First Wizarding World War

"If someone greets you, give them a warm hug. If they are women, compliment them on their good looks. If something unexpected happens, just laugh and say: What a nice day today..."

Charlotte Mecklen kept cheering herself up and tried to be calm and composed.

About a dozen days ago, Charlotte Mecklen was still called Huang Haisheng, a high school math teacher who was born on Earth and completed a standard undergraduate education.

He didn't know how he "died".

During the last days of his life, he was confused and had no memory at all. When he woke up, Huang Haisheng became Charlotte Mecklen, an imperial government employee on vacation.

Charlotte Mecklen worked in the General Office of the Central Government. She was a first-level clerk, ranked 41st in the imperial bureaucracy, and was responsible for some clerical work.

The country he worked hard for and received a salary for was called the Fars Empire!

A powerful country that Huang Haisheng had never seen in his memory.

Charlotte Mecklen was born in the Old World, in the Principality of Behemoth (Note: one of the vassal states of the Fars Empire). When she grew up, she went to the Empire to study. After graduation, she successfully got a good job in the capital Strasbourg.

He was very panicked in the first few days after crossing over. No one could remain calm when encountering such a thing.

Fortunately...

Charlotte Mecklen was on vacation at that time.

He rented a small house by the sea in Senis alone. The neighbors around him were all strangers, which gave him enough time and environment to calm down.

Huang Haisheng quickly judged that replacing Charlotte Mecklen's identity and living a routine life was his best choice.

After crossing over, he got most of the memories of "Charlotte Mecklen" and some ancient knowledge, which allowed him to perfectly integrate into this fantasy world with a classical European style.

Yes, this is a fantasy world.

There are gods, magical creatures, forbidden ancient creations, giants, barbaric witches, blood races, magic, fighting spirit, alchemy, extraordinary people and extraordinary items.

This world is ruled by nine righteous gods.

In the indescribable ancient times, the nine gods concluded a sacred covenant, "The Law of the Gods", which stipulated that the nine gods would take turns to rule the world in units of hundreds of years, called eras.

It is now the thirty-fifth year since Lady Black Moon ruled the world, and it is also the fifth era established by the Fars Empire.

Charlotte Mecklen stepped into the government office with a calm smile, and greeted everyone she saw in a gentle manner.

He was quite blurry about every person who passed by him. The original owner's memory pixels invested in the appearance of most colleagues were too low, and it was not enough for him to recognize anyone.

Just like we can recognize most acquaintances at any time, but when we are alone, we can't imagine the appearance of most acquaintances. This is a small defect of human memory.

He came to the office in his memory, sharing an office with Charlotte Mecklen and more than 20 clerks. Although it was not an independent office space, it was much better than those colleagues working in the hall.

As soon as he opened the door, he heard a serious middle-aged woman calling out: "Mr. Mecklen, you will have a special job in the next few days."

Charlotte smiled slightly and searched her memory to piece together the image of the speaker.

The middle-aged lady was his direct supervisor, Mrs. Aldegund, a senior government worker with a stern and majestic appearance.

"Okay, Mrs. Aldegund. I will do my best to complete this work arrangement."

Mrs. Aldegund was slightly surprised. She thought Charlotte Mecklen would refuse. This job was very difficult and almost no one was willing to take it over.

However, since Charlotte had already agreed, she would not make things complicated. She said calmly: "Take this ID to Kilmainham Prison, and someone will arrange your next job."

"Here is one écu as a subsidy for your temporary job."

Charlotte smiled slightly, took the envelope handed over by Mrs. Aldegund, searched her memory, and soon recalled the relevant memories of the imperial currency.

The empire has three monetary units: écu, foire and centim.

One écu is equal to ten foires, and one foire is equal to one hundred centim.

Ecu means shield in the imperial language. There are two denominations of one écu and five écu. It is made of gold and is very valuable. Nowadays, only the rich and nobles have a large amount of écu in their homes. It has become a collection and is rarely circulated on the market. Almost no one will take it out to spend.

The voor was originally used as a unit of weight for currency, equivalent to one pound of silver. The third emperor changed to minting silver coins, which the people of the empire called the old voor. The fourth emperor issued paper money of the same amount, called the new voor, with denominations of one, five, ten, twenty, and fifty. After changing to paper money, the silver voor, like the écu, rarely appeared on the market and actually withdrew from circulation. One voor is roughly equivalent to the purchasing power of 1,800 to 1,900 RMB.

There are five denominations of centimes: one centime, five centimes, ten centimes, twenty centimes and fifty centimes. No paper money has been issued, and it is the only coin that is still in large circulation.

One écu is already a very generous extra errand reward, which is equivalent to Charlotte's salary for one and a half months.

That's right, as a first-class clerk in the empire, Charlotte is a high-paid person with a weekly salary of one voor and seventy centimes, and even has the ability to take a vacation every year.

Except that he had not saved much because of his short working years, and could not buy a house, so he could only rent a house, he was a talented young man in the empire.

This was also the fundamental reason why girls would touch his thighs at social banquets. Charlotte Mecklen was a very high-quality empire man with a bright future.

Mrs. Aldegund was serious and seldom spoke. After explaining the work, she returned to her office.

Charlotte turned and left the office, left the government office building, and waved casually on the street. A public carriage stopped quietly. The coachman waited for Charlotte to get on the carriage and let the horse trot again.

Charlotte sat in the carriage, while experiencing the bumps of this ancient means of transportation, she opened the envelope and took out a ten-ecu banknote and a formal official letter of introduction.

The empire did not issue any denomination of écu banknotes, no one écu banknotes, no five écu banknotes, and only gold coins were issued for écu.

The above reasons combined have led to a custom in the Empire that is puzzling to time travelers, that is, to habitually call a ten-for-one banknote an ecu!

Charlotte put the ten-for-one banknote into her wallet, put the letter of introduction into the pocket of her coat, crumpled the envelope containing it into a ball, and threw it out of the carriage, landing in a trash can on a street corner, with amazing accuracy.

His Majesty Julius, the sixth emperor of the Empire, was born with a cleanliness obsession. He could not stand the sewage and garbage piled up everywhere in the city, so he promoted the municipal administration of trash cans. Facts have proved that there are things that the emperor cannot do. This municipal administration was not completely successful, and it was only retained in the Val d'Oise district.

The Val d'Oise district is the area where the royal palace, the central government office, the nine orthodox churches and the four most famous universities are located.

These noble gentlemen are also willing to enjoy a clean living environment.

As for other districts, let it go.