Magic Tower Starry Sky

Whoever said that the economy of the gold standard system cannot be played, it is just that the economy of the credit standard system has been played to fly. Even if he didn't intend to spoil Midi, but the money is in his hands, and if he can't play with it, it will be a waste of his time as a member of the Great Traveling People, and the time travels in vain.

If the power to mint coins, whose importance has not yet been recognized by the world and is regarded as a snake and a scorpion, can really be taken into hands... Well, it should be said that it is monopolized by the Goddess of Gold Coins, then you will not have to worry about making a major innovation that has never been done on earth, that is, unified currency.

Although there are bad coins and good coins in Midi, do those who mint bad coins deliberately mint bad coins? Bad and fake are still different. The latter is the intentional deception, using cheap and cheap common metals to pass off as precious metals, and using fool's gold as gold. But the former is just because the casting process is not good enough. This is purely a technical problem, not a deliberate act of fraud.

It was precisely because when it was discovered that it was possible to monopolize coinage that it was determined that someone would use money to promote the plan of the Ninth Authority. If you want to establish a power that is like the pillar of the world, how can you climb to such a peak if you have not achieved great unity. In contrast, if you want to promote the Ninth Power from fighting qi, just looking at the genres and gods involved will make someone want to die, so that they can't see it.

Since coins are to be minted, it is very important to design an appearance that is difficult to imitate and has a fairly recognizable appearance. However, this does not mean that designing the coin as a flower, which looks gimmicky, and adding a three-dimensional sculpture is a good design. It is also necessary to consider the convenience of carrying and calculating the quantity, as well as the acceptance of the world.

To be regarded as good coins, the characteristics of the five most well-cast imperial coins in the world's evaluation are round shape, double-sided relief, one side is the head of the contemporary emperor, and the other side is the imperial family emblem. Ordinary coins are only engraved on one side, either the badge of the founding organization, or the head of the head of the family or the king.

Lin did not intend to modify the general direction of such a classic design, but made a difficulty here. Who would accept the direct engraving of Ke Yin's portrait? However, considering that the gods do not reject the construction of their own statues to spread their beliefs. So that halfling goddess shouldn't care about privacy or portrait rights.

As for the other side, of course, go directly to the holy emblem of the goddess of gold coins, don't think about it. However, the part of Lin in the outer circle has a ring pattern of laurel crowns. And Ke Yin's holy emblem was made into a hidden pattern, and when viewed from different angles, it was a prayer on the Goddess of Gold Coins. The year of casting is written on the face of the head, below the icon of Ke Yin.

The respective scriptures of the gods are not like the Catholic Bible in my hometown, which contains many fairy tales, fables and poems. The first half of Midi’s scriptures are more like quotations, compared with Earth’s classics, which are like Confucian Analects, but not full of wisdom like Analects, just a collection of advertising lines.

The second half of the canon is devoted to various precepts. Generally speaking, the precepts of good gods are self-cultivation and persuasion; the precepts of evil gods are regular sacrifices and self-exercise. Interestingly, even if it is a belief in evil gods, the scriptures do not deliberately encourage people to do evil, betray, rape, plunder, murder and set fire. If you just want to live according to the commandments of the evil gods, doing those bad things is a shortcut.

As for the prayer chosen by Lin, it was a very interesting passage that he saw when he was studying Ke Yin's holy scriptures.

'I swear to protect the safety of people's property'

The text is written in Ke Yin's divine language. The gods of Midi all have their own languages ​​and characters. Unless they are specially learned, only monks, priests, bishops and other priests can directly 'understand' them under the blessing of the gods.

The reason why that paragraph of text is interesting is that in addition to flaunting Ke Yin's emphasis on money, it also involves the concept of another god. But those two seem to have such a good relationship, it shouldn't matter if the halfling goddess eats the tofu from the Guardian Lord.

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As for the appearance of the coin. The diameter of Midi's coins is mostly between 15mm and 20mm, but the thickness is more than 5mm. The thickness is uneven, and even the round shape of the coin is not so standard. Basically when you're minting coins, it's pretty impressive to notice that each coin weighs more or less the same. It is really hard to worry about the consistency and standard of appearance.

However, Lin did not intend to maintain the original common size of coins, but changed to a new size of 39 millimeters in diameter and 3 millimeters in thickness, which is larger in area but thinner. Coins of this new size will weigh approximately as much as coins in circulation in the Lost Lands. This is conducive to the determination of the ratio of the old currency to the new currency, so that the difference will not be too large.

After the design is completed, of course it is to create the entity. For this part, it depends on Freya's skill. The magician claims that his hands-on ability is not weak, but in fact they are all magic materials plus plastic surgery. If you really want them to carve something out of ordinary wood or stone with a hammer and a chisel, nine out of ten will fail. Someone who can draw and is good at drawing with a ruler is a skill brought before time travel.

