Game of Thrones: The Strongest Dragon Mother

Chapter 235 The Currency System of Another World

Dany sat Petra to an empty table in the corner and asked, "Are you no longer a bachelor?"

"Of course I would like a maester to be able to walk proudly in front of the people in the city on the big horse that the lord gave him—this is the most beautiful thing that has ever happened to me in my dreams. But I am too stupid to build it for five years. A chain link," Pate said despondently.

Realistic and very self-aware.

The class solidification in this world is too serious, and the people at the bottom have almost no upward channels, and a bachelor's degree is equivalent to an "ultra-low version of the imperial examination."

It is true that bachelors are superior to ordinary people, but they are only one of the lord's staff, and their treatment is hundreds of blocks worse than that of "Master Jinshi".

But it is far more difficult to become a bachelor from a noble family than a Jinshi.

Not to mention which one is more advanced academically, Jinshi takes three years, and a group of people can always be selected each time.There are only two or three hundred lords in Westeros who are qualified to support bachelors (earls and above), and a bachelor will last a lifetime.

What's more harsh is that bachelors don't pay attention to "thirty old Mingjing, fifty young Jinshi". Under normal circumstances, the lord will choose young and promising young scholars to serve as substitutes before their own old scholars die.

Similar to Pate, even if he finally became a true bachelor at the age of 40 through his hard work, [-]% of them would not be wanted, and he would have to spend the rest of his life in the academy city, just like the countless gray-robed bachelors in the academy city who have no employers.

Not to mention the bachelor who was born as the second son of the noble, the competition is too fierce.

Dany asked again: "How much money do you have now?"

"Nine silver deer, forty copper star coins, and two hundred copper plates."

It's a bit miserable.

One Golden Dragon = 210 Silver Deer, one Silver Deer = 7 Bronze Stars, one Bronze Star = 16 Copper Plates.

Well, the currency in Westeros is very complicated. Only copper coins are divided into copper stars, copper wheat, half copper wheat, copper cents, and copper plates. There are five types in total, from high to low, which are exchanged in binary form.

For example, one Bronze Star = two Bronze Wheats

Do you think this is for convenience?

No, very few people can change between currencies of different metals.

The exchange ratio between various currencies is too complicated, not to mention those illiterate farmers and mercenaries, even many merchants can't figure it out. Without an abacus or a calculator, they often find the wrong money.

Danni’s personal experience is that she bought the same thing twice for a silver deer, but the boss got back the same amount of copper coins.

Before, she didn't understand why people in this world made currency so complicated. After becoming a queen and getting tens of millions of golden dragons in Slaver's Bay, Dany gradually understood.

In a word, social wealth is extremely unevenly distributed.

Take Westeros as an example, with a history of more than ten thousand years.Casterly Rock City has dug gold mines for thousands of years. According to the Lannister's shrewdness, more people are coming in and less people are going out. In this way, countless gold coins have been accumulated.

Among other things, Tywin lent Robert at least 300 million golden dragons, real cash.

And the entire Western Territory has a population of less than 100 million. On average, a beggar in Lannister Port has at least three golden dragons.

But we all know how deceitful the "average GDP" is, and more than half of the people are actually "holding back the country".

The gap between rich and poor in Westeros is so large that almost

Alas, it's hard to compare, but you can look at the miserable green boy Pete on the opposite side.

His status actually surpassed ninety percent of the country's population, but under normal circumstances, it would be difficult for Pate to save enough of his own golden dragon in his lifetime.

Even if he is lucky, his lower body is smooth, and he is free from disease and disaster, but according to his speed of saving money, by the time he collects a golden dragon, Roxie has already become Emma (her mother).

It can be said that the highest-grade "golden dragon" in currency has almost no meaning to him.

The golden dragon is meaningless to ordinary people, but if the country's economy is to develop normally, it must have a currency system with a balanced face value.

Just like in the real world, there are currencies with denominations of one yuan, five yuan, ten yuan, 20 yuan, 50 yuan, and one hundred yuan.

see it?

It is almost the same as the five copper currencies of Westeros, and it is almost raised in binary form-I am afraid that many people have never used the two yuan RMB?

If there were only copper coins, most ordinary people would still be able to settle their accounts. The amount is small, and the most advanced copper stars can only be exchanged for 16 copper plates.

Addition and subtraction within tens of digits can be calculated by traders with no problem in their minds.

But with the addition of silver coins, especially the terrifying "Golden Dragon", the terrifying astronomical figure can almost make people who count with their fingers collapse.

One golden dragon = 23520 copper plates!

If Dani used the golden dragon to buy sausages for two copper coins on the street, how would the other party get change?

Count coppers?

When you finish counting the 23518 copper coins, let alone whether you can count them, the time you wait for the change is enough for Dany to eat 100 sausages—if she can eat them.

You can only change money in mixed currencies, and then it involves complicated calculations.

How many Silver Deers, how many Bronze Stars, how many

mmp, if I could calculate the accurate answer quickly by mental arithmetic, I would have gone to the school city to make a gold necklace (representing arithmetic), why bother selling sausages on the street? !

The peddler must have thought so.

In fact, it is also very simple to solve this complicated currency problem. It is very simple to divide the property of local tyrants, and overthrow the local tyrants of Lannister, Iron Bank, and Dragon Queen who are hoarding gold coins crazily, so that gold coins can truly circulate as currency.

There are more gold coins on the market, and the exchange rate with silver coins will naturally decrease.

According to the world's existing huge gold reserves and extremely scarce population, it is completely possible to create a simple and direct currency system such as "one golden dragon = 10 silver stags = 100 copper plates".

But still the old saying, the gap between the rich and the poor in the world of ice and fire is too terrifying.

