Aunt Chuntu left in a hurry to inform the chiefs Zhuang Yu's decision, and Zhuang Yu took over the unfinished barbecue stall.
Zhuang Yu glanced at the barbecue, and asked a group of radishheads, "Didn't you take everything with you when you left Tongshan? Why didn't you see the salt?"
He remembered that a group of little radishheads were wearing a suit of things at that time, and they were still holding packages in their hands.
A group of little carrots slapped their foreheads, "Oh, I forgot about getting up just now."
Quickly ran into the house, and brought out jars of salt, as well as chili powder, pepper powder, bay leaves and garlic.
Chili and pepper powder are ground by themselves and packed in clay pots.
Of course, there is also oil for frying soybeans, which are packed in bamboo tubes and sealed with animal skins.
Zhuang Yu brushed some oil on the meat, and then began to add seasonings, and the aroma immediately changed.
At this time, Shaohao also came in from the outside, holding several big crabs in his hands.
"Yesterday, I saw that you liked it very much. I went to grab some for you in the morning."
Zhuang Yu: "..."
No wonder I didn't see Shaohao's people early in the morning, so I ran to catch crabs for him.
My heart suddenly felt as if I had been wiped with honey, Shaohao is quite a real person.
Quickly let Shaohao sit down and eat their breakfast, of course there were a few more big crabs in the breakfast.
After eating, Zhuang Yu thought for a while, now that a group of little radish heads came to their Chidi, they can be regarded as a part of their Chidi City, and they don't have to live without a fixed place anymore.
So since he is a member of the Red Emperor City, he has to follow the rules of the Red Emperor City, instead of just walking around with him every day, this is also to let this group of little radish heads integrate into the Red Emperor City as soon as possible.
So, Zhuang Yu led a group of little radish heads to a huge playground in the middle of the city.
Before I got there, I saw a group of children, big and small, with water bags hanging from their waists, spraying fireballs at the target one mouthful at a time.
There are a lot of people here, including all the children of the various tribes in Chidi City. This playground is a place where these children are specially used for training, and it is also a place for these children of various tribes to get acquainted with each other since they were young. After all, they are a big group , can't act independently, that will cause problems.
There are relatively few people in Chidi City, so even ordinary people have to learn how to fight. Once a war breaks out, everyone can go to the battlefield. Although they cannot charge on the front line, they can also help as an assistant. Very busy.
Seeing the lively playground and the fireballs flying all over the sky, a group of little radish heads screamed and ran over, their faces full of excitement and excitement, they were so powerful, even though they were kids about their age, they actually knew how to use fire.
Zhuang Yu went up and rubbed the heads of these little radish heads, "Do you want to learn?"
A group of little radish heads nodded as excitedly as chickens pecking at rice.
Zhuang Yu said, "Every child in Chidi City has to exercise. Exercise is very hard."
Before they finished speaking, a group of little radishheads said, "We are not afraid of hardship, we also need to exercise, otherwise people will definitely say that we were brought back by brother Yu, so we don't work hard, we are not like this."
Zhuang Yu was taken aback for a moment, these little radish heads were quite sensible.
Perhaps it is because of the loss of their homeland that these little radish heads know how to cherish and make sense.
Zhuang Yu smiled, "Okay, now I announce that the Golden Centipede Department will be a new member of the Red Emperor City from today on."
"Anyway, wherever Brother Yu belongs, we belong."
"That's right, we have to follow Brother Yu all the time."
Zhuang Yu rubbed the heads of the little radish heads, and then led them towards two big men, Han and Yan, who were in charge of exercising some of the children in Chidi City.
Those in charge of the children's training are all members of the Four Seasons War Clan. Besides the two of them, there are three pairs of twins, namely General and Minister, Hou and Qing, and Ying and Gou.
Zhuang Yu said, "I will teach you the drills of these children from now on."
It just so happened that this group of little luotou and Hanba knew each other, so there was less estrangement.
Zhuang Yu watched a group of little radish heads follow Han and Ba to get their water bags and flints for wine.
Because I am a child, the training for a day is only in the morning, not too long, but it is also very hard, I get up before dawn, and the training is not over until the sun is hot. This is the rule of Chidi City, so this There is no exception for Qun Xiaoluotou, Zhuang Yu also came here when he was a child.
