Chapter 1541: Seashells

The sound of horse hooves clattered; on the third day, that team of Cavalry finally returned, and after the three of them returned, they first sought out Baifeng to plead guilty.

Their reason was also very simple, because they had acted without authorization, but Baifeng would not arbitrarily convict them before learning the truth, so he first asked clearly: "Then why did you go to such a distant place? I should have made it very clear: a distance of one day's travel, and return once you arrive."

The person leading them explained: "King, we discovered traces of a very large-scale activity, looking like the kind with tens of thousands of people, and it was right in our direction of scouting, so we pursued them, wanting to figure out exactly what the situation was."

"Then, having been out for so long, did you figure it out?"

"We did, King. Those who passed through there were the Jiang Yuwang and Jiang Ke Tribe; they fled the Shennong Clan, saying they are going to live in a great marsh to the east, and they are not preparing to go to war with us, nor do they have that intention."

"Furthermore, they also said that according to the timing, the Shennong Clan should send the Xingtian Tribe to pursue them, because Shennong has no other tribes he can send, it can only be Xingtian; calculating the time, if we go over now, we will definitely be able to run into them."

"If we cannot defeat the Shennong Clan, he also said that we can go to the great marsh to find him, and he will also come to help us."

After listening, Baifeng said to Xuanyuan: "You heard that, Xuanyuan; after you conquer the Shennong Clan, you know where to go to find them, right?"

Xuanyuan appeared completely indifferent: "No matter where they are, as long as they are on my territory, I will definitely be able to find them."

It sounded like these two Leaders were very confident, the Cavalry thought to himself, and then he took out that string of bracelets: "King, this is the token they gave to prove that they have already met with us and brought the news to us."

Baifeng took the bracelet; besides a few nice-looking stones on it, there were some seashells. The appearance of those shells was exactly like the ones in textbooks used as currency, shell money. Indeed, without a certain level of strength, one really would have no way to possess a string of things from the seaside in such an inland region.

Baifeng still remembered that when he was young, a large conch shell would cost him several or even over ten yuan to buy. He himself had even collected two shells, both bought with money, but unfortunately, after growing up, he could no longer find them.

And when information became developed and transportation convenient, a shell or a conch shell had absolutely no value anymore, unless it was a particularly rare variety. For those common varieties of shells, as long as you were willing to pay the shipping, someone could give you a huge pile; they were of no use and had no value.

"Very well, this thing can indeed prove that their status is not ordinary."

"Alright, you may return to your unit and rest."

Baifeng waved his hand at the three of them, and so they immediately led their horses away to find the position belonging to the Cavalry.

Baifeng threw the string of bracelets to Xuanyuan: "Take a look, have you seen this thing before? It's something only found by the sea; you have quite a lot of trade with the Jiuli, so you should have seen it, right?"

Xuanyuan pinched the string of shells: "I have seen them, but it has nothing to do with the Jiuli. I don't trade much with them, and there's no need to waste time and energy on this kind of thing. What we trade is definitely more useful things. Baifeng, do you like this thing very much?"

"It's alright, actually it's of no use. As long as you reach the seaside, isn't this thing everywhere? It really cannot be considered a useful thing; only in our inland areas is it considered a relatively precious thing."

"Inland?" Xuanyuan heard another strange word; he still did not understand what this meant.

"It's nothing, it's just relative to those coastal places like the Jiuli; there's nothing much to say about it."

"Can this kind of thing be eaten?" Chiyou looked at the large conch with great confusion. This year, he had also specifically gone to the seaside, wanting to see this so-called great sea for himself, to see this place that could support their entire tribe.

"Leader, this thing looks like a hard shell, but the taste is still quite good. Once boiled, you can scoop it out and eat it. This shell feels even better than pottery, a bit like the ceramics of Huaxia, only I don't know if this thing can be made into ceramics."

Chiyou looked at the vast sea; on the shore, there was food that could be eaten everywhere, and he could not help but feel some emotion. They possessed such a treasure land but had never known it, and it was only through Huaxia that they learned there was such a place, and that the things here could support everyone in his tribe.

Although it had not been fully verified, judging by these things on the shore, it was indeed enough to support many people; all kinds of meat that could be eaten were everywhere, although they all looked a bit strange.

However, Huaxia also told them that among the large amount of edible things, there were still some poisonous things, but as for which ones specifically could not be eaten, Baifeng himself did not know either. Perhaps it would still require their Jiuli to pay the price of lives, but fish were basically all edible.

Therefore, on this stretch of beach, besides fish, and things that had already been eaten in large quantities by people and verified not to kill anyone, which would be given to Chiyou to eat, other things would not be given to Chiyou to eat, for fear that some unknown poison would kill their most respected and wisest Leader.

Besides coming here to check on the specific situation of the sea, Chiyou was also here to study how to extract salt from the sea. Huaxia was very trustworthy and had already told them a basic method; they could extract salt from the sea that would make the entire Jiuli no longer worry.

Another thing was to see if the speed of finding and drying the Grass could be improved further. The treatment Huaxia gave them was good enough, and when trading, they could also give a high enough price. Such a good trading partner had to be maintained, not to mention that Huaxia only needed such a small amount of wild Grass, which had absolutely no impact on the Jiuli; he should not control or reduce the harvesting, but should continue to expand the speed of drying.

After he came here, he found that it was still quite different from what he had imagined; the quantity of Grass was so abundant that he did not need to worry, and the same was true for food. He had already decided that he would migrate a tribe here to live by the sea in the future.

They only needed to catch sea fish and gather the produce of the seaside to be able to support themselves; the coastline was extremely long, and there were enough people it could support.