Chapter 258 Trade Fair, the King’s Troubles
The next day.
The Xia tribe started another busy day.
Xia Dazui is taking people to prepare water and food for the Fish Tribe.
The people who will go this time, Wang Wei, have already been decided. Excluding him and Hu Meizi, there will be twenty people from the hunting group and seven hunting groups, as well as Shi Yun and Shi Da from the trading group. In addition, four people from the tribe on the mountain side will go, one from the leader's side.
Rat whiskers, bald head, mountain flowers.
Everyone rides a horse, but Shi Yun, Shi Da, the leader, Mouse Beard, Baldhead, and Shan Hua don't know how to ride a horse.
So Xia Dazui arranged for him to learn horse riding early in the morning, and he was taught by people from the hunting group.
Xia Feng taught Shi Yun how to ride a horse. Xia Feng taught her very simply. He first let Shi Yun sit behind him and ran a few laps in the wilderness to let Shi Yun get used to it, and then slowly taught her how to ride.
When they had learned almost enough, they were ready to set off, but the leader of the tribe on this side of the mountain actually got dizzy.
Wang Wei still ordered everyone to set off, but he was not in a hurry and wanted to let those who couldn't ride a horse get familiar with it first.
Xia Dazui asked: "Your Majesty, we are going to the Fish Tribe's trading meeting. Why don't we bring salt to trade?"
Wang Wei said: "What can I tell you? This trade is held by the Fish Tribe, and they want to obtain more materials through this transaction. The salt and pottery traded by the Fish Tribe are higher than ours, let's go
trade, the supplies they trade will become smaller.”
Xia Dazui still doesn't understand.
Wang Wei’s visit to the Fish Tribe was mainly for visiting rather than trading.
As the agent of the Xia Tribe, the Fish Tribe cannot trade salt and pottery with lower prices than the Fish Tribe to other tribes, otherwise the trading conference held by the Fish Tribe will lose its purpose and they will suffer great losses.
On the contrary, if the Fish Tribe earns more, then the Xia Tribe will earn more, because the Fish Tribe will eventually exchange the materials they earn with the Xia Tribe. Although the Xia Tribe earns less, both the Xia Tribe and the Fish Tribe can
Profit.
There are many people in the Xia tribe like Xia Dazui who don't understand the truth, but Shi Yun and Shi Da should be able to understand it with Wang Wei's slight prompting, but they didn't expect it to be that deep.
"Shi Yun, do you know why the Fish Tribe doesn't invite us to their trading conference?"
"They are afraid of big losses."
Wang Wei said to everyone:
"Yes, there is a lot of wealth in the world, and the Xia tribe can't make it all. I wouldn't be surprised if other tribes also burn pottery and trade at this fair."
Shi Yun asked:
"If some tribe makes better pottery than us, wouldn't the king be angry?"
"I'm not angry, that's their business."
Xia Dazui said: "The Xia tribe's pottery is so good, and there are patterns on it. No one can make it."
Under Wang Wei's request for innovation, the Xia tribe's pottery has already been engraved with pictures and text on the pottery, and pottery with several patterns can be fired. Moreover, the size of the pottery fired can be exactly the same, and the patterns on the pottery can be exactly the same.
It's just that such pottery takes time to make and cannot be mass-produced.
Wang Wei also planned to glaze the pottery, but he couldn't find better materials for the time being.
Or because he had accumulated too little technology and didn't have much time, he had to let the pottery team think and research on their own first.
Mountain Flower and Mouse Beard from the tribe on this side of the mountain came close to them on horseback. Seeing that there were many people with Wang Wei, they couldn't say anything.
Of course Wang Wei knew what the two of them meant, and they came to remind Wang Wei not to forget to go to the leader to intercede.
I don't know if the leader can talk easily. If he doesn't listen, Wang Wei has no choice but to use the salt and pottery from the Xia tribe to hurt him.
The only ones who knew the inside story were Shi Yun and Hu Meizi. They were all smiling and wanted to see how Wang Wei would tell the leader.
The team encountered a small stream and ravine on the road, which was difficult to walk on, so everyone had to go around it.
Wang Wei asked the hunting team to remember the surrounding terrain along the way, and he wanted to go back and make a simple terrain sand table.
At this time, the only people following Wang Wei were Hu Meizi and Shi Yun.
Hu Meizi said: "Your Majesty, when will we go to the Black Stone Tribe?"
