Struggle in the Steam Age

After reaching a consensus, Lawrence and the others immediately became busy with the next work. For example, the priests of the Fortune Church immediately held a ceremony after returning, hoping to obtain spiritual revelation in this regard. Obviously, from the smiling faces they showed after meeting Lawrence the next day, they knew that at least the gods recognized this aspect. of.

The communication with the empire's local side was also very smooth. The empire agreed not to send supervisors under the premise that Lawrence allowed the Church of Fortune to oversee the entire currency issuance process.

But on the other hand, they said that the wealth previously used for collateral is needed after it is converted into gold. It is stored in the treasury of the Imperial Bank and used as a reserve for the issuing currency of New Sauer Island.

After all, New Sauer Island belongs to the noble territory of the Holy Visby Empire, so it is impossible to be completely independent in these aspects. For example, in some cases, the military forces on the island have to obey the orders of the empire. For example, when issuing currency, it is necessary to consider the ideas of the empire, especially the emperor.

What's more, in Lawrence's view, the reliability of the gold stored in the vault of the Holy Visby Empire on a certain astral plane is much better than that of stored in a cave on the island. It can also make future currency users more confident in the security of the currency itself.

In addition to the reserves placed in the empire's home vault, the casting and printing of these new currencies on the island were also entrusted to the Royal Mint of the Holy Visby Empire. After all, coining and printing currency is a very complicated matter, and it is definitely impossible to do it with the power of New Sauer Island alone. And this also has to consider the thinking of the empire.

The new currency naturally adopts the currency unit of the Holy Visby Empire, with the Krona as the basic unit, and at the same time issues the fractional currency Helle.

Just in order to avoid a series of complicated financial problems, the currencies prepared for New Sauer Island are completely different from the local currencies of the empire in other aspects, and can be regarded as a basically independent currency.

In the newly issued currency called the Star Hekron, 1 krona is equal to 100 helle. Taking into account the overall economic development of Sauer Island, the total economic volume and the scope of economic radiation. In the exchange rate, 1 krona of the star sea krona is equivalent to 0.25 white eagle federal dollar or 0.2 holy Visby krona.

In terms of face value, the new Star Hekron has three denominations of 10 kronor, 5 kronor and 1 kronor. Like the Imperial Krone of the Holy Visby Empire, the front of the new currency is also printed with the Imperial Eagle and the denomination number, but the back The royal coat of arms was replaced by the coat of arms of Earl Sauer.

However, in order to avoid confusion, the Star Hekron is obviously more slender than the Imperial Krona banknote. What is more obvious is that the main color of the currency has also changed from purple to dark green, which looks far from the currency of the Empire in appearance, but is closer to the currency of the White Eagle Federation.

The same is true for small denomination coins, the same is the imperial eagle plus the number on the front, and the imperial royal emblem is replaced with the emblem of the Earl of Sauer on the back. The face value is 1 Helle, 2 Helle, 5 Helle, 10 Helle, 50 Helle and 1 Krona. Among them, 1 Helle, 2 Helle and 5 Helle use nickel coins, 10 Helle and The 50 Heller used brass, and the largest denomination of one crown was used in silver coins.

Because the size and texture of the coin are completely different from the Empire's coins, there is no need to worry about being confused with the Empire's currency. Moreover, after reducing the use of precious metal currency, he can also avoid some abnormal outflow of currency on the island, which will then cause deflation on the island.

In order to set the shape of the currency, Lawrence stayed in the communication room of the Goddess of Fortune to communicate with the Empire for several days.

Fortunately, with the help of Shumei, the most complicated manuscript drawing work in this area is much simpler. After each change, it only takes a few seconds to get the revised drawing.

"Finally it's done." Lawrence let out a breath after passing the last drawing back to the Empire and obtaining permission. For him who has not had much aesthetic talent in his two lifetimes, even if this currency design is only modified on the basis of the old empire's currency style, it is a difficult enough job.

"And the most annoying thing is that the mint can be commissioned to design." Saifeier complained next to him, "but they firmly believe that this new currency is an independent currency, so after receiving our commission, they resolutely I think they should not be overly involved in the design of this currency."

"Although they said that, they actually participated in the currency design and kept gesticulating." Nora was also unhappy on the other side. "For example, at the beginning we hoped that the currency had a red background, but they insisted on using red to be easily confused with the Imperial Krona and asked us to change the color—"

"Okay, okay, haven't we already finished these designs anyway?" Hearing the two ladies complaining about you, Lawrence hurriedly came out and finished it. "This can be regarded as the most important task of this time. Then I think we can relax for a while."

During this time, the construction of the entire island has accelerated greatly, and this is mainly due to the increase in new immigrants. Because of the victory in the previous wars, many residents of the island sent letters back to their hometowns and described their current lives to their relatives and friends.

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The Visby area, whether it is the states of North Visby or the Holy Visby Empire in the south, has been the main area of ​​emigration to the New World because of its long-term relatively peaceful land and densely populated areas. This is especially true in countries like the North Visby area where the surrounding areas are all intelligent race territories.

After all, they don’t have newly regained territories like the Holy Visby Empire that can be used to settle the new population, and because overseas colonies do not have a unified government, each small and medium-sized state cannot concentrate enough power. Make up the expensive inputs for colonization.

Moreover, the population of each state in the northern Visby Empire is not large, so the colonial teams that can be organized by each country are too small. In addition, the previous big countries have already occupied areas that are easier to colonize, so these countries simply cannot establish their own colonies in such dangerous wild areas.

Under this circumstance, it is naturally an inevitable thing for domestic personnel to migrate to other places~www.ltnovel.com~ It’s just that the lost personnel mainly immigrated to the White Eagle Federation, and now the Visby from Sauer Island After the territories established by the nobles slowly got on the right track, some people chose this island as their immigration destination.

However, considering that this is a colony that uses agriculture and medicine as its key industries, it is mainly peasants who go to this colony, and only a few of them are technicians. Fortunately, because of Lawrence's identity and the bonus of the suffering church, a few medical professionals come to the island to join the research institute and hospital every month.

After investigating, Lawrence and the others found that the overall quality of those immigrants to New Sauer Island is very average, but they are very suitable for the island. After all, on the one hand, this can increase the population of the main ethnic group and balance the immigrants introduced from the Algarve Empire in the south. On the other hand, it contributes to the development of the island’s main industry agriculture.

Although these farmers who immigrated from the northern states of Visby have basically never planted rice, the ability to grow rice can be cultivated under the current large-scale plantation model.

On the other hand, as farmers in North Visby, they are better at engaging in work related to animal husbandry in their hometown. So this naturally made them the main human force in the pioneering of Blue Mountain Meadow.