Ice Age: I can control plant growth

Chapter 98 Money Tree

This time is actually much faster than the normal flowering and fruiting of fruit trees. Generally, it takes five months for fruit trees to mature from flowering to fruit ripening, and they only ripen once a year.

However, what Wanling City needs most urgently at this moment is time, because in three days, currency must be distributed to the hard-working residents.

"Oh, I have to be a dry cell again!"

Li Mu sighed. There was no other way out in this situation. He could only rely on his ability to produce enough fruits.

Otherwise, if we rely solely on the natural growth of this fruit tree, when will it produce enough coins to use?
Now this fruit tree really looks somewhat like the legendary money tree. However, the name of the money tree is too flashy after all, so Li Mu decided to name it "money tree".

Li Mu stood up, stretched, and suddenly heard a crackling sound.

Iron had been tried, and next he had to experiment with other metals.

After all, if Wanling City only had one currency, wouldn’t it be too monotonous?
In the next three hours, Li Mu tried copper, aluminum, gold, silver and various alloys.

After some experiments, he found that only four metals, gold, silver, copper and iron, could fuse source energy well, while the fusion degree of other single metals or alloys was poor, especially alloys.

The degree of fusion of gold element ranks first, followed by silver, iron and copper.

It is worth mentioning that all metals that have been absorbed and reused by the money tree have a common feature: their hardness is significantly improved, basically more than twice the original hardness!
In this way, if these new metals are fused with other ordinary metals to make alloys and used to make weapons or bullets, wouldn't the destructive power they can cause be greatly enhanced?
However, this is just Li Mu's guess, and he doesn't know whether this is actually the case.

After all, his responsibility is production, not research, and the specific applications should be considered by the weapons research department.

After the experiment, Li Mu had very little source energy left.

"Alas, I haven't even had a good night's sleep yet, and I have to practice again..."

Li Mu sighed, sat down cross-legged and began to practice breathing techniques.

After three long hours, the clock pointed to one in the morning.

At this moment, the source energy in Li Mu's body has been fully restored. His next step is to do his best to promote the growth of the money tree.

However, before that, he needed to give the fruit of the money tree an appropriate name.

After some thought, Li Mu felt that since this kind of coin was unique to Wanling City, he should call it "Spirit Coin". Then, according to the different materials, it could be divided into: Gold Spirit Coin, Silver Spirit Coin, Iron Spirit Coin and Bronze Spirit Coin.

Li Mu would not try to create the same number of the four spirit coins, because the creation of each spirit coin requires the consumption of different source energy.

He planned to create the simplest copper spirit coin first, because it had the lowest value and could be regarded as the base currency, similar to the one dollar in the past.

Taking this into consideration, Li Mu decided to make four types of spirit coins according to appropriate value ratios to facilitate people's use and exchange.

However, using the same money tree to produce four different spirit coins was rather cumbersome, so Li Mu decided to give birth to three more money trees, each of which would only produce one kind of spirit coin.

In the case of the same mass, the source energy stored by the four metals is different, so Li Mu needs to conduct another experiment before inducing birth.

The goal of this experiment is clear. We only need to measure the source energy contained in the four spirit coins of equal mass, make comparisons, and then adjust the size of the spirit coins.

After half an hour of experiments, Li Mu successfully created gold spirit coins, silver spirit coins and copper spirit coins of different sizes based on the initially manufactured iron spirit coins.

The gold spirit coin is the smallest, about the size of a one-yuan coin, while the copper spirit coin is the largest, a circle wider than the iron spirit coin. The silver spirit coin is between the gold spirit coin and the iron spirit coin, and is about the size of a mineral water bottle cap.

After the size was adjusted, Li Mu gave birth to three more money trees. According to the different spiritual coins produced, he named them the money tree, silver money tree, iron money tree and copper money tree respectively.

All the preparations have been completed, and the next step is to focus on the creation of spirit coins.

He was seen injecting energy into the copper coin tree with his left hand, and placing copper ingots at the roots of the tree with his right hand for replenishment.

Whenever the tree is full of copper spirit coins, they are picked off and piled aside, and then they are prompted to grow again.

As time passed, Li Mu's source energy was constantly consumed and the copper ingots in the box gradually decreased.

Three hours later, his source energy was exhausted again, but the experimental table was already piled with copper spirit coins.

Since Li Mu was fully focused on promoting the growth of the copper coin tree, he did not pay special attention to the number of copper spirit coins, but judging from the height of the pile, there were at least three thousand.

One copper spirit coin is equivalent to forty thousandth of a third-level crystal core. Li Mu is not sure of its value, nor does he know whether one copper spirit coin can be exchanged for one kilogram of grain.

Because only by putting it into practical application can we understand its true value in people's lives.

However, Li Mu no longer needs to worry about these problems, because Wanling City now has financial experts.

It was already past four in the morning, but Li Mu did not choose to rest, but continued to practice.

He knew that time was running out and he had to hurry up to produce more spirit coins. Only with sufficient spirit coin reserves could he build a good economic system for Wanling City.

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In the following period of time, Li Mu devoted all his energy to the production of spirit coins, and did not even bother to infuse source energy into the Fusang tree!
Whenever his source energy was exhausted, he would stop to practice to restore his source energy and rest at the same time; when he was hungry or thirsty, he would just grow some fruit to satisfy his hunger and thirst.

The sun rises and sets, and the cycle repeats itself.

He finally stopped making spirit coins only when the metal raw materials in the laboratory ran out.

This hard work brought Li Mu rich rewards: more than 10,000 copper spirit coins, more than 3,000 iron spirit coins, more than 1,000 silver spirit coins, and more than 100 gold spirit coins.

Immersed in such monotonous work, Li Mu forgot the passage of time. When it was finally over, he looked out the window and realized that it was already the third morning.

He straightened his back and twisted his neck slightly to relieve the numbness from maintaining the same posture for a long time.

Just as his body was no longer stiff, his stomach suddenly growled.

Only then did he suddenly realize that he hadn't had a good meal for more than two days.

"People are like iron, and food is like steel. If you don't eat one meal, you will be hungry."

Li Mu shook his head in self-mockery. Although he had eaten some fruit in the middle, fruit was not a meal after all and could only temporarily satisfy his hunger.

"It seems that the production of Bingliang Pills must be put on the agenda, otherwise I will starve to death in the laboratory sooner or later."

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