It is not for nothing that the fish people have this idea, they will make boats and nets to catch fish, and some of them look down on those relatively primitive and backward wild people in the deep mountains. After the fall of the Shimizu clan, although the number of foreign traders decreased, there were still them, because of the location, most of the things brought by the traders were now exchanged with the Yucun people, and then they were taken to the central valley by the Yucun people to exchange with other tribes, and they were equivalent to monopolizing the trade with the outside of the mountain.

There are more than 600 clansmen in Youyu Village, which is the most prosperous tribe in the wilderness, and also has many monks who have entered the initial realm and can cultivate. In comparison, if Lu Village did not have the two masters of Ruoshan and Ruoshui, the strength would not be able to compete with Youyu Village. But outsiders don't fully know how powerful Ruoshan is, and everyone knows very little about Ruoshui.

At the beginning, the ambitions of the Youyu clan were not too excessive, they just wanted to take the greatest advantage after the fall of the Qingshui clan. But as the past few years passed, they thought that they had seen the situation in the wilderness clearly, and their thoughts became more and more. The leader of the Yuyu clan gradually wants not only to replace the Shimizu clan, but also to dominate the various tribes in the wilderness and obey orders and command other tribes, which will inevitably lead to more and more conflicts.

The earliest conflicts were caused by something very special and precious, and that was salt. The people of the Qingshui clan dug several salt wells at the edge of the valley, and the salt wells could be used to draw out the salty springs, and the salty springs could be boiled to make salt. In the past, there were only two sources of salt needed by the tribes in this wilderness, either made by the people of the Qingshui clan or trafficked in by merchants outside the mountains.

However, in the past, the final destination of the merchants outside the mountain was also the Qingshui clan's walled city, so each tribe still had to go to the Qingshui clan's walled city to exchange their products for salt. After the destruction of the Shimizu clan, the salt well was abandoned for a time, and the tribes in the mountains were extremely short of salt for a period of time.

Lack of salt means one less way to dispose of and preserve fresh meat, and it is impossible to flavor other foods. Anyway, the fresh meat of the tribes in the mountains will basically be eaten quickly, and it can be preserved for a longer period of time by drying and roasting; more importantly, the body can't stand it, and people's tolerance will decline during long-term labor, and even cause various diseases.

The tribes began to draw salty springs from salt wells and then take them back to drink directly, but it was too laborious to transport them on the steep mountain roads, and then they began to boil salt. But maintaining salt wells is a sophisticated skill that requires a lot of manpower and proprietary tools, and is not something that ordinary clans can afford.

Some fish took the opportunity to occupy the salt well, they would catch fish, and many times the fish caught could not be eaten at one time, so they needed to dispose of the salt and preserve it, and they inquired from foreign traders, and gradually learned how to dig and maintain the salt well. Of course, it is good that someone can dig a well to maintain and cook table salt, and it requires nearly 100 men and women in total to sustain it.

Although salt is very important, it is not food and clothing after all, and you can't live with salt alone. It is difficult for a tribe to draw nearly 100 people to produce salt, and they have to rely on the labor of others to provide food and clothing, and even if there are fish tribes, it is very reluctant to do so. However, after the fish village occupied the salt well, it had more benefits, and the salt produced was not only used for its own use, but also exchanged for goods with other tribes at a high price. The so-called "valence" is a concept of measurement, which indicates the price to be paid in exchange for something.

This cost can be estimated, and if these nearly 100 people do not collect salt, how much they can obtain by engaging in other labor, then they can roughly exchange for the salt they produce, which is the most simple concept among the primitive tribes. Youyu Village did the same at first, but then the price became higher and higher, far exceeding this limit, causing dissatisfaction among other tribes, and conflicts were inevitable.

Youyu Village first pacified several demon villages in the depths of the wilderness and the farthest places where they lived, and promised to exchange salt with them for some special items that other tribes did not have. Then the rest of the strife is between the relatively close human tribes, and Yucun shows an arrogant attitude.

In this case, the only one who has the strength to compete with Yucun is Lu Village. But the patriarch Lu Shan also knew in his heart that if he and Ruoshui were not counted, the two masters, Lu Village would not be able to fight Youyu Village. They are such occasional masters, which are not often found in the tribes, and he also traveled to Ba Yuan in his early years, and saw with his own eyes the war between the sons of Ba after the division of Ba Kingdom, and he did not want the barbarian tribes in this area to also fall into that kind of tragic strife and chaos.

Ruoshan remembered the legends of Taihao, Shennong, Xuanyuan and other emperors in history when they were human emperors, and they all united various ministries to form alliances, resolve disputes and decide affairs, so Ruoshan also wanted to solve it in this way. However, in order to establish a tribal alliance, it is necessary to convince Yucun first, and large alliances must start with small alliances.

It is still difficult for Lu Village to compete with Youyu Village alone, but coupled with Huahai Village, which is not weak, it is enough to make Youyu Village bow its head and negotiate. Under their call, they can also get the support of other tribes, and on the basis of resolving the conflict in Yanjing, they will settle other disputes in that valley, and eventually form a tribal alliance.

