Lei came over to eat barbecue and sat down next to Xu Chen. He hesitated and asked: "Your Majesty the Witch King, do you plan to let the imperial army attack another barbarian tribe tomorrow?"
Xu Chen smiled and said: "Yes, although they are all on the battlefield for the first time, they are not novices. They also hunt in the tribe on weekdays. The dragon is also very experienced and there will be no problems. You can pick some tomorrow.
An experienced hunter should go with you, just in case!"
"Yes, actually what I want to say is this. These forbidden troops need to fight to make progress faster!" Lei nodded quickly and said.
"That's it. By the way, how are your injuries?" Xu Chen put down the pottery bowl and said.
Lei shook his shoulders a few times and grinned, "There's no problem anymore."
"Don't be careless, take off your leather armor and let me take a look!"
"good!"
Lei quickly untied the leather armor and exposed the left shoulder. At this time, you can see that the dark-skinned and muscular shoulder is obviously swollen. Xu Chen pressed his hand back and forth on the swollen area a few times and asked Lei how he felt.
, I feel that the problem is indeed not too big, the bones should not be injured, and for these thick-skinned and rugged hunters, this kind of injury is not serious.
"That guy is very strong. The bone stick alone weighs twenty or thirty kilograms. Fortunately for you, if someone else had been there, he might have been smashed to death!" Xu Chen turned around to look at the stick thrown next to him, which was still full of blood.
Yu Ji said that the bones of the stick are strong and the heart is strong.
"That guy is indeed very strong and very flexible. If we fight him on the ground, he will definitely not be so fast, but he always likes to jump up, which becomes a weak point in the attack. Besides, our knife is much more powerful than this stick.
, A hit with a stick will not kill you, but a hit with this knife will kill you..."
Lei explained very seriously. After speaking, he felt a little distressed and took out the knife from his waist. He looked at the big gap in it and said, "It's a pity that the knife was smashed!"
"Haha, don't be afraid if the knife is broken. I'll go back and make a better one for you. You should be lucky that the stick didn't break the knife, otherwise you would be the one without a head!" Xu Chen patted Lei on the shoulder and said with a smile.
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Lei Siya took a breath of cold air with a grin, and at the same time nodded with some fear.
You can imagine that the barbarian leader jumped into the air almost as high as him and smashed down a twenty or thirty kilogram bone club. Although he was much stronger than the barbarian leader and completely blocked the attack, just like Xu
Chen said that if the knife was broken by the bone rod, then his head would be smashed into pieces, and he would be the one who died with his brains flying everywhere.
If this is the outcome, I am afraid that this expedition to snatch the salt mines will eventually turn into a bloody massacre.
No one was in the mood to eat, drink, talk and laugh around the campfire like they were doing right now.
After dinner, the sun has set.
When the last ray of sunset was swallowed by the distant mountains, the vast primeval forest suddenly became gloomy, and the world was instantly enveloped in darkness.
The evening wind howls and the forest waves are like thunder.
There were roars of wild beasts and even fights from all directions.
After the well-fed and drunk forbidden soldiers and hunters arranged for the night watch personnel, many people wore leather armor, searched for some hay branches, lay down next to the bonfire and began to fall asleep.
In the dense virgin forest, night fog gradually filled the air. The bright moonlight in the sky could not penetrate the forest and fog. The vast and boundless primitive forest seemed to be shrouded in a layer of blue-gray smoke.
The roars and howls of wild animals one after another intertwined into a wild natural ecology in the thick fog and dense forest.
Hundreds of people fell into it, completely as if they were in the sea, silent and without a trace.
Xu Chen wrapped himself in a piece of soft and warm animal skin and sat next to the bonfire. Thick fog flowed around him, and it was almost impossible to see anything except for a dozen red bonfires and the Hunter Guards sleeping all over the place.
There is a full moon in the sky, but it looks hazy at this time, as if it is separated by a layer of frosted glass, as if it is in another world.
Around the camp, there were constant sounds of wild beasts running back and forth in the thick fog.
And from the place where the corpses of the barbarians were discarded a few hundred meters away, the roars and fights of various beasts could be heard. According to Xu Chen's limited experience, at least dozens of large and small beasts were fighting for it at this time.
These corpses.
Perhaps before daybreak, these corpses will be gone and no traces will be left.
This is the law of competition and survival of this primitive nature.
Although Xu Chen sympathized with these barbarians, for the development of Pakistan, he had to fight for such a cruel war.
In fact, for these barbarians, the failure of this war is not a bad thing for them, but a good thing. Not only will they be able to continue to live stably in this primitive forest, they will even continue to obtain various new technologies from Pakistan.
And with the support of new tools, a very prosperous tribe was finally established here.
War is the greatest force that promotes the progress of civilization.
This was true in ancient times, it is true now, and it will be true even more so in the future.
At this time, the entire camp was silent except for the crackling campfire.
Since dusk fell, the group of barbarians who were still groaning and wailing in pain have all become silent and no longer made any sound.
Because it is the most dangerous time for them at night, they usually hide in their caves without making any movement.
