Chapter 1542: Bloodline Ties

As for sea salt, he followed the method Baifeng described, which was to dry it; they poured seawater onto rocks to dry it, and they had already experimented with this. It was truly salt, the taste was not bad at all, and it was also very white with large grains, better in quality than any other salt they had found.

With the ratio of salt established, the people of the Jiuli were naturally more motivated to work, and those seaweeds, after being dried, also carried some salt content themselves; they were stark white and had no issue with spoilage, so they would search for and dry seaweed on a large scale.

Baifeng had promised them that as long as this year's seaweed could still be delivered and the quantity was sufficient, then Baifeng would tell them the complete method for making salt, allowing them to collect enough salt for all the people of the Jiuli in just a few days, which was a great temptation for Chiyou.

Not long ago, news came from the Suiren people that Ayuduo had already given birth to two sons, and their names had already been chosen; they belonged to the Royal Family of Huaxia and held noble status.

However, the people responsible for delivering the message were from the most peripheral tribes of the Suiren, and currently, Huaxia's policies regarding the Suiren had only just barely reached them, allowing them to begin to understand Huaxia and enjoy some of Huaxia's policies, but as for matters concerning the Huaxia Royal Family, they knew nothing at all.

Chiyou still wanted to ask if his grandson had any possibility of inheriting Huaxia, but the Suiren people could not provide an answer, and Chiyou could only worry blindly.

If his grandson could inherit Huaxia, then he could use this status to obtain greater benefits from Huaxia and expand trade with Huaxia in the future; for them, this was very good news.

Although the Jiuli did not place much importance on children, especially since it was a daughter, Ayuduo and Yangasha were both very intelligent and relatively important to the tribe; they could contribute to the tribe themselves, which was why they could receive such importance.

That Ayuduo gave birth to children and that they were willing to pass such news through the Suiren also indirectly showed that Huaxia valued Ayuduo and also valued their Jiuli; otherwise, who would be willing to spend such a great price to pass messages from one tribe to another, even further away?

The Suiren were not just sitting around either; although it was an unimportant piece of news, to cross such a long distance and spend so much manpower, Huaxia must have paid a sufficiently large price. Could it be that the Suiren could still obey Huaxia and work for Huaxia for nothing without receiving anything?

Chiyou did not know that Baifeng guarded against his own powerful neighbors, even if they were his own in-laws. If Baifeng were willing, he and the Xuanyuan Tribe would have been in-laws long ago; after all, in Xuanyuan's view, both Yulong and Changle were talents and possessed very excellent foundations.

Moreover, their status and position were sufficient; he had so many daughters that he could just marry one off to those two sons of Huaxia, and it would be nothing. As long as they could bind the two tribes together through blood relations, he had also prepared the idea of intermarrying with the Jiuli.

In this era, no relationship was as important as a blood relationship; as long as they could give birth to a child with the same bloodline, then the two tribes could be connected together.

As for the affairs of the Suiren, let them be hidden for as long as possible to buy more time for the Suiren to develop.

Now the Jiuli had already begun to prepare to develop the ocean; besides seafood and seaweed, sea salt was the most important strategic material. With sea salt, they could bind the other tribes in their alliance more tightly because they also needed salt but lacked the technology to mine it.

The Suiren's development this year had also expanded in scale. Huaxia was waging war, and in two large-scale locations at that, but this did not mean that Huaxia's infrastructure projects had to stagnate; on the contrary, they could not stop and had to continue to expand.

The construction of Suiren City was still continuing. In the surrounding areas, on the land that had been roughly leveled last year, seeds were sown in the spring. There was no plowing and no fertilizing, and in the season when all things grew, it was certainly impossible to weed, so the seeds sown this time would definitely have to compete for nutrients with various wild plants.

However, it did not matter; the labor input was not too high anyway. If one seed was planted, as long as there were three or four seeds at the Autumn Harvest, it was not a loss, and if there were more, it was a profit.

Moreover, what was planted was soybeans, which had a higher yield and could fix nitrogen. After planting for two years, the land here would be more fertile, and when the people here needed to start farming, they would be able to possess relatively fertile land.

After receiving an education, Baoxi returned to the Suiren. He was already quite clear about his future; he knew that he could not compete with Baifeng for power. When he had absolute control over the Suiren, he could only bow down to Baifeng's ability. Why, now that he had completely surrendered to Baifeng, would he still think about engaging in power struggles?

Looking at the present, with Baifeng's methods all coming into play, Baoxi no longer had the ability to parry. Even Huangpin, whom he had personally promoted, had now completely become Baifeng's subordinate, loyal to Baifeng; in his view, Baoxi was just his superior, not someone he needed to be loyal to.

There was also the various training Huaxia provided for others. In short, Baoxi discovered that he no longer had any ability to compete, so he simply decided that in the few years his status was still useful, he would do more for the Suiren, let the Suiren develop, and then he would return to Huaxia to enjoy life.

As long as he did not make any major mistakes, Baifeng would certainly not do anything to him. He had given up power, and Baifeng had no reason to persecute him, so he could hold a high position and would definitely be able to enjoy a happy life in the future—not in his old age, because he already understood Huaxia well enough, and at his current age, he was still in his prime, and old age was still a long way off.

Huaxia's conscription work for the Suiren had also begun. In addition to Suiren City, it was also fully launched for other tribes. Furthermore, because many people in Suiren City already possessed knowledge and certain skills, when conscripting, no matter how active they were or how good their health was, they had to be excluded first; otherwise, it would affect the development progress of Suiren City.

As for recruiting soldiers, even if they didn't know anything, as long as they entered the military camp, three months would guarantee they knew everything.