Jingle, jingle, jingle, the sound flows like the wind and flows like a stream. It is the sound made by the bells on the reindeer's neck.
Alkani shouted, and the majestic reindeer pulled the sleigh and flew forward. The dense jungle and thick snow were very familiar to the elves in these forests.
Zhu Rongjie wrapped himself tightly in mink fur, even covering his face, leaving only his two eyes exposed. The biting cold wind here was a bit unbearable for him. He took a breath into his lungs and felt that his whole body was freezing.
Same.
"As long as it's not a blizzard, winter is not terrible!" Alkani are Evenni people, this is their own name, and in Zhu Rongjie's view, they are no different from the Sauron people who call themselves Ewenki, and even some other herding people
There is no distinction between tribes that ride reindeer in deer carts. They should be collectively called the Deer Tribe.
However, some tribes such as Feyaka and Hezhe who live by the sea and rivers and mainly focus on fishing basically have the habit of raising dogs. In winter, they pull dogs sleds or plow ice. They can be collectively called the dog tribe, which is simple and clear.
, compared to this one and that one, how can I remember it.
The rivers and seas were frozen, and the pioneering fleets were also driving to stop for the winter. However, the tribesmen could not rest. The cold winter was also the best hunting season, especially when the dynasty minister showed them those exquisite goods.
Finally, they were all moved, especially the prices that they felt were very real.
When Wang Dynasty saw that they were going back to the tribe and even hunting, he held a meeting with the team members and finally decided to send some team members to follow them to their tribe to hunt together, bringing various hunting nets, animal traps, etc. that had been prepared in advance.
New tools, as well as tribal hunters recruited from Vladivostok, Yongning City and other places.
Zhu Rongjie was a fifth-rank official and a civil servant. He didn't have to come out, but he was still willing to follow him outside and explore the tribe deeply.
He led a small team of pioneers to translate the Evan tribe of Alkani. Their tribe is a mountain forest tribe. They mainly hunt and fish. They also raise reindeer. In winter, they will drive the reindeer to the mountain tops and slopes.
Go to the tundra to eat mosses and lichens.
Alkani and his family live in the area of the Urya River. In the summer, they go nomadic hunting and fishing in the mountains and forests beside the river. In autumn and winter, they go up to the mountains.
There are a total of four clans in their Hara, with 75 households, more than 300 people, and more than 1,600 reindeer.
The Evan people call the deer Oren, which is their best companion, their means of transportation, their forest boat, and their food.
The Evan people are mobile, and their Hara is probably located near the Uriah River, but even so, the area they live in is still huge.
Zhu Rongjie felt that he had been lost for a long time. There were the same woods and the same snow everywhere, but the reindeer pulled several sleighs and galloped through the forest, as if there was no end.
No trace of people could be seen, but Alkani said that they would never get lost, just like they would never find their own herd of deer. They would put the deer in the forest and on the mountain, sometimes dozens of miles apart, and they would still be able to do so.
turn up.
After traveling in the forest and snowy fields for several days, Zhu Rongjie had already lost his direction. Fortunately, the sleigh he stayed in was considered a luxury version, with a small canopy on top, a stove inside, and deerskin mats.
Wearing a mink fur coat kept him from being so cold. In this place where he had to carry a stick to urinate, he even regretted coming out.
Starting from the fourth day, they finally arrived at the Uria River from the city of Dumei. Then Alkani was not in a hurry. The entire river basin was considered the territory of their Evenni people. There were several people here.
There is a clan called Hara, where they can hunt and fish.
"There are many wild animals here, including tigers, black bears, bobcats, martens, etc. Generally, we will not hunt tigers. Unless the tiger attacks you, we can hunt it as a last resort. The tiger is the king of the forest, so you must be in awe." As he spoke, he suddenly stopped.
Next, he raised his finger to signal everyone to be silent.
