In the glass passage full of sci-fi atmosphere, aliens from different planets and different races lined up, most of them with relaxed and happy expressions on their faces, but Lan Xue puffed up her face and said: "Hunting planets is really bad, obviously have the ability to skip the queue and let everyone sign up directly through the data network, so you have to spend hours blocking here to queue." ”

Bai Zhongfu wore a chestnut-gray woolen coat, trousers were only nine points, a pair of oxford shoes that are no longer popular on the earth, lined with a low-key suit waistcoat, a light brown turtleneck, and the Führer's handsome face that was now a little ascetic, and there were often primate women in the ranks who were flattering.

Lan Xue was very annoyed with those bewitching sluts, grabbed Bai Zhongchu's sleeve and said: "Uncle, don't fall into the peach-colored trap of those bewitching sluts, this place of Hunting Planet is a high-end consumption place, and it is a place for dignitaries and dignitaries of various civilizations to have fun." A lot of peripheral women are mixed here to pretend to be celebrities, and when they come to the tycoon, they come up to set up, and if they are on the side, they will be lucky. But who knows how many sexually transmitted diseases from different planets they have? Some viruses may be tolerated on one planet, but they may be fatal to people on another planet, and maybe the little brother will rot. ”

Bai Zhongchu didn't plan to find a girl to accompany him, but Lan Xue's scaring words still made him quite helpless.

Lan Xue thought of something again, and said, "Oh, what I said really doesn't make sense, uncle, that Xiaomi of yours is so beautiful and spicy, she won't like these bewitching sluts." ”

Bai Zhongchu couldn't help this girl who was off the line and suspected of having something to do with herself, so she could only go back to the place she complained about before: "Since it is a high-end consumption place, it is natural to create a sought-after appearance." You see that the people here stay here and queue up, and the really powerful people, eighty percent of them have fast lanes, which shows their superiority. ”

Lan Xue blinked and said, "It's still an uncle, in fact, it's the first time I've come to hunt the planet." I used to hear about this place a lot in the Galactic Wilderness. Hunting Planet is a group of very business-minded guys, searching the galaxy to find a lot of very strange creatures to throw here, and then open to tourists, so that tourists can hunt these rare creatures on the planet by themselves, if the hunt is successful, you can take it away. ”

Bai Zhongchu had heard Lan Xue say about this planet before, behind the hunting planet was a commercial organization with some heads in the galaxy, and it had dealings with many advanced civilizations, and its strength was extraordinary, otherwise it would be impossible to build a planet alone to do such a boring thing.

Lan Xue said: "Many of these monsters on the hunting planet have very domineering genetic characteristics, and after coming here to breed and hybridize, they have bred many more peculiar monsters. Of course, there are some nice pets here, which are relatively small. But since you're here to play, many people's goals are to hunt monsters of the level of the 'Ten Evils'. Lan Xue had a very knowledgeable expression on her face, so hurry up and ask me.

Bai Zhongshu asked very cooperatively, "What are the ten evils?" ”

Lan Xue said smugly: "It is the ten most dangerous and terrifying monsters selected by the hunting planet. These merchants on the hunting planet have really good brains. They opened a huge prize, and whoever can hunt and kill monsters of the level of the Ten Evils will be able to get one billion merchant group coins. That's enough to buy a private luxury ship! ”

Bai Zhongchu also learned more about things in the galaxy through Lan Xue, and earlier, as the head of the Star Alliance, he was actually not a participant in a big scene, but more of a manager of his own affairs.

There are many civilizations in the galaxy, and everyone basically has the need for trade, and sometimes different units of currency may be used in a civilization, and the transaction between civilizations can only be bartered. The Galactic High Governance Council once tried to implement a currency shared by many civilizations, but because of the large technological gap between everyone, it is easy to form exploitation, and both high-level and medium-low civilizations finally gave up.

After that, hundreds of merchant groups, armed consortia, commercial planets, and chambers of commerce in the galaxy formed the Merchant Alliance, and with the support of the High Council, they began to promote the merchant coin. It's a very backward currency in concept. It is the monetary and financial system that is formed by forcibly tying up hundreds of commercial forces to form credit endorsements, as well as the material supply behind them.

The merchant coin is not essentially a currency, but a unit of monetary measurement. Because of the alienation and vastness of the galactic markets, and the great differences in the productivity of civilizations, the price of a commodity can vary greatly even in one currency. The merchant coin is essentially bound to materials, and only after a civilization sells a sum of goods to the merchant group, can the merchant group coin be obtained, and the merchant group coin is actually a storage voucher for the merchant group to hold the goods on behalf of the merchant group. The seller can actually use the merchant coin to buy back the previous supplies.

