The Rise of the European Emperor

In fact, Su Ha is the most honest and honest of the four brothers, but also the least talented. However, this person is honest and reliable, and he is obedient and willing to endure hardships. He is the most honest and reliable among the five falconers, a bit like Guo Jing in Shooting the Condor.

The reason why Marin chose him to be the leader of Sauron was not because he was so powerful, but because he was not so powerful. Moreover, honest and easy to control.

In addition, the status of the four people among the Saurons is also higher. Their father belongs to the small leader under Harada in the tribe, and they still have the right to speak in the tribe. He went back to his hometown to recruit people, and someone should respond. But Baigeri was different from them. Baigeri's father was just a low-level Sauron, and had passed away long ago. In his hometown tribe, he had only a widowed mother and a married younger sister. If he goes back to recruit people, he doesn't have enough right to speak, and it is estimated that there will be very few responders.

Moreover, the tribal strengths of Baigeri and Suha are also different. The tribe that Bai Geri belongs to is only a small tribe of 120 households, and its strength is average. The tribe where the four Suha brothers belong is a large tribe with 300 households. Yes, a big clan of 300 households...

On the prairie, those tribes often have thousands of tents {tents, one tent represents one household}, but in the bitterly cold Greater Khingan Mountains area, the Sauron tribe with more than 200 households can be considered a large tribe. And the Saurons in the entire Greater Khingan Mountains are only a few thousand households, more than 20,000 people.

In addition, there are also many Sauron tribes scattered in the mountains and grasslands to the north and west of the Erguna River to the north and west of the Xing'an Mountains. These areas include the Nerchinsk area ceded to Tsarist Russia by the Manchu Qing later generations, which is the post-Baikal Krai of later Russia.

The reason why there are Saurons living on the grasslands west of the Xing'an Mountains, apart from the crowded hunting grounds in the Xing'an Mountains, is that there are some salt lakes on the grasslands, which produce some low-quality bitter salt.

According to the introductions of the five people, the Saurons had difficulty obtaining salt, so they could only live on the bitter salt produced on the grasslands west of the Xing'an Mountains.

The reason why the Horqin tribe became one of the two major tribes that dominated the mink fur trade was that they could obtain salt from the grasslands and exchange mink fur with the Saurons. Frankly speaking, the quality of the lake salt obtained by the Horqin tribe from the salt lakes of various Mongolian tribes in the west is even better than that obtained by the Sauron people in the northwest of Xing'an Mountains. Otherwise, it will not become one of the two major tribes monopolizing mink fur. Because there are many salt lakes on the grasslands, but not every salt lake produces edible salt. In some salt lakes, what is produced is simply alkali, that is, sodium carbonate. And some salt lakes produce Glauber's salt {sodium sulfate}, or even nitrate {sodium nitrate or potassium nitrate}, which cannot be eaten.

These salt lakes rich in various salts will be a good resource of chemical raw materials in later generations. However, in this day and age, it is useless. At most, the locals will pick up some frosted alkali in winter and sell it in the Ming Dynasty, but the price is also very low.

Moreover, most of the salt lakes on the grasslands are salt lakes containing various salts.

All of them contain inedible salt ingredients, and only a small part of the salt lake, the boiled salt is edible. Moreover, these salts are often bitter, that is, they are mixed with impurities such as magnesium salts and calcium salts. Only a very small portion of salt lakes can produce non-bitter or slightly bitter table salt. But this kind of salt lake will definitely be seen and occupied by the big tribes on the grassland, and become a strategic resource.

Obviously, the Horqin tribe, as a powerful tribe in Mongolia, also owns this kind of salt lake. However, the salt they cook is also slightly bitter. Because the grassland people in this era did not know how to wash off the bittern, they only knew to put the salty lake water in a pot and boil it dry, naturally leaving some bitter salt components, making the boiled lake salt slightly bitter. However, this kind of slightly bitter table salt is already a treasure in bitter cold places such as grasslands and Daxing'an Mountains. The Horqin tribe relied on slightly bitter lake salt, as well as horses, bows and arrows and other supplies urgently needed by hunters, in exchange for mink fur from the Saurons, at a very low price.

And the Saurons had nothing to do, because the salt lake that the Saurons themselves occupied in the Nerchinsk region in the northwest of the Greater Khingan Mountains, produced salt that was not slightly bitter, but relatively bitter. Even so, it was an important salt resource for the Saurons.

