Due to the development of commodity economy, people's desire to pursue wealth is deepening day by day, and there is an urgent need for faster, more convenient and cheaper trade routes. With the improvement of science and technology and the advancement of geographical knowledge, Europeans have been able to manufacture multi-masted and fast ships with loads of hundreds or even thousands of tons, making long-distance voyages possible.
Beginning with the Portuguese's successful opening of new shipping routes and huge profits from them, the world has officially entered a new process called "The Age of Navigation". In view of the fact that if one party wins, the other party must lose, in order to avoid touching the fragile glass heart of the sufferer, here we put aside the resulting plundering, colonization, slave trade, war of aggression and other phenomena, and only stand on the standpoint of all human beings. He commented that the opening of the new air route is conducive to economic and cultural exchanges, promotes the convergence of world civilizations, and makes the world become one.
Since the "Great Voyage Age" is a new era born in the process of people's pursuit of wealth, all kinds of competitive relationships are inevitable for their own interests... Portugal, which was pioneering and prosperous for a while, was finally won the position of maritime hegemony by other European countries. , and now it is occupied and ruled by Spain because of the inheritance relationship of the royal family.
And in this environment, its capital, "Lisbon", welcomed an important guest - well, just the odd one now.
"Alas... getting off this ship in front of so many people is a very courageous thing." Due to the unique shape of the "God of Fortune" that I just complained about, I can only jump to the merchant ship." Leeds, who was looking at Lisbon's harbour pier on the convex edge of the "guardrail", had already seen the entire pier as if it had been decelerated by magic.
"God of Fortune" attracts the attention of the entire pier through its unique shape, making them stop even the work they are doing, which is quite powerful in a sense.
"I don't care so much. After staying on the boat for so many days, my bones are moldy. I must go down for a walk." Zhang Jing couldn't wait.
"Haha, everyone is the same~" Liz jumped off the guardrail and looked at the others, "So, it's time to assign people, right?"
"I always thought you, the captain, would even forget this~" Leon teased.
Liz didn't care about him either, what he's going to say now is serious business, "First of all, I want to re-emphasize that the trainee villagers cannot leave the "God of Fortune" for more than 24 hours, otherwise they will be kicked out of the team. Returning to my hometown to continue my original life... I'll be ruthless here, a subordinate who can't complete such a simple order, I won't spend the world tree fruit on her again, don't even think about coming back."
"As it should be." The artificial people agreed, but the "trainee villagers" of the Murong family looked a little unhappy.
Relatives return to relatives, and the mind is still a bit more complicated than that of artificial humans.
Liz didn't pay attention to their side, "After that, I wanted to keep someone to guard the "God of Wealth", so I aimed at this hatred appearance, Cai Fan, Brother Yun, the two of you who are the most capable of taking turns on duty, how to take turns to discuss by yourself. "
"Yes!" Daji pouted awkwardly, but Zhao Yun had already responded, so she couldn't help it.
"Following down, the S-type androids have a more cheerful personality and are suitable for investigating the cultural environment, local specialties, policies and decrees, and market prices. Action; Type B androids are more capable of fighting, working in small groups to provide protection to other androids."
"Follow your wishes!"
Finally got a bit of a [merchant ship] posture~
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"Currency" is essentially a contract between the owner and the market about the right to exchange. People recognize the transaction form of "exchanging what they own for money, and exchanging money for what originally belonged to others"... According to the essence of this contract , the currency can have different expressions, such as the bottle cap of "Fallout World", the virtual trading point of "Niel World", such as the paper currency of the modern world, as long as people recognize its value.
Among them, gold is an ideal currency. Although it is much less useful than copper and iron as a "metal", its rarity, corrosion resistance, high temperature resistance, non-hardness, easy division, and non-inductive characteristics make it easier to serve as a measure of value, a medium of exchange, and a means of preservation.
There is no need for anyone to advocate and no organization to promote it. Under the result of natural selection in the market, all countries in the world use it as currency in different ways.
Then…
"Sure enough~~ The color of gold looks so pretty~~" Sedum, who surrounded himself with a pile of gold ingots in the room, showed by his actions that not only "all countries in this world" regard gold as a money, but "many worlds" use gold as money.
"I'm really reluctant to sell these treasures... But 'a small fortune can't make a big one', so I can only grit my teeth and endure it." Sedum held the gold ingot and looked around, put it down and picked up another piece Checking the gold ingot, I don't know what I'm looking at.
"Huh?" Hearing the sound of footsteps, Sedum quickly put away the gold ingots on the ground, synthesized gold bricks next to the workbench in the room, filled the gold bricks into the previously excavated floor, and covered them with wooden boards. Sitting on the bed as if nothing had happened, he made his movements in one go, and used the skills of hiding gems in the home in the "Main World" to the merchant ship.
Let me explain here that the gold is Sedum's legal private money, bought from the castle through gems, and belongs to him entirely. Shopping with gold other than these other-dimensional boxes cannot be brought into the merchant ship system after the journey, nor can it be sold on the shopping street, but if you only think about enjoying in this world, there is no restriction at all.
(Kuo Kuo) There is a knock on the door.
"Huh..." From this point alone, Jingtian knew that it wasn't Tang Xuejian who would confiscate her private house money. She pushed the door open and came in immediately, and immediately heaved a sigh of relief, "Who? Please come in."
The person who came in was not the little wife, but the big wife, "Sedum, are you free now?"
"I'm free~ Is there anything, Xiyao?" Facing the woman he loves the most, Sedum would say that he was free even if he wasn't free. Besides, he was too busy to count gold ingots just now.
There is no way, after completing the transaction with "Custer Road Chamber of Commerce", other merchants are still waiting and watching, and they have nothing to do.
"Before, didn't you say you want to learn alchemy in other worlds?" Xiyao said with a tender expression, "I borrowed alchemy teaching materials from Yuan Ji when I set off, and just bought some parchment paper at the dock, Quill and ink, and a few more rocks from the shore..."
"Xiyao... Do you still remember?" Sedum remembered, he said this. But at that time, it was just a casual talk, and then I was busy digging obsidian in hell and taking the "God of Fortune", and I had forgotten it.
Xiyao nodded: "Well, I won't forget a word of what you said."
"This, this is it..." Sedum scratched his head, stood up from the bed, and waved his fist, "Okay, starting today, I will work hard to learn how to turn a stone into gold! Xi Yao, you must accompany me~!"
"Hmm~"