Super Chief

　　 Xiaoyan Mountain is not very far from the tribe, and because this is the only way for the tribe’s people to go up the mountain, the road from the tribe to here is relatively easy.

　　 There used to be no clansmen's attention here, although the older generation of clansmen knew that this hill was actually a salt mountain, but the salt here can eat dead people. For tribesmen, this is poison. Who would be interested in poison while idle?

However, since Shixiong successfully detoxified the salt produced in this small salt mountain, it has become a more lively place than the tribe. Every day, more than one-third of the people come here, and it is full of enthusiasm here. Salt making.

　　 Because it involves burning charcoal and boiling salt, the bottom of this small salt mountain is full of smoke almost every day. Fortunately, this kind of smoke is different from the lingering wolf smoke. Once this kind of smoke rises into the air, it will be blown away, otherwise the surrounding tribes would have sent reinforcements to rescue the Gaoshu tribe.

The enthusiasm for salt of the Gaoshu tribe, who has been lacking in salt since childhood, is really unexpected, and Shixiong even suspects that even people living on this continent in later generations love the green Franklin, I am afraid it is not as good as the tribe’s love for salt. enthusiasm.

Shixiong didn’t want to control this, and he couldn’t control it. However, he said that Li Lei and Hongyun set a rule. Every family who makes salt in Xiaoyanshan needs to pay ten percent for the salt. One of them is to accumulate for the tribe, and when it finally trades with the Vasichus, the tribe will take out the salt as public property to negotiate with the Vasichus.

　　 Salt is not only as expensive as gold for North American Indians, but also for those European colonists, even if it is in Europe on the other side of the ocean, there is also a huge demand gap for salt.

　　Gold and gems can make people crazy, but gold and gems can only be afforded by the rich after all.

　　 I am a poor man, I just don’t play with gold and gems, what can you do with me? Well, this is a pure **** mentality...

　　 As for the salt, whether you are a dick, a rich man or a real poor man, he needs it. Therefore, compared to gold and gems, table salt is currently the most circulated trading item. Even if the price of table salt is much lower than that of gold and gems, the trading scope of this item is too wide and the rigid demand is too large.

　　From the emperor and the king to the poor and the people even begging for food, there is no one who does not eat salt!

In the past, the Gaoshu tribe and the Nasiwasi Chus traded with yellow iron (gold), fur, and various gems in exchange for cheap pig iron, cotton, horses, etc. Except for horses, other transactions were actually It was the colonists who fooled these North American Indians as silly children.

　　 In the past, even if you knew that this kind of trade was unfair, you had to grit your teeth. There was no way. The tribe needed items from those colonists.

　　 But now it’s different. There is no shortage of ironware in the tribe. Once you really master the ratio and craftsmanship of steelmaking in the next step, you won’t even lack weapons and tools made of steel. As for other things, except horses, they are not what the tribe needs most.

　　 On the contrary, European colonists had a great demand for salt. After all, the number of European colonists living in the 13 colonies in North America at this time was close to two million. This is definitely a huge market.

　　 Therefore, Shixiong absolutely encourages the tribe to make salt spontaneously.

The Gaoshu tribe is not far from North Carolina and South Carolina. Although the mountain roads are rugged, don’t forget that the salt produced by the Gaoshu tribe is not as rough as the sea salt dried by the Pamanki people. It is produced by the stone bear method. The kind of salt, even if it is placed in later generations, is not much worse than the so-called refined salt.

　　This kind of salt is absolutely in demand in this era!

　　 As long as the tribe masters this salt, then there is no need to worry that the European colonists are not tempted, and they are not afraid of losing money in future transactions.

　　 The process of making salt is quite complicated, but if you master the production method of the assembly line, then the salt production is actually very fast.

In the past, the people of the tribes used the family as a unit to make salt. However, salt production involves digging salt mountains, burning charcoal, smashing salt blocks, grinding salt powder, filtering, and boiling. Even if there are more people in a family, How much salt can be made in one day?

　　 Shixiong saw the shortcomings of this kind of scattered salt production at a glance, so he called the people together again and held a short meeting.

　　 "Will you use your mind? Are you going to fight alone like this? Gray moose, let me ask you how many people are in your family?"

　　 The named gray moose stood up and said, "Respected guardian, there are six people in our family, me, my wife, two sons and two daughters."

　　 "Then how much salt can your family make a day?"

　　'S words made the gray moose a little embarrassed, and he couldn't say it for a long time.

　　 Shi Xiong waited for the veteran soldier to glance, and said angrily: "I think your family is busy all day, I'm afraid you can't even make a bag of salt!"

These words made the gray moose family feel a little bit ashamed~www.NovelMTL.com~ Shixiong ignored the family, stood up and continued: "Salt making is actually a very cooperative work, just like our soldiers are fighting. Time needs to cooperate. Think about it, what is the result of your own fighting? That is, dozens of family members are busy all day, and they may not even be able to produce 20 bags of salt."

　　 Most of the clansmen bowed their heads, Master Guardian was right, that's the truth. The gray moose family is considered to be the most populous family in the tribe, and the family can work, but even so, the gray moose family can’t get much salt in a day.

"So, you should unite!" Shi Xiong's right finger pointed at all the tribesmen, and then drew a circle, "You should all know by now. In the process of salt production, the most effort is to dig the salt mountain and smash it. Salt these two kinds of jobs, then why don't you unite and gather the strongest men among you to do these two kinds of jobs?"

"As for salt grinding, we now have a tamed bison pull mill. This process does not require many people at all, even the children of the family can do it. And the work of burning charcoal, can a woman do it? Filtering and boiling. , Women can do the same! If you can unite, separate everyone from each family, and assign someone to do a fixed job, then your efficiency will be improved several times."

　　 These words made all the tribesmen thoughtful, and some of the tribesmen already had an emotional look on their faces.

　　 "If you do what I said, then if you don't make 60 bags of salt a day, then my method is proved to be wrong. But, can I be wrong?"

　　 So, under Shixiong's guidance, all the tribesmen involved in salt production reached an agreement to adopt the assembly line production method that Master Guardian said.