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Chapter 23, Salt Mine

When Ning Yuan asked him to manage some daily affairs of the territory, Bai Shihai agreed very readily. There is no way, some people don't like to fight and kill by nature, and Bai Shihai is this kind of person, otherwise He won't be so sorry for his life.

He who was born in this era before had no choice but to force himself to fight continuously for the survival of his clansmen. It was entirely because of the force of the environment that he was able to get to where he is today.

It's all right now, Ning Yuan is powerful, he can completely entrust the task of fighting to this "lunatic", and he only needs to manage the logistics.

Ning Yuan didn't expect Bai Shihai to be so talkative, but after thinking about it carefully, he understood that Bai Shihai was the kind of person who didn't like fighting very much.

As long as others don't hit him on the head, he will definitely not take the initiative to attack, otherwise the Baishi tribe will not coexist with the small tribe that was wiped out by Ning Yuan for so long. Of course, if anyone bullies him, he will also Desperately, Ning Yuan is the best example.

Bai Shihai's physical fitness is not bad. Ning Yuan checked him and found that his ribs were not broken, but he was hit so hard by himself, and there will always be some internal injuries, which needs to be cultivated slowly up.

As for the concussion, judging by his shrewd appearance, it is estimated that the concussion would have no effect on him at all.

After resting for a while, Baishihai finally stood up unsteadily. Seeing that nothing serious happened to him, Ning Yuan proposed to take the entire Baishi tribe to move to the Shenying tribe.

Hearing that Ning Yuan said that he wanted to relocate, Bai Shihai quit immediately. Even when Ning Yuan threw out a new food such as fish, Bai Shihai didn't let go at all. Just when Ning Yuan wanted to say something, he directly asked Ning Yuan to follow. himself, and then walked towards the tent.

Bai Shihai came to the tent and went in directly. Just as Ning Yuan was considering whether to follow in, he got out again. Bai Shihai got out of the tent and handed Ning Yuan a small piece of white crystal.

After receiving the white crystal, Ning Yuan looked at it for a long time but couldn't figure out what it was, so Bai Shihai could only helplessly motion him to lick it with his tongue.

Seeing this, Ning Yuan could only put the white crystal to his mouth, and then licked it with his tongue.

He is too familiar with the salty taste. This is salt. This is an essential resource for life. Human beings eat it every day. If there is a long-term lack of salt, various problems will appear in the human body. It can maintain the osmotic pressure and acid-base balance of the human body.

After coming to this world, Ning Yuan has never tasted the taste of salt again, and the food every day can fade like a bird. If it is not for filling his stomach, he is absolutely unwilling to eat those unpalatable foods. So sometimes it is not a good thing to say that the degree of virtuality is 100%.

Since salt is so important, how did the ancients supplement the salt needed by the body when they did not discover salt?

Ning Yuan once specifically checked the information on this aspect. It turns out that the blood of animals contains salt. Humans can replenish the salt needed by the body as long as they eat animal blood. After learning the truth, there will be more salt on his table. An unpalatable food came out.

In fact, many foods contain salt, it’s just more or less, but for human beings, the salt contained in many foods is far from enough, so people put a little salt in every day when cooking Salt.

In this way, in addition to supplementing the salt needed by the human body, it can also adjust the taste of food and make food less difficult to swallow. Therefore, the discovery of salt is of great significance to the development of human society.

It allows people to no longer drink the blood of animals that are difficult to swallow. Ning Yuan even speculates that the discovery of salt may have something to do with the fact that humans can bid farewell to the ignorant era of drinking blood.

In addition to being edible,

Salt can also be used to preserve some perishable foods, such as meat and fish. With salt, Ningyuan can completely make inexhaustible meat into air-dried bacon and bacon. The food crisis can be easily solved.

In addition, salt can also be used to make normal saline to clean wounds. Although normal saline cannot be used to disinfect and sterilize, only after the wound is cleaned can it effectively prevent infection. This should play a big role in the era of cold weapons.

