MC's career as foreign lord

"I need the Elven race to negotiate with the Church of the Goddess of Wealth to acknowledge the equivalent value of the currency I mint!" Zhou Ren said!

"That's impossible!" O'Halloran waved his hand. "Even the Elven currency has not been recognized by the Church of the Goddess of Wealth. What makes you think you can?"

"What currency do you use for transactions?" Zhou Ren retorted.

"Of course, it's the Pine Coin of the Supreme Forest!" O'Halloran replied, "As a natural substance, the Pine Coin possesses the bounty of nature!"

Zhou Ren sneered, "Can it serve as a general equivalent?"

"A general equivalent… what is that? Isn't currency just an item with a nation or deity as its belief? Doesn't the currency of the Church of the Goddess of Wealth rely on the Goddess of Wealth's immense wealth?" Xia asked, somewhat puzzled.

Zhou Ren shook his head. "I've noticed that you don't seem to trust the equity of currency in this world. You often prefer to barter rather than believe in the purchasing power of these metals!"

"That's how it is, isn't it? Is there a problem with that?" Xia asked, perplexed. "Without the name of the Goddess of Wealth, money essentially has no meaning!"

"No! It's a matter of perception!" Zhou Ren said, "Money has no fixed value and isn't tied to material goods. Relying solely on the power of a god, of course, it can't be truly implemented. Such a method, in essence, deviates from the function of money…"

Zhou Ren didn't say more. He couldn't explain the relationship between currency and economy to them. The currency of this world is still in a very প্রাথমিক, very primitive stage, namely the stage of confirming currency.

Due to the lack of a special general equivalent or rules, the value of these currencies fluctuates wildly to a large extent. The specific reason is… money is not recognized by the upper echelons!

The power of gods will not be used as a prerequisite for gold and silver coins; at most, it's the power of the church. But in this era of rampant extraordinary power, will they truly understand the meaning represented by gold? I'm afraid not!

This is the reason why wealth institutions cannot flourish in this world. Zhou Ren felt that he needed to give this Goddess of Wealth a lesson!

She possesses money, but she hasn't even secured a place in this god-based society bound by faith, and she's not even a powerful divine force. This, in Zhou Ren's view, is almost an unbelievable thing.

"A god with money should be a powerful divine force!" Zhou Ren thought, continuing to address the two, "My second condition is that in my future transactions with you, you will use the currency I provide for settlement!"

"Don't worry about the currency issue. I will strictly calculate according to the exchange rate provided by the Church of the Goddess of Wealth. Surely no one will mind pure gold, silver, and copper!"

Zhou Ren seemed to see their concerns and said this to dispel their other thoughts.

Although gold and silver are now mostly circulated among dragons, the Church of the Goddess of Wealth, and human nobles, there will always be people who recognize it, and it can be considered a generally accepted equivalent on the continent.

"Okay!" O'Halloran thought for a moment and nodded. Since it's the same gold and silver as the Church of Wealth, it means the value is the same. They'll save a handling fee for negotiating with the Church of the Goddess of Wealth. He suddenly felt like he had made a profit!

"According to plan!" Zhou Ren was overjoyed. This was his chance to intervene in this social order!

These people don't understand the relationship between currency and the economy, nor do they know what economic means can achieve. After all, this world possesses endless power, which ordinary people cannot manipulate.

And Zhou Ren just doesn't belong to the so-called ordinary people. Moreover, what he said is not actually groundless. In the [MC is Really Too Simple] mod, there is a very interesting little thing called a coin.

They are copper, silver, gold, ancient metal, mithril, and adamantite coins. These are coins made of all metals and have effects that ordinary people cannot achieve, namely experience storage.

In MC, experience is actually a very special substance, and the material needed for experience storage is also special enough. Only the coins Zhou Ren makes have the effect of experience storage.

This is the biggest anti-counterfeiting mark in the world, and there is no need to worry about currency production and resources. Ancient metal, mithril, and adamantite are actually Zhou Ren's own native metal ores, which cannot be found elsewhere, and the required amount is not very large.

