The mountains undulate in the east, extend to the sea in the west, and turn into gradually gentle hills. The meandering Yaqui River comes from the mountains, and with its turbulent water flow, it washes out a large area of ​​fertile wilderness. Between the wilderness and the hills, there are many gray-brown hills densely covered on the yellow-green land, silently telling the history of life from ancient times.

Chihuaco, an old militiaman, climbed a small hill, bent down, and picked up a gray-brown stone. He squeezed it hard, and the gray stone's hard diaphragm was neither deformed nor shattered.

"Huh? The flint in your Yorem department seems to be much harder than that in the Yorem department?"

"Haha! Foreigners, the Flint of the Yorem tribe, how can they compare with our Yome tribe?"

Hearing this, Shanying Weihuo laughed loudly and declared proudly.

"We Yaqi people are the people who live under the mountain of God! Our flint can burn for a long time, far better than other ministries! The reason for this is that the soul of our Yaqi people's ancestors is the most powerful and always protects us. Clan!"

"Uh...that's right."

Chivaco scratched his head, always feeling that the logic was a bit wrong, but he couldn't explain why. He didn't know the difference between bituminous coal and lignite. What's more, the flint field here is a place of high-quality bituminous coal production, and even has an astonishing amount of anthracite... The old militiaman just nodded repeatedly, following Shanying Weihuo's words, and his old face turned into a flower with a smile.

"Friends, good, good! Yomei, powerful, big tribe!"

"Haha, that's natural! Our Yuemei tribe has a total of 3,000 warriors and is the most powerful tribe in this area!"

Weihuo nodded in satisfaction, and stretched out his arms to gesture. From the field in front of him, he pointed to the hills in the east.

"From here to there, the distance of a person's running for a day is our Flint Field! In the east, there is a larger Flint Field. These two best and largest Flint Fields are all our Flint Fields. of!"

"Three thousand warriors? The most powerful?"

Two steps away, Puap raised his eyebrows when he heard this, and there was an inexplicable smile on the corner of his mouth. He used to be in charge of the Qin Congcan Warrior Battalion, and there were two thousand elite warriors of the Royal Capital under his command, which was enough to defeat the so-called Yuemei tribe! It's just now... the gray soil warrior sighed, his eyes flickered, and he heard the next sentence, his face was surprised.

"What, you have to run for a day! There are actually two open-pit coal mines this big!"

In front of everyone's eyes, gray-brown hills were scattered everywhere, and the end could not be seen for dozens of miles. Compared with the Chinganbat mining area in the Kingdom, the coal mines stored here are many times larger, which may burn the Kingdom for hundreds of years. And the coal produced here is far harder than the coal in the kingdom.

"Hard coal is good coal! The higher the hardness, the stronger the firepower, because it contains a lot of divine power! There are two large coal mines, one large copper mine, and a few scattered small gold mines... This northwest coast The land is really a rich land rich in ore!"

Puap lowered his eyes, hiding the joy in his eyes.

The fleet has stayed in the Yuemei tribe for two days. Although they have not been received by the chief, they have also gone to the local tribal market to trade with the surrounding tribes. The Yome tribe is a large settled tribe. The tribal people farm along the fertile land along the Yaqui River, and they also fish near the sea and at the mouth of the river.

When food is plentiful, the tribe will allocate manpower to dig nearby mineral deposits for the daily use of the tribe, and even trade with various ministries. They produced most of flint, next copper stone, and finally some gold stone.

The Yuemei Department is strong enough and has convenient transportation, and it is the trading center of each department. In the bazaar of Yomebu, besides the Mayo people, the warriors of the kingdom also encountered the Opata people in the mountains and the Macurawe people on the edge of the wilderness.

The Opata live north of the Yaqui River, in the uppermost valley. As long as they take a canoe and go down the Yaqui River, they can easily trade with the Yuemei tribe. In fact, the location of Shenshan Mountain in the northwest is roughly between the Opata people and the Yome tribe, and forms a broad coal-producing belt. In the east of the coal-producing belt, there are also a large number of copper mines, with an astonishingly high copper content. The techniques of copper smelting in various ministries were learned from the Opata people.

From the mouth of the Opata businessman, everyone also learned about the more than a dozen powerful tribes in the north, collectively called Apache, and the desert in the northwest called Tohonoo-Odham people. Most of these two groups are hunting and hunting, chasing herds of beasts and migrating, and they are extremely good at fighting.

