The snow girl wears an exquisite cloth dress, which is similar to a modern suspender skirt, revealing her fragrant shoulders. But it has more ethnic-style decorations, with many colorful gems hanging from cowhide, and a delicate headband on her head, which makes her hair grow on both sides.
The braid falls down on the chest.
Regardless of her yellow teeth, after improving her personal hygiene, she can indeed be regarded as an exotic little beauty.
Modern research on aborigines mostly comes from the diaries of colonists.
A surveyor employed by the East India Company once wrote: 'Indian women are comparable to any beautiful thing in the universe. They have tawny skin, bright and passionate eyes, and their charming smiles, so they have a face that is unparalleled in the world.
; Their cheeks are round and their bodies are as pure as nature.'
Judging from diaries such as this, there is really no need for a group of invaders to say some compliments in their diaries that the Indians cannot see.
Of course, no serious person keeps a diary.
Therefore, what the surveyor described in his diary was more about communicating with Indian women in various postures and gaining insights.
"Master, why do you boil the water and drink it?"
After opening the door to knowledge, the current Snow Girl is like a second-grade primary school student, becoming a walking "One Hundred Thousand Whys".
Zhou Li'an already has a familiar answer routine: "I gave fire with thunder. The use of fire not only brings light, it can dispel pollution, refine gold and iron, and master the law of fire. It is also a way to enter the realm of technology."
Ways of practice.”
All answers are ambiguous and leave room for imagination.
There is no need to explain anything so clearly at this stage, because no matter how much you talk, the snow girl won't understand.
It's better to cast a layer of mystery over something.
A little bit of bad taste caused Zhou Li'an to think about it... The future university teacher stood on the podium and no longer introduced him as a professor of a certain department.
Instead, he showed an evil smile: "I am a strong person of the eighth level of the life system in the third realm of the God of Science!"
"The course we are going to teach today is 'Cytoplasmic Matrix and Endomembrane System'."
The students in the audience exclaimed: "He turned out to be an eighth-level powerhouse in the third realm, so terrifying!"
now.
Zhou Li'an has established various institutional rules for the tribe, such as public toilets dug and built outside the valley, and drinking water for all tribesmen must be boiled before consumption.
For tribal people, the process is cumbersome and incomprehensible.
But the supreme meaning of divine authority is reflected here.
No one fails to obey the oracle and regard it as an honor.
It's like a married man who is restricted by his wife. He can't drink alcohol during the week and smoke less. When he goes out and sits with his friends, it may seem like he's complaining about his wife being too strict, but what he actually wants to express is...
Hey, single guy, do you have a wife?
The subtext of being a tribal person is: Hey, are you covered by a god?
The emergence of rules is the first step in the emergence of law.
Of course, Zhou Li'an does not intend to control them too strictly now, but only restricts them from aspects of life. The main purpose is to eliminate diseases and improve personal physical fitness.
Moreover, subtle changes will not be suddenly difficult for tribal people to accept when legislation is passed in the future.
Late at night, after completing his teaching mission, Zhou Li'an returned to the world.
It is already July 6th.
There were two missed calls on the phone, one was from Wang Defa.
Zhou Li'an couldn't help laughing: "The old guy can't help it anymore."
It was previously agreed to trade the last batch of 2,000 furs at the end of the month, but because the "expedition team" had not returned yet, the number was not enough, and Zhou Li'an was too lazy to make an extra trip.
At the same time, this is also a psychological game with Comrade Lao Wang.
Lao Wang didn't understand the last follow-up cooperation invitation sent to him, but it has been long enough for him to grasp the hints he left and make reasonable assumptions.
It’s not that bison leather is no longer available, it’s just that it’s not suitable for the open and honest circulation market.
The price reduction is to follow market rules. In short, if you set up a joint-stock factory, everyone will still have a steady stream of US dollars entering your account.
Lao Wang must have figured it out a long time ago, but he hasn't contacted me for a long time. Most likely, he doesn't want to appear too eager.
However, when the time came in July, he couldn't bear it anymore.
Zhou Li'an is very important to him.
And to Zhou Li'an, he was not the only one.
At this point, there is no need to continue fishing, as the fish will be unhooked if it takes too long to hold the hook.
Zhou Li'an called back Wang Defa's phone number. The call was picked up almost instantly, and a familiar voice came: "Ah, Mr. Zhou, why haven't I heard from you in recent times?"
"I'm very busy. In addition, the transaction of the 2,000 furs will be postponed until after July 20. If you are in a hurry, I can deliver 1,000 furs to you now."
Wang Defa laughed and said: "No rush, no rush, I just want to make an appointment with Zhou Sheng to talk about future cooperation..."
"This matter is not urgent. I made it clear last time. If you are willing, you can raise money to set up a factory. If you are not willing, you can tell me during the next transaction and I will find someone else to cooperate."
"I'm willing, I'm willing, how can I not be willing? Let's talk next time we meet?"
"good."
Hang up the phone.
Zhou Li'an checked another missed call, which was from a lawyer at a law firm and left a text message.
The case was over, and Magosine did not appear in court. The court ruled that the other party's finances were frozen and he could recover losses of about US$30,000.
