Chapter 68

"What? Do you think this salt mountain can provide us with a lot of edible salt? It's impossible Li Lei stares at the stone bear and says, "guardian, we all know that this hill is a salt mountain, but the salt in this salt mountain can't be eaten at all. If you eat it, you will die."

The big foot nodded and said: "yes, guardian, the leader is right. Our ancestors discovered this salt mountain as early as 200 years ago when they came here. Unfortunately, the salt produced in this salt mountain is not edible at all. The salt produced in this salt mountain is not only bitter, but also purple after eating. If you eat too much, you will die! Many of our ancestors died of eating too much salt in this salt mountain. Since then, our gaoshu tribe and all the surrounding tribes have stopped eating the salt here. "

Hongyun, gaoniu and other tribal leaders also nodded. It is obvious that they all know about this salt mountain.

Stone bear helplessly shook his head, it is really no culture, really terrible.

In later generations, everyone knows that salt, whether it's sea salt or land salt, can't be eaten directly.

The sea salt directly dried out can't be eaten directly. It's bitter. There are a lot of impurities in it. It needs another cooking process to eat. Therefore, most of the sea salt directly dried in the air in later generations was used to make industrial salt.

The same is true for the salt produced on land. Even the best well salt has to be injected into brine first, and then pumped up. After a series of processes such as filtration and evaporation, edible salt can be formed.

In a word, as long as it's natural salt, it can't be eaten directly. The impurities in it are not only bitter but also astringent. The most important thing is that it can kill people.

Natural salt contains a lot of nitrate, phosphorus, potassium and other impurities, which can be fatal if you eat too much.

Nitrate is used to reduce blood pressure. If you eat too much, people's blood pressure will drop to a certain extent. Even the stone bear can't stand it.

As for phosphorus, that kind of thing can't be said to be as toxic as cyanide, and it's not much different. Moreover, people will be purple after eating it.

These impurities are not needed by the human body. Later generations have heard of calcium and iron supplements, but have you heard of phosphorus and nitrate supplements?

That's the reason.

Just like the little salt mountain, before the gaoshu tribe mastered the processing technology of crushing, dissolving, filtering and parsing, it was a salt mountain that could be seen and eaten, no different from chicken ribs.

But once we can master these processing technologies, this salt mountain will become a treasure mountain immediately.

In fact, in this era, even the white people in Europe, few people can master this kind of processing technology. Even if they have mastered it, it is the most fundamental secret.

People point to selling salt to make money. Who would be so stupid as to tell their secret?

But stone bear, who came from the era of information explosion, naturally knew this kind of processing technology.

So the stone bear said to them with a smile, "don't be so sure that the salt here can't be eaten. Yes, before I came here, the salt was really inedible. But now that I'm here, the salt here will immediately become edible salt! And it's the kind of refined salt you've never seen before! "

This is full of self-confidence, let a group of people of gaoshu tribe take a breath, Hongyun very simply said: "big bear, what do you need? People and things are your choice! "

The stone bear thought for a while and said, "I need the whole clan to come here. I will teach the clan how to turn these poisonous salt into edible refined salt!"

After a pause, he continued: "but before that, I need to do a little preparation. Well, tomorrow, all the people who can come from the tribe had better come. If it's not enough, one family has to come out. I will not cherish this skill. I will teach it to all the people tomorrow. "

When Li Lei heard this, he was stunned. Then he pulled the stone bear aside and said in a low voice, "guardian, do you really want to teach this skill to all the people?"

Stone bear glanced at Li Lei, nodded slightly and said: "chief, you have to understand one thing, that is, what I want is never the strong wealth of individuals, what I want is the common strength and wealth of our whole tribe and even our whole ethnic group! The prophecy of the kabulu priest who led our people away from the court of Cherokee more than 200 years ago, you should know that the vasichus were not good people, which the supreme Sun God once told me. At some time in the future, those vasichus will hold up their butcher knives to our people, and they will kill our people with guns and take our land. If we don't grow up, we'll be killed by the vasichus sooner or later. Therefore, we should seize all the time and opportunities to strengthen ourselves as much as possible, so that we can resist the attack of those vasichu. "

Li Lei was a little creepy. He didn't believe it, but after seeing the gloomy face and angry eyes of Shi Xiong, he couldn't help believing it.

"Well, guardian, you can do whatever you want. Kabulu and I will support you."

Stone bear glanced at Li Lei again and said softly, "I hope you're not just talking."

This eye made Li Lei's hair explode, but he didn't dare to say anything.

Two days ago, the smelting of the furnace of iron has made the guardian have a high reputation and status in the tribe. The most important thing is that Li Lei is very clear that kabulu sacrifice is absolutely with the guardian.

Stone bear ignored Li Lei in a daze, turned and walked to Hongyun, and then said aloud, "I need to make some preparations after I go back. You are responsible for informing everyone of this news. I hope all the people will come here as far as possible tomorrow."

Said, the stone bear turned over on the horse, whips gently on the horse buttocks, the black horse immediately ran up.

In fact, there are not many things to prepare, and the most troublesome one is the stone mill.

However, there are many stonemasons in the tribe. It can be said that almost every family has a person who is proficient in the craftsmanship of stonemasons.

Stone knives, stone sticks, stone spears, stone bullets, stone shovels, stone bowls, stone plates, stone tables, stone benches... North American Indians use stones even more than bones, so almost every Indian is an outstanding stonecutter.

It should not be a problem for them to regulate the stone mill.