While a group of craftsmen of the Ba ethnic group are actively engaged in a new round of painted pottery production, a batch of Ba ethnic bamboo hats have also been produced.
These novel items made of lightweight bamboo strips and thin animal skins also surprise the Ba people, men, women and children.
After entering April, the temperature suddenly rises, the sun is shining most of the time, and heavy rains can occur at any time.
With the high temperature of more than 30 degrees and the alternation of heavy rain and scorching sun, everything has once again entered the violent growing season.
At this season in previous years, the Ba people, like all other tribes, rarely go out for long distances, because the sun is so harsh that people feel dizzy. Sometimes there will be a heavy rain as soon as they go out, and they will be soaked in water in a short time.
But with a bamboo hat, it will become much more convenient to go out no matter it is sunny or rainy.
After a group of hunters from the Ba tribe used it, they all praised it profusely. A group of guys even showed off by riding horses to the Uzu tribe for a walk, and then attracted a group of Uzu tribe hunters.
When these Uzbek hunters came, they not only fell in love with the bamboo hats, but they were also amazed by the newly fired painted pottery. They were so surprised that they hugged several of them and expressed that they wanted to buy them back.
These painted pottery were just test items fired from the first kiln. In fact, many of them had cracked or even had no enamel layer formed, so Xu Chen directly gave two to each person and asked them to take them back to help promote them.
Because the Wu tribe occupies the benefits of the copper mine, they have a fixed income of thousands of dollars every month. They have always been the tribe with the fastest growing wealth in the entire country except the Ba tribe. In the past, the little witch sister once made a arrogant one-time
The record of buying 300 salted duck eggs. This pure food luxury transaction record has not been broken yet. It is almost the same as Xu Chen’s experience of going to a five-star hotel for a seafood dinner in later generations.
, worth remembering for a lifetime.
The Uzbek people are wealthy and naturally very generous when purchasing daily consumer goods. Over the years, they have purchased countless pottery, bronzes, horse-drawn carriages, carts and wheelbarrows from the Ba people. Almost half of the money earned has returned to the hands of the Ba people.
Because in fact, there are not many things that this money can really buy, and only the Ba people can provide all the high-end goods they need.
Now the Uzbek people have also learned to make some daily pottery, and the purchase of pottery from the Ba people is also decreasing.
However, the emergence of painted pottery will inevitably arouse great interest in the Uzbek people, who are big dogs, and they will definitely become the first batch of buyers in Pakistan.
Therefore, Xu Chen seemed to be giving them away for free, but in fact it was just to seduce and stimulate their greater desire to buy.
Sure enough, not long after these hunters returned with the painted pottery, the little witch sister came to the Ba tribe in a bumpy carriage with the leader of the Wu tribe and a large group of leaders.
After viewing the remaining painted pottery and the bamboo hats being processed, a group of people expressed great interest. After Xu Chen introduced the benefits of this kind of glazed pottery, the two parties quickly agreed on the price. The little witch
On behalf of the Uzbek people, my sister placed an order for more than 300 pieces of large and small painted pottery at one time, of which large and medium-sized pots accounted for the majority, with a total value of more than 1,500 yuan. She also ordered 50 bamboo hats, the price of each
Ten yuan brought the total transaction volume to an unprecedented two thousand yuan.
This is the largest cash transaction ever made by the Ba people.
But the heads of the Uzbek tribe were all very satisfied.
In the past few years, the Uzbek people have accumulated tens of thousands of dollars of wealth from copper smelting. Although it is constantly being consumed, the entire Uzbek people still have tens of thousands of dollars in cash.
The money is basically of no use except for daily purchases of salt and copper utensils.
In the past few years, some grain had to be purchased from other tribes to supplement the miners' consumption. However, in the past two years, one-third of the tribes have moved to the royal city. The U tribe has left nearly two thousand acres of farmland in the valley, and the grain produced every year is enough to meet the needs of the miners.
The daily consumption of the entire tribe, plus raising wild ducks and wild boars to supplement some meat and eggs, has actually turned hunting into a pure sideline. It is impossible to go hunting in such a hot summer. The most you can do is catch some fish in the river in the valley.
shrimp.
The appearance of painted pottery and practical bamboo hats by the Ba people allowed the U people to find ways to spend money and satisfy their arrogant shopping desires.
In order to thank the Wu people for their generous shopping, Xu Chen gave away some of the first batch of fired painted pottery, and also taught them how to use bamboo to weave bamboo baskets, backpacks and other utensils.
As for the bamboo hat, Xu Chen did not teach him because making a bamboo hat requires repeatedly processing it with tung oil several times. Even if the Uu people learned the method, it would be difficult to make it now.
The weight of a leather hat without tung oil will double once it is exposed to rain. It is like walking with a bucket of water. In addition, the leather will soon decay if it is exposed to repeated rain, basically becoming a short-term consumable.
For the wealthy Uzbek people, it is obviously not as cost-effective to make their own products as to buy them.
At present, tung oil is an extremely scarce resource, and it is unlikely that other tribes will have it for a long time.
