Devouring Evolution Begins with Hedgehogs

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

"Based on what you mean, why do you seem to be regretful?" Liu Ergou rolled his eyes and cast a glance at De Lisi.

But I didn't want De Lisi to listen, and nodded as if it should be taken for granted!

"Of course! I still have several antidotes waiting to be tested! Now that the test products are gone, of course I am very sorry!"

"Ah?!" Upon hearing this, Liu Ergou almost lost his temper! "Emotionally, not only the things I ate before were experimental products, but even the medicines I used were experimental products?"

De Lisi sighed and said, "Oh, otherwise, do we have any other way out?"

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

Just as De Lisi said, if you want to build a city from nothing on this impoverished wasteland that can let everyone live happily, there must always be some people who walk in front of the team and take the initiative to accept the unknown beatings .

Whether it is food or medicine, this is what Beiyuan City is in urgent need of.

In order to alleviate the symptoms of nutritional deficiencies, Seattle sets an example every day and leads everyone to eat a very bitter but nutritious fruit raw.

As the only person in the city who can use life energy to heal injuries, Avril Lavigne personally heals dozens of patients every day, and this does not include those with special diseases that cannot be treated by life energy.

So thinking of this, Liu Ergou stopped saying anything.

Pointing to the empty plate on the table, De Lisi explained to Liu Ergou: "The sweet thing you ate is the fruit of a vine. I call it the ear melon."

"The soft-tasting thing is the rhizome of another small shrub, whose name I haven't figured out yet."

"As for those few leaves, they are the side leaves of silver calendula, which are the by-products after harvesting the medicinal parts."

"Loop-eared melon?" Liu Ergou wondered, "Why did you choose this name?"

De Lisi did not answer immediately, but turned and went to the second floor.

After a while, De Lisi came downstairs carrying a bunch of vines, bearing a few fruits that Liu Ergou had eaten just now.

"Look." Doris pointed to one of the fruits, "Does this thing look like Avril's drooping ears?"

"It looks like it, but why don't you just call it Aiweigua?" Liu Ergou suddenly joked rather viciously.

De Lisi gave Liu Ergou a white look, "Okay then, I see that the Ningyan fruit you ate last time looks like your head, so I might as well call it Zhao Guode."

Liu Ergou stopped talking.

He would rather eat another meal of condensed smoke fruit, and he didn't want this thing to be bought back by everyone in the future, just to see what the "lord's head" looks like.

However, just kidding, having something to eat is naturally great.I just don't know how the production of this thing is?
Hearing Liu Ergou's doubts, De Lisi also smiled, and comforted Liu Ergou: "I don't know what you think yet? Don't worry, since I can get this thing out of my hands, naturally I have already considered it." That's the problem."

Pointing to the vine in her hand, De Lisi continued to explain: "For example, this ear melon, as long as there is enough water, it can grow even in the loess on the wasteland."

"The one I gave you was catalyzed by my magic, so it grows very fast. If it grows normally, I guess it will grow in about three months."

"The yield is about three such vines can be planted in one square meter, each of which can produce more than twenty lop-eared melons."

"As for the thing that hasn't come up with a name yet, it occupies a much larger area than the ear melon, and only one cluster can be planted per square meter. But the yield is very large, and a cluster can produce forty or fifty, and the growth cycle is almost the same. Three months."

"There is no need to worry about silver calendula. Silver calendula itself is easy to grow, and the flowers that bloom can be used to refine medicine. As long as the leaves that are harvested will not affect its growth, they can be picked throughout the year. "

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

He was really afraid that some rare material would come out of De Lisi's mouth, and he would have to go to some wonderful ruins, toughen ancient robots and other things.

"However, after picking, can this thing be preserved?" After thinking for a while, Liu Ergou asked a new question.

"Well, that's true." Doris was also lost in thought. "That thing that didn't think of a name. Forget it, let's call him White Leaf Melon."

"White leaf melon?"

"That's right, the ground part of this thing is white, isn't it amazing?" As she said, Doris waved the dark gray fruit in her hand.

"This white-leaf melon is easy to store. It doesn't have much moisture in itself, so it's good to put it directly in the granary. But the ear melon is different. Not only is it easy to rot, but it will also dehydrate after a long time, which will affect the taste."

"As for the leaves of silver calendula. You can only eat and pick them now."

After listening to De Lisi's introduction, Liu Ergou nodded.

The problem with hanging ear melons is not a big deal, anyway, the big deal is to dry them out, just add water when eating.As for the calendula leaves?

"I don't think it's better than this. Let's build a vegetable market and put the silver calendula leaves picked every day. Well, yes, and the fruits from the advance base, and put them on it for sale."

"In this way, everyone can eat fresh fruits and vegetables every day, and there is no need for everyone to grow flowers at home. We don't have to worry about picking too much and not being able to keep them. Anyway, we can just come according to market needs."

"The idea is good, but where does the money come from?" De Lisi affirmed Liu Ergou's thinking, and then asked again. "There are no foreign things in our Beiyuan City at all, so naturally there is no currency for transactions."

"Without currency, what do you ask everyone to buy in the market?"

"Oh, that's also easy to handle." But Liu Ergou had already made up his mind, and immediately said his plan.

"I plan to set up a rationing system that will give each person a certain number of ration points per day based on age, physical condition, race, and daily labor."

"The first three reference factors of this point are fixed, but for laborers, additional points will be settled according to the daily labor volume."

"These points can be used to buy various things in the official market, and can also be traded between individuals."

After thinking for a while, Liu Ergou said again: "Actually, you don't have to worry too much. I see that there are many piggies in the tavern, and they often exchange hard-bristle brushes for drinks. The bartender uses these brushes to find Max Rat. If you exchange the mushrooms for brewing wine, you can still have some savings, and exchange for other things.”

