After one day, the men returned with a full load. They carried back a saber-toothed tiger, two deer, several rabbits and mice, and more than a dozen big fish one meter long. The mammoth was too heavy. They had to peel and cut the flesh on the spot and transport it back to the tribe bit by bit.

This is the greatest hunt in the history of the Salt Tribe. The harvest is so much that the women are ecstatic and almost crazy, and they must worship the gods again.

The first thing to do is to process the processed ingredients. Women first peel off the skin of prey with sharp polished stone slices and process them separately. The high-quality leg meat and breast meat are marinated with salt. The remaining edges, including the internal organs, the head and claws, are eaten on the spot. A woman cuts the deer stomach and takes out the semi-digestible things for her children to eat. The taste is very bad, but the five or six-year-old child does not dislike it and eats it with relish.

Liu Yanzhi and Zhen Yue did not laugh at these primitive people. They almost fell to this point. In order to supplement vitamins, they had to eat what was in the stomach of vegetarian dinosaurs.

What the salt department likes most is not meat, but fat. The fat under the skin of mammoth is ten centimeters thick, and the white plaster looks greasy. People use wooden spoons to dig plaster oil on the spot. The food is so beautiful. They are not eating fat, but eating Haagen-Dazs.

"They are too short of oil and water." Zhen Yue said, "Look, they are as thin as monkeys, and none of them have high blood pressure, fatty liver, or high cholesterol."

"Yes, fat has the highest calories, and it can convert energy by eating it." Liu Yan said straight, and suddenly a flash of inspiration. Why do modern people stay away from pork and roe even more because high-calorie foods are easily converted into fat, making people become big fat people, while primitive people do not have this situation. Their labor intensity is high enough, and fat is an energy reserve in the body. In other words, fat is the ultra-high energy fuel for the life cycle, but humans have not used it well.

If fat is an energy reserve, then what is inner alchemy?

Liu Yanzhi fell into thought until Zhen Yue touched him: "Hey, what are you doing with a pile of wood?"

"Oh, this is called yew, also known as yew, which is a good material for making bows and arrows." Liu Yanzhi introduced that yew is very famous. The medieval British longbowmen used a longbow made of purple-shirt wood. This wood is hard and tough, able to accumulate energy and launch arrows to faraway places.

When the bow arm is available, the bow string is wrapped with deer tendons around the hair. The production of arrows is also complicated. It requires the use of hard wood branches to straighten the fire. Sharp bones are tied to the front and feathers are glued with fish bladder at the back to increase the range.

Liu Yanzhi made a simple bow and asked someone to release a chicken from the cage. The chicken spread its wings and flew higher and higher. People were anxious to scratch their ears and foreheads, but they did not dare to urge Grandpa Tianshen. He said that at that time, Liu Yanzhi took the bow and shot the chicken with one arrow, and calmly collected the bow, saying, "Eat Gongbao chicken tonight."

Zhen Yue quipped on the side: "Why do you still pursue the shooting of a chicken?"

Liu Yan smiled and said, "Bows and arrows have been a cross-age progress for them." He said that, throwing the bows for everyone to appreciate.

The men in the Salt Tribe had never seen such exquisite weapons. They were all amazed and then worshipped. This time they did not worship the gods, but bows and arrows.

For the Neolithic Age, bows and arrows were tantamount to the function of nuclear bombs in the 20th century, and they were absolutely a killer weapon. However, Liu Yanzhi was dissatisfied with this, and he also wanted to improve the spear for the Salt Ministry.

This improvement is relatively simple. Use a stone pot to fill mammoth fat, pile up firewood to refine oil, and then put the sharpened wooden sticks in the boiling oil pan to fry. The treated wood is harder and will not break when hunting animals. Of course, the cost of doing this is too high. In order not to waste oil, Zhen Yue led the women to pour the pieces of meat into hot oil and fry a pile of delicious meat patties.

Since he had to live in the Salt Tribe and sleeping in the pit was not a solution, Liu Yanzhi found an open space in the village, drew a square with an axe, and then clicked a few men, and ordered them to work with him. The men took tools, of course, some stone axes, stone chisels, etc., and followed the gods to cut wood. The gods used an axe made of meteorite. They cut down the big tree they hugged together for only two or three times, which shocked people.

In an instant, dozens of trees were cut down by Liu Yanzhi. He showed his magical power and resisted the thickest trunk. He returned to the village to peel the bark and build houses. Liu Yanzhi, who has rich carpenter experience, was very fast to build a house. After a day, a pure wood structure "palace" was completed.

You can imagine the shock in the hearts of these matriarchal people. The gods are gods, and they are extremely powerful. They also teach everyone the technique of building houses with wood. Looking at the wooden house built by Grandpa Tianshen, it is simply a palace where the beautiful gods live only in dreams.

Liu Yanzhi and Zhen Yue lived in the palace, at least they didn’t have to worry about the moisture and leakage. The salt department had enough food reserves, so he finally started to refine alchemy.

But how to practice this pill? Liu Yanzhi couldn't find the way. He had heard Chen Tuan talk about some methods, but it was as obscure as a book of heaven and could not be implemented. He could not understand the Ren and Du meridians, and the qi sinks into the Dantian at all.

Could the so-called inner alchemy be like a kidney stone, and a crystal formed in the body?

He took out the colorful ball to look at it, but he couldn't see the trick at all. He tried to connect with his mind, but he also returned in vain.

After two days of struggle, there was no result.

