Human Territory.
Under Jiang Shinian's governance, the Human Race's development advanced steadily and in orderly fashion. Their annual mortality rate dropped by over eighty percent!
The Medicine Scripture and Herbal Classic compiled by Jiang Shinian truly benefited the Human Race.
And Jiang Shinian's wife, Tingyao, was also a Great Sage!
After inventing spinning hemp and weaving clothes, Tingyao went on to invent measuring tools such as rulers, scales, and dou measures.
The birth of these measuring tools greatly deepened the internal trading market of the Human Race.
However, the Human Race still used the ancient and primitive method of bartering internally.
In the short term, when supplies were scarce, this method did not cause any trouble.
But the Human Race now numbered several quadrillion, and with the emergence of fishing, hunting, animal husbandry, and the cultivation of the Five Grains, resources within the race had gradually become abundant.
Thus—
The shortcomings of bartering began to emerge.
Problems successively appeared in the Human Race's major barter markets.
And though the problems seemed numerous, they were all broadly similar when summarized.
In two words: unequal value! (The Martial Ancestor couldn't count.)
That was right.
As Jiang Shinian listened to reports from his officials, his thick brows furrowed into the shape of an eight.
The Human Race had yet to develop its own writing system, so information was still passed along by word of mouth.
One official reported, "Co-Lord, based on the intelligence we have gathered, the current market transactions can be summed up in seven words: the value of goods is unequal.
"For example, Bullfrog carries a sack of rice and wants to trade it with Sheep Baa for an equal weight of mutton. But Sheep Baa refuses, because Sheep Baa believes meat is more valuable than rice and wants Bullfrog to