In trade, often a small bag of bitter salt can be exchanged for a fine mink fur...

At this point, Marin stood up:

"Wait, what do you mean to say that the Saurons need salt very much? How about the salt in our North Sea country?"

Bai Geri and the others were stunned for a moment, and then said:

"The salt in the North Sea is the best refined salt I have ever tasted. I am afraid that only the Harada can afford this kind of salt if it is brought to Sauron's tribe... Moreover, even the Mongols lack this kind of good salt." ..."

Marin slapped his thigh excitedly and said:

"That's right, let's exchange salt for mink fur, so that the people of Sauron will eat salt until they die..."

"Eat salt until you die..." Bai Geri and the other five all showed yearning expressions. What a happy way to die...

Of course, that is the idea that they retain their previous habits of thought. In fact, they served the North Sea country, and their treatment was higher than that of ordinary soldiers. It was no longer a normal thing to eat salt. However, for their clansmen far away in Daxing'an Mountains, I am afraid that eating salt is also a luxury. It took a long time for many poor Saurons to eat salt.

Not to mention the Saurons, even the Jurchens were extravagant to eat salt, and they often ate meat without salt. After the establishment of the Qing Dynasty, gizzard meat without salt was often distributed to favored ministers and guards, allowing them to taste gizzard meat without salt.

Gizzard meat without salt is very unpalatable. In the "Story of Yanxi Palace" written by Yu Ma, Qianlong explained that the ancestors made their fortunes in Baishan and Heishui. It was difficult to start a business and life was hard. Salt was a luxury. And Qianlong often brought ministers and guards to eat gizzard meat, just to taste the hardships of the ancestors, and then think of the hard-won wealth...

You know, Jianzhou Jurchen is a relatively wealthy force in the northeast region. They can't afford salt, let alone the weak Sauron tribe?

Of course, this is also related to the geographical environment. Because Jianzhou Jurchen is located in the Jilin area, not close to the sea, it is separated from the Liaodong of the Ming Dynasty to the south, and the East China Sea Jurchen to the east. Therefore, their source of salt is not easy. The Mongolian tribes are much better, because there are salt lakes on the grasslands. Even if it’s bitter salt, it’s still salt, isn’t it?

As for the Jurchen and Sauron tribes in the northeastern inland area, it would be miserable. Salt is a luxury for them. Even those small tribal chiefs are hard to eat. In order to obtain salt, they can only exchange mink fur.

It is a way to exchange grassland lake salt with the Horqin tribe, and it is also a way to exchange salt with Haixi Jurchen. Haixi Jurchen does not produce salt, but Haixi Jurchen is close to Liaodong, so they can exchange salt with Ming Dynasty merchants. The salt they exchanged is of higher quality and less bitter, which belongs to the first-class salt. Only the bigwigs among the Saurons could eat this kind of salt. Moreover, it is still rare to eat...

"This f*ck... this f*ck..." Marin walked around happily. Then, ordered:

"Send an order to Kong Tai to use the coal found on Dongfan Island {Kong Tai's people have explored the Keelung coal mine} to build a salt cooking base in Keelung. I want to use white salt to go to the northeast for mink fur !"

"Well, there are tiger skins, tiger bones, etc..." These days, tiger skins are definitely a weapon. Tiger bone wine, um, is very popular in Daming... two items sent to Daming are definitely worth a fortune. As for animal protection, there are no torches in the Northeast these days, and the tigers are roaming freely. Even the brave Saurons dare not challenge the Siberian tiger easily. Therefore, there are still a lot of tigers. Even the South China tiger was made rare after liberation by the folks using modern rifles to search mountains and hunt tigers...

In addition, the sika deer on Taiwan Island were quickly killed to a rare extent only after hunters had modern hunting guns in the 20th century. The same is true for the North American bison. It was Laomei who sold modern hunting guns in the late 19th century to the Indians, and they were killed almost to extinction. Without sharp firearms, the risk factor is too high to challenge the Siberian tiger with a bow and arrow...

"Profusely, there is also Dongzhu... Jurchen's side, but Dongzhu is produced... Besides, they are also short of salt..." Muren, the youngest of the four brothers, reminded.

Marin took a deep look at Muren, and then affirmed:

"Yes, there is also Dongzhu! Well, wild ginseng is also indispensable..."