Hei Qi stood outside the door, watching the two people talking, wondering if the other party was talking about him and the Yanshan tribe, and he tried to prick his ears to hear something.
But Yuan Zhan spoke to the black and cunning young priest in an extremely low voice, and with his hearing strength, he didn't even hear a single word.
The two were too close.
About Heiqi stood outside the door for a long time, and the people of other tribes were fine, but the Mogans who had been secretly paying attention to Jiuyuan told Caiyu about it.
"Maybe they wanted to exchange their salt for something, but they didn't dare to go in." Caiyu waved her hand disdainfully, indicating that such things don't matter.
It happened that Weicai was also there, and it was a little funny to hear the words, "The Yanshan people want to trade their coarse salt with Jiuyuan?"
Iroha heard a little smell, "What? Jiuyuan also produces salt?"
Wei Cai smiled without saying a word, and only said: "The people of the Yanshan tribe probably have made a trip in vain."
In fact, Caiyu already vaguely knew that the blood salt Master Qi Yuan just brought back came from Jiuyuan, but seeing that Wei Cai refused to say it clearly, he didn't pursue it, and only sneered in his heart. Wei Cai belongs to Lord Qi Yuan, and he is loyal to Lord Qi Hao, the Morgans know this very well.
Lord Qi Hao may be a little reckless, but Lord Qi Yuan probably has too many brains and is much weaker than Lord Qi Hao in terms of force. Although Lord Qi Yuan was able to get back a lot of good things that Morgan didn't have or lacked, Lord Qi Hao was able to lead the soldiers out to capture more slaves.
Besides, everyone knows that Lord Priest and the envoy from the three cities prefer Lord Qi Hao. If Lord Qi Yuan didn't have the support of the chief behind him, it would be a question of whether Lord Qi Yuan would survive to this day.
Ocai and Iroha secretly schemed against each other, and didn't think too much about the behavior of the Yanshan tribe.
After all, this is a trading market. In order not to force the newly arrived Yanshan people too hard, Mogan also allowed them to participate in the market and allowed them to exchange the worst coarse salt with other tribes. Just next door to Jiuyuan, it is normal to want to exchange some good things with this wealthy tribe.
Even if the Yanshan tribe had any ideas, would Jiuyuan, who wanted to find a backer who could refine better fine salt and was rich in blood salt, think of them
Yes, Iroha and Iroya are very clear about the thoughts of the Yanshan tribe, and they also understand that they want to escape from Morgan and start over, but so what
Not to mention that Jiuyuan may not necessarily like them, even if they are interested in their ability to find new salt land, why would Jiuyuan offend Moore for such a small tribe
What's more, if the Yanshan tribe really came to the territory of Jiuyuan, life might not be better than it is now. Otherwise, why hasn't the Yanshan tribe had any contact with other big tribes
Hei Qi was invited into the earth house.
"Let me see your salt." Yan Mo asked him to sit down.
Hei Qi still didn't sit down, but hurriedly took out the best salt left secretly by his clan.
Yan Mo looked at its color and found that it was thicker and darker than the sun-dried sea salt that he occasionally bought at the seaside salt field on the way to help people see a doctor in his previous life, but it was much better than the salt he had eaten in the original tribe before.
Such salt grains only need to be boiled once or twice and filtered to become a good fine salt.
Yan Mo is very interested in the salt-making methods of the Yanshan tribe, but he searched his original memory and found that he doesn't know much about these things. The only thing he knows is that not everyone in the Yanshan tribe knows how to make salt.
In fact, red salt is not considered refined salt. It does not completely remove impurities in the salt, such as potassium, magnesium, bromine and other soluble metal impurities.
Yan Mo remembered how to remove the impurities in the salt to obtain refined salt like his previous life, and it was mentioned in chemistry classes in junior and senior high schools. As a medical student and researcher, he often uses various chemical extracts, and the purification steps of salt are not difficult.
