Chapter 1,272 Extended Strategy
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Among the gifts from the Goddess of Gold Coins, the improvement in strength is not the biggest gain for Duke Kawei. At his current status, it is enough to be strong enough to protect himself. There are not many opportunities to actually fight with others, let alone to gain fame through such actions.
On the one hand, it is also because there are too many chores other than martial arts, which involve my mind and time. If you want to reach the top with your skills, everything else will probably have to go to waste.
Besides, for a grand duke to be able to reach the realm of a transcendent, it is enough to prove Ricardo Carvey's extraordinary qualifications. How many nobles hope to transcend the original level of life and obtain a longer life, but they cannot achieve it.
However, what really made the Grand Duke feel that it was worth his money was to learn about the entire layout of the bank from the goddess's knowledge. Including the golden flow network is not shouldered by the goddess alone, but supported by the World Tree behind it. This also solved a big question of the old Duke.
World Tree is difficult to deal with, this is recognized by Midi. Regardless of how the Goddess of Gold Coins hooked up with Yggdrasil, just looking at the investment and layout, the old Duke felt that the 'bank' matter had great potential.
In fact, just like on Earth, one basis for judging whether a company is worth investing in is how much the company’s boss has invested himself?
If everyone from the boss to the partners and employees put all their efforts into the company, then no matter what business it is doing, such a company can at least look forward to its future.
If the boss only wants to make money, he will keep emptying the company and putting it into his own pocket. No matter how promising the projects run by this company are, they probably won't last long.
In the same way, in order to gain more power of faith, the gods' various unlimited operations are not surprising to nobles of the Grand Duke's level, no matter how hidden they are. Therefore, it is normal for the gold coin goddess to work hard.
But if even World Tree is willing to cooperate, and even use the elves under their command as bargaining chips, invest in it. With such a large amount of support, there is no longer a need to consider whether this kind of thing can be achieved, but the question of how high it will reach.
In addition, the magician is also among them, as the main promoter. Thinking about the success of the car, the old Duke became more determined to bet on the team this time.
"Haha, there are twenty-seven high seats, and the only human being is at the bottom." Looking sideways at someone, he saw that a certain magician's scalp was numb. The old Duke was surprised by this information.
He thought that the magician in front of him should have higher achievements, not just a math master, or the magician who claimed to be the best at escaping. But I never thought that he has achieved achievements that are beyond the reach of ordinary people in places that many people cannot notice.
The inside story of the Ikaruga Alliance's high seat is not a secret to the nobles, but the speed at which the information is updated is very disappointing. At least in the old Duke's perception, he thought that the high seats of the Turtle Dove Alliance were just the eleven in the past. Who would have known that now it has more than doubled, and there is an extra human and a god!
Lin scratched his face awkwardly and smiled, not knowing how to explain. But this kind of thing is not worthy of being publicized everywhere or mentioned to everyone. I am also very helpless.
The old Duke did not pursue the embarrassing pursuit of a certain magician because he came back to think about the layout of the bank.
Banking doesn’t just start in the holy city of Estali. The other five starting locations are the five existing elven kingdoms in the Lost Land. Moreover, these five elven kingdoms are not just about developing and promoting bank business. Instead, with the help of the Goddess of Gold Coins, the kingdom's currency was directly reformed.
The elves' requirements for perfection and art make them demanding in everything they do, and the same goes for coinage. It can be said that every time an elf coin is made, the cost exceeds the value of the coin itself. Therefore, in the later period, the Elf Kingdom no longer minted its own coins, but used the circulating coins of the human world.
And because the social habits of elves are very different from humans, it doesn’t take much money as a trading medium to support the economic size of a kingdom. It is mainly used for transactions with external parties.
However, the Elf Kingdom is relatively closed, and the projects and scale of foreign transactions are not large. Together with the economic size of the entire kingdom, it is not even as good as some human nobles who are good at business.
Therefore, instead of pushing the elven commoners to use Koin's new coins and circulate them in a petty manner, it is better to reform the kingdom's currency directly from top to bottom.
The appearance of gold, silver, and copper Ke Yin already conforms to the aesthetics of elves. Therefore, there will be no elf rejection when using it. Not to mention that bad money can be liquidated and exchanged for ordinary coins at a ratio of almost one to one. If it is good money and good coins, it can be exchanged in an increased amount. Of course, the elven kings can also clearly see the benefits that ordinary people can see.
The Elf Kingdom even requires that all merchants who want to trade with them must first exchange their coins for His Majesty Koin's new money before settlement can be made. This is because in the past, the amount of money involved in national-level transactions was quite large, and the elves would inevitably receive some bad money.
If it is discovered during the transaction, the merchant will of course be asked to change the coins used. Despite this, there is still a lot of bad money that is only discovered when it is put into storage and has to be stored separately.