At this time, a large group of people were already waiting for Zhuang Yu outside the playground, and they were all the leaders of various tribes in Chidi City.
They heard Mrs. Chuntu say that Zhuang Yu had a solution to the salt, so they couldn't hold back.
Zhuang Yu walked over, and the faces of all the leaders were excited, "Young Master..."
Knowing what they were going to say, Zhuang Yu shook his head, "Let's go to the meeting place and talk about it."
Salt is a major issue in Chidi City, and it must be taken seriously. Moreover, public discussions will definitely fall into the ears of others. Zhuang Yu is still self-aware. He does not believe that other forces have not sent spies into their Chidi City.
A group of people came to the meeting hall, and the outside was tightly guarded.
This was Zhuang Yu's first meeting with the leaders after more than a year.
The leaders were also very excited, "Young Master, you have finally returned safely. We have no confidence in your absence."
Zhuang Yu smiled, "I'm afraid all uncles will praise me to the sky again."
"Our young master doesn't need to boast, he is the brightest star in the sky, and the light makes everyone else eclipsed."
Zhuang Yu was a little embarrassed by the words.
Compared to the vastness of the seventy-two tribes in White Emperor City, Red Emperor City is much thinner. There are only eighteen tribes in total. If you add the newly added Golden Centipede tribe, it barely counts as nineteen.
But the tribes that can survive in Chidi are not easy to mess with.
Zhuang Yu exchanged pleasantries with the chiefs of various tribes whom he had not seen for a long time, and then began to get into the theme.
Everyone looked at Zhuang Yu without blinking their eyes. Although they had heard the news from Aunt Chun Tu, they still needed to come and find out what happened.
"Young Master, we have sent someone to send a message to the caravan so that they don't need to exchange for salt stones."
Zhuang Yu nodded, "I believe you all came here to confirm the situation. What I want to tell you is that you have heard correctly."
The expressions of all the leaders were excited, "We must believe what Shaojun said."
"I didn't expect that our Red Emperor City would not rely on other forces to supply salt stones. Those sons of bitches have been exploiting us a lot of supplies."
The fundamental reason for the conflict between Red Emperor City and Ruidi City is that those hypocrites set prices on the ground and treat them differently. They traded with Red Emperor City for the same price, and traded with other forces for the same price. They just aimed at Red Emperor City. The reason for having to trade with them.
The red land is barren, and many supplies have to be exchanged with them.
"Shaojun, what should we do? Our tribes will cooperate with Shaojun."
Zhuang Yu thought for a while, "According to the previous method, I will find a tribe to be responsible for the salt issue."
Each tribe in Chidi City has a different division of labor. For example, the Huangsha tribe is responsible for the guards and patrols of Chidi City. When Zhuang Yu and the others entered the city, the giant beast warriors that made up the city wall they saw were from the Huangsha tribe. people.
The Qingsang Department is responsible for the planting of the green grass outside, the Dead Sheep Department is responsible for raising sheep, cattle and grazing, the Four Seasons War Clan is responsible for the regulation and management of various tribes and foreign battles, and the Qing Fox War Clan used to be in charge of caravans and foreign affairs. .
But now the Qinghu War Clan was taken away by Zhuang Yu's mother, the patriarch of the Qinghu Tribe, the Qinghu God of War, and didn't care much about the affairs of the Red Emperor City. The caravan affairs were temporarily handed over to a tribe named Jiao Kang.
A group of leaders looked at Zhuang Yu, eager to know how it was arranged.
Zhuang Yu thought for a while, "Salt making is a long-term process that takes time and effort. Now the relatively large tribes, Huangsha, Qingsang, Yiyang, and Jiaokang, have their own responsibilities, so let's leave it to the Yunmeng clan. , they happen to also have the responsibility of guarding the reservoir, so they are relatively free.”
The Yunmeng clan is also a powerful clan under the seat of Chidi City, and the task they originally assigned was to take care of the dam.
A big man stood up, it was Gou Yu, the leader of the Yunmeng Clan, "I, the Yunmeng Clan, will definitely live up to the young master's entrustment."
Zhuang Yu smiled, "Uncle Gouyu doesn't need to be so serious. If there is a problem, I will ask other tribes to help. This is the responsibility of everyone in Chidi City, not the responsibility of a certain tribe."