He listened carefully. Then he quietly got off the sled and walked quietly into the depths of the forest. After a while, his shout was heard,
"A fragrant deer." He came out carrying the prey. Zhu Rongjie got off the car and looked at the prey curiously, but was shot by Alkani with an arrow.
It has big eyes and a small head, its hind legs are longer than its front legs, its tail is short, its fur is prickly to the touch, and its dark brown color looks a bit like a deer.
"Male." Alkani was very happy. He took out the short knife given to him by Zhu Rongjie and started to pick up the musk deer. He began to skin the musk deer skillfully and very quickly.
"The weather is cold, so we must peel off the skin as soon as possible, otherwise it will freeze after a while and cannot be peeled off." He peeled off the skin three times, then carefully took something off and gave it to Zhu Rongjie.
"This is a sachet. It turns into musk after it is dried. It is a good thing. Only male musk deer can have it." Zhu Rongjie naturally knows that musk cannot be touched by pregnant women, but it is very useful in some aspects and is very precious.
, both a traditional Chinese medicine and a spice.
Musk is divided into forest musk deer, horse musk deer and primitive musk deer. The primitive musk deer is produced in the Northeast. This kind of musk is small in quantity and high in price. The age of musk deer is different. There are also big and small musks. The small ones cost three or four dollars each, and the big ones can
It weighs two taels, and a pound of musk usually contains ten to eleven.
However, in the mainland of the Central Plains, musk is seriously adulterated. Merchants often grind red sandalwood into powder, stir-fry the powder with blood and liver of cattle and sheep, and pour it into the umbilicus of musk.
Generally, the bigger the musk, the more expensive it is and the older it is, so merchants often adulterate small musk to make large musk.
When collecting musk at the border market, it usually costs more than ten taels of silver per tael of musk. The specifications are divided according to size. The bigger the more valuable. For example, a musk weighing two taels is several times heavier than three or four taels of silver. It can be sold for more than one tael.
One hundred taels.
This thing is similar to old wild ginseng, the heavier, the better. But if merchants in the border market collect it and transport it back to the mainland, the price is higher. Whether it is used for medicine or for making spices and perfumes, it is more expensive than gold of equal weight.
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"This fragrant deer must be more than ten years old. Even though it is old, this sachet is very good. There are at least two taels of it when dried." Alkani said and gave it to Zhu Rongjie.
Zhu Rongjie heard that there were twenty taels of sun-dried gold, so he calculated in his mind that for the same weight of gold, the official exchange rate for one tael of gold to silver was 1:16, that is, thirty-two taels of silver.
However, these 2 taels are considered to be of high quality. After drying, they are probably worth 100 taels, maybe 200 taels.
This is very precious. He smiled and said,
"This is a good thing. I'll take it. When buying musk in the market in Yongning City, one tael costs sixteen taels. One tael or less and more than half a tael are cheaper. Those with less than half a tael are cheaper. And more than one tael
Those priced at 2 taels are more expensive, and those above 2 taels are the most expensive, with a total of five prices. Yours is the best, and I will charge you double the price of one tael. This will give you seventy-two silver dollars.
Look at it." Seventy-two silver dollars, Alkani was stunned on the spot.
He remembered visiting the good things in the Kaifeng Warehouse when he left Qidumi, and even remembered the prices of some things.
For example, an iron pot costs three silver dollars each, an ax costs two, a butcher's knife costs two, and a machete costs two. Salt costs one silver dollar a bucket, and a piece of cotton cloth costs six.
Tea bricks, weighing four kilograms each, cost four silver coins, sugar weighs six silver coins per dou, and shredded tobacco costs two silver coins per catty.
Five kilograms of rice wine is worth one silver dollar. A wine jug is worth one silver dollar. Tin basins are worth one piece. Eight porcelain soup bowls are worth one piece, ten porcelain rice bowls are worth one piece, and three buckets are worth one piece.
In Alkani's opinion, those things were all good things, and the price was not bad. Mr. Zhu had to pay seventy-two silver dollars for a musk. He couldn't figure it out for a while. How many good things could be exchanged for it?
