Alien Knights

"Fifty?!"

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 turned their gazes to the mysterious head of the nun who had just arrived in Muxi Town a few days ago.

Todd was overjoyed, and his first reaction was that Rachel and Karin were of great help. After calming down and thinking for a while, he could understand that Karin paid for it, but why did Rachel invest so much money?

Looking at the woman covered under the nun's robe, the faint smile on the other's face surprised 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, but vague uneasiness was always lingering in his heart. To be on the safe side, Todd thought about it again and again, and modified the rules he said before: "In order to allow everyone to have the opportunity to buy, no single person can hold more than 10 holy bones."

Rachel curled her lips, looking a little dissatisfied with Todd's back-and-forth, and nodded after a while: "Then 10."

Taking another deep look at the dean of the nunnery, Todd announced loudly to the crowd, "Two nuns and sisters, each buy 10 holy bones. I will also buy 10."

Calculated in this way, Rachel bought 10, Todd bought 10, and Karin bought 10, a total of 30 sacred bones have been subscribed, and the next thing is much simpler.

Huggins and his "acquaintances" jointly bought 10, Alfonso and his followers bought 5, Edgar and Jerry bought 5, and the remaining 50 were bought by residents of Muxi Town.

In front of everyone, Todd took out a book from the church, and copied down the names and the number of relics of the people who bought the "Music Mutual Aid Fund" one by one. The final part of the "tea party" was the dispersal of the routine. After finishing all this, the priest hurried back to the church, looking at the coins in the wooden box in front of him, and thinking about the big plan to make money.

100 silver moons may seem like a lot, but in fact you can't really buy anything.

The daily salary of a nobleman's servant is about 30 copper stars; four people in the restaurant of Yinhuan City need about 1 silver month to eat a good meal; a good military horse, black and hairless, six years old, no disease and injury history, is worth about 90 gold stars.

Converted with the currency of the previous life, the purchasing power of a copper star is about 5 yuan, and 100 silver months are worth about 50,000 yuan.

What can 50,000 yuan do?

If it is really used to develop agriculture as said in the "tea party", maybe you can buy a few cattle, a flock of chickens and ducks, a dozen farm tools, and half a carload of seeds, and you will spend nothing. And you have to wait for a year and a half before you can get a meager profit.

This is not the result that Todd wants to see. What he wants is: high return, low risk, the first income within three months, and it is best to have some relationship with the water and soil of Muxi Town.

In the evening of that day, 32 representatives of farmers, including Sassoon, came to the chapel and stood quietly under the huge cross, waiting for the priest's arrangement.

Holding the Bible in his hand, Todd looked serious and serious, 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, so that you poor people can enjoy the blessing of "Muxi Town" from the Heavenly Father first. You should be grateful for this."

The farmers nodded in agreement.

Todd added: "Starting tomorrow, I will teach you how to benefit from the blessings of the heavenly father. You must be devout in your heart, and you must not have any distracting thoughts, let alone pass it on to others. Next, please recite the oath of keeping the promise aloud with me."

The so-called oath is nothing more than keeping a secret and not spreading it to outsiders. If you break the oath, you will go to purgatory forever.

These words were posted on the Internet in the previous life. It is estimated that some people say more times a day than they drink water. But in the Middle Ages, it was the bottom line that a person could not violate in his life.

In the early morning of the next day, Todd first found Huggins and gave him 30 silver months in the "mutual aid fund", asking him to purchase rose flowers as secretly as possible, and to purchase healthy plants that have not yet bloomed.

Although the other party accepted the task, he seemed hesitant to speak. Under Todd's repeated questioning, the man just said a word.

"If you need money, feel free to tell me. 』

Todd's heart warmed. The reason why he didn't tell Huggins about the fundraising in advance yesterday was because he knew that once the other party found out about it, he would definitely try to raise enough funds for him.

After comforting the other party, Todd then went to the farmer's hut outside the town, looked at the farmers and peasant women who had been waiting outdoors, and gave the following tasks: the men went to dig a plant called "briar rose"; the women stayed and emptied a large warehouse for storing hay in the town.

Todd plans to use the money from the Muxi Mutual Aid Fund to carry out a large-scale "rose grafting".

The so-called grafting is the technique of connecting the branches or buds of one or more plants 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 on a variety of other plants.

This technique has been documented in China and Rome in previous lives, as early as the fifth century AD.

However, in the Middle Ages in Europe, 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 bears a very special fruit. Half of it is lemon and the other half is orange, as if the two parts are chiseled together. However, after this report came out, it was ridiculed and questioned by many scholars and professors, and some even called this manuscript a "poor and boring hoax". So much so that the Royal Society had to issue a disclaimer for this article in subsequent proceedings.

And in this different world, the technology of "grafting", not to mention the appearance, even Todd couldn't find a suitable vocabulary to match this concept in Latin and Common.

Rose is one of the best choices for grafting "scion" due to its wide variety, high survival rate, high ornamental value, and low cost. The characteristics of briar, such as vigorous growth, strong disease resistance, good recovery, and similar species to rose, determine that it is the best "rootstock" for rose grafting.

In the evening, Huggins and the farmers returned from the outdoors. The former purchased three large carts of roses, which almost wiped out the stocks of nearby villages and towns; the latter dug back a large number of briar plants from the surrounding woods.

Todd spread out dry cloths in the large warehouse where the sundries were emptied, set up a firepit, placed blades, wooden sticks, clips, formaldehyde solution, alcohol and other items on the table, and made all the preparations before the "grafting" work.

I worked overtime today for a meeting, and after putting the child to sleep at night, I tried my best to code another chapter. If I fell asleep halfway through the code, it would only be posted tomorrow.