Magic Tower Starry Sky

With a long sigh, Ke Yin said: "I just said, I hate the way you persuade people." The halfling goddess did not forget to look at Freya and Hefquin who were also present.

There is no pure muscle stick that can be brought by Lin's side. Someone's warning words, although it seems to have nothing to do with them. However, when applied to their respective situations, it seems to be able to explain the problems encountered by their respective ethnic groups.

Although the silver-bearded dwarves are pursuing technology, they are self-styled and do not have sufficient resources. Even if the conspirator named Guardian, who actually intends to annihilate the entire clan, does not take action, the Silverbeard clan will eventually disappear from the land of confusion if things go on like this.

This is especially the case with elemental creatures. The long life makes most elemental creatures lose the motivation to move forward. Whenever something novel enters the circle, it will be like igniting dynamite in a pond, blowing up a pool of fish.

Only a few who can adapt and survive will reproduce a pool of fish adapted to the new evolution. Then wait for the next firecracker. This is a strange infinite loop, and the pattern does not change. Every time the elemental creatures make progress, they sacrifice countless lives. But to them, it's just remaking, it's nothing.

Although I don't know what kind of small theater is in my heart for the two little guys next to me whose height is only around my waist. Facing the complaint from the halfling goddess, Lin could only say helplessly: "I don't want to, Your Majesty. But there is a saying in my hometown, and honest words are harsh. What I say now is not pleasant, but listening to it will at most make me feel better." It’s just depressed. But if something breaks out in the future, it may be fatal. Although I may not know where I will die at that time, but instead of being cursed by you, I think it is acceptable to be complained now.”

But Ke Yin is not just complaining and not thinking. He remembered the key point of the magician's words in front of him, and asked: "You just said that the future will change, so I don't suggest that I fix the rules of money. You should not even think about how the future will change."

"Well, these are not necessary to discuss now. But since you asked sincerely, and you also considered that I may not be there at that time, so I will talk about it now. Your Majesty, just listen to it. The future is still Adjustments should be made according to the actual situation.”

"Speak, my chosen ones. What will the future you prophesy be like?"

"Your Majesty, it is too much to prophesy. Those are the problems that will be encountered sooner or later in the sustainable development of society. With the continuous development of the economy and the prosperity of business transactions, there may be a dilemma of insufficient 'money'. After all, the current The three precious metals used to mint coins have their own uses other than coins. Even if all the gold, silver, and copper in Quanmidi were minted into coins, the money would not be able to buy the resources of Quanmidi. This is not poverty, but It is the lack of coins in circulation that hampers the development of the economy. Do you understand the premise?"

For those who don't have a macro concept, someone's explanation only makes the goddess of gold coins more confused. Lin had no choice but to explain again: "Let's take an extreme example. If we make it mandatory to use new coins for all transactions, but the new coins are only the box you just made. Then in the case of insufficient coins , Will the trading activities in other places be stagnated because of this, and cannot be carried out.”

"Ah, I understand. It's just that other people won't use other methods to trade?" Ke Yin thought he had made a very clever idea, and was complacent.

"Of course, people are alive. If one way fails, just take another way. Only in this way, your believers will run away."

"Ah!" The halfling goddess froze. A tiger claw was tightly clasped to a magician, showing a tearful expression.

"At this time, there are two ways to solve it."

"There are two of them. Tell me quickly." Ke Yin asked hastily, wiping away the tears he didn't know whether they were real or not.

"One is to continue to maintain the value of the coin itself, but we just find something with a higher value to be minted into money, increasing the total amount of value corresponding to the currency in circulation."

"More expensive than gold coins, do you mean things like gem coins?" Ke Yin asked by inference.

"Something like this direction, but not gems."

"why."

Facing the goddess' doubts, Lin explained: "The material selection of coins must have several characteristics. The first and most important is the consistency of material value. The value of gold, silver, and copper depends on the purity, as long as the purity Similarly, we will consider it to be an item with the same value. However, gemstones will have different prices depending on the type; even if it is the same type of gemstone, its value will fluctuate depending on its appearance. Such a feature is not Coins that are suitable as a medium of exchange. Not to mention that cutting gems into money is not like gold, silver, copper and other metals that can be reworked. Even cutting into money will reduce the value of gems.”

"If gems don't work, what else is suitable?" Ke Yin thought.

"In fact, there is one thing that has long been regarded as hard currency and circulated in a delusional manner, but no one treats it as money."

Lin suggested.

