Extraordinary Voyage

2021-06-08

Chapter 862 Discoloration

Alwin, Olivia, and Levi who have returned to the material world from “hell” The three of them sat around the tea table on the top floor of Poseidia City in the [Witchcraft Garden].

Alwin casually placed the clay pot containing the “Holy Fountain” on the table.

The bell bell.

The illusory shadow of the “Life Tree” above the head that seems to stretch the high sky is slightly swaying, as if it has synesthesia with the “mysterious source”, and it gradually rings Crisp and pleasant ringtones.

Soon, Alwin just poured a cup of black tea for each of them, and [spirit net network] projected the huge picture to the small half in the sky.

Make them feel like they are there.

wu wu wu .

At this time, the northeastern part of the new continent, although it is still autumn in the year, the cold wave that originated from the “Eternal White Land” has already begun to show its power.

in this area.

The North is the colony of the Atlan Kingdom, the Bighorn Cape, with the largest cod fishery in the entire material world, and the South is the colony of the Sark Empire, with an area of 1.3 million square kilometers of St. Lawrence collar.

Bang! boom! boom!

At this time, the border of the two colonies was filled with gunpowder, shouting to kill all day.

It seems that it is definitely not an ordinary border friction. The two army units have obviously played True Fire, which has risen to the level of war.

“Kill! Drive the Atlan bastards out of the sea!”

“Sark’s scum, the Potosi silver mine is ours!”

“.”

Bess, the intelligence chief who already has the strength of the peak official wizard, collected intelligence for them in advance, and Alwin and Liweina were surprised to find that the root cause of the chaos was still their two faults. .

The two hurriedly took a sip of tea to suppress their shock, and gave each other a positive look, tsk, well done!

As early as three years ago, the “Coinage Act”, which was passed by the two men, confirmed in the form of law that the “Tulip Union” issued paper money-gold pounds in the form of gold and silver dual standards.

This kind of banknote is issued and managed by the state-owned central banks of the seven countries and the “Union Central Bank” jointly formed.

Among them, “Garriott dukedom” and “Pharatis Kingdom”, which are the initiators and have the strongest economic strength, take turns serving as bank presidents every three years.

The main pattern on the front of the “Golden Pound” is a blooming tulip and the Seven Stars representing the Seven Nations of the Alliance, and the back is the black iron cross emblem of the church.

Because for banknotes, anti-counterfeiting work is the top priority. If people exchange real gold and white silver with a pile of waste paper, they will really want to cry without tears.

Alwin and the others simply followed the example of the “Lower Republic” and introduced the power of Goddess to endorse the banknotes.

The denominations issued by the gold pound are 5 pounds, 10 pounds, 20 pounds, 50 pounds, 100 pounds, and the others are still supplemented by copper ferre coins. In order to facilitate transactions, the 30 gold pound note can be exchanged for a golden lion at the tulip.

With the current prominent position of “Tulip Union” in the entire world economic system.

Including the “Lowland Republic” and the “Golden Palm Federation”, no country dares to pat its chest and say that it will not do business with tulips, and that business must be settled in gold pounds.

Three years of steady development.

The international “gold pound settlement system” has gradually taken root.

An international gold and silver double standard system with gold pound as the center and gold and silver as the foundation has also been formed.

Up to now, the two precious metals, gold and silver, are the most important international reserve assets of various countries, while the gold pound is the most important means of settlement in the world. .

Additionally.

Financial officials and financial elites within the alliance have recently been trying to anchor the “gold pound” to domestic commodities at the same time.

The “Tulip Union” is not only a major commodity importer, but also an exporter, and a major financial country closely related to commodity price fluctuations.

They are going to anchor the prices of iron ore, coal, refined steel, natural rubber, cotton, copper and some varieties of food with the gold pound to further enhance the real value and trustworthiness of the gold pound.

Garriott dukedom in particular, has a fertile, vast and mineral-rich new continent north.

In the three years since the “Western Movement” started, it has been enough to open up vast farms in the central and western regions, and various crops have been harvested for several rounds.

Even wild buffaloes have become high-quality animal power in the farm under the modulation of the “Life Tree School”.

Follow-up projects of “steam power”, “electricity” and “internal combustion engine machinery” have all been launched one after another, and agricultural mechanization will greatly increase the production capacity of this land.

There will also be more surplus available for export.

The “gold and silver standard” originally estimated by the financial elites could last at least 30 years.

But with the addition of commodities, as long as the alliance’s military and economic power remains dominant, the gold pound can be maintained as an international currency.

At the same time, the “International Aid Program” to expand its influence has been steadily advancing.

It was this plan that directly sparked the war.

The “Tulip Union” provides loans to many countries like great benefactors, including 90% interest-free loans and 10% low-interest loans.

But there is an additional condition: recipient countries must purchase tulip products or services when using aid funds.

The golden pound has not left the country, but has returned to their pockets.

Then, things are simple.

Where the gold pound flows, there will be prosperity; where the gold pound is withdrawn, there will be decline.

Of course, after the gold pound flows out, it is not lying in the banks of other countries to eat interest, but outflowing to make various investments.

