Chapter 30 Exchange Office
The exchange office is a financial service institution that exists in almost every city, whether it is as small as a brocade city, loose as a chaotic city, or as large as the largest maple leaf in the north, with a population of more than 400,000 people, and a giant urban agglomeration controlled by the Li family in Shanbei, which type of city is inseparable from the exchange office. Pen Γ fun Γ Pavilion www. ο½ο½ο½ο½ο½ο½ γ ο½ο½ο½ο½
As the name suggests, the role of the exchange office is to represent the city government, responsible for the exchange between various general equivalents, more similar to the common banks before the disaster, but with much fewer functions.
In this era, there is no so-called concept of the state, and each city can only fight alone, therefore, it is impossible to use uniform paper money for transactions between cities, and can only rely on the ancient way of using gold and silver as the equivalent in the transaction, of course, if it is an intercity transaction, there is also the largest and most practical source crystal as a general equivalent.
It is true that the source crystal and gold and silver are small in size and easy to carry, but the use of source crystal and gold and silver trading is too troublesome for daily life, especially when it comes to small transactions, so the exchange office came into being. One of the daily duties of the exchange office is to receive all the local and foreign customers, exchanging their source gold and silver with each other at a price, or directly exchanging them for the city's currency.
Yes, it is currency, and every city, in order to meet the daily transactions within the city, will issue currency that only circulates within the city, so the mercenaries and caravans who often travel between different cities, every time they go to a new city and plan to stay for a long time, they must exchange currency, and then exchange it for gold and silver when they leave. Of course, if the stay is very short, like the Rose and the Leopard in Damask City, if they only stay for three or five days, there is no need, after all, every shop has a gold and silver measuring device, and basically accepts gold and silver transactions, but it is only a trouble for three or five days. However, for the hawkers who move along the streets, there is no need to consider the equivalent other than the currency, they definitely do not accept it.
Now that the crow has made up his mind to go crazy with the two equally mysterious guys of the female leopard and the rose, he naturally needs to visit the exchange office, after all, the crow is not a frugal person, and the habit of spending money at will has long been engraved into his bones, as for whether he has the money to support this habit, a person who has controlled a very rich city for a long time, has long been ready to leave the city in the future, and has enough intelligence to use some small means, if he will have no money, it is simply the most boring joke in the world.
The crow, of course, didn't want to be a joke, so he walked into the exchange office in the center of the city, accompanied by a female clerk who had been seduced in a suit of clothes halfway.
The security of the exchange office is not very strict, because there is no need at all, after all, gold and silver are extremely heavy, even if someone wants to rob, it is not so easy to move, and Yuan Jing generally does not keep too much in the exchange office, often only ten to twenty units, and the excess part, every twenty units in batches, is directly escorted by high-level combat power to the absolutely solid vault. Therefore, the exchange office only needs to prevent some thieves, and the real thieves, even if they want to rob, the target will only be the treasury, so they will not fight the idea of the exchange office.
Therefore, even if a high-level ability like a crow appears in the exchange office, it will not arouse the vigilance of the exchange office security, after all, on the one hand, because there are not many things to grab at the exchange office, it is impossible to cause the high-level ability to loot desperately, on the other hand, the high-level ability is also a human being, they have to eat, sleep and buy things, they also need to seek services at the exchange office, therefore, they have seen a lot of strong people like the crow, and there is no need to make a fuss at all, even if he just rejected the security guard's proposal to let him line up, regardless of the security guard's obstruction, he went around to the deeper large transaction placeγ
At this time, the crow was sitting comfortably opposite the receptionist at the large-value trading office, lying on the soft and comfortable swivel chair, ignoring the guide female clerk who was explaining to the security guard with an embarrassed face behind her, holding her chin with one hand, and smiling at a very professionally dressed receptionist.
"This beauty, although I am very rude, I seem to be entitled not to line up with those idle and bored guys. The crow smiled and pointed behind his back, "Those guys are very noisy, please let them hurry back to their posts." β
"You go to work first. "Obviously, even if it is just a receptionist who can receive customers with large transactions, he has a lot of power in the exchange office, and a few security guards finally got the order and simply turned around and left, not wanting to delay too much for a second. They are just low-level abilities, employed by the exchange office, if it is not their duty, they don't want to talk nonsense with high-level abilities like crows, who knows if the other party will suddenly have an abnormal brain and slap himself to death. So the receptionist's order relieved them to hide as far as they could.
"All right, sir. The receptionist was also helpless to the crow as casual as returning to his own home, and asked distressedly, "We have met your requirements, can you tell me now what business you plan to handle?"
"Money, didn't I say it. The crow pointed to the small box on the table, "Why don't you think I'm sitting here for what?"
"This is ten units of source crystals. The receptionist was stunned for a moment, and said in surprise, "You seem to have said before that you want to exchange it for the city's currency?"
"Of course, otherwise why would I put them in front of you, I wouldn't have eaten too much. The crow looked natural and said, "Is there anything wrong with this?"
"Uh, I just wanted to remind you. The receptionist said helplessly, "The exchange between Yuanjing and precious metals, no matter how much the amount, only a small handling fee is charged, but once it involves the city's currency transactions, a handling fee of one percent will be charged for the exchange in and out." According to the current exchange price, one unit of source crystal can be exchanged for 200 grams of gold, and one gram of gold can be exchanged for 250 chaos coins, and you can exchange ten units of source crystal at one time, and the handling fee will be as high as 5,000 points. 5,000 Chaos Coins may not be too much for your trade, but it's a completely unnecessary expense, and it's better to convert most of it into gold and silver, leaving only a small amount of Chaos Coins for daily use, which can be redeemed when needed. β
"Well, you're really thinking about your customers. The crow smiled calmly and waved casually, "But it doesn't matter, it's just the price of a glass of wine last night, and it's not even a loss." As for the on-the-go exchange, hehehe, it's too troublesome, so forget it. β
"Well, if you insist like that. The receptionist's eyes became even more strange when he looked at the crow, just like looking at a humanoid cash locker, "Ten units of source crystals, after deducting the handling fee, will be exchanged for a total of 495,000 for you, please sit down for a while, and I will handle it for you." β