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The eldest prince Mandot and the second prince Xiwen, although the age difference is almost ten years, some of the courses are about the same pace. For example, law classes. When it was Moshi's turn to teach, he scheduled the two princes' law classes at the same time.

Moser could see that Mando and Shevin were not quite right.

Of course, this is not because of the natural disagreement between the two children, but because their mothers are enemies of each other - just like Manka and Manxi in the past (the old kingdom only had two sons in his later years, so he later changed the name of the second son, starting with "Man", which is a disguised identity affirmation, and it has to be said that it is the potential reason for the rebellion of the two princes later), Mando is the eldest son, born to the queen, and Xiwen is the deputy of the king.

If the current queen dies and the king marries the vice-queen as his wife, it will be a repetition of yesterday.

Moshi wasn't sure what Manca thought, but he knew it was the tradition of the royal family of the North.

Anyway, back to the law course.

"Your Highness, do you know what the Code Rules say about minerals?" asked Mo Shi, "I guess you've read the relevant chapters. ”

"Yes, teacher. Belch...... But I've only read the Code, but ......"

"Ah, I understand, there are many things that you don't understand, right? It's normal, and your willingness to preview and try to think about these texts already shows that you are serious and intelligent. Then Moser looked at Mandor. Mandor snorted and shook his head.

So Mo Shi flipped through the books on the table—to be honest, in this primitive country, the books related to the law were all the ones in front of him. The thin booklet is the Code of the Territory Ruled by the Golden Lion, the thicker is the Code By-Laws, and several other booklets, which record some classic cases over the years for consideration in the judgment.

"Tell me, then, what you know, Your Highness Xiwen. ”

So the boy straightened up, even so nervous that he coughed for a while (as he always did when he was in the same room with his brother): "Everything in this land was created by God, and the king is one of God's agents in the world, and God allows the king to rule over the material world. Thus the Code stipulates that the king has ownership of everything in his territory – including the ore in the mountains, of course. ”

"Well said, Your Highness. ”

Encouraged by the encouragement, the boy's expression became a little more lively: "Any mine that is discovered must be reported to the king and approved before it can be officially mined, and it will be supervised by the king's envoys. ”

"Overseer is divided into ......," Mo Shi instructed.

"There are two kinds! one is regular inspection, and the other is the envoy as the person in charge of the overall management of ore mining. ”

"What ores is the latter about, do you remember?"

"It's about—" The boy spoke quickly, then realized he couldn't remember, and shook his head with a red face.

Mo Shi nodded, approving what Xiwen Golden Lion had just said, and then began to teach: "What the king must personally supervise is the mining of 'precious metal' ores. ”

"Gold and silver!" replied Siven again.

"That's right, Your Highness. "Snowwalker's precious metals generally refer specifically to gold and silver," so why is gold and silver so important, even more than the precious jewels that require countless gold and silver to buy?"

"Why, teacher?"

Mo Shi was relieved to see that Mando was also listening. And if he looked at Mandot squarely, and gave the prince some affirmation, he would have turned his head around it—the puberty of a grumpy child.

So he just looked at Xiwen intently, pretending that he was just teaching him alone.

"Because the currency in circulation in our country is mainly gold and silver coins. Gold and silver are not money by nature, and money is naturally gold and silver. Gold and silver are required to mint gold and silver coins, as well as smelting processes and coinage dies. ”

Shevin didn't seem to understand, and was looking forward to his further explanation.

"Suppose you can imagine this," Moser tried to give an example, incorporating interaction and thinking into teaching as an example of what he was accustomed to in education, "what would happen if there was a lord who discovered a large gold mine in his land and started minting coins privately?"

Xiwen thought seriously for a moment: "He will be rich, become very rich." ”

Mando chuckled.

"Yes, that's right. "Exactly." He's going to get rich, and if he's kind enough, or he's far-sighted, he'll find a way to have more gold for the people of his realm – what does that mean?"

"Means his subjects will be rich?"

"His subjects were rich and the subjects of the rest of the lands were as poor as ever, and when the merchant did not raise the price of his goods, but the number of people who possessed money (purchasing power) increased, goods would pour into his territory, and then the merchant would try to buy more goods and raise the price, and at the same time the merchant would accumulate 'money that did not exist (wealth out of thin air)' by this trade. ”

Moshi paced down the passage in the middle of the classroom.

Then the subjects of the other lands will find that the price of what they should have bought is gradually rising to the point where they cannot afford it. They became poorer and desperated, and began to desire to move to settlements, trying to enter more affluent areas—and so, at this point, the lord who had coined money privately acquired coins, supplies, and even subjects, and his power grew, monopolizing trade, and increasing the strength of his army......"

Xiwen unconsciously opened his mouth wide and was frightened.

- Mo Shi admits that what he is telling is only a theoretical reasoning, not reality.

In reality, there will always be more factors and more changes, for example, in this era, even if a lord is rich and rivals the country, once his territory is hit by a devastating flash flood tsunami, animal disaster and earthquake, it is possible to quickly collapse.

But you can't say that the facts won't get to that point, right?

A lord, rich and powerful by minting coins privately, eventually threatens the rule of the Golden Lion.

It was obviously this that scared the princes.

Moreover, in any case, the private coinage would undoubtedly rob the subjects of other territories of what they originally had—this is not moral in the first place, and should be allowed to be criticized.

"So," Moshi coughed lightly, pulling the conversation back to his place, "control of the gold and silver mines is of paramount importance to the central government. And those who mine precious metal mines without permission are guilty of the highest sin - treason. ”

Treason.

A very interesting word in a sense.

For, in fact, the country of the north is the north of an entire continent, and it is not allowed to have much connection with the rest of the world. And through extensive reading, Mo Shi can roughly judge that this is an old term that originated in ancient times, and has developed to refer to almost all the evidence of "betrayal of the royal family" and any harsh and cruel punishment.

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"Treason?!"

Nagao was startled and almost jumped to his feet, while Opal snapped his hand with his eyes and pressed him back into his chair.

"You mean...... Mr. Moser suspects that the Golden Lion family has discovered a new gold mine, and has minted it privately, and has minted coins privately?" said Long Tail in a low voice, "So we are here to find evidence of Goldmane's 'treason'?"

"It's not just Goldmane, actually, it's the Scales family. ”

"It's ...... the"

"And you, Long Tail, don't think about quitting now that you've joined us. "Even if you run to Silvercastle right now and tell Goldmane what we're doing, you won't get any benefit, instead, they'll just kill me and kill you." ”

"I don't need you to remind me of these things, I know that," said Long Tail, who lowered his ears and tail, but did not look weak, and teased, "how can little people have a choice, do they?

Opal smiled and held out his hand, "yes." We are all like that. ”

Nagao smiled too. Just as he shook hands with the astrologer of the eccentric, nameless king who had preceded him, he shook hands with the martyr-like academy young master.