The powerful Apache tribes are used to fighting and control a vast area of ​​land. They were in direct contact with the Opata Alliance in the mountains, and skirmishes continued. The reason why the Opata cast primitive copper weapons was to fight several southern tribes of the Apaches.

The Makuwi are part hunters and part migrants, living in the east of the Yome tribe. Their tribe is not powerful, and the land is rich in gold. It's just that there are too many gold mines in this area, and no one cares about these useless gold stones. And the tribe with the most gold is actually the east of the Makuwi people. There are a large number of tarahumaras, who hunt indefinitely and resemble the eight tribes of the canines.

The land area of ​​the Tara people is also not small, hundreds of miles upstream of the Mayo River, occupying the northwest of the Zacatecas Wasteland. In fact, they were not far from the Jorem Department, but were blocked by the towering Sierra Madre Occidental, making any large-scale military operations impossible. Their lands were not only rich in gold, but also more silver.

Puap suspected that the silver of the Yorem tribe probably came from the Tara people's trade.

"The names of these messy tribes are getting more and more difficult to pronounce, it's really a headache!"

The Gray Earth Warrior cursed in his heart. Along the way, he tried hard to remember these names and simply categorized them.

The tribes along the northwest coast, from south to north, are the Totomei, Mayo, and Yaqui. All three live in seaside estuaries, settle plantations, hunt sea fish, and have relatively large populations. And further to the northwest along the coast, as the rainfall becomes less and less, there are uncontacted, half-safari Sri people, and fully-safari desert people behind.

"Well, that's the five along the coast. The east is the border of the wasteland, and there are two similar to the dog-born."

Puap pondered in his heart, and glanced at the mountains in the east. He had worked with the Guajili Legion and was impressed by the dogborn's tenacity.

"I heard that Tara people are better at running. They can chase wild turkeys and exhaust them to death! This sounds like wild wolves!"

On the border of the eastern wilderness, there are two tribes, the Makuwe and the Tara, both of whom resemble dog descendants and roam the arid wasteland. They farmed sometimes, hunted sometimes, lived in no fixed place, migrated all year round, and killed each other. Relatively speaking, the Makuwe people are located on the edge of the wasteland and have a higher degree of settlement, and they will send tribal people here to trade.

"Finally, there are two northern groups, Opata and Apache. One seems to be more organized, and the other should be more capable of fighting!"

In the northern mountains, there are Opata people who established small city-states and initially formed an alliance. Their metal craftsmanship has taken shape, and they are rich in cotton cloth and copper ware, and they can send caravans to trade with the surrounding ministries. Going further north is the rumored fierce hunting tribe called the Apaches. It is said that this name comes from some Pueblo people further north. In their Zuni language, the name means "enemy". The Opata recognized the name and regarded the Apaches as enemies.

"What a vast Northland!"

Pu Apu took a long breath and sighed in his heart. If he didn't come out and take such a trip, he would never have imagined that the sea is so vast, the north is so vast, and there are so many ethnic groups in the world! ...After thinking for a moment, he turned his ears to listen to the conversation between Old Man Qi and Shanying.

"Ah! My friend, for a basket of flint, do you need five spears, or two bolts of cloth? This price is unacceptable, it is too high!"

Chivaco looked troubled. There is so much coal here that it costs almost nothing to dig it up, yet the other party asks for such an expensive price. What's more, coal is still a consumable that disappears once it is burned.

"Ha! Foreigners, these are the flints left by the ancestors of our Yaquis! Although there are many of them, they are gifts left by our ancestors. They contain the power of the mountain of God. How can they be exchanged easily? This is how the tribe trades flint with foreigners!"

Shanying Weihuo's eyes flickered ~ lightnovelpub.net ~ psychological consideration. He looked at the spear in Chihuaco's hand and said with a smile.

"The Opata people will also sell us similar spears, with red copper as the spearhead, and five flints in a basket! In fact, we do not lack weapons. The Yome tribe is the most powerful, and there is no one nearby that can threaten us. Tribes. We don’t like gold and silver stones, they are all useless and common stones. But your cotton cloth, the tribes like it very much. If there are large quantities, it can be cheaper for you in exchange!"

"Ah! Our spears are not the same as those of the Opata. Strong and sharp!"

Chivaco explained, seeing Shanying's unmoved expression, he didn't say anything more. There wasn't a lot of cotton cloth on board, but there was always a few more baskets of flint to be exchanged for and handed over to His Majesty... He hesitated for a while, cautiously, and finally asked again.

"Friends, we come from a distant and rich lake. The tribes of the lake produce the gems of the lake, green, red, blue, and yellow! Gemstones, uh, do you want them?"

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