Chapter XXIII

When Ning Yuan told him about some daily affairs that he wanted him to manage the territory, Bai Shihai agreed very happily, no way, some people don't like to fight and kill by nature, Bai Shihai is this kind of person, otherwise he wouldn't be so sorry for his life.

He was born in this era before and had no choice, in order for his clan to survive, he could only force himself to keep fighting, and he was able to get to this point because of the general environment.

Now that Ning Yuan is strong, he can completely hand over the task of fighting to this "madman", and he only needs to manage the logistics.

Ning Yuan didn't expect Bai Shihai to be so easy to speak, but after thinking about it carefully, he understood that Bai Shihai was the kind of person who didn't like to fight very much.

As long as others don't hit him, he will never take the initiative to attack, otherwise the Baishi tribe will not coexist with the small tribe that was destroyed by Ning Yuan for so long, of course, if anyone bullies him, he will also fight hard, Ning Yuan is the best example.

Bai Shihai's physical fitness is not bad, Ning Yuan checked him and found that his ribs were not broken, but he was hit so hard by himself, there will always be a little bit of internal injury, which needs to be cultivated slowly.

As for the concussion, looking at his shrewd appearance, it is estimated that the concussion has no effect on him at all.

After resting for a while, Bai Shihai finally stood up slowly, and Ning Yuan saw that he had nothing to do, so he proposed to take the entire Baishi tribe to move to the Condor Tribe.

Hearing Ning Yuan say that he was going to relocate, Bai Shihai immediately stopped doing it, even when Ning Yuan threw out the new food of fish, Bai Shihai didn't mean to let go at all, just when Ning Yuan was about to say something, he directly asked Ning Yuan to follow him, and then walked towards the camp.

Bai Shihai came to the tent and went straight in, just as Ning Yuan was thinking about whether to follow in, he came out of it again, and Bai Shihai got out of the tent and handed Ning Yuan a small piece of white crystal.

After taking the white crystal, Ning Yuan looked at it for a long time and didn't see what it was, Bai Shihai could only helplessly signal him to lick it with his tongue.

Seeing this, Ning Yuan could only put the white crystal to his mouth, and then licked it with his tongue, this lick didn't matter, Ning Yuan was so excited that even the hairs on his body stood up.

The salty taste is too familiar to him, this is salt, this is an indispensable living resource, human beings have to eat it every day, if there is a lack of salt for a long time, the human body will have various problems, it can maintain the osmotic pressure and acid-base balance of the human body.

After coming to this world, Ning Yuan has never tasted the taste of salt again, and the food can fade out every day, if it weren't for the sake of filling his stomach, he would definitely not want to eat those foods that are difficult to swallow, so 100% virtuality is sometimes not a good thing.

Since salt is so important, what did the ancients use to replenish the salt needed by the body when they did not discover salt?

Ning Yuan had specially checked the information in this regard, it turned out that the blood of animals contained salt, and humans could replenish the salt needed by the body as long as they ate the blood of animals, and after learning this truth, there was another food on his table that was difficult to swallow.

In fact, many foods contain salt, but there are more or less, but for human beings, the salt contained in many foods is far from enough, so people will put a little salt in cooking every day.

In addition to replenishing the salt needed by the human body, this can also regulate the taste of food and make it no longer difficult to swallow, so the discovery of salt is of great significance to the development of human society.

It allows people to stop drinking the blood of animals that are difficult to swallow, and Ning Yuan even speculates that the ignorant era when humans can say goodbye to Ru Mao and drink blood may have something to do with the discovery of salt.

In addition to being edible, salt can also be used to preserve some easily perishable foods, such as meat and fish, and with salt, Ning Yuan can completely make dried bacon and bacon from the meat that cannot be eaten, so that the food crisis of the Condor tribe in winter can be solved.

In addition, salt can also be used to make normal saline to clean wounds, although normal saline can not disinfect and sterilize, but the wound can be cleaned to effectively prevent infection, which should play a great role in the era of cold weapons.

