Ouyang Cheng is the deputy director of the Capital Museum of Natural History, where he studied under Professor Wang Binglin of Peking University, a master of paleontology.

In addition to his usual administrative work, Ouyang Cheng is mainly responsible for fossil archaeological research in the Paleozoic and Mesozoic eras.

On this day, one of his graduate students hurriedly knocked on his office door......

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Someone on the Internet actually showed a fossil of an emperor crocodile with a completeness of about 70%.

This news shocked Ouyang Cheng.

Paleontological fossils, especially those from the Paleozoic era, are usually only fragments of slush claws.

In particular, the fossil integrity of large dinosaurs and crocodiles is often poor.

In many cases, half a skull, a few vertebrae, or a few teeth are considered a major discovery.

This time, this is an extremely complete fossil, with many clear photographs showing a lot of detail.

Most likely, it is not fake.

If it weren't for the fake, it would most likely become a treasure of the town.

Pity......

Ouyang Cheng frowned.

Fossils, like artifacts, can be bought and sold, but only in designated species.

For example, the teeth of a megalodon, for example, the fossils of ammonites and wolf-finned fishes, which are as numerous as cow hairs.

These are freely available for buying and selling.

On Taobao, you can buy a good fossil for a few dozen dollars.

But the fossils of large emperor crocodiles are clearly not among them.

Theoretically, once such a precious large fossil is found, it needs to be handed over to the museum.

In broad logic, this is not a problem.

The flow of a large number of precious fossils into the hands of private collectors is very detrimental to archaeological research and a loss to all mankind.

But the problem is that when there have been repeated incidents of 500 yuan plus pennants, and after being fermented and amplified by the Internet, not many people are willing to hand over the fossils.

Ouyang is a fossil lover himself, and he is quite disgusted by such a simple and crude approach.

But......

Thinking of the funds that could be used for flexible activities in the museum, Ouyang Cheng was annoyed.

Such a complete fossil can sell for millions on the black market.

If you only provide a bonus of 200,000 yuan and a certificate of honor, the other party will definitely refuse, right?

With the mentality of trying his luck, Ouyang Cheng still sent a short station to the netizen named Te Wupu.

……

Zhu Fugui was very distressed.

Mainly for two things.

First, Zhu Fugui and Yin Susu live together.

But I still sleep literally every day.

In addition, Lao Li nibbles on meat muffins every day, floating around sadly, which makes people feel very incomprehensible.

The second is that Zhu Fugui is short of money.

After becoming the emperor of the Yin Ming Federation, Zhu Fugui thought that he would be able to make a fortune quickly.

In the past, if the weasel casually hunted a wild boar, it could be sold for thousands of yuan, but now that the organization has all gone out to hunt, wouldn't it be hundreds of thousands of dollars per minute?

However, this is not the case.

The Yin people are indeed excellent hunters, and they quickly capture many prey.

However, the reason why humans have switched from hunting to farming and grazing is because hunting is too inefficient.

From the third day onwards, the hunting of the Yin people began to decrease significantly.

Now is the spring ploughing season, if you continue to hunt intensively, it will affect the subsequent grain harvest.

Zhu Fugui doesn't look down on the little grain output of these terraces, but he can't go against everyone's opinions.

In addition, when Zhu Fugui tried to trade, he found that except for some wild boars and hares, most of the prey trading required civilization values were amazingly high.

After a check, Zhu Fugui found that these deer, eagles, and bears were all protected animals above the second level of the country.

Before Zhu Fugui sold a carved hair, he spent a lot of civilization points.

If you want to sell these protected animals, it is completely impossible.

Even if all the people in Zhu Fugui's organization sang red songs for three days in a row, and sent Li Fugui to teach Yin people to learn Chinese with literate Chinese workers, the civilization value gained was still a drop in the bucket.

In the end, Zhu Fugui only sold a few wild boars and some hares, earning about 50,000 yuan.

Even so, although wild boar is not a protected animal, it is indeed not a national key protected wild animal.

It was included in the List of Terrestrial Wild Animals Protected by the State on August 1, 2000 and Protected by the State as Useful or with Important Economic and Scientific Research Value.

That is, it is commonly known as the three animals.

