Chapter 210: What Should I Do When I Encounter a Demon? Scatter coins!
Subspace energy can be forcibly extracted from subspace by powerful psionics, who themselves possess surging psionic energy.
However, this energy is very unstable, and it is difficult to form something more complex than a ball of psionic energy. But if we can manage to stabilize the energy, then we can store it and redistribute it with greater efficiency than before.
Through the study of subspace energy, the Empire's researchers have invented a psionic capacitor that is easy to manufacture and suitable for mass production.
The emergence of these psionic capacitors marked the large-scale use of a new type of energy source by the Empire, which greatly promoted the Empire's industry.
And the researchers in the empire are researching how to create a larger psionic capacitor, and find ways to increase its capacity, discharge power, charging power, cycle life, which are useful for the industrial side.
At Siwell's behest, a small, strong, transparent crystal-shaped psionic capacitor was researched and manufactured.
This psionic capacitor is about the size of a fist held by an average human.
And for transportation and ease of production, it was made as a square cube.
On the six faces, except for the bottom surface, the head of the emperor, the head of Sivir, the figure of the human skull, the double-headed eagle symbol of the empire, and the symbol of the state religion are printed respectively.
If you look at it from the outside, it is a square transparent crystal artwork engraved with various figures.
So why did Sivir research such a psionic storage device at this time?
The answer was simple, in order to create a currency that would be used throughout the empire.
"Emperor Coins", from the name Sivir gave to this psionic storage device, you can tell what it does.
When the Emperor's psionic energy is infused into this psionic energy storage device, it will change from its original transparent form to a golden glow. At this time, an "imperial coin" is brand new.
One might wonder what is the use of creating such a currency specifically?
Of course it works, and it works a lot.
The Empire, of course, has its own currency, the Imperial Coins.
In a report on orbital bombardment by an official of the Imperial Expenditure Bureau of the Ministry of the Interior, a detailed comparison of the cost of orbital bombardment using captured asteroids and the orbital bombardment using missiles was made in detail.
But in addition to this imperial currency, there are many other types of currencies that exist in the current empire. Such as credits, crown coins, aquilas, thrones, banknotes, and church-certified tithe beads.
The main reason for the emergence of such a variety of currencies is that the former empire did not have enough control over the planets under its command, and the galactic world was far away from each other.
Therefore, these currencies are only circulated in a small area and are not used throughout the entire empire. This is true even for Imperial Coins issued by the Empire.
As a result, at the level of interstellar trade, the Empire's Rogue traders usually use goods, resources, and manpower as currency. This avoids problems such as counterfeit money, conversion, etc.
These monetary things were nothing to the empires of the past. After all, for the former empire, the society is in danger of exhaustion, and the living beings are in urgent need of being overhanged.
Small problems such as economy and currency cannot enter the eyes of the high lord at all. Compared with the other difficulties faced by the empire, this is nothing at all, and it cannot shake the foundation of the country.
However, unlike the previous empires that were successful even if they survived, for the empires eager for progress at this time, this chaotic currency greatly hindered the development of the empire and affected the trade between various human worlds.
A country's national strength includes not only military and scientific and technological strength, but also the economy.
In the past, due to technology and communications, Terra, as the center of the empire, had weak control over the rest of the imperial world, so it was unable to implement a common currency within the empire.
But now, these problems are no longer a problem for the empire at this time.
Today's empire has everything it takes to implement a single currency. And once this universal "emperor coin" is successfully promoted.
Then even if the rate at which the empire extracts resources does not increase, there will be more resources that can be used by the empire.
As a certificate that can perform the functions of a medium of exchange, a scale of value, a standard of deferred payment, and a fully liquid store of wealth, the imperial coin is based on the credit of the empire and guaranteed by the laws of the empire.
As long as Sivir is determined to promote it, then it will be able to circulate smoothly in the Empire.
And money is only a tool, and mobilizing resources is the goal.
The circulation efficiency of barter is low, and the exchange range is narrow.
