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Chapter 314 Hundred Flowers Festival, New Birthday

"This is the spice just harvested this year, passion grass seeds..." A local spice merchant was showing Lynch his favorite product.

He picked up a bag the size of an adult's fist and poured out some hexagonal bluish-yellow seeds. When these seeds spread out in his hands, there was a strange fragrance, and Lynch seemed to be Where have you smelled it.

Of course, it must not be here, but in the Federation.

Passion grass seeds are not too precious, but they are not ordinary goods either. It has very strict requirements on the growing environment. There are only a few countries in the world that have this kind of spice.

It is mainly used to process some meat foods, such as barbecue, roast meat, etc. Lynch thinks this taste is familiar, because this spice is in the grilled fish steaks he has eaten, and cooks also like to use it to blend The smell of fish.

Lynch fiddled with it a few times, and the scent began to mutate, which was caused by the strong scent. He moved away a little distance, his nose itchy, "Do you have a quotation?"

His question obviously hit the vital point of the local businessman. A brief moment of confusion flashed in the eyes of the local businessman, and then he asked in a suspicious and uncertain tone, "What is that?"

It is not unreasonable for this kind of aboriginal merchants to be exploited and oppressed by another group of merchants. In fact, this is also related to the level of social development. The local aboriginal merchants ushered in the invasion of foreign merchants without strong competition.

They have not mastered many things that are the most basic in the eyes of many businessmen.

Lynch put it another way, "The price list is a piece of paper with the price of each commodity recorded on it, can you understand me?" Lynch looked at Aser, and Aser spoke in the local aboriginal language and The spice merchant explained, and seeing the merchant's sudden realization, Lynch was somewhat relieved.

Then the businessman quickly wrote out a quotation. Lynch looked at the price on the quotation and put it away without saying anything. "I haven't done spice business before, but I don't mind doing it."

"I don't know if these prices are appropriate. I will return to Baylor Federation next week. After I figure out the price, we will talk about the acquisition."

"But before that..." Lynch reached out and took a handful of passion grass seeds from the spice merchant's palm, and crushed them vigorously, "It's too moist, if you want to do business with me, you'd better let it It dries even more!"

When he let go of his fingers, the dry shell of the passion grass seed had been crushed, but the center was still a little moist. Don't underestimate the imperceptible dampness. In the weight of a single passion grass seed, the moisture may occupy More than half of its weight, even sixty to seventy percent.

The business of these spice merchants is not very good, and the ability to steal and cheat is so difficult that others can't teach them. It can be seen that the essence of most merchants is the same - to do anything for profit.

The spice merchant was not embarrassed at all by the fact that the spices he displayed were very wet, and his face without any influence was full of smiles, "Of course, Mr. Lynch, I will let those lazy pariahs dry them all right away! "

"You'd better do that..." Lynch nodded, "You can mark these spices and keep them, and I will take them away as samples when I leave."

After leaving contact information and marking the names of these spices, the spice merchant got up to leave, and then the No.2 merchant came in with his samples.

An ivory merchant.

In this world, elephants and ivory are not considered rare species and luxury goods. In places like Nagalil and closer to the equator, there are large numbers of elephant herds.

The elephants here are larger, have longer teeth, and are more threatening at the same time. It is difficult to have natural enemies in the grasslands or jungles, which also makes their populations bigger and bigger, and even threatens the living space of humans in some areas. .

There are also many elephant herds in the grasslands and jungles of Nagalil. The ivory traders mainly sell ivory from grassland elephants, which are longer, thicker, stronger, and slightly yellowish in color, but not obvious.

When the ivory dealer made a move, he found a pair of huge ivory tusks that were [-] meters long and nearly [-] feet in diameter at the root!
If this pair of ivory was sent to the Federation for sale, it would be worth at least 20 to [-] Federation Sol, or tens of millions of Galils.

But here, it's just an expensive and sincere greeting.

"This is my gift to you, Mr. Lynch!", this is a middle-aged man in his thirties, with two mustaches, he looks a little cunning, a little cunning, and there is a fierceness hidden in his eyes .

Most hunters are not good at stubble. From the first hunting to take the lives of animals, in the subsequent hunting process, most hunters will naturally have a feeling of "life is nothing more than this", and they lose their respect for life. , began to ignore life.

