Visiting the Tauren tribe was not a spur of the moment, but a journey that Lawrence had already planned since he first saw Orchid. After all, if the two races can be united, some formal meetings are absolutely essential.
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Not to mention that the current trade between tauren and humans is unbalanced. The tauren tribe has always been in a trade deficit in trade. It doesn't matter in the short term, but if it lasts for a long time, there will definitely be various problems.
Such problems arise. In order to avoid possible problems, Lawrence felt that he needed to go to the Tauren tribe to investigate and help them find out if there was anything that could be used to trade with humans.
In short, the mission of this visit can be said to be of great significance to Lawrence. He now wants to make the Tauren tribe as capable as possible of self-production of blood. Only in this way can the existence of trade deficit be reduced and the trade between the two sides reach a balance.
"Think about what you have there that looks special?" After returning to the cabin, Lawrence asked the Minotaur Orchid who was chatting with Nora. "For example, unique plants, animals or some
Any ore will do."
"Let me think about it." A thoughtful look appeared on Lanhua's face. After a few dozen seconds, she raised her head and looked at Lawrence and said: "If there is anything special, it is only those low trees on the hills.
Yes, the leaves on those trees are very bitter, but if you pick the leaves and break them into pieces and feed them to the livestock, they can cure many diseases."
"In addition, some diseases of us tauren can also be solved by eating these fresh leaves. For example, the most common food accumulation in children can quickly restore their appetite by eating a large spoonful of broken leaves."
"It sounds useful." Lawrence scratched his head after hearing this. There should be some market for this herb. But if, as Lan Hua said, the hilly areas where the tauren are active are just full of this kind of tree, then I want to buy them all.
It would be too difficult to consume it. At least Lawrence felt that at least the surrounding islands could not be consumed.
As for ores, there are some, but unfortunately they are all basic limestone ore or other stones. If used as building materials, they are barely enough. However, considering the freight, opening these mines in such a place can barely make a loss.
.It is basically impossible to become the flagship product of the Tauren tribe.
The only good news is that according to the tauren, there are a large number of mango trees growing in a jungle near the hilly area. If you can take advantage of the power gap in this area after the goblins are defeated to seize that fruit forest, you can sell mangoes.
It might be a good idea to dry and provide mangoes to the islanders.
A few hours later, the ship docked at a small pier on the edge of the woods. Unexpectedly, this pier was actually a solid pier made of stone, which was of a higher grade than the wooden trestle currently in use at the harbor.
It's a lot higher. There are a few small rafts parked next to the dock. Judging from the size of the things placed on them, they should be used by tauren.
After getting on the pier, the first thing Lawrence did was to bend down and take a closer look at the stone pier. Contrary to what he imagined, this pier did not look like a temporary construction. From the moss and moss covering the entire pier,
Judging from the traces of wear and tear on the pier, it can be seen that the pier has not only existed for a long time, but also from the marks on the stones, it can be seen that the pier has also experienced heavy use for a period of time after it was built.
"Did you tauren build this pier?" Nora also noticed something was wrong with the pier, so she asked directly, "I always feel that the size of this pier is not suitable for you tauren. Nora said so, and Lawrence also saw it.
Something is wrong.
After Nora said this, Lawrence also saw that something was wrong. In this world, the buildings built by each intelligent race will be very different due to their different body types. For example, Lawrence went to Fatina and others to discuss it a while ago.
When talking about the production of dried mushrooms, I found that the passages built by the rat people in the mountains are very narrow. At least for humans, many places can barely pass through. Even if they are relatively burly humans, they will get stuck in some passages.
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The current size of this pier is indeed normal for Lawrence, but it is obviously a bit small for those tauren who are more than one size larger than humans, so Nola floated in the sky and looked at it before asking strangely.
Got the question just now.
"This pier was actually not built by us." Lanhua scratched the hair on her head and said something that Lawrence had vaguely guessed before. Then Lanhua told Lawrence and the others how they discovered the pier.
That was what happened after Lanhua came back from the Niujiaowan Plain last time. When she returned, she first found and convinced her teacher. Then her teacher convened various tribal leaders to discuss communicating with the humans downstream of the river. Just
In just half a day, they decided to re-establish communication with humans and open water channels to connect human settlements downstream of the river.
In order to make full use of the advantages of water transportation, each tauren tribe gathered a team and began to open up roads in the jungle. In the process, they discovered a path that had been almost completely obscured by vegetation in the jungle.
"Well, the path is the one we are walking on now." Lanhua said while lightly stamping on the ground with her hooves. At this time, Lawrence lowered his head and realized that it was not that kind of dirt road under his feet, but a road made of dirt.
A path paved with fist-sized cobblestones.
The most amazing thing is that the cobblestones used to pave this path are not randomly paved. After taking a closer look, Lawrence found that there are many various patterns inlaid with different colors on the road. The whole style is different.
It's like paving a road in the jungle, but it's like building it in a garden.
Obviously, this kind of artistic cobblestone road was definitely not built by tauren. For example, Lawrence found that there were a lot of damage and repair marks on the edges of these roads, presumably because this road had been in the rainforest for too long.
So much so that the tauren had to repair these roads, and the extremely rough patches that were repaired were obviously not built by the same civilization as the original artistically styled gravel floors.
"The same goes for the pier at the back." Lanhua pointed to the pier where everyone came just now with a thick finger. "After we discovered this road in the jungle, we found that the direction of the road was consistent with the direction we wanted to open, so we simply followed it.
I followed this road all the way through the forest, and then I discovered the stone pier."
"Because the pier was covered with moss, I thought it was an ordinary small pier at the time. However, after cleaning up the plants covering it, I discovered that many of the stones used to build the pier were carved with various patterns.
There are various patterns and they look quite beautiful. Unfortunately, this place is too wet, and the pier has been completely covered by those plants in just over a month. That’s why you didn’t see those things when you came here just now.”
"How come there is such a thing in this place?" The voice of the little doll Nora rang in Lawrence's mind. "Whether it is carving patterns on stones or paving patterns on the road with stones of different colors like this, if you want to do this
If we do, the people who do these things must be highly productive. So you ask whether we will go to the tauren this time to find some ancient lost civilization."
"I think we may find some things from an ancient civilization, but it probably won't be of much value." Lawrence remained calm after hearing Nora's excited words. "After all, there is nothing of value on our island.
It has extraordinary resources and the area is not large. Therefore, it is impossible for there to be any powerful native civilization in this place."