Therefore, selling wild boars is also quite worth civilization.

After carefully calculating the accounts, Zhu Fugui found that the transaction was not very profitable.

Now Yin Cai has just begun to learn Chinese, and the speed is extremely slow.

If you want to engage in any opera and poetry model opera, there is basically no mass base, and Zhu Fugui's source of civilization value is really scarce.

So I had to find another way.

Selling the fossil of the emperor crocodile is definitely not to think about it.

This kind of illegal and criminal thing, without paying tens of thousands of times the civilization value, it is impossible for the dog system to help cover it up.

Then the only way out seems to be to do serious business.

What is legal to sell back from 1863?

Natural resources such as timber and ore should meet the requirements.

There are a lot of trees here, and as long as you avoid rare tree species, you should be able to sell for a lot of money.

It's just a bit not environmentally friendly.

However, the Yankees had a very developed logging industry, and in their western development, they cut down 80 percent of the trees in the west and killed 99 percent of the bison.

If these environments are not destroyed by themselves, then are they not left to the Yankees to destroy?

Thinking in this way, logging has become an alternative for Zhu Fugui to earn foreign exchange through exports.

As for ore, it is currently mainly in the hands of railway companies.

Without a sufficiently strong armed force, it is impossible to seize those mines.

Therefore, it is not considered for the time being.

In addition to natural resources, another way of thinking is farming.

If we engage in high value-added characteristic breeding, we may be able to earn a certain surplus.

Zhu Fugui has already tried, and the e-commerce system is not incapable of buying and selling living animals.

In fact, even on Taobao, from calves to rice seeds, they can be bought and sold legally.

Even after traveling through time and space, the vitality of these things has not been lost much.

Of course, buying and selling human beings is not a no-no.

It seems that this Zhang San system also has its own bottom line, that is, people cannot be treated as commodities.

Otherwise, Zhu Fugui would like to pack himself up and sell it back to 2023.

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In addition to reselling natural resources and farming, the most profitable and the most powerful way to develop strength is actually to engage in industry.

Of course, it is certainly not possible to produce industrial goods directly in the nineteenth century and then sell them in the twenty-first century.

Don't look at the labor cost of this era is lower than that of later generations, but considering various factors such as energy supply, industrial support, and industrial ecology, the products produced are definitely not competitive compared with later generations.

However, in other words, although these industrial products are not competitive in the future, if they are placed in the present, they have strong technological advantages.

Zhu Fugui could produce and sell products in the 19th century in exchange for gold, and then use the gold to buy important materials for future generations, forming a virtuous circle.

And Zhu Fugui checked the relevant data and found:

In 1863, the price of gold was around $50 per ounce.

The price of gold in 2023 is around US$1,800 per ounce.

It has appreciated 36 times in 160 years.

At the same time, according to the annual CPI according to the US Department of Labor, the real purchasing power of the US dollar has depreciated by about 33 times over a 160-year period.

In other words, gold, as an anchor of commodity value, was about the same in two eras.

Even before Zhu Fugui resold a large amount of gold, causing a sharp change in the price of gold in the two eras, even if he directly bought gold in the United States and sold it to future generations, there was still a weak arbitrage space.

Therefore, rather than directly selling the goods to future generations, it is definitely far more cost-effective to sell them for precious metals and then cash them out on the system platform.

The advantage of this is that it can save a lot of civilization value compared to buying goods directly on the system and then reselling them.

After all, although the civilization value consumed by manufactured goods is not as high as that of contraband, it is still not a small amount.

In comparison, the civilization value required for the circulation of gold, a universal precious metal in the universe, is much smaller.

Moreover, more importantly, through such a virtuous circle, Zhu Fugui was able to obtain a number of well-trained industrial population, and he was able to obtain the industrial capacity necessary for the development of the troops.

Therefore, Zhu Fugui felt that giving priority to the development of industry, supplemented by agriculture and mining, was the best plan to rapidly expand its strength.

This all looks good, but the start-up capital required is not a small amount.

"Where am I going to pit those hundreds of thousands of start-up capital!"

Zhu Fugui lay on the table, rubbing his hair in distress.

[Ding, you have a new short message!] 】

At this moment, the system's prompt sounded.