And this attitude will eventually lead them to have a similar attitude towards human life, and they will also treat human life with as much indifference as they do with animals.

Lynch looked at the ivory being unloaded from the dilapidated truck, thanked the ivory trader, and then the two entered the room to continue chatting about the business.

This businessman not only has a large amount of ivory, but also the more precious rhino horns and rhino bones. These things can only be obtained in the depths of the grassland, where the environment is harsher and more terrifying, like those fur traders in Hassanna They won't go in easily.

Lynch also asked him for a quotation. How much these things are worth, and what price he wants to charge, all have to wait for him to return to the Federation once.

There was an endless stream of businessmen who came to visit him. They were all local aboriginal businessmen. They were deeply exploited by major commercial houses, and they always felt that Lynch could buy their goods at a higher price.

In fact, this is a very wrong concept. Even if Lynch could do this, he would not do it, because it would offend all foreign businessmen in Nagalil and harm everyone's interests.

At that time, he will be everyone's enemy. Even if Nagalil's useless central government stands up, it will not be able to prevent Lynch from being targeted or even attacked.

But he can contact these businessmen, he will not touch the interests of most people, and it is even more impossible to provide businessmen with an offer that is only in their imagination.

Many businessmen came, and there were even middlemen who spontaneously wanted to help some girls obtain some genetic genes from Lynch to transform their race. The business was worth [-] million yuan.

But there were no businessmen Lynch wanted to meet, population businessmen.

This is actually quite normal. The resistance of the environment in Nagalil to the outside world makes people always think that the foreign environment is harsh, even worse than the environment they live in. Sometimes people are so simple and...stupid.

So no one wants to go abroad to work, coupled with religious brainwashing, foreign countries have become the abyss of hell, they have to wait for the Great Destruction to become masters, how could they give up such an opportunity and go abroad suffer?

Lynch spent several days in such an atmosphere, and the provincial governor's sons hadn't been able to convince each other to unify, which also made Lynch relaxed for a while.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, he took a serious tour of the city, gaining a deeper understanding of the city, the province of Magurana, and the whole of Nagalil.

On Tuesday of the second week, the apostles of the high priest came to welcome Lynch to participate in the activities.

The Tuesday of the third week of April is a festival of local religions. It is said that on this day a drop of blood from the gods, like flowing gold, drips on the dry and barren land, so that all flowers bloom and multiply. This day is also known as It is called "Hundred Flowers Festival", also known as "New Birthday".

In fact, the festive atmosphere had already appeared two or three days ago, and it became more intense yesterday, until today, it reached its peak.

It's hard to imagine that people would actually clean the roads. When Lynch wandered around these days, he found that not only men were defecating everywhere, but many women were also defecating everywhere. It may sound a bit funny to say it, but it is the truth.

Especially those middle-aged women at the bottom of the society, they don't care about other people's eyes, and they can solve their personal problems by finding a place slightly back from the street, which is really eye-opening.

The entire street was actually very messy and dirty, but surprisingly, everything was cleaned up today.

There are wreaths made of flowers hanging on the door of every house, and the ground in front of the door is covered with all kinds of petals. Both men and women have a red dot between their eyebrows. There is also a circle of white petals around it to reflect its meaning.

People's temples, ears, necklines, chests, and wrists will be decorated with flowers, and the smell that gathers and lingers in the whole city seems to have disappeared a lot, even in the center of the city.

Lynch was invited to participate in this religious event, which was actually a very honorable thing, and he was arranged on the second float after the high priest.

It is said to be a float, but it is actually an old bus that has been repainted and decorated with some decorations. There are already seven or eight people on board, and almost half of these people are people Lynch knows. They have met before, and they are all businessmen. .

The other half of Lynch had never met, but he got to know a little bit through the introduction of other people. They were all representatives of some prominent local families.

Maybe it was because Lynch was relatively young and it was his first time participating in the Hundred Flowers Festival. A businessman who knew him explained the process in a low voice.

The purpose of this event is to thank the gods for nourishing all things with their blood, and to thank the gods in some ways. At the same time, the representatives of the gods will also give some feedback to the people.

Thanks to the gods and the feedback from the gods, almost most religions have similar festivals, and Lynch has something in mind.

(End of this chapter)