"We've only been back for more than ten days, haven't we? Why do you want to go?"
"I heard from Xia Tongya that a lot of iron ore has been consumed recently."
Wang Wei knew this because iron-making technology had also developed. The Xia tribe could burn the iron blanks into molten iron and use molds to quickly produce them. For example, the spearheads of iron spears were produced by continuously beating and quenching them. Now they have molds.
Pour the molten iron into the mold and open it up.
The Xia tribe now produces many types of tools, including agricultural tools in the future. They also produce several types of weapons, such as spear heads with blood grooves, similar to the machetes used by Guan Gong. Some of them are used to build cities, rather than making them.
The door hinges used hundreds of kilograms of iron.
"Wait until there is no big threat to us before we go."
The biggest threat Hu Meizi knows is the Beidi people.
Shi Yun said: "Your Majesty, where is the dagger I want?"
Wang Wei really forgot and promised to give her one.
"Didn't I tell Xia Feng to send you off? You go find Xia Feng."
"Xia Feng still doesn't listen to you, no, you have to give it to me as soon as possible."
Hu Meizi said: "I also want a dagger."
Wang Wei had no choice but to agree.
The Xia tribe's management of iron tools is very strict, and only Wang Wei can decide the use of those iron tools.
Hu Meizi said: "Your Majesty, this morning, Mei sent a woman to take care of Aunt Hu. Is that what you meant?"
"Yes, I told Mei."
"Do you know who is coming?"
"have no idea."
"She said it was called Da Shuang."
Shi Yun interrupted and said:
"They are those two women who look exactly the same, the king's women."
Wang Wei was very troubled and said to Shi Yun:
"Don't talk about those two women who look exactly the same in the future. Let me tell you, I have never seen them."
Shi Yun obviously didn't believe it. She looked at Hu Meizi as if she wanted to see something from Hu Meizi's face.
Based on Hu Meizi's understanding of Wang Wei, she didn't believe it either.
Shi Yun said: "Your Majesty, can't I be your woman if I haven't met her before?"
"What do you mean? I have met many women, can they all be my women?"
"That's not impossible. Some tribal leaders regard women as their own. You can do the same..."
Wang Wei hurriedly interrupted her and said:
"I don't know what you are thinking. Our Xia tribe cannot be like this. Don't think about this in the future."
Hu Meizi had no reaction after hearing this.
Wang Wei felt that Shi Yun's idea was very dangerous. Her primitive mind was a little different from other women. He suddenly felt that he had some contact with Shi Yun before. Could it be that she was thinking about something? Didn't she think Xia Feng was very good?
?
"Your Majesty, it's not me who is thinking about this, it's those two women who are thinking about this. I have seen those two women before, and they regard themselves as your women."
It turns out that this is the case, and Wang Wei is also helpless.
"Shi Yun, Hu Meizi, what do you think I should do? Help me think of a way."
Shi Yun said: "I can't help it. Why don't you give those two women back?"
"Yes, next time someone from the Shang tribe comes, just give them back."
However, Hu Meizi said: "Allocate them directly to the men of the tribe."
Wang Wei said: "They are still young, and it is too early for them to be matched with men. Besides, it is best for them to find the person they like."
Shi Yun and Hu Meizi smiled.
"Your Majesty, they like you, so you still can't let them go."
"Shi Yun, you are just talking nonsense. They are small to begin with. I can't harm them by getting rid of them. Do you know why? If they become pregnant with children, big accidents may happen easily. Unlike you, you are not old either. You will give birth in a few years.
Children are the best. I will add some rules in the Xia tribe in the future. Women who get married and have children must follow the rules."
Shi Yun was a little unconvinced and said:
"You have many rules, but you said I can't have children now, what about Mei and Hu Meizi? Can they do it?"
Hu Meizi was also very curious. This was the first time she heard that there were rules governing the birth of a child.
"Of course Mei and Hu Meizi can have children, but they can't have children now."
"Why?"
"Because I haven't grown up yet, they have to wait for me."
Hu Meizi knows the reason. Now the women in the hut are waiting for him to grow up and grow taller.
Shi Yun couldn't understand it, but she suddenly remembered what Aunt Fox often said about "face". Aunt Fox accidentally said that the king's women are still virgins.
In the past, she had doubts about whether the king could do it. Now it seems that the king is not unable to do it, but is restricted by his own rules.
Chapter completed!