It is the ability of hundreds of merchants to clear enough, so that different civilizations can trade with merchant group coins. In essence, the issuance of each merchant group coin is related to the appearance of the goods themselves (entering the market circulation), and at any time, the holder has the right to redeem the goods. Even if he had sold the goods hundreds of years ago, it stands to reason that his goods would have broken down long ago.

And the strong economic strength of the merchant alliance also gave them enough goods to sell. This made it necessary for people to trade with merchant coins in order to obtain goods. Therefore, the trade ships of civilization sell their own goods here in the merchant alliance and exchange them for merchant coins, and use the merchant group coins to buy other materials from the merchant alliance to collect other civilizations.

The value of the merchant coin itself is determined by several of the most important commodities in the galaxy, mainly energy, crystals, rare earth elements, basic organic matter, etc., these commodities are calculated by complex mathematical models, and then a set of weights are added, and then according to their price fluctuations, the price of the merchant coin itself is determined.

It is with such clumsy storage capacity and strength endorsement that the merchant coin can be used as a general equivalent in many civilizations. Because of the price difference, in order to prevent a run, the issuer of the group currency even pulled the civilization of the High Council as a backing to crack down on all runs.

Most civilizations reject the use of Merchant Coins as currency within their civilization, as it would cause serious chaos. Only facilities opened by the Merchant Order, such as Hunting Planet, allow the use of Merchant Coins.

As a super-large financial monopoly, the merchant alliance itself regulates the price of commodities to stabilize its currency. The price of goods varies from one star field to another, so in order to ensure that there is no other civilization buying the goods of the Merchant Alliance in one place, and then running to another place and selling it back to the Merchant Alliance to earn the price difference. Spreads can occur, but they must be shipping costs.

Of course, this mechanism is not completely operational, and there will certainly be problems in some places, but in general, this system of financial and monetary and trade linkages is still feasible.

In fact, there are a large number of members of the High Council behind the trade union, ostensibly as a monopoly organization, but in fact the High Council is the first shareholder of the trade union.

A commercial planet like Ping'a, where Bai Zhongchu first visited, is actually a small coffee in a remote area in the entire galactic trade system, and they are making small fights.

The current Bai Zhongchu is truly penniless, even if he owns two elder race motherships, a planet of the magnitude of a star system, in terms of material wealth, Bai Zhongchu may be the richest person in the galaxy. However, he didn't have a dime of merchant coins.

It was Lan Xue, a little girl, holding a little pig piggy bank, with a painful face.

"Tens of millions of people come to this planet every year for entertainment, a ticket costs 5,000 merchant group coins, VIP tickets are more expensive, plus the consumption of people here, just a hunting planet, the annual gross profit is tens of billions of merchant group coins. I have saved a little more than 10,000 business coins since I was a child, and I still have to spend the New Year's money given by my aunt and mother. ”

She looked at Bai Zhongchu with an expression that was about to cry, Bai Zhongchu understood very well what this stinky girl was doing, so she could only say helplessly: "When I go back and sell a spaceship or a batch of weapons or something, I will give you all the money I earn." ”

"Long live Uncle!" Lan Xue "burst into tears" and laughed.

At this time, Bai Zhongchu really had a feeling that he had been cheated of money by his own children.

After waiting in line for a long time, it was finally Lan Xue and Bai Zhongchu's turn, although Lan Xue got Bai Zhongchu's promise, but she still had the same expression as her life when she wanted to spend money, and reluctantly pressed the button on the tail of the piggy bank, and then the piggy bank spit out a coin from her mouth.

It took Lan Xue ten seconds to hand the coin to the cashier. The cashier was also well-trained, with a professional smile on his face, and he didn't make any mockery of Lan Xue, but Bai Zhongchu looked at the cashier's actions and suspected that the cashier wanted to snatch her money from Lan Xue several times.

A small coin is actually a currency counting prop, the merchant coin is incorporeal, but the transaction needs to be transferred, and the transfer needs a carrier, this small coin, in fact, is a complex counting carrier, with its own communication network, through the cashier or transfer machine connection, can be circulated.

The strong and wealthy alliance of the merchant group is also reflected in the fact that such monetary technical props are distributed free of charge by the merchant group, which is completely to facilitate the circulation of merchant group coins.

Lan Xue's piggy bank is actually such a prop, but the coin-shaped prop is only used for storage and trading, and the piggy bank can be swallowed into the coin, transfer the money inside to the piggy bank account, and then spit back the empty coins. When it's time to spend money, spit out a coin that counts well.

Naturally, this is the way of use by the poor, and the real big merchants and rich people use cards or other devices with better security to transact. The piggy bank was robbed, and the money was gone.