Chapter 475: Exploration of the Kingdom in the Lake, First Encounter with the North American Tribes!
The mountains rise and fall in the east, extending to the sea in the west, turning into gradually gentle hills. The winding Yaqi River comes from the mountains, with its turbulent water, washing out a large fertile wilderness. And between the wilderness and the hills
, there are many gray-brown hills, densely covered in the yellow-green land, silently telling the story of life from ancient times.
Chihuaco, an old militiaman, climbed up a hill, bent down, and picked up a gray-brown stone. He shook it hard and found that the hard gray stone was neither deformed nor broken.
"Huh? The flints of your Yomei tribe seem to be much harder than those of the Yorem tribe?"
"Haha! How can foreigners, the flints of the Yorem tribe, compare with our Yome tribe?"
Hearing this, Mountain Eagle Weihuo laughed loudly and declared proudly.
"We Yaqui people are the people who live under the sacred mountain! Our fire stones can burn for a long time, far better than any other tribe! The reason for this is that our Yaqi ancestors have the strongest souls and always protect us.
Follow the tribe!"
"Uh...that's right."
Chihuaco scratched his head, always feeling that there was something wrong with this logic, but he couldn't explain why. He didn't understand the difference between bituminous coal and lignite. He didn't even know that the flint field here was a high-quality bituminous coal production area, and even had a large amount of it.
Amazing anthracite... The old militiaman just nodded repeatedly, following the words of Mountain Eagle Weihuo, his old face smiled like a flower.
"Friend, good, good! Youmei tribe, powerful, big tribe!"
"Haha, that's natural! Our Yuemei tribe has three thousand warriors and is the most powerful tribe in this area!"
Weihuo nodded with satisfaction and stretched out his arms to make gestures. He pointed from the field in front of him to the hills in the east.
"From here to there, a person can run a day's distance, all are our flint fields! Further east, there is a larger flint field. These two best and largest flint fields are our Yomei tribe
of!"
"Three thousand warriors? The most powerful?"
Two steps away, when Puap heard this, he raised his brows and had an inexplicable smile on his lips. He once controlled the Qincongcan Warrior Camp, with two thousand elite warriors from the royal capital under his command, enough to defeat the so-called Yomei.
The big tribe was defeated! But now... The gray earth warrior sighed, his eyes flashed, and when he heard the next sentence, surprise appeared on his face.
"What, you have to run all day! There are two such large open-pit coal mines!"
In front of everyone's eyes, gray-brown hills are scattered everywhere, and it can't be seen for tens of miles. The coal mines stored here are many times more than those in the Kingdom's Qinganbat mining area, and I am afraid that the Kingdom will be burned for hundreds of years.
And the coal produced here is far harder than the coal in the Kingdom.
"Hard coal is good coal! The higher the hardness, the stronger the firepower, because it contains more divine power! There are two large coal mines, a large copper mine, and several scattered small gold mines... This northwest coast
The land is really a rich land rich in minerals!"
Puap lowered his eyes to hide the joy in his eyes.
The fleet has stayed at the large tribe of Yomei for two days. Although it has not been received by the chief, it has also gone to the local tribal market to trade with the surrounding tribes. The tribe of Yomei is a large settled tribe, and the tribesmen along the
They farm the fertile land along the Yaqui River and fish offshore and at the mouth of the river.
When food is abundant, the tribe will allocate manpower to dig nearby mineral deposits for daily use of the tribe and even trade with various tribes. The most they produce is flint, followed by copper stone, and finally some gold and stone.
The Yome tribe is strong enough and has convenient transportation. It is the trading center of various tribes. At the market of the Yome tribe, in addition to the Mayo people, the warriors of the kingdom also met the Opata people in the mountains and the Makuvi people on the edge of the wilderness.
People (Macurawe).
The Opata people live in the uppermost valley to the north of the Yaqui River. As long as they take a canoe and go south along the Yaqui River, they can easily trade with the Yome tribe. In fact, the location of the northwest sacred mountain is about
A vast coal-producing belt is formed between the Opata people and the Yome tribe. To the east of the coal-producing belt, there are a large number of copper mines with an astonishingly high copper content. The copper smelting technology of each tribe is
Learned from the Opata people.
From the mouths of Opata merchants, everyone also learned about more than a dozen powerful tribes further north, collectively known as the Apache, and the tribe in the northwest who called themselves Tohono O?odham.
Desert people. Most of these two groups are nomadic hunters, migrating after herds of animals, and are extremely good at fighting.
The powerful Apache tribes were accustomed to fighting and controlled a very large area of land. They were in direct contact with the Opata Alliance in the mountains, and small-scale battles continued. The reason why the Opata people forged primitive red copper weapons was
It was to fight several southern tribes of Apaches.
