Yazi continued to work hard in the next two days, but after telling Li Xiang to take Natasha to see it in person, Wang Qi decided to rent the Black Demon Horse.
A normal horse has a head height of 1.8 meters, which is considered a big horse. The average head height of a black horse is over 2.2 meters.
The overall shape is still horse-shaped, but there are some variations, such as several bone plates that are joined together from the front of the head to the top of the head. The overall line is also slightly different from that of a horse, making it appear slightly compact and with a thin belly.
The last quotation given by Yazi was 18 small gold bars per head, which is 1.8 kilograms. Based on this calculation, Wang Qi could actually afford six gold bars.
To be honest, it's expensive. Such a rare thing only costs over 10,000 Phoenix coins. It's really cheap. A V8 luxury version truck from a car manufacturer costs more than 200,000 yuan.
This price is probably related to the situation in the east. Everyone is planning to run away, so if you should deal with it at a low price, you should get rid of it quickly. It would be better to exchange it for gold, which is convenient for transportation.
In the end, Wang Qi decided to rent it, not because he was reluctant to pay, but because he disliked the fact that the black magic horse was too troublesome to raise and was far less reliable than a car.
Not only does this thing eat a lot, but it is also prone to a disease related to vitamins. It needs regular supplements of a fruit called "sour melon", which is about halfway between grapefruit and lemon.
You can still buy some of these "sour melons" locally, but it may not be easy to buy them at the Fountain of Youth, not to mention that it's too late to grow them on site when you return to the place of exile.
On the contrary, the rental process is very simple.
One of the two options is to pay the deposit and take care of it yourself. After using it, you can use the "United Trade Route Agreement" to settle at any large chamber of commerce and get the deposit back.
There are some risks in this plan. Since it is the first time to cooperate, the first deposit fee is equivalent to the full purchase, which will cause a lot of delay when using the "Joint Trade Route Agreement" in a different place. Most chambers of commerce can only recycle remote mounts at a price that "must be sold". If the price is lower than the deposit, users will have to wait for the local chamber of commerce in the remote location to complete the financial handover, which will waste time.
The destination of Wang Qi and his party is clear enough. The local chamber of commerce can organize a batch of goods to go to the Fountain of Youth and provide a guarantee to the local chamber of commerce. However, the distance between the two places is long, and there is no regular transportation of goods. Temporary organization also takes time. In addition, the speed of caravans is generally slightly faster than walking. There seems to be short-distance steam trains in some areas, so it still takes more than half a month to wait.
The other option is much more expensive, but more convenient.
In this plan, the racecourse will provide two horse breeders and the vitamin supplements required by the Black Demon Horse, and the Chamber of Commerce will send two more guarantors. According to the speed requirements estimated by Wang Qi, these people will need to be equipped with ordinary horses or two carriages. The fee needs to be paid in one lump sum.
I don’t know if this is a common practice, but it sounds like they deliberately set a threshold for renting so that Wang Qi would pay for it.
Unfortunately, Wang Qi really didn’t want to buy a few hard-to-serve mounts, so he finally decided to choose option two. He spent a total of 10 small gold bars, 4 of which were personnel fees and rental fees for ordinary horses. If the time exceeded the planned three months, the Chamber of Commerce in another place There is also an additional amount of money to be paid at settlement.
There will also be additional accommodation and feed expenses incurred on the road. Considering that we won’t stop in every city, they should be relatively limited.
After deciding on the plan, give a few days for Akeem and the Black Demon Horse to get to know each other.
Several of them have never ridden a horse, but if their attributes are high enough, the so-called strong horses are just weaklings. If the horse is willing to cooperate with people, it will learn much faster.
There is another thing here, which is to equip the Eight King Kongs with new saddles.
Normal saddles are made of wood and leather. If the weight of the Eight Diamond Armors bumps, it will easily crush the ordinary saddle, and the black horse will be in pain so much that it cannot walk properly, so new saddles are needed to allow both parties to It's more comfortable and less time consuming.
Wang Qi doesn't care about these things, and he doesn't need to pay extra for new saddles. He and Li Xiang observe the city on the top floor of the luxury hotel every day, draw pictures and so on. When the Eight King Kongs don't have to practice, they will occasionally go out and wander around. Asking about some things, if someone investigates, you will find that his questions are highly random and cover a wide range of topics, but he does not touch sensitive topics such as local emperors, just like a curious outsider.
some time
Coming down, there are some things to see.
Needless to say, the local area is gradually becoming chaotic. It is already like this not far away to the east. There are also many refugees fleeing in the city. There are also people who pack up their belongings and flee, and there are naturally not a few who take advantage of the situation. When chaos accumulates to a certain extent, the original urban management mechanism will no longer work, and there is obviously no local concept of so-called military control.
Wang Qi is relatively more concerned about labor prices, technology and productivity levels.
The absence of systematic science does not mean that there is no science and technology. As long as the technology is developed according to objective laws and can be copied in large quantities, it is considered technology. On the contrary, those magic weapons that masters spent many years building are not counted.