The iron pot is a good thing, and it is easy to use for cooking. The Evenni people often eat raw venison and fish as long as they are killed on the same day. If they can't finish it on the same day, they smoke or dry it.
For three yuan a piece of iron pot, you can still buy twenty of them. You can still buy twelve buckets of salt. A bucket of salt is a bag. The salt is of very good quality and is as white as snow.
Other tea, tobacco, wine, white sugar, brown sugar, axes, knives, shovels, hammers, ropes, bags, etc., as well as cotton and linen are also good.
Although they have fur, they are very warm in winter, but not comfortable in summer.
"This is not worth much." Alkani swallowed. Tribal people are often self-sufficient and do not pay much attention to their lives. However, there are restrictions on conditions. They will also trade with outsiders, exchanging furs for salt, etc.
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It was just too inconvenient. They wanted everything from the things shipped by the Ming Dynasty. He never thought that a fragrant deer sachet could be worth so much silver.
"How about seventy-five yuan?" Zhu Rongjie increased the price. Alkani hesitated and finally decided to sell.
"Ten yuan, it can be exchanged for three iron pots."
"How about seventy-two yuan?"
"Less." The two started a magical bargaining there. Those who bought had to pay a high price, but those who sold had to pay a low price.
Both parties felt that the other had suffered a loss, so in the end it was Zhu Rongjie who set the price. He bought the sachet for the price of ten iron pots and thirty silver dollars.
"I even counted the silver dollars for him on the spot. Alkani felt a little like he was dreaming when he grabbed the handful of silver dollars. There were ten iron pots for such a small thing. He just shot a musk deer on the way. This iron pot
It requires mining, smelting, blacksmithing, and pot casting. How much labor and skills are required, and he just shot an arrow. Zhu Rongjie carefully put away the sachet. Such a large sachet was simply processed and brought back to the Central Plains.
, in Beijing, Tianjin or Fengtian, it was worth one or two hundred silver dollars, and now he exchanged it for thirty silver dollars. And for these thirty silver dollars, Alkani will come back to drive next time.
I changed it into a commodity, just the iron pot, which sold for three silver dollars each. In fact, the purchase price was three silver dollars a piece, and two small iron pots were only one dollar and six. In Qi Dumei, they sold it for ten times. Basically, they opened up the market.
The goods brought by the fleet were sold for at least ten times more. But after all, they were shipped nearly ten thousand miles away by sea. Especially Evani and others could not buy these goods before. Another is the price that the pioneering company paid for their furs.
It's still good, so they don't think it's expensive, but think it's a good deal. Just like now, when a musk sells ten large iron pots, he thinks it's too much profit. Both parties are very satisfied with the transaction. Alkani
He happily started to cut up the fragrant deer while it was hot, cut off a large piece of fresh meat from the deer leg, and handed it directly to Zhu Rongjie.
"Hot, fresh and delicious." In winter, the secret of the Evenni people's winter is to eat more raw meat and go out less
Nutrition and physical strength.
He then handed the deer skin to Zhu Rongjie. In his opinion, the thirty silver coins also included the skin, bones and flesh of the fragrant deer.
Zhu Rongjie took a piece of leg meat and chewed it for a few times and felt it was fishy. Alkani cracked another bone and took out a piece of bone marrow and handed it to him, saying it was a good thing.
Zhu Rongjie took it and put it in his mouth, but it tasted like nothing. Especially the greasy feeling even made him feel nauseous. He had no choice but to suppress this feeling and swallow it hard.
He didn't want to be rude, but he also wanted to learn from these indigenous people and adapt to the customs and customs here as soon as possible.
But in the end, he just tasted it. He took off a piece of fresh ribs, took it to the hood of his sleigh, put it in a wok on the stove, added water and simmered it slowly. When he rested in the evening, he would have delicious stewed deer.
Already lined up.
The other Evenni people in the team were eating the raw meat while it was hot with knives, and they were very happy to eat it. However, Zhu Rongjie and the Pioneer team only ate a small piece each, and then looked forward to stewing the ribs.
