gold! Shakespeare once described it this way in "Timon of Athens" - gold! Yellow, shining, precious gold! No, gods, I am not an idle believer; I only want you to give me some roots! This thing, just a little bit, can turn black into white, ugly into beautiful, wrong into right, humble into noble, old into young, coward into brave.
A little bit of gold is like this. If a small mountain of gold is placed in front of a person, even eminent monks and saints with six pure roots will inevitably be tempted!
Semiramis, the empress of the ancient Assyrian Empire, never considered herself a saint, nor did she regard money as dirt. As the queen of a country, although Semiramis did not hate simplicity, she still liked luxury most of the time. , when the hills that seemed to be composed of gold, silver, gems and many unknown precious metals appeared in front of them, even Semiramis couldn't help but be tempted.
"It's as if all the gold in the world is concentrated here. Even I have never collected so much wealth before."
Women love jewelry. Whenever they see something shiny, their character will become more dragon-like in an instant. They will sincerely love these golden, purple, and blue stones. For this Semiramis doesn't seem to be unworldly, but compared to the other poor lady, Semiramis's expression is much better, at least she is not rolling in a pile of gold coins like Miss Tohsaka Rin.
Yalin looked at this hill-like treasure house. Even though he had seen it many times, he was still sincerely amazed by the wealth of the White Dragon Clan. No wonder after the Dragon War, some people who knew the secret secretly tried to secretly ignore the ban of the Dragon Alliance. Returning to the mountains of Yano was probably for the treasures left behind, but none of these greedy guys could leave alive. They all became trophies used to show the majesty of the Dragon King in the Ice Crystal Hall.
"Can ten tons of gold be replaced by gold coins?" Yalin asked. If possible, he would like to save the time of secondary casting.
"Of course~" Semiramis's tone became inexplicably gentle: "I have to say that this time is really surprising to me. It's very impressive for you to be able to collect so much wealth!"
In fact, I really want to tell you that I got these treasures cheaply.
"Build the Hanging Garden, Semiramis! I don't care how much gold I use, I just need you to let your Noble Phantasm exert its strongest power!"
"I'm very confident~ But Yalin, do you really trust me so much? You know that once your garden is established, even the command spell will not be able to bind me. Aren't you afraid┉┉"
"You won't~"
Yalin looked at the beautiful empress beside him: "Betrayal is not your nature, just like Medea! Even the 'Betrayal Witch' will not betray for the sake of betrayal. Betrayal, murder, and deception are all achieved. The means of obsession, and I will not give you a reason to betray."
"Hmm~ It seems that you are also an interesting person, so let me observe you carefully this time."
The rest of the work was very simple. The summoned tauren and frost elves began to select the materials according to Semiramis's requirements. It took a day to finally collect the required materials, of which gold alone was enough. Hundreds of boxes were shipped out. These golden gold coins were hit and piled on the platform of Ulduar City. Even if they were not as shocking as the mountains of gold in the treasure house, they were enough to dazzle a group of people.
"Oh my God! Ten tons of gold~ I never knew you were so rich~ Yalin."
Even the famous Iron Man, Tony Stark, the billionaire of a large international enterprise, although his eyelids twitched a little, he was still calm: "Let me do the calculations┉┉Each ounce of gold is now worth 1,880 US dollars, and 10 tons is equal to 10,000,000 grams. , 1 ounce is equal to 31.1035 grams, 10000000÷31.1035×1880=604433584 US dollars.”
"$600 million is not much. At most, you can buy an Iron Patriot suit. Compared with the $10 billion you spent to build a Mark V suit." Yalin shrugged: "What's so worth it? surprised?"
On the periphery of the platform, Tony, who was watching the Tauren pour out boxes of gold coins and gold bricks, shook his head and said bitterly: "The important thing is not money but gold. Stark Enterprises has plenty of liquidity, but I hold There is no place to buy so much gold with a lot of green paper. Brother Yalin, you should know that gold is a controlled product for the country. You can buy a little bit, but if you want to buy 10 tons, it is estimated that tomorrow the FBI, CIA and Homeland The Security Bureau will invite me for tea.”
"And S.H.I.E.L.D.~"
"Oh~ I almost forgot."
In Yalin's original world, gold is an important tool to measure a country's currency credit. In the other world, gold also plays the same role, but relatively speaking, the weight of this role is slightly lighter. In the other world, there are Many precious metals can be used as spears to stabilize currency values, among which magic crystals also occupy a place. However, because the consumption of magic crystals itself is also huge, gold is more often used.
