Chapter 105 Animal Hide Silver and Animal Bone Enamel Coins
The number of smelting furnaces in the Iron Armored City seems to be a bit excessive, but in fact they are all low-end products. The highest level is only 'z4 type'. With luck, four z4 type smelting furnaces can be upgraded to a z5 type smelting furnace.
For the research and development of the 'Airship Project', a 'z5 type smelting furnace' is definitely needed, which is also the minimum level of smelting furnace required.
After thinking about it, Li Yinguang decided to upgrade only one z5-type smelting furnace. For the time being, the z4-type smelting furnace used in Castle Iron Armor City was enough, and he was reluctant to directly consume the z4-type smelting furnace.
The last time I sold the 'Giant Sulfuric Acid Beetle' at the Snowy Wasteland Supply Point Camp, in addition to buying the 'Rapid-Fire Cannon', I also bought a lot of materials for repairing the rapid-fire cannon. In the end, the remaining money was less than 100,000 silver cattle.
currency.
This money must be set aside for 20,000 silver cattle coins and given to the factories and stores directly under the Goblin Empire as the final payment for the purchase of the 'Cannon Cannon'. Regardless of Kayali's identity or her relationship with Li Yinguang, the brothers will settle the accounts.
Li Yinguang can understand this clearly.
After excluding the cost of purchasing the 'Reverse Life Crystal', all in all, the silver bull coins in my hand are really not too much. I also need to support the research of airships, hiring and purchasing to find talents, etc.
The wilderness is more dangerous in winter, and is also accompanied by severe cold temperatures, making it more difficult to survive after leaving the gathering point.
In a short period of time, Li Yinguang has not thought about leaving Manbach Town. In the cold winter, the port berth in the Iron Armored City will cost more, and there are various other expenses, so he still has to find a way to make money.
In the control room.
Lan Ling walked up behind Li Yinguang and asked softly: "What are you thinking about?"
Li Yinguang looked away from the lookout window, turned his head and looked at her with a half-smile, and said playfully: "You don't stay in your room at night and keep running next to me. Do you really not want me to abide by my bet?"
Lan Ling's face was slightly red, and she didn't know what was wrong with her. She used to wish she could stay away from this guy, but now, it seems that if she can't see him for a while, he will involuntarily appear in her mind.
"I don't think so!"
Lan Ling looked at Li Yinguang and said, "You'd better not have that kind of thought. A bet is a type of contract. If you don't abide by it, the God of Contract will punish you."
He said it quite seriously, but it didn't seem very convincing!
Li Yinguang smiled and walked back to the chair in the main control room, sat down, and waved to her. Lan Ling knew what this guy wanted to do, but he walked over pretending to be indifferent.
"You have something to do with me?"
Li Yinguang motioned for her to sit next to him. It was a long night and no one would come to disturb her anyway. As for what he would do, it was him who talked about romance, flowers, snow and moon, and he who talked about daily necessities.
"Do you think I'm stupid?"
Sitting on the chair, Li Yinguang did not rely on her this time, but instead let her rely on him.
Li Yinguang smiled and asked: "Who told you?"
Lan Ling blushed and hummed: "I'm not stupid, how could I not feel it, especially that girl Xiaoman, who always thinks I have big breasts and no brains."
"Illusion, this must be your illusion. Neither Xiaoman nor I have ever felt that way about you." Li Yinguang said with a smile.
Lan Ling frowned, slightly displeased, but did not defend herself. What other people thought was their business. Anyway, she felt that she was not the kind of woman without a brain.
Seeing that she was in a bad mood, Li Yinguang changed the topic and asked, "You think we have to stay in Manbach town for a long time, what can we do to earn silver bull coins?"
Lan Ling raised his head, looked at him, and said after a while: "I don't know, I only know that if the Iron Armored City Master wants to make money, he must go hunting in the wilderness, explore, or go to the ancient battlefield to salvage mechanical wreckage."
Li Yinguang smiled and said: "What you said requires taking risks!"
"Isn't it normal to take risks? How can the pie fall in the sky?" Lan Ling said matter-of-factly.
It can be heard that she knows everything about business behavior, but she still knows one thing. Business management is an unfamiliar field to many ordinary people, or it seems that this thing is not mainstream.
But everyone from the empire to the slightly larger forces are engaging in this kind of behavior.
The business landscape is not destined to be non-mainstream, but it is just that it is difficult for ordinary people to make a living, or those in power do not want ordinary people to survive by relying on business activities.
No one is searching for supplies, hunting, exploring, or salvaging ancient battlefields, so where do the resources, goods, treasures, etc. come from?
The slavery system of oppression, exploitation and cannibalism is destined to be the root of the evil in this world!
Li Yinguang put his chin on her shoulder and asked with a smile: "Do you like silver bull coins?"
Lan Ling was startled and said helplessly: "I like it. Who doesn't like silver bull coins?"
"Then do you know how the silver bull coins came from?"
"How did it come about? It was made!"
"Who did it?"
Lan Ling leaned on Li Yinguang, thought for a while, shook his head and said: "I don't know about this, maybe it's Lord Manbach!"