"Bear barks!"
"There is a bear." Byrko shouted excitedly. He had just seen Alkani shoot a fragrant deer and get ten pots of silver. He was also very envious. As a tribal marksman, he heard this
He was extremely excited when the bear roared.
It's finally time to show off your skills.
"Let's go together!" Alkani came over and said to the neighbors and friends of the mother's clan. The Evenni people came around and expressed their desire to hunt the bear together. Normally, they might not be interested in hunting bears, but today they were
Everyone wants to capture this bear.
Baierko also came over to ask Zhu Rongjie,
"A brown bear, do you want it?" Zhu Rongjie said with a smile,
"Bear skins, bear bile, and bear paws are all good things, especially bear bile." Hearing the price he offered, Byrko and others were even more excited. They didn't expect the bear to be so valuable.
"Do you need our help to hunt bears together? We have muskets!" Byrko and the others wanted to hunt by themselves, but were a little embarrassed to refuse. Finally, they reluctantly agreed to go together. The two parties made a simple agreement. According to their tradition, the first one
The one who shoots the bear can monopolize 30% of the profit.
He also agreed to shoot the bear's head or belly as much as possible to ensure the integrity of the bear's hide, and not to destroy the hide by shooting randomly.
Zhu Rongjie agreed to them all, and he couldn't wait to participate in the hunt. Bringing net ropes, clamps, muskets, and spears, they headed toward the bear's cry together, a group of Evenni hunters, and then a group of pioneer Han people,
Together with several Jurchen hunters recruited in Yongning City, they quickly followed the bear's footprints and found the bear. For some reason, it ran out and barked wildly instead of hibernating.
The big brown bear with thick skin and flesh was no match for this group of hunters. They were driven and surrounded by them. Before Baierko could find the best opportunity, Zhu Rongjie took aim at the side with a heavy nine-headed bird for a long time, looking for the opportunity.
Bu Yuan fired a cannon from a human standing position and blasted it into the mouth of the big bear, which opened its mouth and roared. The lead bullets of the heavy-fire cannon were also enlarged. With one blow, the big brown bear weighing a thousand kilograms was knocked down.
Killed with one shot. There was a roar like a jade pillar being pushed down a mountain of gold, and the snow on the shaking trees fell. Korbai's bow was fully drawn, but he was caught first. He was a little angry, but at the same time he was angry at the big fire gun.
I was secretly shocked by the power. A seemingly weak-minded Han official ended up killing a thousand-pound brown bear with one shot.
And if it were them, even the best marksman would not be able to kill him with just one or two arrows.
"Hurry up and skin the bear, take out its bile, and get its paws." Alkani's voice woke him up. He put away his bow and arrow in despair, and followed the tribe to deal with the brown bear.
"Let's eat bear meat tonight," one of the pioneers said. Alkani said,
"Bear meat is not delicious. It is smelly and smelly. Even if it is cooked and eaten, you will have diarrhea after eating it. Not only will you have diarrhea after eating bear meat, but you will also get oil from your body. If you hunt this thing, you will usually take it back to feed the dogs.
." Zhu Rongjie smiled and said,
"It's too wasteful to feed dogs. This is bear meat. It doesn't matter if it smells bad. First soak it in water for a while, then add peppercorns and aniseed to stew it, and then stew it for a while. The smell will definitely disappear." Xiong
Eating meat is prone to diarrhea and oil will come out. The main reason is that bears are thick with fat. Most people will have diarrhea easily after eating it. Especially people who have no oil in their stomach will definitely have diarrhea if they suddenly eat bear meat.
But after stewing or marinating it for a long time, it’s okay to eat a little less at a time. Most people don’t have the chance to eat such good food, and they definitely can’t let it go if they encounter it.
Sichuan peppercorns, aniseed pepper, miso soy sauce and cooking wine. Are you still worried that it won’t taste good? Zhu Rongjie and others are very confident.
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