After listening to Lan Hua and Tie Heo telling how she met the enemy before and how she ran away, Lawrence showed a rather embarrassed smile on her face. "I'm sorry, your situation seems to be caused by us.
Because we defeated and almost wiped out all the goblins on this plain a while ago."
"At that time, that group of goblins also recruited many goblin warriors from outside the plains. After being completely annihilated, the tribes that provided the warriors lost their main force and were afraid of our retaliation and directly chose to migrate to places far away from the plains. And the tribe you met
The goblins are probably the migrating goblin tribe."
"Ah, so that's it!" After listening to Lawrence's explanation, Lanhua Ironhoof didn't look very angry, but showed an expression of realization. "No wonder I felt that when I killed the two goblin patrols, I felt that the other party was not very good.
It's much weaker than what I encountered before. I thought it was because I suddenly became stronger during this outdoor retreat."
After everyone had finished communicating about the changes in the surroundings, especially the reasons for the recent changes in the nearby goblins, the dinner ended. The tauren girl was worthy of her large size and had eaten at least the equivalent of six to seven
The amount of food an adult male needs in one meal.
"Sorry, I seem to have eaten a little too much." Although he couldn't see the change in her expression because of the fur on her face, Lawrence could hear some kind of embarrassment in her voice. "Actually, I don't usually eat so much.
Yes, this time it’s just because I was hungry for three or four days at a stretch.”
"Didn't the people who sent you here feed you?" Lawrence asked a little strangely, because he remembered that he had prepared a lot of food for that fortress, and it should not be impossible to feed the tauren in front of him.
"Although they didn't understand what I was talking about, they enthusiastically brought out a lot of food and water for me to eat after confirming that I was not hostile." Lanhua shook her head to indicate that it was not the guards who were there.
He abused her, but as a shaman who often lives in the wild, he knew that he couldn't eat too much at once after being hungry for a long time, so she only ate the equivalent of an adult male's rations along the way.
After eating, the four people sat in a room next door and exchanged information they knew. After finding out that Lawrence had become the new island owner, the tauren girl bluntly stated that for the tauren, they
I am not opposed to having a human lord on the island, but the prerequisite is that this human lord must be fair.
"In other words, as long as you are willing to treat us Taurens as fairly as you treat humans, then we Taurens are also willing to recognize you as our lord." Lanhua stared at Lawrence with her own bull's eyes and said very seriously.
"Of course I can treat you fairly." Lawrence said, "For example, in addition to humans, there is also a group of rat people on this land who have obtained their own living space. They are willing to bear the same taxes as humans and live in
When fighting, they send their own armed forces and are willing to abide by the laws of the island. So they have the same rights as humans here."
Perhaps because he studied law in college in his previous life, Lawrence pursued a policy on the island of equal rights and obligations, and a policy of treating everyone equally as long as they abide by the law. This policy was particularly beneficial to the tauren who were naturally inclined to order.
It is said to be very attractive.
"We will actually investigate these situations." After listening to Lawrence's words, a smile appeared on the face of the tauren girl. "If this is really the case, I think the elders of the tribe are willing to offer you water and soil."
At this point, the face of the tauren girl suddenly became a little ugly: "Since we are friends, then according to etiquette, we should give you gifts when we meet for the first time. But this time I came here just by accident, so I didn't
It can bring a greeting gift.”
"It doesn't matter, as long as you have the intention. If you feel really sorry, just make up for it next time." Lawrence smiled and said, then he asked. "By the way, can you talk about your life in the hilly area of the island?
?”
For more than half an hour, Lanhua and Iron Shoe talked about the life of the tauren. Even on the island, the tauren still adhere to the traditional nomadic economy. According to Lanhua, their tribe breeds some kind of big horns.
Water buffalo and a special species of island goat.
By raising these livestock, the Tauren can obtain leather, wool, a large amount of dairy products, and meat. In addition, they can also obtain a large amount of plant food and resources through gathering, so the overall life of the Tauren is pretty good.
But this does not mean that they do not need any external economic contacts. In particular, the resources in the area where the Tauren are located are not rich, so they have a large amount of materials that cannot be self-sufficient. For example, according to the Tauren Orchid, they are in urgent need now.
All you need is pure salt and enough metal tools.
"The hilly area where we are located does not have any metal mines at all, so except for a small amount of metal products obtained from previous trade with humans and an even smaller amount of trophies taken from hands, the only tools we can use are
Stone, bone, and wooden tools.”
"As for salt, there is a small salt mine in the hilly area. But the salt there contains some impurities that are obviously harmful to the human body. If you humans eat that salt for a long time, it may cause irreversible damage to certain organs.
Damage, and although we tauren are strong enough to avoid serious injuries, we will suffer from many minor problems after eating those salts. For example, my father became bald because of those salts.
."
"Uh-" An image of a bald bull head popped up in Lawrence's mind, and it took a lot of energy to suppress himself from laughing. Of course, he also figured out from Lan Hua's narrative that these minotaurs eat
Causes of salt poisoning. "The salt you eat contains too many harmful impurities, but in fact most of the toxic ingredients can be removed through melting and filtration."
After all, this era is an era of industrialization, and salt is not as scarce as in ancient times. At the same time, for Lawrence, the profit from selling salt to those thousands of tauren cannot keep up with the greater benefit of restoring them to himself. So Lawrence made a decisive decision to sell salt to this
A minotaur girl reveals the secret of how to remove toxic impurities from salt.
However, the complex chemical reaction left the tauren girl confused, especially the several chemical raw materials. For these tauren, it would be more convenient to buy salt directly from Lawrence and the others. But from
In this matter, the minotaur girl realized that Lawrence was indeed a man who treated everyone equally as he said.
So without Lawrence knowing it, he inexplicably received the good guy card from the tauren girl in front of him. But this should be considered a good thing.
Next, the two sides discussed a series of matters regarding future trade between the two sides. It was obvious that the Tauren were lacking everything from daily necessities to production and living tools, so they urgently hoped to re-open trade exchanges with humans.
"Can you tell me what special products you have there?" Lawrence asked, "Aside from livestock, leather, dairy products and wool, what else are there?"
Because the tauren need to purchase a lot of things, Lawrence hopes to know what kind of goods they can sell. After all, the core of trade is that each party gets what he needs, and both parties can benefit. If one party cannot afford it, then
Too bad.
"Apart from these, we only have some handicrafts that are not very valuable here." Lanhua said with a look of frustration after thinking for a long time. "But if you are willing to pay, we
We can provide you with a 150-man tauren mercenary force, 1/10 of which are guaranteed to be extraordinary."