Chapter 137: Monetary Culture
In the warehouse, the soldiers of the logistics wing were still busy, and Shiloh was here to accompany Locke to inspect the work. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
The interior of the warehouse was now empty, some clothing and other military supplies had been packed and stacked, and Locke could see dozens of iron felts in the corner, neatly placed together.
"Can you take these iron felts with you?" Locke walked over to look at them and asked, "It's best not to leave these things behind, otherwise there will be problems with the Legion's daily equipment maintenance." ”
"We have enough wagons in our logistics wing, and there are no problems with the corps commanders." Shiloh affirmed.
Locke nodded, and he turned to check the number of gold coins among the soldiers on the ground.
To be honest, the amount of 500,000 copper coins was too unexpected for Locke, and it was completely an increase in the workload of the soldiers. If you had known that there was a bank here, you should have issued a deposit slip, and then you should have asked the goblins from the Goblin Bank to come to the legion to open a withdrawal slip, and let the soldiers go to the bank to withdraw it themselves.
It seems that the director of the Goblin Bank is eyeing this, the big customer of the Crusaders, and he is indeed prescient.
If possible, the Crusaders would need to use thousands of gold coins a month, if they could keep it in their bank...
It's going to be a long-term lucrative deal, and it's understandable why goblins are so keen.
"Captain Lubbers! Let the soldiers of the Guards Company who are not on duty count the money. Locke looked at the busy logistics wing soldiers and ordered, "By the way, let them maintain order here for a while." ”
"And." Locke thought for a moment and said, "Send a soldier to the Legion headquarters and get the herald Bridget over." ”
"Yes, Legion Commander!"
Captain Lubbers, the captain of the Guards Company, left with a salute.
Then Locke lowered his body and began to count the copper coins on the ground.
He was soon attracted to the pattern on the coin.
Perhaps the difference between these coins is that they come from goblins, or maybe they are now slowly blending into the world.
His previous impression of the world currency was still the vague impression of the game.
Locke didn't expect that the coins of this world also had so many cultures.
These copper coins appear smaller than both silver and gold coins, and if the size is represented by 100, then the size of gold coins is 100, silver coins are 90, and copper coins are only 80.
Locke took out a caliper from his engineering package and measured the size of the three coins.
The gold coin is 1.625 inches, the silver coin is 1.375 inches, and the copper coin is 1.250 inches, and all coins are approximately 0.125 inches thick.
Some of these copper coins are very new, some are full of scratches, and some people have small characters engraved on them, and some people have their names engraved on them, and there are all kinds of words, and Locke is also amazed, it seems that no matter where you go, there are those folk sculptors who like to carve everywhere.
The copper coin looks like a kingdom from all the races of the world of Azeroth, as evidenced by the avatars and patterns printed on it. However, it should be noted that it may be that when the currency was first formulated, the metal content of each currency was determined, so that the currencies of various races could circulate freely.
Take the copper coin in Locke's hand, which has a copper coin with the orc's head on it, and the back is the gate of Orgrimmar. There was a silver coin with the High Elf Ranger printed on it, and to Locke's surprise, the female Ranger on this copper coin actually looked like one of the three Windranger sisters, and behind it was the gate of Silvermoon City. There is also a copper coin of the Minotaur, and on the back is a large totem of the symbol of the Thunder Cliff, and there are also marked mountains under the totem, engraved with the words of the Minotaur.
Of course, these are also indispensable in the human kingdom, the dwarf kingdom, the night elves, as long as they are almost all intelligent races.
But one striking feature of these coins is that they do not depict people that Locke knew well, as if they were people of their own race.
Locke pulled out a silver coin from his bag and looked at it. This silver coin is a dwarven silver coin with the head of Locke, the head of Magni Brastacle, king of Ironforge, and the gate of Ironforge.
He took out another gold coin and looked at it.
His coin bears the head of a human man, his hair parted in the middle, half of which shows the world, and a scar on his face that extends from the left side of his face through the bridge of his nose to the right side of his face, with the gate of Stormwind on the back.
Obviously, it was Stormwind that could make the humans who could print the gold coins, and it turned out that this man and the gold coin were from the Stormwind Kingdom.
