The remaining half day is the incidental transaction and communication time.
Naturally, the transactions were carried out by setting up stalls, and each tribe spread the various goods they brought with them on the animal skin grass, so that half of the river beach was filled with densely packed goods.
Most of these products are still based on traditional animal skins, horns, bone teeth, brocade feathers, gems, etc., but rattan shields, simple leather armors, leather boots, leather bags, fishing nets, linen and even simple bows and arrows appear in large numbers.
Almost every tribe will put some more or less for trading.
But the busiest and most lively thing is undoubtedly the stall of the Ba people.
Just in front of the kiln factory, a long wooden stand was built, covered with animal skins, and placed with large and small bronze axes, hatchets, daggers, saws, hammers, kitchen knives, boning knives, and hand knives.
, planes, scissors, copper awls, copper hooks and other tools and weapons.
On the wooden frame next to it, there is also a row of large bronze utensils such as spears, hoes, pickaxes, rakes, waist knives, simple knives, and swords. There are also several wooden plows and wheelbarrows equipped with bronze plowshares on the ground.
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These bronze utensils are all polished to a brilliant golden light, and the entire booth looks dazzlingly golden.
Naturally, the booth was surrounded by men, women, and children from various tribes on the three inner and outer floors, noisily and constantly crowding in, wanting to take a look at these magical metal utensils.
Many people have seen these things in the past few days, but many of them are appearing for the first time.
But whether it is daily utensils such as axes, hoes, hatchets and kitchen knives, or weapons such as swords and spears, they are all extremely attractive to men, women and children, so almost everyone onlookers' eyes are shining with gold and their mouths are watering.
Especially a group of tall and strong men, armed with all kinds of weapons and spears, their saliva gushed out like spring water, and they couldn't stop it.
In addition, there are many mature and steady people who love small knives such as hand knives, boning knives, and daggers. They pick them up, caress them, and observe them for a long time, unwilling to put them down.
These golden weapons with different shapes, I want every one of them.
But in fact, everything is so expensive that you can only drool over it.
A two-handed ax weighing seven or eight kilograms requires at least ten good animal skins to be exchanged.
A spear also requires five good animal skins.
The so-called good animal skin basically means that the size is suitable, the fur is thick and soft, and has considerable value in keeping out the cold. The first choices are wolf skin, leopard skin, and fox skin. As for the skins of top beasts such as bear skin and tiger skin,
One can be worth ten. If you can get an adult leather goods, you can directly exchange it for the heaviest knife and axe.
However, cowhide and wild boar skins that were of little use in the past have now been included in the ranks of high-quality leather goods, because these rough and hard animal skins can be made into armor, saddles, pockets and other protective items, and their uses are becoming more and more popular.
However, none of these high-quality leather goods are easy to obtain. Large and medium-sized tribes may be able to obtain ten or twenty pieces a year, while small tribes can obtain three to five pieces a year.
Therefore, for all tribes, the obstacles to exchanging fur goods are very high, and it is basically impossible to be satisfied. At most, they can exchange some small knives, axes and tools.
However, in addition to animal skins, these items can also be exchanged for other high-value items.
For example, the Uzbek people can use their smelted copper ingots for trade. Ten kilograms of copper can be replaced by a handful of bronzeware of about one kilogram.
In the cold winter, the Uzbek people can smelt up to more than 500 kilograms of copper per month. In one month, they can exchange for dozens of large and small copper utensils. Even if they only smelt for four months a year, they can exchange them for at least more than 100 kilograms of copper.
With hundreds of tools and weapons, within a few years the entire tribe had enough metal utensils.
The extensive application of copper knives and axes will in disguise promote the speed of mining ores and logging, improve production efficiency, and further increase copper production.
In addition, the three mining tribes, the Five Ghost Tribe, the Mongolian Tribe and the Youqiong Tribe, can also use the minerals they control to exchange for bronze wares. Although the exchange ratios are different for each, as long as they work hard to mine and smelt, it is enough to ensure that they can quickly obtain a large amount of
Bronze utensils brought about earth-shaking changes in the production and life of tribes.
This is the benefit of having a mine at home.
Animal skins, a primitive and low-level wealth, are no longer very important in Xu Chen's eyes.
Because with the introduction of bronze weapons, bows and arrows, and horses, hunting harvests will be greatly increased, and the value of animal skins will also slowly decrease.
Various metals, salts, cloths, and utensils will gradually replace these primitive wealth and become new types of wealth that represent the strength of the tribe.
Those with mines naturally rely on mining to make a fortune, while those without mines can only rely on other industries such as farming, textiles, animal husbandry, and manufacturing to develop.
Although each of these has different emphasis, in Xu Chen's eyes there is no difference.
After all, food will always be the core wealth of human survival.
These mining tribes may develop quickly at the beginning, but food crises will always exist. They have to work hard to mine and smelt in exchange for more daily production supplies, such as grain, cloth, pottery, agricultural tools, etc.
