We made you the chief, and now you've become the world's chief?

Chapter 76: Giving the Da tribe a direction for migration!

How long does it take to catch a whole pot of blackfish?

With one net cast, a few people can catch enough fish in a hundred earthenware jars in a morning, enough to feed the entire Xia tribe for three or four days.

Xia Minghao once heard a saying that a human settlement can only make progress when it can obtain twice the energy it consumes each day.

It can be said that the efficiency of energy acquisition determines the speed of civilization's progress.

Because they have more mental and physical energy to do things that are not related to survival.

Fishing nets are efficient enough for obtaining resources.

If they could actually trade one pottery jar of fish for five pottery jars of taro, then the Xia tribe's food acquisition efficiency would at least double again!
Moreover, there are salt and pottery to trade. As long as the Da tribe's granary exists, the Xia tribe can concentrate all its efforts on construction.

Road construction, house building...

They even have enough power to create a road leading to the mountaintop, allowing Xia Minghao to use his telescope to open up a map of the area near Yanquan Mountain!

"father!!"

The wise man actually agreed!

Damon, as the leader, looked over in disbelief.

In his haste, he forgot to address the wise man and instead bluntly called him his father.

The wise man glanced at his son Damon but did not respond. Instead, he looked at Xia Minghao.

Wise people have their own thoughts.

The Da tribe is now in a completely disadvantaged position, and meat, salt, and pottery are all necessities!

This made him worry that if he refused, he would anger the chief of the Xia tribe, which would not only put the Da tribe in danger, but also completely deprive them of the possibility of obtaining these essential resources.

Therefore, he still chose to compromise, a mindset formed countless times in the face of powerful natural forces, and undoubtedly a wisdom for survival.

"Chief of the Xia tribe, what you said is worth exchanging."

Hearing the wise man's reply, Xia Minghao was overjoyed.

Good, good, it's so comfortable dealing with "clever people" from primitive times.

Kedamon still wanted to try, and told Xia Minghao more.

Xia Minghao kept shaking his head as he listened to Damon's description.

These were all ordinary things that Damon didn't need, which the primitive tribes treasured, but meant nothing to Xia Minghao.

Of course, it's not that they're unwilling to replace it with anything other than taro.

Although he wasn't interested in what Damon was talking about, there might be some slightly useful things that had been discovered in the Damon tribe's area.

We still need to conduct an on-site investigation to see what the Da tribe actually has before considering whether to include anything other than taro in the "trade list".

However, judging from Damon's distressed expression, he might be reluctant to make the first trade and wait ten days or half a month before actually starting the transaction.

Since I haven't actually used them, I'll only know how good the pottery and the salt I processed myself are by experiencing them firsthand.

How about we give them some samples...?

Giving it away for free is definitely not an option.

After a moment's thought, Xia Minghao immediately came up with a plan.

Let some of the Da tribe members stay first, and they will take the "samples" back as their "wages".

These people can also temporarily serve as labor.

After the first exchange is completed, it will still take some time to fully liberate the Xia tribe's labor force for construction.

Moreover, we are indeed facing a shortage of timber.

More importantly, once these Da tribe members have experienced life in the Xia tribe, they will definitely tell others about it when they go back.

This is the best form of publicity.

The Da tribe has not migrated for a long time, and now we need to point out the direction for their next migration.

Migrating towards civilization, migrating towards the Xia tribe!
This time, Xia Minghao didn't look at Damon, but addressed the entire Damon tribe directly.

"You can stay in the Xia tribe for a few days and help us cut down the trees. You can eat your fill of meat here."

"And you can take the pottery, salt, and blackfish back with you."

The words were spoken, but no one responded; no one dared to be the first to try something new.

Damon was somewhat moved when he heard that as long as people stayed behind, they could take back these things that would cost a lot of taro in exchange.

But he had no way to force any of the Da tribe members to do anything.

The silence lasted for a moment, then someone finally raised their hand.

"Chief of the Xia tribe, may I stay?"

The person who raised their hand was someone I knew—Daka from the salt-collecting team.

Daka made this decision after careful consideration, because there was nowhere left to mine salt...