The difference between modern and ancient salt production lies in the post-processing, which is almost the same in the early stage. To remove the method of boiling firewood, which is laborious and damaging to the environment, the general early stage is to repeat the methods of stewing, drying, and filtering to obtain salt. grain.
Of course, Hyundai still has simpler and quicker methods for pre-processing, but Yan Mo cannot use these methods, so he can only ignore them.
As for how to turn coarse salt into table salt in the later stage, the most popular method is to use the recrystallization method to obtain relatively pure refined salt.
This recrystallization method is to add coarse salt to clean water and stir to dissolve until it is no longer dissolved; then add barium chloride, sodium hydrochloride, and sodium carbonate in sequence; the third step is to filter; the fourth step Add an appropriate amount of hydrochloric acid dropwise to the filtrate; finally heat to evaporate the filtrate to obtain refined salt.
The hydrochloric acid in the fourth step in the above steps can be omitted, and directly heated and evaporated is also OK.
When Yan Mo was drying the red salt, he tried to further purify the red salt. The first thing he considered was this recrystallization method.
And there are two kinds of chemical refining substances used in this method that he can find a way to get.
Sodium hydroxide can be obtained by adding water to quicklime, adding fine salt that is closest to refined salt after repeated cooking, and then boiling and evaporating the mixed solution.
As for quicklime, he can decompose it from the colloidal lime mud that has been found.
Sodium carbonate is alkali, and it is not difficult to obtain. It can be obtained by burning plants to ashes, adding water, stirring to dissolve, and then boiling and evaporating the dissolved water.
He also has ready-made suitable plants, that is, Suaeda salsa that grows in large quantities by the salt lake.
But barium chloride, he can't help it. This is also the reason why he has to boil the salt repeatedly after drying the salt, because he only has this method to get relatively pure fine salt.
But this method, the guide doesn't seem to advocate it very much, and the reduction of his scum value is not much.
For this reason, Yan Mo has certain expectations for the salt-making method of the Yanshan tribe. Even if their method is not good, as long as he can find something useful to him, that is good.
Hei Qi was very nervous, looking at the young man who was thinking about something after tasting the grains of salt, he began to feel that his previous guess was ridiculous.
But he looked a little like him, and he actually thought that such a young priest who looked particularly calm, wise, and majestic would be his stupid brother.
Maybe with this thought, when he looked at Yan Mo again, he felt that the more he looked at it, the less he looked like it.
Except for his facial features, the boy in front of him has nothing like his younger brother in his sitting posture, demeanor, and movements.
Hei Qi was a little dazed, Hei Qiao was already dead, his body might have been rotten into mud, no, it should have been eaten up by wild beasts long ago.
In short, even if the members of the Yuanji tribe became Jiuyuan people, his younger brother could not become the priest of Jiuyuan.
He shouldn't be so lucky!
Hei Qi woke up from his trance. Although he basically believed that the boy in front of him could not be his younger brother, but looking at this boy with a similar face, he couldn't help but want to stay with him for a while and talk to him more. .
Yuan Zhan looked Hei Qi up and down, making Hei Qi even more nervous. He didn't understand why the other party looked at him with such weird eyes.
It was probably because Hei Qi's face was somewhat similar to Yan Mo's, and Yuan Zhan found him quite pleasing to the eye.
"You want to break free from the Morgan?"
boom! Hei Qi was so shocked that he couldn't even speak, as if his head had been hit hard by someone suddenly, and could only look at Yuan Zhan who was speaking in horror.
"you you… "
"Don't be surprised how I know, anyone can see it." Yuan Zhan touched Yan Mo under the table, telling him not to speak for now.
Yan Mo shut up and waited to see how Yuan Zhan would deal with this matter.
"If we help you leave Morgan and help you find a suitable land to live on, what can you give us?"
These words were straightforward, but they quickly calmed Hei Qi down.
This is the opportunity, not to be missed! Heiqi, be bold! Hei Qi went over the gains and losses quickly in his mind, and tried his best to calmly say: "We can always provide you with this better fine salt, and the transaction price is half of the exchange value of other tribes."
