Since the addition of a group of Uzbek workers, the preparatory work for house construction has been greatly accelerated.
The number of stones on the construction site continues to increase every day, and mud bricks appear in patches on the river beach, slowly covering hundreds of meters of river beach.
The speed of logging has also accelerated a lot, and more than ten wood axes can be cut down every day. However, the stone axes are consumed very quickly, and several axes are chopped down in a day. The production can hardly keep up with the consumption rate, which gives Xu Chen a headache.
On the fourth day after a group of Uzbek people left, nearly twenty men from the Muya tribe adjacent to the Uzbek tribe came to exchange items carrying animal skins and various goods.
The goods they brought were similar to those of the Uzbek people. They were nothing more than animal skins and some various ores that Xu Chen was interested in. The items they wanted to exchange were mainly pottery, but they were not eager for the magical cloth.
The main reason is that when winter comes, the need for food and clothing is greater. Although clothes such as linen are light, they are not as good as animal skins to keep out the cold.
However, under the temptation of pottery, they had to squeeze out a lot of animal skins in exchange.
In fact, as early as a month before the Wu Zhu Conference, Xu Chen had already been preparing for this pottery trade, using large kilns and small kilns to continuously fire pottery, mixed with some lime and pottery bricks.
It is not difficult to make clay clay, especially simple pottery such as dishes. Once you are proficient, you can make hundreds of them a day. Medium and large pots, pots and pots are relatively difficult, and the output is naturally small, but it is slow.
After slowly accumulating, it is not too little now. As long as the transaction price is controlled well, it can basically satisfy the transactions with several tribes.
And the needs of all tribes can be roughly calculated based on the number of people.
Therefore, Xu Chen implemented a planned economy model for pottery.
On the premise of satisfying the Ba people's own use, production will be carried out according to the needs of the other four tribes.
Moreover, this demand cannot be satisfied at once. After all, firing requires time and process. When other tribes are not able to produce on their own, the transaction price can naturally be used to control the output of goods.
He wanted to use this method to maintain the Ba people's continued development in pottery and weaving.
This winter, Xu Chen's rough plan is for each tribe to meet one-third of its pottery needs.
It seems that they are in better control now. In their first large-scale transaction, the Uzbek people exchanged more than a hundred pieces of leather goods for hundreds of pottery bowls and dozens of pottery plates and cups. In addition, they also exchanged nearly 30 large and small pots.
Clay pots, kettles, and more than ten clay pots, pots, etc.
After taking these things back, almost every cave group can share some to temporarily meet their daily needs, but the quantity is far from enough.
However, the extra animal skins of the Wu tribe have been used up, and with the coming of winter, more animal skins will be allocated to the tribesmen to keep out the cold. Therefore, it is almost impossible to exchange them for the second time. Even if there are, they will be very few and will not affect his plan.
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Although Xu Chen had already stated that he could exchange for ores such as bornite and chalcocite, these two ores were not only heavy, but also of low value, and could not be exchanged for much.
As for turquoise, amber and gold, although Xu Chen also collected them, the quantity was so rare that they were almost negligible. At most, he could exchange them for some auxiliary pottery such as spoons and spoons. For these, he basically relied on luck.
For primitive people, it is almost impossible to search specifically.
Except for pottery, the demand for cloth will not increase until spring.
In spring, it is cold and then cold, and the temperature is either hot or cold. It is too hot to wear furs, and it is cold not to wear them. It is similar in autumn.
Therefore, light and comfortable linen clothes have become the best choice.
Therefore, after finishing the pottery business in winter, the linen business will come in spring.
After two or three years of this, the Ba people have accumulated considerable wealth.
After the big house is built and the land is successfully cultivated at the foot of the mountain, if he can raise a large amount of ore to smelt bronze swords and axes, he can lead the Ba people to complete a perfect civilization upgrade mission.
Then annex five tribes... Ness!
Xu Chen was immersed in the success of his plan for a while, feeling happy and proud, but soon he was hit by a group of savages from the Muya tribe who came to trade in front of him, which made his temples pound.
Because after this group of people arrived and saw the stone houses, pottery, pottery blanks, and the smoke billowing from the kiln, they howled for a long time and finally calmed down. After taking out the goods they brought for exchange, Xu
In the morning, his face kept twitching.
There were only more than thirty animal skins in total, and they were all in poor condition. The remaining items were a mess, including animal teeth, claws, feathers, and colorful stones. In addition, there were more than a dozen dried fish and two baskets of melons like winter melons.
vegetable.
As long as things are less cluttered, the problem is that these guys are very aggressive and want to replace all the pottery under the pergola. They even pointed at the largest pots and yelled, and then left a few tatters.
I just want to put the rotten sheepskin and wolfskin into my own backpack.
The actions of the Muya tribe naturally angered the kiln workers and the Ba tribe, and they almost started fighting soon after they met.
In the end, these people quit the tent under the ridicule of the Uzbek people, and then started the formal transaction under the gaze of a group of people.
But this deal is even more sadistic than the deal with the Uzbek people.