In addition, salt can also protect teeth, and occasionally rinsing your mouth with salt water can effectively prevent tooth decay, and the teeth and mouth can be good, which is applicable in any era.

Of course, there are more than just these uses of salt, but now these are the limits that Ning Yuan can think of.

"Where did you find all this salt?" After calming down his excitement, Ning Yuan hurriedly asked.

"Follow me."

After Bai Shihai finished speaking, he walked towards Bai Shi Mountain, and Ning Yuan followed closely behind.

Baishi Mountain is not a high mountain, the highest peak can be about three or four hundred meters, the mountain is full of strange rocks, lush vegetation, the whole mountain is in a circular shape, and the Baishi tribe is located near the gap in the ring.

The two walked in along the gap, and after walking for about ten minutes, a gray-white stone wall appeared in front of Ning Yuan's eyes, and at this moment there was a group of wild boars licking something in front of the stone wall.

Ning Yuan came to the stone wall and found that the color of the stone wall was exactly the same as the salt crystal that Bai Shihai gave him just now, and under curiosity, he stretched out his tongue and licked the stone wall, and sure enough, there was a salty taste.

Could it be that this is a huge salt mine? Without believing in evil, Ning Yuan licked everywhere along the stone wall, and as a result, no matter where he licked it, there would be a salty smell everywhere.

In order to further verify his speculation, Ning Yuan found a stone and smashed it towards the stone wall.

Tasting the white powder that fell, Ning Yuan finally confirmed that there was a salt mine here, and looking at the huge salt stone exposed, the scale of this salt mine must not be small, and it is estimated that this salt mine alone is enough for him to use until the game goes out of business.

"Patriarch, are we still moving?" Looking at Ning Yuan's intoxicated appearance, Bai Shihai asked with a smile.

"If you don't move, if you kill you, you won't move, I'll send someone to bring the people from the camp here, from now on, our Condor tribe will live in this white stone mountain, these salts are from my Condor tribe, whoever dares to rob them, I will destroy them."

Since seeing this salt mine, Ning Yuan has been completely unable to walk the place, and he has vowed to keep this place for himself, and no one will want to get close.

As for the huge fish resources in Victoria Lake, whoever wants it can give it to whomever he wants, anyway, Victoria Lake is so big, he can't occupy it alone.

Besides, it is not something that can be occupied by just a few tribes now, and when he becomes strong in the future and swallows up all the tribes around the lake, won't Lake Victoria still be his?

After making up his mind, Ning Yuan and Bai Shihai returned to the camp, and he asked Black Eagle to return to the Condor tribe with thirty warriors, and inform the people there to go to Baishi Mountain collectively the next day, and he will send someone to pick them up tomorrow.

After sending away the Black Eagle, Ning Yuan began to observe the terrain here, there is a huge valley in Baishi Mountain, which is an easy to defend and difficult to attack, but once this terrain is surrounded by the enemy, it will be like a turtle in the urn, and the enemy will be trapped alive in the valley.

Ning Yuan is now accustomed to the fighting style of attacking, attacking, and attacking again, he likes this kind of head-to-head confrontation between iron and blood, and blindly defending is not in line with his style, so he plans to build a camp outside the valley mouth, so that he can not only block the entire valley, but also not be trapped in the valley by the enemy.

In addition to the inexhaustible salt resources backed by Baishi Mountain, there is also a greater convenience for primitive tribes such as the Condor tribe, that is, stone axes can be made from local materials.

Before they found copper and iron ore, the only weapons they could use were stone weapons.

Bone weapons were too brittle and easy to break, and wooden weapons were too blunt to be lethal, so stone axes and spears were the dominant weapons of this era, and stone weapons would continue to rule the barbaric era until bronze and iron were made.

In addition, the products of this Shiraishi Mountain are also very rich, there are a large number of apple trees up and down the Shiraishi Mountain, and it is the season when the apples are ripe, and there are so many apples here that people can eat and vomit.

