Volume 2: The Loose World Chapter 130: Re-examination (32) Zehou Department

There are a lot of dangers in Daze, but the resources are also very rich, there are not a few tribes that survive, the inheritance of ancestors, the harsh environment around them, they also have a way to overcome it, and it is not as difficult as imagined.

In fact, if you talk about danger, the jungle may not be better than Daze, poisonous insects and beasts are also endless, there are many strange plants, but they have grown in the forest since childhood, and the wood tribe has long been accustomed to it, and there is a way to overcome it.

When they arrived in Daze, if there were all kinds of difficulties, the Daze tribe would have a thousand kinds of discomfort when they entered the jungle, which was normal, one side of the water and soil and one person, one side of the people was suitable for the other side of the water and soil, and the environment and human beings affected each other.

Located in the central part of the Osawa region, the Žamu is inhabited by a vast expanse of reeds, surrounded by treacherous swampy lakes, and small islands are lonely floating in them, at least a hundred miles in circumference, and are extremely rich in products.

The waters around the tribe are vast, the aquatic materials are extremely rich, the Zehou Department lives on fishing and hunting, harpoons and fishing nets are used, the tribesmen are very good at swimming, the combat effectiveness under the water is quite high, and they can hold their breath for a long time.

The history of planting, planting and making hemp is more than 500 years, and they can use twine to weave fishing nets, and the fishing nets of the surrounding tribes are provided by them, and they can weave cloth, but they rarely trade, and they are all provided to the Ministry of War King.

In addition, the Ministry of Zehou will also breed wild geese, wild ducks and swans, which are tens of thousands of them, which are a source of a large amount of meat.

Water chestnuts and lotus flowers are also cultivated, their fruits are picked, and even rice is planted, but in small quantities, wild rice yields are not high, and the seeds are scattered near the tribe to let them grow freely.

Every ten years, it is the day when the surrounding big tribes make offerings to the Hou Ministry, and at the same time carry out the trade fair of Daze, the time is similar to that of the jungle, because the end of the trade fair of the Hou Ministry, it is the trade fair of the Wang Ministry.

Unlike the jungle, there are staggered rivers and rafts, as long as there is enough beast repellent grass, even if it is not a trade fair, there are many people who go to the Zehou Department to trade, and it is carried out all year round, and the Gu tribe is one of them.

There are more than 3,000 people in the Gu tribe, 1,002 warriors, and three special warriors, and their combat effectiveness is not significant, but they are ingenious, especially good at weaving, so the Ministry of Zehou handed over the craft of weaving fishing nets to them.

There are very few fishing nets woven by the Zehou tribe themselves, and most of them are handed over to large households such as the Gu tribe, who provide raw materials and craftsmanship, and the Gu tribe provides labor, and the fishing nets made are traded to the Zehou tribe at ultra-low prices.

At this time of year, the team of the Gu tribe will transport the fishing nets made to the Zehou Department, and when the raft team passed by, they happened to meet the Mu tribe who wanted to find the Zehou Department, but did not know the way.

Asked about the destination of the Gu tribe, the Mu tribe happily proposed to go along, their team is really a bit powerful, nearly two hundred warriors, even people and horses, it is not easy to provoke, and it is in the wilderness.

The raft team was very vigilant at first, but when they saw that they had taken out two exquisite pottery and were willing to use the pottery as a guide fee, the Gu tribe did not resist the temptation, so they agreed and took them to the Zehou Division.

There were only a hundred rafts in total, and they carried a large amount of goods, plus the people and horses of the Mu tribe, the rafts seemed very crowded, but their pottery was really beautiful and valuable, so the leader of the Gu did not say much.

This kind of ordinary raft, the wooden tribe can also be compiled, but the team walks a lot, there are no rivers in many places, it is very inconvenient to carry a raft, and when encountering an area with a river, it is also a shallow detour.

If it is smooth sailing, it is not a problem to travel a hundred miles a day, and after two days and two nights, I finally left the wasteland, and a huge lake appeared in front of me, not to mention a radius of three hundred miles, and I could faintly see the small island in front of me.

Xiao Zhou looked very close, but after walking for a full day, he really came to the front and saw the dense fluttering reeds, and the soldiers guarding the side of Zehou stopped the raft team and checked their identities.

The Gu tribe is their old acquaintance, but the wood tribe is a fresh face, and there are many people who come to the Zehou Department to trade, and the wood tribe is not blocked, but the cavalry and archers are stopped outside the reeds.

There were scattered islands on the side to rest, and the warriors led their war horses down, and Mu Wu and Yu, with twenty flesh and blood warriors, rode into the reeds on a raft, and walked forward for a long time, and finally came to the Zehou Department.

Zehou lived in the middle of the island, and built thatched huts with reeds, and in higher places, there were high-end wooden houses, and the normal people wore fish skin clothes and crocodile skin clothes, and a few high-level people wore cloth clothes.

There is a bare open space outside the tribe, and the reeds have built a wide shed, which is the place where the Houbu trades, and there are many rafts moored on the river, and the rafts made of hemp rope of the Houbu are more sturdy and beautiful.

The Gu tribe moored the raft behind, and immediately the people of the Zehou tribe stepped forward to help them carry and unload the fishing nets, and the Mu Wu also led people down the raft and followed the people of the Zehou tribe to the trading shed.

It is not during the trade fair, there are very few people in the shed, and there are few outside, there are stalls of the Zehou Department, food, leather, plants, medicinal herbs, and there are also clansmen who set up their own stalls and put scattered gadgets.

