Chapter 206: Matter-Driven Thoughts
Metals are not uncommon in the Western Continent, but they are rarely used outside of the military.
I'm afraid it will take two miners and a blacksmith half a month to make up the materials, and the ore can only be used with the consent of the lord. Instead of using it for cooking utensils, make two short knives, or save a little bit to make a spear.
But the village chief still wanted to, he trembled his hands and said, "How much?" β
Chen Yi looked at the things around him, and took the oval shield made by Yun Ba with his long body. Double-layered all-leather equipment, lightweight, durable, and extremely defensive, may not be available on Earth. The only problem is that the leather used is somewhat special, but it is not a problem, who is fine for a day, take the leather to check. In fact, the vast majority of people, simply do not know where to inspect leather. And he doesn't care about the so-called suspicion - some of the Chen family are mentally abusive children.
Yun Hachi was so excited that he immediately pushed all the shields out, as if he didn't agree, and said, "I still have two sides, and I haven't done a good job." β
"Four is enough." Chen Yi smiled, the masses in the Western Continent are really backward than the Mongols. The ancient Mongols only had sheep and no pots, but they didn't know how the Yuncun people hunted.
Yun Ba pouted his ass and stacked the shield on Chen Yi's territory, as if his brown teeth were about to fall to the ground. The four shields were worthless, at best they were two cowhides. This pachyderm is not even suitable for armor, and the shield is the only destination. He thought that it would be nice if he could exchange four shields for a pair of shoes - counting the time spent hunting, he would be able to make four shields in two days, and the others would not be much slower, and if they accumulated for a while, it would always be a lot of wealth.
Of course, it's different now that there is an iron pot, an iron pot can definitely marry a beautiful girl. With it, you don't have to buy crockpots that break easily to cook meat, instead of just grilling. Plus spices...... I heard that only people in the city did this, and those nobles and the servants of the nobles, as well as the servants of the nobles, all ate boiled minced meat.
The others looked at Yunhachi with magical eyes, like jealousy, but not quite like that. But no one tried to get their shields, each of them had one or two pairs ready, but they were too worthless, too simple, as if they could be made out of any leather.
Hardly a trader would ask for a shield to be taken with them, although an oval shield made of leather was much better than a wooden shield.
Until...... Chen Yi asked, "Aren't the others there...... Everyone woke up from a dream and ran home.
"I want half a person tall and one person tall, don't be too big or heavy, the thickness seems to be okay."
After a while, he got 30 shields and gave 8 iron pots. These words used to equip the trainees, combined with the knight's foot combat skills, not to mention the little gangsters who only have blunt weapons, even the riot police, can suppress it.
Chen Yi smiled, and the village chief was simply ecstatic.
If it weren't for the fact that the price of metals had been so high for centuries and millennia, he would almost have thought that there were iron trees growing in the forestβif there were no iron trees in the forest, Yuncun would be the richest of the dozen or so villages in the vicinity, and he would marry whichever girl he wanted.
"Perhaps, I can also marry another daughter-in-law, and marrying four daughters-in-law was many years ago."
The village chief stroked his messy beard and put the two iron pots he had obtained at his feet.
Next, all kinds of cotton cloth and chemical fiber clothes continued to be recognized by the villagers. The weather in the western continent is hot, but except for a few insect wings, whether it is leather or vegetable batting, clothes are rough and not breathable. After all, it's not very comfortable, especially when you go to the city, you will be kicked out without clothes.
The thin clothes look like the clothes worn by the aristocratic lords, and I have to say that Chen Xingshang can be recognized by the villagers, and a large part of it is because of his clothes.
He was much better dressed than the average trader.
No wonder there are so many good things.
The newly made bows and arrows and armor were swept away, and Chen Yi began to take out other things, one Tibetan knife, two Tibetan knives, and three Tibetan knives......
The villagers pushed and shoved and began to get excited again.
"We ...... We don't have any bows or armor left, only a few sets left, and we need to be prepared for bandits and beasts......"
"It's okay, give it to me next time. I'll probably come back in 10 days. Chen Yi put 20 Tibetan knives on the ground, as well as hundreds of pairs of leather shoes and liberation shoes, hundreds of sets of clothes, thousands of boxes of matches and lighters.
The Chen Martial Arts Hall has only begun to enroll more than 60 students, and it is far from the time of drastic expansion. In addition, the idea of getting something from the Western Continent is merely ancillary value - the development of a new world on a wild continent is exciting to think about. Saying that it will feed back its energy to the earth, Chen Yi feels that at least it is very promising to promote his grandfather to return to politics.
It's just a matter of how you make use of these huge resources.
The small Yuncun village elder luck really hit the big luck, but he still has the simplicity and worry of the mountain people, although he is reluctant, but he still insists on refusing: "10 days, we can't do this...... So much stuff. β
"You can take these things to another village to exchange them for bows, arrows, armor, and shields, and then give them to me."