The only regret is that these apples cannot be stored, otherwise all the apples here will be enough for the whole tribe to eat until the beginning of spring the following year.

Ning Yuan knew a way to store apples, that is, digging the cellar, and then just putting the apples in the cellar could be stored for a long time.

It's a pity that digging the cellar requires some shovels and other tools, and the Condor tribe currently does not have the conditions to dig the cellar, and the stone spear and stone axe are okay to fight, so forget about digging deep pits.

In addition to the fruit trees, there is also an abundance of wildlife in the vicinity of Mt. Shiraishi, and since there is only one open-pit salt mine in the valley nearby, many animals regularly come here to replenish their salt.

There are a lot of carnivorous beasts in the valley, although these carnivorous beasts do not need to replenish salt, but as long as they guard this open-pit salt mine, there will be a steady stream of food to the door, so it is no wonder that these beasts will live in the valley for a long time.

It was precisely because of so many food sources that Ning Yuan had no regrets about giving up Victoria Lake for the time being, and he planned to use this place as a base to slowly expand around.

After eating a salted stew at noon, Ning Yuan took people to explore near Baishi Mountain.

Although Bai Shihai gave him a brief introduction to the situation here, some things still have to be seen with his own eyes, as the head of the clan, Ning Yuan must be familiar with the terrain here, otherwise in the future, it is likely that the fighter will be delayed.

The Baishi tribe is surrounded by dense forests, and there is a small stream more than a hundred meters away from the camp, which should eventually flow into Lake Victoria.

After a long circle around the camp, Ning Yuan finally decided to expand the new camp as far away from the stream as possible, although before the invention of the well, the tribe's camp could not be too far from the water source, but sometimes too close is not necessarily a good thing.

First of all, this is a time when wild beasts are raging, and many of those carnivorous beasts are foraging near water sources, so they are too close to water sources and are easily attacked by wild beasts.

Secondly, for a natural disaster, Ning Yuan must take precautions, although the water level in the creek is not high now, but who knows what it will be like here during the flood season, after all, the flood is ruthless, so he must be careful and vigilant.

After determining the direction of the expansion of the camp, Ning Yuan led people to start cleaning up the ground, originally according to his idea, he wanted to level the nearby woods, but the stone axe in his hand was really not powerful.

Small trees with thick arms are fine, without stone axes, these warriors with bulging muscles can break them with their hands, but those trees that are more than one person thick, they can't do it.

Although the stone axe is called an axe, its essence is still a blunt weapon, used to cut wood is simply to hit a stone with an egg, after chopping two stone axes in a row, Ning Yuan decisively stopped this senseless wasteful behavior, it seems that before the knife and saw, no one can shake these big trees.

In desperation, Ning Yuan had no choice but to include these big trees in the scope of the camp, he had a large number of arm-thick branches folded, and then dug a simple ditch with a stone spear, inserted these branches into the ditch and filled them with soil, stepped on them with his feet, and finally fixed these branches with vines, and a simple wooden fence was built.

The fence wasn't very strong, but at least it prevented some wild beasts from breaking into the camp at night.

Although Ning Yuan comes from modern times and has many advanced ideas, it is difficult for Qiao Woman to cook without rice, because he has no tools in his hands, many of his ideas are temporarily unrealizable, and this long wooden fence is the only thing he can think of and do now.

In the afternoon of the next day, the team of the Divine Eagle tribe finally arrived at this new camp, and after arranging the accommodation of the clansmen, Ning Yuan began to divide the labor among everyone.

The Condor tribe now has a total of 205 warriors, 240 elderly, women and children.

Because this era is a primitive society, the warriors are responsible for supporting their families, which is equivalent to a warrior supporting an ordinary clansman, so the food pressure of the Condor tribe is not very large.

205 Condor Warriors, Ning Yuan divided them into four parts, the first part is the strongest Condor Praetorian Guard, led by him personally, the Condor Praetorian Guard has a total of 113 people, including thirteen eagles and one hundred warriors, this is the combat force in Ning Yuan's planning.