The Makuvi people are half hunting and half migratory, living in the east of the Yome tribe. Their tribe is not powerful, and the land is rich in gold. But there are too many gold mines in this area, and no one cares about these useless
Gold and stone. The tribe with the most gold is actually to the east of the Makuvi people. There are a large number of Tarahumaras who hunt erratically and resemble the eight tribes of dogs.
The land area of the Tara people is also not small. It is hundreds of miles upstream of the Mayo River and occupies the northwest of the Zacatecas wilderness. In fact, they are not far from the Yorem tribe, but are blocked by the towering Sierra Madre Occidental Mountains.
Making any large-scale military operations impossible. Their land is not only rich in gold, but also produces more silver.
Puap suspected that the Yorem tribe's silver probably came from transactions with the Tara people.
"These chaotic tribes, with names that are more difficult to pronounce than the last, are really confusing!"
The Gray Earth Warrior cursed in his heart. Along the way, he tried hard to memorize these names and classify them simply.
This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! The northwest coastal tribes, from south to north, are the Totome people, the Mayo people, and the Yaqui people. The three people all live in the seaside estuaries, settle and plant, and hunt.
There are also more sea fish and more people. Further to the northwest along the coast, as the rainfall becomes less and less, there are the Sri people who have not yet contacted, semi-hunting people, and the desert people who are completely hunting.
"Well, these are the five coastal divisions. The east is the border of the wasteland, and there are two divisions similar to the canine ones."
Puap pondered in his heart and glanced at the mountains to the east. He had cooperated with the Guakili Legion and was deeply impressed by the dog descendants' perseverance.
"I heard that the Tara people are better at running and can chase wild turkeys and tire them to death! It sounds like wild wolves!"
On the border of the eastern wasteland, there are two groups, the Makuvi and the Tara, both of whom resemble dogs and wander in the arid wasteland. Sometimes they farm, sometimes they hunt, they live in no fixed place, they move around all year round, and they also fight each other. In contrast, they
It is said that the Makuvi people are located on the edge of the wilderness and have a higher degree of settlement. They will send tribesmen here to trade.
"Finally, there are two northern groups, the Opatas and the Apaches. One seems to be more organized, and the other should be more capable of fighting!"
In the northern mountains, there are the Opata people who have established a small city-state and initially formed an alliance. Their metal crafts have taken initial shape, and they are rich in cotton cloth and copperware. They can send caravans and trade with surrounding tribes. Further north, there are rumors
The fierce hunting tribe among them is called the Apache. It is said that this name comes from the Pueblo people further north. In their Zuni language, the meaning of this name is "enemy". And Opata
People recognized the name and considered the Apaches their enemies.
"What a vast northland!"
Puap took a long breath and sighed in his heart. Without taking such a trip, he would never have been able to imagine that the sea is so vast, the north is so vast, and there are so many ethnic groups in the world!.... After thinking about it for a moment,
He tilted his ears again and listened to the conversation between Old Man Qi and Shan Ying.
"Ah! Friend, for a basket of flint, do you need five spears or two pieces of cloth? This price is unacceptable, it is too high!"
Chihuaco looked embarrassed. There was so much coal here that it cost almost nothing to dig it out, but the other party charged such a high price. What's more, coal is a consumable that disappears once burned.
"Ha! Foreigners, these are the flints left by our Yaqi ancestors! Although there are many of them, they are gifts left by our ancestors. They contain the power of the sacred mountain. How can they be easily exchanged? In our Yomeida
This is how the tribe trades flint with foreign tribes!"
Mountain Eagle Weiho's eyes flashed and he was thinking mentally. He looked at the spear in Chihuaco's hand and said with a smile.
"The Opata people will also sell us similar spears with red copper heads and five flints in a basket! In fact, we are not short of weapons. The Yome tribe is the most powerful, and there is nothing nearby that can threaten us.
Tribe. We don’t look down on gold, stone, silver and stone, they are all useless and common stones. But your cotton cloth, the tribe likes it very much. If the quantity is large, it can be cheaper for you in exchange!"
"Ah! Our spears are different from those of the Opata people. They are strong and sharp!"
Chihuaco explained. Seeing the unmoved look on the mountain eagle, he said no more. There wasn't a lot of cotton on the ship, but he had to change a few more baskets of flint and return them to His Majesty... He hesitated for a moment.
Yes, with some caution, I finally asked again.
"Friends, we come from a distant and rich lake. The tribe in the lake produces lake gems, green, red, blue, and yellow! Gemstones, uh, do you want them?"
