On the ancient Gaia continent, the desolate northwest grasslands of the orcs' hometown, it is about to visit the cold winter.

It is difficult to have any living creatures inside the grass sea on the grassland. The groups of wilted horses and rhinoceros beasts in the past seemed to disappear all of a sudden, and they all looked pale and silver. A faint layer of frost pressed Cao Haizi under his body, and declared the arrival of the cold winter on the grassland.

What a long, cruel and terrible winter it is on the wasteland!

It took more than 200 days in one winter, and during this period, the snow covered thousands of miles, the entire wasteland was alive and everything withered. The creatures on the wasteland, whether they were wild grasses, insects, birds and beasts, would die more than 600%. Even the orcs, the owner of this wasteland, the orcs, would be greatly reduced, the elderly, weak, sick and disabled, and all young and strong people would be eliminated, and most of the young and strong people would be frozen to death. Countless weak tribes were silently extinct in natural disasters, and various powerful tribes would also kill each other on the verge of starvation and death toll to gain the power to continue the bloodline under the disaster.

For thousands of years, orcs have survived like this. The torture and pounding of natural disasters and man-made disasters year after year has caused the orcs, even the highest fertility rate and most adaptable body on the Gaia continent, to be unable to reproduce and expand like other intelligent biological populations in the south, but instead become much extinct.

Suffering has made them a race with the strongest physical and strongest will in the Gaia continent. The eugenics and eugenics under the director of the giant hand of nature have long since physically distinguished them from the delicate elves and cunning humans in the southern world, becoming a relatively independent civilization on the continent.

In the history of the mainland compiled by southern human scholars, the orcs on the plateau facing northwest have always been called "Northern Disaster"!

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In the nest of a group of stray orcs where the traveler Zhang Quan is located.

Kate, a man from the Gott, lazily leaned his body against the pile of rocks beside him, and stretched his legs, especially the broken leg injured in the war, so that he could feel more comfortable in the winter sun. He narrowed his eyes and looked at the grassland below - he was on a small hill on the grassland, with a platform at the top, which made his eyes still condescending even if he leaned on it.

Next to him was a human who was much thinner than the orcs - Zhang Quan. Yesterday, a group of happy orcs had brought him and the food and goods he brought. Such a large number of goods once again raised the limit of Zhang Quan's voice among the orcs. He had reached the point where speaking was more effective than the leaders here.

Kate is the head of the stray orcs who gathered together in their old nest to survive together. Because of his age, many experiences and rich experiences, these orcs who come together here to survive may be able to grow longer.

But now, who knows, perhaps, it is not certain that everyone can survive this winter. The most terrifying thing about winter on the grassland is the biting cold wind and the ice and snow covering all the ice and snow, but for the orcs of smart species, the most deadly thing is food.

Yes, food! Food deficiency is the enemy of creatures on the grassland in winter. Everything withered in winter on the grassland, and the orcs cannot find food everywhere and starved to death. This is the most terrifying truth about winter on the grassland for the orcs!

But now, with this mysterious human businessman Zhang Quan, perhaps, everyone can really survive?

Kate looked at Zhang Quan, the human being beside him. This mysterious and smart man who had just been in contact with them for a few days, had learned the common language of the mainland from them. He undoubtedly brought hope to everyone.

Zhang Quan said to Kate: "This time, I still want the gold coins I used to last time. The more the better. Come on, huh, you know, exchange for money."

I have been in contact with Kate and the orcs many times. Zhang Quan thought he had already known them enough. In this world, the intelligent species that calls himself orcs on the wasteland is obviously still in a very basic state, and his life is very difficult. His level of civilization is roughly equivalent to that of the nomadic peoples on the Mongolian grasslands during the feudal society.

The orcs of the strong and powerful fighting race on the grassland have strong combat power and rule the grassland and divide their boundaries in the form of tribes. They are the aristocratic races of the grassland, while the vast orcs at the bottom of the bottom are silently under the oppression and exploitation of the orc nobles, while surviving in the cracks between man-made and natural disasters.

Orc Wasteland, which is where Zhang Quan is now, is said to be located in the northwest of the Gaia continent. The geographical environment is extremely harsh and the winter is long and cold. Almost every arrival is a disaster for the primitive civilization on this grassland. This is also the reason why his arrival is of great significance to this group of poor orcs. It can be said that the food he brought completely determines the lives of the survivors in this cold wasteland.

This can be seen from the happiness and joy he brought to the orcs every time he came, the orcs in this small tribe were extremely enthusiastic about him. Even though he knew that he was "born incredibly weak", he did not have the power that the orcs praised most in their daily lives! So he was very direct.

Unexpectedly, Kate, who was full of wrinkles on Zhang Quan's request this time, was stunned when he heard this, and then his face showed a hint of dismay.

"Gold coins! It's really not possible. The ones we gave you last time were all we had collected. We, we have nothing left."

What? Zhang Quan immediately looked ugly on his face.

Kate looked at it and hurriedly continued to plead in a low voice.

"No, you don't know, in fact, there is no need for that kind of thing on the wasteland. There are very few gold coins and it's hard to get, and it's never in most orc tribes."

Hearing this, Zhang Quan's heart immediately became cold. Without gold coins, I would like to trade with you. So much food is not for nothing, but Zhang Quan bought it out of real money.

Old Kate saw that Zhang Quan's face was wrong, and he was anxious as if he was worried.

"There are really no gold coins. There are many of you humans. We... we are all poor people, and there are no ones around here."

Old Kate gestured and explained to Zhang Quan. He looked very pitiful, afraid that Zhang Quan, a kind-hearted person, would leave without caring about them in the next moment. He couldn't help but be afraid in his heart.