Of the remaining 92 people, Bai Ze was assigned 60 people, which were the local defense troops he planned, responsible for hunting in peacetime and defending the base camp in wartime.

The other thirty-two people were left for Shiraishihai, although these thirty-two people were also battle-hardened warriors, but since these people were basically wounded now, their main task now was to stay in the camp to recuperate, and by the way, patrol around the camp to prevent wild beasts from attacking those women and children.

As for the 240 women and children, Ning Yuan didn't plan to let them sit idle, although they couldn't go out hunting, Ning Yuan had already arranged work for them.

Ning Yuan plans to lead people to completely clear out the Baishi Valley, and temporarily establish a small breeding base here, and then catch some wild boars, pheasants, goats, bison and other herbivore cubs, and raise them in this semi-enclosed valley.

These women and children don't have to do anything else, they just get some forage to feed the animals every day.

On top of that, the big red apples can't just watch them rot.

Although it is impossible to dig the cellar now, wait until the valley is cleared, find a few caves with low temperature inside, and then transport the apples to the cave for storage.

Although the physical strength of those women was not as good as that of those warriors, they were better at being clever and patient, and Ning Yuan planned to teach them how to use rattan to weave some baskets or something, which were used to hold items, and as for weaving some more complex things with rattan, they could only rely on themselves to slowly comprehend.

You must know that in order to successfully compile a basket, Ning Yuan is not less guilty, and at the end of the game, he has to go to the primitive society survival training class specially opened for these lord players every day.

After returning home, he had to do his homework with the rattan he had brought back from the training class, and after making a lot of cuts on his hands, he finally succeeded in compiling a basket, although the appearance could not be compared with what the teacher taught, but at least it could still decorate something.

In fact, if Ning Yuan had placed the Condor tribe on the shore of Lake Victoria, these women would have slowly figured out these things by themselves in order to catch fish.

Although the basket is more complicated than the fish cage and fish basket, as the so-called all-in-one, some ingenious people can continue to innovate according to their needs.

It's a pity that the discovery of the salt mine made Ning Yuan decisively abandon Victoria Lake, and the elementary fishing science and intermediate fishing that he had invested a lot of scientific research in the early stage could only be temporarily frozen.

Ning Yuan originally wanted these women to do some work within their ability, but after this arrangement, he found that they were really too capable, and this little manpower in his tribe was simply not enough.

Cooking, raising children, collecting apples, weaving rattan products, raising livestock and poultry, gathering wild vegetables, collecting seeds、......, the saying that a woman can hold up half the sky is really not covered.

After the assignment of work, everyone in the Condor tribe took action, Ning Yuan, Bai Ze and the Condor warriors spent half a month finally cleaning up the Baishi Valley, although there were a lot of fish that slipped through the net, but at least those fierce beasts did not dare to return to the valley for a short time.

As the fighters opened up larger and larger safe areas, women and children sprang into action, building new enclosures next to the camp to house the pups of herbivores that the fighters had caught.

The beasts that the warriors had hunted these days had also been dried with salt, and the apples near the camp had been picked and temporarily stored in a small cave.

In addition, they had also collected a lot of seeds, although most of them Ning Yuan didn't know, but he could wait until the spring of the following year, and then plant these seeds separately, and when they blossomed and bore fruit, he would know what kind of seeds they were.

After working for more than half a month, the soldiers were a little tired, and now the tribe was full of dried salted meat, and the food was very sufficient, so Ning Yuan simply gave these soldiers a two-day vacation, so that they could relax and rest.

Because the first day of April is coming soon (players are used to calling the first day of entering the game January 1st of the first year of barbarism, in fact, the real time of Ning Yuan's plane should be around June in the summer), then this peaceful life will be completely away from them, coupled with Ning Yuan's special talent attributes, I am afraid that these warriors will not want to rest so leisurely for a long time.