Chapter 8 Gold Coins Are Fascinating
Then, Changsun Sheng took Parker and Polante to walk around the street.
Introduce the purpose of these shops to the Naturalized City, which has only one street.
"His Viscount, Lord, this is the inn, this is the place to rest tonight." Changsun Sheng pointed to a three-story building and introduced: "There is an independent courtyard behind the inn, which is prepared for you."
"Well, thank you, Your Majesty." Parker looked at the Chinese building with flying eaves and corners, and said to the Polish envoy: "Let these guards go in and rest first. In the city, I believe there should be no danger, right, Your Majesty?"
"Your Viscount can be assured that fighting is prohibited in the city, not to mention that in the city, only you will be here except these shops in the city." Changsun Sheng looked at the many guards who entered the inn and began to search, but did not stop him.
Parker and the guards reported that there was nothing unusual, then they laughed at Changsun Sheng and said, "Empress, this is the guards who are worried about the comfort of the Lord. Don't be surprised. Let's continue to go ahead and take a look."
"It's just that, the warriors under the Viscount are really well-trained." Changsun Sheng didn't care about Parker's caution.
After Changsun Sheng finished speaking, he took Parker, Polante and the two guards to continue moving forward. The remaining guards were guarding the inn, looking like a house.
Next, Changsun Sheng and Parker and others introduced the functions of various buildings on this street one by one.
Taverns, inns, cloth shops, clothing shops, grain and oil shops, jewelry shops, grocery shops, fine salt shops, ceramic shops, wood shops...
There are all kinds of shops on the street, but there are no ironware stores and no shops selling any tools.
These shops that I had never heard of before made Parker and Polante dazzled.
"Your Excellency, the shop in front is a money house in your country. It can provide customers with deposits, withdrawals, exchange coins, and provide loans to merchants with good credit." Changsun Sheng and Parker walked from the street to the end of the street, pointed to a shop that was pressing the city wall to introduce it.
"Oh? What's going on with depositing and withdrawing, exchange coins?" Parker only knows about loans, depositing and withdrawing, exchange coins, and this is the first time he has heard of it.
Changsun Sheng briefly explained to the other party, "Distribution and withdrawal are to provide storage services for merchants who carry a lot of money; exchange is to exchange gold coins with their own currency, because other currencies and securities are not recognized in the naturalized city."
Seeing that the two of them still didn't understand, Changsun Sheng took a few people into the bank and asked the shopkeeper inside to explain the business of deposit and withdrawal and redemption to the two of them in detail, and also demonstrated it.
After Parker and Polante learned about the business of the money shop, Parker asked in confusion: "Why are the stores here not subject to securities of the Garfield Chamber of Commerce?"
Changsun Sheng explained: "Because our country has no cooperative relationship with the Garfield Chamber of Commerce, we do not recognize any securities."
Speaking of this, Changsun Sheng looked at Parker with a meaningful look and said, "Your Viscount should know what the Garfield Chamber of Commerce has done. How could your country recognize their securities? Do you think? You know? You!"
Parker looked at Changsun Sheng's eyes, and then listened to what Changsun Sheng said, laughing and concealing the embarrassment in his heart, saying, "Haha~, how could I know? If you don't recognize it, don't recognize it."
Porant then asked: "Even if the securities are gone, why don't the copper coins be collected?"
Changsun Sheng patiently explained to Polante: "Because the value of copper coins is too low, you can't buy anything in this city. In order to solve a lot of trouble, my country does not recognize copper coins."
"Then the lord wants to buy a fruit, it is impossible to use gold coins, how can I buy it?" Parker then raised a new question.
When Changsun Sheng heard Parker’s question, he waved to the shopkeeper of the money shop, turned around and replied: “This is the role of the exchange business of this money shop.”
At the warning of Changsun Sheng, the bank manager of the money shop brought out a wooden rectangular pallet with piles of colorful paper money.
Changsun Sheng picked up a few paper money from the tray and explained to the two: "These are the paper money of the country. One gold coin (outside the pass) can be exchanged for two taels of summer coins in the country's paper money."
Changsun Sheng said as he exchanged Billy, he took out a gold coin and took out two denomination paper notes, indicating that this was the exchange rate.
The gold coin officially issued by the State of Xia is worth ten taels, and the entire gold coin weighs one (commonth) two, which is one hundred grams. The gold coin outside the pass is only about twenty-five grams, which is one quarter of the gold coin of the State of Xia.
Logically speaking, gold coins outside the pass should be converted into Xia Country banknotes at only weight, but the gold content of gold coins outside the pass is very watery. Therefore, in order to gather wealth and avoid trouble, it is uniformly set to exchange for two liang of Xia coins outside the pass.
Who made Xia Kingdom have the right to speak for the exchange rate? Moreover, the merchants outside the pass did not know the various things.
After seeing the two of them know the exchange ratio, Changsun Sheng continued: "As long as you use banknotes to buy goods, there will be no problem. This is the number comparison table in the currency."
As he said that, he knew that the two of them did not know Chinese characters and numbers, Changsun Sheng thoughtfully pointed at the translation comparison form pasted on the wall of the money house.
Parker and the other two held paper money and faced the translation on the wall, and quickly understood the relationship between the two.
"Isn't this the same as the securities of the Garfield Chamber of Commerce?" Porant suddenly realized.
"Lord, you have a lot of insight. The country's banknotes are similar to Garfield's securities, but the people of our country only use paper money every day, and there are no copper coins or gold coins..." Changsun Sheng first praised Polante's understanding, and then explained the difference between the two.
Seeing that the two of them had many questions and wanted to ask, Changsun Sheng waved his hand and told them to say first: "Your Viscount, Lord, I will take you two to see something good."
Changsun Sheng knew that the two must have many questions to ask, but the purpose of bringing them to the money house was not to take financial classes for them, but to have another purpose.
Under the leadership of the bank manager, Changsun Sheng, Parker and Polante entered the bank, walked around several rooms, walked to the basement, and under the illumination of numerous candlelights, they came to a steel gate.
As the shopkeeper and another manager who was responsible for managing the vault, each took out a key and opened the door to the vault.
In an instant! The gold coins in the vault gate emitted a charming golden light under the candlelight, which made Parker and Porant enlarge their eyes at the first time, looking at the view behind the door with shocked and obsessive eyes.
"This..." Parker came to his senses after a while. He swallowed hard, pointed his trembling right hand at the gold coins in the vault, and couldn't say a complete sentence for a long time.
Parker could swear with his own territory, title, and ancestors that he had never seen so many gold coins.
They were piled up like a hill, neatly lit up into gold coin towers, placed in an orderly manner in the vault.
"There is one million gold coins in this vault. Doesn't it look shocking?" Changsun Sheng didn't know what tone he was asking the other party.
Even though he had read it several times, he knew that Xia Guo used paper money, and even if he took them out, he could only use it abroad. However, Changsun Sheng couldn't help but get excited.
Chapter completed!