Vol 5 Chapter 36: The secret of table salt

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At the end of the day, the men returned with loads of loads. They brought back a saber-toothed tiger, two deer, several rabbits and mice, more than a dozen large fishes of one meter long. The mammoth was too heavy to be skinned and meat-cut and transported back to the tribe.
This was the biggest hunt in the history of the salt department. The harvest was too much. The women were ecstatic, almost crazy, and they had to worship the gods again.
The first thing to do is to process the processed ingredients. The women first use polished sharp stones to peel off the skin of the prey for separate processing. The high-quality thighs and are marinated with salt, and the remaining corners, including the five internal organs The six-fu-organs, head, and paws were eaten on the spot. A woman sliced ​​open the deer's stomach and took out the semi-digested food in it for her child to eat. The taste was terrible, but the five- or six-year-old didn’t dislike it and ate with relish .
Liu Yanzhi and Zhen Yue didn't laugh at these primitive people. They almost fell to the point where they had to eat the things in the stomach of vegetarian dinosaurs in order to supplement vitamins.
What everyone in the salt department likes the most is not meat, but fat. The fat under the mammoth’s skin is ten centimeters thick. The white suet looks greasy. People use wooden spoons to dig the suet on the spot to eat. The food is so beautiful. Eat fat, but eat Haagen-Dazs.
"They are too short of oil and water." Zhen Yue said, "Look, everyone is thin like a monkey. No one has high blood pressure, fatty liver, or high cholesterol."
"Yes, fat has the highest calories, and it can be converted into energy when you eat it." Liu Yan said straight, suddenly a flash of inspiration, why modern people are afraid of eating high-calorie foods and stay away from pork suet. This is because high-calorie foods are easily converted into fat. , Make people become fat, but primitive people do not have this situation, their labor intensity is high enough, fat in the body is the existence of energy storage. In other words, fat is the super high-energy fuel for life, but humans have not made good use of it.
If fat is an energy reserve, what is an inner alchemy?
Liu Yan lost his thoughts until Zhen Yue touched him: "Hey, what are you doing with a bunch of wood?"
"Oh, this is called yew, also called yew, it's a good material for bows and arrows." Liu Yanzhi introduced that yew is very famous, and the British longbowmen in the Middle Ages used yew long bows. The wood is hard and tough, and can store energy to launch arrows to far away.
The bow arm is there, the bowstring is wrapped with deer tendons and the hair is used as the bow. The production of the arrow is also more cumbersome. It needs to be roasted straight on the fire with wooden hard twigs. The front is tied with a sharp bone, and the back is made with fish bladder. Glue the feathers to increase the range.
Liu Yanzhi made a simple bow to let a chicken out of the cage. The chicken spread its wings and flew higher and higher. People hurriedly scratched their ears and scratched their cheeks. Liu Yan straightened his bow and set an arrow, and shot the chicken down with one arrow. He drew the bow in a cool manner and said: "Eat Kung Pao Chicken at night."
Zhen Yue joked on the side: "People shoot vultures, you shoot chickens, can you still pursue a bit?"
Liu Yan smiled straightly: "For them, the bow and arrow is already a cross-epoch progress." He said that he threw the bow to everyone's appreciation.
The men in the salt department had never seen such exquisite weapons, and they were amazed one by one, and then worshipped. This time it was not a worshipping but bows and arrows.
For the Neolithic Age, bows and arrows are no different from the functions of nuclear bombs in the twentieth century. They are an absolute killer, but Liu Yanzhi was dissatisfied with this, and he wanted to improve the spear for the salt department.
This kind of improvement is relatively simple. Fill a stone pot with mammoth fat, pile it with firewood to refine the oil, and then put the sharpened sticks in the boiling oil pot for frying. The treated wood is even harder. It will not break when hunting animals. Of course, the cost of doing so is too high. In order not to waste oil, Zhen Yue leads the women to put the meat into hot oil and fry a bunch of delicious meatloaf.
Since he wants to live in the salt department, sleeping in the pit is not the best option. Liu Yanzhi found a clearing in the village, drew a square with an axe, then ordered a few men and ordered them to work with him. The men took The tools, of course, are some stone axes and chisels. They go with the gods to cut wood. The gods use an axe made of meteorite. It is a matter of two or three blows to cut down the big tree that the two of them hug. People are stunned.
In an instant, dozens of trees were chopped down by Liu Yan, and he showed his supernatural power, resisting the thickest trunk, and returning to the village to peel the bark and build houses. Liu Yan, who has rich carpenter experience, used the speed lever to build houses. Yes, one day, a "palace" of pure wood structure was completed.
You can imagine the shock in the hearts of the people of this matriarchal society. The gods are gods, not to mention their infinite power, and they also teach everyone the technique of building houses with wood. Looking at the wooden houses built by the gods, the beauty can only exist in dreams. The palace where beautiful gods live.
Liu Yanzhi and Zhen Yue moved into the palace. At least they don't have to worry about moisture and rain. The salt department has enough food reserves, and he finally started to make alchemy.
But how does this Dan practice? Liu Yanzhi couldn't figure out the way. He had heard some methods taught by Chen Tuan, but it was as obscure as the heavenly book, and could not be applied to the reality. He didn't understand how to supervise the two channels and sink his dantian.
The so-called inner alchemy, could it be a kidney stone-like existence, a crystal formed in the body forcibly?
He took out the colorful ball to look at it. He couldn't see the doorway at all, and tried to connect with his mind, but he failed.
Tossing for two days, to no avail.