The local productivity level is much better than the situation in the penal colony a few decades ago. It is a level where the upper class can live luxuriously and the lower class people will not starve to death.
Putting aside the impact of the new refugees brought by the demonic disaster on labor prices, after questioning, it was found that before the [Great Wall] expired, a local young man who earned income by running errands for half a day's work had a monthly income of about 100. to 130 local currency.
The local currency has a quarter-dollar denomination, which shows that it had a certain purchasing power when it was originally designed, but the actual purchasing power is not particularly high.
Most ordinary people's breakfast expenditure is between 1.5 yuan and 2 yuan.
Lunch is not taken seriously in the local area. Most people just bring an extra piece of bread or pancakes, which costs around 1 yuan.
Most people choose to make dinner at home, but in order to eat better, the per capita expenditure is relatively high, reaching 3 yuan.
In addition, civilian families also have a regular expense that must be calculated, fish oil lamps, which are mainly produced by the country’s southern sea fisheries. Due to production capacity, they are not cheap. If a family of four lights two lamps for two hours each at night, The per capita expenditure is about 1 yuan.
After the failure of the [Great Wall] in the east, prices have risen to a certain extent. The increase in food raw materials ranges from 20 to 50%. Refugees have also had a serious impact on the labor market, and labor prices have dropped significantly.
Calculating half a day's work, a part-time teenager could barely support himself at an average level before. Now that the price of labor has been reduced, he can still survive if he only eats carbohydrates and ignores meat, vegetables and fruits.
Wang Qi specifically asked Ya Zi from the Chamber of Commerce about the expenses of servants and laundry workers. In an era when there were no machines for laundry, the income of laundry workers could best reflect the price of civilian labor. Because the overall number of jobs in this job is guaranteed, the higher the average income, the greater the demand for laundry workers. It requires a certain amount of physical strength and does not require hard labor, so a large number of women can be hired.
The world in Wang Qi's previous life always said that men and women were equal, but it was impossible to be equal in terms of the nature of work derived from body functions. It was impossible to lower the physical fitness requirements of miners to the point that even the elderly, weak, women and children could do it, and no one would pay extra money to hire them. Strong laborers come to do the laundry. Real equality can only mean equal pay for equal work, and the same money for doing the same job.
Laundry workers, an occupation that is obviously biased toward women, have made a great contribution to equality. If the laundry workers can cover their own personal expenses and still have a certain surplus, the overall family status of their group will definitely improve. , because they will never reach the point where they cannot live without a man.
The price Yazi reported was to hire a full-time laundry worker, which cost 300 to 500 yuan. The difference was mainly due to appearance... There must be some weird tricks in it, and Wang Qi didn't go into it.
There are also cheaper ones, and the hiring price can be as low as 180, but this is usually the case when you are older, have children at home and have limited working hours.
According to the lower limit of 180, reduce the use of oil lamps, and save a little more on dinner, you can still form a certain balance to raise a child... Of course, the premise is that you must have your own house. Once you have to pay the rent, you won't have enough to eat, but even so, you won't starve to death. After all, with a pure carbon-water lifestyle, your daily expenses can be reduced to less than three yuan, plus the rent of a small room of more than ten square meters, the daily average The expenditure does not exceed six yuan.
People in the information age may think that this kind of income is a bit poor, but compared with most areas in the exile lord zone, it is already much better.
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This level of income is brought about by higher local productivity.
Ironware and cloth are already relatively cheap. Take the locally sold stew pot as an example. The pot with a capacity of about 20 liters is enough to meet the daily needs of a family of five or even six people except for banquets. Its price is 40 yuan.
Compared with the remote areas where the exile was less affected by the Phoenix Kingdom's goods, an iron pot of similar size there would require almost half a month's income of a local manual laborer.
If the price of durable necessities is low enough, people will naturally spend a larger proportion of their income on food. Additional nutritional intake will bring better average physical fitness, which will have a positive effect on the entire labor market. In addition, Due to the role of some idealists, the salary will also increase with the environment.
In short, the overall local productivity is barely at the level of the pre-industrial era, and labor remuneration is even slightly higher than productivity.
People have some spare money in their pockets, which is a very business-friendly situation, but if you want to fight the demons... this productivity is far from enough.
In terms of technology, the locally installed muskets have surpassed the level of front-loading and have not yet departed from the flintlock type.
The flintlock gun is much stronger than the matchlock gun, but the local charge is still in the paper shell stage. Affected by the local thunderstorms and rainy weather, the reliability on the battlefield is basically non-existent. It is purely a matter of God's will.
The difference between paper charges and metal charges is not just about changing the shell, but also involves metal production capacity, metal processing capabilities and costs. Even the flash cap and primer are completely different compounds. They are just "metal shell fixed charge" The concept has no effect in front of the upcoming demonic attack, not to mention that even the organized legion cannot be seen on the front line.
If the main world were at this level, the war with the demons would be completely dependent on magic. Ordinary people could just wait to die and kill one or two little demons.