If the noble didn't buy luxury goods, the economy and food crops in the territory would be enough for him to live a lifetime. That is to say, the "stingy" lord would only earn money in his life and not spend it.

Even if you only save ten gold dragons a year

In Westeros, your family does not have a history of more than a thousand years, and will be ridiculed as a "land rich man"-provided that you have a lot of money.

As poor and shallow as Littlefinger, the nobles never laughed at him, because they didn't regard him as a companion at all.

For example, if someone is splashed with a bottle of mineral water at a speech conference, the big horse must have teased someone in private, but even if a certain hot dry noodles are pushed into the river, will the big horse pay attention to him?

Obviously not, even if you ridicule, it will only happen in circles with the same status.

Back to the topic, a thousand-year-old "small" family can save [-] gold dragons from ten gold dragons a year. Counting the entire aristocratic circle, the newly mined gold seems to be not enough for them to share.

In this way, the social classes below nobles and big merchants have almost no golden dragons to use.

If golden dragons are rare, their value will naturally increase—ordinarily, the country should intervene at this time.

But nobles are equal to the country, and nobles own all the golden dragons. The appreciation of the golden dragons means that the nobles get rich, and the riches of the nobles equals the prosperity of the country. Such a country will only work hard to promote the appreciation of the golden dragons, making the exchange ratio of metal currencies more and more unbalanced.

——In the end, the common people are oppressed on the baseline of subsistence food and clothing (only in summer). Even if the nobles are drunk and dreaming of death, they can still have a lot of wealth. If they have money, they will have power. With power, they can maintain their rule for thousands of years.

This is the reason why Tywin can easily spend millions of gold dragons to buy a sword, while Pate struggled for a lifetime but couldn't keep his girlfriend's chastity.

Dani pondered and asked: "If you elope with Rosey, will you be able to support your own little family in the future?"

Pete said: "I studied astronomy for the first two years in the city. I didn't pass the doctoral examination, but I also know some basic skills of stargazing and calculating seasons. Maybe I can help the nobleman manage the village."

Dani nodded. In this world with unknown seasons, Pate's ability to tell the time of planting is more than enough for a village head.

Pate continued: "After failing the subject, I realized that I was a bit stupid and a little bit unsure about becoming a bachelor, so I chose a more applicable subject.

Well, I'm focusing more on Ambrose MD's lectures.

Three years later, I still didn't get the silver chain link (silver represents medicine), but I also knew how to set bones and how to bleed with leeches to reduce fever.It's not bad to be a country doctor who travels all over the world. "

"Not bad, not bad." Dany nodded in praise.

Although leech bloodletting is a bit of a pit, but in this technologically backward world, leech therapy is almost one of the most mainstream branches of medicine.

No matter what kind of disease you have, you can let the leech suck a few mouthfuls first, maybe it will be fine?

Anyway, no big side effects.

Because of this, the "leech industry" in this world is very prosperous. It is better to go to the river to catch a few fat leeches to make money after working hard in the fields.

Well, maesters buy unlimited leeches.

With Dani's approval, Pete was also very excited, and continued: "After failing the medical examination, I also took courses as a barber. After a while, I will be able to help people cut hair and shave their beards. You can support Roxie here as a barber."

"Very good, very good!" Dany admired this kid even more.

Although his studies are a bit sloppy, he is not stupid. He has mastered several skills to support his family. He can work as a barber in the city, wander around as a barefoot doctor, and return to his hometown in the countryside as a small village head.

It seems that the school city is not useless!

Dani thought for a while, stared into his brown eyes, and said seriously: "A golden dragon is no different to a copper plate, but I will never help a client pay for whoring.

If on a certain morning, I hear the news that you have eloped with Roxie, I will immediately help you pay the 'bonus' that satisfies Emma.In this way, you and your little girlfriend will be completely free. "

"how?"

"Thank you, Miss Leila, I will seriously consider it." Pate said solemnly.

It's easy to give him a golden dragon now, and it's nothing to Dany, but what if it's just a temporary enthusiasm, and it cools down after venting, and decides to go back and continue to be a promising bachelor's apprentice, then

Dany would be sick to death.

"My lord, your painstaking efforts will be in vain," said the old knight, who appeared next to Dany like a ghost, and sat in Pate's place, "The passion of young people comes|comes|quickly, and goes away even faster. It’s just a fanatical ideal, and if you go back and think about it for a night, you may regret it. More importantly, he has many close friends in the school city, and the fetters of friendship are not so easy to let go.”

"Maybe, if you have the opportunity to do a life-changing 'little favor' for others, why not do it?" Dani shrugged and asked, "What do you think of the current situation in the Seven Kingdoms?"

　(ps: The exchange rate and purchasing power of Golden Dragon, Silver Deer, Bronze Star, etc. are almost quoted from the original book, but the analysis of such a complex currency system is only a personal opinion, and I don’t study economics, so please forgive me for any mistakes.

　　Well, the reason why there is this chapter is because some careful readers have discovered and asked questions. The purchasing power of money in the book seems to be very inconsistent.

　　Tywin spent hundreds of thousands to buy a sword, Robert owed 600 million gold dragons in foreign debt, but the ransom of ordinary noble knights was only 2 gold dragons, and a half-eaten sausage was only a copper plate, a gold dragon It seems too exaggerated to exchange more than [-] copper plates.

　　According to my personal understanding, in a society with a large gap between the rich and the poor, the monetary system should be divided into two categories, ordinary people and rich people.Although the two live in the same world, they are on planes of different energy levels.

　　Some people go to neon to buy goldfish, millions of dollars, without blinking an eye.Bill Gates' new yacht is [-] million pounds (fake news), do the math, how much pork can you exchange for it? )

　　

　

(End of this chapter)