The human on it is Varian Wrynn, the king of Stormwind.
Locke dug through his backpack again, looking for Lordaeron and the rest of the human kingdoms.
Then he tossed out the coins of the other human kingdoms one by one, all of which were engraved with the heads of their respective kings.
Only the Night Elves and High Elves have coins that are more confusing. The gold coins of the Night Elves were all the heads of Tyrande, and the silver coins began to change, and there were also other women's heads printed on them, but Locke couldn't see that the copper coins were all various celebratory images of female civilians in the night.
The High Elves had the heads of their kings on their gold coins, and below the silver coins began to change, and various male High Elves began to enter. As for copper coins, it seems that elves with status and status can be printed on them.
Memories from the depths of Locke's mind told him that these currencies from other countries were sometimes exchanged by the kingdom and then re-made into the currency of his own country, and the specific reason seemed to be to spread the influence of the kingdom of Lordaeron.
This kind of recoinage is being done by all kingdoms, not just Lordaeron, but all races will do it to a greater or lesser extent, especially the kingdoms of humanity are the most enthusiastic.
The reason is that in the beginning, the short lifespan and fragile body of human beings determined that human beings had to expand their influence in this dangerous world. The vast continent of Azeroth, with its dense mountains and rivers, blocks the possibility of human communication with other races.
Soon, a way to break this geographical barrier was thought of by mankind.
That is, the information of the human being carved into the currency, including some notable deeds of the human race, the portraits of the leaders of the people, and the text that introduces the human civilians.
Then the human merchants traded these currencies to the intelligent races not far away through caravan trade, and the other intelligent races used the human currency when they traded, and traded this currency.
Over time, through the efforts of generations of humans, this currency has spread. It has even changed the way other races are traded, allowing them to accept the model of trading with human metal currency, except that they have some information about their own race printed on the metal currency made by their own race.
After humanity established itself and established the Arathi Empire, this cultural transmission reached its peak. Human currency was transmitted to the ancient continent of Kalimdor through ocean-going trade, and was quickly accepted and popularized by the intelligent races there.
Among them, the Night Elves and Minotaurs are the leaders.
In the beginning, when humans drove ocean-going merchant ships across the endless sea to the continent of Kalimdor, the minotaurs, an indigenous race living here, first discovered these strange creatures, and they were very peaceful, and they warmly received humans and proposed trade activities.
The Minotaurs have not been living in a very good environment, the centaurs, the harpys, the thornback boars and some local beasts are all opponents they have to face, and their main enemy, the centaurs, has been compressing their living space, and they lack enough resources to deal with their enemies.
Humans at the time gladly accepted their trade requests, as the Minotaur currency was loved by humans.
The Minotaurs were a nomadic people, and they lived mostly in the grassy hills and mountains, which were rich in precious stones, so their currency was also a variety of gemstones. They have always liked to decorate themselves with jewelry, to decorate them on their hair, or to hang them on their horns.
As a result, humans happily traded with the Minotaurs. After the first humans tasted the sweetness, trade activities were intensified, and human money flowed into the Minotaur society in large quantities.
The production of gemstones was never inexhaustible, and soon the Minotaurs discovered their currency, and the colorful gems became scarce. On the contrary, there are many gold, silver and copper mines that make human money.
They abandoned the gemstone currency that had been characteristic of their race, and they mined gold, silver, and copper, and began to make their own currency, on which they carved the characteristics of their own race, and used it to trade with humans.
The currency traded by humans also circulated within the Minotaur society, and more Minotaurs knew the news of humans, and other races also indirectly knew about humans through human currency. The currency was circulated layer by layer, and even spread to the World Tree City, which was far north of the continent.
Darnassus
The largest city of the Night Elves.
The Night Elves here are beginning to know that on the other side of the continent of Kalimdor, a new intelligent race, the human race, has begun to rise.
However, as an immortal race, they did not actively contact humans at that time.
They continue to remain in isolation.
However, the Burning Legion's re-invasion broke the night elves' long silence, and they gradually began to realize that they could not stand up to the Burning Legion's power alone. In order to continue to survive on Azeroth, they formed alliances with other races for the first time.
And this race is human.