Struggle in the Steam Age

The visit to the tauren tribe was not a whim, but a journey that Lawrence had planned from the very beginning after seeing Orchid Ironhoof. After all, some formal meeting is absolutely essential if the two races are to unite.

Not to mention that the current trade between tauren and humans is unbalanced, and the tauren tribe has always been in a trade deficit in trade. It doesn't matter if it is like this for a short time, but if it is for a long time, various problems will definitely arise. In order to avoid possible problems, Lawrence felt that he needed to go to the tauren tribe to investigate. Help them find if there is anything that can be used to trade with humans.

In short, for Lawrence, the mission of this visit can be said to be of great significance. Now he wants to let the Tauren tribe have the ability to make blood by themselves as much as possible. Only in this way can the existence of the trade deficit be reduced and the trade between the two sides reach a balance.

"Do you think there is something special about your side?" After returning to the cabin, Lawrence asked the Tauren Orchid who was chatting with Nora. "For example, different plants, animals or certain ores are fine."

"Let me think about it." Lanhua's cow showed a thoughtful look on her face, and after a few tens of seconds, she looked up at Lawrence and said, "If you want to talk about something special, there are only those low trees on the hills." Yes, the leaves on those trees are very bitter, but if you pick the leaves and break them up and feed them to the cattle, they can cure many diseases."

"In addition, some diseases of our tauren can also be solved by eating these fresh leaves. For example, the most common children's food accumulation can quickly restore their appetite by eating a tablespoon of crushed leaves."

"Sounds like it's useful." Lawrence scratched his head after hearing this. This herbal medicine should have a little market. But if the hilly area where the Tauren live is just full of such trees as Lanhua said, it would be too difficult to consume all of them. At least Lawrence felt that at least the surrounding islands would definitely not be able to consume them.

As for ores, there is a little bit, unfortunately, they are the most basic limestone mines or other stones. If they are used as building materials, they are barely enough. However, considering the shipping costs, opening these mines in such places can barely make a loss. . It is basically impossible to be a fist product of the Tauren tribe.

The only good news is that, according to the tauren, there are a lot of mango trees growing in a jungle near the hilly area. If the goblins are now defeated and the power gap in this area is used to seize the fruit forest, it should be a good idea to sell dried mangoes and provide mangoes to the residents of the island.

A few hours later, the boat approached a small pier by the edge of the woods. Unexpectedly, this pier is actually a solid pier made of stone, which is much higher grade than the wooden trestle bridge currently used by the harbor. There are several small rafts parked next to the pier. It seems that the size of the things placed on them should be used by tauren.

After getting on the pier, the first thing Lawrence did was to bend down and observe the stone pier carefully. Unlike imagined, this pier does not seem to be a temporary construction. Judging from the moss covering the entire pier and the traces of wear and tear on the pier, not only has the pier existed for a long time, but also from the traces on the stones, the pier has experienced a period of time after it was built. usage of.

"Is this pier built by you tauren?" Nora also found something wrong with this pier, so she asked directly, "I always feel that the size of this pier is not suitable for your tauren. Something went wrong.

After being told by Nora, Lawrence also saw something was wrong. The buildings built by each intelligent race in this world will be very different because of their different sizes. For example, when Lawrence went to Fatina a while ago to discuss the content of dried mushrooms, they found that the rat people were in the mountain. The passages built are very narrow, at least for humans, many places can barely pass through, and even if they are relatively burly humans, they will get stuck in some passages.

And now the size of this pier is indeed normal for Lawrence, but it is obviously a bit narrow for those tauren who are more than one size larger than humans, so Nora Piao asked strangely after looking at it in the sky. solved the problem just now.

"We didn't actually build this pier." Lan Hua scratched the hair on her head and said something that Lawrence vaguely guessed before. Next, Orchid told Lawrence and the others how they discovered the pier.

That was after Orchid came back from Niujiaowan Plain last time. When she returned, she first found and persuaded the teacher. Then her teacher convened various tribal leaders to discuss the communication with the humans downstream of the river. In just half a day, they decided to re-establish human settlements that communicate with humans and open water channels to communicate with the lower reaches of the river.

In order to make full use of the advantages of water transportation, each tauren tribe drew out a team and began to open up roads in the jungle. And in the process, they found a path that was almost completely covered by vegetation in the jungle.

"Here, the path is the one we're walking on now." Lan Hua said as she stomped her foot on the ground lightly with her hoof. Lawrence lowered his head at this time, only to realize that the path under his feet was not that kind of dirt road, but a dirt road. A path paved with fist-sized cobblestones.

The most amazing thing is that the cobblestones used to pave the path are not randomly paved. After a closer look, Lawrence found that there are many various patterns inlaid with different colors on the road. The whole style is not like paving a road in the jungle, but like building in a garden.

Obviously, this artful cobblestone road was definitely not built by the tauren. For example, Lawrence found that there were a lot of traces of damage and repairs on the edges of these roads. It was presumably because this road was in the rainforest for so long that the tauren had to repair these roads, and the rough patches and The original artistic style of the gravel floor is obviously not built by the same civilization.

"The same is true for the pier at the back." Lan Hua pointed to the pier where everyone came over with her thick fingers and said. "After we found this road in the jungle, we found that the direction of the road was the same as the direction we wanted to open, so we simply followed this road and opened up in the forest, and then we found the stone pier."

"Because the pier was covered with moss everywhere, I thought it should be an ordinary small pier. But after cleaning up the plants covering it, I found that many of the stones used to build the pier were carved with various patterns. There are all kinds of patterns, which look very beautiful. It's a pity that this place is too wet, and the pier has been completely covered by those plants in just over a month. That's why you didn't see those things when you came here just now."

"Why is there such a thing in this place?" The voice of the little puppet Nora sounded in Lawrence's mind. "Whether it's carving patterns on stones or paving patterns on the road with stones of different colors like this, if you want to do this, the people who do these things must have high enough productivity. So you say we will This time go to the tauren to find an ancient lost civilization."

"I think we might find a part of an ancient civilization, but it probably won't be of much value." Lawrence remained calm after hearing Nora's excited words. "After all, our island does not have any valuable extraordinary resources, and the area is not large. So it is impossible to have any powerful native civilization in this place."