Volume 4: National Craftsmanship Chapter 8 Monetary System
Next, everyone took out their best treasures to bid. Such a "magic weapon" can greatly increase a person's survival rate in the wild. No matter how many supplies you have, if you can't survive, they will be in vain. If you die outside, everything will be in vain. Today's doomsday... is an era of personal power. Only if you are strong enough can you make a name for yourself in the world.
It’s just that the auction process was a bit chaotic…
Since there is no unified unit of measurement, the belongings of each survivor are different and have different values. It is difficult to tell which is more valuable, a bar of soap or a bottle of Vaseline.
Which one is more valuable, a box of condoms or a box of Yuting?
Which one is more valuable, a sausage or an electric husband?
Uh...it's obviously sausage, after all, you can still eat it after using it.
Finally, under the chairmanship of the deputy captain, the auction ended in a very chaotic manner. Lu Renyi exchanged a large bag of 4-jin compressed biscuits for the [Flint Sword]. He was very satisfied, because with this sword, he could go and rob that rich cellar tomorrow. By then, let alone a large bag of compressed biscuits, even a box of canned food would be just the tip of the iceberg.
Lao Qi spent one of his treasured satellite phones to get the [Flintstone·Greatsword] he wanted, and sold another [Flintstone·Western Sword] for five cans of luncheon meat. The others who didn't win the bid sighed. The deputy captain smiled like an old capitalist, "Xiao Zhao, go to the warehouse and get three more swords!"
Those who didn’t buy it were all surprised and asked, “What?”
The three people who had just bought the swords suddenly felt that something was wrong...
The same scene was happening at the west city gate. Today was destined to be a day of great harvest for Shen Jin. Shen Jin took a walk around in the evening and found that the city gates on both sides were still selling briskly. His craftsman soul weapons were very popular. After all, a suitable weapon was the foundation for the servants to make a living in the apocalypse. There was no need to save on it, just like the stingy old ladies before the apocalypse who bought a box of health products for ten thousand yuan without blinking an eye. The older you get, the more you cherish your life.
In the end times, the closer people are to death, the more they value their lives.
Hundreds of craftsman soul weapons made of ordinary materials were sold for a bunch of strange and bizarre things, greatly enriching Shen Jin's material warehouse.
Let the pseudo-superhumans bleed a little.
Shen Jin had no psychological burden at all about this. He built such a large settlement, provided free accommodation, medical care, electricity, and even subsidized some food occasionally. At least no one had starved to death in Home No. 1. What was wrong with asking for some reward?
Of course… I don’t mean throwing someone out just because they are starving to death.
As Shen Jin walked towards the villa, he muttered to himself: "This kind of situation can only happen a few times. In the future... the weapons market is becoming saturated, and we need a unified price. But... what should we use to set the price? Crystal cores? This thing is still a hard currency, right? Transcendents and pseudo-transcendents can absorb the energy factors inside to slowly strengthen themselves, and can also temporarily burst out to restore energy. This is good. At that time, it is reasonable to sell a weapon for several crystal cores!"
Shen Jin felt that he had grasped the important trend of the future development of the base and established a unified measurement: energy crystal core!
Just like the immortal world in novels where people trade spirit stones.
Just do it!
Shen Jin found Shang Qian in the villa with an excited look on his face, "Shang Qian, I want to do..."
"Man, are you seducing me?"
Shang Qian rolled her eyes at him, "Oh no, I mean... "
"Okay, I admit that you have successfully caught my attention!"
Shang Qian's body was shining purple, and she pulled Shen Jin directly to the bedroom. Under Shang Qian's precise control, his clothes fell directly to the spot. In front of the bed, Shang Qian's two big white rabbits... The brooch was particularly dazzling...
After a while, Shang Qian came out of the bedroom refreshed. Shen Jin said with a look of resentment: "I mean, I have a good idea and want to do something big..."
Shang Qian blinked her big eyes and bit her lip, "Oh? I saw you looked so anxious, I thought you were going to do... me!"
Shen Jin looked at Shang Qian biting her lips playfully, and suddenly he felt a little eager, "Ahem... let's get down to business, I think..."
Shen Jin told Shang Qian about his genius idea of making the crystal core into a unified unit of measurement, and he looked proud, as if to say: How about it? Is this a good move?
Shang Qian pondered for a moment and said, "As our scale grows, the establishment of a universal currency will have to be put on the agenda... Crystal cores are a good hard currency, but they also have several disadvantages!"
"Hmm?" Shen Jin felt that in his mind, the crystal core was completely comparable to ancient gold and silver.
"Do you know the gold standard ? It completely collapsed during World War I. There are three reasons for this: First, the growth rate of gold production is far lower than the growth rate of commodity production. Gold cannot meet the growing demand for commodity circulation, which greatly weakens the basis for the circulation of gold coins. This is also true for crystal cores as currency. Our production is actually not much. Today's inventory is about 250,000, right? It seems a lot, but once it is used as currency, it is completely insufficient. Currently, we have nearly 30,000 survivors, and on average, each person has less than 10 coins in circulation, which is not enough. Of course, we will not distribute it to everyone, so the market will not be able to distribute it to everyone. There are even fewer in circulation; second, the distribution of gold reserves among countries is unbalanced. We don't have this problem. After all, we only need to consider our own base at present, but in the future, survivors from other bases may purchase a large amount of things from our base through crystal cores, impacting our monetary system. Third, when the First World War broke out, gold was concentrated by the participating countries to purchase arms, and the free export and banknote redemption were stopped, which eventually led to the collapse of the gold standard. Our crystal core is actually a valuable currency, but... its effect is not as good as the reputation currency, which can be controlled by us. As long as we don't fall, the reputation currency will not collapse!"
"Reputation currency?" This was the first time Shen Jin heard this term. "It's paper money, a currency issued based on a country's reputation system. Previously, there was a country that dominated the world by relying on its currency hegemony. It threw money everywhere, and used paper to exchange for other countries' strategic resources!"
"Hiss~! I understand. You don't have to say it. I once collected 404 yuan of this country's banknotes. If you say more, I will miss my 404 yuan again..."
"Well, as long as you understand what I mean, the crystal core is actually valuable. It can be used as an auxiliary form of currency and a physical guarantee, but... to truly build a long-term economic system, we need to issue our own credit currency!"
Shen Jin looked at Shang Qian's look like a female CEO and felt... it's over.
Perhaps she was born to be an economic leader.
Shang Qian took out the small book she carried with her, flipped through two pages and continued, "In fact, I have thought about using crystal cores as currency, but... the price of this currency is a bit high, and it is not conducive to exchange. It is impossible for a clothing store to sell a piece of clothing for one crystal core, right? Or one crystal core for a small bag of salt? We also need a smaller credit currency to supplement it, but... it is very troublesome to make a currency that is not easy to copy, and we don’t have the talent in this area!"
"Currency that is not easily counterfeited? Wait... I think I've seen it somewhere!"
Shen Jin suddenly thought of...