In the overproduction of the waiting department, private ownership has long appeared, but it has not yet been formed, the concept of the tribe and its own, is still vague, and it is not clear, the stalls of the tribesmen, there are some gadgets made by themselves.

Rope made of reeds, knives made of animal teeth, beasts carved in stone...... Mu Wu looked at it a little and walked towards the stall of the Zehou Department, where there were more kinds of things, small pieces of linen cloth, and dried salted fish......

His gaze was attracted by the net pockets, which contained pieces of plant fragments, cut so finely that they could not see their original appearance, and even the ability of the Wood Witch could no longer allow it to grow.

The place where animal repellent grass is planted has always been the important place of the Zehou Department, and the finished products that are traded outside are carefully processed, leaving no roots and stems, no seeds, and meticulous cutting to ensure that they will not be recognized.

For this kind of treasure, the protection is quite tight, it is the secret of the Zehou Department, naturally it cannot be known, the wood witch dispelled the idea of planting and cultivating, and asked: "How did the beast repellent grass change?"

"Animal repellent grass, a net of 300 catties of meat, or 3 catties of salt, smash it and soak it in water, within a distance of arm's width, there will be no more river beasts to invade. The old man standing in front of the stall opened his arms and strokes.

About eight feet away, the Wood Witch sniffed the cloth bag and continued to ask, "How long can it be used for all river beasts?"

"If you don't smash it, you can put it in five cold and heat, and if you smash it, you can use it for three months, and everything below the beast will work. The old man thought for a moment and added, "No matter how old it is." ”

It lasts for five years and works for three months, Mu Wu summoned the warriors behind him, opened the animal skin in the back basket, took out a new pottery, and asked, "How many such pottery can be replaced?"

The old man's face straightened, he had seen a lot of pottery, even the painted pottery of the royal department, but he had never seen such a beautiful one, the surface was extremely smooth, reflecting the bright light, the whole body was clear, flawless, perfect!

"I can't be the master, I need to find an adult to decide. The old man hurriedly confessed and left the shed, and soon an old man dressed in cloth came to the shed.

Looking at his appearance, it should be the person in charge of trade in the Ministry of Zehou, when he saw the pottery in Mu Wu's hand, his eyes were suddenly bright, and he quickened his pace, took the pottery and looked at it carefully, his eyes were full of joy.

"How many of these beautiful pottery do you have? Where did you get it? Did you refine it? Do you still have it?" After a long time, the old man in cloth put down the pottery and asked a few questions.

"No, we exchanged it from a traveling merchant, and there isn't much left. Mu Wu's face did not change, but he quietly became vigilant and replied.

There are very few traveling merchants on the mainland, but they are real, the primitive environment is full of dangers, but they cannot resist the temptation of profits, and there are always a few people in the world, for the sake of high interests, putting life and death out of the way.

The traveling merchant is the most significant representative, the traveling merchant is often a powerful warrior, some of the tribes, some of the tribes, travel with each other, the goods of various characteristics, to the scarce place.

"That's it!" the old man shook his head in disappointment, and replied, "That's it! What do you think of such a beautiful pottery in exchange for a hundred beast repellent grass?"

Mu Wu showed hesitation, and the old man in cloth was ruthless, and stretched out two fingers: "Two hundred!

Seeing that Mu Wu was still hesitating, the old man turned ruthless, gritted his teeth and said, "Three hundred! Three hundred at most! No more! No more, you won't be able to take it out!"

"Okay! three hundred!" Mu Wu looked embarrassed, he could only nod in agreement, and the old man smiled, obviously, he was also very satisfied with such a deal.

"How much are you going to change?" he asked.

"Three hundred first!" replied, "Let's look at the others." ”

The old man frowned, and it was a little unsightly, but when he heard that he had to change to something else, he became happy again, and enthusiastically introduced all kinds of goods to him.

Soon, Mu Wu's eyes were attracted by a bag of seeds, and the old man in cloth said: "This is a mang! The taste of mango is very good! Use a wooden stick to smash open the shell of the piercing hand, and use the fruit inside to cook the broth, which is soft and glutinous." ”

"And the fruit is very small, a hundred people holding hands around the mangdi, only one person carries the fruit, and only adults can eat it. "Adults are not adults, but high-ranking members of the tribe.

Hundreds of people join hands to encircle, that is, about two acres, one person is a hundred catties on his back, and the yield per mu is fifty catties, which is indeed pitiful, Mu Wu asked directly: "How to change these mangs?"

"A beautiful pottery and a cloth!" The old man in cloth cut the railway, a cloth is a cloth bag, Mo about a hundred catties, and then added: "For the sake of friendship! ”

Is it expensive? That's really expensive! But Mu Wu had to change, rice is the staple food, after the domestication and replacement of the tribe, the yield per mu is definitely much higher than wheat, and the Mu tribe, which is under increasing pressure on the population, is extremely important.

"Okay!" Mu Wu asked the clansmen to take out a new pottery and handed it to the old man in cloth, the old man's face smiled, but Mu Wu did not smile, his face straightened, and asked in a deep voice: "Is there a map of Daze in the Zehou Department?"

The smile of the old man in cloth gradually froze, and the same was true of the Zehou people around him, in the primitive era, it was definitely a dangerous thing to be asked by others about the map of his territory, and it was also some kind of provocation in disguise.