Bailiyan has always felt strange that the people of Jinxuedi are not short of gold and silver, they have a considerable amount of natural resource endowments and trade specialties, and they do not suffer losses due to the exchange of trade between the north and the south.

The Central Plains could get their gold and silver, spices, medicinal herbs, livestock, horses, nuts, honey, leather, furs, precious stones, wool, blankets, etc., and they could also get silk, cotton, cotton, sugar, medicinal herbs, spices, porcelain, preserved fruits, tea, etc., from which both sides could benefit, but not a single official trade had been heard of for hundreds of years.

The atmosphere was silent for a moment, Gudappa and Mooney looked at each other, their faces fluctuated, and after a long time of brewing, Gudapa spoke:

"Actually...... The affairs of the church, when it comes to our status, are no longer important. We haven't thought about the trade repair you said, but the church does not agree, many nobles do not agree, and the moon god kings of the past generations have also supported the trade repair, but most of the time it is influenced by the church, so for hundreds of years, it is inevitable to fight and stop. ”

"Then why doesn't the church agree?" Bailiyan asked.

"The priests will think that the people of the Central Plains are different from us. Secondly, you trade with copper coins and less gold and silver, so we will suffer. Since the Church made most of the laws, the gold and silver mines of the whole country, although nominally owned by the family of the Moon King Blendor, could be given to the nobility, but in fact the Church and the priests had great power.

They control the negotiation of taxes throughout the country, and our domestic transactions are denominated in gold and silver. Therefore, when we trade with you, most of the money we get is copper coins. ”

Bai Liyan was surprised when she heard the news, and asked again the next moment:

"Your church and priesthood still have so much power?"

"Almost......" Gudapa said helplessly.

"Then why don't you nobles and the Moon God King family take back the right to tax and trade?"

That's when Mooney said:

"It can't be!"

"Why?"

"This is the Blood Alliance since ancient times, and turning your back on the Blood Alliance will be damned."

", do you really believe there's a curse?"

Bai Liyan asked rhetorically, and Mooney said:

"It's happened so much, all the Moon God Kings who betrayed the church, as well as the nobles, were cursed and died, and some of them I saw with my own eyes."

"Then you don't suspect that the church is secretly poisoning the ghost?"

"It can't be." Mooney denied.

"Why can't it be?"

"Because you didn't see it with your own eyes. I have seen with my own eyes that the nobles who betrayed the priesthood were cut open with a sword in front of the public, without warning. ”

"And things like that!"

According to Mooney, the priests would execute traitors out of their own will, and in the absence of any executioners, they would hang themselves in the air and kill them out of thin air in front of everyone in order to deter the apostates.

To say that Mooney was alarmist and exaggerated the facts to intimidate him, Bai Liyan didn't think it was possible. After all, the atmosphere of the scene and the jealousy of the two of them are not something that can be disguised by acting. But to say that someone was disemboweled and killed out of thin air is too sensational.

Either they use magic principles to shield their eyes, or these priests are masters of advanced technology beyond the times, and they are also time-travelers, and they control some kind of advanced background stealth device or technology, otherwise it is impossible to insert a sharp weapon of material form into a person's body out of thin air. But if it is the latter, the technology and cognition of the Jinxuedi people will never remain in the age of iron farming for hundreds of years.

There is also the possibility that a special superpower can control objects and exert a certain amount of external force to act on the target.

Regardless of whether such an ability exists, it will never be universal in a few hundred years, and it is unlikely that it will be passed on to the next generation through genes. Even if they could, there would always be times when they encountered invisible genes, and there would always be genetic loss, and how the priests would be able to continue to control this power for hundreds of years is an unsolvable question.

It is precisely because for hundreds of years that the priests have mastered this silent way of killing, and over time it becomes a curse in the eyes of other people with limited knowledge. All the Moon God Kings or nobles who betrayed the Cult of God were either killed by the will of heaven in a public trial, or died inexplicably and inexplicably.

In short, the Priesthood seems to have mastered some unknown ability to kill, and through this ability, they took control of the Church, and then took control of the government in the name of the Church.

After thinking about it, Bai Liyan believes that even if there is such a possibility, it must be subject to many restrictions, and it is by no means omnipotent. Otherwise, he would have been entrenched outside the gate for several years, and he could have killed him silently, but he didn't. It can be seen that even if this technology exists, it is subject to certain limitations.

Due to the excessive power of the church and the priestly council, they enacted tax laws that controlled the economic links of the whole country, and for some unknown reason, the priests would be extremely fond of gold and silver, while gold and silver minerals were scarce in the Central Plains, and copper coins were still the main means of payment for currency circulation.

Therefore, most of the copper coins obtained by Jin Xuedi and the Central Plains were still traded, and the Jin Xuedi people entered the Central Plains to trade, and all that flowed out was gold and silver, which led to a deep-rooted resistance to trade by the church and priests.

Of course, in the final analysis, it was the Church and the Priesthood that set their own monetary policies that caused this result.

