"Okay." Drise sighed as if resigned to her fate. "Congratulations, we've finally found some plants that have no side effects and can be eaten as food."

"Listen to what you mean, why do you seem to be quite sorry?" Liu Ergou rolled his eyes and glanced at Deliss.

But she didn't want Drith to listen to it, so she nodded as she should!

"Of course! I have several antidotes waiting to be experimented with! Now that the test is gone, of course I'm sorry! ”

"Huh?!" As soon as he heard this, Liu Ergou almost lost his breath! "Feelings: Not only are the things I ate before an experiment, but even the drugs I used are experiments?"

Drissy sighed and said, "Alas, if this is not the case, do we have any other way out?" ”

Liu Ergou was stunned for a long time, and after a long time, he also nodded with a heavy heart.

As Drissy said, if you want to build a city from scratch in this impoverished wasteland where everyone can live happily, there must always be some people who are ahead of the team and take the initiative to accept unknown beatings.

Whether it's food or medicine, this is what Kitahara Castle urgently needs now.

In order to alleviate the symptoms of nutritional deficiencies, Seattle leads by example every day, leading everyone to swallow a very bitter but nutritious fruit.

And Avril Lavigne, as the only person in the city who can heal with life energy, has to treat dozens of patients with her own hands every day, not including those with special illnesses that cannot be treated by life energy.

So thinking of this, Liu Ergou didn't say anything anymore.

Pointing to the empty plate on the table, Drissy explained to Liu Ergou: "The piece of sweet thing you eat is the fruit of a vine plant, and I call it lop melon." ”

"And that soft thing to eat is the rhizome of another small shrub, and the name has not yet been decided."

"As for those leaves, they are the side leaves of the silver flower, which are considered to be by-products after harvesting the medicinal part."

"Lop-eared melon?" Liu Ergou said curiously, "Why did you choose this name?" ”

Drith didn't answer right away, and turned around and went to the second floor.

After a while, Drissy walked downstairs carrying a bunch of vines, and on them were bearing a few fruits that Liu Ergou had just eaten.

"Look," Drise said, gesturing to one of the fruits, "doesn't this thing look like Avril's drooping ears?" ”

"It's like, but why don't you just name it Ivy Melon?" Liu Ergou suddenly joked with a wicked taste.

Drissy glanced at Liu Ergou, "Okay, I see that the condensing tobacco fruit you ate last time looks like your head, so simply call Zhao Guode." ”

Liu Ergou stopped talking.

He would rather eat another meal of condensation fruit than let this thing be bought back by everyone in the future, just to see what the "lord's head" looks like.

However, jokes aside, it is naturally excellent to have something to eat. I just don't know how this thing is produced?

Hearing Liu Ergou's doubts, Delisi also smiled and comforted Liu Ergou: "I don't know what you think?" Rest assured, since I can get this thing out of my hands, I will naturally consider this problem for a long time. ”

Pointing to the vine in her hand, Drissy continued to explain, "For example, this lop melon, as long as there is enough water, it can grow even in the loess of the wasteland. ”

"The one I gave you to eat was catalyzed by my spell, so it grew up exceptionally fast. If it grows normally, I guess it will be about three months old. ”

"Yield...... About three of these vines can be planted in one square meter, and each of them can produce more than 20 lop melons. ”

"As for the thing that I haven't figured out the name yet, it covers a much larger area than lop melons, and only one cluster can be planted per square meter. But the yield is very large, a cluster can produce forty or fifty, and the growth cycle is almost three months. ”

"Don't worry about the silver flower, the silver flower itself is very easy to grow, and the flowers that bloom can be used to refine medicine, as long as the harvested leaves do not affect its growth, you can pick it all year round."

After listening to Drissy's introduction, Liu Ergou breathed a sigh of relief.

He was really afraid that if something rare came out of Drissy's mouth, he would have to run to some wonderful ruins, hardening ancient robots and other things.

"But after it's picked, will it last to last?" After thinking about it, Liu Ergou raised a new question.

"Hmm...... That's right. Drith also fell into deep thought. The thing that didn't have a name in mind...... Forget it, just call him a white leaf melon......"

"White-leaved melon?"

"Yes, the above-ground part of this thing is white, isn't it?" said Driss, waving the dark gray fruit in her hand.

