Walk out of the cave and prepare to return to the camp.
Look at the seizure, the clay pots and jars, archaeologists will be very interested, but Ye Qing is not interested, and these things are useless to the tribe.
Some animal skins are still useful to the tribe, but they are not very useful, and they are better than nothing.
His attention was on the red paint...cinnabar!
Cinnabar is a very useful mineral.
When making ceramics, Ye Qing used some cinnabar, which were used by the patriarch to make pigments.
The clan leader's cinnabars were traded from Wang Mangguo, and the clan leader didn't know the specific origin.
Now that I saw cinnabar again, Ye Qing's heart moved.
There is likely to be a cinnabar mine nearby!
There are only two sources of cinnabar. They either found it yourself or traded. No matter which type it is, the origin of cinnabar should not be far away.
After all, the scope of savages is limited, and the scope of transactions between tribes is limited.
Although the origin of cinnabar is likely to be nearby, it is almost impossible to find the origin of cinnabar in this vast primeval forest.
So the best way is to interrogate the savages.
For savages, these cinnabars are just paints, not very valuable assets, and they should be easily asked.
The key is that the language is not clear, how should we interrogate this?
Ye Qing thought about it, and he called Manniu and Lie over, pointed to the red cinnabar, and said to them:
"This thing is very useful. The tribe needs more of this kind of thing. You ask the savages, where did they find it?"
Manniu and Lie took part of the cinnabar and went to interrogate the savage.
The barbarian bull goes to the savage witch.
He walked to the old witch and untied the skin on her head.
It took him a lot of effort to untie the animal skin.
The tribe member was very attentive last night. In order to prevent the skin from being thrown off by the restless old witch, he actually tied the skin tightly with a rope.
Huh?
After untiing the animal skin, Man Niu looked at the old witch carefully, pushed it again, and shouted: "She is dead!"
Ye Qing: “…”
He glanced at the tribe members who had covered the old witch with animal skin yesterday.
this……
Being too serious!
The old witch was suffocated to death!
The old witch died, and Manniu had to find someone else.
Lie found a savage who was not very strong but looked very flexible in his hands and feet.
After a while, the two of them came back at the same time.
Ye Qing was watching their interrogation process from the side, and was very curious.
He couldn't understand how they communicated, but they saw that they gestured, and after a while, the interrogation seemed to have a result.
Manniu said: "This red pigment was exchanged with the tribes in the mountains."
Lie said: "The savage said that in a very far mountain, there were such red things, and many tribes had collected them from there."
This kind of paint is a very common thing for the savage tribe and is also a common thing. The patterns on their bodies are painted with this paint.
Ye Qing was very curious about the savage who was interrogating Lie. Since the origin of cinnabar is far away, how did this savage know?
Has he been so far away?
But the other savages seemed to know that there were not many places where cinnabar originated.
Lie said: "This savage married from another tribe!"
Ye Qing immediately opened his eyes wide.
This savage is a man!
Lie showed a thoughtful expression and said uncertainly:
"In ancient times, the ancestor Tai Yang, before he established human relations, people only knew their mothers, but not their fathers."
"So people mainly use women and gather together to form tribes, so women are very important to tribes."
"So when getting married, you always exchange men."
"I think this is the case with these savages. This savage was exchanged because of marriage. His original tribe was far away from here."
Ye Qing thought about it and said that, the savage tribe is still in a matriarchal society.
Ye Qing looked at the more than a dozen adult savage men captured.
How many tribes do these come from?
When examining these savages, he suddenly realized that the savage who was giggling foolishly yesterday was still giggling foolishly.
Ye Qing observed carefully for a while and asked his tribe members to bring in a can of water to clean the paint on the savage's face.
After thoroughly cleaning, Ye Qing laughed silently.
I made a big deal.
This savage turned out to be a real fool.
This fool is in his 20s and doesn't know how he grew up so big in this primitive environment.
He kept laughing foolishly, competing tirelessly with the ropes on his body, constantly touching the ropes on his body with his mouth and chin, as if he was having a good time.
Ye Qing: “…”
Since the origin of cinnabar is very far away, Ye Qing no longer has to worry about it. Now it is not necessary to use cinnabar. Let’s talk about it when it develops to use it in the future.
...
After breakfast, the large army took the savage prisoners back to the camp.
After a trip, Ye Qing roughly estimated the location of the Savage Tribe from the dam construction, the straight line distance was about five or six miles.
As for actual walking, I don’t know how much the journey is.
It was noon when I returned to the tribe and took a morning.
After returning from victory, the tribesmen in the camp cheered.
Seeing the captured savages, they shouted to kill them.
Seeing the angry look of the tribe members, Ye Qing was embarrassed, and he understood the tribe members' mood very well.
In this era, for a tribe, population is not necessarily wealth, and often, it will become a burden.
Just like Wang Mangguo, if there is a large population, it will be split and relocated.
If there are too many people, what should I do if I don’t have that much food?
Move it!
This is true for this clan, let alone a foreign clan?
Ye Qing was also very angry at these savages. Sang died at the hands of the savages, which made him almost impulsively kill these savages.
However, it is difficult for him to kill all these savages. After all, he comes from a civilized society and has the ideology of modern society. It is still difficult to accept such acts of bloody revenge out of anger.
Calm down and think, from another perspective, some of these savages can also become laborers. In the construction of tribes, the more laborers, the better. These savages still have some effect.
In the savage tribe, there are very few old people, only one old witch, who is still dead.
There are not many children, only six or seven, and the rest are all young men and women.
Ye Qing thought about it and asked the old patriarch to discuss it.
Final negotiation results:
As slaves, adult men of savages built dams first and then sent them to coal mines to dig coal.
Among the savage women, there are more than a dozen young women with fertility. They are assigned to the bachelors who have died in the tribe as wives.
Of course, this is not for nothing to them. They need to take out their own labor or wealth exchange in the future.
However, it is still in the collective now, and the so-called personal wealth basically does not exist. Therefore, it is just to just keep an account for them and return it later.
Chapter completed!