They also exchanged animal skins one by one, but what was even more ridiculous was that even the animal skins of the same species had to be distinguished by size. In order to exchange for more pottery, they had to stack two animal skins together to make gestures.
, indicating that this one is larger than the one above.
What makes Xu Chen dumbfounded the most is that these people look stupid, but in fact they are not stupid. They will always compare the smallest leather goods among them.
Of course, this kind of trick is bullshit in Xu Chen's eyes.
He was not used to the Wu tribe at first, and he was even more unwilling to get used to the Muya tribe.
After all, the Uzbek tribe is also the largest tribe in the area, and they still have the right to bargain. Moreover, the leather goods brought by others seem to be carefully selected and of good quality. Obviously, under the influence of the great witch, the Uzbek tribe still cares about the quality of this transaction.
and face, which reflects the broad-mindedness that a big family should have, and does not use the strong to bully the weak, or the big to bully the small.
Therefore, although Xu Chen also found the transaction with the Uzbek people to be very time-consuming and distressing, the ending was still happy for everyone.
But this Muya tribe is not only poor, but also very mean and stubborn.
Fortunately, Xu Chen is currently in the limelight, almost carrying the aura of being a half-witch, so the Muya tribe does not dare to make too much trouble. In addition, under the ridicule and ridicule of a group of already familiar Wu tribe members, the Muya tribe finally follows the rules.
In exchange for the same terms as the Uzbek people, I didn't get any benefits.
After exchanging all the animal skins one by one, the Muya clan clearly felt that the exchange was far from achieving the goal, so the next few piles of stones had to be exchanged piece by piece.
Xu Chen immediately laughed angrily.
A group of dogs and savages who have never seen the world make you think that I care about these broken stones, green pine, and gold like fire. They are all garbage. So facing this group of savages from the Muya tribe, Xu Chen directly
He refused this method of exchange, pointed to a few piles of random stones, and then threw a few pottery bowls and a few spoons at random, and then told them with righteous words that if they wanted love, they would take it back.
A group of Wu people were making noises nearby, and someone told the Muya people that this was how they had replaced these broken stones.
So the Muya tribe finally had to accept the deal, and each one of them began to pack up the exchanged items unhappily.
They came here just to exchange for enough pottery for the whole clan, without changing a single piece of cloth.
But right now it looks like the goal has been completely missed.
Xu Chen waved his hands with an equally dark face and led a group of people to continue working.
What the Muya tribe brought was less than a quarter of what the Wu tribe brought, but it actually took him two hours to complete the transaction. He wasted nearly half a day. He was so angry that he couldn't even bother to care about these idiots.
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However, the Muya clan did not seem to feel embarrassed. After packing up their belongings, they discussed with Muba, who had brought women down the mountain to help pack the exchanged belongings. They found that they could not go back today and needed to rest at the Ba clan for a night.
He was very enthusiastic and said that he would arrange food and accommodation.
So a group of bored Muya tribesmen ran to the construction site where Xu Chen and others were busy and took a look, and suddenly started to scream in fear.
When they saw the kiln just now, they had been howling like wolves for quite a while.
Judging from the scale of what the Ba people are building in front of them, it is several times larger than the kiln factory. It occupies almost half of the river beach. There are large piles of stones and neat criss-crossing ditches. Built-up stone walls have begun to appear inside. In addition, the river beach
There were densely packed and neat mud bricks on top, and everything they saw was completely beyond their understanding of artificial architecture.
In the eyes of many savages, building a wall or pile of rocks with stones is a great project.
But what they saw and heard among the Ba people today completely broke their level of understanding.
What made them even more confused was that there was actually a group of Uzbek people inside helping to move stones and trample on the mud, and they all worked very hard, holding the stones and running very fast.
"Moxy Gaga?"
A group of Muya tribesmen came to their senses after being stunned for a long time, and someone communicated in a low voice.
"Moga!"
Almost everyone shook their heads together.
Not to mention that they couldn't understand the situation before them, they couldn't understand it at all.
How could the Wu people come to work for the Ba people? I have never heard of such exchanges between tribes.
At first they all thought that the Uzbek people were also here to exchange pottery.
But right now it seems clearly not.
So a group of people gathered together and chatted for a while, then someone ran up and grabbed the Uzbek man and asked him carefully what was going on.
After a complicated exchange of gestures, the Muya people finally understood, and then they became collectively excited.
If they did not complete the task of exchanging enough pottery, the tribe may not have enough pottery to make and distribute food this winter, and family conflicts will arise due to unfairness.
They came with a mission, but they didn't complete the mission very well. But now, working for the Ba people not only provides them with food and shelter, but they also get pottery. This is a piece of pie in the sky for them.
So after a brief discussion among the Muya people, they decided to keep some people and exchange their labor for pottery.
Xu Chen was currently short of manpower, so the two sides naturally hit it off.
With the example of the Wu people in front of him, he did not need to waste too much saliva. After a few simple exchanges, the Muya people decided to leave ten people to work hard to earn pottery.
As a result, the number of people in the huge courtyard construction engineering team planned by Xu Chen increased sharply again, reaching an unprecedented number of twenty-nine people.
This time, Xu Chen felt completely relaxed and happy.