"This white-leaved melon is easy to store, and it doesn't have too much moisture in itself, so just put it directly into the granary. But lop melons are different, not only are they easy to rot, but they will also be dehydrated after a long time, which will affect the taste. ”

"As for the leaves of the silverflower...... You can only eat and pick. ”

After listening to Drissy's introduction, Liu Ergou nodded.

The problem of lop melon is not big, anyway, it is a big deal to dry it, and add water when eating. As for the silver leaves?

"I don't think it's better to build a vegetable market and pick the silver flowers and leaves every day...... Not...... That's right, and the tree fruits that were transported from the forward base, which were put on it and sold. ”

"In this way, everyone can eat fresh fruits and vegetables every day, and everyone doesn't have to raise flowers at home. We don't have to worry about picking too much and not being able to put it down, anyway, just come according to the needs of the market. ”

"That's a good idea, but where does the money come from?" Drissy affirmed Liu Ergou's train of thought, and then asked again. "There are no foreign things in our Beiyuan City at all, and naturally there is no currency for trading."

"There is no currency, what do you let everyone use to buy things in the market?"

"Oh, that's easy to do." didn't want Liu Ergou to have an idea a long time ago, so he immediately said his plan.

"I plan to set up a ration system that will give everyone a certain number of ration points per day based on age, physical condition, ethnicity, and the amount of work they work each day."

"The first three reference factors for this point are fixed, but for workers, additional points are calculated based on the amount of work done per day."

"These points can be used to buy all kinds of things on the official marketplace, and they can also be traded between individuals."

After thinking about it, Liu Ergou said again: "Actually, you don't have to worry too much, I see that there are a lot of pigs in the tavern, who often exchange stiff brushes for wine." And the bartender used these brushes to exchange the mushrooms for brewing mushrooms, and he could still have a little surplus to exchange for something else. ”

"After all, we have been bartering for a long time. I'm just setting up a currency now. ”

Drith listened and nodded.

But soon, she thought of some more questions, and asked curiously, "The stiff-bristled brush you just mentioned...... Where did they get the brushes? ”

"It's made of your own mane." Liu Ergou said with a look of course.

Well, the bristle brush has become a pigman bristle brush, and there seems to be nothing wrong with it. Pig "man" bristle brush......

Although for Drissy, who was born in the aristocracy, this behavior of "self-production and self-sale" is somewhat uncomfortable......

But now that it's the beginning of the business, I can't take care of it. So Drissy just nodded with a strange face and didn't say anything.

After thinking about it, Drith asked a new question:

"What are you going to do with the raw materials for the coinage?"

Liu Ergou really didn't think much about this problem. When Drissy asked this, she suddenly fell into deep thought.

Liu Ergou has also understood the currency of this world for more than half a year.

Unlike the earth in the previous life. Due to the isolation of various moats such as the Sacred Forest and the Sunset Mountains, there is no official trade between the various countries on the Divine Fall Continent.

But if there is no official exchange, it does not mean that there is no circulation of goods. Like the dwarven musket that Liu Ergou seized in the slave hunting group before, it is the best evidence of commodity circulation.

In fact, the real cross-border trade on the mainland is often undertaken by various merchant groups. Although there are various risks to be taken along the way, once the goods are delivered to the destination, the profits generated are often calculated in tens or even hundreds of times!

And the officials of the countries also acquiesced to this act, or rather, the magnates of the countries acquiesced to this act.

Behind a big business group, it is inseparable from the support of one or several big people. And the huge profits obtained by these merchant groups are naturally indispensable to pay a large amount of tribute.

As long as the tribute is paid, the merchant group can be said to be unimpeded under the protection of these big people, and they don't even have to pay taxes!

Because the goods of these merchant groups can nominally be counted as the "private property transfer" of these great nobles, that is, as the circulation of property between the fiefs and the suzerain.

The taxes of the territory are collected according to the size of the territory. In other words, as long as the suzerains paid the taxes due in full every year, the tax collectors had no right to inspect the property in the territory, which naturally included the merchant groups.

As a result, it often happens that a viscounty, with an annual tax of only a few thousand gold coins, has millions of dollars worth of "property in circulation" on it.

