There is no universal exclusive currency in Freljord. Small-scale transactions are all barter, while large-scale transactions are based on barter and using precious metals to make up the price difference.
However, as long as she thinks about it for a moment, Ashe will understand that there is a profit in minting coins. In her opinion, if Forsbarrow mints the currency traded between the two parties, it will be a pure loss.
However, in the face of Ashe's doubts, Ino made a suggestion that she had never expected: the two parties jointly minted coins.
"This is more fair!" Speaking of joint minting, Ino spread his hands and said, "Use Zhenbing and gold to create a currency specially used to make up for the price difference. This will be acceptable to both of us."
"Sounds okay." Ai Xi nodded first, and then a look of confusion appeared on his face, "But why don't we just use gold to make up the price difference, and we must add a time-wasting link?"
"Gold is very precious, but everyone has it, and the price is very unstable." Ino obviously understands why Ashe insists on trading with gold, "And, as far as I know, Freljord's gold reserves should be
Not enough to support the deal between us."
"How is this possible!" Ashe was the first to express disbelief in Ino's statement. "Avarosa will also trade with other tribes on a small scale. In these trades, we have accumulated a large amount of gold reserves.
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"That's a Freljordian mass." Regarding Ashe's vague description that lacked specific data, Ino gave a very direct evaluation, "Forsbarrow's caravan traveled hundreds of miles of wind and snow to arrive.
If we can bring urgently needed supplies to Avarosa here, the price cannot be lower than what is sold locally, right?"
"This is natural." Although Ashe is very happy to carry out trade, it is obvious that she has no idea about the prices of items, especially the prices in Demacia. "Although we have not started discussing the price issue,
Avarosa will definitely not let his friends suffer."
"That's the problem." Ino nodded, "I heard that Avarosa once purchased a batch of oats from Walrus Tusk. The price is the same as the same weight of meat?"
"Yes, this time." When it comes to tribal internal affairs, Ai Xi is extremely knowledgeable. She even remembers the details of a transaction that took place a few months ago.
Ernuk is too thin after weaning his head."
"So, if we use gold, how much gold do these oats cost?" Ino asked, "According to the general situation in Freljord."
General situation?
Although under normal circumstances, there is no need to use gold to buy some oats, but after thinking for a moment, Ai Xi still gave the answer.
"Probably, as much gold as a hand?"
Ino rubbed the center of his eyebrows. The Freljord, which lacks accurate weights and measures, always likes to use these strange units when describing weight.
"So, are you willing to use gold as heavy as a hundred hands to buy oats?" After a little calculation, Ino gave an answer that made Ashe fall into silence, "There are many others.
Forsbarrow has plenty of goods, but if we just use gold, I'm afraid Avarosa doesn't have enough gold."
Hearing what Ino said, Avarosa finally realized the seriousness of the problem. If what the other party said was true, then I am afraid that its own gold reserves are not sufficient!
"Avarosa also has goods that can be exchanged." After thinking for a moment, Ashe finally came around and said, "As long as the price difference is not so big, then isn't there no problem?"
"The road from Fosbello to Avarosa is not easy." Ino shook his head and said helplessly, "Avarosa needs food in the winter, but furs are needed in the summer.
The quality is the best, and the trade between us may not be completed at the same time."
"..."
Ashe had never thought about this problem at all - or in other words, in Freljord, this kind of transaction that spanned time had never happened before.
The transactions between the two tribes have always been with one hand delivering the goods and the other hand delivering the goods, at most adding a little gold. There has almost never been a situation of "what do you give me in the spring and what do I give you in the winter"? Many tribes have this winter?
It’s hard to say!
"So, we need a currency, a currency that is made by both parties and is valuable to both parties." Looking at Ashe who was lost in thought and reached a blind spot, Eno continued with a smile, "Use gold to make coins.
Package Zhenbing, this is the suggestion I give.”
"But how to do it?" The problem here was a little complicated, and Ai Xi couldn't react at the first time. "Each of us will send some craftsmen?"
"In order to show sincerity, in the first trade, we will accept small pieces of Zhenbing, which can't even be made into arrows for you, as a supplement to the price difference." Ino continued to describe his solution,
"Then using these Zhenbing, we will mint a batch of currency and bring it during the second trade."
Ai Xi narrowed his eyes and fell into thinking.
Behind her, several negotiating assistants looked at me, and I looked at you, and they all seemed a little confused - isn't it a mark that represents how much money was lost during the transaction? Why did Ino do it like this?
complex?
The same goes for Your Excellency Zhan Mu. It is clear that according to the other party's wishes, the unused fine ice can also be used in exchange for marks. This is obviously a good thing. Why does she still seem so hesitant?
"Do you have any way to process Zhen Bing?" Ai Xi, who had been silent for a while, finally raised his head, "The only one who can process Zhen Bing is Zhen Bing."
"I can use Zhen Bing." Ino held a dagger in his hand and pinched the back of the dagger with his fingers without any pressure, "Although I don't use it often."
Ash nodded, and after thinking for a while, he raised the question about currency price assessment.
This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! "About this, we can negotiate again when we trade for the second time." Ino said with a smile, "By then we will have two trade experiences. For
The specific value of these currencies will allow us to give frank advice."
Ashe nodded, fell into thinking again, and then raised the question about currency specifications again.
Then there is the issue of the minimum value of currency and the scope of use of currency...
However, no matter what she asked, as long as Ino understood it, she would always be able to answer it flawlessly.
