Chapter 239 Consumption in the Western Continent

On the earth, there are more metals that are valuable than gold. Those who are a little bit thinner dare to bid for more than gold, and the rest are said to be more expensive than gold.

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

Ranil was stunned and smiled, "How many do you have?"

"That depends on how much of this you have..." Chen Yi raised the shell.

"Snail snail?" Lanier shook his head and said, "I can't tell you the quantity, but I can definitely buy your sword."

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

"Okay, three days later, we will trade 1,000 swords in the nearby water village." Chen Yi's answer was also very straightforward.

Lanier was stunned.

1,000 swords are 10,000 snake shells. No matter which one it is, they are enough to equip an army. How can he take it out at once?

But will the other party have 1,000 swords?

There are probably not so many swords on the market now. Even the reserves of Mara City for many years, only a few thousand swords, were used to obtain them, and how much blood? How many of them were the spoils of the holy war back then?

He hesitated for a moment, and Chen Yi took off the dagger from his waist and threw it to him, saying, "It's your turn", and the man had already entered the village chief's house.

No invitations are allowed, and businessmen cannot enter the village chief's house. This is a long-standing rule.

Ranil touched his head and returned to his seat. He pulled out the dagger and saw that the strong sunlight shone directly on the knife surface, like a bronze mirror.

"Good knife." There were no one in front of me who didn't know the goods and praised: "Can you change such a knife with a snail shell? It's so worth it."

Lanier laughed, but inadvertently glanced at the scabbard - it was also metal, and it was larger than the weight of the knife.

This made him secretly happy and surprised.

Such a short sword is worth at least 10 snakes. If a high-ranking official likes it, it is possible to have dozens or hundreds of them.

I gave myself dozens of snake shells for free? Such a move scared Lanier.

But he didn't know that the only thing he held was a mechanism-polished hidden knife, which was a little better than the crafts in terms of quality. The heavy scabbard was one of the cheap reasons. Modern people don't like the rough and rotten thick steel sheath. If it was replaced with shark skin or something, it would attract attention. However, in the Western Continent, which lacks durable metal, such scabbard can be regarded as another dull knife, especially those knights with fighting spirit. When using weapons, they use the role of metal attaching to fighting spirit, rather than the sharpness of the metal itself - although the latter still has a certain effect.

Lanier was too lazy to continue doing small business, so he closed the stall and left. He left a place of businessmen with strange expressions.

The transaction of 10,000 snail shells, let alone doing it in person, they had never even heard of it. In their opinion, Lanier's expression was quite normal, and Chen Xingshang was too abnormal. "1,000 swords" was said from him - Shenlong is on the top, is there really 1,000 swords in Mara City?

What a big business this must be

The next morning, the merchants were sleeping soundly. Yu Weichao brought the four-headed beasts and a team of bodyguards to greet Chen Yi.

There is one thing that is to be a businessman who travels around the world, that is, he is not afraid of not being able to sell goods. They bring things that have been scarce in various places for thousands of years and tens of thousands of years. When the year is not good, it is just a problem of making more money and making less money. He will never be able to sell them.

So, although everyone got up early and went to the middle of the road, they could sleep happily and sleep in with confidence, waiting for people in the Liba to ask for a deal without having to come to the door to sell.

The situation in Yuncun is a bit special, but it has not interrupted the good habits of merchants. Moreover, last night, they discussed the transaction of 1,000 swords for a long time, and they didn't sleep early.

The sound of "snoring" was transmitted from the room to outside the room, and was quickly interrupted by the sound of the beast.

The four newly arrived adult beasts set off before dawn. They finally arrived at the place and could not even eat breakfast. They saw that there were less people from three households who were busy pouring tons of tender branches and leaves into stone mills. This kind of human machinery that was intertwined with two stones could cut the branches and leaves into debris as long as they stepped on the wooden wheels.

Mix such debris with some other foods, so that the beast can eat it and eat less while eating it. However, this manpower is really not easy, so it only feeds the beast before and after transporting things. On weekdays, it depends on the labor force and hard work of each family.

Yu Weichao was wearing thick green training uniforms and rode on a 2-meter-high garrison beast. He hired more than 30 alien bodyguards, and they were also wearing anti-scratch training uniforms. They were each riding the garrison beast, full of energy, holding a spear of more than 6 meters, and were all tough. The difference was their long hair, each alien tied his hair around his waist, like a whip combed it from the top of his head, unable to tell the difference between men and women.

Even the people in Yun Village rarely see so many beasts outside Mala City. They are busy preparing to eat. Yu Weichao has always been generous in giving money, and soon mobilized the whole village.

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

Yu Weichao handed him a hot towel and smiled and said, "I left it privately. This is a best-selling product in Mara City. It absorbs water and makes it comfortable to wipe your face."