In addition, salt can also protect the teeth. Occasionally gargling with salt water can effectively prevent tooth decay. Only good teeth can make the body healthy. This is applicable in any era.

Of course, these are not the only uses of salt, but now these are the limits that Ning Yuan can think of.

"Where did you find these salts?" Ning Yuan hurriedly asked after calming down his excitement.

"follow me."

After Bai Shihai finished speaking, he walked towards Baishi Mountain, and Ning Yuan followed closely behind.

Baishi Mountain is not a high mountain. The highest peak is about three or four hundred meters high. There are many strange rocks and lush vegetation on the mountain. The whole mountain is in the shape of a ring. The Baishi tribe is located near the gap in the ring.

The two walked in along the gap. After walking for about ten minutes, a gray-white stone wall appeared in front of Ning Yuan. At this moment, a group of wild boars were licking something in front of the stone wall. coax away.

Ning Yuan came to the stone wall and found that the color of the stone wall was exactly the same as the salt crystals that Bai Shihai had given him just now. Out of curiosity, he stuck out his tongue and licked the stone wall, and there was a salty taste as expected.

Is this a huge salt mine? Unbelievable, Ning Yuan licked all over the stone wall, and no matter where he licked, there would be a salty smell.

In order to further verify his speculation, Ning Yuan found a stone and smashed it towards the stone wall.

Tasting the falling white powder, Ning Yuan finally confirmed that there is a salt mine here, and looking at the huge exposed salt rock, the scale of this salt mine must not be small. It is estimated that this salt mine alone is enough for him Used the game to close down.

"Patriarch, are we still moving?" Looking at Ning Yuan's intoxicated appearance, Bai Shihai asked with a smile.

"I won't move, I won't move even if I am killed. I will send people to bring the people from the camp here. From now on, our Shenying tribe will guard this Baishi mountain to live. The salt is my Shenying Those of the tribe, whoever dares to snatch them, I will kill them."

Ever since he saw this salt mine, Ning Yuan couldn't walk anywhere at all. He vowed to take this place as his own, and no one would even try to get close to it.

As for the huge fish resources in Lake Victoria, anyone can give it to anyone who wants it. Anyway, Lake Victoria is so big that he can't occupy it by himself.

Besides, it's not just a few tribes that can occupy it now. When he becomes stronger in the future and annexes all the tribes around the lake, won't Lake Victoria still belong to him?

After making up his mind, Ning Yuan and Bai Shihai returned to the camp. He asked Black Eagle to take 30 soldiers back to the Condor Eagle Tribe to inform the people there to go to Baishi Mountain the next day. He will send people to meet them tomorrow. .

After sending the Black Eagle away, Ning Yuan began to observe the terrain here. There is a huge valley in Baishi Mountain, which can be regarded as a terrain that is easy to defend and difficult to attack. However, once this terrain is surrounded by the enemy, it will be like a turtle in a urn. Will be trapped alive by the enemy in the valley.

Ning Yuan is now accustomed to the fighting style of attacking, attacking, and attacking again. He likes this kind of head-on confrontation with iron and blood. Blindly defending is not in line with his style, so he plans to build a camp outside the valley. Block the entire valley without being trapped by the enemy to death in the valley.

In addition to inexhaustible salt resources, backed by Baishi Mountain, there is another greater convenience for primitive tribes like the Condor Eagle Tribe, that is, they can use local materials to make stone axes.

Before finding copper ore and iron ore, the only weapons Ning Yuan and the others could use were stone weapons.

Bone weapons are too brittle and easy to break, and wooden weapons are too blunt and have no lethality, so stone axes and stone spears are the mainstream weapons of this era. Before bronze and iron are produced, stone weapons will continue to be Rule this barbaric age.

In addition, the products of Baishi Mountain are also very rich. There are a large number of apple trees on and off Baishi Mountain. It is the season for apples to mature, and there are so many apples here that people can vomit.