Therefore, the behavior of these merchant groups is essentially tantamount to smuggling.

Liu Ergou is not in business, but that doesn't mean he doesn't need currency.

Due to the existence of this very chaotic trading system, almost every country on the continent has its own currency.

And there is no stable exchange relationship between these currencies at all. The size of the exchange rate is completely up to the merchant group, as long as you have the ability to be recognized by others.

Some powerful nobles can even issue their own currency! For example, in the empire, there were more than 30 kinds of private currencies of all kinds.

In addition to these private currencies, there are also Brev gold coins issued by the Brev merchant group, which is the official currency of the empire and the exchange benchmark for each private currency.

Therefore, an existence like Brev that is enough to control the economic lifeline of a country is simply the highest level of the business group.

Part of this knowledge comes from Liu Ergou's own understanding, but more naturally comes from Dris's small class.

So Liu Ergou often secretly rejoices that since he came to this world, he always seems to have good luck.

Seattle gave himself a stepping stone to high society, Ellanster was a well-informed and resourceful patriarch, Buffex had a remarkable sense of tactics, and now had the encyclopedia of Driss......

...... If it weren't for these people, I'm afraid it would be really difficult for me to gain a foothold in this other world!

As soon as he thought of this, Liu Ergou looked at Delisi's eyes, and there was a bit of undisguised fanaticism.

This kind of fanaticism is almost the same as Liu Ergou's eyes when he saw the goose egg-sized essence of life in the experimental hall!

But Delisi didn't know what Liu Ergou had in mind. She just felt that the guy in front of her was like Hoffman had seen honey, why did he suddenly look like he wanted to eat himself?

Moreover, being looked at by him like this, he is still a little ...... Burning on the face?

Indeed, Liu Ergou also found that Delisi in front of him didn't know what was going on, and suddenly her face was flushed? His eyes also began to deliberately avoid his gaze, but occasionally sneaked a glance at himself?

"Driss? Are you okay? Liu Ergou couldn't help but ask.

didn't think about his question, Delisi suddenly became even more embarrassed, and waved her hand to Liu Ergou again and again: "I'm fine, I'm fine!" Well...... That one...... Ah, by the way, do you have any plans for monetary material? ”

As soon as he returned to this question, Liu Ergou had no time to be confused by Delisi's strange appearance.

"The material of the currency, I want to use the pile of slag in the ruins. First, we currently have limited production and reserves of various minerals, and the use of that pile of slag can save metal resources."

"Second, this metal is only found in the ruins, which effectively avoids the problem of counterfeiting, and at the same time, it can also ensure the value of the currency, and on the other hand....... Drissy, are you really listening to me? ”

Looking at the fluttering eyes of Delisi in front of him, Liu Ergou really couldn't take care of himself.

"Huh? Oh, I'm fine...... You just said the slag, right, the slag is good, you go on and say I'm listening......"

Liu Ergou shook his head and couldn't help asking, "Dris, you don't have something to hide from me, right?" Drith suddenly sighed, and said a little lonely: "No, I'm probably a little tired today, I need to take a break, and I'll study this matter another day." ”

After speaking, Drissy didn't look at Liu Ergou, turned around and went upstairs.

Drissy's eviction order was very clear, and Liu Ergou was not good at digging into the bottom of the matter, so he had to leave the alchemy workshop alone.

As soon as he walked out of the door of the workshop, Liu Ergou saw Seattle and Hoffman standing by the crossing not far away, waving to him.

Liu Ergou stepped forward and said strangely: "Why are you two here?" ”

Seattle smiled and raised his finger to point to the alchemy workshop behind Liu Ergou, "I was going to ask Dress to order incense for the church, but when I saw that the two of you were chatting hotly, I didn't go in to disturb you." ”

"Hot?" Liu Ergou scratched his head, "Drissy didn't know what was wrong today, she didn't listen to me at all later, and the whole person was like losing her soul." ”

"She later told me that she wasn't feeling well? I looked like I had something on my mind, but I didn't have a chance to ask. ”

Liu Ergou was saying with a puzzled expression, but he didn't want Seattle to suddenly chuckle and interrupt him.

"You're good anywhere, but you're too stupid in this regard." After Seattle finished speaking, he gently poked Liu Ergou with his finger.