Chapter 1921: Northeast salt shortage
In fact, Suha is the most honest and honest of their four brothers, and the most talented one. However, this man is loyal and reliable, and obedient willing to endure hardship. He is the most honest and reliable in the hands of the five eagle falcons, a bit like Guo Jing in the carving.
Marin chose him to be the leader of Sauron, not because of how powerful he was, precisely because he was not powerful. And, be honest.
In addition, the identity of the four people in the Sauron is also higher. The father belongs to the small leader under the Halada in the tribe, and he still has the right to speak in the tribe. He went home to recruit people, and someone should respond. Bai Geri was different from them. Bai Geri's father was only the lowest Sauron, and he had long since passed away. He had only one widow and a younger married sister left in his hometown. If he went back to recruit people, he would not have the right to speak, and it was estimated that there were few responders.
Moreover, Bai Geri and Suha have different tribal strengths. The tribe where Bai Geri is located is only a small tribe of 120 households, with average strength. The tribe of the Suha Brothers is a large tribe with 300 households. Yes, the big tribe of 300 households ...
On the grasslands, those tribes often have thousands of tents {tents, one account represents one household}, but in the bitterly cold Daxinganling area, the Sauron Department of more than 200 households can be regarded as a large tribe. The Sauron people in the entire Greater Xing'an Mountains, but only a few thousand households, more than 20,000 people.
In addition, there are also many Sauron tribes scattered in the forests and grasslands west of the Erguna River to the north and west of the Xing'an Mountains. These areas, including the Nebuchu area ceded to Tsarist Russia by the later Qing Dynasty, which is the post-Baikal border region of later Russia.
The reason why there are Saurons living on the grassland west of Xing'an Mountains, in addition to the crowding of Xing'an Mountains hunting grounds, is because there will be some salt lakes on the grasslands, producing some inferior bitter salt.
According to the introduction of five people, the Saurons had difficulty obtaining salt, so they could only rely on the bitter salt produced on the grasslands to the west of the Xing'an Mountains.
The reason why the Horqin Department can become one of the two major tribes that dominate the mink trade is to get salt from the grassland and then exchange mink with the Sauron. Frankly speaking, the quality of the salt obtained by the Horqin from the salt lakes of various parts of Mongolia in the west is better than that obtained by the Sauron people in the northwest of the Xing'an Mountains. Otherwise, it will not become one of the two major tribes that monopolize mink. Because there are many salt lakes on the grasslands, but not every salt lake can produce enough salt to eat. In some salt lakes, the root of the root is the alkali, that is, sodium carbonate. In some salt lakes, thenardite {sodium sulfate} is produced, and even nitrate {sodium nitrate or potassium nitrate} cannot be eaten.
These salt lakes, which are rich in various salts, are good chemical raw material resources in later generations. However, in this era, it is useless. At most, the locals will pick up some frozen alkali in winter and sell it to the Ming Dynasty, but the price is also very low.
Moreover, most of the salt lakes on the grasslands are salt lakes containing various kinds of salts, which contain inedible salt components. Only a small part of the salt lakes can be eaten by boiling the salt. Moreover, these salts are often bitter, which is mixed with impurities such as magnesium and calcium salts. Only a very small part of the salt lake can cook salt that is not bitter or slightly bitter. But this kind of salt lake will surely be taken by the large tribes on the grassland and occupied by the past, becoming a strategic resource.
Obviously, Horqin, as a powerful tribe in Mongolia, also owns this salt lake. However, the salt they cooked was slightly bitter. Because the prairie people of this era did not know how to wash off the bitter bittern. They only knew that until the salty lake water was boiled to dryness, some bitter salt ingredients were naturally left, causing the bitterness of the boiled lake salt. However, this slightly bitter salt is already a treasure in the bitter cold places such as the grasslands and the Greater Xing'an Mountains. The Horqin Department relied on slightly bitter lake salt, horses, bows and arrows, and other materials that were urgently needed by the hunters to exchange mink fur from the Sauron people for a very dark price.
The Sauron people have no choice, because the salt lakes they occupy in the Nibuchu area northwest of the Greater Xing'an Mountains are not bitter but rather bitter. Even so, it is also an important salt resource for the Sauron.
