Chapter 422: Profiteers
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"Nonsense!" Knowing that the daughter-in-law of the Li family did not let people move her man, the old village chief slapped his thigh heavily. Although he felt very uncomfortable in his heart, after all, if he wanted to kill his own people, he would suffer in his heart. But those who are injured by zombies must be disposed of within half an hour, this is an iron rule, no one can be exceptional, and the zombie virus will not sympathize with anyone. Several people who have been infected with the virus have also dealt with it in this way. Otherwise, it would endanger the lives of others.
"Let's go!" The old village chief was ruthless and said to the others: "Go and see!" β
"Alas, wait!" From their words, Chen Yuan probably heard what was going on. So he stopped the old village chief who was about to leave, and said, "Old village chief, have you been scratched by zombies, right?" We have medicine to cure Ah! β
"What!" The old village chief, who had already turned around to leave, immediately turned around in amazement, and at the same time asked a little incredulously, "Do you have medicine to cure this disease?" β
Chen Yuan nodded heavily: "But this medicine is not easy to get, and we don't have much." β
How could the old village chief not understand what Chen Yuan meant, there is nothing in this world that is given for nothing. But human life is at stake, and he immediately asked, "Then how much is this medicine?" Oh no...... What do you want? Grain? Silver? We can all go for it. In a hurry, the old village chief habitually asked how much it was, but he immediately remembered that he had just said that the money was useless at this time, so he hurriedly changed his words.
Chen Yuan shook his head with a smile and said, "No, we still don't need those things. β
"Don't need food? So what do you want? Let's go find it! Benefactor, please be sure to save the Li family's daughter-in-law and her man. The old village chief excitedly stepped forward and shook Chen Yuan's hand, and said with a pleading face.
Chen Yuan patted the old village chief's hand lightly, and said with a smile: "Old village chief, we don't want anything else, we also want ore, ordinary stone can also be." β
"Ore? Stone? The old village chief thought he had misheard.
"That's right. And these iron ores and stones can be exchanged not only for healing potions, but also for food and weapons. Chen Yuan took a delicate spear from one of the team members and handed it to the old village chief. In fact, someone on the survivors' side had already noticed that Chen Yuan's people were equipped with very sophisticated weapons. Not only the guns, but also the cold weapons they used. The swords, knives, and spears that braved the cold were much better than the rudimentary weapons of rough wood and scrap metal in the hands of their own people. There is simply no comparison.
"Can you really change these weapons?" Taking the weapon handed over by Chen Yuan, the people on the old village chief's side passed it on to each other, and everyone liked this weapon very much. It's really a waste of money, and they now look like the weapons they used before are rubbish.
One of the young men touched the spear in his hand and was reluctant to let go, and then raised his eyes to look at Chen Yuan and the gun in their hand. Then he couldn't help asking, "Do you want to change the guns and ammunition?" β
Chen Yuan chuckled and shook his head: "The guns and ammunition will not be changed for the time being." But it doesn't take much time, and it can be replaced. "It's impossible to take out 95 and exchange it, and you don't have enough for yourself. However, if the arsenal to the north is found, they have rifles and bayi bars, and these can still be exchanged for some.
The survivors on the old village chief's side were overjoyed. One of them hurriedly asked, "How do you change that?" β
Chen Yuan thought for a while and replied: "Tentatively, one ton of selected iron ore or cut and polished stone will be exchanged for 5 catties of rice noodles." 2 tons for 1 delicate cold weapon or 1 piece of armor. 15 tons of selected iron ore or stone for a virus treatment agent. β
"Ah! So little! A survivor working in the mine couldn't help but be surprised when he heard Chen Yuan's exchange price: "We used to be able to sell at least 1,000 yuan per ton of ore!" And how can iron ore be at the same price as stone? In the past, a ton of stone was only 300 yuan at most. β
In fact, not only did the survivor express doubts about such a price, but even Zhang Fatzi and Wei Chen felt embarrassed, and secretly scolded Chen Yuan for being too dark.
"You said it, that was before!" Chen Yuan shrugged his shoulders and said: "In the past, the amount of steel used in the world was too large, and iron ore is an important non-renewable resource, relatively scarce. Scarcity is expensive, and the price is naturally expensive. But now we don't need much iron ore at all. What's more, we can now also find a lot of on-site steel from the surrounding townships. So iron ore is not scarce for us now, and based on the current consumption, the reserves here alone are enough for us for I don't know how many years. It's no different from other ordinary stones. Then the nature of the look is the value of the labor contained in it, I ask you, is it more difficult to collect iron ore than to collect other stones? I think the stone needs to be leveled and polished, and it takes more work. β
The middle-aged man who spoke before seemed to understand a little, but he continued to ask, "That's not so low?" How much is 5 catties of rice noodles? It's a lot of weight alone. β
Chen Yuan smiled and said, "If you think this price is too cheap. Otherwise, we have a copper mine to the south. We will now pull a cart of copper ore from the copper mining area, about 60 tons, and exchange 300 catties of rice noodles with you. What do you think? β
The middle-aged man who spoke was suddenly asked, how could he have 300 catties of rice noodles now, and he couldn't take out 30 catties. There I stammered, not knowing how to answer.
Chen Yuan continued: "Then let me ask you again, now that there is no heavy machinery, how many tons of ore can you dig a day by relying on manpower alone?" β
The middle-aged man thought for a while and said, "It's not okay to rely on manual mining alone. The ore is first hammered off the ore body and then loaded onto the cart piece by piece. Pushing out of the mine. Our mine is very deep, and it takes six or seven people about 20 minutes to transport it back and forth. It's all hard work. According to a group of 10 people, 4 people mining, 6 people transporting, at most one person at the end of the day is 3 tons. The middle-aged man seemed a little honest, but he didn't tell a lie, and underreported the output to strive for a higher price.
"So how many catties of rice and noodles can you eat in a day?"
"As for rice, I can eat six taels a meal. The others are only three or four taels at most. The middle-aged man said proudly.
Chen Yuan added: "This is still the weight after adding water and cooking. Then we haven't boiled it with water, is one pound of rice a day enough? β
The middle-aged man nodded and didn't speak. He seemed to understand what Chen Yuan was going to say next.
Sure enough, Chen Yuan continued: "Okay, even if I have two people in your family to raise now." Of the 15 catties of rice you get back from a day's work, three people eat 2 catties, and the rest is used to exchange meat, vegetables, clothes, compensation for the consumption of labor tools, etc. Chen Yuan reminded: "You must know that at this time, in addition to the guns and ammunition in my hand, the price of food is the most expensive!" β