A group of people stopped at the entrance of Chagu.
Here on the impact river beach where the two rivers meet, you can already see various colorful stones.
In addition to some common fluorite, quartz stone and calcium stone, the dark red or blue-purple bornite is bornite, the light gray is chalcocite, the steel gray tetrahedronite, the indigo azurite, period or
There are malachites mixed with turquoise, and even purple-red pure copper nuggets.
Xu Chen drooled while watching.
A group of people also followed Xu Chen on the river beach and quickly picked up a lot of stones of various colors.
"Rideo Gaga!"
Long pointed to the inside of Cha Valley and reminded that there was more inside.
Xu Chen nodded slightly.
At this point he was basically able to tell.
These ores were washed out by water from this valley.
However, the stream in this valley is not very big, and it has completely dried up.
In autumn and winter, the Uzbek people will go deep into this place for hunting and even gathering, but this is almost the furthest distance they can move on weekdays.
In fact, the main gathering range of the Uu people is the riverbank near the hillside where they live, while the men's hunting area is mainly the riverbank near the mouth of the valley.
There are very few people coming from the mountains.
Some of these copper ores are very beautiful and can be used as decoration, and some can be used as paint.
Therefore, when hunting and gathering, they would pick up some good-looking and useful ones and take them back with them, but that was all.
If it is used to paint oil paint on rocks in caves or on the body, one stone can be used for a long time, and there is no need to collect it in large quantities.
At most, some natural copper nuggets and malachite may interest you, but there is never any need to actively collect them.
They are washed away by high water in summer, so when you come to hunt and gather in autumn and winter, you can pick up some when you see them.
It looks good, but its value is almost zero.
Even every time the tribe gathers, there is almost no exchange for anything, so after picking it up, it is usually thrown into the cave to eat ashes.
If it weren't for Xu Chen's willingness to exchange pottery and linen for these things, the Uzbek people would never have spent half a day coming all the way to pick up these stones.
They came here to pick up some last autumn and winter, and took the trouble to carry them to the Ba people, but they only exchanged them for some small pottery such as pottery spoons and spoons.
It's valuable, but it doesn't seem to be that big. It's better than nothing. Therefore, for the Uzbek people, it's not worth the gain to get these stones.
One is heavy, the other is few.
It looked like they were everywhere on the river beach, but even after picking them up, there weren't many. Most of them were buried under the sand on the river beach. Without the tools at hand, it would be more troublesome to dig out.
If you have this little time, you might as well go hunting. It’s easier and more convenient to get a few more valuable animal skins, and you can also provide food. It’s a perfect way to kill two birds with one stone.
This is both the thinking of the Uzbek people and the current reality.
There will be no initiative or enthusiasm for mining until basic food and clothing are provided.
"Go in and have a look!"
The valley is not too big and is almost completely covered by thorns and weeds.
However, where the stream washes away, you can still see a large number of large and small gravels scattered around. Many of these stones have traces of mineral veins, and are mixed with layers of intertwined colorful blue, cyan, gray, etc.
It is copper ore that has been washed away and collapsed from the mountain for countless years.
These large stones slowly break apart after being washed away, and the copper ore inside will be washed out onto the main river channel, and then taken downstream, slowly breaking into colorful gravel, which may contain some hard peacocks.
Stones and raw copper ore grains were also carried and buried in the mud.
This forked valley is not long, only about two or three miles.
But less than half way inside, we couldn't move forward. The way ahead was completely blocked by a large amount of collapsed gravel, and thorns, vines and trees were growing everywhere, making it basically impassable.
However, there are more various copper ores in the valley.
You can see it everywhere.
Along the way, under Xu Chen's prompts, the group of people found a lot of copper ore that seemed to be of good purity, as well as a lot of malachite and raw copper ore particles.
At present, he has been able to conclude that this small valley is a copper-rich area.
Although the reserves cannot be determined, they are fully worth mining.
Just how to mine it and how to smelt it and process it still needs to be figured out.
The most convenient thing is to find a place near this valley to build a furnace, smelt it into copper blocks and transport it out.
However, this requires arranging a lot of people to open up mines here and form a professional base. Under the premise that we still don’t have enough to eat, this method is undoubtedly the most expensive, involving housing, safety, food, and tools.
Wait, everything must be arranged properly, otherwise there will be a lot of trouble.
The most important thing is that a large number of people are separated from food production, mining and smelting, which will inevitably affect the food supply. Even the Ba people cannot afford it now.
Therefore, this originally most convenient method was quickly rejected by Xu Chen.
The second method is to build a smelting plant at the foot of the mountain where the Uzbek people live. The safety is greatly increased, and the mining and transportation distance is also within the acceptable range. It is mainly carried out during the free time in winter and spring. Mining, smelting and collecting food can be done at the same time.
It will consume too much manpower.
However, this is the territory of the Uzbek people. From now on, it is necessary to have closer contact with the Uzbek people, or to have a firmer control over the Uzbek people. Moreover, this matter consumes too much, and we mainly rely on the Uzbek people.
It is also a troublesome thing for the Uzbek people to have disagreements.
