CHAPTER XIX
Getting into the carriage, John pulled out some coins from the space. These are all the currencies that I took with me when I left here before, and most of them are the proceeds from selling weapons and equipment. I was in a hurry when I left, and I didn't take these out, but now I need them.
Selena saw John take out these silver and copper coins, and snorted with a piece of candy in her mouth, "Big man, you don't have this money." "Well, what's going on?" John looked at the coin in his hand, no problem. Selena moved the sugar from the left cheek to the right and said, "Il has been promoted to the upper god, and he has changed coins, and he is not what he used to be." Your coin was abolished thirty years ago, and no longer has a monetary purchase value, and is only a collector's item at best. ”
It turns out that after Eir was promoted to the upper god, there was no longer a need to use sufficient amounts of gold, silver, and copper to mint currency. This is prescribed by the only two ancient gods who have ever appeared to the world, Dairia, the god of wealth, and Sawyer, the god of contracts.
You know, in the old currency, each currency was defined as how much it weighed, and the weight of five grams was worth one. That is to say, a gold coin is five grams of gold, and a silver coin is five grams of silver, and if it is missing, it cannot be blessed by the temples of both, and it does not have an anti-counterfeiting effect. You must know that the currency blessed by these two ancient gods will not be destroyed or oxidized, and this indelibleness can naturally become a good circulating currency. The weight limit of this currency naturally makes the transaction troublesome, especially when it comes to large transactions, even if it is used for silver coins and gold coins, it is necessary to use oxen to pull horses, not to mention going out to buy something, ordinary people with silver coins, all the belongings at home can not be exchanged for two, and it will be very cumbersome with copper coins.
But the country of the upper god is different, even a five-gram currency can be printed with different values on it, it can be one, it can be five, it can be ten, and it is naturally much more convenient - after all, the endorsement of the superior god is naturally much easier to use than the middle god and the lower god.
In other words, from the gold standard and the silver standard, it has become a credit currency. John played with a coin in his hand, looking at this copper coin with the emblem of the Eternal Bright Sun Sect on one side and the number 10 on the other, and remembered the great powers of the Primordial World. In the past, money was printed according to the gold and silver in its own treasury, but later it was also printed by relying on national credit, so it was naturally much more relaxed. As I said before, the Nimitz Empire lacked silver mines, and at that time, the common people used copper coins, and they had to bring a lot of them with them every time they went out, but now they don't need to recycle the old currency, and pray for the two ancient gods to take back the blessing and pay a certain fee, and then melt the rest and remint the currency, which is naturally relaxed.
Well, now I have to exchange the currency first, the exchange ratio of the old and new currency is 1.2 to 1, as long as the exchange, the value has risen by two percent, which stimulates everyone's desire to exchange for a new currency, and can collect enough currency melting, which can be regarded as the welfare of the believers given to him by the promotion of the superior god. Isn't there still a neighboring country to buy and sell, and many shrewd businessmen bought a lot of good things from the surrounding countries with a large amount of new currency, and with the country under the care of the superior god, the surrounding countries were naturally more willing to associate with him, and many of the original deals that had to be negotiated for price were agreed to in one go.
"Sheep shearing, yes. John sighed and had to find a place to exchange. In the past, there were quite a few officials who exchanged this kind of thing, and after twenty years, the exchange was basically completed, and the remaining few who were not exchanged? There is no need for so many officials to do this, just promoted from the kingdom to the empire, and the newly inherited territory is short of people, and it is not cost-effective to waste manpower on this. In a city, one or two people are left in the bazaar, saying that they are in charge of money exchange, but it is only a part-time job, and at most they are still working as the manager of the bazaar. John exchanged his past currencies one by one at the market gate.
The bazaar is still bustling – no, it's even more lively than it used to be. Not to mention, this is an endless stream of people coming and going, but there have been before? In the past, Yir was only a median god, although it was already a very powerful level, but it was not the most top-notch level, and most of the people who came and went were only businessmen from the surrounding countries. At that time, the patron saint of the surrounding countries, who was not able to trace it to the median god level? Everyone was similar, and no one obeyed anyone, so they got along with each other peacefully.
However, the superior god is different, it is the top existence, and it is also the sun god. This is terrible, the patron saints of the surrounding countries have sent oracles, even if they do not form an alliance with the Nimitz Empire, at least they must be safe, after all, no one knows if this superior god will not want to start a god war for a while and annex himself.
Since their patron saints have said that they want friendship between the two countries, the merchants below are naturally willing to come here to do business, and the caravans of various countries come to this country with their own specialties to seek good buyers, and the first thing that comes to mind is naturally the commercial bazaar of the imperial capital. Therefore, even if you stand at the entrance of the market and do not walk in, you can hear a lot of exotic shouting. John became interested, stepped out of the carriage, and looked at an exotic merchant in the middle of the road leading a wagon with goods in tow.
It can be seen that this hurtful person is not a member of a large chamber of commerce in a certain country, and the members of the general chamber of commerce have their own way to sell all the goods they brought, although the money earned is not as high as retail, but it can also save time and effort and make friends with the chamber of commerce of this place, which is convenient for future goods - after all, if you don't bring some goods from this place when you return to China, it will be equivalent to a waste of time when you go back. And Zhang Luo also needs energy, and handing it over to the local chamber of commerce will save him from spending time on these trivial matters, which is beneficial to everyone.
And the merchant in front of him should be a merchant like Lawrence he met before, doing his own business, and the goods he brought were also messy, but they were all specialties from somewhere on the way here. John rummaged through his carriage with interest, looking for something of interest.
"Let's take a look, the best copper mirrors, wooden combs, and wooden hairpins are all good things. The peddler saw that John seemed interested, and hurried up to sell it. Indeed, John just looked through the car and found that there were no consumables such as food and spices, so he asked, "Do you have nothing to eat here?"
The man froze for a moment. Watching John get off the carriage, he naturally wouldn't be the owner who needed to buy things by himself, so he thought about seeing if he could sell the goods, but he didn't expect this person to open his mouth to eat. smiled awkwardly: "No, if you really want to buy food, it won't be in the district." ”