It Starts With A Mountain

Chapter 309

As for the situation on the grassland, you have to ask Fan Lihua to know. Yun Zhonglong had never been to the grasslands before. As for Fudele, although he was of the Rong tribe, the Beiman tribe was 108,000 miles away, so he was blind.

According to Fan Lihua, there are more than a dozen tribes in this grassland, some large and small, the largest being the Xirong tribe.

The Rong had no writing, no currency, or even a so-called power structure, so it was no wonder that the Empire regarded them as barbarians. They do not recognize the copper coins of the empire. Of course, gold and silver are hard currency at any time, but the price is too low.

People here are more accustomed to barter, and they are still in the initial stage of business.

Fan Lihua told Cheng Dalei that these tribes migrated with water plants, and it was not easy to find them. However, in this grassland, there is a fixed trading location, which is regarded as a market, and each tribe regularly trades the required materials here every month.

The goods traded included cattle, sheep and horses, hunting dogs, weapons, iron tools, tea, and of course slaves.

After all, tomorrow will be the day of the transaction. Cheng Dalei will leave the main force behind, and he, Fan Lihua, and Fudler will each carry some goods to the trading market, which is considered to be exploring the way in advance.

On the way, Cheng Dalei asked some more about the customs and customs of the Rong tribe. Fan Lihua could be regarded as understanding, but Fudele was more reticent.

No one can figure out what the kid is thinking. Sometimes, if he asks three questions, he may not answer one, and Cheng Dalei is not very willing to chat with him.

The three of them rode three horses, which were loaded with goods, including medicinal materials, tea, and salt.

At dusk, arrived at the market. This is a mangrove forest on the grassland. Tomorrow is the official opening day. But a lot of people have come one after another. Cheng Dalei saw a group of people nesting together in the mangrove forest, with goods piled up in front of him.

Silverware, jade, herbs, flocks of lambs, ferocious hounds, etc., were not greeted by anyone, and whoever needed it would go forward to negotiate the price.

When the three of Cheng Dalei appeared, they all cast unkind eyes, like jackals staring at their prey.

With the deep hatred of the Empire and the Rong, they were already very friendly without drawing their swords on the spot. Cheng Dalei couldn't help but feel a little bit of drumming in his heart. If everyone rushed up, the three of them could only flee quickly.

Fan Lihua was very calm, she really looked at it like she was going shopping.

"The Rong tribe worships the strong. As long as you are stronger than them, they will respect you. What kind of hatred or hatred is not important to them." Fan Lihua said casually: "There are often wars between various tribes, and you can count them carefully. Every family has the hatred of killing their father and the hatred of stealing their wife, and it is not clear. As long as you are better than them, even if you rob their wife, they are still willing to be your slaves."

Speaking, Fan Lihua glanced at Cheng Dalei: "Of course, you can't do this kind of thing."

Fan Lihua mocked Cheng Dalei a little, and Cheng Dalei let out a haha.

"That is, that is, are we civilized people?"

After hearing Fan Lihua's words, Cheng Dalei no longer had any psychological burden. He also accompanies Fan Lihua to visit the market. Some people look at him fiercely, and Cheng Dalei also looks back fiercely. In the end, his eyes confront each other, and the other party avoids him wisely.

Ha, it's really different cultures and customs.

Fan Lihua was right, the Rong tribe did worship the strong, and it was not uncommon for tribes to rob each other of women. In this place, as long as your fists are big enough and your skills are strong enough, there will be no shortage of people to make you king, even if you kill his old father and sleep with his old mother.

There are a lot of strange goods sold in the market, some kind of strange animal skins, stones picked up from the beach, and 13- or 14-year-old girls are also sold, and there are some things that Cheng Dalei has never seen or heard of.

Cheng Dalei's eyes lit up, and suddenly he noticed something, a single tube, made of brass, with a strange pattern of rust.

This should be a European telescope.

The seller is a man of the Rong ethnic group. Compared with the common Rong ethnic group, his body is thinner. Staring at Cheng Dalei like a vicious mouse. Cheng Dalei ignored him and asked Fordler to ask him for a price.

In the end, I bought this monocular with a pack of salt. On the grasslands, salt can be used as currency. The eyes of the Rong man who looked like a mouse immediately softened, and the wrinkles piled up, as if he was about to laugh.

Cheng Dalei looked into the distance through the telescope, but the effect was not very good. Cheng Dalei's eyesight is pretty good, and this telescopic mirror can't play a big role.

What really attracted Cheng Dalei's attention was the origin of the Qianlijing mirror. The thirteen states of the empire faced Canghai in the east and the Rong tribe in the northwest, so what was there further west?

Cheng Dalei turned the lens barrel and saw the mountains in the west rolling up and down, and the sky was high and the clouds were far away.

The terrain of the empire is not exactly the same as Cheng Dalei's previous life. As for the structure of the entire world, Cheng Dalei also knows nothing. The world should not only be an empire, but also more than the Rong.

What is the West?

A pretty face appeared in the lens barrel that could break snow and smooth jade, standing so close that even the blood vessels under the opponent's skin could be clearly seen.

Fan Lihua frowned: "What are you looking at, can you see clearly?"

"Ah, see clearly, see clearly."

Cheng Dalei put away the telescopic mirror, waved his hand and said, "Come, come, put our goods out too."

The three brought only a small amount of medicinal materials, tea leaves and salt this time. The three burdens were opened, and Cheng Dalei squatted under the big tree, feeling quite like he was squatting on the ground in his previous life.

Originally, the Rong people here looked at the three of them with unkind eyes, and wanted to kill the three of them at any time. For the time being, I didn't do anything, and I just couldn't figure out where the three came from.

Until Cheng Dalei placed the goods out, the eyes of the people around them were obviously bright, and someone held the weapon. Cheng Dalei also put the axe up, and sure enough, the greedy eyes around him dimmed.

Maybe someone who can use such a heavy axe as a weapon is a good person, and there are obvious bloodstains on the axe.

Sure enough, the first person came over soon and asked Cheng Dalei what he wanted to change.

In this era, the situation of the transaction is probably like this, first ask what the other party needs, and then exchange your own things for the other party. If you don’t have it, you need to exchange it elsewhere.

After all, it is the most primitive stage of commerce, and salt, tea, and medicinal materials are hard currency and can be used as currency.

There were more and more people in front of Cheng Dalei, and soon Cheng Dalei realized the generosity and enthusiasm of the Rong people, and the matter of exchanging a bag of salt for a horse also appeared.

Cheng Dalei prefers something that is easy to carry, such as beautiful stones and jade, and these things are easier to use in the empire. Some of the special herbs of the Rong tribe were also needed by Cheng Dalei.