Chapter 166 (1/2)

Although Shi Xiong has never seen the mine accidents in the small coal mines in his previous life, he has heard and seen the relevant reports.

Once a mine accident happens, almost all the miners will die. As long as the miners go down the well, they can hardly escape the reaping of death's scythe.

Obviously, the mining time of this saltpeter mine in Xiaohe tribe is not very long, and with the present pure manual mining method, the mine is not deep enough.

Therefore, the most basic support now can at least avoid large-scale landslides.

This saltpeter mine is really very important for the stone bear. At least, the stone bear thinks that before taking over the western plateau of the new world, if there is no accident, this saltpeter mine will have to support its own plan for more than ten years.

Naturally, he didn't want to see a mine disaster in this saltpeter mine.

Firecracker is the key to hot weapons in the future. Without it, hot weapons will be a burning stick.

Although the main way to obtain pyrotechnics in Europe has now become nitrate field method, that is, using human and livestock urine to make potassium nitrate, stone bear really does not want to use nitrate field.

On the one hand, the most important thing is the taste. As long as you think of the gunpowder made by yourself, its main raw material is extracted from the urine of human and livestock, you can forget the disgust.

In other words, as long as they use nitrate fields to extract nitrate, the stone bear will surely take the lead in taking the first batch of nitrate, which is something that the stone bear can't stand.

Moreover, the output of this kind of natural saltpeter ore is much higher than the quantity of pyrolite obtained from the nitrate field.

Therefore, it is the key to preserve this saltpeter mine as much as possible.

Lei Ying obviously heard what Shi Xiong said. After he came out, he kept asking how to fight the guard and how to take some safety measures.

Although the stone bear doesn't know much about this knowledge, he hasn't eaten pork. Haven't he seen a pig run? Thanks to his previous life in the era of information explosion, he knew something about it.

For example, how to do support, for example, the mining face should not be too large, for example, don't carry out mining when there is a rainstorm and so on. Shi Xiong told the future father-in-law a lot.

Because a lot of saltpeter was involved in the shipment, it must be impossible to load the boat in one day, so they lived in Xiaohe tribe for two days.

It seems that Hongyun, the high priest of kabulu, likes the Xiaohe tribe very much. Although most of the people in this tribe are chekasa people, it is hard for Hongyun to hate these chekasa people who are tired of war and do not hesitate to hide in the mountains and forests.

Despite their status as chekasa people, these simple people are almost no different from the people of gaoshu tribe. Are the same yellow skin, black hair, black eyes, say almost the same words, what's the difference?

At this time, Hongyun understood why his guardian had a high look at the Xiaohe tribe.

Not only the woman he valued was the princess of this tribe, but also the main raw material for making gunpowder in Xiaohe tribe. What Dali Xiong valued most was the people in this tribe!

Although Hongyun doesn't know anything about social economics or demographic dividend. However, as a kabulu sacrifice, she knows the importance of population to a tribe and even to an ethnic group.

If the Cherokee had a larger population, they would not have been driven out of the Great Lakes region by the Iroquois and the delavais. In the same way, if there were more powatans, the later Cherokees would not drive away the powatans who have lived in this mountainous area for hundreds and thousands of years.

Similarly, if the gaoshu tribe wants to return to its heyday and even surpass the glory of the Cherokee high priesthood, then its people are indispensable.

In any case, a tribe of 300 people can't be compared with a tribe of 3000 people, just like the chieftain of the Cherokee court. The population is just a few thousand people, and no one else can shake the chieftain.

If, according to the plan of Dali Xiong, through trading and in laws, Xiaohe tribe is firmly tied to gaoshu tribe, and then slowly integrates with this tribe, and then calls back those tribal people who were separated before, even if they can't see the light of Xiaohe tribe, But the scale and influence of kabulu sacrificial clan can be immediately promoted to the level of being side by side with the chief clan.

It's just around the corner to restore the glory of kabulu people in the past!

The purpose of Hongyun is to investigate the life of the people of Xiaohe tribe.

Now it seems that these people are very satisfied with Hongyun.

A lot of saltpeter was transported out of the valley by the people of Xiaohe tribe, and then loaded on the boat batch by batch. This process lasted for two days.

The refined salt and ironware that the tribal leaders brought from the gaoshu tribe make the people in the Xiaohe tribe very high in quality. They have never seen such exquisite salt or used such tough steel knives. Therefore, these people like to keep a long-term trade with the gaoshu tribe from their heart.

Twenty thousand pounds of saltpeter were loaded on four ships on average, which was the first thing to be traded.

When the boat was loaded, leader Lei Ying led the high-level of the tribe to have a good dinner for Hongyun and his party. Although they were all ordinary barbecues and stews, the success of this transaction made the people of the two tribes very happy.

Some people of Xiaohe tribe even spontaneously performed their tribal dance, which made the atmosphere of the scene more fiery.

In the face of the soon to leave love Lang, white cloud this girl is also reluctant to part. But there is no way, she knows that the future will become his big man, there are many things to be busy, he should not become his fetters.

However, after the banquet, they found a corner where there was no one. They had been courting each other for a long time

Early the next morning, with the gloomy weather, four inland river armed transport ships set sail again and went down the haiwoxi river. However, as they enter the Tennessee River, they will sail upstream, so they will return to the high tree tribe in four to five days.

And after returning to the gaoshu tribe, the stone bear can't stay idle.

After these nitrates are transported back, they need to go through certain treatment methods to extract the real nitrates from these nitrates.

This kind of naturally formed niter can not be directly used to make gunpowder. It needs to be purified before it can be used to make gunpowder!