Zhen Yue had some achievements. She put the mud pot into the fire pit and burned it into pottery, and also carved various simple geometric figures on it. A group of women surrounded Zhen Yue and chattered excitedly.

"Look, what is the drawing on it?" Zhen Yue presented a burnt pottery pot with treasures in front of Liu Yan. The bottom of the basin outlined a man and a woman and a big dog with childish lines, and a huge airship above his head.

"This children's painting skills are as good as the top class." Liu Yan praised.

In fact, he understood that the invention of pottery was no less than the weight of bows and arrows for the tribe.

Liu Yanzhi simply stopped practicing and took the men to practice archery. The women in the Salt Department were skillful and skillful. In the past few days, hundreds of arrows have been made, enough for them to do it.

The men in the Salt Ministry are also very successful. Almost all of them are born archers. When they get the bow and arrow, they are like poor children who can't get expensive toys. They cherish and care, study hard, get started very quickly, and are very skilled. After two days, they can shoot birds and small beasts that run quickly.

Liu Yanzhi sighed so well.

Winter goes and spring comes, the earth warms up, and it is time for tribes to trade. There are not only one tribe living on this land. In addition to the fish tribe opposite the lake, there are many tribes. Every spring and autumn, tribes will choose a flat place to exchange materials with the tribe's specialties. These days, there is no currency, and they are all bartered. If you are more complicated in mind, you can make a fortune by just rushing goods.

The Salt Tribe is a small tribe, and the only thing that can be taken out is salt.

Cuiwei Mountain is located in the mainland and does not rely on the sea. Human survival cannot be separated from its dependence on salt. Therefore, salt is a hard currency and can be exchanged for many foods and tools, but it can also bring disasters. After all, salt is too precious, and everyone wants to obtain this big secret of salt production.

Even the members of the tribe don’t know where the salt comes from. The only person who has the secret is the leader, the old woman named “Hui” by Liu Yanzhi, because she looks a bit like South Korean President Park Geun-hye. In fact, the people in the Salt Tribe only have surnames but no names. People with status like Hui only have respectful titles. This is the first time that they have their own name.

Hui went out alone at night and returned early in the morning. She had a coarse salt on her back. This was the main commodity of the Spring Festival. Others were a batch of mammoth fat, pickled jerky meat, and fired pottery. Women carried goods. Men wore rhino leather armor, held spears, carried bows and arrows, and guarded the team. Liu Yanzhi and Zhen Yue were also in the caravan. They wanted to see the market in the new era.

After walking for a day, the caravans of the Salt Ministry arrived at the market. They were considered close to each other. It is said that they had walked over a dozen people to trade at sunrise and sunset.

The market is very large. Everyone occupies a place, sits on the ground, sets up goods, and lets others choose. When they like it, they take out their own goods to gesture. If they agree, they say "Do!" If they don't agree, they boo to end the transaction. The original people are very simple. They don't consider the cost-effectiveness of the transaction, but only consider the importance of the goods to their own home.

Those pottery pots and pots are works by Zhen Yue, and she is also a goddess worshipped by the tribe, so she has the right to control these goods. Out of women's nature, Zhen Yue exchanged pots for some worthless things. These things are non-necessities for daily life that the primitive tribes do not value the most, but when they get the benchmark time and space, they are all priceless treasures.

After half a day, Zhen Yue exchanged five pottery basins for two ivory one-meter long, a small pile of turquoise red agate, a large piece of crystal, a handful of beautiful green feathers, and a piece of white jade with a delicate texture.

The salt of the Salt Ministry is the most intimate commodity. In fact, it is not that there is no salt sold. The caravan that came to trade half a month ago was sent by the tribe who mainly engaged in salt drying. They walked so far away that they wanted to be accustomed to the rare goods and sell them at a good price. However, there are also tribes producing salt in the mainland, which made their way was wasted and the price could not be increased. This trip was a big loss.

The people from the seaside tribe had a lot of opinions about the Salt Tribe. Their caravans were numerous and their weapons were sharp. They were made of wooden sticks tied with sharp shark teeth. This group of people wanted to find trouble with the Salt Tribe, but the Salt Tribe was not easy to bully. They were wearing leather armor, holding spears, and new weapons with long range were enough to shock those guys with ulterior motives.

The market is not peaceful because there is no one who upholds justice, so forced buying and selling happens from time to time. When a dispute occurs, you must fight and bring out the old hatreds between the tribes before. Life is light and it is possible to lead to war.

However, at this Spring Festival, other tribes shared the same hatred for the enemy and pointed the finger at the Salt Ministry, accusing them of raising prices. Last year, ten deer skins could be exchanged for a can of salt. How did it rise to fifteen today? This is a monopoly and bullying the market. It must not be allowed. Of course, this is just what they want to express. In fact, the language cannot be so rich.

Hui understood that someone was sowing discord from it, and it was probably the one who was the seaside tribe. With the gods there, she didn't dare to make a decision, so she asked Liu Yanzhi what to do first.

Liu Yanzhi asked her, how should this conflict be resolved in the past?

Hui used all the new words to tell Liu Yanzhi that in the past, there were three solutions to encounter similar things. One was to find a respected person to mediate. This person was often the most powerful tribal leader. The second was that the tribe selected representatives to compete. The winner could get the right to choose first. The third was the most extreme solution, which was a total war, ending with the destruction of the other party.

Liu Yanzhi said, go and tell other tribes that we will win tomorrow, we will decide the price, they will win, and salt will be given for free.

Hui was very happy that she knew that the golden age of the tribe was coming.
Chapter completed!