The only regret is that these apples cannot be stored, otherwise, if all the apples here are collected, it will be enough for the whole tribe to eat until the spring of the next year.

Ning Yuan knows a way to store apples, that is to dig a cellar, and then just put the apples in the cellar to store them for a long time.

It's a pity that some tools such as shovels are needed to dig the cellar. The Condor Tribe does not yet have the conditions for digging the cellar. Stone spears and stone axes are fine for fighting, so let's forget about digging deep pits.

In addition to fruit trees, wild animal resources near Baishi Mountain are also very rich. Since there is only one open-air salt mine in the valley, many animals will come here regularly to replenish salt.

There are many carnivorous beasts in the valley. Although these carnivorous beasts do not need to add salt, as long as they guard this open-air salt mine, there will be a steady stream of food delivered to the door, so it is no wonder that these beasts will be here. Live in the valley.

It is precisely because there are so many food sources that Ning Yuan has no regrets about temporarily abandoning Lake Victoria. He plans to use this place as a base to slowly expand around.

After having a delicious meal of stewed meat in salt water at noon, Ning Yuan led his people to explore near Baishi Mountain.

Although Bai Shihai gave him a brief introduction to the situation here, some things still need to be seen with his own eyes. As the head of the clan, Ning Yuan must be familiar with the terrain here, otherwise he may miss the opportunity to fight in the future .

There are dense forests near the Baishi tribe. There is a small stream more than 100 meters away from the camp. Judging from the direction of the flow, it should finally flow into Lake Victoria.

After a big circle around the camp, Ning Yuan finally decided to expand the new camp as far away from the stream as possible. Although before the invention of the well, the tribe’s camp cannot be too far from the water source, but sometimes it is too close. Not necessarily a good thing.

First of all, this is an era of wild beasts. Many of those carnivorous beasts forage near the water source, so they are too close to the water source and are easily attacked by wild beasts.

Secondly, for a natural disaster, Ningyuan must take precautions. Although the water level in the creek is not high now, who knows what it will be like in the flood season. After all, the flood is merciless, so he must be careful.

After confirming the expansion direction of the camp, Ning Yuan took people to start clearing the ground. According to his idea, he wanted to level the nearby woods, but the stone ax in his hand was really weak.

The small trees with thick arms are fine, without stone axes, these muscular warriors can break them with their hands, but they can't do anything about the trees that are as thick as a person.

Although the stone ax is called an axe, it is essentially a blunt tool. It is like hitting a stone with a pebble when used for logging. After chopping two stone axes in a row, Ning Yuan decisively stopped this meaningless waste. No one can shake these big trees before they get out the knife and saw.

In desperation, Ning Yuan had no choice but to include these big trees within the scope of the camp. He asked people to break off a large number of arms-thick branches, and then dug a simple ditch with a stone spear, and inserted these branches into the ditch to fill the ground. Put the soil, step on it with your feet, and finally fix the branches with vines, and a simple wooden fence is built.

Although this fence is not very strong, at least it can prevent some wild animals from breaking into the camp at night.

Although Ning Yuan came from modern times and has many advanced ideas, it is difficult for a clever woman to cook without rice. Because he does not have tools, many of his ideas cannot be realized for the time being. This long wooden fence is the only thing he can think of and do. did it.

In the afternoon of the next day, the brigade of the Condor Eagle tribe finally arrived at the new campsite. After arranging the accommodation of the tribesmen, Ningyuan began to divide the work among all the people.

The Condor Tribe now has 205 warriors, including 240 elderly, women and children.

Since this era is a primitive society, soldiers are responsible for supporting their families, which is equivalent to a soldier supporting an ordinary tribe, so the food pressure of the Shenying tribe is not too great. Pico was dying.

205 Condor Warriors, Ning Yuan divided them into four parts. The first part is the most powerful Condor Guard, led by him personally. The Condor Guard has 113 people, including thirteen eagles and a hundred soldiers. This is the combat unit in Ningyuan's plan.

