Chapter 703: The Uses of Clear Crystal
It's actually pretty good to be able to grow trees. In colder places, not even trees can grow, only some plants like mosses.
In the vicinity of the North Sea, there is already a coniferous forest belt, and many broad-leaved forests cannot survive the harsh winter of the North Sea, so there is no way to exist at all.
It's not needle-like leaves, the leaves have long since fallen off, and they don't look good at all.
However, the color of this land is still beautiful when viewed from above.
Because the snow gives them the most beautiful clothes, white, snow-white coats, which make people's hearts feel holy, but also make people's eyes feel stinging.
Fortunately, Qian Rujun saw a crystal cave on the way, so the students of Xuetang Island dug a lot of crystals, and after returning to the space, they made a lot of sunglasses with ink crystals.
As for other crystals, Qian Rujun asked them to design according to the color, and make them into practical and uncaring utensils, or sculptures, Qian Rujun has never had the habit of selling raw materials, and raw materials are not worth a lot of prices, so she always sells finished products, although there are fewer people in demand for finished products, but only less than the prices of other merchants.
But other merchants are also very shrewd, Qian Rujun Jinmaicheng Workshop and the Central Water Tower Workshop, and now there are shops in Chang'an Women's School, all of which are places to produce high-quality products, and there is no reason to buy them in other places.
There are many people who worship the Han culture in the vicinity, and there are many business opportunities.
If you are afraid that these places are too dangerous, then you can take the rail transit and sell your goods to other cities, and you can sell them for twice the price.
Because the pricing of Golden Wheat City is so cheap. It's like treating these good things as everyday items.
For a limited quantity like this, the merchants have already negotiated and bought all of them at the first time, so that no one outside will buy cheap goods, and in the end, how much they want to sell depends on the demand.
Every time Qian Rujun takes out something, it is probably a commodity that he does not worry about selling. Before, when they didn't have these goods, they didn't find anything inconvenient.
But when these goods appeared, they felt that without them, they would die. Because, they absolutely cannot afford to become outdated.
Transparent crystals, originally in the market at a price is not low, because they can do many things, such as glass lenses.
Qian Rujun just turned them into a few commodities and made their prices noisy.
She made these transparent crystals without cracks into mirrors, magnifying glasses, cups, and windows, and put these things on the market, and people immediately rushed to buy them, even if Qian Rujun set the price relatively high, it was in short supply.
Qian Rujun's price system is actually a sample made according to the number of people in demand. No matter what, you can make money by buying and selling.
Students who live in Jinmai City, Central Water Tower, and Chang'an Women's School will also have the opportunity to get the right to buy at the original price.
As for the places outside these three places, they have been sold for ten times the price.
Qian Rujun wore sunglasses, and finally didn't let the reflection of the snow dazzle his eyes.
Although the earth seems to have darkened, as if the ink painting has suddenly darkened the tone of the painting, and there are a few more thick strokes of ink, the spatial changes that were originally unclear have become clear.
On the side of the road, the originally inconspicuous hillock was drawn, and the inconspicuous but toothy branches were also revealed, and suddenly Qian Rujun found that there were a lot more things on the roadside, and he also saw the hidden cave.
In some places, the shape looked unnatural, as if it had been changed abruptly, and she suddenly thought that maybe people, like other animals, would find a place to hibernate when it was cold.
It's just that there is no way for humans to hibernate without eating or drinking, and if they don't have stored food, they can't survive the long winter.
At this time, people may also be approaching the existence of animals.
But what makes people human is that they use tools flexibly.
They will use tools, and because they will use tools, they can transform the environment to make it more in line with human life, but it comes at a cost. Sometimes it's life.
In a place where there are many wild beasts, there are two ways to fight for land with wild beasts, one is to defeat them, and the other is to move many people and let them live together.
When the humans come in and reach a certain number, the beasts retreat.
However, the biggest problem now is that the number of human beings in this era is still too small, not even one percent of the 21st century.
In this case, it is undoubtedly a luxury to win with numbers.
In most cases, a small number of people gather. When you fight against the beasts, you can also ask the beasts for the fur they need.
It's just that most people don't have enough courage to fight against the beast alone.
Every time they hunt, they must be equipped with a lot of weapons, so that they can use the strength of the group to fight against the beasts.
It seems to be fair, but it is not fair at all, and in this case, the victors are mostly humans.
Because, the beast powerhouse is very turf-conscious, and will not allow other powerhouses to enter his own territory. However, human beings are different, and most of the strong human beings do not like the existence of loneliness.
If there is no safflower who can be a foil, then it can be seen that he is a strong man.
The so-called strong man of human beings is an existence that can stand out from the top in the crowd.
And when they fight against wild beasts, they don't like to go alone, and in most cases, the strong will still act with the group.
Because, when fighting against wild beasts, this is almost guaranteed to win, and he can also get more prey in the crowd, and even the prey he catches, and someone will help him carry it back.
He can achieve more with less strength.
Therefore, there is a big difference between a smart strong man and a stupid strong man.
Stupid and strong, he lives a life where he eats more than others day after day. There is no way to expand your sphere of influence.
A smart and strong man, using the power he can drive, expands his power more and more. Until he can't control it, or if he controls it, he lives a rich life.
The power that cannot be controlled, if it is held in his hands strongly, the final consequence will only bring about destruction when he is young, and there is no way to get the opportunity to die of old age.
But perhaps he will be given a chance to remain in the annals of history.
On the white earth, the way of human activity is natural, but these natural things are deliberately done by him.
The footprint of human life is not a part of nature in the first place. At least in the eyes of his kind, it was easy to recognize.