"Shall we help you with your business?" The village chief hesitated and said, "We won't." β
"I'll teach you" Chen Yi pushed out a Tibetan knife and said, "It's in another village, how many hunting bows can be exchanged?" β
The village chief said dryly: "The best 10? β
It's a sharp, all-metal knife. The knife left by Yun Wu's father is not as long as this. When the time comes, grind it with a stone, soak it in python blood, and kill the mammoth.
"Now, you can exchange this knife for 10 bows, and then give me 5. The remaining 5 are yours. β
"Like our wages?" The village chief understood at once, and Mu Mu nodded and said, "We transport things to the people in the city, and it's the same." β
"That's the businessman."
"Really?"
"Yes." Chen Yi nodded affirmatively, and then classified the goods on the ground and told the village chief the price of each item.
In fact, it is 50% of the original price, but if you don't tell the village chief, the latter is very worried.
Fortunately, Yuncun has always relied on the sale of cattle and its own labor to eat, and if it is pure animal husbandry, it is even more difficult to understand the way of doing business.
If it were not up to the villagers to attract the surrounding communities, the plan to develop nearby would have been frustrated.
Leaving 5 cubic meters of materials worth hundreds of thousands, Chen Yi carried a bow and arrow, armor and shield, waved his hand, and said with a smile: "I'll leave first, see you in 10 days." β
"Okay, okay." The village chief's own language was not good.
When he left, the villagers still stuck on the strong visual and psychological impact.
It wasn't until the end of the day that the village chief stood up and said to everyone: "Chen Xingshang is right, we are going to other villages to exchange for things." β
"What a good knife, for someone else?"
The village chief was speechless for a while, feeling that it didn't seem right, so he thought about it for a long time, and finally patted his thigh and said, "Let's keep half of it, exchange the rest for things, and give it to Chen Xingshang, and the remaining half, isn't it ours?" β
"But half of the knives are gone."
"These knives are all Chen Xingshang's ......"
"But half of the knives are still gone......"
Although there were always people who couldn't understand why they did this, the village chief finally got it right. He no longer communicated with the others, but began to order: "Yunyi, you bring 20 clothes and 2 knives and go to Shacun to change things." β
"Yes."
"Yun Er, you bring 40 clothes and 3 knives, go to Kimura to change things, and come back with more Mu Xin."
"Chen Xingshang doesn't want to be wooden."
"We're going to make bows and arrows out of wooden hearts, so you go and buy those wooden hearts that have been dried. One piece of clothing for 20 wooden hearts. β
To make the wooden heart of the bow, it should be placed in a cool place for two years or more before the bow and arrow can be made. In fact, you can also make bows and arrows in places other than Mu Xin, but the strength is not strong enough. The bow-making skills mastered by the villagers are still backward, otherwise it is easy to make a bow back with just ordinary wood, and the pulling force reaches four or five stones.
Yun Wu knew how to make bows and arrows, so he asked, "What about the tendons?" β
The tendons are the material used to make bowstrings, and they also have to be dried in the shade, and they have always been from the animals they hunt.
The village chief said arrogantly: "Yunsan, you bring 100 pieces of clothes, an iron pot, and 50 bags of spices to Shangyun Village, and come back with tendons." β
Shangyun Village is the village where their ancestors left and is one of the largest villages within a radius of 100 miles.
Yun Wu said again: "40 pieces of clothes can be changed a lot...... There are a lot of wood hearts, and spices can be exchanged for a lot of gluten back, but we can't finish it. β
"Then buy someone from Shangyun Village and come back. Tell them that if a family can make bows and arrows and armor, they can change it to an iron pot. β
"Do you really want to give the iron pot?"
"Fortune Five!"
"Hey!"
"You go hunting and buy their bows and arrows." The village chief took out five Tibetan knives in one go and said, "Tell them to ask for the best." β
Yun Wu regretfully held the palm-length knife in his hand, imagining the warmth of piercing the saber-toothed beast's abdomen with it, and the intestines flowing in his hands.
On the other side of the Guangmen, the heavily armed martial arts inspection team also attracted the attention of the Jiangbei people.
The gray armor and the rugged bow are retro and imposing. If only one person wears it like this, everyone may have to judge it, but when a team of 10 students appears, any discussion must be taken into account.
Chen Yi was like a wolf king, patiently waiting for the students to practice the simplest foot combat skills and bow fighting skills, and then took them to start a formal patrol.
And behind them, there are maintenance vehicles of two construction companies.
The first step in maintaining the community is to restore electricity and water security in Gangbuk District.
Before that, he had already received news from Luo Xiaoshan that the sale of the securities company in Malaysia was successful, and the return would be 1 billion yuan. At this time, the value of Jiangbei's territory and Jiangnan shipyard was unimpressed. If we must encroach on state-owned assets, the Chinese have never lagged behind.
(To be continued)