Tang Yao had not expected Luo Chong to be so direct, asking her right off the bat what she would use in exchange. However, she had prepared for the contents of the negotiation long ago, so she was not especially flustered.
"Our Tang Tribe excels at gathering and preparing medicinal herbs, and we can treat people's illnesses. If Chieftain Han is willing, we can use these things to exchange for the technologies of the Han Tribe. As for the specific method of exchange, we can discuss it in detail."
Luo Chong was taken aback when he heard this. Exchanging medical arts and medicinal herbs for technology was something he truly had not anticipated beforehand. If Tang Yao really possessed such abilities, he would not mind trading some technology for them. After all, the Han Tribe's technologies were not particularly advanced. Even if he did not give them away, the other party would have ways to obtain them eventually; it would simply take more time.
Luo Chong's advantage—or rather, the Han Tribe's advantage—did not lie in its existing technologies, but in Luo Chong's foresight. The other side might have ways to learn and imitate them, but the Han Tribe's development would definitely outpace their imitation. Perhaps they had only just fully grasped his first-generation technology, while his third-generation products had already come out. That was his true advantage.
Having thought of this, Luo Chong did not directly refuse or agree. He still did not know Tang Yao well enough. The most urgent matter was to first assess whether the chips in her hands were truly valuable. If he traded technology for a set of shamanistic healing methods, he might as well go hang himself.
"Hmm. You said your Tang Tribe excels at treating illnesses and working with medicinal herbs, but our