Moreover, as the difficulty of mining increases, the wealth in the mining areas will gradually fall into a state of stagnant development or even exhaustion, and eventually even complete decline.
Tribes that vigorously engage in farming, textiles, and animal husbandry will not develop very quickly, but once they accumulate to a certain level, they will completely get rid of the food crisis and live a self-sufficient and stable life.
Especially tribes like the Hu tribe that have special plants like pepper will prosper and be very wealthy in the future.
Because as the quality of life improves, the demand for spices among tribes will also increase.
Therefore, at this trade fair, pepper was also separately listed as a high-value item that could be directly traded for bronze wares. One pound of dried pepper could be exchanged for one pound of bronze wares.
The Muya tribe, who have experience in collecting and planting pepper, suddenly became a favorite among various tribes. They were surrounded by a large number of tribal chiefs and women. They asked about the methods of planting and collecting pepper, and many wanted to change some.
Pepper seeds go back to sowing.
Amid the hustle and bustle, Xu Chen and a group of Ba kiln workers and smelting and casting craftsmen demonstrated the use of various bronze tools to all the onlookers around the booth.
Digging the ground with a bronze hoe and pickaxe is called Kuai Dang. Using a rake to plow the ground and leveling the farmland is also fast and good. Using a knife and dagger to cut various leather goods is called Ma Lea. Various knives, axes, scissors and hammers are constantly working.
The demonstration also caused onlookers to burst into exclamations and commotion from time to time.
As for swords, weapons and spears, there is no need to verify them at all. Those who are interested are already very familiar with them.
Farming and production tools such as wooden plows and wheelbarrows are more interesting, but their structures are more complex and expensive.
Of course, according to the current level of metal smelting and processing, it cannot be popularized on a large scale for the time being. It can only be slowly promoted for those tribes with mines.
After all, the introduction of labor tools such as wheelbarrows, picks, and hoes will greatly improve work efficiency. Xu Chen believes that several tribes with mines will definitely exchange and purchase them. When the metal becomes gradually abundant in the future, they will naturally be able to provide it to the farming tribes.
Subsidy promotion to improve farming standards.
Therefore, although there was much to see at the trade fair but little was actually exchanged, Xu Chen was not in a hurry.
The meal must be eaten one bite at a time, and the road must be walked step by step.
There's no rush for this kind of thing.
Of course, if he wanted to promote it quickly, he could also buy it on credit just like he did with the original pottery, but he didn't do that.
Because the smelting and casting of bronzes is complicated and expensive. Unlike pottery, which can be burned with some mud and firewood, materials need to be obtained from several tribes hundreds of miles away. In addition, cutting down wood and burning charcoal also requires a lot of manpower and material resources, which is costly.
Huge and valuable.
Xu Chen could first distribute some as gifts, allowing all tribes to experience the benefits of bronzes, and then stimulate all tribes to work hard to accumulate wealth, instead of giving them away again and letting these tribes develop the habit of free prostitution.
He wants all tribes to develop the concept of getting rich through hard work, instead of starting to be lazy after eating and drinking enough.
Because the emergence of bronze wares made all the tribes salivate and opened their eyes, it also naturally pushed this trading conference to its climax.
The trade fair on the river beach was very lively, and the courtyard was equally lively.
Dozens of tribal chiefs and family leaders gathered in a large and dark group in the spacious courtyard. The ground was covered with straw mats and animal skins. Everyone was standing in a circle, listening to a group of witches led by the little witch sister impart various knowledge.
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Of course, while imparting knowledge, several witches are also constantly communicating and learning with each other to improve their professional knowledge and skills and work hard to better guide the development of the tribe.
The communication between shamans is the highest level of interaction between primitive tribes.
In the past, the content of these witch exchanges was very narrow, mainly about various methods of governing tribes and the songs and blessings passed down by each, etc. However, because the inheritance of each major witch is different, this kind of exchange is also quite conservative, and there will be no great witch general himself.
All the knowledge I have is revealed, and I will not reveal my experience of understanding the guidance of the gods.
Because these are the core contents of their group, the more advanced the knowledge, the more they actually hide.
But Xu Chen is different. He uses an extremely open and tolerant mentality to teach and promote various tools he invented for free.
Moreover, he also created a special word that can record language communication and taught it widely. He recorded what he thought, saw and heard on animal skins, and even wrote the agreement between witches into a deed.
The witch seal and the royal seal are confirmed to establish the seriousness of this contract.
The emergence of characters can be said to have fundamentally changed the methods and habits of the shaman community in communication and learning.
And literacy is a necessary ability and means for a witch.
In accordance with Xu Chen's request, the little witch took advantage of every tribal gathering opportunity to teach literacy and various life and production experiences. She also organized the characters invented by Xu Chen and compiled them into the Witch King's Dictionary using animal skins.
Leaders, a group of managers with some witch-like qualities, carry out promotion.