Chapter 78 (2/2)
Without hesitation, Shi Xiong said directly: ”yes, chief, these two kinds of seeds are actually the seeds of two crops. Rice can produce a kind of grain called rice. The yield should be similar to that of wheat. The key is that the taste of rice is very good. As for the cotton seed, the fruit produced after planting can be turned into cotton after a series of processing! The raw materials used in the cotton cloth traded by vasichus are produced by this kind of crop! ”
Hongyun and Lilei's face changed greatly. The rice should be put aside first, but the cotton cloth is really a good thing. If the tribe can produce cotton cloth, then the people will not have to exchange precious fur for cotton cloth every year.
Li Lei asked in a deep voice: ”guardian, what you said is true?”
”Yes, absolutely true. So chief, we have to take down the seeds of these two crops, which will enhance the strength of our tribe
Li Lei and Hong Yun look at each other. Hong Yun says, ”chief, since the guardian has said so, we will take these seeds first. We've got enough. ”
Li Lei nodded, ”we have enough things, but seeds have always been the tightest thing that the vasichus hold. If we want to exchange these seeds, we need to pay a great price.”
Hongyun said, ”it doesn't matter. We can afford to pay more for fur.”
Li Lei nodded, but the stone bear on one side said with a smile: ”leader, kabulu sacrifice, in fact, we don't need to use more fur, precious stones and yellow iron to exchange the things that vasichu brought.”
”How is that possible? What the vasichus want most are yellow iron and precious stones, followed by fur. If we don't exchange these things for what they bring, they won't exchange them for us... ”Li Lei suddenly thought of something and changed his face.” guardian, you'd better not try to rob or kill these vasichus. If we do, then these vasichus won't come to our tribe to trade in the future, We want to get the things of vasichu, either we take the goods to the royal court to exchange them, or we go to the places where vasichu people live in the east to exchange them. And either of these two ways is a way of consuming food and manpower. We can't do that. ”
”Chief, I think you misunderstood me. I didn't want to rob these vasichos, let alone kill them now. I mean, we have something better than fur in our hands now. Why don't we trade it for it? ”
”Something better than fur?” Li Lei and Hong Yun wonder, if there is such a good thing, why don't we know?
”Yes, it's more popular than fur. The value of this kind of thing itself is not high, but those vasichu people urgently need this kind of thing, so the popularity of this kind of thing on vasichu's side can even be compared with yellow iron and precious stones. ”
Seeing that the stone bear was so sure, Hongyun suddenly asked, ”Dali bear, are you talking about salt?”
Stone bear smile, ”bingo, is salt! We can use the salt produced by people in these days to exchange anything we need to them. And we has the final say. Believe me, if we negotiate with those vasichu in the way I said, they will be firmly held in our hands! ”