The Emperor’s Angel of Death

“Promethium,”

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After softly uttering the name of this currency anchor, Sorylian nodded.

“Good, good, this choice is excellent. Even among the common people, promethium is the most commonly used fuel. Cooking and boiling water require it. The Adeptus Mechanicus usually sells crude promethium to the underhives and lower hives. The combustion efficiency is not high, but the price is not low. However, unlike food, it won't be consumed quickly. Even if people want to hoard it, due to promethium's volatility, most people don't have the conditions to store large quantities of it.”

Turning the page, Sorylian saw the specific mechanism of this currency. Roughly, it would be directly linked to the primary refined promethium, with one unit equal to one cubic meter. People could directly use the currency to exchange promethium at promethium stations. If the residence was connected to the promethium supply pipeline, they could directly pay fees according to usage. This would ensure that the currency had the most basic 'value,' instead of being worthless paper printed recklessly by the rulers, allowing the public to accept and popularize this currency as soon as possible.

To facilitate civilian use, the entire currency is divided into two parts: coins and banknotes. Among them, silver coins are 1 cent, 5 cents, 10 cents, 25 cents, and 50 cents, and banknotes are 1 yuan, 5 yuan, 10 yuan, 20 yuan, 50 yuan, and 100 yuan. For merchants who need to conduct large transactions, they can directly use the magnetic cards widely promoted on Terra, and the currency is just a string of numbers in a personal account.

Another advantage of using promethium is that even merchants from alien star systems can accept this currency. After all, energy trade is indeed an important part of the Empire's bulk commodity trade, which gives the currency a better foundation for diffusion.→

However, there is also a prerequisite: the institution issuing the currency must have a sufficient amount of energy reserves, both to provide confidence and to cope with possible emergencies.

Sorylian could solve this problem.

Turning to the last two pages, Circe thoughtfully attached the initial version of each denomination. The coins were relatively simple, made of aluminum-zinc alloy, with the number on the front and the twin swords of the Astartes on the back. Both the front and back edges were surrounded by olive branches, and the outer edge was engraved with the code of each coin in tiny intaglio. The banknotes were more elaborate, generally designed with reference to the Throne Gelt. The numbers were in the four corners, and all the patterns contained special encryption technology. Dietrich also participated in the design, incorporating a nano-scale gold brocade technology into the currency. This was originally a technology used to create identification numbers for servitors, and the brocade only appeared under a composite light, generally used by the sages to confirm that the surrounding servitors were not imposters or replacements. The 1 yuan, 5 yuan, 10 yuan, 20 yuan, and 50 yuan currencies were relatively normal, with the Aquila and the twin swords of the Astartes on the front, and very detailed drawings of each main battlecruiser in the Chapter on the back. In short, the Chapter's colors were very strong, but that was nothing.

However, on the largest denomination of 100 yuan, the Aquila and the Chapter logo were moved to the side, and in the middle was a portrait of Sorylian wearing a laurel wreath.

“Tsk this, not good, not good, let's change it.→”

Veronica bent slightly, took a look, and then asked:

“Why? It's pretty good.”

“Although I am the ruler here, I am ultimately an Astartes. This kind of vanity can be misleading.”

“You.”

Veronica smiled and poked his face with her finger.

“There's no one else here, what are you being modest for? You are their sky now, their father, so they should also remember who gave them a better life. When you become the idol of the people, and they wholeheartedly support you and follow you, those nobles and administrators are not important. No one has the capital to bargain with you, anyone can be replaced at any time, how great is that?”

“It's too early to say these things now”

Sorylian turned his head, looked past Veronica's shoulder at Circe.

“Change it to the Emperor.”

As a result, Circe shook her head.

“That's even worse. The Ecclesiarchy does not allow the image of the Emperor to be printed on any currency. Have you forgotten about this?”

When she said that, Sorylian remembered that there was indeed such a rule. Even the Throne Gelt could only use the Aquila and the patterns of the Imperial Palace, and could not use the image of the Emperor himself.

“Okay, there's no choice then, let's just leave it like this.”

Under Veronica's repeated persuasion, Sorylian finally had to agree to this version of the currency design.

“By the way, does it have a name now?”

“Not yet.”

Knowing that Circe wanted him to name it, Sorylian thought for a while.

“Since it is anchored to promethium, how about Promethium Coin? But Promethium Coin doesn't sound good and is awkward, and it can't fully cover its attributes, and the pointing is also relatively strong Promethium is energy energy source then call it Source Coin, what do you think?”

Circe and Veronica looked at each other and shook their heads at the same time.

“Source Coin, weird, sounds a bit nonsensical.”

“I think Promethium Coin is pretty good.”

Sorylian scratched his head and finally had to give up his idea.

In this way, the first star system common currency in the Nasan system – the Nasan Promethium Coin – was born. Sorylian asked Circe to send a message to start the first batch of printing, and before he returned to Nasan V, he would produce a batch of finished products first.

At this time, the bridge also informed Sorylian that the ship was about to arrive at the main space station of Nasan VI.

After a brief tidying up, Sorylian met the governor and warden of Nasan VI on the bridge. This person took office twenty years ago and is now nearly sixty years old, but he looks quite energetic. He is not only the warden, but also has the title of legal officer in the Department of Justice, which is a high-level position second only to the legal marshal, so he wore a solemn, neat, and gorgeous red uniform when he met Sorylian, holding a cane in his hand and carrying a ceremonial sword on his waist, without wearing carapace armor.

Then Sorylian asked him about the situation of Nasan VI.

“The planet currently has 37 large prisons, 54 small prisons, 238,664 prison guards, and 3,424,210 criminals who can be counted.”

“Who can be counted?”

Sorylian pondered for a moment on the bridge throne, and then smiled:

“Does the Department of Justice still have criminals who have entered prison without being counted?”

The warden replied very seriously:

“Reporting to the Chapter Master, every prisoner sent to prison has a number, but many of them still do not repent even after being punished, and even have degenerate descendants. These people are difficult to count.”

“Hmm? Don't you separate male and female prisoners in your prisons?”

“They are separated, but occasionally there will be some statistical confusion, and some prisons are close to each other, and prisoners often dig tunnels connecting the underground mines of the two prisons”

“What is the planet's mineral extraction volume?”

Hearing Sorylian ask about this, the warden's wrinkled face suddenly showed embarrassment, but he knew that he could not play tricks in front of the other party, but the legal marshal asked him to try his best to preserve this world that was very important to the Department of Justice. This was really being stuck between a rock and a hard place.