It is an unexpected blessing that a drug addict has assets in his name that can be liquidated.
Anyway, the principal of 100,000 has been recovered, and the 30,000 recovered is just interest, which is a blood profit.
Finish worldly affairs.
I took a look at the background information on the recruitment platform and found that there were still no suitable candidates.
He was not in a hurry and continued to log in to the webpage and found the main businesses of several large horse farms.
The American horse trading market is very prosperous. There are more than three million registered horses alone. There are also a large number of ranchers who do not register their horses in order to avoid taxes.
Ordinary meat horses are cheap, and old horses that are infertile can even be purchased for just a few hundred dollars.
The average price of young horses is about 1,000 dollars, and they must be trained accordingly.
Zhou Li'an did not plan to hold any horse racing events in the 15th century. As long as the horses brought improvements in productivity and transportation capabilities to the tribe, it would be enough.
Let’s talk about cost-effectiveness.
The price of a horse's "time travel" is $11,000.
If you use off-road motorcycles or bicycles, the price is more than half the price. The problem is that the terrain in the western region is not suitable for the use of modern transportation.
The motorcycles used in the Dakar Rally are all professional-level. Riding in the flat desert will cause extremely high accident rates.
A group of aborigines riding motorcycles to jump over mountainous terrain? It’s unrealistic!
bike……
Without a basic road transportation network, riding a bicycle is not as fast as walking on two legs.
There is no need to build roads. The western part of the country is sparsely populated and does not have any development value at this stage.
Even if you build a road to California, it will be abandoned after being used once.
Nowadays the manpower of the tribe is used for war.
Even in the past, small and medium-sized excavators were not very practical for transporting modern engineering equipment. The cost of using the [System Portable Space] alone was as high as 3 million US dollars, not counting the price of the 30-ton self-weight excavator.
An excavator brings 10,000 Modoc people to develop the western region and revitalize the northwest?
The United States did not dare to do this when it first started.
The poor mountains and rivers of the west, even after the Indians were completely defeated, still retained the last bit of humanity and did not drive them into the deep mountains and forests of the west. Instead, they drew a circle in the southern part of the central plains and established the Oklahoma Reservation.
Zhou Li'an's plan was well thought out.
When the cannon goes off, there is a thousand taels of gold.
Making money is the foundation of a country.
The Modoc army of ten thousand people quickly unified North America, and millions of people would become their workers.
In this way, the state machine can officially start operating.
After writing down the phone numbers of several racecourses, Zhou Li'an called them one by one to ask for prices.
On the phone, he did not mention the number of horses needed, and everything had to be decided after on-site inspections.
And it is impossible for him to release 500 horses to the tribe at once.
The tribesmen don't know how to ride horses yet, and learning equestrian skills requires a process. In the early stage, you can throw away 10 horses for a few people to learn them, and then slowly add more.
After communicating with the horse farm manager and confirming that all three ranches are located in Montana, Zhou Li'an plans to set off early tomorrow morning.
Because he can't ride a horse either.
Many ranches and horse farms have equestrian courses. You need to sign up for a class and learn for a while first.
God gave horses, but God himself cannot ride a horse?
Too low!
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American horse farms are widely distributed. In addition to the so-called horse capital of the world, there are horse farms in Kentucky, Montana, New York, Florida, and Texas.
Equestrian and horse racing are like domestic e-sports competitions.
Every week, major events are broadcast live on the dedicated Marseille TV station. In farm workers' dormitories and small town taverns, there are men, women and children wearing cowboy hats drinking beer and cheering for their favorite horse superstars.
The reason why Zhou Li'an went to Montana was because the horse breeds were not of high quality, rather than aristocratic thoroughbred racecourses that frequently asked for hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Montana is famous for its ranches, and the cost of raising meat horses is not high. They can be slaughtered and exported as horse meat, or they can supply the riding needs of farms, ranches, and clubs around the world.
Hundreds of thousands of aristocratic horses are toys for the rich, very far away from the lives of ordinary people.
Zhou Li'an set off for the airport in the morning and landed in Billings at around 10 a.m.
Rent a car at the airport and continue eastward to a small town called Hardin, which already belongs to the famous Yellowstone Park territory.
The three horse farms he contacted are all concentrated in this area.
The town has a concentration of tourist centers and accommodations. In July, you can also see the snow mountain slides and cable car tracks on the distant peaks.
After lunch, he went to the first horse farm to visit. The price quoted by the other party was $2,000 for a 1.5-year-old horse, male or female, and delivery was not included.
The racecourse is run by a local tourism company, and its main business is not selling horses to external parties.
Zhou Li'an didn't stay long and went to visit the second and third houses one after another.
The second company quoted the same price, the local horse market trading conditions were stable, and the price difference would not be too large.
Come to the third house.
Before the car entered the door, he saw horses playing and chasing each other on the hillside pasture.
There are also tourists walking horses at the racecourse at the foot of the mountain, and there are many wooden houses providing accommodation.
The reception desk is headed by a girl in her early twenties.
She was very happy to hear Zhou Li'an's intention: "If you don't consider bloodlines and quality, horses under 2 years old only cost 1,500 US dollars."