They, as the upstream metals of gold, silver, and copper, actually play the role of weighing the price of the goods themselves. After all, even gold, silver, and copper are not affordable by many people now.

As for the large consumption of gold and silver metals, Zhou Ren decided to fleece the elves, using the resources in his hand to trade with their tens of thousands of years of metal reserves.

Presumably, these people shouldn't mind their metal ingots turning into something with strange experience points, right?

Zhou Ren has always had a doubt that has not been resolved, that is… MC actually only changes the size of the substance, and does not change the mass, that is, everything is based on the attributes of the blocks.

Then, if he makes a gold coin from a gold nugget, in fact, the gold content of this gold coin is one eighty-first of a gold block. The weight of one cubic meter of gold is about 20 tons, which means that the weight of one gold coin may reach an astonishing 250 kilograms.

In order to verify his idea, Zhou Ren specially synthesized the gold coin and gave his first answer sheet, 1200 elf fruits.

"Elder O'Halloran, this is the real component of the transaction! I will deliver the remaining elf fruits before the end of the year. What do you think?" Zhou Ren said.

In addition to the elf fruits, he also handed over the gold coin. He had originally saved a lot of experience, but this time he consumed a lot.

That is to say, if he really wants to intervene in the currency, I am afraid that experience points are a big problem… Not really!

As a mature Steve, Zhou Ren can create a powerful logistics system, and find more helpers, to truly achieve an unlimited level of experience. Moreover, he also has backup plans for gold. He will go to the Nether sooner or later. As long as he goes to the Nether, will he still worry about not having gold?

"Is this the currency you want to issue? It's really exquisite!" O'Halloran said, stunned when he picked up the currency, "Are you sure you want to use this as currency, rather than selling it as a special treasure?"

Zhou Ren asked curiously, "What can you sense in this currency?"

This is also the meaning of him showing the thing to O'Halloran. He himself does not have a special perception of MC items, so it must be given to other people with perception. Moreover, he also needs to know, what is the presentation of the so-called coins and experience points in the eyes of people in this world?

"This is clearly compressed metal!" O'Hare said, "But the mass has been reduced by the strange power inside. It's incredible!"

His originally suspicious expression suddenly gained a bit of relief. It's hard to say whether this is a good thing or a bad thing, but Zhou Ren's idea for this currency seems to be able to succeed!

The gold coin possesses a strange substance. O'Hare can clearly sense that his body seems to be exulting with joy when it comes into contact with this substance.

That's why he had the previous question. The strange attribute inside is more like a power that can improve his essence, something that can be absorbed by him.

"If the power inside is absorbed, does that mean the gold coin is invalid?" he asked.

Zhou Ren nodded, "Once the thing in the coin is absorbed, it also means that its original characteristics disappear!"

He looked at O'Hare, also curious himself. He injected 100 points of experience into the gold coin, which wasn't much. He wanted to test what effect this amount of experience would have on a Heaven-Blessed Legend like O'Hare.

Zhou Ren calculated slightly. The mass of a standard gold coin of the Goddess of Wealth is about 60 grams. Then the substance contained in his gold coin is roughly equivalent to 4,000 gold coins from the Church of the Goddess of Wealth currently in his hand. This is a terrifying amount.

If he were to directly take this gold coin to exchange with the people of the Church of the Goddess of Wealth, he would probably be kicked out. Therefore, using the Elven race as an intermediary can minimize other people's vigilance.

Moreover, this kind of currency has a part that others cannot completely erase, which is the experience value. Currency that has simply had its experience value absorbed cannot be circulated!

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That would not be currency, but pure metal!

Once Zhou Ren's currency is successfully circulated, it will mean that the price of all precious metals will be determined by his exchange rate. This is called… manipulating the market!

However, such an action naturally has an irresistible prerequisite, which is that the Elven race can recognize the value of his gold coins and affirm it. This requires the experience value to play a role!

