Chapter 212 Iron Sword

Chen Yi carefully asked Yunba about the surrounding villages and knew that there were more than 30 villages near Mala City that provided various services to the nobles.

Among them, there are three Yun Village alone, namely Yun Village, Xiaoyun Village and Shangyun Village. The latter is a powerful force born and raised. Because the village has too many people, it is necessary to divide some people and livestock out to avoid insufficient local forage.

The hunting village is also divided into two villages. Shangliu Village and Huliu Village are on the north and west of Mala City, respectively, relying on the nearby mountains to eat. Unlike the fragments of Yunwu and Eighth people, the hunting season of Huliu Village is the state where all men, women, young and old animals are dispatched. Most of the time, the two hunting villages will be combined into one, just to hunt those precious beasts and sell them to the nobles of Mala City. They are also the richest of all villages, with a large amount of coins in their hands, so they don’t have to worry about food and clothing. The only disadvantage is that in addition to fighting hard, they have to serve in the military from time to time. Although they don’t have long time and often have spoils, they are very dangerous after all. If you are not careful, you will be captured by other city lords or nobles, either as slaves or losing all your money.

In comparison, fishing villages that dare not go deep into the inland sea, which rely on building materials such as sand and tiles and building craftsmanship to make a living, relying on simple carpenter work and wooden villages that provide wood are relatively small villages. In addition to the large amount of meat they hunt and exchange themselves, the food sources of all these villages rely on the rich local plant rhizomes and fruits.

Chen Yi asked carefully about the shape of the coins and found that the latter was mainly copper coins and lead coins. Because he failed to master the technology of bronze manufacturing, these metals that were soft and not suitable for weapons became equivalents to transactions. However, copper coins and pencils of different sizes and purities are often mixed together, and the weights and measures tend to be chaotic.

The food is even more strange. Perhaps because the Western continent is too rich, tribal group picking and hunting became the main means of survival. Instead, food became a delicious luxury, controlled by the plantation of the nobles in Mara City as a reward for warriors and slaves.

In other words, this is a self-sufficient society dominated by tribal economy. Compared with the lack of means of living, means of production are more scarce.

After understanding these basic information, Chen Yi patted Yunba on the shoulder and said, "You have money, iron pot, and daggers now, what do you want to do?"

"Marry the most beautiful girl in the hunting village." Yunba Hao said angrily, and everyone laughed.

The village chief shook his head and said, "You have money now. You can marry the girl from the hunting village, but the most beautiful one is not enough. It's far from that. Who doesn't want to marry the most beautiful girl in the hunting village?"

Yunba suddenly became depressed and said after a moment: "I will always get enough."

"Yes, you will always get enough." Chen Yi immediately cheered him up, and took out the long sword that was originally intended to give gifts from his backpack, pulled out one, and asked, "Yunba, is this sword enough for you to marry the most beautiful girl?"

The blue sword body, the sharp sword blade... Yunba couldn't help but touch the sword blade, and the calluses on his hands made a "scratch" sound, as if cutting iron sheets.

Chen Yi was so cunning that he hurriedly said, "Yunba, you provide the most of the products you traded this time, so this weapon will be given to you."

"real?"

"Really" Chen Yi used the language of the konjac flavor.

Everyone's eyes were radiating with envy, and Yunba was excited to scratch his head, rubbed his hands with his hands and never stopped. They had strong weapons and ways to improve their sharpness, and it was rare to obtain a handy weapon.

After playing for a long time, the thick skin covered with calluses was finally cut a little.

Yunba Xiao felt as if he had broken his fingers.

"sharp"

He valued the tip of the sword and the length of the sword, thinking: With such a knife, after applying blood, it would not work as long as it stirs in the belly of the saber-toothed beast. If I kill a saber-toothed beast every day, it won’t take long to save enough money to go to the betrothal gifts in the hunting village, and I can also keep the knife, save some money, marry a wife, and save money... Maybe one day, I can have eight children like the head of the Dayun village, and build a village by myself...

Yunba does not understand the concept of nation, otherwise he will definitely feel that: if I give me an iron sword, I can create a nation...

Others have similar envy and understanding. Although the power of bows and arrows is strong, they can only tickle when facing large animals with thick skin and rough flesh. On the other hand, the power of melee weapons increases with the increase of the force of the user. If they penetrate a little, they will immediately cause huge damage. So unless you are a person like Yun Ba who is extremely powerful, or a villager who is good at running and jumping, or a good hunter in the hunting village, others mostly set traps and shoot small and medium-sized animals with bows and arrows. In fact, Yun Ba can often obtain prey, and most of them rely on his metal knife.

