Chapter 464 (1/2)
William hank left with his men and 200 pounds of sands. He will continue to search for all kinds of talents for the stone bear.
Gold is not a precious thing for the North American Indians of this era. This kind of golden precious metal is crazy outside the new world, but in the Indian tribes of the new world, gold is really nothing.
This can be seen from the Cherokee people's call of gold ”black iron”.
When gold was thoroughly valued by the Indians, it had to wait until the founding of the United States and then westward. Because a large amount of gold was found in the Midwest of the United States, it stimulated the Americans to make up their mind to move westward. As a result, many native Indians were defeated. Only in this way did the Indians realize that their own force could not match the yellow metal
Today's North American Indians still trade by barter. Money is of no use to them at all, so gold and silver are of little use to them. At most, they are used as ornaments.
For the vast majority of North American Indians in this era, a handful of sands can't be compared with a bag of grain!
Jinsha can be found in the river, but food is precious.
So the two hundred pounds of gold that the stone bear gave William hank was enough for him to do a lot of things in Europe.
Although the stone bear knows the value of gold, at this critical moment, gold is taken out to exchange things and people! As long as there are enough talents and all kinds of materials, we will not worry about the continuous growth of the Cherokee people. As long as the Cherokees grow to a certain extent, the whole North American continent will be tribal. By then, with the big gold mines in the Midwest, will the tribes still have less gold?
You should know that the United States and Canada are both one of the top ten gold producing countries in the world, and their combined gold production can even reach the first in the world!
Now others don't know this, but the stone bear whose soul comes from later generations knows it.
Therefore, as long as we accumulate enough strength to unify the new continent of North America, we will not worry about gold and silver.
Now, the mere 200 pounds of sand is nothing to the stone bear.
Seeing off William hank, stone bear began to focus on the reform of the tribe.
Yes, Shi Xiong borrowed the word ”reform” from later generations and began to prepare for a drastic rectification of the tribe.
The merger of small tribes is only one of the projects. At present, the most important thing for the tribe is to implement the new farm tools and the taming of bison as soon as possible.
Food is the foundation of everything. If you have food in your hand, you will not panic! As long as the whole tribe has enough food reserves, the stone bear will have the courage to do anything.
Now it's 1767. If the track of history doesn't change too much, the war of independence will break out in another eight years. By then, the whole of North America will have disruptive changes.
If you don't want to repeat those historical tragedies, stone bear needs to make all preparations in the remaining eight years, and then reserve enough strength to change those tragedies that have happened.
There is not much time left for the stone bear.
Fortunately, Shi Xiong's prestige is high enough, and he also controls enough deterrent armed forces. Therefore, under his strong promotion, the tribal reform projects are progressing in an orderly way.
When the weather came to the hottest month of the year, everyone was too hot to move, but in a room of the ash palace, it was cool and pleasant.
With enough nitrates, it's not hard to make ice. When saltpeter dissolves in water, it will absorb a lot of heat, which will cause the water temperature to drop rapidly and eventually form ice.
So, even if it's hot, it's cool here.
Of course, the stone bear usually will not be so extravagant, using the raw materials of black powder to make ice to cool down. Although smokeless powder and xiaojizha medicine have begun to replace black powder as the source of gunpowder used by the stormy bear army, black powder, a kind of low-cost gunpowder, can not be replaced in many places.