"What do you mean......"

Badr's face was puzzled.

"Da!"

With a snap of his fingers, Loki smiled lightly.

"Dwarves. ”

"Dwarves?"

Badr repeated in confusion, then as if he understood what Loki meant, and then he shook his head with a look of astonishment on his face.

"The dark elves, though they are excellent craftsmen, are not servants of the gods, and it is ...... that they are forced to build palaces for the gods It's ......."

The dark elves, or dwarves, were born at the beginning of the world, when the Frost Giant's progenitor Ymir was killed, its blood turned into rivers, its muscles into mountains, its bones into ore, and at the same time, there were maggots on top of its decaying body.

Those who were on the light side became beautiful and kind light elves, and were loved by the gods, so the gods made these little elves, which were less than half the size of a man, tend to the garden, and those who looked towards the dark side became clever and cunning dark elves, and the gods hated them, so they sent them to Watheim in the west, and the diminutive dark elves could not stand the sun and lived underground all year round.

Despite their ugly appearance and treacherous temperament, these dwarves are true master craftsmen, whether it is the invincible warhammer Mijolnir of Thor, the god of thunder, or the necklace Brichgaman, worn by Freya, the goddess of love and beauty, which makes everyone irresistible to its charm, are the masterpieces of the dwarves, and many of the artifacts in the hands of the gods are made by dwarves.

Undoubtedly, it would be easy to ask the dwarves to help the gods rebuild the palace.

However, Badr, the god of light, is an out-and-out good man, tolerant of everyone, difficult to be ruthless, hesitant, and often difficult to decide on any judgment given to him, which is a good quality for a good god, but for an heir of a god king, this is obviously very lacking in the courage of a god king.

In fact, a large part of the reason why his son, Falsetti, the god of truth and justice, was one of the twelve chiefs was to assist him in adjudicating those disputes.

Otherwise, Thor the god of thunder has been fighting against the frost giants all year round, and theoretically the throne of the god king should be inherited by Badr, who is more favored and liked by the gods, and is also the eldest son of Odin in addition to Thor, but if the god king lacks courage, it is obviously not a good thing, and a god who can assist the future god king in making decisions is naturally qualified to be one of the twelve leaders.

As for Badr, he was obviously disgusted by the fact that he was forced to build palaces, but apparently, not everyone thought the same way.

"But if you can get those dwarves to build a palace...... It seems to be good. ”

Beside Badr, Skadi, the goddess of winter, had a bright eye and thought thoughtfully.

For this goddess, who has been driving away winter wolves and cold all year round, and is accustomed to seeing death and cruelty, it doesn't matter what violent actions are, it's a trivial matter.

But in the face of the gods' speculation, Loki looked at them in astonishment, then sneered and shook his finger.

"Forced? no, no, no, you're wrong, it's not force, it's bought with gold. ”

"Buy it with gold?"

Freya, the goddess of beauty, asked a little unclear.

I have to say that even in the mythical world, in some places there are still objective laws, just like this heaven and earth, which was essentially born no more than 100,000 years ago, although long before the creation of heaven and earth, when there was chaos, the gods and frost giants launched a long-term war for countless years, but at that time, there were not many gods and frost giants, so since the creation of heaven and earth, in less than 100,000 years, human beings were gradually born, and gradually moved from barbarism to civilization.

Even with the help of the gods, but the human beings of this world are obviously suspected of serious deviation in many places, for a long time they belong to a nomadic state of tribes and clans, living in birds and beasts, and the history of real settlement and cultivation is less than two thousand years, and the concept of currency has only gradually emerged in these thousands of years, for a long time, human beings still belong to barter, and even now, many human villages are still stuck in the concept of barter, and they are still ignorant of money, and the concept of measuring wealth is often how many cows there are at home, how many sheep, not how much money is in the family.

And often busy with their own responsibilities, managing mountains, rivers, stars, plants, trees, birds and beasts, and even the four elements of wind, fire, water and earth, all the gods of the living and the dead, for these small things that are gradually born from human civilization, obviously still lack sufficient understanding, even if they have some hasty understanding, they don't care too much, only Loki, who is often mixed with human beings, is keenly aware of the true value of this concept that has not yet been popularized.

"Of course, I bought it with gold coins. ”

Loki said as a matter of course.

He looked around and looked at the gods in front of him.

