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Chapter 34: Demarcating the border and trying to reclaim the riverside

Sha Sanlang understood what Liu Sheng meant and subconsciously agreed.

But considering that Liu Sheng and the others had not visited Shangluo Department with gifts before, and thinking about Liu Sheng shaking his head one after another to express his lack of prey in exchange for the strange fabric, Sha Sanlang thought that he should ask for more of this kind of fabric.

So he also followed Liu Sheng's example and shook his head.

Liu Sheng laughed dumbly.

He said to Mao Chengguo: "Go get three more coarse porcelain sea bowls."

Mao Chengguo quickly brought three coarse porcelain sea bowls.

Liu Sheng placed it next to the piece of cheesecloth, expressing his previous meaning again.

Sha Sanlang and others looked at the three gray-white coarse porcelain bowls with stunning and burning eyes.

When Sha Sanlang took the coarse porcelain bowl back to the tribesmen and touched it, the tribesmen were even more amazed——

“@@(This pottery is so smooth and beautiful)!”

"&&(How did they do it)?"

"#···(Such smooth and beautiful pottery must be a treasure. Are they going to use the treasure to get us to allow them to fish and hunt here)?"

"MM (Chief, please agree)!"

"···"

Although Sha Sanlang was greedy when faced with cheesecloth and coarse porcelain, he grew up in a relatively simple environment, so he decided to listen to his clansmen so as not to annoy Liu Sheng and others and not be able to complete the transaction.

He immediately used his ancestral obsidian-tipped spear to draw a line roughly perpendicular to the river from his feet to the river's edge.

Then he smiled and pointed to the upper reaches of the river and the corresponding forest, and then pointed to Liu Sheng and others.

"You mean, using this line as the dividing line, the rivers and forests upstream belong to us?" Liu Sheng expressed it with as simple and clear body language as possible.

Sha Sanlang seemed to understand and nodded heavily.

Then he took off the bow, spear, and war stick, put them on the ground, walked to the place where the trading items had been placed, and extended his hand to Liu Sheng with his right forearm at a 45-degree angle.

Liu Sheng guessed that this should be the etiquette of the tribe, so he followed the other person's example and extended his right hand.

Sure enough, after the other party held his right hand, he laughed.

Liu Sheng didn't expect that this tribe would actually shake hands when they met, so he also laughed - if it was some weird etiquette, he might not be able to accept it.

"%& (We will be neighbors from now on)." Sha Sanlang said.

Liu Sheng didn't understand and could only keep smiling.

Sha Sanlang returned to his tribe, took the three feet of cloth, pointed at it and asked: "@# (What is this called?)"

Liu Sheng didn't understand. Sha Sanlang pointed at the fur knitting on his body and repeated a strange syllable.

"R&(fur)."

"R&?" Liu Sheng repeated imitatingly.

Sha Sanlang smiled and nodded, then pointed at the cheesecloth and asked.

Liu Sheng understood now and said with a smile: "Cotton."

"Cotton?" Sha Sanlang repeated in an odd voice.

Liu Sheng nodded and said firmly: "Cotton."

Then Sha Sanlang went to teach the tribesmen to say this word together, and as he spoke, he shouted excitedly——

"Cotton! Cotton!"

Later, Sha Sanlang learned the pronunciation of "porcelain bowl" using the same method...
It wasn't until the afternoon, when the sun was about to set, that the exchange between Liu Sheng and Sha Sanlang ended.

Sha Sanlang returned to Shangluo Department with the cheesecloth and coarse porcelain bowl obtained from the transaction, as well as the twenty or thirty kilograms of fish that Liu Sheng later presented.

Originally, the people who stayed behind in the tribe felt strange when they saw that the hunters only brought back some fish, and at the same time they were a little disappointed. After all, those fish were not as heavy as a coyote.

But when Sha Sanlang and others showed off the cheesecloth and coarse porcelain bowls, almost all the tribesmen cheered happily, especially the women.

As women, they apparently preferred softer fabrics than leather, and smoother and more beautiful vessels than pottery.

At the same time, the 300 people from Shangluo tribe also knew that there was an additional tribe called "Hua" in the upper reaches of the river...
"Boss, have we demarcated territory with the native tribes downstream today?" Shen Zhaoxian couldn't help but ask on the way back to the camp.Liu Sheng nodded, "Not bad."

"Then there will be more of us in the future. What should we do if we want to expand our territory?"

