They also like some jewelry, especially the ones that are very beautifully made and have exaggerated shapes.
This is their custom. They like to wear colorful feathers and gorgeous costumes.
However, they don't like to use gorgeous porcelain.
In short, their lives are full of contradictions.
They liked many of the goods brought by the Tang people very much.
Especially the ones Li Min specified to bring.
And this situation made everyone look at the prince with admiration.
The prince is really amazing.
I have never been to the Golden State, but I understand this place and these people better than they did once.
He can even speak the local dialect.
The prince is just afraid that it is really a god descending to earth.
At this time, the leader of the aboriginal people introduced Li Min again: "Oh, my distinguished friends, please allow me to introduce you again."
"My name is Sanji, and I am the leader of our Sanji tribe. My people, they like your products very much. I hope we can do business with you."
Unexpectedly, the man in front of me was actually the leader of the tribe.
Moreover, after seeing our products, he actually asked to do business with us.
This is really great.
What Li Min wants is to do business with them and cooperate with them.
Therefore, Li Min readily agreed to Sangji's request.
"Oh, dear Chief Sanchi, we are here with the mentality of mutual benefit from you."
"You will be our best friends! We like to do business with you very much. Can we buy and sell your tribe's food?"
Sanji said happily: "Of course, we can't eat enough food. Almost every household has stored food for several years."
"Every year, the stored grain is eaten and the new grain is stored. However, once there is a rainy season, it is difficult to store the grain."
"Some years, a lot of grain is wasted. And, here, we can't sell the grain."
"If you are willing to acquire it, I think they will welcome it very much."
Hearing the news, Li Min couldn't help but be overjoyed.
This land has few people but plenty of land, and the land is fertile.
You can get a good harvest of food with little effort in management.
In this way, every household will have a surplus of food.
Everyone has it, but they can’t sell it even if they want to.
If not stored well, it may get damaged easily.
If someone is willing to buy their food, they must be very happy.
But if there is only the food of this tribe, it is still not enough.
Li Min decided to use the Sanchi tribe as a fulcrum to promote transactions with other tribes.
Of course, there is no need to rush this matter.
Next, Li Min went directly back to call for help.
Ask them to bring over many of the goods they have brought.
It was placed in an open space and formed a free market wherever it was placed.
Which aborigines saw the dazzling array of goods brought by the Tang Dynasty?
They were almost dazzled, they were in high spirits, dancing, and seemed to like something.
After questioning, they learned that these commodities could actually be exchanged for grain.
They happily went home and brought over their extra food.
A big bag of corn, only a hairpin.
Of course, this is not the price Li Min set himself.
But these aborigines believe that this card is worth the price.
Even more food than what they gave.
So much so that the price of this exchange made them feel very embarrassed.
Moreover, those who came for the exchange were only some members of the Sanchi tribe.
Even so, Li Min made an estimate.
The food received today is enough for them to eat for half a month.
Even if they don't farm at all, the food here in the Golden State is completely enough to feed them.
The premise is that you can develop good relations with the surrounding tribes.
And Li Min feels that establishing a good relationship with them is actually not that difficult.
Because Li Min believed that within a few years, disaster would befall these aborigines.
When the time comes, I might even act as their savior.
After the transaction, both parties were very satisfied.
Sanji hosted a banquet for Li Min and his party.
Of course, it was just a banquet for a dozen of them.
If 40,000 to 50,000 people were having a banquet together, Sanji felt that their entire tribe would immediately fall into poverty.
After entertaining them, the hospitable aborigines sang and danced very happily.
In the evening, Sanji warmly invited Li Min to stay in their tribe for one night.
After hesitating for a moment, Li Min agreed.
As a result, just when Li Min was assigned to the house and was getting ready to sleep.
Then I saw Sanchi leading a woman into the house.
Sanji pointed at the woman and introduced to Li Min: "This is my wife. Her name is Bai Ling. She is yours tonight. I wish you have a good time."
After saying that, Sanji looked at Wu Meiniang excitedly.
At this time, Li Min suddenly remembered a custom of these aborigines.
They don't value chastity.
A group of very good friends would spend the night together and considered this a testament to their friendship.
