Journey to the West: Demon Emperor: Beginning as a Little Toad

Chapter 82 The Monetary System of the Journey to the West

Ever since Xiao Chen made the initial plan for Che Chi State, his military advisor Qingmian has been in charge of making the detailed arrangements one by one.

The first thing, of course, is to send the mandrill into the palace first.

Qingmian sent the mosquito demon Shu Wen, who transformed himself into an ordinary mosquito and went to the Chechi Kingdom’s palace to inquire about the movements of the Chechi King.

Suddenly one day.

The mosquito demon Shu Wen hurriedly flew back to the Jin Mansion and said to the demons, "The King of Chechi will go out of the city to hunt at Red Leaf Ridge the day after tomorrow."

The mandrill bowed down here and said goodbye to Xiao Chen: "My king, the mandrill will leave first."

Xiao Chen nodded and said softly, "Go ahead, be steady and don't reveal your whereabouts easily."

"My lord, Mandrill understands."

The mosquito demon Shu Wen had already found out the hunting route of the King of Chechi Kingdom.

The baboon went to Red Leaf Ridge outside the city and transformed himself into a beautiful and pitiful herbalist who accidentally sprained her ankle. He then waited for the king on the road he had to pass.

Four days after the mandrill left the city.

The mosquito demon Shu Wen came to report: "Your Majesty, the mandrill has been taken into the harem by the King of Chechi State and given the title of 'Lady An'. She slept with him last night."

"Tsk tsk tsk, I was watching from the side last night, and that mandrill was almost sucked to death by the King of Chechi."

"When the king woke up in the morning, both his eyes were dark."

"The King of Chechi doesn't know anything. He just feels happy and comfortable."

"This mandrill, stop playing around..."

Xiao Chen's mouth twitched when he heard this, and he ordered: "Tell the mandrill to restrain himself and not let it cause any trouble."

"Yes, I'll go tell the baboon." The mosquito demon Shu Wen went to convey Xiao Chen's intention.

The second option is, of course, for Poison Ivy to enter the palace and cooperate with Mandrill.

Poison Ivy bowed to the ground and said goodbye to Xiao Chen: "My lord, Poison Ivy is leaving."

Xiao Chen nodded and ordered, "Go."

Poison Ivy found a eunuch broker in Chechi Kingdom and arranged to go to the harem of Chechi Kingdom. Poison Ivy did not frown and let the knifeman cut off the root of his troubles with a single knife, and then he became a eunuch in the harem.

Third, it is a matter of time.

When the mandrill gains power, he will whisper in the king's ear and arrange an important position for Huangpi.

The two demons even arranged other demons from Kanyuan Mountain to take up important positions in order to completely control the Chechi Kingdom.

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Yuntaishan, Qingxu Temple, inside the side hall.

Xiao Chen and the three Huli immortals are studying the future direction of their equipment refining and the cost of equipment refining.

The Great Immortal Huli handed Xiao Chen a list of materials needed for refining the weapon.

"Iron essence, silver mother, ivory bone, black gold, copper ochre, wrought iron, thunder crystal..." Xiao Chen was stunned when he looked at the pile of densely packed materials.

After all, it was a preliminary attempt, so he naturally only planned to refine a batch of low-level, mid-level and high-level magic weapons, that is, H, G, and F-level magic weapons.

But the materials needed for these various magic weapons are all different, and when added together, they amount to a lot.

"Tiger Power is a low-level magic weapon after all. Most of the materials in it should be available on the market with money."

"Just tell me how much it costs to refine a low-level, mid-level, and high-level magic weapon."

Xiao Chen put down the list of materials and asked directly.

"Brother Jinjiao, a low-level magic weapon costs fifteen taels of gold, which is equivalent to three hundred thousand Chechi coins."

"A mid-level magical weapon costs thirty taels of gold."

"A high-level magical weapon costs sixty taels of gold."

"The money I earn from offerings to the Qingxu Temple is only thirty taels of gold a month now."

Hu Li smiled awkwardly.

Xiao Chen heard this and thought:
"In the world of Journey to the West, each country has its own currency. Chechi has Chechi currency, Bhikkhu has Bhikkhu currency, and Aolai has Aolai currency..."

“But gold and silver are undoubtedly hard currencies and are omnipotent.”

"As for 'luck currency' and 'spiritual stones', they were all things that were derived from modern online Xianxia novels in the 21st century of my previous life."

"Journey to the West is a book from the 16th century during the Ming Dynasty. It is a book written by ancient people, and it is a worldview of immortal heroes constructed by ancient people."

"So, the worldview of Journey to the West is completely different from the worldview of the Xianxia online novels of the 21st century."

“The monetary systems of the two are also completely different.”

"There is no such thing as 'luck currency' or 'spiritual stones' in this world of Journey to the West."

"'Luck Currency' does not exist in the Journey to the West world and has never appeared." "The currency everyone uses for transactions is the purest gold and silver!"

"Gold and silver, from the Buddha above, to the underworld below, to the human world in between, gods, monsters, and mortals, are all recognized."