After talking for a while, a group of leaders left one after another with excited faces. Zhuang Yu was so confident that they were also happy in their hearts. Now they just wait for Shaojun to bring the Yunmeng clan to get out the salt.
Gou Yu, the leader of the Yunmeng Clan, stayed behind.
Zhuang Yu said, "Uncle Gouyu will gather your clansmen tomorrow and wait for me at the dam. I will teach you how to make salt tomorrow."
If you can't buy salt rocks, then the problem of salt is more urgent, and you need to get salt out quickly.
Gou Yu nodded, "Then I'll go and gather the clansmen."
When Zhuang Yu returned to his residence, a group of little radish heads had already returned. Although they were sweating profusely, they looked quite alive and well.
I was performing a newly learned fireball in the yard, but the spit was not too far, and the line was not straight, which caused a burst of laughter.
Don't look at it as just spitting fireballs, but it takes a lot of practice, otherwise the fireballs you spit out will either scatter or be small and powerless.
Seeing Zhuang Yu's return, a group of children chirped happily, "Brother Yu, come and watch the fire technique we learned today."
Even the little mushroom ran over, with a bulging mouth, apparently with something in it, and then took out a flint and blew it at it, blowing out a small flame, terrified, dancing in front of Zhuang Yu, begging for praise, the mushroom Aberdeen is not very powerful, Mushroom Aberdeen can also fire.
I don't know who it asked for the flint.
Little Mushroom kept pointing to the extra water bag around the waist of a group of radish heads with his small fingers. In fact, the wine contained in it, Mushroom Boy also needs this, this is fun.
Zhuang Yu thought about it, and decided to make a schoolbag for the little mushroom, a schoolbag filled with wine, because the little mushroom is too small, and it would be difficult to make a water bag.
A mushroom wearing a small sweater, carrying a small schoolbag, and spewing flames everywhere with its small hands and feet also looks very weird.
I don't know how long it can be strange. Anyway, it is playing a little crazy now, spitting small flames all the way, and even cooking fires are not allowed to be lit by others, so it has to spitting flames.
Zhuang Yu watched a group of little radish heads play for a while, and then took them to take a bath. They were sweating profusely, and the intensity of the exercise should not be small. They will know tomorrow, and their limbs are probably sore. As for now, let them Let them keep playing.
Shaohao was wandering around, and he quite liked the different styles of Chidi City.
The people of Red Emperor City also knew that a Young Master of White Emperor City had come to them.
Originally, a young master from the other five major powers came, and they couldn't be so laissez-faire, but now the relationship between Red Emperor City and White Emperor City is complicated, and they don't know how to treat this special young master of White Emperor City. Jun, just pretend it doesn't exist, anyway, Shaojun is watching.
At this time, within the range of Baidi City and Ruidi City, the caravan of Chidi City led by two members of the Jiaokang clan was dizzy with anxiety.
Can you be in a hurry? Now, no one is willing to exchange the salt stones for them. Their reserves of salt stones in Chidi City are insufficient.
But no matter what they say, even if they take the initiative to increase the price, others just refuse to change it, and they still look like they are watching a good show.
Isn't your young master very powerful and majestic? You messed up Baidi City, and injured Ruidi Qilinzi like that, what now
In the end, I still have to come and beg them.
This time, Ruidi City and Baidi City were planning to attack Chidi City at the same time, to let everyone know what would happen to those who offended them, and it was impossible to let go easily.
In fact, it was also to save face. After the news spread, neither Ruidi City nor Baidi City looked very good.
The two people from the Jiaokang tribe also heard the news, and they also knew that they might not be able to exchange salt stones, but they still had to work hard.
It's just that I didn't expect that Shaojun really offended the other party this time. No matter what the conditions, the other party was unwilling to agree to exchange salt stones.
Just when they didn't know what to do, suddenly, a person in the caravan ran over excitedly and started talking in a low voice.
"I just received the news from the spies from the Red Emperor City. The Red Emperor City asked us to give up the exchange of salt stones and replace all the supplies with other useful things."
The leader of the caravan was stunned, "Then how do we solve the salt stone in Chidi City?"
They are bordering Ruidi City and Baidi City, there is no other way but to exchange with them.