The ranch is run by her parents.
She asked the factory worker to temporarily take over, and then took Zhou Li'an to visit various places.
"Zhou, are you Chinese? I can tell because I have a college roommate who is Chinese. Your skin is really good."
The rural girl is very talkative. She went home to help her parents during the summer vacation. She is studying tourism management in college and plans to inherit the family business in the future.
The entire ranch has more than 5,000 horses, a number that is unimaginable in China.
But considering that the total number of meat horses exported by the United States each year is more than 150,000, you can know the prosperity of this industry.
As a result, Zhou Li'an checked into the cabin and signed up for a beginner's riding class, planning to live in the ranch for a while.
First learn how to ride a horse, then buy a few horses and send them back to teach the tribesmen.
Once more people learn it, they can purchase it on a large scale.
night.
A girl named 'Martina' knocked on Zhou Li'an's door.
Zhou Li'an originally planned to drive to the town, but in fact he was planning to cross back to the tribe halfway, but this plan was interrupted now.
"Is something wrong? Martina."
The girl with freckles on her face is not ugly, but rather simple and cute. She said slightly coquettishly: "Zhou, have you had dinner? My parents heard about your visit and wanted to entertain you."
"Oh, by the way, don't be burdened. It doesn't matter even if you don't buy a horse in the end. The main thing is... I, I want to be friends with you."
Zhou Li'an still couldn't tell what the girl was thinking, but he didn't refuse such kindness.
"Then let's go, but I didn't have time to prepare a gift."
"No need, it's just a homely meal. My parents and my brother are here. My brother is the equestrian coach."
The two of them chatted and came to the big house on the ranch.
As soon as he entered the house, a bearded middle-aged man greeted him warmly: "Zhou, right? I am Martina's father, Ben Stone."
"Hello, Mr. Stone, I'm sorry I was invited suddenly and couldn't bring a gift."
"Hahaha, just call me Ben. It was too presumptuous of us to extend the invitation."
Another sound of teasing came from the back room, before anyone arrived——
"Let me see what the man who fascinates our little Martina looks like."
"Oh, brother, please stop talking nonsense, okay?" Martina retorted anxiously.
Zhou Li'an was not surprised at all, just treating it as a joke, and the American character is always so open and direct.
A thirty-year-old man came out and shook hands with Zhou Li'an: "Andy, Andy Stone."
"Just call me Zhou."
Finally, Mrs. Stone appeared in an apron, said hello, and let the three men chat first while she took Martina to prepare dinner.
The father and son first asked Zhou Li'an about his needs for horses.
Zhou Li'an could tell that they extended the invitation not just because of their youngest daughter's concerns, but because they were extremely eager to make a deal.
It is difficult for a simple countryman to hide his emotions and intentions in front of Zhou Li'an.
Tracing back to the reason, it is nothing more than the word "money".
Zhou Li'an felt confident, so he released some chips: "I plan to open a racetrack in Oregon. It's just a personal interest."
"If possible, after I get started with equestrian riding, I plan to buy 10 horses first, and the final demand will be around 100 horses."
When the father and son heard this, their faces turned red with excitement.
"100 horses? That must be a large racecourse!"
"Believe me, Zhou, the horse racing industry is very prosperous now. As long as you are willing to invest, you can make money."
"I heard that in many club horse farms in the south, the fee for using horses for one hour is only $50. This is a big business."
The sales skills of the two were almost zero, and they just had to force Zhou Li'an to sign the contract by throwing out the contract.
On the contrary, Mrs. Stone was very rational. After asking them to come to the table to eat, she said: "Zhou just has an idea. He hasn't even learned to ride a horse yet, right? Don't force others to do anything."
"Oh, by the way." Mrs. Stone smiled and looked at her daughter again, "Zhou, in fact, Martina is also an excellent knight. How about letting her teach you tomorrow?"
Martina is eager to try.
Her brother Andy complained, "Hey, Mom, the coaching job is mine!"
"Shut up." Mrs. Stone glared at him, and Andy didn't dare to speak anymore. Then she smiled at Zhou Li'an and said, "Zhou, Andy is not as careful as Martina. Believe me, she will be a good teacher."
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Zhou Li'an didn't know whether to cry or laugh about this.
Maybe the introverted Martina finally fell in love with a man, so the whole family helped her?
After the meal, Martina took Zhou Li'an back to the cabin on the pretext of eating.
On the way, Li An started talking to each other, and soon he found out that this girl had never been in love before and had a blind longing for love.
As for why I fell in love with Zhou Li'an at first sight.
Without him, he looks good.
Zhou Li'an doesn't intend to hurt this girl.
She sat down in front of the wooden house and put on a sad look: "Martina, actually I am divorced and my ex-wife hurt me. Part of the reason why I came to Montana is that I hope that the clean air and beautiful scenery here can
Cleanse my wounded heart."
I thought Martina would retreat due to this.
Who can imagine...
"Oh, my God, we shouldn't bring up these sad things. Then, how about I accompany you into the room and have a few drinks? At this time, you must have someone to comfort you."