47 The cost of Frederick's economic reorganization
Otto turned his head to see a girl with unkempt hair respectfully handing over a work contract in both hands, looking nervously at him. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info Her emaciated face was dirty and hadn't been washed in days.
"Do you want gold or shilling?" Otto hurriedly took the contract, stamped it on the first month, and then looked up and asked her softly with a smile. "If you choose gold, you will get 30 silver coins. If you pick banknotes, you will get 36 shillings if you count the 20% raise. At the end of each month, you can exchange the 36 shillings for 36 silver coins at Fort William. ”
The maiden rejoiced, "Please give me 36 shillings, Your Highness." ”
"Have a good day. Otto counted out five brand-new bills and handed them to the girl along with the work contract.
"Thank you, Your Highness! I will do my best!" the girl happily accepted the contract and ran away happily.
"See?" said Frederick, who put his legs on his rations and leaned his back to Otto, lazily throwing peanuts into his mouth: "They love you to death, and your smiling face is part of your salary—no, your smile is more attractive than your salary, my dear brother." ”
"Brother, you're getting more and more shameless. Otto gritted his teeth quietly as he gritted his teeth as he smiled and greeted.
"I said no, but my body was quite honest, and I smiled at the girl in the weaving workshop so that it was harmless to a human being, and it made people forget that you had a demonic heart that murdered your brother beating in your body. Frederick continued to throw peanuts, leaning back on Otto's chair, his two legs in the air, swaying and acrobatic.
Annoyed by his brother's fearlessness, Otto angrily moved his chair forward, and said without changing his face: "Next." ”
"Poof!" Frederick behind him played with it, and the chair slammed to the ground, and he fell to the ground on all fours, and the smoke and dust rose to the ground.
"Next. Otto continued to work, his heart dark.
"There's one thing I don't understand. Walter sat sweating profusely on the rations, and asked Frederick with a flushed face: "If you make the shilling 1:1 linked to the silver coin, are you not afraid that someone will raise paper money to maliciously exchange it for gold? You only have 1,000 ounces of gold left in your hand, and once it is maliciously redeemed, you will not be able to maintain the promise of 1:1 exchange, and the end will be a broken credit, and Thaler and the shilling will follow in the footsteps of waste paper." Fort William would also go bankrupt. ”
Frederick got up, patted his ass past Walter, and said grimly, "This is my territory, old friend." If anyone dares to dig into my corner like this, it would be nice if the Knights of Fort William put a sack over the boy's head and have a long talk with him. ”
"Long talk?" repeated Walter, narrowing his eyes.
"The legs are all discounted. Frederick explained viciously.
"Oh. Walter lay down on the rations, "Then I'll be relieved." ”
"Hehehehehe. The two misers, realizing that they were in touch with each other, looked at each other and laughed, and let out the laughter of the villains.
The crowd in the power plaza lined up bustlingly, but they walked in an orderly manner, and the signing, exchange, and purchase were all carried out in an orderly manner. Because of the new hope, the citizens cherished this reform, and when they got the food, laughter filled the whole square, and the whole future was once again stretched out in everyone's vision.
"Hello, can you exchange two silver coins for one shilling?" said Filia, throwing her red hair over her shoulders, bending down affectionately, holding up two full-colored silver coins, and asked a dirty little boy softly.
The little boy cautiously guarded the note in his hand and looked at Filia cautiously, "Can I see the silver coin?"
"Yes. Filia handed the silver to the boy. The boy pinched the silver coin and flicked it, listened to the sound, stroked and looked at it, sent it between his teeth and bit it lightly, and then nodded quickly: "Okay." Then he counted 1 shilling to Philia, and ran away with the silver coin.
Filia held the shilling between her fingers, shook it at Lily in the distance, and raised her chin proudly: "Go, go back." ”
Lily, dressed in civilian clothes, fanned desperately in the shade, and when she heard Philia's order, she climbed into the carriage and opened the curtain and beckoned to Filia: "Come up, I'm hot." ”
As the two of them were jolting in the carriage, they turned the shilling over and over again, and did not know what was strange. All the way back to the concession of the Central Bank Mansion, ran back to the mansion, and handed the banknotes to Ai Lian by the window, both of them looked at their words, wondering why Ai Lian cared so much about these banknotes.
Elaine took the 1 shilling, shook it a few times, listened to the crunching sound, stroked it carefully, felt the cross eagle stamps on the paper, and finally examined the delicate printing, lettering, images, and trimmings, and finally folded it in half.
"What's the idea?" asked Lily, biting her lip and looking at it for a long time, finally unable to suppress her curiosity.
Filia's eyes widened.
"First-class printing, standard stamping, trimming, paper selection, and drawing are perfect, reaching the level of craftsmanship of the Habs Central Bank coinage system. Elaine gently tore the folded 1 shilling in half, and her eyes fell on the window: "Frederick is desperate for the central bank. He decided to kick out the central bank and issue Bafaria's own currency, keeping the market running first. ”
Filia and Lily looked at each other, vaguely sensing the seriousness of the problem.
"This standard large-scale steel stamp can only be rolled out by a steam stamping machine, and the shelf life is about three years. So Frederick had to constantly print new coins to replace the old ones, and by the way to maintain circulation—he auctioned off his ancestral property in order to hook up with the 'iron vaults' of the water city and buy the authorization and assembly lines of the coinage process in the name of the supreme governor of Bafaria. And the 'Iron Vault' is Breschroed's sworn enemy. Frederick, in order to restructure the economy, had already offended the entire central bank. Elena continued to fold the 1 shilling in half, tearing it in half again.
"Braischroder......" Lily thought of the terrible banker with a smile on her face, and suddenly turned around anxiously and shook Filia's red hair trembling, "Fifi, the central bank is just a bank after all, just a place to manage money, right?
Filia frowned helplessly at Lily and muttered, "All the assets of Grand Chancellor Clemenson are handed over to Braischroeder, and every kilometer of the imperial army moves, the central bank needs to raise military expenses to help with financing. A central bank is more than a central bank, it is already a behemoth that the prime minister and parliament must rely on. That's why His Majesty tried to stop Frederick from antagonizing the central bank. ”
"And that's not all. Elena looked into the hollow distance, her fingers forced, and slowly continued to tear the confetti that had been folded three times: "Frederick will go to Wiener in ten days to attend the knighthood ceremony. He will lose the capital of his own army and go deep into the territory of Breschroed, ushering in the most dangerous and vulnerable period of his life. Maybe the next day, we'll see Frederick duel in the streets with the Unknown Knight, and then turn into a bloodied corpse. ”
Lily waved her sleeves and shouted, "He reckless and reckless devil doesn't know anything! He is not allowed to go to Wiener, absolutely, absolutely not to go." Let's go warn him!"