Li Yue's plan would have been different.

Now the iron they have is pig iron, pig iron performance is, carbon content, wear resistance, good castability, but hard and brittle, can not be forged. Therefore, the sword made is easy to break, but if it is wrought iron, it is completely different. Wrought iron performance, the texture is very soft, the ductility is good, easy to deform, the strength and hardness are low, easy to forge and weld, the combination of the two can make better weapons.

And the important point of doing this is the temperature, now they can only beat it to 1300 degrees Celsius with charcoal, but if it is coal, it can reach 1500 degrees, and this change in degree can not only make porcelain, but also forge better iron. It is indispensable for future development.

But if you want to get it, you must attract the attention of these tribes, and when the time comes, they will be red-eyed, and something else will happen if they can't keep it, so in order to avoid disputes, the coal must be in their own hands.

"Wise man, can you solve our doubts?"

"What?" Li Yue was more absorbed in thinking about the problem, so he didn't hear what they said earlier.

"We old men don't think it's made of any stone, do we?" The old people argued endlessly, and no one was convinced, but in the end, Li Yue was invited to comment.

"A few grandfathers guessed well, this is not made of stone, this is an ore, which is melted at high temperature and tempered" Li Yue was a little surprised by the sensitivity of these old people. In this era of infinite futures, they really can't be underestimated.

"I see! I see" After solving the puzzle, several old people showed pity and regret.

"I'll just say it! This thing must be something that can only be built after burning."

"Why didn't we make it," an old man thumped his leg in resentment. Because they have also tried to use fire to temper weapons, but they don't know why they often fail.

"There must be something missing," the other old man hunched back and forth.

"What kind of ore is it made of?" There was also an old man with a sword, and he kept touching and knocking, trying to discern what kind of ore it was.

Li Yue thought to himself that even if he didn't come through, they would definitely become the Iron Age in the near future.

"Grandpa! Grandpa! I've come to see you! ”

Before anyone could see it, a voice came in.

There was a black boy running from the entrance of the cave, his nose was red from the cold, and there were two snots hanging underneath. Holding something in his hand cautiously, when he saw a stranger in the cave, the boy immediately changed his action of holding something to cover it.

"Hey, Xiao Chunqiu, come here, Grandpa asks you something" The old man who was looking at the iron sword beckoned to the child.

"Grandpa! The boy avoided Li Yue and carefully handed the things in his hand to the old man.

"Yo, where did Xiao Chunqiu find the winter dates" The old man smiled happily when he saw the things in the child's hand. Then he pushed it back again.

"Xiao Chunqiu, Grandpa is old and can't chew anymore, you can give some of this to that little brother"

"Grandpa......" The child looked at the old man, then at Li Yue, and then lowered his head and reluctantly handed out two winter dates.

"Thank you" Li Yue took the winter dates in his hand, and then took out two finger-sized strips of meat from his body and handed them to him.

"Gifts are still exchanged!"

The child was shoved into his hand before he could react. Looking at the strip of meat in his hand, the child unconsciously licked his peeled lower lip.

"Grandpa, you eat this!" Resisting the desire to eat, the child picked up the strip of meat in his hand and handed it to the old man.

"Xiao Chunqiu, you eat by yourself" The old man stroked the child's head lovingly. Do not pick up the meat strips.

"Don't, grandpa, you eat, I'll give you all the food, don't you go!" The child was anxious, and immediately hugged the old man and cried.

Li Yue They looked strange, why did they cry?

The old man on the side sighed.

"Hey, it's actually like this, this year the tribe went to change salt, who didn't think that the fire tribe had been occupied by other tribes,

That tribe is full of warriors, and the people of our tribe go to change the salt, and the other party says that it will take 10 times the prey to change, or they will become their slave tribe, and for the sake of salt, we will exchange nearly half of the food for the winter to exchange for salt.

In addition, the weather was worse than in previous years, we did not have enough food, and we old men did not have the ability to hunt and gather, so in order to save rations, we wanted to leave the tribe by ourselves to fend for ourselves, but I didn't expect the leader and the clansmen to refuse, hey...... It's our old bones that drag them down," the old man shook his head.

"How so? What are you doing with all that salt? Li Yue felt strange, it stands to reason that they don't need to use half of the food for the winter.

"Mainly because of our tribe," another old man sighed, "our tribe has dragged them down"

"Don't say that about old friends," the old man comforted, but the other old man said with a lot of self-reproach.

