Chapter 1214: Distant Diplomacy and Close Attacks (Part Two)

Chiyou was also left speechless by what Bingzhu said; this Huaxia was simply too extravagant and too generous. Of course, in this era, one could not yet find an accurate adjective to describe this kind of behavior from Huaxia.

"So Huaxia only wants these few water grasses and nothing else? Could it be that Huaxia itself cannot find such things?

Trading with us just for some water grass, and even telling us the method to obtain salt—this sounds very unreliable."

Chiyou had not spoken face-to-face with Baifeng, so he felt that this behavior of Huaxia was somewhat difficult to understand, and behind such incomprehensible behavior, there must certainly be some unusual motive.

"No, Father.

At the time when we spoke with the people of Huaxia, they only wanted our water grass; for them, those water grasses might have some great use.

Really, Father, if you haven't seen Huaxia for yourself, it is very hard to believe what we say, but we were in Huaxia for so long, in Huaxia City, no matter how strange their words were, they were also very normal, because they are truly too wealthy. I have never seen a tribe that can make everyone have enough to eat, and Huaxia is one.

Moreover, their houses are built tall, sturdy, and are also very bright; light can shine inside. Father, I have already decided, I also want to build such a city here in the Jiuli."

Chiyou rubbed his fingers and did not speak for quite a while, which made Bingzhu feel anxious inside.

So Bingzhu continued to add: "Father, do you know what the King of Huaxia told me trade is?"

"Oh? Then why don't you tell us, what is trade?"

Bingzhu swallowed his saliva: "Trade is the exchange of what one has for what one lacks, taking things that we find useless to trade to a tribe that does not have them, and then trading back things that other tribes find useless.

Father, for example, Silk; all the Leaders and Nobles of Huaxia can use Silk. Ayuduo now already possesses countless amounts of Silk, and we even saw a piece of Silk with flowers growing on it, in all sorts of colors, especially beautiful, and it was just given directly to Ayuduo like that.

As for our Jiuli, we cannot bear to take out even a little bit of Silk, and it can only be used for sacrifices; even you, Father, have no way to wear clothes made of Silk.

Is our Jiuli weak? Are we poor?

Not at all, but we do not know how to make Silk, which is why Silk is precious here with us.

Huaxia and the Xuanyuan Tribe do not trade Silk because they have it themselves, and there are these Porcelain and Glass cups and utensils. Father, these things in Huaxia are just slightly better than Pottery, and an ordinary person in Huaxia can use them, but we do not have them, so they are precious, and we can only get a little bit from Huaxia in a year.

Even if we do trade, how much of these things can we trade from Huaxia in a year?

If we do not connect and trade with Huaxia, Father, these will be all the Porcelain our Jiuli has; apart from these, there is nothing else, so it would be very precious, and if one were accidentally broken, the remaining ones would only be even more precious.

But if we put our precious Porcelain in Huaxia, it counts for nothing; they would even think it is too old and not want it.

But Father, Huaxia does not have Tuolong, so Huaxia needs Tuolong skin, and the Xuanyuan Tribe can add a price to the Tuolong skins of our tribe and trade them to Huaxia.

The Xuanyuan Tribe does not have Iron, so we can trade Iron to them at a high price. Father, this is trade.

Huaxia only wants to trade for the water grass they do not have; it does not mean that because the water grass has no value to us, it has no value to them.

Huaxia has no sea, Father!"

Chiyou nodded repeatedly as he listened; he had never carefully thought about the logic within this, but after his son explained it this way, oh my, it really is like this. Then, the matter of Huaxia wanting water grass could also be explained clearly.

As for why Huaxia only wanted water grass, he did not know, but since they were able to draw the maps, it showed that someone in Huaxia must have seen these water grasses and knew they had some great use; otherwise, why would they spend such a great price to trade for them here?

"Bingzhu, do you know what they want these water grasses for? Is there some great use?"

Bingzhu said with an expressionless face: "To eat."

"Eat?" Chiyou was greatly shocked: "Bingzhu, you didn't say that wrong? Huaxia is willing to spend such a great price just to trade with us for some edible water grass?"

"Yes, Father, but if it is Huaxia, I think it is too normal. The people of Huaxia have very high requirements for food, and their King said that not much of those water grasses can be traded in a year, even if they are dried goods; at most, it is just for him and the Leaders of Huaxia to eat, used for the Leaders to enjoy.

Huaxia is too normal, Father; you cannot look at Huaxia with the mindset of looking at other tribes.

We can eat those water grasses ourselves; the King of Huaxia said they are quite delicious and can solve a large part of our food problem."

Chiyou shook his head repeatedly, expressing his confusion, and the others had the same sentiment. What kind of tribe could actually make them spend such a great price just to eat water grass? If it were to eat some meat they had never eaten before, that would be one thing, but for a tribe's Leader to not eat meat and eat water grass instead, wouldn't that make people laugh?

"Father, this is truly not false; you can ask Qianxi, ask Yangasha and you will know, their Huaxia is truly very different."

Chiyou looked at the brothers he trusted, and Qianxi could only nod helplessly: "Leader, Huaxia is indeed like that. Bingzhu only didn't say everything, and certainly didn't exaggerate too much. Huaxia's food is just like that; they have reached a level where they do not lack food, so they think about eating better things, and what they use must also be the best.

They can spend a large amount of grain and a large amount of energy and manpower in a year to trade some tree leaves from the Xuanyuan Tribe, and then soak them in water to drink.

They all drink it very happily and like it, but we cannot get used to drinking it, and in Huaxia, it is also very precious; not just anyone can drink it. Now the Xuanyuan Tribe also seems to have started drinking it.

Leader, I think you do not need to consider whether what Huaxia does is normal or not, because for them, it is too normal. They can trade tree leaves with the Xuanyuan Tribe, so they can trade water grass with us.

Besides, how much trade can there be between our two tribes? We only gave some water grass, and they only gave some of the Silk that is relatively abundant in their tribe; what was spent was only time and some manpower."