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Chapter 224 Pale Snow Region
Although Hope City sent only 50 spies to spread the news, there are more than 60 territories that have actually arrived so far.

Even those far away territories came over, which is enough to prove how serious this drought is.

Except for a few strange things, the prerequisite for 90.00% of nine territories to be established is to have a water source.

But now, although their water sources cannot be said to be completely exhausted, it is impossible to support the original population needs. Therefore, they need to look for water and food everywhere, whether it is buying or grabbing.

As for which one to choose, it is natural to see which one is more cost-effective.

Li Tianhuang gave the number plate to a soldier in Hope City, and was released after the inspection was all right. Although it was stipulated that a bodyguard was allowed to be with him, he walked into the wooden building alone.

He is very confident that it is impossible for someone who can make such a series of shrewd arrangements to be so mentally retarded as to attack other lords here.

"Is it No. 96? Follow me!" A heavily armed soldier glanced at him, and walked ahead to lead the way.

This is the second time Li Tianhuang has entered this wooden building. The first time he was ranked No. 27, so he is quite familiar with the process.

Hope City's transaction method is a bit special, it adopts a negotiation system.

It’s not that Metropolitan Coins are not accepted, but due to the drought, Metropolitan Coins have depreciated more severely, so Hope City does not advocate the use of coins. If you use Metropolitan Coins to buy water and food, it will be much more expensive, and you can only buy it at a time. five tons.

If you want to continue buying, you have to go out and queue up again, but it's hard to say whether the price will increase in the next round.

Although the efficiency of this one-to-one queuing transaction method is slow, the beauty is that it is slow. No one knows whether the guy who came in before him will drive up the price of food.

This is what the black-faced man complained about before, but for the barter exchange, there is no such restriction. It all depends on the lip service of both parties.

In the first round, Li Tianhuang spent Metro Coins to buy five tons of water. This time, he planned to buy some more food, but it was in exchange.

"Number 96, exchange or buy? As a reminder, one ton of grain is currently sold for 30 urban coins, and one ton of water is 35."

"Change!"

Li Tianhuang didn't get entangled in the matter of price increase, this was as early as he expected.

It is normal for water to be more expensive than food, and the price in the metropolis is even more outrageous.

The soldier nodded and led him up to the second floor.

Knocking on the door, a short and fat man sat at the table, looked up, smiled and said: "Please sit down, here is a form, we will talk after you fill it out."

Li Tianhuang picked up the watch, but didn't rush to take a closer look, but scanned left and right, and saw a basin placed in the corners of the four walls, and inside the basin was a white object floating up and down.

Feeling the comfortable coolness in the room, Li Tianhuang said in surprise:

"ice?"

The man nodded: "The weather is hot, a little way to cool off, nothing to worry about."

Li Tianhuang shook his head: "This is no small trick. Apart from the Pale Snow Region, I never thought that there would be such a thing in Hope City!"

Pale Snowland is a place more than 2 kilometers away from here. It is said that the snow there does not melt all year round. Although it is cold, there is no shortage of water at all.

Some people even say that most of the water in the Nether Sea turned into clouds and floated there, and then it rained and turned into snow. It is a rich fairyland.

But this is what some people say, and no one has really come from there. More than 2 kilometers are enough to break a leg, and there are many crises along the way:

Beasts, infected bodies, and robbers will all kill those who want to find this ideal land in the wild,
Or maybe, those lucky people really lived a happy life after getting there, and naturally no one would come back.

Now Hope City can actually produce ice, although it is definitely not from Pale Snow Region, but it also highlights the heritage of Hope City.

This is something that even the metropolis does not have. They actually use it to cool off?

Shaking his head, Li Tianhuang focused on the form.

The content of the form is very simple: the name of the territory, the type and quantity to be changed, the type and quantity of the required supplies, and the signature of the person in charge.

After Li Tianhuang filled out a few strokes, he handed it to the man. The man looked at it a few times, then reached out and shook his hand:
"Hello, Lord Li of Tianhuang City, my humble Lin Hai, Minister of Finance of Hope City, according to the information on the form, you plan to exchange 3000 people for [-] tons of grain and [-] tons of water?"

Assuming that one person eats three meals a day and one catty of grain, one ton of grain is enough for seventy adults for a month, while twenty tons of grain is only enough for more than 300 people. Of course, this is only normal.

In the case of a shortage of food, if one catty of rice is used to cook porridge, it is enough to feed ten people, and twenty tons can be used sparingly. It is no problem to supply a million people for two or three months. Hope City's wheat is particularly well-fed, and one catty can be used by others for three catties, and it can fully support the next batch of crops to mature.

Of course, water is the ring that can never be avoided.

"Right." Li Tianhuang nodded.

Lin Hai sneered and put the form in his hand aside.

"According to the current price, your request can be worth 950 million metropolitan coins. Do you mean that each of your 3000 people can be worth [-]? This is too..."

"I know my conditions seem ridiculous, but my 3000 people are really worth it, because they are all... new humans!"

"New human?" Lin Hai sat up straight and narrowed his eyes.

"Well, I don't mean to offend, but I know that your lord bought a new human slave in the metropolis for [-] yuan. I think you will be interested." Li Tianhuang said calmly.

He is not like those reckless people who come to trade without doing any homework.

Territories like theirs only earn a few million a year at the top, and once you pay the registration fee for the metropolis, you can't save much money a year. What's more frightening is that this The comprehensive depreciation of the metropolitan currency caused heavy losses to those territories that liked to store money.

Take this transaction as an example, even if Hope City does not impose a limit on the number of transactions, few territories can afford much. Five tons of water and five tons of food are the choices of most territories.

And five tons of grain will support 3000 people to barely survive the hunger until the new crops are harvested, which forces the lords to make a choice.

Should we give up part of the population to overcome this difficulty, or should we fight together to rob others.

The former seems to have returned to before liberation, but at least he can keep his core strength alive, and it is not without courage and ambition to choose the territory of the latter, but he certainly does not include Li Tianhuang.

This natural disaster is not only an opportunity for City of Hope, but also Li Tianhuang's. Now we will see what kind of answer this cunning fat man will give him.

(End of this chapter)