Li Yinguang smiled and shook his head and said: "Probably not, because I have inquired that in addition to the Manbach Town area, in some places outside, 'Silver Ox Coins' and 'Copper Ox Coins' are also used as transaction currencies."
After a pause, he continued: "The forces that can produce silver ox coins and copper ox coins are at least very authoritative in this area, so they can promote the two currencies on a large scale and gain everyone's approval.
But more importantly, silver and copper are both metals and have their own potential value. Therefore, silver ox coins and copper ox coins become currencies."
Lan Ling actually didn't understand what the honest man holding him behind him, with restless hands and feet, wanted to express.
"Suppose we discover a silver or copper mine, print the Castle's logo on it, and issue a 'silver coin' or a 'copper coin,' will everyone agree?" Li Yinguang asked with a smile.
"No way!"
Lan Ling shook his head, and before Li Yinguang asked why not, he said directly: "Everyone is afraid that you will adulterate silver or copper coins because the purity of copper or silver coins is not high enough!"
Li Yinguang nodded with a smile: "Yes, that means our castle's credibility is not high enough, and everyone can't trust us, but have you ever thought about how pure the silver bull coins or copper bull coins are?"
These words seemed to open a new door for Lan Ling. She had never thought about these things before, and no one had ever told her about these things.
She only knows that she needs to eat when she is hungry, drink water when she wants to drink, and she needs to spend silver ox coins to buy anything, which is also the currency she recognizes.
"The silver content of a silver ox coin, that is, its purity, is only 40%, and the remaining 60% is not silver. But a silver ox coin can buy a seven-gram silver nugget.
, do you know what this means invisibly?" Li Yinguang said.
Lan Ling stared at her beautiful eyes, opened her small mouth and said, "Is it so much different?"
She looked a bit seductive, so much so that Li Yinguang couldn't help but want to kiss Fangze. He reluctantly suppressed his evil thoughts and said with a smile: "Why else would someone control the right to issue currency? Apart from silver coins,
Have you ever seen paper money?"
"No!"
Lan Ling shook his head, smiled charmingly and said: "But I have seen 'animal bone enamel coins' and 'animal skin picture silver'. Are they the 'paper money' you are talking about? One is larger than the 'silver cow coin'
currency?”
Li Yinguang looked down at her, his throat twitching, and his eyes showed unconcealed possessiveness, as if some kind of beast was about to burst out its most primitive wildness.
Lan Ling blushed and realized something was wrong. Before Li Yinguang could react, she jumped off the chair: "I just remembered that there is something to do. Let's talk about this topic tomorrow!"
After saying that, he ran away without looking back.
Li Yinguang took a deep breath, shook his head with a wry smile, and said, "What's the point of making a good bet? It's okay now, just shoot yourself in the foot."
"Sophia!"
Sophia was standing in the shadow of the door. Her eyes were originally closed. It wasn't until Li Yinguang called her that she suddenly opened them. Even when Lan Ling ran out with a red face, her eyelids didn't even blink.
"City Lord, are you calling me for trouble?"
Sophia walked in, looked at Li Yinguang and asked calmly.
As a nobleman and the lord of the Iron Armored City, Li Yinguang's behavior is actually very gentlemanly, not even bordering on debauchery. It is normal for men to like beauty, let alone in a world like this where slavery still exists.
"What are animal bone enamel coins and animal skin silver coins?" Li Yinguang's face returned to normal and he asked thoughtfully.
Sophia said: "Things that can represent the amount of silver bull coins, some animal bones and skins are very valuable and difficult to obtain. They have extremely high hardness and are resistant to fire, freezing, and blisters. The animal bones are made into currency shapes.
Enamel painting can become "animal bone enamel coins". For example, "animal horn enamel coins" ground with "fire horns", one coin is equivalent to fifty silver bull coins.
Because the horn of the 'Fire Ox Beast' is a very valuable material, it can be used as medicine, and can be used for alchemy. Some people even say that it can be used as energy and absorbed by the human body, but it has to be boiled into soup and consumed.
In short, after a 'fire ox horn' is ground and painted with enamel, it becomes an 'animal bone enamel coin'. 'Beast bone' sometimes does not just refer to the bones of beasts, but covers many materials.
Basically, those in the shape of currency are called 'animal bone enamel coins'.
"Animal skin silver" is a kind of thing with contract patterns drawn on animal skin. The better the texture of the animal skin used, the more precise the contract patterns are drawn, which means the higher their value.
'Animal skin silver' and 'animal bone enamel coins' are both high-quality materials. In addition, when these two items are taken to the lord's mansion, they can be exchanged for silver bull coins of corresponding values. The empire system is responsible for ensuring that they have
the value of.
The smallest unit of 'animal bone enamel coins' is ten silver ox coins, and the smallest unit of 'animal skin silver' is one thousand silver ox coins. It is said that 'animal bone enamel coins' are worth millions or even tens of millions.
'Animal Skin Picture Silver', but I've never seen it!"
Li Yinguang couldn't help but touch his nose after listening to Sophia's description. But think about it, how long has this world existed, how could there be no systematic currency!