Ice Age: I can control plant growth

Chapter 38 Monetary System
The Old Zhou, Old Sun and others that Old Zhang mentioned are all elderly people who are a bit older than him. Since joining Wanling City, they have not made any contribution to Wanling City, and they feel very guilty.

Han Dong's asking them for help this time was not a trouble to these elderly people. Instead, it gave them a glimmer of hope to shine!

After finding these old men, Han Dong and others took the cabbages for exchange and left Wanling City under the leadership of Fu Zikui, preparing to go to the West Lake shelter.

They did not hike to the West Lake refuge, but used ski carts.

At this time, at the gate of Wanling City, there were three wooden carriages connected end to end on the smooth snow.

Several old people were sitting in the middle carriage, and the last carriage was filled with cabbages.

At the front of the team, there were no animals pulling the carts. Instead, Fu Zikui was sitting in the first carriage.

He was seen holding two thumb-thick blood-red vines in his hands. He waved them gently, and the two vines shot out to the open space seven or eight meters ahead. Then he pulled them gently, and the three carriages began to move.

After seeing this scene, Han Dong realized that the Second City Lord sent Fu Zikui not only to protect their safety, but also to serve as the power for the ski sled.

As Fu Zikui continued to exert force with the vines in his hands, the snowmobile glided quickly on the snow like a snowmobile!
In preparation for this trip, Fu Zikui had already absorbed enough mutant beast blood before setting off, and even brought two buckets with him to use as energy on the return trip.

At the end of the world, there are no more gasoline-burning engines, but there are blood vine warriors who drink the blood of beasts.

……

On the top floor of the City Lord's Mansion, Li Mu and the other two sat at the conference table again, discussing something that was crucial to the development and stability of Wanling City.

"Wanling City must have its own currency system. We can't keep taking supplies to the West Lake Shelter to exchange for Hope Coins. This way we will always be controlled by others."

Yao Chengcheng clasped his fingers together, put his arms on the table and spoke seriously.

"I agree with Cheng Cheng's opinion. West Lake Shelter has Hope Coins, so other shelters may also have other currencies. We can't exchange precious supplies for worthless paper money every time we go to a place.

If this shelter issues excessive amounts of paper money but does not have an equivalent amount of material reserves, all we have in our hands will be a pile of waste paper!"

Ah Sao also put forward his own ideas.

"You are all right, and I agree with you, but none of us three majored in finance. We don't know how to work with the monetary system!"

Li Mu scratched his head in distress.

“We don’t understand finance, but we understand the most basic transactions.”

“The reason why paper money could be issued before the end of the world was because the power of the state was behind it, and the most common currency for preserving value should be precious metals such as gold and silver, and the global stock is strictly controlled.

This is why gold and silver have become the preferred value preservation for many people. In this case, why don’t we use this as a reference? "

Yao Chengcheng suggested.

“Gold and silver will no longer be valuable after the end of the world. If a lucky person robs a gold shop or even a vault, we will suffer huge losses.

But is there anything that can have the same status and value as gold and silver?

And it has to be unique to Wanling City."

Ah Sao touched his chin and muttered to himself.

Listening to the conversation between the two, Li Mu was also thinking about what could meet several precious characteristics at the same time: small size, huge value, value preservation, unique to Wanling City, etc.

After a cup of tea, Li Mu suddenly had an idea. He actually had something that could meet these characteristics!
"I think I know what can serve as the unique currency of Wanling City."

“And you are very familiar with this thing.”

Li Mu looked at the two of them and said calmly.

"What is it?" "Huh?"

Yao Chengcheng and Yu Shuaikang looked at Li Mu in surprise, still couldn't figure out what this thing was.

"Tell me, what is the difference between Wanling City and other shelters?"

Li Mu did not directly say what it was, but asked the two of them a question in return.

After hearing Li Mu's question, the two fell into deep thought and began to think about the uniqueness of Wanling City.

"plant!"

"The biggest difference between Wanling City and other places is the various magical plants created by Old Li!"

Yao Chengcheng suddenly said loudly.

"Yeah!"

"But what kind of plants can be used as currency?!"

Yu Shuaikang was very excited when he thought of the magical plants that Li Mu had transformed. But then he remembered that plants were inconvenient to carry and died easily, so they were not suitable to be used as currency.

“Why does it have to be the plants themselves?”

"Source energy has been around for so long, humans have evolved, and beasts have mutated, but have you discovered any metals related to source energy?"

Li Mu asked the two of them another question, but this time he did not wait for them to think, but continued:

"The transformation of biological organisms by source energy may be very fast, but the transformation of lifeless stone and metal is obviously not that fast."

"We can use a plant to speed up this process and increase the speed of source energy's transformation of metals by thousands of times!"

"In this way, these special metals can be used to make Wanling City's unique currency."

"Moreover, in this era, ordinary firearms are becoming less and less effective against high-level mutant beasts. This metal can be used to make special bullets or to create unique weapons."

"With this function, doesn't it guarantee that this metal itself has great value?"

When Yao Chengcheng and Yu Shuaikang heard what Li Mu said, they were suddenly stunned. They really didn't think of this.

Although they thought of gold and silver, they never thought of artificially creating a metal related to source energy.

If this metal can be successfully produced as Li Mu said, it will definitely be more than enough to use it as the currency of Wanling City.

"After all, I still have to rely on you to transform the plants. I really can't think of any plants that can be connected with metals. In my mind, plants are only related to water, soil, and oxygen."

Yao Chengcheng shrugged helplessly.

"Old Li, what you said means that this plant has already been transformed?"

Yu Shuaikang blindly trusted Li Mu's ability. He didn't know much about plants anyway, so if Li Mu said there was something, then there was something.

"It hasn't been created yet, but I already have an experimental target. Just wait for my good news!"

Li Mu smiled slightly and said with confidence.

"Okay, we can't help you in this regard, but when I go out to search for survivors in the future, I will keep an eye out for researchers related to botany. I can't always let you do everything by yourself, because that would make us seem useless."

Yu Shuaikang stepped forward, put his arm around Li Mu's shoulders, and started teasing him with winks.

(End of this chapter)