50 silver moons are equivalent to 5 golden suns. This is an unbearable huge sum of money for anyone present, let alone taking it out, even thinking about it.
People stood up, stretched their necks, and cast their eyes on the mysterious abbess of the nunnery who had just arrived in Muxi Town a few days ago.
Todd's face was filled with joy. His first reaction was that Rachel and Karin had been a big help. After calming down and thinking for a moment, he could understand Karin's contribution, but why would Rachel invest so much?
How much?
Looking at the woman shrouded in a nun's robe, the faint smile on her face shocked Todd for no reason, and the scene of the dinner that day came back to his mind.
Although he didn't know what Rachel was thinking, a vague uneasiness always lingered in his mind. To be on the safe side, Todd thought about it again and again and modified the rules he had said before: "In order to give everyone a chance to buy, single
No person may possess more than 10 sacred bones."
Rachel curled her lips, looking a little dissatisfied with Todd's reneging on his promise, and then nodded: "Then 10."
Taking another deep look at the abbess of the nunnery, Todd loudly announced to everyone, "Two nuns, each of them will buy 10 sacred bones. I will also buy 10 bones."
After calculation, Rachel purchased 10 bones, Todd purchased 10 bones, and Karin purchased 10 bones. A total of 30 sacred bones have been subscribed, and the next thing will be much simpler.
Huggins and his "acquaintances" bought 10 sticks together, Alfonso and his followers bought 5 sticks, Edgar and Jerry Jr. bought 5 sticks, and the remaining 50 sticks were purchased.
The bones were bought piecemeal by the residents of Muxi Town.
In front of everyone, Todd took out the book from the church and copied down the names of the people who purchased the "Muxi Mutual Aid Fund" and the number of holy bones one stroke at a time. The last part of the "tea party" was a routine ceremony.
After completing all this, the priest hurriedly returned to the church, looking at the coins in the wooden box in front of him and thinking about his plan to make money.
100 silver moons may seem like a lot, but in fact they really can't buy anything.
The daily salary of a noble's servant is about 30 bronze stars; a good meal for four people in a restaurant in Silver Ring City costs about 1 silver moon; a good military horse, black and free of stray hairs, costs six
If you are old and have no history of illness or injury, the value will be as high as about 90 gold.
Converted to the currency of the previous life, the purchasing power of a bronze star is about 5 yuan, and 100 silver months are worth about 50,000 yuan.
What can you do with 50,000 yuan?
If it is really used to develop agriculture as mentioned in the "tea party", maybe you can buy a few cattle, a group of chickens and ducks, a dozen farm tools, and half a truck of seeds, and it will be completely spent. And you have to wait.
It takes a year and a half to get a meager profit.
This is not the result Todd wants to see. What he wants is: high returns, low risks, the first income within three months, and preferably something to do with the soil and water of Muxi Town.
In the evening of that day, 32 farmers' representatives, including Sassoon, came to the chapel and stood quietly under the huge cross, waiting for the priest's arrangements.
Todd held the Bible in his hand, with a serious expression on his face, and said to everyone present: "As you have seen today, the believers in Muxi Town have raised a sum of money and are willing to lend it to you to help poor people like you."
People, first enjoy Heavenly Father’s blessing to ‘Muxi Town’. You should be grateful for this.”
The farmers nodded in agreement.
Todd added: "From tomorrow on, I will teach you how to benefit from the blessings of Heavenly Father. You must be pious and not have any distracting thoughts, let alone spread it to others. Next, please join me
Let’s read out loud the oath to keep our promise.”
The so-called oath is nothing more than keeping a secret and not spreading it to others. If you break the oath, you will go to purgatory forever.
These words were put on the Internet in previous lives, and some people probably said them more times a day than they drank water. But in the Middle Ages, it was a bottom line that could not be violated in one's life.
Early the next morning, Todd first found Huggins and gave him 30 silver moons from the "Mutual Aid Fund", asking him to purchase rose flowers as secretly as possible and buy healthy plants that have not yet bloomed. The more varieties, the better.
Good, it requires no nodules or rhizome scars.
Although the other party accepted the task, he seemed hesitant to speak. Under Todd's repeated questioning, the man just said one sentence.
"If you are short of money, you can just tell me."
Todd felt warm in his heart. The reason why he didn't tell Huggins about the fund-raising in advance yesterday was because he knew that once the other party learned about it, he would definitely find ways to raise enough funds for himself. This was not his original intention, so "
He had not mentioned anything about the Muxi Mutual Aid Fund before.
After comforting the other party for a few words, Todd then went to the farmer's hut outside the town. Looking at the farmers and peasant women who had been waiting outside, he issued the following task: the men went to dig for a species called "wild rose."
plants; the women stayed to empty a large hay warehouse in the town.
Todd plans to use the money from the "Muxi Mutual Aid Fund" to conduct a large-scale "rose grafting".
The so-called grafting is a technique in which branches or buds of one or more plants are connected to the stems of other plants to form multiple plants coexisting on one plant. The former is called "scion" and the latter is called "rootstock"
』. To put it simply, there is a way to make a plant grow many other plants.
This technology has been documented in China and Rome in previous generations, as early as the fifth century AD.
However, in the European Middle Ages, it was not until 1667 that someone submitted an article to the "Proceedings of the Royal Society": In Florence, there is a kind of orange tree that produces very special fruits. Half of it is lemon and the other half is orange, as if there are two
It seems that the parts fit together. However, after the publication of this report, it was ridiculed and questioned by many scholars and professors. Some even called the manuscript a "clumsy and boring hoax". So much so that the Royal Society later
In the conference report, I had to issue a disclaimer about this article.
In this different world, not to mention the emergence of the technology of "grafting", Todd could not find a suitable word to match this concept in Latin or common language.
Rose is a flower with many varieties, high survival rate, strong ornamental value and low cost. It is one of the best choices for grafting "scion"; while wild rose has strong growth, strong disease resistance and good recovery ability, which is similar to the rose species.
Similar characteristics determine it to be the best "rootstock" for rose grafting.
In the evening, Huggins and the farmers each returned from the outdoors. The former purchased three large carts of rose flowers, almost wiping out the inventory in nearby villages and towns; the latter dug back a large number of wild flowers from the surrounding woods.
Rose plant.
Todd spread dry cloth in the large warehouse where debris was cleared, raised a fire pit, placed blades, wooden skewers, clamps, formaldehyde solution, alcohol and other items on the table, and completed the "grafting" work