I thrived in the primitive tribe

The group rested for one night in Xiang Yu's simple wooden house. The next day, after eating another meal of grass, Lu Yao found Xiang Tian.

"Oak Sky, we plan to leave today."

"Why are you leaving so soon? Why not stay here for a few more days?"

Seeing the person's feigned politeness, the group remained silent for a moment.

"I heard you came to see my brother. Is there something you need?"

"No, we've just come to say goodbye and are preparing to return to our tribe."

"Why are you leaving so soon? Stay a few more days, and I'll show you around the area."

"They're all the same forest, what's there to see?"

Looking at Xiang Yu, who seemed at a loss, Lu Yao felt helpless; her people were just too straightforward.

"Before we leave, we'd like to discuss a collaboration with you. Can you two make the decision?"

"What kind of cooperation?" Xiang Tian asked with slight interest.

"It's a collaboration in salt production."

"Salt manufacturing? We don't have any salt mines here, how are we supposed to manufacture salt?" Xiang Yu asked innocently.

"That's why it's called a collaboration."

Are you sure we can produce salt here?

"If you use the method I taught you, that will work."

"That..."

"Why are you talking so much nonsense? Just tell me if you can do it or not."

"Why are you in such a hurry? I need to find out the details of something this important."

Lu Yao gestured to her clansmen to remain calm.

"The cooperation I'm proposing is this: I'll teach you how to make salt, and you'll give us half of the salt you produce as payment, free of charge. What do you think?"

"Isn't this a bit too much?"

"If I don't give it to you, you'll have to go to other tribes to exchange it for salt. The time and manpower involved are incalculable, and the exchange rate for salt is entirely up to them."

If you could produce your own salt, even though half of it would be given to us, wouldn't you no longer need to send your people out to trade for salt? This would avoid accidents on the way and prevent you from being led by the nose by others.

"Please wait a moment, I'll go and discuss this with my father."

"OK,"

"Hurry up, we need to get going today!"

"Xiangyu, go find some of the elders in the tribe who have influence, I'll go find Father, we'll meet at Father's house."

"Okay, big brother." With that, the two quickly got to work.

"Isn't anyone going to make arrangements for us?" one of the tribesmen asked, watching the two run away quickly.

"Where do we go now?" another tribesman asked Lu Yao.

"Since there are no people from the tribe to lead the way, let's not wander around. Let's just go back to the place where we ate before," Lu Yao thought.

"I thought Xiangyu would agree immediately, given his personality, but I didn't expect him to not even offer an opinion,"

The group chatted as they walked in that direction.

"Yeah, it seems like he listens to his older brother in everything, he really has no opinions of his own."

"He just speaks more directly and doesn't beat around the bush, which doesn't mean he's stupid."

Xiangtian and Xiangyu gathered together the most influential people in the tribe and then presented Lu Yao's cooperation plan.

This sparked a heated discussion among everyone.

Some people believe that the method of making salt is priceless, and it seems reasonable for them to want half of the results as payment.

Others believe that if the method she teaches is very labor-intensive, then it is not worthwhile.

The two sides were arguing fiercely.

In general, achieving cooperation is everyone's common goal, but the distribution of the benefits from the cooperation is somewhat ambiguous.

"If the method of making salt is relatively simple, why don't they make it themselves and instead leave it to us?"

"Is it because they don't have the resources to make salt over there?"

"It's possible, or it's possible that they felt it would be too costly, which is why they didn't make it themselves."

"Alright, no matter what, let's go talk to them first and see if we can discuss the distribution of profits."

The leader had already spoken, so the group went to find Lu Yao and the others to discuss the details of the cooperation and the distribution of profits.

"Lu Yao, are you telling the truth?"

Lu Yao and the others who were chatting all looked in the direction from which the sound came, and saw the leader enter with several older people, their faces bearing warm smiles.

"What do you mean?"

"It's that collaboration you talked about with my sons."

"Oh, this is true. Did you two plan this out?"

"Lu Yao, do you think we should discuss this again?"

What do you want to discuss?

"You see, salt production also requires manpower and resources. We don't know if your method is too costly. Why don't you tell us first, and then we can see how we want to distribute the profits?"

"Chief, it's not that I'm being presumptuous by not telling you, but this method is really very simple and not complicated at all. If I tell you, you'll all know how to do it. How can we still talk then?"

"Isn't it too much for us to produce half of the salt and supply it to your tribe? We don't even know how much we can produce."

“That’s right. If the production is very low, we won’t even have enough for ourselves. If we give you half, won’t we have to go out and exchange it for salt?” an old man chimed in.

"Don't worry about that. We've verified that the salt production is quite good. And you don't need to make salt every day. If there are many people, you can produce a lot in just a few days. You can fill dozens of containers with the fruit shells you use to hold vegetables."

"The output is actually that large?"

"Then why don't you keep them and make them yourselves, instead of teaching us?" As soon as he finished speaking, Xiang Tian and the others glared at him.

Seeing this, the man reluctantly shut his mouth.

"Well, it's not that I can't talk about it."

Upon hearing Lu Yao's words, everyone immediately turned to look at her, their eyes brimming with curiosity.

"The reason is, of course, that our tribe is very united and hopes that all orc tribes can live better lives."

Upon hearing this, the men displayed expressions that seemed to say, "Do you believe me or not?"

"Believe it or not, it really is like that. It's just that while you're enjoying it, you need to share some of the profits with us."

“If it’s really as you say, then it’s not impossible, but you have to guarantee that you can teach everyone in our tribe.”

"That's natural; the salt you produce also contains a portion of ours."

"So now you'll teach us how to make salt?"

"There's no rush. We need you to swear an oath to the Beast God to ensure you abide by our agreement."

"So, can we do whatever we want with the half of the salt we get?" Xiang Tian interjected.

"That's natural. We won't make any agreements regarding your share of salt; you can use it however you like."

“Alright,” Xiangtian indicated to his father that everything was fine now.

"The leader of my Oak Dragon tribe hereby swears an oath to the Beast God..."

Seeing that the other party had done as she had said, Lu Yao took them to the saltwater lake, taught them the method of salt making, and gave them the earthenware jars that she had previously used to store dry food but not salt.

After learning about the Oak Dragon Tribe and agreeing on the time and quantity of salt delivery, Lu Yao and the others left.