Due to the lack of iron tools in the Western Continent, most of them are metal blades that sharpen the edges on the wooden sword jacket, and the second is animal teeth and sharp stones. No matter which one is used, it consumes a lot of money in combat. Not only is it not as good as the metal sword in terms of the number of uses and efficiency, but more importantly, safety hazards.

Although local residents do not understand what risk is, they still know very well that after going out to hunt, they have completely different levels of danger with a broken sword and a complete sword.

Yunba held the hilt of the sword and was in a deep contemplative manner.

Obviously, this surprisingly long metal sword made his will weaker than the beautiful woman.

Chen Yi shouted at this time: "From the future, any villager whoever carries the most materials will receive a sword."

He took out a long sword with a mechanic again and waved it in the air.

Yunba was shocked and clenched his fists tightly.

"Yes, Chen Xingshang has a sword, so I have to find a way to change it."

Everyone's thoughts became more and more excited. They all saw the sword in Yunba's hand. They just adhered to the simple friendship between the village and did not rush up to grab it. Now that they had the opportunity to get it, they were so happy that they were crazy.

Their thinking is different from that of modern people. The entire village has only more than 30 people, with a total of 8 families. This means that no matter how many materials are sold, at most 8 times, you can have a "sword" in your own home...

They don’t worry about the time being too long, they have time; they don’t worry about Chen Xingshang no longer coming - how is that possible? Xingshang sells them for a long time in various fixed villages. Sometimes when the father is old, his son will take over, so... just wait.

Chen Yi didn't know what the villagers were thinking, but instead thought he was building a new village full of business thinking. He also found the village chief and asked: "How many things do you think should be replaced with a sword? In other villages."

"What to change?" The village chief was stunned.

Chen Yi frowned and said, "It's just changing bows and arrows, leather armor, or money."

"Only the nobles in the city are rich." The village chief said, shook his head vigorously, and said, "How can such a powerful sword be used to change things? If you use it to hunt, you will want as much as you want."

Chen Yi couldn't smile bitterly and said, "There must be a price."

"I only heard that on the battlefield, the noble knights gave long swords, swords like you, to soldiers. I have never heard of any transactions in the market. I don't sell them no matter how much you give me..."

In terms of understanding in this regard, the village chief is obviously still at the level of a primitive society.

Chen Yi breathed helplessly. It seemed that iron or other metals were monopolized in the hands of the nobles. They were unwilling to sell them at a low price, or as the village chief said, there was no exchangeable material, so they were only used for rewards.

This gave him the feeling that it was like the royal goods used in ancient China's imperial palaces. The cost was higher than the use value, so it had no market value at all, and could only appear in the eyes of the people as luxury goods. To a certain extent, this was also very similar to the "Phantom Wand" he had just obtained. The difference was that the latter was meaningful to him, and the iron sword was not even considered a commodity.

It is indeed difficult to provide enough commodities in the original ecological environment of the Western Continent. In the modern society of the post-industrial era, the throughput of the port is often measured in million tons. Even if the forests near Yuncun are cleaned, it may not necessarily have million tons.

Chen Yi shook his head, but he was indeed interested in the nearby trees - maybe it could be used to make scroll paper? However, if it is just ordinary trees, it is not cost-effective. In addition to native trees, large pulp mills prefer fast-growing and abundant forests. This kind of industrial forest has high production efficiency and is easy to control, and the most important thing is cheap. If you have to go home with all your hardships, you will only have some ordinary goods...

Thinking of this, Chen Yi grabbed the village chief and asked, "Do you have a heavy tree near you? I want it."

He took out his iron sword and waved it in the air.

The village chief kept nodding and said, "There must be."

He actually didn't know what Chen Yi called a heavy tree, but in short, it was correct to get a tree.

More than 200 pairs of bows and arrows and more than 300 pairs of leather armor required space much larger than the butts of the birds of prey. Thanks to the villagers tied up the goods with vines, they could barely drive.

The little lizard could only complain: "I am now passing the worst pickup."

"I asked you to eat the instructions, it was indeed useful." Chen Yi said to him with a look.

When he arrived near the light gate, Chen Yi hesitated for a while, but still rushed in on the accelerator, and it turned out to be successful. He wiped his sweat. It would be a fatal matter if he unloaded the car again.

Back at the abandoned subway station below the store, Chen Yi slowly placed all the equipment in the warehouse. He thought it was time to find someone who knew how to take care of the bow and arrow. The martial arts school recruited a group of students in half a month, but the number of students who could reach the first level would not exceed 20. It would probably take some time to digest so many things.

When he left the door, the bustling street market shrouded in the darkness showed lively faces, either smiling or angry, happy or sad, nervous or relaxed, comfortable or labor-intensive. Chen Yi could not tell whether they were happy or happy, but he believed that such a life was at least better than the gangsters of Yun Village...

However, I have to buy it at the junction of the Light Gate.

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