(Chapter 2 to, ask for collection and ask for tickets!) ）

Liu Qi carried a total weight of less than twenty pounds (including axes, helmets, pot lids, backpacks, etc.), walking on the empty plains, even the original otaku physique can bear it, not to mention the current physical fitness comparable to that of athletes, it is completely drizzle.

On the contrary, Liu Qi is more interested in the empty wilderness and completely unpolluted natural environment of the imperial era.

Although the 2012 WH is not as harsh as the capital of the Celestial Empire, BJ, where the wind blows in the north and the sky is full of sand, the car exhaust in the big city is too strong, and it is always a little uncomfortable.

This kind of completely pollution-free natural situation of clear water and blue sky wilderness is estimated to be difficult to see in the Celestial Empire, well, it would be better if we could ignore the things that pop up on the ground from time to time, such as broken stones and small pits.

More than five hours later

Liu Qi, who stopped halfway to eat a simple lunch (bread and water), was a little impatient, Liu Qi, who was in good health, didn't care about this little road, but he was almost trotting all the way to the estimated journey of more than five hours, and he had almost walked out of almost forty or fifty kilometers, how come there has been no trace of human activity until now? Did you go the wrong way?

Liu Qi's children's shoes obviously don't know how tragic the population density is in the hundreds of years BC, well, this is obviously understandable, modern people have been influenced by all kinds of strange movies and TV series in the Celestial Empire, and now they can express their habits to those anti-Japanese dramas and Qing court dramas that have crossed the clothes and props, and it is not very reliable to expect people who have not experienced it to think about the population density thousands of years ago. You know, what the Celestial Empire is worried about now is that there are too many people...

However, the truth is that compared to the number of people that are about to overflow now, the big guys (both in the East and the West) in the hundreds of years BC can be described as vast and sparsely populated.

Not to mention the East, during the Yin Shang period, it is said that 800 princes were divided, which was the predecessor of hundreds of vassal states in the later Spring and Autumn Period. However, after the Yin Shang period, after a hundred years of rule of the Zhou Dynasty, the Spring and Autumn Warring States appeared, and the strength gap between countries was huge, and the later Spring and Autumn Warring States Five Hegemons had a military strength of barely more than 100,000, and the population was about one or two million. It is difficult to say about many small princely states, the weak ones generally have only 4,5 thousand troops, and the population will not exceed two or three hundred thousand. Even at the end of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the total population of the so-called Seven Heroes of the Warring States Period was only in the early 2 or 30 million years, and coupled with the division of princes, the population of each country basically did not exceed 10 million.

After a gap of almost a few hundred years, the total population of the entire East was only less than 30 million, so the question of how many people the West could have at the same time during the Yin Shang period a few hundred years ago is obviously obvious.

Is it a problem to expect the entire population of Europe to have 10 million wood?

Ten million people?? At most, it is the minimum requirement for a large international city.

These populations are lying in the whole of Europe and the Mediterranean, and they really have to be described as a sea of death.

Obviously, Liu Qi's current experience is not surprising.

Liu Qi, who didn't know that he had made a mistake in ancient times, especially the population density in the past few hundred years BC, was now stunned when he looked at the wilderness and groves that seemed to be endless.

Although there are no wild beasts such as wild wolves in the vicinity of the house, small beasts such as rabbits, foxes, and snakes can be seen in the wilderness from time to time.

Liu Qi thought of quitting Shijie several times or returning the same way.

However, thinking of his current situation of being almost penniless, Liu Qi gritted his teeth and continued to walk. However, Liu Qi, who had planned to quit before dark, finally found his destination when the sun had begun to set.

Farmland!!! Mankind!!!

Looking at what appeared in his eyes, Liu Qi, who was almost discouraged and wondered if he had taken the wrong path, immediately came up mentally and began to run briskly towards the small village that was exposed.

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"It will take half a day from here to reach Bella City?"

Liu Qi looked at each other, showing a look of doubt and suspicion.

"Yes, distinguished guest, it is about 10 kilometers away from Bella City, but if you walk alone at night, 2~3 hours is necessary, may I ask if the distinguished guest has a night rest in the manor?"

The Caucasian man in a fine linen robe opposite Liu Yun said very politely.

Well, Liu Qi is in the same situation as this self-proclaimed manor (village?) When the steward was talking, he realized that the other party used the same unit of quantity as in modern times, and God knows what was going on? How did the ancient people's counting units be exactly the same as those of modern times? It's not scientific! However, considering that the game in the computer can actually enter it, and the two sides can talk freely, you must know that this is the West, just now Liu Qi knew from the mouth of the steward named Goodel that the manor he came to belonged to the Roman city-state, and the popular should be ancient Greek or Latin, but he didn't even have English level 4, and he knew Mao's ancient Greek, but he did understand the other party's words, and the other party also understood his modern Chinese, in this case, more impossible things became possible!

Well, Liu Qi is not a scientist anyway, so he doesn't have the energy to think about whether these messy things are common sense, and what he cares about now is whether he can get the first start-up capital.