"This!" O'Hare discovered the crux of the problem. Those experience points turned into light spheres appearing around him, and then were absorbed by his body.

"I feel the growth of my own power. If I get about a hundred more of these gold coins, I can reach the next stage!" he said, "This is an improvement in physical ability and control over one's own experience!"

The gold coin quickly emitted a strange light. The energy on it appeared to converge and disperse. What was originally a gold coin-like substance gradually began to change into irregular gold particles.

"The weight is back!" O'Hare said after finally absorbing it all. This meant that such a thing was not without a cost. The gold particles fell in front of Zhou Ren, and he easily collected them into his hand.

At this point, the essence of gold coins, or rather money, became the amount of experience points, rather than the gold coin itself. Metal no longer had monetary value, but became goods!

"This strange power may change this world!" O'Hare said, "I can't give you an answer quickly on this matter. I need to discuss it with the Queen!"

Zhou Ren nodded. This was exactly what he wanted to say. O'Hare's experience just now gave him many new ideas. "That's also what I wanted to say. An exchange rate of 1 to 4,000 doesn't seem reasonable. That's just the price of the metal. The price of this substance should also be added!"

"Emmmm…" O'Hare suddenly wanted to slap himself in the face. Why did he say he needed to consider this matter? In the previous test, Zhou Ren had clearly agreed to the previous exchange rate. Now, with this sentence, it felt like a lot of losses had been added out of nowhere!

"Let's go!" Zhou Ren said. He was very busy now. There were too many things to consider about currency exchange rates. Experience points were probably also a special kind of currency, depending on how to weigh them.

He discovered another problem. Even if he weighed it according to the existing gold coins, his currency would mostly only circulate among the upper class, which would be meaningless, wouldn't it?

High-level figures need a lot of experience points to upgrade, which is actually a very good operation, but what about ordinary people?

How many commoners can afford even one gold coin? What's more, the mass is equivalent to 4,000 gold coins of the Church of the Goddess of Wealth?

So even a copper coin that can hold a little experience is equivalent to… eleven thousand standard copper coins?

"Hiss!" Zhou Ren really gasped this time. The mass of a copper block is about 8.9 tons. A copper block can be broken down into eighty-one copper particles, which is 100,000 grams. A copper coin is ten grams…

In that case, even if his copper coins are converted into gold coins, they are equivalent to one hundred and ten standard gold coins!

Calculated this way… Zhou Ren quickly took out a book, ignoring Shia and O'Hare beside him, and continued to calculate the exchange rate of silver coins.

The same amount, but the mass of a cubic silver block is about 10.5 tons. This can also be easily calculated. The mass of an experience silver coin is about 130,000 grams, and the mass of a standard silver coin is about 30 grams, which means that one experience silver coin can be exchanged for 4,320 ordinary silver coins.

Looking at it this way, the exchange rate between experience silver coins and standard gold coins is about one to four hundred and thirty-two. Looking at it this way, Zhou Ren suddenly discovered with some surprise that he could determine the ratio of copper, silver, and gold!

The ratio of an experience copper coin, an experience silver coin, and an experience gold coin is 110:432:4000, which means that an experience gold coin is approximately equal to 40 experience copper coins and 10 experience silver coins!

1:10:40! This is his final answer!

Zhou Ren clapped his hands. Sure enough, practice is the only way to true knowledge! If he had measured it himself, he probably wouldn't have measured it well, but now this ratio is very clear!

His experience coins will be issued as the currency of the true transcendent power system, while being supplemented with the currency of the Goddess of Wealth. This will trigger the social rules of mortals and the social system of the gods!

This will represent something called an economic revolution happening!

"Isn't this a bit like the spirit stones in the cultivation system?" Zhou Ren said, "Can I, the Elven race, plus the Church of the Goddess of Wealth, eat such a big cake?"

PS: If I don’t work overtime tonight, there should be another chapter ORZ……