"Have you been to Mara City?"

"Yes, I went there secretly. Later I found out that there was actually no city defense at all." Yu Weichao took a breath and said, "Cities are free to enter and exit, and it is too late to close the city gates at night, unlike our ancient cities. I heard that the construction of cities was mainly to defend against foreign races, not my race."

"Not my race? Another type of person?"

Yu Weichao said tactfully and high-profilely with a scientist-like laugh: "What's so strange? The Neanderthals were exterminated by modern races. I've seen it in the library. The enemy of Mara City seems to be a tall human with a general height of more than 2.5 meters, very strong."

Chen Yi said "Oh" and his interest was greatly reduced. No matter how strong the muscles were, they could not stop the submachine gun bullets with kinetic energy of 600 joules. If needed, 2000 novels would be used to kill sniper rifles, 3000 joules heavy machine guns, and 700 joules anti-aircraft machine guns all had the effect of being destroyed.

Strong has always been an advantageous gene within the race, not a survival gene that determines the fate of the race. Whether it is a magician or a knight, it is a product of intelligence, not a product of the body.

The merchants appeared in the merchant shop, which was under the big house in the village. Everyone either watched the new team curiously, or set up stalls to make money.

Yuncun is not far from Mala City. Being able to make a considerable profit here is the main driving force for attracting merchants to come here. After all, a long journey of two or three months is still quite hard.

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

Chen Yi and Yu Weichao walked around the middle of the business and received extremely enthusiastic reception, but no one would say that they would buy his goods in packing.

Yu Weichao has good connections in the local area and has received entertainment of similar levels. He himself has a bit of official thinking and knows that he is standing behind with fear and fear, which makes Chen Yi receive the most praise.

Seeing the driver commanding the beast and packing various supplies, Chen Yi smiled and said, "Depending on your appearance, life in the Western Continent is good."

"Sir, I wish you good fortune." Yu Weichao used the tone of the organization and then smiled: "The supplies you sent to the local area several times have more than 40 tons, especially metal products, which are the most expensive. I wholesale most of them to merchants, but I was still worried that they would be too rich and suffer disasters. So I spent money to buy thirty beasts, 200 beasts, and hired these foreign soldiers..."

He pointed to the outside and said, "These aliens are well educated and pay attention to rules. I heard from the village chiefs of Yun Village and asked merchants. I knew that they would often bring foreign soldiers with them."

"It's always dangerous, use it with caution." Chen Yi knew that he needed force to build a city outside, but he didn't expect that he would directly become a mercenary army.

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

“Where is it used?”

"Doing real estate. You saw it when you arrived at the village in the evening." Yu Weichao hid a sentence and hurriedly urged: "You go to the beast, we will strive to go back for two hours."

Zhailiyun Village is just a mountain road of three to five kilometers, but the bumps along the way are difficult to move forward, and the bigger the team, the slower the team.

Chen Yi was not in a hurry and got on a specially selected beast. There was a large warm-up pavilion on its back with built-in ice cubes, which made it a little cool.

Yu Weichao had no place to go, so he stayed outside Liang Pavilion. Chen Yi called him twice before he reluctantly sat in.

He was shaking all the way, just for Chen Yi to understand the customs and customs of the Western Continent. Speaking of which, Yu Weichao was also a bold guy, and his spirit of exploration was quite enough. When Chen Yi had not tried to go to Mara City several times, he actually got into Mara City alone, and pretended to be a villager from another place and lived for several days.

However, Yu Weichao is not a professional intelligence officer, and he gets more public information. Despite this, it also helps Chen Yi make basic judgments.

At least they now know that Mara City is the largest city nearby, and the other two cities are similar to that, both implementing city-state systems, just like Greece in the classical era.

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

First, it is difficult for farmers, herdsmen, or hunters to provide a large amount of food to Mara City, but there are not many residents in the city, at least 50,000 households and more than 300,000 people. This is a very large population base, but I don’t know how they can maintain a basic life.

Secondly, cities such as Mara City advocate war, and young children enter long houses to live collectively, train, and go to distant places to participate in war when they become adults. They are often targeted at another alliance city-state. This is also the most important matter that urban residents need to bear. However, from the perspective of modern people, the war they fought has almost no impact on Mara City. At first glance, it seems like a pure effort. This is something that scientists in the era of energy conservation cannot understand.

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

Yu Weichao said happily in the tone of his girlfriend who had blasted his credit card: "The three-sided stone walls of the water village are built on 5 meters high and 2 meters wide by animal and manpower. The city wall is 700 meters long and 200 meters wide from east to west, which lasted only three months. In addition, watchtowers are under construction. After everything is completed, a bunker will be built on the periphery..."

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