While a few commodities can be traded, most commodities are difficult to interchange. This will make it difficult for some merchants to turn over their materials and produce a backlog, and over time, there will be a waste of resources and property losses.
And a unified currency facilitates trade between different parts of the empire, reducing the time cost and risk of physical transactions. All kinds of resources will circulate better and easier in the Empire.
And, nominally, the Emperor is the Lord of Mankind, the Holy Terra is the center of Mankind, and all the wealth of mankind, even the Mankind itself, is attributed to the Emperor and to Terra.
But in reality, the only way the Ministry of the Interior can obtain resources from the various human worlds is almost only tithes. The vast amount of resources left is controlled by countless nobles, high-ranking officials, and wealthy businessmen in the human world.
The resources available to the human empire are nothing compared to all the resources that humanity has.
Compared with the past, although the empire has opened up countless new colonized planets, the increase in resource consumption is very staggering, and the empire has a greater demand for resources than before.
Therefore, in addition to building more mining equipment and finding more mineral planets, the empire needs to open up other ways to obtain resources.
And the "Emperor Coin" is one of the methods proposed by Siwell.
The issuance of a unified currency can maximize the pooling of the resources of all mankind.
While the Empire can obtain more resources from those human worlds by increasing the rate of tithes, there are undoubtedly many drawbacks to this approach, and there are not a few worlds that have rebelled against the Empire because of tithes.
However, if the conversion of resources is done through currency, this problem will not arise.
Without a single soldier, the Empire can easily empty the pockets of every human world, and truly gather the resources of the entire Empire in the hands of Terra.
And what the empire needs to pay is the "emperor coins" that contain the emperor's spiritual energy.
In addition, the Imperial Coin was created by Sivir specifically to meet the growing needs of the Empire's interstellar trade, so its circulation should be mainly concentrated in the Empire's upper-middle and interstellar trade.
An Emperor Coin will have a very impressive purchasing power, and only a small amount of Emperor Coins can be exchanged for a large amount of resources.
When the empire needs resources, all it needs to do is make a large amount of Emperor Coins to exchange for those planetary governors or trochanters.
Buy, buy, buy!
With the emperor as a money printing machine, the empire will not be short of money.
When it was time to allocate supplies, all that was needed was the Empire's money, and profit-seeking merchant fleets and merchants would flock to bring in the supplies needed by the Empire—if the money was not enough, just print more.
Moreover, after the issuance of Emperor Coins, the Empire can also unify the tax categories of tithes, except for some special tithes, the rest of the tithes can be settled in Imperial Coins.
The tithes replaced by Emperor Coins will not be able to rot in place, and they will be traded between planets.
The advent of Emperor Coin made interstellar trade easier, and trade led to the development of the economy of each planet, and when the economy developed, the empire was able to collect more Emperor Coin tithes.
If the empire needs something, you can use Emperor Coins to buy it.
In this way, the empire's financial revenues increased, the resources available to it also increased, and the human worlds also obtained what they needed through trade.
Win hemp.
And, with the advent of a unified currency, Terra's relationship with the planets will become even closer.
Currently, only Terra can produce this Emperor Coins, and interstellar trade is essential for a planet to develop, but the Imperial Coins required for trade can only be provided by Terra.
This has brought countless human worlds and Terra into close economic ties.
And once this close economic connection is formed, the empire has another means of control over the human planet.
For disobedient planets, trade sanctions and economic blockades can be adopted initially, which makes it possible to purge the rebellious high-level on the planet on its own without the need for the empire to use its own precious troops.
For the obedient planet, a series of economic measures such as tax cuts, loan support, and financial aid will take their already astonishing development to a higher level.
And counterfeit money, which is almost inevitable in every currency, is not a problem at all for Emperor coins.
The production of Emperor Coin begins with the mass production of psionic capacitors by the industrial sector of the Empire, and then gives these psionic capacitors to the priests of the Empire's Anglican.
