In the Temple of Wealth, Lant finally understood the purpose of the goddess of wealth: since the magic furnace is the basis of gold coins, if Lant can build the magic furnace himself, he can also legitimately issue currency.
In order to ensure the financial stability of the world, the goddess of wealth, as the role of the central bank, found herself to coordinate the construction rhythm of the magic furnace and the currency issuance rhythm.
Now the Goddess of Wealth and Rand have reached a consensus. The goddess recognizes that Rand can build the magic furnace, which means that Rand is qualified to issue currency, and Rand also recognizes his supervisory power over currency.
"So, I want to discuss a deal with you." The goddess saw that the heat was almost ready and started the real topic: "First, I will order 6 magic furnaces from you to give to the 6 small and medium-sized city-states in Hindukel. Legend will assist in the installation, and Honglongyan will order the furnace body from the Salt and Iron Department. Each unit is priced at 250,000 gold coins, and you can get 900,000 gold coins for 6 magic furnaces."
The Goddess of Commerce is very familiar with the market price of the magic furnace and the distribution of profits therein. She even understands Lant's little thought: "After the magic furnace is installed, your statues will be enshrined in the local temple of wealth. You can appoint local galloping horses." The descendants of the family are priests.”
"Thank you, Your Majesty," Lant was very satisfied with the business, but the focus of the goddess was yet to come.
"In addition to ordering the magic furnace, I have another transaction. I know that the Ye Qicheng Finance Department is completely bound to the Benma Fund. Not only can you not raise funds and issue debts in the name of the Finance Department, but even the income from the magic furnace can also be used by outsiders. steal."
Rand knew this, and he wanted to hear what the central bank had to say: “Do you have any suggestions?”
"If you are willing to use the six new magic furnaces in the territory as collateral, the Temple of Wealth can finance you with 15 million gold coins. You can set up a bank in the territory and use this money as a deposit to issue your own currency, such as That work-point coupon"
Seeing that Lant maintained a listening attitude, the goddess continued: "This is not without additional conditions. First, the work-point coupons issued by you cannot flow out of the Benma Plain. The 15 million gold coins raised can only be used to finance the Temple of Wealth within 50 years. If you build a new magic furnace in the territory in the future, you can raise funds; secondly, any new magic furnace business outside the human empire must obtain my approval."
Rand understood what he meant. The Goddess of Wealth gave a mortgage of 15 million gold coins for six magic furnaces, which means that each magic furnace Rand can get 2.5 million gold coins in financing. This is what the Temple of Wealth offers for a magic furnace. The benchmark for determining whether a company can create and maintain wealth within 50 years.
The newly built magic furnace obviously cannot produce such magic power and wealth, so the magic furnace can only be used as financing collateral and "lent" to Rand. After 50 years, the magic power generated by the magic furnace is enough to solidify the wealth of 2.5 million gold coins. , Rand naturally takes ownership of all gold coins.
The goddess has offered such financing conditions, which shows that she has fully realized the possible impact of the magic furnace on currency flows, so she has to negotiate in person. On the one hand, she will provide funds so that Rand will not be so poor that she will build magic furnaces in batches. On the one hand, his liquidity should not spill into unexpected places in the territory.
She can talk to Lant personally here, and she can also talk to Lant personally among the empire, elves and orcs, leaving Lant solely responsible for the new magic furnace, and the currency function behind the magic furnace is still in the hands of the Church of Commerce and Wealth.
For Lant, his construction of the magic furnace was also restricted by the Salt and Iron Department. Without the backing of the Goddess of Wealth, the gold coins he used to build the magic furnace might go directly into the common account of the Galloping Horse Fund. This is not as guaranteed as the Church of Wealth. .
Wanting to understand the key, Lant quickly said to the goddess: "Can I understand what you mean? First of all, you are willing to provide me with financing to save my territory from financial difficulties and to cast magic furnaces. Secondly, you want me to The printed currency must not flow out of the Galloping Horse Plains and affect other areas. Third, the installation of the magic furnace outside the Galloping Horse Plains needs to be coordinated with you or the empire?"
"Yes." The goddess of wealth nodded with satisfaction.
Rand was very satisfied with this financing transaction. He did not believe that the Imperial Treasury could give him 15 million gold coins at a time but only needed 6 magic furnaces. He quickly asked: "Do you need me to sign a contract with you about financing?"
"You are the one favored by Weili. Our transaction involves the wealth of the world, and there will be no written contract." The goddess of wealth had already received Lant's support, so she put down these words and left, leaving the rest to Rudolf Schuh. Priest Ertz will do.
After returning to normal, the Dragonborn took a few deep breaths, invited Lant to a nearby lounge, and drank a bottle of golden potion in large gulps before the color returned to his face.
"Lord Lant understands righteousness and is really a model of the imperial nobles," Rudolf praised Lant with a smile, "Legend will contact you about the installation of magic furnaces in the next few cities."
Rudolf was very happy that this negotiation could go so smoothly. He believed that if the Tower of Purity or the family in the Imperial Capital had the power to manufacture the magic furnace, the human empire might follow the old path of the goblin civilization.
Rand, who has seen financial bubbles, does not want to turn the magic furnace manufacturing industry into a financial game.
Rudolf happily told Lant: "Sir Lant, His Majesty has specially ordered that from today on, your status is like the high priest of the Church of Wealth, and you can freely enter and exit business and wealth institutions everywhere. As long as you need it, we will do our best. Might help you and your territory.”
"Priest, actually I still have a question, why not install magic furnaces in Abadi or Tikal?" Lant was a little surprised as to why the first batch of six magic furnaces were all in six small and medium-sized cities in Hindukel.
"Tikal, Abadi and the fertile capital of Siam all have magic furnaces themselves," Rudolf told the truth, "and they are in the largest temples in the three cities. This is how these three cities can become The reason for the three capitals of Hindu Khar.”
On a table in the lounge, there was a small magic-sealing box. Rudolf opened the lid and found a piece of dragon scale. The luster and lines on it were extraordinary at first glance.
"This is the mark given to you by my lord. With this dragon scale, you can enter and leave any temple of wealth at will." After Rudolph said, he took out a contract, which was for the temples of wealth in six cities to order magic furnaces from Lant. Order.
After Rudolph signed the contract with Lant, he did not mean to end it. Instead, he asked Lant: "Sir Lant, since you already know the relationship between wealth and the magic furnace, you must also be able to guess, What is the final collateral for your family’s galloping fund?”
(End of chapter)