After hearing this, Liu Sheng looked at Shen Zhaoxian and said with a smile: "You are thinking long term - one day, we will just find the natives to renegotiate the territory."

"What if they don't agree?"

Liu Sheng said calmly: "Then let them move away or merge into our Huabu."

Hearing this, Mao Chengguo couldn't help but interjected and asked: "'Huabu'? Is this the name of Liujiazhai here?"

Shen Zhaoxian was a little dissatisfied with Mao Chengguo for interrupting his conversation with Liu Sheng, but he was also curious about Mao Chengguo's questions, so he listened patiently.

Liu Sheng said: "The Ming Dynasty is located in the land where our ancestors have lived for generations. No matter how the dynasties change, we all have the same self-proclaimed name when facing the four barbarians, and that is Huaxia.

Now that we have arrived in this new continent, we are surrounded by barbarians.I chose the word "Hua" as the tribe name because I hope everyone will not forget where we come from and who we are. "

After Liu Sheng finished speaking, everyone in the hunting team and fishing team fell silent for a moment.

Because they feel they understand, but they don’t seem to understand.

After a while, Shen Zhaoxian remembered the previous topic and asked: "My boss, what if the natives are unwilling to redraw the boundaries in the future, move away or merge into our Chinese tribe?"

Liu Sheng said: "When the day comes, they will find they have no choice."

"Aren't they going to fight us?"

"As long as their leader is not stupid, he will not fight us. Because before long, they will find that they are not our opponent at all, or that they are not qualified to be our opponent."

Liu Sheng indeed did not regard the Indians as opponents.

Because the Indians in North America have not even formed a country, the most powerful ones are societies similar to close tribal alliances.

However, the larger number of social unions in North America are basically in the central and eastern regions, such as the Great Lakes region, the eastern coastal region, and the Mississippi River Basin.

What Liu Sheng wanted to establish was a modern centralized monarchy.Such a force, as long as it reaches a slightly larger scale, cannot be shaken by the Indians under the tribal and social alliance systems.

Coupled with the huge gap in weapons and equipment, soldier quality, etc., as long as the Indian tribal leaders who come into contact with the "Chinese tribe" are not blind and confused, they will not choose to fight them...
Back at the camp, the encounter with the natives became a topic of conversation among the members of the hunting and fishing teams.During dinner, they described the exchanges and transactions with the natives, which filled the camp with laughter.

Liu Sheng, however, went back to the villa to rest after dinner.

"My boss." When Li Xiangyun saw Liu Sheng, although he was no longer reserved, he still stood up respectfully.

Liu Sheng looked at the elementary school mathematics textbooks on her desk, pulled up a chair, sat down, and asked, "How much did you learn today? What don't you understand?"

But Liu Sheng saw that Li Xiangyun was bored sitting alone on the first floor all day, so he found a set of elementary school mathematics textbooks and asked her to learn mathematics on her own.

With Li Xiangyun's intelligence, even if he didn't have any talent in mathematics, he would have no problem becoming a mathematics teacher after studying the textbooks.

Every night when Liu Sheng came back to the villa to sleep, he would ask about Li Xiangyun's study progress and help her answer some questions.

Li Xiangyun enjoyed this time very much, and also fell in love with mathematics.

At Liu Sheng's signal, she sat down and asked Liu Sheng one by one about the questions she had accumulated during her self-study today.

By the time Liu Sheng finished answering Li Xiangyun's math questions, it was almost nine o'clock.

He asked Li Xiangyun to rest early. He also returned to the master bedroom on the second floor, took a shower, and lay on the bed with his body in a "big" position.

I closed my eyes but couldn't fall asleep for a while.

He first thought about communicating, trading and demarcating boundaries with the native tribes downstream of the river during the day, and then thought of reclaiming wasteland and farming.

To clear up wasteland in the forest, you must first cut down the trees. Even with the two chainsaws and dozens of pure steel tools he brought out, the progress was still slow.

He was thinking that now that he had made an agreement with the tribes downstream of the river, he could allow immigrants to go to the river to reclaim wasteland.

There are few trees along the river, mostly bushes and grasses, and the land is moister. It is much easier than clearing land in the forest.

As for the tribes in the upper reaches of the river, they are probably more than ten miles away from where they fish today, so they will not pose any threat.

However, the camp they are currently reclaiming cannot be abandoned halfway - it is close to the space gate and should have been built into a village.

Therefore, Liu Sheng was planning to recruit another group of refugees.

(End of this chapter)