Obviously, Eno had a very detailed plan regarding currency-related issues, and this plan fully met Avarosa's needs and seemed fair at the same time.
But the more trouble-free the plan was, the stranger Ai Xi felt - her intuition told her that there must be some secrets hidden behind this kind of coin minting that seemed to benefit both parties and that was gradual.
This Demacian, who was smiling from beginning to end, spent so much time preparing a plan for joint minting. He must have his own purpose behind it, but Ashe couldn't find it.
Such a situation made Ai Xi, who always likes to think, quite uncomfortable. However, after some inquiries and found that this plan had no problems with Avarosa, she could only admit reluctantly that the other party might propose joint coinage.
It probably has something to do with Demacia's own situation.
It's a pity that these Demacians came all the way through the wind and snow and already know a lot about the Freljord; but in Demacia, the towering city walls stopped the Freljords, and Ashe
I don't know anything about Demacia's internal situation.
Fortunately, Ai Xi is not a suspicious person, and Ino's attitude has always been very frank, so she will not stop eating because she can't understand the content and logic behind the joint minting and simply refuse trade - as Ino said
, when both parties have not yet established trust and trade takes a long time, this joint minting is the best way to lubricate trade.
As for what the other party is going to do with this special currency dipped in Zhenbing...
Then let them go on their own.
So why did Ino insist on joint minting?
There are three main reasons.
First, trade in the north does require currency. As she said, since the timing of Forsbarrow's shipment and Freljord's shipment do not match up, currency is necessary to lubricate this transaction -
—And joint coinage is a condition acceptable to both parties.
Second, Fosbairo needs to firmly control Fosbairo's trade imports and exports, and at the same time use the profits brought by this trade as political capital when necessary.
Trade can bring profits and promote the development of Fosbairo, but if there is a channel of joint minting, Fosbairo will have a wider operating space than direct money.
Third, Kalya needs to collect Zhenbing - or, in other words, the pure element Zhenbing, which is of great benefit to the magicians in further mastering magic.
Ai Xi thought that Ino would personally spend time processing the perfect ice, but in fact, Kalya had already thought about processing the first batch of finely crushed perfect ice as the main content of the follow-up studies and assessments of the Archon.
That's right, it's impossible for people without the Ice Bloodline to come into direct contact with Zhenbing, otherwise severe frostbite will occur, which is inevitable even for extraordinary people.
But through magic, Zhenbing can be contacted indirectly and processed carefully.
The process of processing Zhenbing is a very good way to learn magic without fighting!
Although the simulation training is very effective, it is a real "one-on-one ace tutoring". Now there are more than 900 mages in Forsbarrow, and they want to engage in simulation training to squeeze out both Kalya and Lux.
I can't even support it!
Moreover, the purpose of learning magic for mages is not all for fighting. Although in the future of Forsbarrow, some of the mages will join the army and form the Forsbarrow Mage Group, but more of them will
Some will become magic engineers or even magic theorists, engaging in more peaceful work.
The former can be practiced using simulation training, but it is very difficult for the latter to improve.
During the Shurima Empire, Shurima University occupied more than 100,000 hectares of sand outside the city of Shurima, and there was a large amount of spatial extension and distortion to support the magic theory of Shurima University.
Research and advancement of magical technology.
Even students who are new to school still need to conduct a series of complex magic experiments and exercises - in addition to theory, magic also requires practice!
Forsbarrow's artificial lake project is only the most rudimentary magic practice. If you want to allow extremely talented mages such as the Archon to become the seeds of Demacia's magical civilization, you must give these seeds sufficient watering.
For the next stage of the Archon, there is no better practical content than "reaching ice through magic processing"!
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After the issue of joint minting was discussed, subsequent negotiations became very smooth.
After all, both Forsbarrow and Avarosa really need this trade channel to exchange what they need, and they both have hope for peaceful development and exchanges.
In addition, the first trade was inherently contact and exploratory, and the psychological expectations of both parties were not high. After the trade framework was established, the speed of subsequent negotiations could only be described as fast.
In this way, on the fifth day after the Warriors' Banquet, Ino and Ashe truly finalized the specific content and process of the first commercial exchange operation in the North.
Then, the day before Ashe announced that she would swear a blood alliance, she and Ino, the "plenipotentiary envoy", recorded the results of the negotiation on a piece of rough Enuk skin and cut themselves
His index finger made a bloody fingerprint at the end.
The specially treated Enuk skin turned black after coming into contact with the blood of the Ice Bloodline. Then a professional cobbler cut the skin open, and each party took one piece, officially making an oath.
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After declining Ashe's invitation to witness the Blood Alliance oath, that night, Ino took forty ice mages and set foot on the road back to Forsbarrow - just like in Port Borrill, the seven-person team
The intelligence team was left behind in Ningshuang Port.
They will stay here to further collect information about Frostport and even the Freljord. They will also serve as Forsbarrow's contact here and can communicate through Ivar when necessary.
After leaving enough paper and charcoal to record information, Ino bid farewell to these carefully selected ice elemental mages, took the others, and finally set foot on the way back to Forsbarrow.
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The wind is still howling, and the snow is already heavy.
Most ice elemental mages have only done some trivial work along the way. For intelligence work, they do not have the same talent as magic.
But when they look back and think about it, they will find that even if the traces of their work quickly disappeared in the wind and snow like footprints on the snowfield, when they look at the vast snowfield again, they still feel something in their hearts.
There is no longer any confusion and fear as before.
Some things can only be known if you have truly experienced them and done them.