Of the remaining 92 people, 60 people were assigned to Bai Ze. This is the local defense force he planned. It is responsible for hunting in peacetime and defending the base camp in wartime.

The other thirty-two people are reserved for Bai Shihai. Although these thirty-two people are also experienced warriors, since these people are basically wounded, their main task now is to save Rehabilitate in the camp, and patrol around the camp by the way to prevent wild animals from attacking those women and children.

As for the 240 women and children, Ning Yuan didn't intend to let them idle. Although they couldn't go hunting, Ning Yuan had already arranged work for them.

Ningyuan plans to take people to clean up the Baishi Valley completely, and temporarily establish a small breeding base here, and then catch some wild boars, pheasants, goats, bison and other cubs of herbivores, and feed them Breeding in this semi-enclosed valley.

These women and children don't have to do anything else, just get some fodder to feed these animals every day.

In addition, those big red apples can't just watch them rot.

Although the cellar cannot be dug now, after the valley is cleared, a few caves with low temperature inside are found, and then the apples are transported to the caves for storage. As for whether the apples will rot in the end, it is beyond Ning Yuan's control.

Although the physical strength of those women is not as good as those of the warriors, they are superior in ingenuity and patience. Ningyuan intends to teach them how to weave some baskets with rattan to hold things. They can slowly comprehend by themselves.

You must know that in order to successfully weave a basket, Ning Yuan has suffered a lot. At the end of the game, he has to go to the primitive society survival training class specially set up for these lord players every day.

After returning home and watching the civilized forum, he had to do homework with the cane brought back from the training class. After making a lot of cuts on his hands, he finally managed to weave a basket. It can't be compared, but at least it can still decorate things.

In fact, if Ningyuan placed the Condor Tribe on the shore of Lake Victoria, these women would slowly figure out these things by themselves for fishing.

Although the preparation of baskets is more complicated than that of fish cages and fish baskets, as the saying goes, they can know everything, and some ingenious people can continue to innovate according to needs.

It's a pity that the discovery of the salt mine made Ning Yuan decisively abandon Lake Victoria, and he had invested a lot of scientific research value in the early stage to learn elementary fishing and intermediate fishing, which could only be temporarily frozen.

Ning Yuan originally wanted these women to do some work within their ability, but after this arrangement, he realized that they could do too much, and the manpower in his tribe was simply not enough.

Cooking, raising children, collecting apples, weaving rattan products, raising livestock and poultry, collecting wild vegetables, collecting seeds, etc. It is not true that women hold up half the sky.

After the work was assigned, everyone in the Condor Tribe took action. It took Ning Yuan and Bai Ze and the Condor warriors half a month to finally clear the Baishi Valley. , but at least those beasts dare not return to the valley for a short time.

As the safe area opened up by the soldiers became larger and larger, women and children also took action. They built new fences next to the camp, which housed various herbivorous cubs caught by the soldiers.

The beasts that the soldiers hunted these days were also made into air-dried bacon with salt, and the apples near the camp were also picked and temporarily stored in a small cave.

In addition, they also collected a lot of seeds. Although most of them are unknown to Ning Yuan, he can wait until the spring of the next year, and then cultivate these seeds separately. When they bloom and bear fruit, he can know These are some seeds.

After working continuously for more than half a month, the soldiers were a little tired. Now the tribe is full of dried bacon, and the food is very sufficient, so Ning Yuan simply gave these soldiers a two-day holiday to let them Take a good rest and relax.

Because April 1st is coming soon (players are used to calling the first day of entering the game as January 1st of the first year of barbarism, in fact, the real time of Ningyuan's plane should be around June in summer), when the time comes This kind of peaceful life will be completely far away from them, coupled with Ning Yuan's special talent, I am afraid that these soldiers will not be able to rest so leisurely for a long time.

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