Struggle in the Steam Age

After listening to Lanhua Tiehu telling how she met the enemy before and how she ran away, Lawrence showed a rather embarrassed smile on his face. "I'm sorry, we seem to be responsible for your situation. Because we defeated and wiped out almost all the goblins on this plain a while ago."

"At that time, the group of goblins also recruited a lot of goblin fighters from outside the plains. After being wiped out, the tribes that provided the warriors were damaged because of the main force. They chose to move away from the plains directly for fear of our revenge. Goblin batches are probably the goblin tribe on the move"

"Ah, it turned out to be like this!" After listening to Lawrence's explanation, Lanhua Tiehu didn't look so angry, but showed a dazed expression. "It's no wonder that when I killed the two goblin patrols, I felt that the opponent's level was much weaker than what I had encountered before. I thought it was because I suddenly became stronger when I was in the field retreat."

After everyone had communicated about the surrounding changes, especially the reasons for the recent changes in the nearby goblins, the dinner was over. This tauren girl is not ashamed of her large size, at least eating the food equivalent to six to seven adult males for a meal.

"Sorry, I seem to have eaten a little too much." Although there is no change in her complexion because of the fur on her face, Lawrence can hear something embarrassing in her voice. "Actually I don't usually eat so much, this time just because I was hungry for three or four days before."

"Didn't the people who brought you feed you?" Lawrence asked strangely, because he remembered that he had prepared a lot of food for the fortress, so he shouldn't be able to feed the tauren before him.

"Although they didn't understand what I was talking about, they enthusiastically took out a lot of food and water for me to eat after confirming that I was not hostile." Lanhua shook his head and said that it was not the guards who were here. She abused her, but as a shaman who was often active in the wild, she knew that she couldn't eat too much at once after being hungry for a long time, so she just ate the food equivalent of an adult male along the way.

After eating, the four people sat in a house next door and exchanged information they knew. After finding out that Lawrence became the new island owner, the tauren girl bluntly stated that for the tauren, they did not object to a human lord on the island, but the prerequisite was that the human lord must be fair.

"In other words, as long as you are willing to treat our tauren as fair as human beings, then we tauren are also willing to recognize you as our lord." Lanhua stared at Lawrence with her bull's eyes and said very seriously.

"Of course I can treat you fairly." Lawrence said, "For example, in addition to humans in this land, there are still a group of rat people who have obtained their own living space. They are willing to bear the same taxes as humans. When fighting, they send their own weapons and are willing to abide by the laws of the island. So they also have the same rights as humans here."

Probably because of the law in the previous university, Lawrence's policy on the island is equal to rights and obligations. As long as the law is complied with, the policies are treated equally. And this kind of policy is very attractive to tauren who tend to order by nature.

"We will actually investigate these situations." After listening to Lawrence's words, a smile appeared on the face of the tauren girl. "If this is the case, I think the elders of the tribe are willing to offer you water and soil."

Speaking of this, the Tauren girl's face suddenly became a little ugly: "Since we are friends, if we meet for the first time, we should give you gifts according to etiquette. But this time it was just an accident, so I didn't Can bring a meeting ceremony."

"It doesn't matter, as long as you have the heart. If you feel really upset, you can make it up next time." Lawrence smiled and said, then he asked. "By the way, can you talk about your life in the hilly area of ​​the island."

In the next half an hour, Lanhua Ironshoe talked about the lives of those tauren people. Even on the islands, the tauren people still adhere to the traditional nomadic economy. According to Orchid, their tribe breeds a certain kind of big-horned buffalo and a special kind of island goat.

By raising these livestock, the tauren people can obtain leather, wool, a large amount of dairy products and meat from them. In addition, they can also obtain a large amount of plant food and resources through gathering, so the overall life of the Tauren people is pretty good.

But this does not mean that they do not need any foreign economic contacts, especially the regional resources where the tauren are located are not rich, so they have a lot of materials that cannot be self-sufficient. For example, according to Tauren Orchid, what they need most urgently now is pure salt and enough metal tools.

"The hilly area where we are located does not have any metal mines at all, so except for the small amount of metal products that were previously traded with humans and the trophies that are even more rare. Stone, bone, and wooden tools."

"As for salt, there is a small salt mine in the hilly area. But there are some impurities in the salt that are obviously harmful to the human body. If you humans consume the salt for a long time, it is likely to cause irreversible damage to certain organs. Damage, and although our tauren is strong enough to not cause those serious injuries. However, after eating the salt, there will be a lot of minor problems on the body. For example, my father was bald because of the salt. ."

"Uh—" Lawrence had an image of a bald bull head in his mind, and it took a lot of energy to restrain himself from smiling. Of course, he also understood the reason for the salt poisoning of these tauren people from the narration of orchids. "There are too many harmful impurities in the salt you eat, but in fact, most of the toxic components in it can be removed by means of melting and filtering."

After all, this era is the era of industrialization, and salt is not as scarce as in ancient times. At the same time, for Lawrence, the profit of selling salt to those thousands of tauren simply can't keep up with the benefits of allowing them to recover from themselves. So Lawrence made a decisive decision to reveal the secret of how to remove the toxic impurities in the salt to the tauren girl.

However, the complicated chemical reaction made the tauren girl listen to the cloud, especially for several chemical raw materials. It is more convenient for these taurens to buy all of them than to buy salt directly from Lawrence and the others~www. ltnovel.com~ But from this incident, the Tauren girl realized that Lawrence is indeed a person who treats everyone equally as he said.

So without the knowledge of Lawrence himself, he inexplicably received a good person card from the tauren girl in front of him. But this should be considered a good thing.

Then the two sides discussed a series of things about the future trade between the two sides. It is obvious that the tauren is lacking everything from daily necessities to production and living tools, so it is eager to reopen trade exchanges with mankind.

"Can you tell me what special products you have there?" Lawrence asked. "What else can you have besides livestock, leather, dairy products, and wool?"

Because the tauren needs to purchase a lot of things, Lawrence wants to know what kind of goods they can sell. After all, the core of trade is to get what they need, and both sides can get benefits. It's too bad if one party can't afford it.

"Apart from these, we only have some handicrafts that are not very valuable in your place." Lanhua said, looking a little frustrated after thinking about it for a long time. "But if you are willing to pay, we can provide you with a 150-person Tauren mercenary, and 1/10 of them are guaranteed to be extraordinary."