But when it comes to using coins, the pride of the elves prevents them from mixing bad coins into ordinary coins. Therefore, these bad coins have actually become a burden to the kingdom.
Not to mention the behavior of mixing bad money, which will also cause losses to the other party in the transaction. Therefore, requiring merchants to exchange money first and then settle with new coins is an act of self-protection for the Elf Kingdom.
After all, the environment they were in was not an environment like the Holy City of Estari or the Gwana Empire, where good coins were the main currency. The opportunity to make extra money by chasing old coins in other people's hands is almost non-existent.
For those merchants who trade with the Elf Kingdom, such a change in national policy cannot be said to be good or bad. The specialty products of the Elf Kingdom are already quite popular among the outside world. The reason why they can establish trade channels with the Elf Kingdom is mostly because they inherited the blessings of their ancestors or made great efforts to open up connections. Everything is hard-won and cannot be stopped at will.
In the past, in order to obtain better profits, in addition to raising prices for external sales, they also tried to find ways to reduce the purchase cost in the Elf Kingdom. Crying about poverty and lowering prices is a routine thing. Occasionally mixing some bad money into coins is already the best effort. If this kind of nonsense was done too blatantly and the kingdom directly canceled their trading qualifications, it would make people cry without tears.
Nowadays, if you require currency exchange, even though it requires extra effort, the bad currency will be exchanged at a reduced price and a storage fee will be charged. But what businessmen are best at is careful calculation. Those who are clever and clever use mathematics to make an account and find that doing so is profitable, and no one complains.
With the national policy of the Elf Kingdom as a reference, Duke Kawei became more active and moved his thoughts to other places.
The ban imposed by His Majesty the Emperor seems to be incompatible with each other, but in fact it is also a source of pressure. When the duchy suspends commercial and trade activities with other territories, is there any way to sustain it for a long time? Of course it's impossible.
Now the two great ducal families have not started a war. Perhaps the old emperor thought that his ideas were well conveyed to his confidants. When everyone can no longer hold on, the war will either break out suddenly and everyone will be reduced to rubble; or the war will end without any mention of revenge. It would be great to take care of the emperor's face and dignity and let everyone have a chance to step down.
But the so-called ban actually only prohibits other nobles of the empire from having relations with the two grand duke families. There is no way to prohibit other countries. The reason why the so-called grand duke has a big title is that, in addition to having a larger territory than an ordinary duke, the biggest feature is that the grand dukedom must be located at the border of the empire. Because the Grand Duke's duty is to guard the border.
In the history of the Gwana Empire, if the empire's territory expanded and the Grand Duke became the heartland, then the Grand Duke would be moved to the border. Then the territory increases! Without such an exchange, how could these military veterans agree to give up the territory they had managed for a long time and move to a place they were unfamiliar with?
To the north of the Dukedom of Kawi, there are three kingdoms that are all about the same strength, as well as more noble territories that are not part of the Gwana Empire. These people are not affected by the ban of the emperor of their own empire. If you can't do business with other nobles in the empire, is it possible that you can't do business with these small nobles from foreign countries?
If you want to invade them, maybe these small countries will unite to resist your invasion. Not to mention that the grudge between the Risa family and him has not yet been settled. If the two sides start a war, he will not be able to gain any advantage by using troops again.
But what about not invading and just doing business? The products of the empire and the specialties within its own territory are all good things that the surrounding small countries pursue. The reason why we did not sell in the past was that we could absorb our own production capacity internally, and we looked down on those small countries and believed that they were not qualified to use our good products. Now that he is willing to sell it, these small countries will only be grateful.
The advantages of trading with small surrounding countries: 1. Solve the problem of backlog of production capacity in the territory and expand financial resources. Second, take the opportunity to promote the bank and at the same time strengthen the influence of Duke Kawei's family. 3. Earn a fortune from the exchange opportunities of good money and bad money from these small countries!
The third point can be said to be the key point in promoting the old Duke's trade with these small countries.
Sending troops to rob will involve your own energy and military strength, which is not cost-effective. But if you sell some garbage, the price will increase if you sell it abroad, and then make a profit from the currency exchange, which is equivalent to peeling off two layers of skin from a cow, so why not do it.
And this extra money may not necessarily be kept in his own hands. You can hire troops from these small countries or foreign nobles, even if they can't face the private army attacking the Rizal family head-on, they can harass the border of the Rizal territory.
As long as they hang up their own flags, they are their own mercenaries, and these small countries don't have to worry about being settled by the emperor. With the help of the general trend of the bank, these small countries can be firmly tied to their own chariots, unable to easily get off the car and change camps.
Maybe this kind of thing can only be done in the short term. These small country nobles will eventually discover the tricks in the currency exchange and it will not last long. But these are all extra advantages. If you don't know how to use them, your title of Grand Duke will be wasted.
The more he thought about it, the hotter his heart became.