"We are the people of the Bei tribe, and we are also the first tribe to change salt after the fire tribe was occupied, at that time we felt that the other party was just angry, did not belong to them, and did not prepare to exchange 10 times the food, so we fought, but we didn't expect our tribe to lose, not only the warriors who went to exchange salt were all killed, they also ran to our tribe, killed a lot of our warriors in the tribe, and also robbed our food.

Said to be a warning to us, next time we can only choose one of 2, it was too late when our warriors outside rushed back, and the light tribe changed so much salt to help us, and they also took us in"

The more the three of them, they were amazed at the courage of the female leader of the Light Tribe, her determination to take in so many people this winter, and the ability to exchange so much food for salt.

Compared to those tribesmen, this female leader is really amazing.

"Now the situation seems to be in the west, there will be a war in the short term."

According to his current analysis, first of all, these large tribes did not come for food, but mainly to force them to attach themselves to the west.

This must be a two-way plan, one is to prepare for these small tribes to provide food for the west for a long time.

The second is to prepare these tribes for the preparation of their warriors. That's why the tribe is attached to them.

No matter how you look at it, they are all doing grain and grass and troop storage, and since they have all hit their western edge, presumably this scale is relatively large, and things are more important. Except for starting a war, Li Yue couldn't think of anything else that needed to be done to this point. After all, there are more people gathered in the west.

Now that the hand of the west has reached here, as long as a war is launched over there, these small tribes will definitely be in front of the battlefield first, not to mention living in peace and seeking to develop these.

"By the way, Xiao Chunqiu, remember the black stone that Grandpa gave you? Still not there? ”

"Yes, grandpa, are you either?"

"It's that little brother who wants it, you go and bring it over" The corners of the old man's eyes were moist, his grandson had to run so far to find him something to eat in the winter, he was too sensible, but unfortunately he didn't have the ability to make him live as well as these people in front of him.

If his Xiao Chunqiu can live the same life as these people, then he has to fight for his old bones.

"Thank you," Li Yue came back to his senses.

Don't think so much about it at the moment, let's see if Blackstone is coal.

After a while, the child came with the black stone in his arms.

Really! Taking the black in the child's hand, Li Yue could identify this black stone as coal at a glance, this trip was really not in vain!

"Grandpa, how much is this kind of stone?" Li Yue asked happily with the joy of a bumper harvest.

"It's a lot, it's just a little far, and I'm about to go to the Bei tribe."

"Well, we have a lot of this kind of stone on the side of the Bei tribe, but what are you going to do?" The old man of the Bey tribe couldn't figure out what this brittle stone could do.

"A few grandfathers, you also know that we are from the Ji tribe," Li Yue confirmed that this was coal, and he would definitely vigorously mine this thing in the future.

But he couldn't tell the tribes what it did.

"yes, what's wrong?"

"I believe you also know what the Ji tribe looked like before, weak, homeless, weak and bulliable, and the performance of the four of us today does not match each other, but you look at the way we look now, obviously the conditions have been improved, and the force is stronger.

It's no longer a casual target for others to bully. It's because we have something that makes us rich and powerful. So the real purpose of our visit this time is to achieve common prosperity and help develop our small tribes together."

A glint appeared in the dim eyes of the old man opposite.

"And the Fire Tribe has not perished, he has integrated into our tribe,"

"The Fire Tribe wasn't wiped out?" The old people all exclaimed.

"So what are those beast tribes doing lying?"

For them, the news of the Fire Tribe's survival was evidence that the forces in the west weren't that strong. Then they don't have to be overly jealous of the beast tribe.

"I suspect that the West must be planning a war, or that it is about to break out passively. That's why we came to co-opt our tribes. And our small tribes are just victims of their wars, so for the sake of our people, we have to twist into a rope, unite together, be strong together, and no longer fear the invasion of the fierce tribes. Even more powerful than them. ”

"This?" Several old people were speechless by his heroic feats, but they were willing to do anything for the sake of their people. I just don't know what this wise man wants them to do.

"Wait a minute, let's go and call the chief," the old man felt that this matter was not something he could decide and change, and hurriedly called his grandson to inform the two chiefs to come to the cave.

The old men in the cave were all ambitious by Li Yue, and they were still digesting the new opportunities brought by Li Yue. Everyone was excited.

"It seems that this is a trivial thing for us, and it will become a treasure in your hands," stated the old man of the Bey tribe.

The old man keenly observed, if it weren't for the blackness in his hands, the wise man in front of him wouldn't have said this so early.

It's just that now I live just a little bit, and the survival of the tribesmen is the big thing.

"Where, everything I do now is just for the goal of peaceful development and common prosperity. It's all for a better tomorrow for the people. ”

The old man nodded in agreement. He also hopes that this day will come.

Hopefully, this young wise man will do what he says.