Did Sangji come here just to exchange with himself?
I'm in a big mess!
Not to mention it's an exchange, even if you simply send your wife here, I won't agree to it.
So, Li Min said seriously to Sanji: "Chief Sanji, according to the customs of our Tang Dynasty, husband and wife must be loyal to each other. Once they get married, they are absolutely not allowed to have an affair with other people."
Hearing Li Min's words, Sanji said unhappily: "Li Min, do you look down on me and don't treat me as a friend?"
Li Min said seriously: "Chief Sanchi, I regard you as a friend and respect your customs very much. But, at the same time, you must also respect our customs."
"Respect is mutual, isn't it? This kind of thing is absolutely not allowed to happen in our Datang! I'm really sorry!"
Sanji's face froze, but soon his expression returned to its original state.
"Oh, Li Min, my friend, I'm very sorry. We will leave now. I hope this matter will not affect our friendship."
After saying that, Sanji took his wife and left.
After they left, Wu Meiniang couldn't help but asked curiously: "What were you talking about just now?"
Li Min looked at Wu Meiniang with a strange expression, laughed and said: "Just now, the leader of Sanji wanted to have a wife with me for the night!"
Hearing Li Min's words, Wu Meiniang's face turned red and she couldn't help but said angrily: "Husband, they are so rude, it's really too much."
"No, no! Are they trying to anger us and harm us?"
"Now we are in a tiger's den, husband, let's leave quickly, I'm afraid they will attack us soon!"
Li Min laughed, grabbed Wu Meiniang, and said to her: "Meiniang, don't worry about it. It seems to you to be very rude."
"But it's very normal here. They don't value chastity at all. It's very normal for good friends to have a wife for the night."
Wu Meiniang's little mouth opened wide and she asked in shock: "How, how is this possible?"
"Husbands, how can we tolerate this kind of thing?"
Li Min shook his head and said: "This is a matter of customs. We regard their customs as a scourge and regard them as barbarians."
"As everyone knows, some of our customs are difficult for them to accept! So, it's just mutual benefit."
After listening to Li Min's words, Wu Meiniang couldn't help but fell into deep thought.
After a while, Wu Meiniang couldn't help but ask: "Husband, it must be difficult to subdue these original residents, right?"
Hearing Wu Meiniang's words, Li Min couldn't help but smile bitterly.
This is also what worries Li Min.
To be honest, these aborigines are very simple and hospitable.
To them, Li Min and the others are outsiders.
And they are very stubborn. It is really difficult to conquer them.
Otherwise, when the Western powers came to the Golden State, they would not have committed genocide and then not hesitate to transport black people from Africa to work.
However, Li Min was different from the Western powers.
After a while, Li Min couldn't help but said to Wu Meiniang: "Meiniang, don't worry, they will use us in many places."
"And, in a few years, they may encounter a major disaster. At that time, it will be a good time to conquer them."
"They will encounter a big disaster in a few years? How does your husband know?"
Li Min smiled mysteriously, and then said: "Is it okay for your husband to predict the future?"
Seeing that Li Min didn't say anything, Wu Meiniang didn't ask any more questions.
But I am still wondering in my heart, in a few years, these aborigines will have a big disaster? What kind of disaster will it be?
…
The next day, Li Min proposed to Sanji that he wanted to hire their tribesmen to help them transport things.
Li Min will pay them a hefty commission.
They have no shortage of money or commodities.
After all, what beautiful things do these natives like?
In Datang, it was actually the most worthless thing.
Li Min brought a lot of these things.
If they could all be sold, the food they would get would be enough to feed them for ten years.
Sangji readily agreed to Li Min's request.
Moreover, Sanji also said that if he ran out of food in the future, he could help him exchange food from other tribes.
In the Sanchi tribe, Li Min hired more than a thousand people to help them transport goods.
More than a thousand people are a drop in the bucket for their huge supplies.
Fortunately, there are horse-drawn carriages in the tribe, which at least solves part of the problem of insufficient transportation.
At the same time, Sanchi was still contacting several surrounding tribes.
If five or six thousand horse-drawn carriages can be mobilized, the speed of transporting goods will be greatly accelerated.
