Chapter 234 (2/2)

”I like it! They all like it! I like it, too! ” Dashi said happily.

”Well, I'll bring you more next time I come.” Stone bear said very readily.

Dashi waved his hand, ”guardian, I don't mean that. I mean, can our tribe trade with your tribe? Last time you came here, you said that your tribe is now trading with the vasichus in the East, using salt to trade with them. But you can see the situation here. We also want to trade with the vasichus and exchange some war horses with them, but we have no way to trade with the vasichus, so I want our tribe to trade with your tribe, and then you can trade some war horses with the vasichus for us. ”

The stone bear didn't agree immediately. He basically understood the situation of the apalu tribe. This small tribe in the deep mountains has no special products. Most of the people make a living by fishing, planting, picking and hunting. It's hard to say. They can't even manage their stomachs. What do they trade?

Dashi saw the look on the stone bear's face and laughed. He reached out and took down a small animal skin bag hanging in his waist. Then he poured out some granular things of different sizes from the bag to his hand.

With the help of the light of the bonfire, the stone bear can see clearly the little things in the palm of the big stone. The golden light almost makes the stone bear jump up.

”Uncle, where did you get the black iron?” Black iron is the Indian's name for gold. In the palm of the big stone, this small pinch of granular things is a pinch of sand gold. Some of the gold grains are about the size of peas, and more of them are not much bigger than sand.

The Indians, especially those in the West and those living deep in the mountains, don't pay much attention to gold. In their opinion, gold is soft, hard to exploit and can't be smelted. It's worth less than an iron knife.

Although the Indians in South America and Central America have mastered the technology of smelting gold, in North America, the technology of smelting gold is only in the hands of a few tribes, so gold is really useless to the Indians in North America, and decoration is the most important role of this metal.

Even before the European colonists entered the new world, the Indians of the whole new world of North America had this view of gold.

As a matter of fact, not only the Indians of the North American continent, but also the Indians of central and South America have this view of gold.

No matter the Mayans, Aztecs or Incas, they have their own social form and country. But they don't pay much attention to the metal of gold, that is, the metal is not rusty and the color is the same as the sun. In other aspects, gold is really not very useful.

You know, the Spaniards who came to South America and Central America in the early days of that year, the local Indians even exchanged the same weight of gold for a knife made of pig iron

The North American Indians, who have no social form and no country, don't care much about gold. Just from the name ”black iron”, we can see that Indians really don't care about gold.

”It was discovered about three months ago by several soldiers of our tribe who went deep into the mountains to hunt, and then found it on the Bank of a small river. I know that the vasichus like this kind of thing very much, so I want to exchange this kind of thing with the vasichus for some war horses. Guardian, do you think so? ”

that 's ok! Of course! How can this not work?

This is enough to make those colonists crazy gold! It's absolutely easy to trade this thing for horses.

Stone bear nodded and said: ”uncle, it's no problem that this thing is used to exchange horses with vasichus!”