primitive survival evolution

Chapter 380 Tobacco Leaf and Tin
"How much of this kind of grass has our Alabasians planted, and how do our people use this kind of grass?" Li Yan asked, while rolling up this crumpled yellow grass.

"Return to Your Majesty, because this kind of grass emits a lot of smoke when it is burned, so we call it tobacco." Hawke quickly introduced, "The smoke from this kind of grass can heal rotten wounds, but some witch doctors I usually like to smoke this kind of tobacco, but they say that if I smoke too much, I will feel uncomfortable if I don’t smoke it.”

"Hehe, of course you will be addicted." Li Yan joyfully picked up the rolled tobacco leaf, and said, "Light it up for me."

Hawke understood immediately when he saw this, and found a wooden stick and a handful of yellow ignition powder from outside.

He took a wooden stick dipped in some kindling powder and scratched it on the ground a few times, then lit the wooden stick, and put the ignited stick next to Li Yan's cigarette stick to ignite.

Li Yan took a deep puff, and a burst of spicy energy rushed into his throat. It is really strong enough to smoke this tobacco leaf directly!Spicy enough!
"Well, yes, Hawke, I want to see where the tobacco is grown."

"Yes, Your Majesty!"

Li Yan followed Hawke, walked out of Arabas City, and came to a riverside behind the city.

Potatoes and corn were planted on both sides of the river, and the simple mud houses were located in the fields. In the distance, there was a plant with large leaves as tall as a person, and some leaves were yellowing.

Hawke brought Li Yan to the side of the big leaf plant field very quickly.

At this time, a few old men suddenly came out of a few mud huts on one side of the field. These old men were wearing black cloth clothes, with a string of silver-white necklaces with metallic luster hanging around their necks.

"Your Majesty, these large-leaved grasses are tobacco leaves, and after drying, they will look like the tobacco leaves I gave you."

"These old men are witch doctors. They grow these tobacco leaves, and the excess tobacco leaves will be used to exchange amphibole with the tribes in the northern forest."

Hawk quickly introduced to Li Yan.

"Your Majesty!" There were men and women among these witch doctors, but they were all wrinkled with age.

"Well, do you have tobacco seeds?" Li Yan asked in a deep voice.

"Yes, I'll get it right now."

Two of the old witch doctors hurried to the house.

But Li Yan noticed the metallic necklace on the neck of the old witch doctor in front of him.

"What is that, show me." Li Yan said hastily.

Upon hearing this, the witch doctor quickly handed over the necklace around his neck to Li Yan.

Li Yan took this necklace and studied it. The surface of the pearls on this necklace has a metallic luster, and the texture is very soft. It is very likely that it is tin!

This Arabazan alliance has entered the Bronze Age, but bronze is not popular, and the Nyan people on the opposite side have also entered the Bronze Age.

"Is this amphibole the material you use to make goldware?" Li Yan asked others.

"Yes." Hawk nodded quickly.

"There are a lot of amphibious stones in the forest? Those tribes use these stones to exchange tobacco leaves with us?" Li Yan asked again.

"That's right," Hawke said.

Li Yan thought for a while, then said: "Hawk, I will arrange for people to go to the forest later, and you can find some powerful warriors to accompany you to meet the tribes there. Do you have any questions?"

"No, no problem!" Hawke said.

At this time, those witch doctors came to Li Yan holding a clay pot.

"Your Majesty, these are the seeds of tobacco leaves."

"Okay, I'll take this away, you can continue to plant tobacco leaves, is it okay?"

"no problem."

Li Yan returned to the palace with the tobacco seeds, and then he went to inspect the copper casting workshop of the Alabas League.

This is a large courtyard located in a corner of the city. There are various casting furnaces, some kilns for burning charcoal, some places for crushing ore, and some furnaces for smelting copper.

The melting point of copper is less than [-] degrees, the melting point of bronze is lower, lower than the temperature required for firing pottery, and the melting point of tin is even lower, only about [-] degrees.

Because of the low melting point of tin, many ancient humans would inadvertently use tin ore as a bonfire when they burned fire to keep warm, and tin was unintentionally burned out, which is easy to find in nature.

"Your Majesty, our bronze wares are produced here." Hawke introduced to Li Yan as he walked.

"Well, very good." Li Yan looked at this place and said, "By the way, why didn't I see you guys use a lot of bronze utensils? Some soldiers don't even have bronze utensils?"

"Returning to Your Majesty, cassiterite can be exchanged from the tribes in the mountains and forests, but copper stone is not easy to obtain." Hawke said.

"You don't have copper mines?" Li Yan asked.

Hawke shook his head and said: "There is one, but that copper mine does not produce much copper ore. Our area is full of sand, so there are few mines. I heard that the Nean people have a lot of copperware, and they have many mines." , and are willing to sell us copper stones and bronze wares, but they are very expensive, and we are not willing to buy from them."

"Well, we need this tin."

Half a month later, the clansmen who had been sent out to the northern forest finally returned. It was the team led by Jiang Yi, and when they came back, they brought a few tribal chiefs from the other side of the forest.

A total of five clan chiefs, headed by a Nipu tribe chief.

Patriarch Nip and the other four patriarchs entered the hall with exquisite tin utensils and met with Li Yan.

After the five clan leaders came in, they knelt down respectfully and introduced themselves.

"This..." Hawke beside Li Yan was also dumbfounded, he didn't expect these mountain tribes to kneel down to his Majesty.

After these clan heads grew up, Jiang Yi quickly said: "Your Majesty, these clan heads are willing to join our Han Empire!"

"Very good!" Li Yan said with satisfaction.

"Your Majesty, this is the flashing device that several of our clan leaders paid tribute to you."

These patriarchs smiled and sent forward their respective tin wares, and the attendants beside Li Yan hurriedly went down to collect them.

"Well, very good, you are now the citizens of our Great Han Empire, I will definitely not let other tribes oppress you, and we will help you unify the mountains and forests." Li Yan said solemnly.

"Thank you, Your Majesty." Patriarch Nip and the others knelt down again, very respectfully.

"Well, you must be tired from driving so far away, go down and rest, I will reward you well." Li Yan said.

"Yes, Your Majesty!"

The patriarchs in the forest retreated. At this time, Hawke was puzzled.

"Your Majesty, these tribes are the largest tribes in the mountains and forests. We Arabas wanted to recruit them before, but they were not willing at all. Why are they willing to submit to us now?" Hawker asked.

At this time, Jiang Yi smiled and said: "Your Majesty asked me to bring two southern giants and a broodmother spider to visit them, and I will do as Your Majesty said, and tell them that if they are willing to submit to the Han Empire, we will return to the Great Han Empire." I will protect them, and even sell more tobacco leaves to them in the future, they only need to pay us some tribute every year, and the patriarchs quickly agreed when they saw our giant beast."

(End of this chapter)