Re:Zero - Starting a Different World Industry

Chapter 1557 The Little Girl Selling Flowers

Although now the resistance organization has emerged.

But this does not mean that the Wehrmacht does not control the entire southern continent.

After all, these resistance organizations hid in the desert, and it was difficult for the National Defense Army to hunt them down.

Therefore, the Wehrmacht adopted a step-by-step strategy and crushed the resistance organization in the desert.

However, the common dwarves can live safely in the coastal cities.

Although coastal cities are a bit hot, they are better than the desert.

And some coastal cities are still covered by forests.

More than 70% of the population of the Dwarf Empire is concentrated in the coastal areas.

And the railway was also built along the coastal area.

It’s not that Lyon doesn’t want to build the railway inland.

But the inland is all desert Gobi.

Building a railway in the desert is extremely difficult.

Lyon's speed requirements meant that the inland railway could not be completed in a short period of time.

Fortunately, the existence of the coastal railway has solved the urgent problem.

The lives of the goblins gradually became prosperous.

After disguising himself, Lyon took Hans and Yun Qingchi and walked on the streets of the dwarf capital.

Although this is the capital of the Dwarf Empire and should be the richest place, many ordinary people still live a hard life.

It’s not that these dwarf people can’t make money, nor that they don’t have money at this stage, but because they are really scared.

They are very afraid of past policies.

Now that they finally have some money, they are holding on to it for fear of something bad happening.

What they fear is that the Wehrmacht will suddenly impose taxes on them one day.

Because that's what the dwarves did in the past.

Leon was a little amused and helpless. He had already exempted the dwarf farmers and workers from taxes for two years.

As a result, these dwarves are still living in the fear of the past.

This is enough to show how severe the persecution of people in feudal society was.

Lyon was walking on the street, and the two people following behind him naturally attracted other people's attention. At first, they glanced at Lyon and found that Lyon's outfit was quite ordinary, and then they looked away.

But when they saw Yun Qingchi behind them, they were all stunned in an instant.

The current Yun Qingchi is completely different from her before.

The previous Yun Qingchi might have been a cold and domineering lady.

But now she is a fully mature queen.

He looked as if he didn't want anyone to approach him, and his charming eyes seemed to be able to kill people.

But even such an icy beauty seemed extremely restrained in front of Leon.

Yun Qingchi has a strong desire in his bones.

This is because her background and environment have influenced her character.

She was born in the Orc Empire, which at that time was a place where the strong survived and the weak were the winners.

Being alive is a luxury. For orcs, even a humble life has become a luxury.

So she longed to become an unrivaled strong person and protect her people.

That's why she admires the strong.

But then she became the queen and she no longer had to look up to others.

Now it was others' turn to admire her.

But what no one expected was that the joint strangulation of the Orc Empire was oppressing the living space of the Orcs.

Just when Yun Qingchi's life was hanging by a thread, Leon appeared.

Lyon was like a life-saving straw, pulling the orcs back from the abyss.

The reason why Yun Qingchi was willing to become Leon's wife was not only because she loved Leon, but also because Leon saved the orcs.

After all, she wasn't Leon's lover at the beginning.

First of all, she is a queen, and secondly, he is Leon's lover.

But as time went by, they fell in love, and over time, Yun Qingchi lost his former arrogance and coldness.

Whether at home or anywhere else, she would never show that unapproachable look in front of Leon.

Hans was very tactful and kept a distance from the two of them.

Because Hans knew that the couple just liked to show their love.

He had been following Leon for who knows how long, so he could naturally guess what Leon was thinking.

The two of them walked on the street like a couple from heaven.

A little dwarf girl came over with a basket of flowers, and then said sweetly.

"Hey big brother, your wife is so beautiful! Can you buy me a bouquet of flowers? These are flowers that are unique to our Dwarf Empire!"

Looking at the little girl of seven or eight years old in front of him, Leon squatted down and spoke.

"How are the flowers for the little girl?"

"I picked these flowers from the mountains outside the city this morning. They cost very little. One copper coin can buy 10 flowers, and a bouquet of flowers contains exactly 10 flowers.

If you only buy one flower, I'll give you the change."

The little girl lowered her head after saying this, obviously not wanting Leon to buy only one flower.

The copper coin is the smallest unit of legal tender.

However, there is also a customary practice among the people.

That is to buy as much goods as possible for one copper coin.

If you insist on buying something worth less than a copper coin, you can still get change.

Of course, most of these coins are broken copper coins.

That’s right, the wisdom of the working people is endless.

They anticipated from an early stage that the face value of the copper coin might cause trouble.

So they made it a custom.

Broken copper coins still have value.

And this does not count as destroying the currency.

Copper coins are not only widely circulated, but are also a special metal.

In the feudal era, private minting of coins was prohibited, but melting of coins was not prohibited.

But many times these copper coins are not pure copper.

Even if you know the technique, you can't turn copper coins of equal weight into copper of equal weight.

Leon counted the flowers and found that there were hundreds of them in one basket.

And many flowers are about to wilt.

Leon then asked.

"How did you make today, kid? And shouldn't you be studying? Why are you selling flowers here?"

(Good night)