Especially today, with so many people killed and injured, the smell of blood alone is enough to attract wild beasts within hundreds of miles.
But to them, the beasts were not the most terrifying thing, but Xu Chen and other uninvited guests who defeated them.
Although they all knew that as long as they did not resist and escape, there would be no danger, but when they saw these people using a stick to make a fire out of thin air in the evening, their fear turned into awe that could not be dispelled.
Although they have not worshiped gods yet, when faced with things they cannot understand, they will naturally feel fear and awe of heaven and earth just like they would face thunder and lightning flames.
In the hearts of these barbarians, Xu Chen and others have gradually been listed as the most feared objects.
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The night passed by quickly, and by the time Xu Chen was awakened by the chirping of birds, the sky was already bright.
The fog seems to be thicker than last night.
Except for what's going on inside the camp, almost nothing can be seen more than ten meters away.
The beast that had been howling all night seemed to disappear without a trace in an instant after dawn.
The clear and loud chirping of birds merged into one like a tide, ringing around the camp, and the whole forest was like a boiling pot.
No one knows how many species of birds there are nearby, let alone how many birds live in this dense forest.
This is an era when animals and plants are extremely prosperous. This is not only a paradise for plants, but also a paradise for animals, and it is also a paradise for various birds.
In this era, humans can only be regarded as an extremely rare species.
As the sun rises, the thick fog in the dense forest begins to dissipate.
After lighting a fire and having breakfast, as the sun penetrated into the dense forest, the fog had receded like a tide, and the forest once again returned to the clarity and brightness of the day.
There are only two tasks today.
One is that the dragon led the imperial army and some hunters to the east to conquer another barbarian tribe.
The second is to find a salt mine not far away, quickly build a camp and salt factory, build salt-making tools, and then start collecting salt.
This salt mine is Xu Chen’s best gift for the first anniversary of the founding of Pakistan.
As long as there is enough salt, farming in Pakistan will be further stabilized and improved. Each ethnic group and tribe can store more salted fish and bacon in winter, and pickle more wild vegetables, fruits and vegetables in spring.
Only the more food reserves there are, the more stable and prosperous Pakistan will be.
Therefore, food is the basic guarantee for national development and stability, and is the cornerstone of any society's stable people's hearts.
Amid the roaring of people and the neighing of horses, Long quickly led fifty forbidden soldiers and twenty hunters, as well as several barbarian captive men, and headed east along the valley with flags and horns raised, and soon disappeared into the vastness.
In the mountains and wilderness.
Lei stayed behind to guard the barbarian camp, and at the same time arranged for hunters to start cutting down wood to build houses, preparing a safe place for the barbarians and the Yugong clan team to station here in the future.
Xu Chen personally led a large group of people under the leadership of barbarian guides to find the salt mine.
The salt mine is located just south of the mountain depression, over a low hillside and through a sparse forest.
Everyone noticed the difference when they entered this forest, because not only were the trees here sparse and short, there were also very few thorn trees and vines everywhere that were like pythons entangled with no way out, and the weeds on the ground were also sparse. The land looked relatively barren at first glance.
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The further they walked, the more obvious this situation became. Eventually, the trees, thorns, and weeds slowly disappeared, and what finally appeared in front of Xu Chen and others was a salt-alkali flat with exposed sand and rocks.
The whole shape presents an irregular oval shape.
Surrounded by giant trees and lush vegetation.
If you look down from the sky, it looks like the entire primeval forest was suddenly chewed away by something.
The salt flats are covered with leaves, various thorns and sticks, and there are even a large number of animal bones, feces and footprints.
There is a pool of water in the center, covering an area of about hundreds of square meters. The water is clear and blue in color, and white things can be clearly seen on the shore.
Seeing the situation in front of him, Xu Chen smiled from ear to ear.
This salt mine was much larger than he had imagined. It was even a surface salt lake, and the pit of water in the middle was obviously salt water.
Judging from the area, the scale of this salt mine is more than five times larger than that of the Mongolian side. It also has a natural salt lake, which makes development difficult several times lower. As long as this salt mine is developed, the amount of salt mined every year will be at least that of the Mongolian side.
ten times.
At present, there are nine major ethnic groups in the country. If you want to fully meet the demand for salt, you need at least three tons per month. The maximum monthly output of the Mongolian salt mine is only 500 kilograms, and the output changes with the seasons.
It also fluctuates up and down, more in autumn, less in winter and spring, and in the summer when the rain is raging, the yield is almost zero for a few months.
Therefore, the actual annual salt production of the Mongolian salt mines is less than two tons, which cannot even meet one-tenth of the overall demand.
However, although this salt mine is large and relatively easy to develop, it is too remote.
It takes at least four days to get here from the Yu Gong Clan. The entire journey is through virgin forests with complex environments. It takes a lot of time, manpower and material resources to transport salt. If the road and transportation problems cannot be solved, it will be difficult for a long time in the future.
It cannot be mined and supplied on a large scale. At most, it can alleviate the salt demand near the royal city and a few core tribes.