"50?!"

50 silver moons are equivalent to 5 Jin Xu, which is an unbearable amount of money for anyone present, let alone taking it out, even if you think about it.

The people stood up, craned their necks, and turned their gaze to the mysterious abbot who had just arrived in Twilight the other day.

Todd's face was happy, and his first reaction was that Rachel and Karin were a great help now, and after calming down, he thought for a moment, Karin could still understand that he was paying for it, but why did Rachel invest so much money?

Looking at the woman shrouded in the nun's robe, the faint smile on the other party's face startled Todd's heart for no reason, and the scene of that dinner came back to his mind.

Although he didn't know what Rachel was thinking, a vague uneasiness haunted him. To be on the safe side, Todd thought about it for a while, but still changed the rule he said earlier: "In order to give everyone the opportunity to buy, a single person must not hold more than 10 holy bones." ”

Rachel pursed her lips, looking a little dissatisfied with Todd's backsliding, and nodded later: "Then 10." ”

Taking a deeper look at the abbot of the convent, Todd announced loudly to the crowd, "Two sisters and nuns, buy 10 holy bones each." I myself will also buy 10 sticks. ”

In this way, Rachel bought 10, Todd bought 10, Karin bought 10, a total of 30 relics have been subscribed, and the rest is much simpler.

Huggins and his "acquaintances" bought 10 in partnership, Alfonso and his servants bought 5, Edgar and Jerry Jerry bought 5, and the remaining 50 relics were bought by the residents of Twilight.

In front of everyone, Todd took out the book from the church and copied the names of the people who bought the "Twilight Mutual Aid Fund" and the number of relics one by one. The final part of the "tea party" was the dispersal of the routine, and after all this, the priest hurried back to the church, looking at the coins in the wooden box in front of him, and thinking about the plan to make money.

100 silver months may seem like a lot, but in fact you can't really buy anything.

A nobleman's attendant's salary is about 30 bronze stars a day, four people in a restaurant in the Silver Ring City, it takes about 1 silver month to eat a good meal, and a good military horse, black without miscellaneous hair, six years old, no history of disease or injury, is worth about 90 gold Xu.

Converted from the currency of the previous life, the purchasing power of a copper star is about 5 yuan, and 100 silver months are worth about 50,000 yuan.

What can you do with 50,000 yuan?

If it is really used to develop agriculture as said in the "tea party", maybe you can buy a few ploughing cows, a group of chickens and ducks, a dozen farm tools, and half a cart of seeds, and you will spend it all. And it will take a year and a half to get a meager return.

This wasn't what Todd wanted, what he wanted: high returns, low risk, first income in three months, and a little bit to do with the water and soil of Twilight.

In the evening, 32 representatives of farmers, including Sassoon, came to the chapel and stood quietly under the huge cross, waiting for the priest's arrangement.

Todd held the Bible in his hand, his expression serious and serious, and said to everyone present: "As you can see today, the believers in Twilight have raised a sum of money and are willing to lend it to you, so that you poor people can first enjoy Heavenly Father's blessing on Twilight. You should be grateful for this. ”

The farmers nodded yes.

Todd added, "Starting tomorrow, I will teach you how to benefit from the blessings of the Father. You have to be pious in your heart, and you must not have any distractions, let alone spread them to others. Next, please join me in reciting aloud the vow of keeping your promise. ”

The so-called oath is nothing more than keeping it a secret and not being passed on to the outside world, and if you break the oath, you will enter purgatory forever.

These words are placed on the Internet in previous lives, and it is estimated that some people say more times a day than they drink water. But in the Middle Ages, it was the bottom line that could not be violated in a person's life.

Early the next morning, Todd first found Huggins and gave him 30 silver moons in the "Mutual Aid Fund", and asked him to buy moonflowers as secretly as possible, and buy healthy plants that have not yet bloomed, the more varieties the better, requiring no nodules and no rhizome scars.

Although the other party accepted the task, he seemed to be unable to speak. Under Todd's repeated urgings, the man only said a word.

"If you're short of money, just let me know. 』

Todd's heart warmed, the reason why he didn't tell Huggins about the fundraising in advance yesterday was that he knew that once the other party learned about it, he would definitely try his best to raise enough funds for himself, which was not his intention, so he didn't mention anything about the "Twilight Mutual Aid" to him before.

After a few words of relief, Todd then went to the farmer's hut outside the town, looked at the farmers and peasant women who had been waiting outside, and gave the following task: the men were to dig up a plant called the 'wild rose', and the women stayed behind to empty a large warehouse in the town where hay was stored.

Todd plans to use the money from the "Twilight Mutual Aid Fund" to carry out a large-scale "Moon Season Grafting".

The so-called grafting is the technique of connecting the branches or buds of one or more plants to the stems of other plants to form a variety of plants and coexisting on one plant, the former is called "scion", and the latter is called "rootstock". To put it simply, there is a way to make a plant grow a variety of other plants.

This technique was documented in China and Rome as early as the fifth century AD.

But in the Middle Ages in Europe, it was not until 1667 that someone submitted an article to the Proceedings of the Royal Society: in Florence, there was a special fruit of an orange tree, half of which was lemon and the other half orange, as if the two parts were merged. However, after the report came out, it was ridiculed and questioned by many scholars and professors, and some even called the manuscript a "clumsy and boring hoax". So much so that the Royal Society had to issue a disclaimer for this article in its subsequent bulletin.

And in this other world, the technique of "grafting" does not want to appear, and even this concept, Todd has not found the right vocabulary to match in Latin and universal text.

This kind of flower, with a wide variety, high survival rate, strong ornamental and low cost, is one of the best options for grafting "scion", and the characteristics of wild rose growth, strong disease resistance, good recovery, and similar to the germ line of Yueji determine that it is the best "rootstock" for grafting.

In the evening, Huggins and the farmer returned from the outdoors, the former buying back three cartloads of moonflowers and nearly emptying the stock of the nearby villages, and the latter digging up a large number of briar plants from the surrounding woods.

Todd laid a dry cloth in the large warehouse that emptied the clutter, lit a fire, and placed blades, wooden skewers, clips, formaldehyde solution, alcohol and other items on the table, and made all preparations before the "grafting" work.