The third method is the simplest, which is to still use the current barter method, mobilize the Uzbek people to mine copper ore and get the Ba people to exchange for pottery and linen. They only serve as the exporter of ore and do not participate in any other work.
However, from extraction to transportation to the Ba people, the most manpower and time are consumed, and the cost is also the highest, but the efficiency is the lowest.
After observing inside and outside the Cha Valley for an hour and collecting a lot of copper ore, Xu Chen asked someone to carry him back in a backpack and think about the matter slowly.
Smelting copper is not the most urgent thing at the moment.
Now he just needs to make sure there is indeed a copper mine here.
Before the discovery of lead ore and tin ore, copper alone was not of great significance. No matter what utensils were made, the decorative significance was far greater than the practical value.
Coming and going, half a day passed.
Back on the river beach where the party was held, the transaction was basically over.
Several tribes who came to attend the Witch Lord Conference were already packing their bags and preparing to leave the Uzbek tribe.
Muba, several clan chiefs and a group of tribe leaders of the Wu tribe were talking on the river beach. When they saw the others returning, they all rushed up to ask about the situation.
Xu Chen said that he had found what he needed.
Mother is very happy.
Although copper is useless in Xu Chen's opinion, the simple copper tools such as copper knives and copper needles he made are very easy to use. They just can't be dropped and need to be polished frequently, but they are more primitive than simple and crude stone knives, shells and other primitive tools.
As a tool, it is completely an epoch-making artifact.
Unfortunately, copper smelting is troublesome and the output is extremely low.
Xu Chen successively exchanged several large baskets from several tribes for pottery, linen, etc., but in the end he only got a little bit of this magical metal called copper.
Although the cost was huge, Muba and all the tribesmen still felt that the more copper, the better.
Because Xu Chen said that if pots, pans, pots and pots are made of copper, they will be stronger and more usable than pottery, and there is no need to worry about breaking them.
Although pottery is easy to use, it breaks down quickly. A group of women are careful every day, but pottery will still be broken every now and then, especially the pottery pots used for cooking porridge and vegetables.
He also scattered the freshly cooked food everywhere, feeling sorry for both the food and the crockery.
Therefore, Mu Ba and a group of women fully supported Xu Chen in the matter of exchanging pottery for copper ore to smelt copper.
Because they were almost fed up with the fragility of pottery.
For these primitive people, who have been rough-handed in working since childhood, life has never been so cautious. Holding pottery is more frightening than holding a child.
Xu Chen doesn't feel the need to replace all pottery with copper at the moment. Firstly, it's not necessary, and secondly, it's not yet so luxurious.
The reason why he said this was just to let Mu Ba support him in continuing to smelt copper.
At the moment, it seems that the effect is still good.
Considering that the opportunity for mining is not yet fully mature, Xu Chen already had a rough idea on the way out of the valley.
That is to continue to implement the current plan of exchanging ore for pottery.
This will not only give the Uzbek people the motivation to mine, but the Ba people will not need to spend more manpower, material resources and energy.
It won't be too late to start large-scale mining and smelting after he has gathered and integrated all six tribes.
Thus, this three-day witch master conference was officially declared over.
The Ba people and the several tribes who came here said goodbye to each other and set off one after another.
The leader of the Wu tribe, along with a group of tribal leaders and all the tribesmen, sent the Ba tribe to the river beach outside the mouth of the valley.
The two twin sisters hugged each other, cried and comforted each other, and finally had to say goodbye in tears.
We used to be together every day, but now we can only live in two places.
Although the ending far exceeded the two people's original expectations and it was definitely a happy situation for everyone, it was not easy to see each other after the breakup.
Although the two tribes meet only half a day away, now they have become shamans of their respective tribes, and they have to take the development of the tribe as their own responsibility. They are no longer the little girls who were ignorant of the world, and have to shoulder heavy responsibilities on their immature shoulders.
Before leaving, Xu Chen reminded the Uzbek tribe leader and a group of leaders that the Ba tribe would continue to purchase copper ore in large quantities. He hoped that they would take advantage of the winter and spring seasons to quickly mine and collect it, and also select a group of smart and flexible men and women to send to the Ba tribe as soon as possible.
, learn advanced experiences such as spinning, weaving, building houses, and farming.
Although the head of the Uzbek tribe had great complaints and dissatisfaction with Xu Chen, these matters were indeed related to the long-term development of the Uzbek tribe, so he still showed great cooperation and said that he would select someone to send as soon as possible.
Of course, this learning process does not require the Ba people to provide food and drink, but they need to bring their own food and offer some other items.
Xu Chen was willing to provide these technologies, but at the same time, he also said that the Ba people had limited food and financial resources and could not support these people, nor could they teach these technologies for free. They needed to exchange items.
Of course, not only the Uzbek people, but also other tribes are treated the same way.
There are not many things needed for tuition, just a few animal skins or baskets of food or gold, amber, gems, etc.
Xu Chen will not get used to these savages, nor will he let them become a habit of free prostitution. Instead, he needs to use this method to create a sense of urgency and pressure for all tribes to work hard to collect and discover more valuable things.
In addition, the Ba people are preparing to expand the second phase of the compound. When these people go to study, they will also provide more labor.