The gold and silver minerals in and outside the Jinxuedi Pass are extremely abundant. Not only is there a large mineral reserve, but most of them are open-pit gold and silver mines, with excellent natural fineness, and even a lot of natural camel gold and dog's head gold. There is no need to smelt, and the fineness is better than that of the Central Plains.

However, the circulation of precious metals was very large, and the priesthood was fond of precious metals, so they forbade the exchange of copper coins and precious metals issued in its own area. As a result, there is no official exchange rate between its native copper coins and precious metals gold and silver, but private exchanges are more common, and the exchange rate is also distorted.

It is precisely because the copper coins of the Jinxuedi people cannot be exchanged that the copper coins of the Central Plains cannot participate in economic circulation after they enter their economic field.

In the early years of the vassal states of the Central Plains, gold and silver did not participate in circulation, but all of them flowed into the treasury as a large transaction between countries. Therefore, the Central Plains folk have an exchange rate between copper coins and precious metals, but private precious metals are scarce, and copper coins are actually difficult to exchange for precious metals at the official exchange rate.

In this way, the copper coins of the Jinxuedi people, which are rich in precious metals, were not recognized in the Central Plains, and they could only export gold and silver in trade.

Of course, in fact, it is also possible to barter goods without currency transactions. However, the long-distance barter transaction has great loss in transportation, and the transportation distance has increased the cost. At the same time, the Jinxuedi people did not have the exchange rate of copper coins and copper coins, which led to the loss of the price measurement benchmark between the two places, and there was no way to barter.

In the final analysis, it is the difference in the currency caliber and cognition of economic and trade that has led to trade obstruction, but it is not enough to explain that the Jin Xuedi clan has been going on a northern expedition for hundreds of years.

Even if the priests had the ambition to attack a piece of non-land thousands of miles away, what was the point, it was beyond the scope of the current technology. The huge Central Plains can only be divided, not to mention the difference of more than 10,000 miles in the middle.

Thinking about it left and right, Bai Liyan didn't want to refute anything, and she couldn't refute it. had to turn to him:

"I haven't seen the murder out of heaven's will, and it's hard to comment on anything. But you go on a northern expedition every twenty or thirty years, and you never succeed, don't the priests know? ”

"They know very well, but the land in the north is ours, and it is understandable to take back our own land."

As he spoke, Mooney returned to the old road and lifted the bar, which Bai Liyan could only not mention. Because once religion is deeply rooted in people's minds, it is difficult to eliminate its influence, and the more coercive it is, the more counterproductive it will be.

The secret of the Priests' Society has been bothering Bailiyan for a hundred years, until the Jinxuedi people surrendered and discovered the whole "Hammer" element, and finally found the crux of it, the so-called "curse" of the Priests' Society, which was in broad daylight.

The "Elemental Elemental" is an attractive purple metal that is scarce in a single universe and is not found on Earth.

"Gluton" is a special element that is easy to react with gold under the catalysis of most light sources and some rays, the reaction conditions are low, the refining is convenient, and the ore body can be melted and separated at high temperature, and the use of simple flame or even sunlight can have a physical reaction with the gold element, and the special physical phenomenon of the gap in the time flow process is used to achieve the effect of distorting time.

The element does not have radioactivity and half-life, but reacts with gold to form a new element, "needle", another more mysterious white liquid metal, which, like mercury, penetrates into the human body and causes irreversible harm and is quickly deadly.

However, the needle element has a magnetic gravity reaction to the silver element, and the use of silver can adsorb the needle element and make it produce a chemical reaction to become a more stable and non-toxic compound, but it is very difficult to separate the silver from the needle element compound.

The application of the pin element and the needle element in the later period is far more than this, but the technical threshold for using the pong element is very low, even in the agricultural era, as long as there is smelting technology, after discovering this phenomenon, it can also be used.

After being accidentally discovered by the Jinxuedi people with the special phenomenon of the gold element, he eventually became an accomplice of religious interference, which directly led to the Jinxuedi people's penchant for gold and silver.

Due to the scarcity of the element, priests would quickly discover that it was an extremely difficult deposit to find. For the sake of power, they are constantly looking for this mysterious element.

As early as 700 years ago, Qianyue Mountain was still a deserted and uninhabited land, and the people of the Central Plains had not yet developed to the south.

However, a few years later, the Central Plains people moved south to the border and entered the north of Qianyue Mountain, monopolizing the acquisition of the Ringing Element, or for the sake of power, the Priests' Association concocted the heresy that the North had long belonged to Jin Xuedi, and constantly launched the Northern Expedition, the ultimate purpose of which was only to obtain the Ringing Element.

Of course, this is already a later story, and Bai Liyan will not know at this time, what a great new element the Bolt Element is, and I don't know how many interstellar civilizations will be wiped out because of it in the future.

Bai Liyan is more concerned about practical interests at the moment, without the permission of the Priests' Council, even the Moon God King Blendor's family cannot go against the will of the Priests' Council.