In trade, often a small bag of bitter salt can be exchanged for a good mink ...
Introduced here, Marin stood up:
"Wait, do you mean that the Sauron people need salt very much? What about salt in our North Sea country?"
Bai Geri froze a few people, then said:
"The salt of the North Sea is the best refined salt I have ever eaten. This kind of salt can be taken to the Sauron Department. I am afraid that only those Haradas can afford it ... And even the Mongolians lack this good salt. ... "
Marin patted his thigh excitedly and said:
"That's right, let's go for salt for mink and let the Saurons eat salt until they die ..."
"Eat salt and eat to death ..." Bai Geri all showed the yearning look, that was a very happy method of death ...
Of course, that is their idea of retaining their previous thinking habits. In fact, they played for the Beihai Kingdom and were treated better than ordinary soldiers. It is no longer common to eat salt. However, their people who are far away in the Greater Xing'an Mountains are afraid that eating salt is also a luxury. Many poor Saurons have a long time to eat salt.
Not to mention the Sauron people, even Jurchens, eating salt is very expensive, often eating meat without salt. When the Qing dynasty was established, they often distributed gizzard without salt to the favored ministers and guards to let them taste gizzard without salt.
Gizzard meat without salt is very unpalatable. Qianlong explained in the "Yanxi Raiders", which was born in Ma, that the ancestors were found in Baishui Heishui. And Qianlong often brought ministers and bodyguards to eat gizzard meat, just to taste the hardships of the ancestors, and then think of the hardships of wealth and wealth ...
You know, Jianzhou Jurchen is relatively rich in the Northeast, they ca n’t afford salt, not to mention the weak Sauron Department?
Of course, this is also related to the geographical environment. Because the Jianzhou Jurchen is located in the Jilin area, does not depend on the sea, it is separated by the Liaodong of the Ming Dynasty to the south and the Jurchen of the East Sea to the east. Therefore, their source of salt is not easy. Mongolian departments are much better, because there are salt lakes on the grasslands. Even if it is bitter salt, is it also salt?
The Jurchen tribe and the Sauron tribe in the inland area of Northeast China are miserable. Salt is a luxury for them. Even those tribal chiefs are hard to eat. In order to obtain salt, they can only exchange it with mink.
Changing the grassland lake salt with the Horqin Department is a way, and changing the salt with the Haixi Jurchen is also a way. The Haixi Jurchen does not produce salt, but the Haixi Jurchen is near Liaodong and can go to the Ming Dynasty merchants to exchange salt. The salt they get is of higher quality and less bitterness, and belongs to the best salt. This kind of salt can only be eaten by the big men in the Sauron. Moreover, it is still rare to eat ...
"This special ... this special ..." Marin walked happily. Then, ordered:
"Submit Kongtai to use the coal he found on Dongfan Island. [Kongtai ’s people have already explored the Keelung coal mine ~ www.wuxiaspot.com ~ to build a salt cooking base in Keelung. I ’m going to use Baihuahua ’s salt, Go northeast to change mink! "
"Well, there are tiger skins, tiger bones and so on ..." This year, the tiger skin is definitely a weapon. Tiger bone bubble wine, um, very popular in Daming ... two things sent to Daming, absolutely worth the money. As for animal protection, there is no fire qiāng in the northeast this year, and the tigers are at ease. Even the brave Sauron did not dare to challenge the Siberian Tiger easily. Therefore, the number of tigers is still very large. Even the South China Tiger, after the liberation, was used by modern folks to search for tigers with modern qiāng, so it became rare ...
In addition, the sika deer on Taiwan Island were only quickly killed by hunters with modern hunting qiāng in the 20th century. The American bison, too, was sold by the old Americans to the Indians in the late 19th century for modern hunting. Without sharp fire qiāng, use bows and arrows to challenge the Siberian tiger, the risk factor is too high ...
"Da Khan, and Dong Zhu ... over the Jurchen, but Dong Zhu's producer ... And, they also lack salt ..." Mu Ren, the youngest of the four brothers, reminded.
Marin gave Mu Ren a deep look and then affirmed:
"Yes, there is Dongzhu! Well, wild ginseng can't be less ..."