Shopping mood is contagious.
Just after the Wu people returned from a shopping spree, the leader of the neighboring Hu people soon came over with some money to buy some glazed clay pots and bamboo hats to better preserve pickles and travel in summer.
In mid-April, the second kiln painted pottery was produced.
Xu Chen also made sure to spend a lot of time and set off in late April, taking hundreds of newly made painted pottery pieces and more than a dozen bamboo hats by boat back to the royal city.
With the arrival of the rainy season, the water in the Wulong River and Jicang River surged several meters, making the rivers turbid and majestic. Except for large wooden boats that could carry thirty people, it was already more dangerous for small wooden boats to pass. Xu Chen also considered whether to build a
A new batch of large wooden boats to increase waterway transportation capacity.
In addition, the Wu, Hu, Yu Gong, and lower Cicha tribes as well as the Ji and Cang tribes in the Jicang River Basin also have more needs for ships.
The large-scale construction of the Imperial City has come to an end. In this autumn and winter, basically the buildings in the entire Imperial City planning area will be completed, and a new round of exploration of further areas can begin.
For example, where the Wulong River merges into the Mengma River, there are more large beasts there, with herds of mammoths, rhinoceros, bison, and wild horses, which not only provide a large amount of meat, but also a large amount of high-quality leather goods.
Moreover, Xu Chen also wants to explore further downstream along the Mengma River to see if he can find more tribal gathering places, spread the advanced technology of the Ba people to further areas, and try his best to let more tribes get rid of the habit of drinking blood from their hair.
In terms of survival, only when more and more tribes step into higher levels of civilization can humans gain greater living space and capabilities in this barbaric era.
Counting the time, it has been five years since I last went to Mengmahe River.
The strange local tribe didn't know what kind of mood they would feel at the moment.
The last time they took a raft, they hurriedly went there, met each other, turned around and left, which must have left a huge shock to them. If they go there again, it should be easy to overcome them.
Five years have passed, and there should be no changes in the local area. However, the Bahrain League, which originally had only two ethnic groups, has become the country of Pakistan, and its strength in all aspects has expanded countless times. As long as it is accessible in this world, there is almost no place where it can be found.
Some tribes who regard them as real opponents only crush them to see if they have the mood and energy.
The painted pottery and bamboo hats Xu Chen brought back to Gonghuo Basin indeed caused a huge sensation.
When the wooden boat docked, the people who came to greet the onlookers saw Xu Chen and others getting off the boat wearing bamboo hats. They were all shocked by this novel and lightweight thing that could protect them from the sun and rain.
The Gonghuo Basin has a huge area, and there are very few large forests. Especially since the area near the Royal City has been burned down every year, and now there is a lot of construction work to reclaim the wasteland, build roads, and open channels, the trees are getting sparser, so it is getting hotter.
To survive in such an open area, it is very difficult to provide shelter from the sun and rain, and almost everyone is not used to it.
The same goes for Xu Chen.
The climate in this era is completely different from the climate that Xu Chen was familiar with before traveling. The hot and heavy rains in summer have greatly affected production and life, but also have a huge impact on travel.
Although the Ba Valley is also hot in summer, the valley is only so big after all. It is surrounded by mountains and dense virgin forests, as well as the mountain springs of Yelang Valley and the small river in front of you. There are shade trees and places to enjoy the coolness everywhere, so
It doesn't seem that uncomfortable.
But since moving to Gonghuo Basin, when summer comes, there is no way to enjoy the coolness except staying in the room. Except for the occasional sparse willow forest outside the city, the rest of the place is farmland and wasteland, and there is no place to stand under the scorching sun.
But you can get oily from the sun.
However, since the palace was renovated last year, this difficult situation has slightly improved.
The large rammed-earth tiled houses are warm in winter and cool in summer. Just like a natural air-conditioned room, they can effectively withstand high temperatures and heavy rains. The large clusters of houses form a cluster air-conditioning effect, making the entire palace area more comfortable.
The temperature has dropped a lot.
As soon as you walk into the palace, you will immediately feel that it is much cooler. In addition, the flowing water in the ditch and some flowers and trees planted can also absorb a lot of heat. Therefore, as long as you don't go out, summer doesn't seem to be very difficult.
Xu Chen could stay in the spacious and cool palace house in the royal city all day long without going out, but for the tribesmen who have to manage farmland every day, it is impossible not to go out. When it is hot, they have to weed, and when it rains, they have to pay attention to the ditches.
drain.
Even a group of savages can't adapt to this kind of living environment of working in the scorching sun and heavy rain. When the sun is strong, they can use animal skins or branches and weeds to weave some straw hats to protect themselves from the sun, but there is no way to avoid the rain.
The appearance of bamboo hats instantly makes summer work and travel much more comfortable.
So the ten bamboo hats that Xu Chen and others put on their heads soon became the objects of onlookers competing to watch and try them on. They were snatched back and forth by countless pairs of tempting and rough hands. If Feng and others hadn't repeatedly
He kept yelling and yelling, and it was probably broken before Xu Chen and others came to their senses.