But when it comes to knocking, the dwarves are still better than someone. Although the rich and powerful silver-bearded dwarves also mainly use magic materials, they don't trust magicians' shaping skills.

This enigmatic self-confidence unexpectedly fits a scientific fact. It is in the process of forging metal utensils that beating the red-hot metal is beneficial to remove impurities. Proper removal of impurities can slightly alter the properties of the metal. It doesn't necessarily mean it's getting better or worse, it just depends on whether the changed characteristics and uses match.

And to make coins, Lin is still going to forge mother coins made of gold, silver and copper in one go, which is a delicate job. Although the finger dexterity of the dwarves is not as good as that of the dwarves or the halflings, but with the help of a magician who travels through the crowd, it is not a big problem to make some refined tools. And using tools is what the silver-bearded dwarves are best at.

On the contrary, in the production of hidden patterns, the two people, one tall and one short, bothered their brains.

The principle of the three-dimensional invisible light pattern is very simple, but how to make it makes someone difficult. Even now my memory is amazing, and I can clearly dig out all the things in the deep memory of the past. But don't know or don't know...

As for the production process of the three-dimensional invisible light pattern, I only vaguely remember that acid is used for chemical etching, but the information I have read is for stainless steel plates, and it is still a very simple description, not the real production process. Although acid can be used to solve the three metals of gold, silver and copper, but which acid can target which metal, someone will stare twice?

There is no need to talk about aqua regia, one nitrate and three salts. As soon as it is poured, it will all melt away, what kind of chemical etching is to play. What's more, I have a Ph.D. in physics in my hometown, not a Ph.D. in chemistry. For chemistry, you also know the degree of the three strong acids—sulfuric acid, hydrochloric acid, and nitric acid. I really don't know anything about the business gameplay of applying chemical grades.

On Earth, if chemical etching is not used, it is laser processing.

Well, this is indeed a way. There are a lot of laser beams, and the Star Destroyer Cannon has been produced. Some people don't believe that they can't deal with gold, silver, and copper metal plates. It's just that Lin and Freya spent a lot of effort on how to program the light carving process.

Fortunately, I have previous experience in making jacquard machines. Although the purposes of the two are completely different, the logic of the machine can be referred to. Therefore, Lin was asked to tinker with a small laser engraving machine in a short period of time. Although the pipelines were exposed, many spare parts had to be drilled and locked with screws to be fixed to the machine. But at least you don't have to spend a lot of time researching from scratch.

But this research aroused Freya's interest.

This small light engraving machine that has just been built is at most just engraving some patterns on metal plates. It has not yet reached the level of manufacturing wafers and advancing Midi's technology tree to the semiconductor era in one fell swoop. But even this engraving is quite useful in making cars. Because as long as the intensity of the beam is increased, engraving can directly become cutting. There are even more tricks that can be played.

Ignoring Freya's plan to move the laser engraving machine to the automobile manufacturing and R&D center, enlarge the machine, and strengthen the energy of the beam, Lin still focused on engraving coins. With the assistance of the light engraving machine, the invisible light pattern engraving on both sides of the yin and yang quickly found the correct design introduction plan, and it was actually used on the gold, silver, and copper coins that Freya had been making for two or three days.

After making it, Lin weighed the coin with his index finger and looked at it carefully. To put it bluntly, this money is made by imitating the shape of Yuan Datou, his hometown. However, there is no habit of minting coins like the earth, which mixes other kinds of metals in coins to increase the hardness of coins. Instead, three coins with a purity of 9999 were minted.

Except for copper coins, the purity is too high and the coins are thin~www.wuxiamtl.com~ so that gold and silver coins are quite soft. Lin Ke has tried it before, using gold and silver cakes of the same size before carving patterns, repeatedly bending them, and breaking them with both hands, but he can break the gold and silver cakes directly. So holding the newly minted new coins, Lin was very careful.

It's just that this is supposed to be the first mother of money in the world, so why didn't there come such miracles as the sky showing splendor, auspiciousness and celebration of the world. Someone who was once poisoned in Xianxia novels thought so. If it's not that the novel is deceiving, it means that the three coins have not really been completed. And the fact is that these three coins are still one step away from my own thinking, which is not something I can accomplish.

However, Lin held the coin so carefully, thinking thoughtfully. Freya on the side thought that someone was worrying about the softness of the coins, and said, "Sir, the properties of high-purity metals are different from those we usually come into contact with. Coins are too soft to be used for this reason. And you make the coins so thin, I'm afraid that the money in the bag will be crooked when you take it out. Why don't you make the coins smaller but thicker like the old money?"

Lin didn't answer, picked up the silver coin, put it to his mouth, blew vigorously towards the round edge, and then placed it next to Freya's ear.

There was only a strange buzzing sound coming from the money, which made Freya go crazy. It was a voice she had never heard before, and she didn't know why she was attracted to it. But I just unconsciously wanted to hear more, so my ears moved closer to the source of the sound, that is, the direction of the coins.

Lin smiled and said, "That's the reason."