Yuan Zhan sneered from his nose, and reached out his hand to Yan Mo.
Yan Mo took out a small packet of red salt from his pocket and put it on his palm.
Yuan Zhan threw the small bag to Hei Qi.
Hei Qi reached out to catch it, looked at them suspiciously, lowered his head, and opened the small bag.
this is? Hei Qi didn't recognize it at once, but felt that the color of the fine particles was very beautiful. He carefully held the small bag up to his nose and sniffed it, but he didn't smell anything.
But I don't know if it's some kind of intuition about salt, or something else, Hei Qi's face changed slightly, and without asking what it was, he stretched out his fingers and dipped some salt grains on the tip of his tongue.
"This is salt!" Hei Qi looked at the two of them again in shock. And it's salt that tastes much better than their best fine salt! "I heard that Morgan got better salt, is it you?"
Yuan Zhan didn't admit or deny it, he just said: "We have such red salt, do you think we still need you to provide us with salt?"
Heiqi's face was pale, the only reliance he had with the Yanshan clan was nothing in the eyes of others, so how could he negotiate terms with Jiuyuan
Unable to help, he cast his gaze on the boy who was somewhat similar to his brother.
Yan Mo has no feelings for this young man, but perhaps because of the influence of his physical memory, he still has a certain liking for Hei Qi. Seeing his disappointment and the disheartened expression of seeing hope being ruthlessly cut off, his heart goes sour. I can't bear it.
"Do you have blood warriors?"
Heiqi shook his head.
"None of your patriarchs and priests have awakened the ability of divine blood?"
Hei Qi didn't know how to answer, and he didn't understand the purpose of the young priest asking him these questions, so he could only shake his head again.
Yuan Zhan thought of Yan Mo's ability, and immediately understood why he asked these questions. If the Yanshan tribe had a few more people with the same ability as Mo, even if they didn't need to make salt, they would be of great use in Jiuyuan.
Originally, only Mo could communicate with dwarves, savages, animals, etc., but if the Yanshan tribe came, and Mo stimulated their divine blood ability, they could replace Mo and help everyone communicate with those races that did not understand the language. Whenever there is a problem that cannot be solved due to a language barrier, everyone will come to Mo.
Thinking of this, Yuan Zhan's consciousness immediately changed from the fact that the other party was Mo's relatives and had to accept them, to the fact that the abilities of this tribe were of great use to Jiuyuan, even if they were to be robbed, they must be snatched over.
"If you want us to help you leave, if you want to live a better life than now, besides salt, you Yanshan people must come up with something that makes my heart beat." Yuan Zhan almost said clearly, as long as you agree and If you enter our Jiuyuan, I can accept you without anything.
Yan Mo saw that his question had already awakened Yuan Zhan, so he didn't say anything more. He planned not to interfere with the affairs of the Yanshan tribe, and left everything that could be handed over to Yuan Zhan to him.
This is also the reason why he doesn't want to recognize Heiqi and them. He doesn't have any feelings for them. It's just a trade of a corpse, and he doesn't rely on their upbringing and living. Since it is a "favor" that can be repaid easily, why bother to give it He and the tribe are looking for a few overlords, how stupid must he be to torment himself like this
But Heiqi didn't think it was a good thing to merge into Jiuyuan. They were suppressed too much by Mogan, and they just wanted to find a piece of land that belonged to them and develop freely and slowly, even if their life was a little bit difficult at the beginning.
Besides, walking with Jiuyuan means returning to the original land? But the Shi tribe is still there, what if they get greedy again and attack them before they can gain a firm foothold
Could it be that the Xi tribe has been subdued by Jiuyuan? Or has Yuanji been annexed by Jiuyuan? Otherwise, why is Jiuyuan no longer called Yuanji? And become so rich, and have such a good red salt
Hei Qi couldn't help asking this question: "Aren't you originally from Yuanji? How did you become Jiuyuan? I heard that you are from the upper reaches of the river. Are you no longer in the original land?"