"Well, I'll stay in the manor for the night for the night, Mr. Goodel, would you like to buy two packets of salt?" Just like the bag just now, the same quality of salt! ”

After thinking for a while, Liu Qi felt that it was indeed a bit risky to rush to the night at night, I believe that now according to the background of the Imperial Age, it is estimated that there is no night market in the Bronze Age hundreds of years BC, even if it takes him an hour or two to rush over, he may not be able to sell the things at hand...

After thinking for a while, Liu Qi looked at Goodel, who was quite respectful to him, and spoke.

Ahem, the reason why Liu Qi received the current treatment was of course not with the aura of Wang Ba's aura, but because he paid a bag of modern salt in a pound. Otherwise, just by relying on the so-called businessman who came from afar made up by Liu Qi (but it's not a lie, it's really far away, almost a few thousand years away), people are at most asking about it, as for being an uncle now?

"Distinguished guest, what you say is true??!"

Gutel's spirit came immediately, he served the traveler in front of him as if he was his own master, of course, it was not the spirit of Bethune (of course Bethune in the West, Lei Feng in the East), but the bag of salt that the other party took out in the color like snow-white marble, which was why he treated Liu Qi so respectfully.

Originally, he was still waiting for his beautiful wife to prepare dinner after taking a rest in his stone house, when he suddenly received several guards in front of the manor that a strange traveler had come to the manor.

Gutel came out to see the traveler with some curiosity, but compared to the guards in the village, he found that the identity of the traveler was not as simple as he thought.

Quirky but well-fitting clothes and shoes!

Black hair, black eyes, yellow skin!

That's it, after all, this is not the time for the rise of Christianity to engage in black devil burning at the stake, and black and flaxen hair is not without it in the Roman city-state, which is at best a little eye-catching.

However, when the other party said that he was a businessman, Goodel did not believe it.

Now when the city-state is in chaos, the merchant must go out at least a wagon and some hired guards. You must know that there are a lot of beasts and thieves in the wild now, not to mention that a small caravan was wiped out by a group of bandits a few days ago, and those merchants with a nose more sensitive than a dog now at least dare to go on the road after gathering to the scale of 100 people, after all, it is a small matter to lose some money in time, and it is a big deal that the goods and small lives are gone.

But after all, Goodel had seen the market, and after seeing that the other party might feel his suspicion, he took out the bag of white salt as white as the finest wool and marble, and tasted it to confirm that it was indeed salt, and Gutel immediately discovered the preciousness of this white salt.

Compared with the coarse, cyan and even slightly black salt sold by the merchants, this white salt is not only smaller than the tiniest grains of sand, but also has a snow-white appearance and excellent taste (with iodine), which is absolutely a treasure. You know, now many nobles or city lords and other big people eat what kind of green salt foam?

Unfortunately, the merchant only had a few packets of salt in his hand, and he made it clear that he intended to go to the nearest city in exchange for some money, but this bag of salt counted as the cost of his inquiry.

I didn't expect that now the other party is actually relieved...

"Distinguished guest, I am willing to buy this salt for a pack of 50 silver coins! This includes your expenses for tonight, and I'll send you to Beira tomorrow morning!" ”

After thinking about it for a moment, Goodel gritted his teeth and offered what he thought was a high price.

"Deal! But I can only sell you two more packets of white salt! ”

Liu Qi didn't know that he would be angry with the so-called silver coins and scolded his mother in his heart, thinking that those silver coins in BC were the same as Yuan Datou, and he immediately became excited.

Silver, even if the price of modern silver is as low as a few yuan a gram, but the price of a pound of iodized salt is even lower, five bags of salt cost less than ten yuan, and a silver dollar (the poor child was misled by the TV series and movies) will all be earned, and the rest will be pure profits, this kind of good thing Liu Qi of course agreed. But fortunately, Liu Qi did not plan to sell all the iodized salt, and planned to go to that city tomorrow to test the water.

"No problem!"

Goodel simply agreed.

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A few hours later, Liu Qi, who was staying in a room, politely declined the so-called gift from Goodel to the door, well, that is, a woman who was quite beautiful in appearance.

It's not that Liu Qi is hypocritical or doesn't like that woman, but now he is really more interested in silver, that woman is naturally a good beauty according to Goodel's standards, but in the eyes of Liu Qi, who has been bombarded by the Internet, it is like that. Besides, Liu Qi was just disgusted by the so-called cereal porridge, barbecue and thick soup.

Well, according to the standards of the Bronze Age BC, the other party was indeed attentive to the reception just now.

A roasted hare, a vegetable soup per person, cereal, a grilled fish per person, and an earthenware plate of honey-marinated olives were definitely a sumptuous dinner in the Bronze Age, when production capacity was not very good.

But just like this, Liu Qi, an otaku who is not a picky eater, certainly has no opinion.

However, the grilled fish and olives are not bad, more in line with personal tastes, and the grilled hare is so-so, although there is no cumin and paprika, but the grilled heat is good, at least some salt, and it can also be eaten. But the strange-tasting cereal porridge and thick soup really made Liu Qi a little unbearable.