After the Tulip Alliance released gold pounds and bought and sold all over the world, the world economy naturally entered a prosperous cycle.

At this time, coupled with the hard work of the working people of various countries, the price of world assets has naturally risen collectively. After several years of rising, these released gold pounds have reaped a lot of value-added returns.

And once the Union Central Bank starts to recover the gold pounds by raising interest rates, the gold pounds that were released before will return to the tulips with huge value-added returns.

A covert looting is complete.

Well, so there is no charity, it’s all business.

Now they don’t need to do extra stuff.

After the golden pound becomes a stable international currency, it is harvesting the wealth of the whole world at any time.

There is no need to play bayonet with the lowland bankers like hooligan like the original “tulip bubble”.

It seems to have the grace and confidence of the world’s first power.

After gradually seeing the lethality of the “Tulip Union” gold pound, the bankers couldn’t help but beat their chests:

“I wish I was born in a tulip!”

They tried so hard to do what they wanted but couldn’t ask for, but they were easily realized by Alwin.

Then again.

The international settlement currency is inseparable from the support of the financial business. Phaletis, who took the lead in completing the steam industrial revolution, as the center of the entire Tulip Union, the capital city of Becquerel has also become the world financial center.

Therefore, bankers and the financial industry are not completely forbidden to enter the alliance countries, but there will be strict control measures, and they will never be allowed to act recklessly.

And based on the alliance’s strict defense in the field of people’s livelihood, their banks will also be strictly limited in scale, which will not be a climate at all, let alone compete with the “union central bank”.

as it should be by rights.

The practice of using “international currency” to pass the world is not a conspiracy, and the logic behind it cannot be concealed from those smart people in various countries.

Including the Lowland Republic, the Palme d’Or Federation, the Sark Empire, the Kingdom of Atlan, the Kingdom of Heimar and other major powers in the world, naturally they are not willing to be harvested.

To achieve an international currency peg, it must be paid in gold and silver.

And getting a lot of real gold, white silver has also become a necessary means for them to resist the gold pound harvest.

But the tulips whose territory has extended to the entire world have already collected most of the gold and silver in the world, the new continent north is in control, the Southern Continent’s Rand Gold Mine (Chapter 447) ), the Peacock Islands

Therefore, the Sark Empire and the Atlan Kingdom looked towards the Potosi Silver Island Chain at the same time.

This is the largest known silver mine in the world, with an estimated reserve of 25,000 tons. It is also the area occupied by the three forces of Tulip, Sark and Atlan.

At the end of the “Silver War”.

Under the witness of the bishop-level clerics stationed in the new continent from “Church of Fire of Eternal”, “Church of Iron Cross”, “Church of Dawn” and “Church of Frost”, it was initialed by military chiefs of various countries. an agreement.

The Cyrus Empire owns three-quarters of the Potosi silver mine, and the remaining three parties share the remaining 1/4/2022.

After the strong rise of Garriott dukedom, due to the complex property rights, it was not able to simply receive all of Cyrus’s legacy.

After several rounds of negotiation, Garriott dukedom finally got half of the total silver mine share, and the remaining six Tulip countries shared 1/4/2022 equally, and also gave the last 1/4/2022 to the The Sark Empire and the Atlan Kingdom.

But in accordance with the “Balanced Hand Diplomacy” they are already familiar with.

When negotiating, the dominant coalition just threw the 1/4/2022 share to them as a whole, and just let them distribute it themselves.

It also laid the fuse for the outbreak of the war between the two sides today.

The colony area of Southern Continent has jumped to the first place in the world, and the Sark Empire is thriving in national strength. Of course, it is impossible to share the same share with Atlan.

Before the “gold pound” came into being, they had open strife and veiled struggle for silver mines.

Now, as the formidable power of the international currency gradually emerges, Sark and Atlan can no longer hold back and start a battle for the huge interests of the Potosi silver island chain!

“But, something’s not right! The intelligence mentioned that Atlan took the initiative to provoked the war, but the army was beaten like a grandson, so that’s all the provocation?”

Looking at the land battlefield, it is clear that the two sides have not been fighting for a long time, but Atlan’s side is obviously in decline. From Alwin’s eyes, it is obvious that the defeat is set.

“Didn’t you say last time that there might be an even more Demon God descending on Atlan? Wouldn’t these chaotic bastards.”

However, Levi Na’s voice didn’t fall.

In the vision of [spirit net network], in the vast ocean between the “Potosi Silver Island Chain” and the new continent, there are also battlefields where the two fleets are fighting.

A huge battleship with the flag of Atlan, like a monster in the eyes of human beings in this era, suddenly emerged from the air.

“What’s going on?!”

At the moment when they saw the battleship, the three of them stood up at the same time, the complexion greatly changed, and the one who placed it on the table. The clay pot was also knocked over and dropped, and the “Holy Fountain” was spilled on the ground.

Rumbling.

At the moment of being contaminated with the spring water, the “Life Tree” illusory shadow covering the heavens, shielding the sun in [Witchcraft Garden] stretches its branches and leaves , actually began to rise rapidly again.

But the three of them couldn’t care about this anomaly.

(End of this chapter)