This question immediately aroused the hatred in Dahe and Yuanzhan's hearts towards the Shizu and the Bairi tribe. No matter how rich and powerful they are now, they will never forget the shame of being driven out of their ancestral land.
If Jiuyuan hadn't been established for less than two years, and everything was still developing and adapting, they would have turned around and attacked the Shizu and Bairi people long ago.
Yuan Zhan's hatred is slightly lower, he thinks more, before Jiu Yuan is not strong enough, he does not intend to start a war casually.
Yuan Zhan didn't say what happened, he just replied: "Jiuyuan is a tribe protected by the ancestor god, and any place that the mountain god Jiufeng can fly to is her territory."
Yan Mo looked at Yuan Zhan, what kind of little lover did he find for himself? One word from this man revealed his ambition.
Yuan Zhan didn't notice anything wrong with what he said, he continued: "Yuanji's original land is no longer suitable for living. Under the guidance of the priest of the ancestor god, the people of Yuanji found Jiuyuan and live there now."
Hei Qi asked, "Is Jiuyuan composed of many tribes?"
"right."
Heiqi is moved. If they really can’t live freely as before, then joining a big tribe, accepting the protection of this tribe, working for this tribe, enjoying everything that the tribe enjoys, and becoming the true citizens of this tribe is also a way , but there is another problem.
He thought and thought, gritted his teeth and asked, "Are the priests and patriarchs of those tribes still alive?"
Knowing what he was worried about, Yuan Zhan replied: "Of course. It's just that they can no longer serve as priests and patriarchs, but they can be tribal elders or warrior leaders, helping the tribal leaders and priests to govern the tribe together. Just to join any All tribes must pass the test of the ancestor gods, and only those who are truly loyal to Jiuyuan, accept all the rules of Jiuyuan, and are willing to work hard and pay for Jiuyuan can become Jiuyuan people."
"What are the rules in Jiuyuan?"
Yuan Zhan didn't bother to elaborate, and waved his hand, "Ding Fei, send some meat to the next door later, and then tell them all our Jiuyuan's rules."
Ding Fei received the order, "Yes."
Hei Qi didn't want to deepen the topic anymore, because the following matters were beyond his decision, and he had to go back to the patriarch and the priest to discuss this matter.
Seeing that Heiqi was about to leave, Yan Mo spoke again, and he made a promise, "Go back and tell your patriarch and priest, just say that the priest of Jiuyuan said it himself, if you are willing to join Jiuyuan, the people of Jiuyuan will help you You, as long as you don’t cheat yourself, we will take all of you away from Morgan.”
Hei Qi turned his head sharply, and he said with more expectations: "Then, sir, if we are willing to join Jiuyuan, can you guarantee that our patriarch and priest can become the elders of Jiuyuan, and our clansmen are all Can be like the original people, enjoy everything they enjoy, without being inferior to them?"
"No one in Jiuyuan is inferior to anyone else." Although there may be differences in status due to force and wealth in the future, it does not mean that anyone is superior to anyone else. He may not be completely fair, but the various rules now and in the future will try to make up for it.
Hei Qi still wanted to ask him "Are you a black cunning", but now is obviously not a suitable occasion.
Hei Qi came with trepidation and left with trepidation.
After returning, he immediately told Uncle Qingze the details of his trip to Jiuyuan.
After hearing this, Qing Ze was not as moved as Hei Qi, and his brows were tightly frowned.
"Uncle Qingze?"
"Let's talk to the patriarch and the priest first when we go back." Qing Ze signaled Hei Qi not to tell anyone else about this matter. In the afternoon, he carried some salt cubes and went out to exchange for some food. It took a while return.
After Hei Qi left, Yan Mo put aside the matter of the Yanshan tribe for the time being, and asked Ding Fei to invite people from Tuya and other tribes over time.
Except for a few people from those tribes, no one else knew what Yan Mo talked with them, but those who happened to see it all found that everyone who came out of the second earthen building in Jiuyuan had a satisfied expression.