"Do you know that in the mortal world nowadays, some valuable things are traded for something called currency, and the most important materials for making currency are gold and silver. ”

As he spoke, he stood up from his throne and held up two coins out of nowhere, a gold coin and a coin, crudely made, but there were already some patterns and patterns on them.

He said with a slight smug as he walked among the gods, holding up the two coins to display in front of them.

"It's a very interesting thing, as long as you have it, you can buy anything, and you can buy anything, and both humans and dwarves are starting to buy this novel gadget at the moment......"

"I still don't quite understand what you mean. ”

Tyr, the god of war who didn't know anything about them, touched his head and looked blankly at Loki, who suddenly became radiant in front of him.

Loki looked at the gods in front of him, some of the gods had thoughtful faces, but most of them were still at a loss and couldn't help but shake their heads.

"Do you know how much gold and silver there is in Asgard?"

Without waiting for the gods to answer, he directly raised his voice a few degrees and said loudly.

"Nine out of ten!"

"In this universe, more than nine-tenths of the gold and silver are in Asgard! What does this mean? It means that we can use these nine-tenths of gold and silver to directly control all the gold and silver currency in the entire world!"

"The value, circulation, and use of all currencies in this world will be under our manipulation!"

"As long as the output of gold and silver is strictly controlled and the price of gold and silver is stabilized, we can use this gadget called 'currency' to manipulate the value of all the goods in this world, whether it is those sophisticated weapons, or hire mortal warriors to fight for us, or buy those exquisite and small novelties, it will become extremely easy and effortless, and all we need to pay is a little bit of gold and silver that is not important at all. ”

"Even, if the concept of currency is extended to those frost giants, let them also enter the world market, buy goods, and use currency, we can even stop fighting those frost giants, and only need to use these currencies to tempt the greedy people among the frost giants, so that they can divide and strife among themselves, and even use these small currencies to hire those frost giants to fight for us......"

"And if the concept of gold and silver = money is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, we can even replace the actual gold and silver with just leaves, and make it a conceptual currency, and then we don't even need to mine gold and silver, but only use those leaves that are worthless, so that all the creatures in the entire nine worlds can be controlled by us......"

"There is no need for war, no need for plunder, only need to establish a complete world economic system, we can easily manipulate the nine worlds and completely bring the nine worlds into the de facto domination!"

At the end of the day, Loki's expression became visibly agitated, his voice growing faster and faster, his eyes seemed to glow, as if he was proud and proud of his whim.

"How is it possible that leaves can manipulate the world?"

Hearing this, Thor instinctively retorted.

Although he was dizzy to hear a lot of what Loki said, there was one thing that he undoubtedly understood, and that was that Loki, who often had all kinds of whimsical ideas, seemed to have come up with some "absurd" and strange ideas.

However, at this time, Odin spoke.

"What Loki said is not entirely unreasonable......"

The king of the gods gently rubbed his forehead with his thumb, thinking carefully about something, he drank the spring of wisdom, and faintly realized that what Loki said seemed to be possible, but his reason was telling him that these words were too absurd, although he could barely understand Loki's concept of gold and silver currency in the front, but he felt unimaginable about what "currency in circulation" and "leaf currency" and the like in the back.

Eventually, he shook his head.

"Loki, your idea is interesting, but what leaf currency is just too ridiculous...... However, if we can get the dwarves to work for us with that gold and silver, that would be fine, and you can try to negotiate with the dwarves once. ”

Looking at the confusion on Odin's face in front of him, and the stunned and sneering on the faces of the other gods, who were mostly undisguised, Loki knew in his heart that it seemed impossible to convince these gods to believe and support him to build a "world economic system".

But it didn't matter, anyway, it was a flash of inspiration for him, and he himself was not completely sure if he could succeed, although he regretted it, but he didn't care much.

Thinking in his heart, he casually threw away the two currencies in his hand, and did not take seriously the "world economic system" he had just thought of.

Then, he said confidently to Odin.

"I have expected this for a long time, and on the side of the dwarves, I have already negotiated, and they have agreed to repair the palace for the gods in gold. ”

As he spoke, he turned to look at the gods behind him, and then said.

"Before I came to Asgard, I thought there might be something else that needed to be repaired, and I negotiated with the dwarves for all sorts of other work, but now it seems ...... It shouldn't be necessary. ”

"So, the only problem now ...... It's about the sun that was swallowed up by my child. ”

Hearing this, the expressions on the faces of the gods froze, and they all knew that a really difficult problem had arisen.