Elven settlers

Chapter 133 Income Increase
When Rock first chose to acquire Mali sheep, he had anticipated their evolution.

Although the wool of the evolved wooly sheep seems to be reduced by more than half, the quality of the hair has improved a lot.

As an animal fiber, the quality of wool has a lot to do with its thickness.

After the woolly sheep evolves, due to the change in the nature of the body hair, the amount of electricity that can be stored in the hair will become more.

The resulting side effect is that the hair from the chest to the top of the head of the woolly sheep becomes particularly thin and elastic.

Compared with the pre-evolution Maali wool, the purchase price of fluffy wool hair is [-] yuan per kilogram.

The wool harvesting cycle of wool sheep is the same as that of Mali sheep. They are shaved every two weeks during the three months of spring and three months of autumn, but only about [-] grams of wool can be obtained each time.

Even so, the annual wool value of a woolly sheep is about 240 yuan, which is more than [-]% higher than the income that Mali sheep can provide.

And this is not all the benefits that woolly sheep can produce, there is another important product on them that has great value.

That is cashmere.

Every winter, a thin layer of fine velvet grows from the root of the wooly sheep's hair, and the layer of fine velvet is cashmere.

Cashmere has better properties than wool.Cashmere products are far superior to wool products in terms of softness, fineness and warmth retention.

Moreover, the production of cashmere is very rare. As far as Rock knows, the only Pokémon that can produce cashmere are wooly sheep and wooly horn sheep.

What Rock finds interesting is that cashmere only grows on goats before time travel.

But in the Pokémon world, the only goat Pokémon mount has no cashmere on it.

The rare quantity and excellent performance make the price of cashmere extremely expensive, so expensive that it can be sold in grams.For example, the purchase price of cashmere from velvet sheep is five yuan per gram.

Cashmere will fall off the sheep after spring, and will not grow back until winter again, so it can only be collected once a year.

A healthy velvet sheep will produce about 250 grams of cashmere each time, so the annual income of cashmere is [-] yuan.

Together with the wool, a wool sheep can bring Rock an income of 490 yuan per year.This income is roughly the same as that of another Pokémon that also grows cashmere, the Woolhorn Sheep.

Woolhorn sheep are mainly distributed in the Galar region and are an evolutionary type of wool braided sheep.

Roque has also known about this kind of herding elves whose main output is wool.

If only wool is compared, braided sheep and woolhorn sheep are better than Mare sheep and velvet sheep in terms of quality and output.

But if you look at the quality of cashmere, velvet sheep are better than wooly horn sheep.In addition, wooly horn sheep only grow cashmere on the part of the gray hair around the face, and there is no advantage in production.

The output of these two kinds of Pokémon has its own focus, and the value produced after comprehensive consideration is also similar.

The reason why Rock chose the Mali sheep between the two is because the Maa Li sheep is considered a local breed.

If he wants to raise braided sheep, the shipping cost from the Galar area to the Kanto area alone is not something he can afford now, without considering the environmental changes and the unaccustomed conditions.

"And I think wooly sheep are pretty good, don't you?"

Rock withdrew his thoughts, and his eyes fell back on the evolved wooly sheep.

"Baa Kuo~"

Hearing that Rock was praising them, the woolly sheep straightened their upper bodies one after another, with their two short hands on their waists.

"Haha, let's go."

Under the joy of successful evolution, Rock and the elves set off on their way home again.

The evolved velvet sheep became stronger, so the speed at which the tree trunk dragged accelerated again.

Looking at the velvet sheep with their tails wagging like a few small dinosaurs in front of him, Rock began to plan to continue to increase the number of Mali sheep.

At that time, he chose to buy all the savings in his body, and one of the important reasons was that he took a fancy to their economic potential.

However, this potential cannot be fulfilled by everyone.

In the Kanto area and Chengdu area, there are many pastures raising Mali sheep, but there are few pastures with wooly sheep.

This is because the evolution of Mare sheep requires relatively harsh conditions.

The first is the environmental conditions. Most of the pastures are in well-developed plains. Due to the lack of external pressure in such areas, the level of elves on the pastures is generally low.

In addition, according to the research of Dr. Kong Mu in the Chengdu area, the probability of evolution of the Mare sheep in the hillside area will be higher.Although the exact reason has not been found, a common speculation is that it has something to do with the strong hind leg muscles of the wool sheep.

In addition to environmental factors, the constraints of its own conditions are also an important factor affecting the evolution of Mare sheep.

As a very docile herding elf, Pokémon like Mali sheep are naturally not suitable for fighting, so it is difficult to grow their level like a normal trainer cultivates elves.

These harsh conditions make it difficult for the number of woolly sheep to increase among the shepherd elves.Even in some pastures that specialize in woolly sheep, the ratio of woolly sheep to Mare sheep is between one to two to one to three.

But for Rock, he has all these conditions.

His territory is in a deserted wilderness, surrounded by mountains and hills to the east and north, and the level of wild elves in the entire ecological environment is very high.In such an environment, even with the protection of the Daruby group, the Mare sheep will passively improve their level over time.

Moreover, in view of the weak fighting ability of the bale sheep, Rock effectively trained them through a series of transportation tasks, so there was the scene of the collective evolution of the bale sheep just now.

"Unexpectedly, I ran to a remote place to open up wasteland by mistake, but it became my advantage..."

Rock couldn't help being satisfied with his choice. He felt that with the natural conditions of his territory, even if he didn't train deliberately through transportation in the future, the ratio of velvet sheep to Mare sheep in his territory could reach one to one.

In this way, he can continuously buy Mali sheep, and then wait for them to evolve to increase his income.

Compared with Mali sheep, there are almost no pastures that will sell wool sheep, and even if they are sold, the price will be very high.

For the current Rock, the next main goal is to increase the number of Mare sheep in the territory.

Just as Rock was imagining the scene of herds of cattle and sheep on the future territory in his mind, a rich fragrance came to his nostrils.

He looked up in the direction of the scent, and it turned out that the linden forest at the foot of the mountain was in bloom.

(End of this chapter)