Wakayama knew in his heart that the incident of Shioi was only a symptom and a beginning, and if the conflict was not resolved in the bud, it would lead to a wider and more serious dispute, and even lead to a scuffle between tribes. The fate of many people is miserable, and many tribes in the wilderness cannot withstand such an impact.

The day before yesterday, Ruoshan took Bo Zhuang, Zhong Zhuang and other clansmen to the valley where the original Qingshui clan was located, and he went to discuss this matter, but it happened that at the same time, the monkeys of Huahai Village deceived the people of Lu Village. Taking this as an opportunity, after he returned, he negotiated an alliance with Huahai Village.

A knot is a bond, like two things tied together by a rope, and an alliance signifies the observance of a common covenant.

Of course, the five-year-old tiger baby didn't know what kind of big thing the mountain master had done, and the disputes outside the village were not what he knew, and it was something that the adults were worried about. It was the bridge erected on the cliff that aroused his strong interest, and it was the first time that he intuitively understood such a thing as a "bridge". For a long time, Huwa always thought that the bridge was invented by Gu Xin and improved by the mountain master, but after a long time, when he came out of the wilderness and saw more and more ancient bridges, he realized that this was not the case.

With this bridge, it has also brought great changes to Huwa's life, his childhood has more fun, and his footprints can go further and have a broader horizon. On the side of the cliff after crossing the bridge, there is a relatively open gentle slope, and then go up through the mountain forest for about three miles, you can come to Huahai Village on the shore of the flower coast.

There are all kinds of dangers in the mountains, and children in the village are not allowed to run around, but since the bridge was opened, people have come and gone frequently, and the area between Lu Village and Huahai Village has become relatively safe. In the area surrounded by mountains, looking at the mountains, in Huwa's childhood, the most open scenery he saw was the sea of flowers, which was also the most beautiful scenery he saw in reality.

The reason why he said it was in reality was because he still had dreams. Since entering the initial realm of cultivation, the tiger baby has rarely dreamed of other dreams, but his cultivation is far from reaching the realm of dreamless people, and he will naturally fall asleep in the second half of the night, and occasionally dream when he is asleep. He often had the same dream, but it was always hazy and ethereal, and he couldn't remember it clearly when he woke up.

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In addition to hunting, raising chickens, and digging kudzu in the mountains, the main products of Lu Village are elm pods, green oak fruits, hemp and beans. In the mountains behind the village, there are large forests of green oak and old elm, which are gifts from heaven, and hemp and soybean are cultivated by the tribe themselves. However, due to the limited terrain, there is no large area of land around Lu Village that can be intensively cultivated, and only a field of soybean surrounded by hemp forests can be carved out on the hillside behind the village.

They also sprinkled the seeds of hemp and beans in the surrounding mountains and forests to make them grow in a messy way, which can only be harvested by the wild. The yield and difficulty of harvesting wild seeds are far less than those of self-cultivation. After the bridge was opened, there was a large area of suitable land on the opposite side of the cliff, and the village had more laborers, who walked over the cliff and opened up new hemp forests and soybean fields.

Later, the people of Huahai Village also learned to grow hemp and beans, and they opened up fields from the top of the mountain to the bottom of the mountain, and gradually connected with the fields opened up by the people of Lucun. Many years later, Huahai Village not only formed an alliance with Lu Village, but also gradually approached and assimilated various habits through communication and intermarriage.

The people of Huahai Village originally had no surname, but later some people took Lu as their surname, while another part of the people took Hua as their surname. The two tribes that were originally close to each other were assimilated and merged because of a bridge, and Lu Village and Huahai Village formed a small tribe in the mountains, with two villages connected by fields.

Li Qingshui, who was in the distance tree, also nodded secretly, Ruoshan, the patriarch of Lu Village, was indeed one of the most outstanding people in this wilderness. It was under his guidance that Ruoshan was able to cultivate through the first realm, and before the age of forty, he entered the fifth realm. It's a pity that just like the vast majority of monks in the world, it is difficult to enter the Six Realms in his life, and in the past few decades, Ruoshan's cultivation has always been the peak of the Five Realms and Nine Transformations.

Ruoshui entered the Five Realms decades later than Ruoshan, but now it is already the Seven Turns of the Five Realms, and it is not much different from Ruoshan's cultivation. Of course, you can't just look at a person's cultivation, cultivation is only a personal matter, Ruoshan still has to deal with others, and has various identities and achievements. In Li Qingshui's view, the alliance between Ruoshan Ranglu Village and Huahai Village can be called frustration, conflict resolution, harmony, and dust.

Of course, it was a long time before Huahai Village and Lu Village merged into one tribe. At least in Huwa's childhood, they were two newly formed tribal villages that were still relatively independent. However, soon after the alliance between the two villages, the dispute over the salt wells in the Wild Central Valley was resolved.