The expression on the man's face became even more excited, he raised his head, and said, "It's Shaojun's order, Shaojun... has returned to Chidi City."
The team leader stopped worrying about it, and raised his head. If it was an order from someone else, he still had to figure it out, but if it was an order from Shaojun, what else did he need to worry about
They didn't even look at what kind of person their Shaojun was. If there were any problems that he couldn't solve, Shaojun said that there was no need to change the salt stone, so he didn't need to change it, and he didn't even want to give it to him for nothing.
His mouth was so happy that he hummed a little tune, "Young man, he grew up in the yellow sand, young man, he is the brightest star in the sky, young man, he is unparalleled in the world..."
This is the most popular tune in Chidi, their Shaojun is back.
Then, under the eyes of a group of extremely proud and mocking people, they left with the caravan.
A group of people were stunned, "What's the matter with the people in Chidi City? They don't want salt stone anymore?"
"Impossible, if they don't exchange salt stones from us, where else can they exchange them?"
"Hmph, they're just putting on a show, let's see how long they can last."
"Yes, it must be putting on a show, and then you have to come back and beg us."
They are very sure, because Chidi does not produce even a single salt stone.
Such things happened almost simultaneously in the trading places of Baidi City and Ruidi City.
However, people from Baidi City or Ruidi City didn't care about it, and even disdain it. They still don't believe that Red Emperor City won't humiliate and lose face this time.
And the caravan of Chidi City, already loaded with exchanged supplies, began to return to Chidi.
Most of the giant beasts of the Jiaokang family are a species called Thunder Giant Beast.
The giant thunder beast, with a big horn on its head, looks a bit like a rhinoceros, has a huge body, moves slowly, looks a little clumsy, and is very bad at fighting.
But one of its advantages is that it walks steadily and is good at bearing weight. Some people say that an adult thunder behemoth can hold up a hill.
Perfect for caravan transport.
A group of Thunder Behemoths formed a team with the boss full of goods.
There are also giant beast warriors from the Four Seasons War Clan around, they are responsible for protecting the safety of the caravan.
At this time, it was already the second day in Chidi City, and Zhuang Yu was already standing on the dam.
Below are the members of the Yunmeng clan, all the members of the Yunmeng clan who can come are here.
The Yunmeng clan came from the entire clan, and they were standing on their ancestor beasts.
Their ancestor beast is also a fish, but unlike Zhuang Yu's Kun, their fish is long and strip-shaped, which is more like the shape of a fish.
However, this ancestor beast is also very strange, because it is a sand fish with sand and stone all over its body, and its range of activities is also the desert, not water.
The magic of nature is really unimaginable.
Zhuang Yu sat cross-legged on Kun's head, as if waiting for something.
On the big sandfish, Uncle Gou Yu was very puzzled. Didn’t Shaojun teach them how to make salt? How did you bring them here? There seems to be nothing here except the water they are responsible for guarding.
Just as I was about to ask, a group of children with wet hair came up from below the dam with clay pots in their arms.
Zhuang Yu smiled, he was waiting for these little radish heads.
After the little radishheads finished exercising, they didn't even have time to wash off the sweat on their bodies before they came up.
"Brother Yu, we are here, and we have brought the things you asked us to bring."
Zhuang Yu nodded, looked at the Yunmeng clan, and said, "Show these uncles the salt."
The little radishheads are wondering, what kind of ancestor beast of the Yunmeng clan is so strange, a fish made of sand
Hearing this, he quickly hugged the pot and ran to pass it to a group of uncles.
Ditch Yu took the jar, Yanshi? It's too extravagant to use pottery.
But looking inside the jar, I couldn't help being stunned. It contained white sand, which looked pretty, but it wasn't salt stone.
Looking at the other clansmen, they had the same expression as expected, and couldn't help but look at Zhuang Yu, "Young Master, this..."
Zhuang Yu said, "Try it."
Gou Yu was taken aback, grabbed some white sand and put it in his mouth, then he was dumbfounded, "So... so salty, is this salt?"
The entrance melts, not sand at all.
The other clansmen were also grabbing the salt and putting it in their mouths, with the same surprise on their faces, "It tastes the same as the salt stone, no, it tastes much better than the salt stone, without the bitter taste of the salt stone."
Then he thought of something, and looked at Zhuang Yu excitedly.