Therefore, the nature of their pursuit is not to be known by their kind.
When dealing with nature, they unconsciously imitate other animals to eliminate their own footprints.
Humans who live in extreme worlds have a deeper understanding of nature than those who live elsewhere.
They found that they could not just block humanity, in their world, there were not many opportunities for humans to appear, and in most cases, if humans appeared in their eyes, they would not be hostile first, but would seek opportunities for cooperation.
After they are sure that the other side cannot cooperate, they will start a war.
There are too few humans, and here, for them to survive, they must find more companions.
So it's normal for Qian Rujun to not see anyone.
Once she sees people, there won't be just one.
As for this, there are not many books that Qian Rujun has read.
The vicinity of the North Sea has never been the focus of their concern.
So here, humans will do more than beasts.
He will destroy all traces of his appearance. He won't be seen by the family as he walks through the traces of poop, because he can bury his.
The effect of this is actually obvious, it can prevent other animals from chasing after them, other beasts are sensory animals, their eyes, ears, mouth and nose are very developed, and some of them can even be called supernatural in the eyes of people.
At least, humans don't have eyes that have compound eyes and can see miraculous things like infrared and ultraviolet rays.
Dog noses are also much more sensitive than most human noses.
As for whether there is an X-ray eye, Qian Rujun doesn't know. She didn't have the patience to flip through the books.
Her biggest cheating method is only to use the search function of the e-paper book to find things that have something to do with what she wants to know.
Recently, she discovered that, in fact, the books in the e-paper book do not seem to be all from the society of her twenty-first world, some supernatural books, and even from some mysterious world.
So Qian Rujun now clearly knows that this world is not the only one that exists.
Like this world, there are places that are unknown to her, or even unknown to her.
In fact, there are many universes in the universe, and there are many worlds in the world, but in some worlds, find a way to communicate with this world.
Every animal that lives in the steppe desert is a master of hunting. They are good at finding ways to kill each other for themselves without exerting their physical strength.
It is estimated that the savages or nomads of the North Sea are still hiding in a corner!
Don't know how people in this place survive?
Perhaps, Qian Rujun's desire to find the commonality of the group does not exist.
Everyone has different ways of coping with their environment.
Qian Rujun thought that when Su Wu was shepherding sheep, he didn't seem to meet anyone in this place.
He couldn't even find anyone to talk to, and most of the time, he was shepherding sheep alone.
I don't know why, Qian Rujun feels that this record is very ridiculous, how can a person survive in such an environment.
Could it be that he, like her, has some special powers?
In the harsh environment, Qian Rujun believes in the power of the group.
Perhaps, for Su Wu, these savages are not human beings at all, right?
She admired the ancients very much, she admired them Obviously, the people in this place all speak different things to him, but they can communicate.
Perhaps, the nearby superiors all speak Chinese, right?
But what is Chinese?
Or is it a kanji?
Qian Rujun thought that in the era of the Great Schism, there was actually a common language that could communicate with each other, and that was Latin.
Perhaps, in this era, within a range of thousands of miles near the Han Dynasty, Chinese characters are also supreme!
Since Su Wu can shepherd sheep here, and the sheep also eat the grass roots, it is estimated that there should not be too many robbers here, otherwise he will not be able to live to go back to Dahan.
In other words, the people of this place still had the habit of shepherding sheep when they were in the Han Dynasty.
Perhaps it is because sheep, or there are various breeds, adapt to different environmental structures.
In the most precipitous places there are sheep, and in the coldest places there are sheep. It is estimated that only in the north and south poles, there are no sheep.
It's not that the sheep are not cold-tolerant, but that there is no grass for the sheep to eat.
During this season, animals such as cattle and horses are estimated to have migrated south. I won't be able to come to this place until the summer.
It is not easy to find out who has not gone south to avoid the harsh winter cold during this cold winter.
But Qian Rujun still believes that in this place, there are people who come from the south to escape the winter.
Man is not a bird, and he does not run from the North Pole to the South Pole to escape the winter. For human beings, it's not that they don't want to migrate, it's just that after migration, they won't be able to return to their original point.
Unless, they take the land.
Like the Gypsies, the result of their desire to wander is that they have fewer and fewer places to stay.
There are more and more places where they are off-limits.
Eventually, after the borders were formed, they could no longer move freely.
The countries in the south have built the Great Wall, and they are not ready to let them pass, and if they want to spend the winter in the prairie, they must also go through Shan Yu's permission.
Therefore, Qian Rujun now, if he wants to find someone, it is better to find the flock.
Man cannot live without the flock.
This is the attachment of man to property.
Where the flock will gather, there will be people.
If you want to live here, just raising one sheep is not enough.
Ice and snow are flying all over the sky, and the land does not seem to be without any living life still active.
But Qian Rujun knows that even in such an environment, polar bears will still go out to hunt, and polar bears do not seem to have the habit of storing food for the winter.
There is no death, and in order to sustain life, there must be food.
Some animals, in order to save food in winter, will want to hibernate in winter and burn fat to survive.
Some grasses, after drying up, can turn green and start to grow as soon as they are given a little water.
Some fish, even after four years without water, come back to life when exposed to water.
These are all ways for life to survive in extreme circumstances.
Qian Rujun believes that as long as the animals living in this land, including people, can come up with a way to keep themselves alive.
Sheep in the snow will still try to find grass on the grass.
In the case that it can't find grass, it still has humans to rely on, and humans will help it store forage.
Let it survive the winter, of course, in exchange, their lives will also be given to humans, so that humans can use its lives to live.
In other words, no matter what, the sheep and the grass will be together.