"A large amount of gold can build a country and establish a strong financial system, but a huge amount of gold can also destroy it all." Yalin played with a gold coin in his hand, although it was all shining with gold under the baptism of time. The gold coins are somewhat discolored, but the gold coins with the dragon's head printed on them and revealing an ancient atmosphere still exude the aura of wealth.
"It seems that your wealth is more than this, right? Brother Yalin~" Tony heard something beyond the words.
Yalin smiled: "A lot, so much that I doubt that if all this wealth was taken out in one go, the entire continent's financial market would probably be in chaos."
"Let Uncle Tony teach you here and establish a larger market to circulate these treasures. Money is only money when it can be used. The same is true for gold. If it cannot be used, it is just a pile of golden stones. It’s worth nothing.”
"Tch! My dad told me this truth when I was in junior high school. It's not that I deliberately put this wealth in the warehouse to mold like a miser, but that I lacked trading channels."
Yalin is also very helpless about this, because the White Dragon King has made too many enemies, and the geographical location of the Yanold Mountains is really terrible. Although the forest resources and mineral resources here are extremely rich, the surrounding areas The environment allows except for the white dragon and the races protected by the white dragon to survive. It is estimated that the other races will be exterminated by the cruel nature itself before long if they survive here. And it is for this reason that these There is no way to trade wealth.
Before the Dragon War, the White Dragon Clan could still trade with other clans, elves, and dwarves. But now that the world structure has completely changed, the city of Ulduar now only has the Kingdom of Saxony as a gateway to the outside world. The tragedy is that Saxony The kingdom's national strength is not strong. In addition to long-haired cotton boll sheep, the special products it produces are some forest specialties and mineral specialties, and these things are produced in Ulduar City.
Because the financial system is in the hands of the secular kingdom and the two major religious forces, Yalin dare not easily invest his huge wealth to cause a shock in the market, especially in this delicate era of peace, where the two major religious forces are confronting each other and are wary of each other. A fragile peace is maintained, at least until one party has the power to completely overwhelm the other. And because of this, neither the Holy City nor the Holy See will tolerate damage to the current delicate 'peace'. , even destruction must be in their hands, and the arrival of a third party will not be welcomed no matter who it is.
Starving while guarding a pile of gold is one of the most heartwarming things for Yalin. He carefully conducts human trafficking with Croside through the Kingdom of Saxony, but it is almost over now. There are not more than 100,000 slaves. A small number, the Holy City and the Holy See are not fools. Before the two parties became suspicious, the Kingdom of Saxony and Croside took the time to issue a statement stating that the cooperation had ended.
Large-scale human trafficking has ended, but small-scale smuggling of foreign races other than humans has still continued. Ulduar City still maintains cooperation with the Kingdom of Saxony, but a small blood transfusion cannot satisfy the growing demand in Ulduar City. Appetite, especially when the human slaves were liberated into free people and the city of Ulduar began to gradually get rid of the rationing system and began to form a normal market mechanism, Yalin originally hoped to use these astronomical wealth to make big news. , but now it seems that time has given me no chance.
Everything was ready, and Semiramis began to sing. Although there was some conflict with him on the opposite side, he still assisted Semiramis in accordance with Yalin's request, and drove the twelve giant pillars of the 'real' into the 'emptiness'. It began to take shape in sequence. As Master 1, Yalin's sufficient supply of magic power allowed the 'Sky Garden' to be built faster than expected. The huge garden in the sky had begun to show deformities, like a huge floating fortress. It was like a shadow hanging over everyone's heads, and even Tony looked a little distracted!
Although S.H.I.E.L.D.’s aerospace carrier is spectacular, compared to this floating fortress that looks like a palace of the gods, the seemingly majestic and science-fiction-like aerospace carrier still lacks a sense of mysterious beauty.
Miss Tohsaka, who came to visit with her, was also looking into the sky in ecstasy. However, she still cast her gaze on the pile of gold coins below from time to time, watching as they gradually turned into powder and floated up into the sky under the influence of magic power, becoming a 'sky garden'. Part of the gold, Miss Tohsaka still showed the feeling of physical pain.
"Ten tons of gold! Such a huge amount of wealth could have raised supplies for my army to march across Europe before."
The Conqueror King Iskandar crossed his arms and hugged his chest and joked, but his eyes never left the huge garden that was constantly forming in the sky. Facing this creation full of majesty and power, his eyes showed a blazing heat.
Even with the assistance of Medea, the construction of the entire position dropped from three days and three nights to two days and one night. The entire garden was finally completed at dawn the next day, and Semiramis finally relaxed. He stopped chanting after a breath, and Yalin, who had been waiting, also showed a satisfied smile.
"Want to come and visit my palace?" Semiramis invited with a smile. (~^~)