Next, Li Min took five trucks, loaded with some tents and other items, and set off first.
A journey of more than a thousand miles can actually be reached in just one day for five trucks.
The destination is a wilderness.
Of course, more than a thousand years later, this place is an extremely prosperous and famous city.
There is no human habitation within a few dozen miles around here.
Li Min decided to build the capital here.
For the indigenous people, building a city here will not pose any threat to them, and they will not use force.
And after they build the city, they can slowly assimilate them.
However, the living conditions of the aboriginal people here are a bit too good.
Because they have fertile land, they have no worries about food and drink.
There are still some difficulties in hiring them.
But it doesn't matter, I believe it won't be long before they come asking for help.
…
The first batch of supplies arrived. In the following time, Li Min organized people to collect stones and bake cement.
Then allocate some people to go to nearby mines to mine iron ore and make steel.
Then there is another part to prepare the glass.
Li Min basically did not use giant ships to transport materials such as cement, steel bars, and glass.
Naturally, it can also be transported.
But how much raw materials are needed to build a city?
If everything needs to be transported, it will probably take a hundred years to build the city.
Of course, these materials are sourced locally.
In addition to these people, Li Min organized the remaining people to build wooden houses.
Although the weather is cold now, it has not yet entered the rainy season.
Living in a tent is naturally no problem.
But once the rainy season enters, people will no longer be able to live in tents.
Therefore, it is very necessary to build a wooden house first as a temporary housing bureau.
These wooden houses took only half a month to build.
The reason why we can achieve such a fast speed is because there are abundant resources around here, and we can basically use local materials.
The reason why Li Min chose to build the city here was precisely for this purpose.
Li Min divided these wooden houses.
There are residential areas, commercial areas, and a medical area.
After completing these constructions, the construction of the entire city can begin.
Of course, the first thing they built was the underground drainage project.
This project is also a huge one.
Li Min wants to build this city into a huge city.
If the underground drainage project is not done well at the beginning, it will be difficult to rectify it later.
Therefore, Li Min decided to make the best underground drainage project from the beginning.
To avoid problems in the future.
However, after the construction started, Li Min discovered that he seemed to have underestimated the difficulty of urban construction.
The construction of this underground drainage project alone may not take three to five years.
The construction of a city is indeed not as simple as he imagined in advance.
During this time, Li Min also purchased some modern machinery such as bulldozers, excavators, and loaders from the mall.
With these machines, I believe the progress of the project can be further accelerated.
Of course, the construction of a city does not happen overnight.
Li Min can actually do it, construct part of the underground drainage system, and then build on it.
It can be advanced piece by piece.
In this way, a lot of initial development time can be saved.
As for the later stages, the establishment of a city can always attract more people.
By then, the speed of construction will naturally accelerate.
However, the early construction was too slow.
…
At this moment, a disaster is spreading across the Golden State.
This time, it is the spread of viral influenza.
Of course, this is what later generations would say.
At that time, it was called malignant cold.
Such disasters are not uncommon.
You can always encounter it once every ten years or decades.
And once encountered, countless people will die from this disease.
The lifespan of ancient people was generally very low.
Basically, those who died in the war, as well as children who died in infancy and those who died of illness, were brought down.
Why did the ancient imperial court encourage people to have children?
They even stipulate how old a girl must be to get married.
If you don't marry, you will be fined, or you may be forced to find someone to marry from your husband's family.
It's because there were so many people who died young.
An epidemic disease, a plague, will take away a large number of people.
In the West, a plague can even destroy a country.
This time, the vicious cold was also aggressive.
Once infected, you will have a runny nose, cough with phlegm, rapid fever, general weakness, and a high fever that is difficult to get rid of.
Once infected, you will have to stay in bed for at least seven or eight days. The condition will gradually worsen and it will be difficult to get up again.
Moreover, this disease is also contagious.
Someone among the team brought by Li Min was infected.
However, this time, they brought a large amount of drugs, especially aspirin——
Well, of course it's not called that name now.
Li Min gave him a localized name, Liu Hun.
Aspirin is almost a panacea.