Zhuang Yu said, "Yes, what I want to teach you is to make this kind of delicious, clean and beautiful salt, so that you don't need to eat bitter salt stones in the future."
One sentence directly made the members of the Yunmeng clan fry the pot. They kept looking at the jar in their hands and tried the taste, "This salt is really much better than salt stone. Will we use this kind of salt in the future?"
Some still couldn't believe it.
A group of small radish heads also said, "The roasted meat on this salted meat is delicious."
"You can also fry fried pork."
After the members of the Yunmeng clan got excited, they looked at Zhuang Yu without blinking.
Zhuang Yu said, "As for how to make salt..."
Pointing to the water in the dam, "It depends on them."
People from the Yunmeng clan have question marks all over their faces, isn't that water? Moreover, it is very bitter and unfiltered water. This water is not edible. In the past, some members of their tribe swallowed it by mistake and almost died.
However, since Zhuang Yu led them to divert the water from Beiming to create such a big project, the people of Chidi City have blindly trusted Zhuang Yu.
If others said that the water was salt, they would definitely snort, but if Zhuang Yu said it, they would have a different attitude.
Can't wait to see how the water turns into this sandy white, great tasting salt.
Zhuang Yu felt that if he just explained the principles to them, it would be difficult for them to understand, so he jumped off the Kun and began to speak while operating.
"The reason why this water tastes salty and bitter is because it has salt in it. Of course, in addition to salt, some inedible things are also mixed in. The bitter taste comes from these inedible substances."
"Since there is salt in the water, we can get the salt out by drying. The melting points of different substances in water are different. We can do this..."
On the earth, there were people who dried salt in ancient times. "Boiling the sea into salt" means introducing seawater into salt fields, evaporating in the sun to form brine, and then filtering through sedimentation to remove sediment, and then evaporating water in the sun. Crystallized as a salt.
There is another most important tool for drying salt, which is the salt pan for drying salt, also known as "inkstone plate", which is like the shape of an inkstone for grinding ink. It is a salt tank made of volcanic rock, also known as salt field. At that time, the rows of salt fields of different sizes by the sea were also very spectacular.
It's not difficult. Their ancestor beasts live in the volcano. When the time comes, go to the volcano and move the volcanic rock back to make salt tanks. These are the salt fields.
Now Zhuang Yu is not busy making salt fields, but showing the Yunmeng tribe how to dry salt.
Zhuang Yu directly packed the seawater in the impermeable animal skin, spread it out to dry, and waited while talking. In such a big weather, he thinned the seawater a little, and he could still see the effect in a short time.
A group of small radish heads also nodded vigorously. They were the ones who broke the salt rocks and dried the salt in the past.
As time goes by, the sun gets bigger and bigger.
The water on the hides began to decrease, because it was a demonstration, so there was no step of sedimentation and filtration of sand, so there were many other substances in the salt, which looked dirty.
But now for a quick demonstration, let’s just let it go. After they build the salt pan with volcanic rock, they will standardize the steps step by step, and the salt will be produced according to the steps.
On the hide, white crystals mixed with sand began to appear.
The Yunmeng tribe kept looking at it without blinking, their faces full of inexplicable surprise, "The water has really become something else."
This is simply unimaginable, obviously two completely different things.
Is this salt
Gou Yu didn’t even care that the salt that was dried out was full of sand. He dipped some white crystals with his fingers and put them in his mouth, and then he was so excited that he couldn’t speak incoherently, “It’s salt, it’s really salt, water really becomes With the salt, our Red Emperor City has its own salt."
How many previous grievances were melted into this sentence.
Other members of the Yunmeng tribe also started to taste it excitedly, even a group of elders couldn't help shouting, so as to express their feelings at this time.
Zhuang Yu looked at a group of happy people, and wondered how happy they would be when the salt fields were brought out and fields of clean and white salt had to be shoveled with shovels.
Zhuang Yu said, "Keep watching the sea water brought in, why worry about having no salt to eat, we will not buy salt rocks in the future, we will sell salt, because our salt is better than everyone else's."
Yunmeng Clan: "..."
Just like in a dream, looking at that young man is the same as when the dam was built.
"Young man, he grew up in the yellow sand...Young man, he is unparalleled in the world..." I don't know who sang, and then they joined together.