With the help of the Hall of the Stars, the priests of the Empire took these psionic capacitors and performed a psychic ritual to obtain the Emperor's psionic energy from the Star Torch and inject it into batches of psionic capacitors.
Then, using the Emperor's divine power as a raw material, the Emperor Coin was created, which was easy to manufacture and difficult to imitate.
Among them, the Ministry of the Interior and the Inquisition supervise the production of imperial coins.
If we only talk about the psionic capacitors that carry the emperor's spiritual energy, then almost any imperial world at this time has the ability to make them. But this kind of manufacturing is just a psionic capacitor.
What really matters about the Emperor Coin is the Emperor Spiritual Energy contained in it, and what is the Emperor Coin without the Emperor Spiritual Energy.
The Emperor's divine power is almost infinite, but its sources of acquisition are relatively scarce, so where else can you obtain the Imperial Spiritual Energy other than Terra? Hardly.
As for some psionics or Chaos forces, it is impossible to disguise themselves as the emperor's psionic energy with their own psionic energy, and use it to create emperor coins to disrupt the empire's economy or exchange them for supplies.
The four gods of Xenomorphism, heresy, and even chaos could hardly replicate the Emperor's psionic powers.
Psionic energy, which originates from the spirit, is closely related to the soul, and each person's soul is unique. Any psionic can easily tell if the psionic capacitor is infused with the Emperor's divine power.
In the future, after all the people of the empire awakened their spiritual energy and signed a soul contract with the emperor, they could easily distinguish the authenticity of the emperor coin.
Therefore, there is no possibility of counterfeit money circulating in the Empire.
If those chaotic forces want to use counterfeit coins to defraud the Empire's resources, the people of the Empire can see it at a glance, and then put the real Emperor Coin on his face, and use the Emperor Spiritual Energy in the Emperor Coin to expel or destroy the enemy in front of him.
Don't doubt that the Emperor's Divine Power contained in the Emperor Coin can easily do this.
And through the emperor's divine power contained in the emperor coin, it is obvious that the more emperor coins a person has, the more he can be said to be blessed by the emperor.
And this means that those merchants and nobles are much more likely to be blessed by the emperor than ordinary people.
It may seem unfair, but the merchants and nobles were able to get these Emperor Coins because they contributed to the empire and provided resources. They deserve it.
And they should also be taken care of by the emperor.
Because normally, the corruption of Chaos comes from both the upper and lower ends of the hierarchy.
The people at the bottom hold a grudge against the empire because they are worse than dead, and it is easy to turn to the embrace of chaos. While Chaos isn't a good thing, it's pretty good at disguising itself. Who would have thought that this plate of delicacy was actually a piece of poop before eating it in their mouth?
Now, thanks to the empire's science and technology, policies, the people's living standards have changed dramatically. Coupled with the belief in the state religion, the probability of the people at the bottom throwing themselves into chaos is greatly reduced.
For those at the top, life has hardly changed. They are often greedy for pleasure, arrogant and lascivious, and unknowingly fall into the control of chaos.
With the rapid development of imperial technology, those high-ranking elites will be able to enjoy more abundant than before. They are far more likely to fall into the hands of the Chaos Gods than ordinary Imperial citizens.
Therefore, for these high-level magnates with a high probability of being corrupted, the emperor gave them more protection, in fact, to prevent the invasion of the empire by Chaos.
In addition to protecting these high-ranking elites who are easily targeted by Slaanesh, the use of Emperor Coins as currency can also effectively eliminate corruption in the empire.
Don't forget, the essence of Emperor Coins is the Emperor's psionic energy.
Whether it's the state religion that produces the Imperial Coins, or the high-ranking officials and magnates on those planets, when they have evil thoughts about the square in their hands, the Emperor's divine power will make them realize what a wrong decision it is.
For those who or forces who have gathered a large amount of Emperor Coins through improper means, Emperor Coins will no longer be a talisman to bless them, but a talisman for them.
Guess whose avatar will be temporarily manifested in the world by these Emperor Psionic Energies stored in Emperor Coins?