Although Zhang Quan, a foreigner, was mysterious, every time he came, he brought a lot of life-saving food to their poor people, as well as other extremely important salt and iron tools, which made their small group of wandering orcs instantly rise to a higher level in a short period of time. The rice and white flour, which seemed extremely fine food, was not enjoyed by the nobles on the grassland, but they had almost everything. If such a life was lost all of a sudden, then everyone would be bad and no one could stand it.

It is easy to go from frugality to extravagance, but it is difficult to go from extravagance to frugality. The orcs who have experienced this kind of life cannot accept the days when they are in a state of turmoil. Even though Old Kate is knowledgeable and subconsciously resists Zhang Quan's intention to master the fate of these orcs, he cannot accept such a result.

However, after his explanation, Zhang Quan was right when he thought about it. Gold is a rare metal after all, and even in the entire universe, it is probably not very high. It is impossible for him to come to this other world and suddenly encounter a sea of ​​gold and silver.

He thought about it and asked again, "There are no gold coins - what do you usually trade."

The old Kate, the Gote man, honestly replied: "It's all bartering, just exchange for anything!"

"Then why, why did you guys give me that kind of gold coins last time?"

"That was when we were hunting last time. Well, I copied a small Taurus tribe, and the ones they had hidden were saved in their tribe. That kind of gold coins were the currency of their Taurus Empire when they unified the grasslands hundreds of years ago. They were mainly minted for exchanges with human merchants. Now the empire is gone, where is there!"

"Then, on the grassland now, there is really no currency?" Zhang Quan couldn't believe that the civilization of these orcs on the grassland was so backward that the currency would have no value here.

"Well... Now, if you say the equivalents like you said, they may be livestock or food. No one can lack these things, big guys." Old Kate thought about it and answered.

Oh, so that's it! After hearing this, Zhang Quan finally understood that gold coins, that is, currency, are things that only exist after the commodity economy in a society has developed to a certain level of prosperity. At this time, the orc wasteland was still a rare thing. The orc indigenous people living on this wasteland are extremely simple in economic form, mostly bartering among tribes. Only the scarce food is considered a general equivalent. Livestock and food are the main wealth that orcs can have in their lives.

As for currency, okay! The tauren gold coins traded by Zhang Quan last time were left over from the Tauren Empire during the previous unified period on the wasteland. They have been around for hundreds of years. Generally, only the large tribes among the orcs will hold them in large quantities. They are only used when they are kept for trading with the southern human race outside the Hengduan Mountains.

For Kategaskenya and his group of wanderers on the grassland, even if they sacrificed their lives and tried their best to get no gold coins in the most remote northwest of this wasteland. The dozens of gold coins they brought back to Zhang Quan last time were already stolen and robbed, and they visited all the tribes around them before they gathered together.

Zhang Quan frowned,

"If there are no gold coins, are there any other precious metals on the grassland, such as scattered gold, silver, gems, etc., and it's okay to look shining!" After thinking about it, Zhang Quan added again. In any case, Zhang Quan's purpose is to quickly find a product that can quickly cash out in the earth world. If there is no gold, other things can be done, and then go back to exchange it for food and necessities, and then return to this world, so that the business will grow bigger and bigger. Otherwise, Zhang Quan will just go in and out so how can he hold on?

But he stopped asking Old Kate, and after thinking for a long time, the guy answered.

"I heard that there are gold mines on the grasslands. Some large tribes can collect gold and give it to human merchants in the south in exchange for food and iron tools in the hands of humans. However, I haven't heard that there are some nearby, otherwise we would have been rich long ago."

Oh, Zhang Quan kept saying in his heart that he was unlucky. The place where he came, these orcs were so poor that they were simply poor.

"Then, besides food and livestock, there are other valuable things here, for human merchants." Zhang Quan thought to himself, let's treat dead horses as living horses! Since there are already primitive transaction forms between orcs and humans, then there should be primitive commodities, which should be useful!

This time, Kate answered very simply.

"Then there are only livestock and populations, wildebeests, rhinoceros and other things, uh, you see the ones we ride ourselves, oh, the soldiers on our grassland are famous mercenaries on the entire continent, and those human merchants are willing to spend a lot of money for them. But there are everything on our grassland, and there are as many as you want."

As he was talking, Old Kate also deliberately straightened his chest, as if he was proud.

But this posture made Zhang Quan speechless. Grandma's, her brother was so happy to be bought as a slave. The moral values ​​of these orcs are really hard to accept.

What's the use of population and livestock for Zhang Quan? Although the cattle and horses on the earth are quite valuable, here, do Zhang Quan dare to sell those monsters with strange shapes and huge sizes to the earth? And these orc warriors, even if he is powerful, can Zhang Quan take them back to the earth?

Don’t you understand that it is even more Jurassic Park than Jurassic Park? If you don’t pay attention, it may cause chaos in the world. Zhang Quan’s current development strategy is to make a fortune without saying a word. How could he dare to use these things to show off!

He said angrily: "Well, is it true that there is nothing on your grassland except population and livestock?"

His tone naturally made Old Kate, who had a great sense of national pride, feel uncomfortable, but there was no way. Now everyone is relying on Zhang Quan for dinner, and he dare not retaliate and lowered his head and thought about it for a long time.

"Oh, by the way, ore and ore. Although there is very little gold on our grassland, the iron ore is everywhere! In the past, during the Taurus Empire, I wonder how many human caravans came to our grassland to buy it, and then they were sold back after they were smelted into pig iron and weapons!"

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Chapter completed!