Zhen Yue had some results. She put the mud pots in the firepit and burned them into pottery. She also painted various simple geometric figures on them. A group of women gathered around Zhen Yue to study and chatted in excitement.
"Look, what is painted on this?" Zhen Yue presents a burnt pottery pot in front of Liu Yanzhi as a gift. The bottom of the pot outlines a man, a woman and a big dog with childish lines. Huge airship.
"This children's drawing level is enough for the big class standard." Liu Yan praised.
In fact, he understood that the invention of pottery was no less important to the tribe than the bow and arrow.
Liu Yan simply stopped practicing, and led the men to practice archery. The women in the salt department were ingenious. In the past few days, they had made hundreds of arrows, enough for them.
The men in the salt department are also very uplifting. Almost all of them are born archers. When they get their bows and arrows, they are like poor children who have unmatched expensive toys. They cherish and care, study hard, and get started quickly. Proficient, within two days, he can shoot birds and fast-running small beasts.
With a solid foundation, Liu Yanzhi exclaimed.
From winter to spring, the land is warming up, and it’s time to trade between tribes. There are more than one tribe living in this land. In addition to the fish department on the opposite side of the lake, there are many other tribes. Every spring and autumn, The tribes would choose a flat place and bring their tribe's specialties for material exchange. These days, there is no currency, and they are all bartering things. If the mind is more complicated, you can make a fortune just by dumping the goods.
The Salt Ministry is a small tribe, and the only thing that can be found is table salt.
Cuiwei Mountain is located in the hinterland and does not rely on the sea. Humans cannot survive without relying on salt. Therefore, salt is a hard currency. It can be exchanged for a lot of food and tools, but it can also bring disasters. After all, salt is too precious, everyone wants Get this big secret of salt production.
Where the salt in the Ministry of Salt comes from, even the people don’t know. The only person who holds the secret is the chief, the old woman named Hui by Liu Yanzhi, because she looks a bit like South Korean President Park Geun-hye. In fact, the only people in the Ministry of Salt The last name has no name, and a person with status like Hui only has a respectable name, and it is the first time that he has his own name.
Hui went out alone at night, and returned early in the morning, with an extra skin of coarse salt on her back. This is the main product of the Spring Fair. Others also include a batch of mammoth fat, marinated jerky, and pottery. The women carry the goods. The men wore armor made of rhino leather, armed with spears, and carrying bows and arrows. They were guarding the front and back of the team. Liu Yanzhi and Zhen Yue were also in the caravan. They wanted to see the market in the new era.
After a day of walking, the caravan from the Ministry of Salt arrived at the bazaar. They were considered to be relatively close. It is said that there were more than a dozen sunrises and sunsets to trade.
The market is huge. Everyone occupies a place, sits on the floor, lays out the goods, lets others choose, and when they like it, they take out their own goods to sign, and say "Go!" If you don't agree, they boo the end of the transaction. Primitive people are very simple. They don't think much about cost performance in trading transactions, but only consider the importance of commodities to their own homes.
Those pots and pots are the works of Zhen Yue, and she is also a goddess worshipped by the tribe, so she has the right to control these goods. Out of a woman’s nature, Zhen Yue exchanged pots for some worthless things. These things are all The primitive tribes least value non-necessities, but they are all valuable treasures when they get the benchmark time and space.
After half a day, Zhen Yue exchanged five pots for two one-meter-long ivory, a small pile of turquoise red agate, a large piece of crystal, a handful of beautiful emerald feathers, and a piece of white jade with fine texture.
Salt in the Ministry of Salt is the most demanding commodity. In fact, it is not that there is no salt for sale. The caravan that came to trade for half a month was sent by a tribe who lived on the seaside and mainly engaged in drying salt. They went so far. The journey is to sell rare goods at a good price, but there are also salt-producing tribes in the mainland, which makes their way go for nothing, and the price cannot go up. This trip has suffered a lot.
The people of the seaside tribes have a great opinion on the Salt Ministry. Their caravans are large in number and their weapons are sharp. They are made of sharp shark teeth tied with wooden sticks. These people want to trouble the Salt Ministry, but the Salt Ministry It's not easy to bully either. Wearing leather armor, holding a spear, and a new type of weapon with a long range, it is enough to deter those who have ghosts in their hearts.
The market is not peaceful, because there is no one who presides over justice, so forced buying and selling often happen, disputes together, it is necessary to fight, and then bring out the old hatred between the tribes ~ EbookFREE.me ~ killed. All are light, and wars are possible.
However, at this Spring Fair, the other tribes were all targeted at the Ministry of Salt, accusing them of driving up the price. Last year, ten deerskins could be exchanged for a can of salt. How did it rise to fifteen today? This is a monopoly, bullying and dominating the market. Not allowed. Of course, this is just what they want to express. In fact, the language cannot be so rich.
Hui understands that if someone provokes the divorce, it's probably a ghost by the seaside tribe. With the presence of a god, she dared not make any claims, first asked Liu Yanzhi what to do.
Liu Yan asked her directly, how to resolve this contradiction in the past?
Hui used various new vocabularies to tell Liu Yanzhi that there were three ways to solve similar things in the past. One is to find a respectable person to mediate, this person is often the most powerful tribal leader, and the other is that the tribe elects a representative to compete. , The winner can get the right of first choice. The third is the most extreme solution, which is a full-scale war, ending with the elimination of the opponent.
Liu Yan said bluntly, you go and tell the other tribes that tomorrow, we will win the martial arts competition. We will decide the price. If they win, the salt will be given away for nothing.
Hui is very happy. She knows that the golden age of the tribe is coming.