It has curative effects on almost all diseases.
Of course, it usually needs to be combined with other drugs.
But there is really no other drug with such a wide range of uses and such obvious effects.
But now, unlike in later generations, drugs are being used indiscriminately, causing the virus to become more drug-resistant.
There is not so much resistance to antibiotics now.
Therefore, this Liuhun, currently, is really a miracle medicine.
Of course, Li Min would not allow him to prescribe this medicine easily.
Now Liu Hun has not reached the point of abuse.
Therefore, Liu Hun's role is still very powerful now.
After using Liuhun, these infected people quickly returned to normal.
But at this time, countless indigenous people in the Golden State were infected.
At this time, the Golden State was completely devastated.
And Li Min had already expected this.
On this day, Li Min went directly to the Blue Bird Tribe, the tribe closest to them.
These tribes are quite far away from them.
Usually, they don't interact much.
Moreover, they were opposed to Li Min building a city very close to them.
Therefore, when they saw Li Min arriving in a carriage with a group of people, all of them became vigilant.
"Stop coming, what do you do?"
Li Min stood up and said loudly: "I heard that someone in your tribe is sick, and we are here to help you!"
"What? Are you here to help us? Could it be that you can cure this kind of typhoid fever?"
Li Min said loudly: "Our friends were infected with this disease and got better after taking the medicine. I believe you can too."
After hearing what Li Min said, they were both excited and ashamed.
What's exciting is that there are actually medicines that can cure the disease.
What's embarrassing is that when they come, they are still hostile to them and have a bad attitude.
But they ignored the past grudges and actually took the initiative to help them.
This made the people of the Blue Bird Tribe feel very frightened.
Next, their people immediately welcomed Li Min into the tribe.
And Li Min began to distribute willow souls to people who were sick.
These patients have never eaten Liuhun.
Therefore, after taking Liuhun, the effect is amazing.
After taking it, almost an hour later, you can feel that your condition has become milder and there is a significant improvement.
The people of the Blue Bird Tribe were all pleasantly surprised.
At the same time, I am extremely grateful to Li Min.
They prepared a sumptuous banquet for Li Min, and also prepared songs and dances.
However, these were all declined by Li Min.
After leaving enough medicine for them, Li Min drifted away.
"I don't know how many people are suffering on this land, and I want to save them."
What a great man! What a noble man!
This time, Li Min really didn't care about the cost.
Even the ongoing construction period was stopped.
He sent out large groups of men and horses, facing in all directions.
Wherever there are tribes, people are sent to deliver medicine.
In order to prevent language barriers and misunderstandings in communication.
Directly ask these people to each bring a tape recorder.
When you arrive at a place and need to communicate with someone, you can turn on the recorder.
There are local dialects recorded by Li Min.
"We are a tribe from the Tang Dynasty. We have medicine that can cure you. This time, we are here to deliver medicine specifically."
Next, there are things like the dosage of medication and dietary precautions.
Because this time, Li Min brought a lot of medicine.
Originally, these drugs could be used for at least two to three years.
But this time, they were all given away.
And because they delivered it very promptly.
And the medicinal effect of Liuhun is very amazing.
This directly led to the fact that not many people died in this outbreak of plague.
This is absolutely incredible for these indigenous people.
Of course, these native people are kind and hospitable.
And they know how to be grateful.
Among their festivals is Thanksgiving.
Of course, in later generations, there will also be a Thanksgiving Day.
This Thanksgiving Day actually extends from these aboriginal people.
Of course, the Thanksgiving Day of later generations basically has nothing to do with them.
And their Thanksgiving has no specific date.
And now, they held a Thanksgiving Day for the King of Shu in the Tang Dynasty.
This time, they were truly grateful.
Because the King of Shu in the Tang Dynasty sent them life-saving medicines when their lives were in danger.
But they didn't take any money from them, everything was given to them for free.
This kindness is really too great.
It was so big that the aborigines felt like they had nothing to repay.
And when they learned that they were building a city.
In order to help them, he even gave up his own construction, everyone went out, and even traveled thousands of miles to deliver medicine to them.
Their gratitude became even more like a torrential river, endless.