Moreover, having spent a day with the Xia tribe, Daka did not share the fear of the unknown Xia tribe that the hunting team members had.

After Daka raised his hand, more people followed suit, fewer than ten in total. All of them were from the Da tribe's salt-harvesting team, and none of them were from the Da tribe's hunting team.

“Alright, then you can stay here. After the sun rises twice more, I will personally escort you back to the Da tribe, along with what I promised.”

Seeing that someone was willing, Xia Minghao took the opportunity to propose the idea of ​​going to the Da tribe.

Damon looked at the wise man, who finally nodded.

Having settled the issue of staying or leaving, Damon still felt somewhat unwilling to give up, looking at the pottery and salt in front of him and thinking about exchanging so many taro.

At that moment, Damon thought of the blackfish.

The Xia tribe chief said that the flesh of the blackfish could make people push giant stones.

If it's regular meat, can we exchange it for fewer pottery pieces?

Because all they really need is enough meat.

"Chief of the Xia tribe, can we trade for the meat of ordinary prey? We can exchange three earthenware jars of taro for one earthenware jar of meat."

Should we use a different kind of meat?

Xia Minghao frowned and shook his head.

Other types of meat are much harder to obtain. The reason blackfish is traded is because it's easy to get, and because of a combination of deception and manipulation to inflate its price.

Moreover, as a "Xia tribe on the tip of the tongue," the diversity of ingredients is very important.

Don't you have any other meat?

“We have meat; we have wolf meat and bear meat right now. We can hunt here, and it’s easy to get other kinds of meat. But we don’t want to switch.”

Xia Minghao made his stance very clear.

Damon's humiliation prompted the other members of the hunting party to start gossiping about it again.

They did try hunting in the woods near Salt Spring Mountain.

But the area is covered with vines and bushes, making it difficult to even walk, so how can one hunt?

Wolfskin's face showed the greatest surprise, not because he had considered the difficulty of the hunt, but because Xia Minghao had mentioned wolves.

"How could you possibly have wolf meat? Could you even kill a wolf?"

The area where the wolf-skinned tribe once lived was inhabited by packs of wild wolves, and thus, out of fear of the giant wolf, a worship of the giant wolf arose.

It's like seeing the power of lightning and then imagining the worship of some kind of thunder god or lightning god.

But even after saying it, Wolfskin wasn't sure. The miracle Xia Minghao had just demonstrated was replaying in his mind again.

It seems that nothing is impossible.

Of course, nothing is impossible.

Xia Minghao observed the wolf skin's reaction and thought to himself, then pointed to the haystack behind him and said to the surprised Da tribe.

“We killed many wolves and spared their cubs. These wolf pups will grow up to be the wolves of the Xia tribe!”

That was a "doghouse" set up for Wangcai.

Since the arrival of the wolf cubs, Wangcai has stopped running around and has become a very qualified "nanny," staying there to take care of the wolf cubs.

Every time Xia Minghao passed by, he saw Wangcai frantically licking the wolf cubs with its tongue, as if trying to imbue them with its own scent.

At this moment, Wangcai seemed to hear Xia Minghao talking about him, and raised his head, his ears instantly perking up.

Several wolf cubs that had already opened their eyes also raised their heads, just like Wangcai, and their little ears perked up.

From a distance, it looks like a bunch of furry little wolf heads suddenly sprouting from a pile of thatch.

But in the eyes of the Da tribe, it was a different story.

Fear has spread through the tribe once again!

Wolf!
Many members of the hunting party unconsciously fell backward; this fear, ingrained in their very bones by years of hunting, was a result of their relentless work.

Such a reaction could be described as "PTSD" in the primitive era.

Moreover, the people from this tribe just said that they killed so many giant wolves and were going to raise them to become the giant wolves of the Xia tribe.

Xia Minghao didn't expect that this group of people would react so strongly to these "cute beasts".

It seems to be even more intimidating than the bear tooth necklace I wear around my neck.

The men of the Da tribe's hunting party retreated like a tide.

The girl's figure was revealed, like a delicate seashell on a beach after the tide has receded.

Dali didn't seem terrified. She stood there, looking at the wolf cub whose head was sticking out, and even a glimmer of light appeared in her eyes.

(End of this chapter)