"In the final analysis, we have already had the thing of bartering. I just set up a currency now."

Doris nodded after listening.

But soon, she thought of some questions again, and asked curiously, "Where did they get the bristle brush you mentioned just now?"

"It's made of my own mane." Liu Ergou said with a face of course.

The pig bristle brush, now it has become a pig man's bristle brush, and there seems to be nothing wrong with it.Pig "human" bristle brushes
Although for De Lisi, who was born in a noble family, this kind of "self-produced and sold" behavior is somewhat uncomfortable.
But now at the beginning of the business, I can't take care of these things.So De Lisi just nodded with a strange face, and didn't say anything.

After thinking about it, Doris asked a new question:
"What are you going to do with the raw materials for coinage?"

Liu Ergou really didn't think much about this problem.Asked by De Lisi, she immediately fell into deep thought.

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

It is different from the earth in the previous life.Due to barriers such as the Sacred Forest and the Sunset Mountains, there is actually no official trade between the various countries on the Godfall Continent.

But the absence of official exchanges does not mean that there is no commodity circulation.The dwarven muskets confiscated by Liu Ergou in the slave hunting group are the best evidence of commodity circulation.

In fact, the real cross-border trade on the mainland is often undertaken by various business groups.Although you have to bear various risks along the way, once the goods arrive at the destination, the profits generated are often calculated by tens or even hundreds of times!

The officials of various countries also acquiesced to this behavior, or in other words, the dignitaries of various countries acquiesced to this behavior.

Behind a big business group, it is always inseparable from the support of one or several big figures.And the huge profits earned by these business groups naturally required a large amount of tribute.

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

Because the goods of these business groups can be counted as the "private property transfer" of these great nobles in name, that is, they can be regarded as the circulation of property between the sub-fiefs and the suzerain.

The territorial tax is charged according to the size of the territory.In other words, as long as the suzerains paid the due taxes in full every year, the tax officials had no right to inspect the properties on the territory, which naturally included business groups.

As a result, such a situation often occurs: a viscounty territory whose annual tax is only a few thousand gold coins has "property circulation" worth millions.

Therefore, the behavior of these business groups is essentially smuggling.

Liu Ergou does not do business, but it does not mean that he does not need currency.

Because 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 determined by the business 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 are more than 30 kinds of private currencies.

On top of these private land currencies, there is also the Breve Gold Coin issued by the Breve Merchant Group, which is the official currency of the empire and the exchange benchmark for all private land currencies.

Therefore, an existence like Brave who can control the lifeline of a country's economy is simply the highest level of a business group.

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

So Liu Ergou often secretly rejoiced that since he came to this world, he always seemed to be lucky.

Seattle gave him a stepping stone to step into the upper class, Erlanster was a well-informed and resourceful old patriarch, Bufix had excellent tactical awareness, and now there is the encyclopedia of Doris
Without these people, I'm afraid it would be really difficult for me to gain a firm foothold in this different world!
Thinking of this, Liu Ergou looked at De Lisi with undisguised fanaticism.

This kind of enthusiasm is almost the same as Liu Ergou's eyes when he saw the goose egg-sized life essence in the experiment hall!
But De Lisi didn't know what Liu Ergou was thinking.She just felt that the guy in front of her was as if Hoffman saw honey, why did she suddenly look like she wanted to eat herself?
Moreover, being looked at by him like this, I actually feel a little hot on my face?

Indeed, Liu Ergou also noticed that De Lisi in front of her suddenly blushed for some reason?His eyes also began to deliberately avoid his own gaze, but occasionally sneak a glance at himself?
"De Lisi? Are you okay?" Liu Ergou couldn't help asking.

But she didn't think about his question, and De Lisi became even more embarrassed immediately, and waved to Liu Ergou again and again: "I'm fine, I'm fine! Uh, that's right, do you have any plans for the currency materials?"

Once back to this question, Liu Ergou has no time to be confused by De Lisi's strangeness.

"For the material of the currency, I want to use the pile of slag in the ruins. First of all, our current production and reserves of various minerals are very limited, and using that pile of slag can just save metal resources."

"Secondly, this kind of metal is only found in the ruins. It effectively avoids the problem of counterfeiting and at the same time guarantees the value of the currency. On the other hand, Doris, are you really listening to me?"

Looking at De Lisi with erratic eyes in front of him, Liu Ergou really couldn't continue talking on his own.

"Ah? Oh, I'm fine. You said slag just now, right? Slag is very good. Just keep talking and I'll listen."

Liu Ergou shook his head, and couldn't help but asked: "De Lisi, you have something to hide from me, right?" De Lisi suddenly sighed, and said in a somewhat lonely voice: "No, I'm here today Probably a little overtired, need to take a break, and study this matter another day."

After finishing speaking, De Lisi didn't even look at Liu Ergou, turned around and went upstairs.

De Lisi's eviction order was very clear, so Liu Ergou couldn't find out more about it, so he had to leave the alchemy workshop by himself.

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

Liu Ergou stepped forward and wondered, "Why are you two here?"

Seattle smiled, and pointed to the alchemy workshop behind Liu Ergou, "I was going to ask De Lisi for some incense for the church, but seeing that you two were having a lively conversation, I didn't go in to bother you."

"Hot?" Liu Ergou scratched his head, "I don't know what happened to De Lisi today, but she didn't listen to me at all, and she seemed to have lost her soul."

"She told me later that she was not feeling well? It seemed to me that she had something on her mind, but she didn't have a chance to ask."

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

"You, any place is good, but this is too stupid." After Seattle finished speaking, he poked Liu Ergou lightly with his finger.