Chapter 239: Consumption in the Western Continent

On Earth, there are more metals worth more than gold. [No pop-up novel network] is a little rarer, and they dare to shout that the price is more expensive than gold, and the rest are said to be more valuable than gold.

It was impossible to judge for a while, but Chen Yi still asked excitedly: "10 shells per sword, how many do you want?" ”

Lanier was stunned for a moment and smiled, "How many do you have?" ”

"That depends on how many ...... you have," Chen Yi held up the shell.

"Snail shells?" Lanier shook his head and said, "I can't tell you the number, but I'm sure I can buy your sword." ”

In his eyes, Chen Yi is just a powerful businessman.

"Well, three days later, we'll trade 1,000 swords in the nearby water village." Chen Yi replied very simply.

Lanier was stunned.

1,000 swords is 10,000 snail shells, either way, enough to equip an army. Where can he take it out at once.

But the other side will have 1000 swords?

I'm afraid there aren't so many swords on the market now. Even Mara City's many years of reserves, that is, a few thousand swords, how long did it take and how much blood did it take to obtain? And how much of it was the spoils of the holy war?

He hesitated for a moment, Chen Yi took off the dagger at his waist and threw it to him, saying "Change you for this", and the person had already entered the village chief's house.

No invitations are allowed, and merchants are not allowed to enter the village chief's house, which has long been a rule.

Lanier rubbed his head and returned to his seat, pulling out his dagger to see that the strong sunlight was shining directly on the blade like a bronze mirror.

"Good knives." There were no illiterate people in front of them, and they praised one after another: "Can a snail shell be exchanged for such a knife?" It's worth it. ”

Lanier chuckled, but out of the corner of his eye, he casually glanced at the scabbard, which was also metal, and heavier than the knife.

This made him secretly happy and secretly surprised at the same time.

Such a short sword is worth at least 10 snail shells, and if there are dignitaries and nobles who like it, it is possible to produce dozens or hundreds of them.

Give yourself dozens of snail shells for nothing? This kind of trick scared Lanier.

He didn't know that what he was holding in his hand was just a Tibetan knife with a polished mechanism, and the quality was half a star better than that of a handicraft, and the heavy scabbard was one of the reasons for its cheapness. Modern people don't look down on the rough and rotten heavy steel sheath. Change it to shark skin or something, that's what catches the eye. However, in the Western Continent, where durable metal is lacking, such a scabbard can be seen as another blunt knife, especially for those knights with a fighting spirit, who use their weapons with the help of the metal to attach to the fighting energy, rather than the sharpness of the metal itself, although the latter still has a certain effect.

Lanier was too lazy to continue to do small business, so he just closed the stall and left. Leave behind a strange-looking trader.

The trade of 10,000 snail shells, let alone doing it in person, they have never even heard of it. In their opinion, Lanier's expression is quite normal, but Chen Xingshang is too abnormal, "1000 swords" is from his mouth - the dragon is above, is there really 1000 swords in Mara City?

It's got to be a lot of business

The next morning, the merchants were asleep. Yu Weichao came to greet Chen Yi with four beasts and a team of bodyguards.

There is one good thing about being a businessman who travels from south to north, that is, he is not afraid that the goods will not be sold. They bring things that have been scarce for thousands of years and tens of thousands of years in various places, and when they encounter a bad year, it is only a matter of earning more and earning less, and they will never encounter a situation where they cannot be sold.

Therefore, although everyone gets up early and greedy on the road, when they get to the place where the goods are sold, they can sleep with confidence, sleep lazy, and wait for the people to come to ask for a deal, instead of having to come to the door to sell.

The situation in Yuncun is a bit special, but it does not interrupt the good habits of the merchants. Moreover, last night, they had been discussing the trade of 1,000 swords for a long time, and they had not slept early.

The sound of "purring" was heard from inside the house to the outside of the house, and was quickly interrupted by the sound of transporting beasts.

The four adult beasts that had just arrived, set off before dawn, and it was easy to get to the place, how could they not even eat breakfast, only to see that there were three families, who were busy pouring tons of young branches and leaves, thick branches and thick leaves, into the stone mill, this kind of human machinery made of two stones wrong, as long as the wooden wheel was desperately stepped on, it could cut the branches and leaves into pieces.

Such crumbs are mixed with some other food ingredients, and the beast can digest and grow its strength after eating it, and it can eat a little less while being full. But this manpower is really not light, so it is only before and after transporting things, for the transport beasts to eat, and on weekdays, it depends on the labor force and diligence of each family.

Yu Weichao wore a thickened green training uniform and rode on a beast more than 2 meters high. There are also more than 30 foreign bodyguards hired by him, who are also wearing scratch-proof cloth as training uniforms, each riding a beast, full of energy, holding a spear of more than 6 meters, and a fierce body. The difference was their long hair, which each alien wore around his waist like a whip combing from the top of his head, making it impossible to distinguish between male and female.

Even the people of Yuncun rarely saw so many beasts outside of Mara City, and they were busy just preparing to eat. Yu Weichao has always been generous in giving money, and soon mobilized the whole village.

"It's so magnanimous" Chen Yi got out of the room with sleepy eyes, got some water in the stone trough at the door, and washed it.