"The Yellow Lion Demon needs silver to buy things, Zhu Bajie will worry about his life, the Bull Demon King marries the Fox Demon, and the Fox Demon also needs to give Princess Iron Fan money for food, oil, salt and firewood every month."

"The Immortal Ruyi occupied the Luotai Spring in order to earn money by selling vegetables and fruits in all seasons."

"Moreover, in the Journey to the West world, the purchasing power of gold and silver is very strong!"

"The private money that Zhu Bajie had hidden with great effort during his journey amounted to only a few coins, not even one or two ounces of silver."

"In order to see if Emperor Taizong of Tang was sincere, Guanyin Bodhisattva even sold the treasures that Tathagata Buddha gave to the pilgrims. A brocade cassock with rare treasures cost five thousand taels of silver, and a nine-ring staff cost two thousand taels of silver."

"Money can make the world go round."

"You can even have the Tathagata Buddha come to your home to give lectures. Someone in the Journey to the West world has done this before."

"Moreover, the reward for the Buddha's lectures is gold, so the price is naturally not cheap."

Tang Seng finally arrived at Lingshan, but he had no money to offer to the two venerables, An-Nan and Kasyapa, so he could only get the scripture without words. Sun Wukong was furious and rushed back to Lingshan to question Tathagata.

The Buddha smiled and said, "Please stop yelling. I already know that they are asking you for human affairs. But the sutra should not be passed on lightly, nor should it be taken without any purpose."

"At that time, the bhikkhus and holy monks came down from the mountain and recited this sutra to the elder Zhao in the country of Savatthi, ensuring the safety of the living and the liberation of the deceased. They only asked for 33 liters of rice, gold and silver. I said that they sold it too cheaply, leaving their descendants with no money to use. Now you come to take it empty-handed, so I passed on the blank copy."

The price for a sutra performance by Western monks was thirty-three liters of rice, gold and silver, but the Buddha still thought it was too cheap.

But if you give the money and the Western monks tell you the scriptures, they will be able to arrange a way for you to offset your sins, give you a good rebirth, and allow you to continue to live a wealthy life in the next life.

This cycle repeats itself over and over again, and people are rich from generation to generation, thus forming a monopoly.

It seems that the money is well spent.

Of course, if Xiao Chen becomes very rich one day, and uses gold as bricks to build a golden house as a reward, and invites Tathagata Buddha to come and preach to him in person, that would not be a big problem.

In the world of Journey to the West, there was a lonely old man who did this. He used gold as bricks to cover the land, bought the Prince Garden, and invited Tathagata Buddha to come and preach to him in person.

The underworld also accepts gold: Emperor Taizong of Tang went to the underworld and had no money to buy his way through.

The judge of the underworld said, "He is from Kaifeng Prefecture, Henan Province. His surname is Xiang and his name is Liang. He has thirteen warehouses of gold and silver here. If Your Majesty has borrowed from him, you can return it to him in the world of the living."

Emperor Taizong of Tang had no choice but to sign a promissory note and borrow a hoard of gold and silver before he could leave.

Needless to say, in the human world: in the Kingdom of Women in Xiliang, the Queen of the Kingdom of Women once gave a plate of gold and silver coins to Sun Wukong from the dragon bed as travel expenses.

It can be seen that gold is recognized by humans, gods, and Buddhas in this world.

“We still have to make money!”

Xiao Chen hummed softly and sighed slightly.

His group of monsters in Kanyuan Mountain dug up the mines in the 600-li Kanyuan Mountain. The mountain was almost hollowed out, but they only got 30,000 taels of gold, which was all his fortune.

Even if thirty thousand taels of gold were all refined into low-level H-grade magic tools, only 2000 pieces could be refined. If he absorbed all of the cultivation, it would mean an increase of 6000 years of cultivation.

2000 low-level magic weapons were not even enough for him to synthesize a B-level magic weapon of the golden hoop level.

"There is a gold belt for murder and arson!"

“Clean money is hard to make, and easy-to-make money is not clean!”

"It's still a business with no capital, making a fortune, making money quickly."

"This business is not easy to do!"

Thinking of this, Xiao Chen shook his head. He had always resorted to cheating and stealing other people's magic weapons. Now that he was thinking about doing a legitimate business, he realized how difficult it was.

"Hu Li, what is the selling price and profit?"

Xiao Chen asked, after he absorbed the magic weapons, these magic weapons had no value to him anymore.

We still have to sell these magic weapons, make money, and let the money roll, so that we can expand the scale.

Money cannot just go out without coming in. The funds must be circulated, and the money earned can be used to refine new magic weapons.

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Note: The actual word count of this chapter is over 2600 words, and it is charged as 2000 words. The extra words are used to talk about the monetary view of the original "Journey to the West".

This book is a fan fiction of Journey to the West, and the concept of currency follows the setting of the original work.

As for why the Journey to the West world uses gold and silver? It is indeed gold and silver.

This is the worldview set by the original author of Journey to the West, and this is the setting of the book.

"Journey to the West" is a 16th century novel about gods and demons, which is different from the modern 21st century online literature system of fantasy novels.

The books have different historical backgrounds. Journey to the West was written in the Ming Dynasty in the 16th century, which is five or six hundred years away from now.

(End of this chapter)