Ke Yin suddenly realized: "Ah, the seven-color magic stone."

"That's right, it is the magic stone. The value of the magic stone is the power contained in it, so no matter how it is cut, it is calculated by its size. And there are seven kinds of appearance, although each level There are also shades of color, but generally speaking, as long as they are of the same color grade, they will be recognized as having the same value. And this color grade cannot be forged. As for the reshaping of magic stone, although it is not like metal It's so convenient, but at least it can be solved with magic; unlike gems, once you cut it, you can't go back. Perhaps redstone is cut into coins, and its value is similar to that of gold coins, but the value of orange stones and above is almost the same. It is above the same volume of gold. When it reaches the level of purple stone coins, perhaps it is exaggerated to say that one piece can buy a city, but if it is used to buy other items that are also rare and rare, no one will refuse it."

The reason why Midi retains the barter trading style is mainly in two aspects. One is a large transaction at the national or city level; the other is a transaction of extremely rare items.

The amount involved in the former is too large, and at this level, any transaction is of strategic significance, not just for profit. At this time, it is useless to exchange coins. It is better to trade other materials of the same strategic level. For example, food for iron, salt for magic stones and so on.

The latter involves some extremely rare items that are difficult to price. Rather than selling these items for money, it is better to exchange them for some special items that are also so rare that they are not circulated in the market. Any price calculated in money is like a cheap sale in the minds of the holders.

But if it is really possible to use magic stones to mint coins, then it is really possible to buy these items that were difficult to price in the past. Because high-grade magic stones, especially the purple grade, besides the value they represent, their strategic significance for magic is hard to ignore.

Ke Yin also understood why the magician in front of him didn't say this method at the first time, because it is really useless at this stage. Even the three coins of gold, silver, and copper in Midi are still quite chaotic, and they want to kill someone by making magic stone coins. Neither needed nor necessary.

But this also made the halfling goddess curious about what the other method the magician was talking about.

Seeing that the person in front of him understood what he said before, Lin continued, but he raised a seemingly unrelated question: "Money, that is, the three functions of currency, as a medium of exchange, convenient for bookkeeping, and storage Value. Ask! Which of these three functions is a non-essential function of money?"

Coming from a group that ate big pots and worked together, the silver-bearded dwarf Freya thought about it, but couldn't figure it out for the time being. The other comes from a world where you can grab what you need, and the more skilled ones are all kinds of abduction and deception, and the hive queen who has no concept of money is the same.

But as the goddess of gold coins, Ke Yin comes with divine understanding and divine calculation. If someone farts, he can tell what this guy ate yesterday. Naturally, with Lin starting one, Ke Yin can come up with a whole set of possibilities. So He was shocked again by someone's vision of the world, and asked aloud, "What the **** are you thinking!"

"It seems that you understand. Hehe, you really deserve to be the goddess of gold coins. You are so sensitive about things related to money. Of the three functions of currency I just mentioned, the first two are really important; the third is storing value. ~www.wuxiamtl.com~ is actually just to protect the purchasing power of the currency. This is actually a constraint on the economy, but it is also a protection from another perspective. I will not talk about the theory behind it, let me say that it can be done Let's get to the premise of this point. To be able to separate the value of the currency from the currency itself, the user must first trust the issuer of the currency, and believe that the number given by the other party can trade the items he needs, and he can indeed buy them. And all People believe in this thing, then this number can be called money, which is what I call currency. If this most basic trust does not exist, and in fact can't buy anything, then it is a bunch of meaningless numbers."

"Is such a thing possible?"

"So I said, trust is the premise. If you can't do this, all these ideas will be so unreliable. In addition to trust, you also need to have a certain strength yourself, and you are not afraid of anyone's challenge That kind of strength. More importantly, you must have the wisdom to control money. Because at that time, the flow of money is like a torrential flood. If you can't control it, it will be like a flood bursting its embankment, and the common people will suffer."

Having said that, someone sighed inexplicably. Immediately he stood up straight, cleaned up his appearance, brushed off his sleeves, bowed respectfully, and said: "If there is a day when you choose such a path, Your Majesty, please remember what I said today. The source of Your Majesty's strength It comes from the normal operation of the entire money system, not the numbers collected in your hands. Greed should not be your attitude. When you start pursuing what mortals call profit, it is the moment you fall into evil. The power of money, It can be good or evil. But the position it really should maintain should be absolute neutrality. Money is just a tool, and a tool should not have a personality, that’s what a human being has.”