Yu Weichao flatteringly handed him a hot towel and said with a smile: "I kept it privately, this is a best-selling product in Mara City, fine velvet absorbs water, and it is comfortable to wipe your face." ”

"Have you been to Mara City?"

"Yes, I went secretly, and I later found out that in fact, people don't have any city defense at all." Yu Weichao took a breath and said: "The city is free to enter and exit, and the city gate is closed late at night, unlike our ancient cities." I heard that the main purpose of building a city is to defend against foreign races, not my race. ”

"Not my race? Another kind of person?"

Yu Weichao said euphemistically and in a high-pitched voice with a scientist-like laugh: "What's strange, the Neanderthals have not been exterminated by the modern human race, I have read it in the library, the enemy of Mara City, it seems that a tall human with a general height of more than 2.5 meters is very strong." ”

Chen Yi let out an "oh", and his interest was greatly reduced. No matter how strong the muscles are, they can't stop the submachine gun bullet with a kinetic energy of 600 joules, and if necessary, a sniper rifle with 2000 joules, a heavy machine gun with 3000 joules, and an anti-aircraft machine gun with a 20000 joules have the effect of annihilation.

Strength has always been the dominant gene within the group, not the survival gene that determines the fate of the group. Whether it is a mage or a knight, it is a product of the intellect, not the body.

At this time, the merchants appeared in the merchant's office, that is, under the big house in the village. Everyone either watched the new team curiously, or set up stalls to prepare for money.

Yun Village is not far from Mara City, and the fact that it can make a lot of money here is the main attraction for merchants to come here. After all, the long journey of two or three months is still quite hard.

Lanier did not appear. 10,000 snail shells were not something he could decide at all, so he could only rush back to Mara City.

Chen Yi and Yu Weichao walked around among the merchants and were extremely warmly received, but no one would say anything about packing and buying his goods.

Yu Weichao's local connections are also good, and he has received a similar level of hospitality. He himself is still a bit of officialdom, and he knows that standing behind him with sincerity and fear makes Chen Yi get the most praise.

Seeing the driver commanding the beast and packing all kinds of materials, Chen Yi said with a smile: "Look at your appearance, life in the Western Continent is good." ”

"Thank you for your blessing." Yu Weichao used the tone of the organization, and then said with a smile: "The materials you have sent to the local area several times have more than 40 tons before and after, especially metal products, which are the most expensive. I wholesaled most of it to the merchants, still worried that the rich would suffer. So I spent money on thirty beasts and 200 beasts, and hired these alien soldiers......"

He pointed outside and said: "These aliens are well-educated and pay attention to the rules, I have heard the village chiefs of Yun Village say it, and I have also asked the merchants, and I know that they transport goods, and they often bring foreign soldiers." ”

"There are always some dangers, use with caution." Chen Yi knew that he needed force to build a walled city outside, but he didn't expect it to directly become a mercenary army.

There are countless mercenaries in history, and Yu Weichao said clearly: "Shuizhai is already the richest village near Mara City. In fact, I have tried to minimize the cash in the village, and most of it has been used up......"

"Where is it used?"

"Do real estate. You see it when you get to the stockade in the evening. Yu Weichao hid a sentence, and hurriedly urged: "You can get on the beast, let's go back in two hours." ”

The village is also a mountain road of three or five kilometers, but the road is bumpy and difficult, and the larger the team, the slower it is.

Chen Yi was not in a hurry, and got on a specially selected beast, which had a big warm pavilion on its back and built-in ice cubes, which was slightly cool.

Yu Weichao had nowhere to go, so he stayed outside the pavilion. Chen Yi called him twice before he reluctantly sat in.

Shaking all the way, just for Chen Yi to understand the customs of the Western Continent. Speaking of which, Yu Weichao is also a bold guy, and his spirit of exploration is quite sufficient. When Chen Yi had not tried to go to Mara City several times, he actually went into Mara City alone, and pretended to be a villager from other places, and lived for several days.

However, Yu Weichao is not a professional intelligence officer, and most of the information he gets is public, but it also helps Chen Yi to make basic judgments.

At least they now knew that the city of Mara was the largest city in the vicinity, and that the other two cities were similar in that they had a city-state system, similar to that of Greece in classical times.

In Yu Weichao's account, there are two monsters in Mara City.

First, it is difficult for farmers, herdsmen, or hunters to provide large quantities of food to Mara City, but the number of residents in the city is not small, at least 50,000 households, more than 300,000 people. That's a huge base of people, but I don't know how they can make ends meet.

Second, cities such as Mara City revered war, and young children went into longhouses to live in communal groups, trained, and went to distant places to fight in wars as adults. It is often directed against another allied city-state. This is also the most important task that urban residents need to bear. However, from the perspective of modern people, the war they fought had almost no effect on Mara City, and at first glance it seemed to be pure giving, which is incomprehensible to scientists in the era of conservation of energy.

Chen Yi didn't have time to think too much, and a city with an ancient style gradually came into his eyes.

Yu Weichao said happily in the tone of his girlfriend who had blown up his credit card: "The three stone walls of the water village, 5 meters high and 2 meters wide, are all completed by animal power and manpower, the city wall is 700 meters long, and the east and west are 200 meters wide, which lasted only three months. In addition, watchtowers are still being built, and when everything is completed, bunkers will be built on the periphery......"

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