Chapter 402: Dilemma of Issuing Paper Currency

Of course, nothing happened to the Teglu family in the end. The Holy Light Sect made a loud noise, but the raindrops were very small. They just sent someone to notify Andre and told him to pay attention to the review in the future and not make similar mistakes again.

But when Andre learned that the quarrel had been going on for a long time, but in the end it was like this, everyone was confused.

After coming back to his senses, he realized how terrifying Ethan was now. He could even easily change the mind of the Holy Light Religion.

In order to hold on tightly, he sent the research results and a handwritten report on the development direction of banknotes to Ethan's house that night.

Although he did not see Ethan in person, the housekeeper assured him that these things would be delivered to Ethan personally and would never be borrowed from others, which made him feel at ease.

In Ethan's study, Sophia sat in Ethan's arms with a big belly, then held the sample paper sent by the Tegru family and looked at the light again and again.

Finally, he said: "It seems to be similar in feel, but it feels a little bit wrong, but I can't tell what the difference is."

Ethan smiled: "There's no bumpiness, right?"

"It seems so!" Sophia nodded.

Ethan took the sample paper and touched it with his own hands. With his super sense, he was very sure that the sample paper was the same kind of paper as the previous banknotes from the Iris Society.

"This is multi-layer paper, and the uneven feeling will only appear after post-printing, so..."

With that said, Ethan took out a few patterns from the sofa nearby and handed them to Sophia.

Then he continued: "These are the banknote patterns I asked people to design. You can pick a few you like!"

"Shall I choose?" Sophia pointed to her nose and asked with a wicked smile.

"certainly!"

"Then I don't want any of them!"

Ethan frowned: "What's the problem?"

"There's no problem, it's just that the pattern you asked someone to design is really uncreative. Look, it's either a landscape or a building, without any symbolic meaning.

Since you let me choose, I hope that the top...for example, the middle position will have my profile picture printed on it! "Sofia said her purpose.

"Okay!" Ethan smiled and nodded with almost no hesitation: "As you wish! I'll have someone redesign it, and then add the avatar of the Duke of Northland and Angelina's avatar.

Anyway, there are several denominations, and different faces are printed with different faces, so there is no conflict at all. "

After hearing this, Sophia frowned: "From what you said, it seems that you are not planning to print your own face on it?"

Ethan nodded: "Of course! You know, I am a very low-key person and don't like to show my face."

"Haha..." Sophia covered her mouth and smiled: "Are you still keeping a low profile?"

"This is the truth!" Ethan pursed his lips and spread his hands: "I just want to live quietly. In fact, I don't want to cause trouble more than anyone else!"

Sofia smiled and said nothing, no longer commenting on the matter, and instead said: "When are you going to negotiate with the Duke of Northland?"

"At least we have to wait until a sample of the banknotes is made and shown to the Duke of Northland in person before we can negotiate."

Speaking of this, Ethan paused, thought for a while, and then said: "However, I am not optimistic about this negotiation."

"What do you say?" Sophia asked.

"If you have been to the Northland, you will know that the economy there is very closed, most supplies are distributed uniformly by the Duke's Palace, and there are not many things that the people can manage.

This results in a very small market there.

In other words, there is no need for paper money, and even the existence of gold coins is not of great significance.

After all, the main purpose of banknotes is to facilitate small transactions.

Without the support of the economic foundation, it means that we have no basis for negotiation.

So I find it hard to believe that the Duke would agree to issue banknotes, and even if he did, we would have to pay a heavy price! "

Sophia nodded after hearing this.

"What you said makes sense. Although we are only borrowing the Duke's coinage power, if paper currency cannot play a positive role in the Northland.

The negotiation will turn into a unilateral contribution on our part, which is obviously unacceptable. "

Ethan smiled helplessly, and then raised his eyebrows at Sophia, indicating that this was what he meant.

"So now I have a headache, and I don't know what conditions I should offer to impress the other party."

Sophia, who has always been clever and clever, fell silent when she heard this.

After thinking for a while, she said: "There are two other people who have the right to mint money. One is Duke Arsinoe of the Sheffield family, and the other is Duke Simons of the Ferdinand family."

Speaking of this, Sophia said no more and let Ethan think about it.

Ethan smiled bitterly: “I have already considered these two and sent people to investigate, but unfortunately, they are not good enough.

The Duke of Arsinoe has already cooperated with the Iris Society and signed an exclusive agreement, and it is obviously impossible to cooperate with us again.

In fact, even without an exclusive agreement, I wouldn't be able to find him, because this man has such a huge appetite, and he doesn't care about the life or death of others at all.

As a partner, he couldn't even reach the basic passing mark.

As for Archduke Ferdinand..."

Speaking of this, Ethan paused for a while, licked his lips, and then continued: "When the Iris Society was negotiating with Duke Arsinoe, they played a trick of killing three people with two peaches and played a trick on Archduke Ferdinand.

Now he gets furious whenever he hears anything about paper money.

When we went to talk to him, we were simply making ourselves uncomfortable. "

After hearing this, Sophia was full of smiles: "You are really serious about issuing banknotes, you have investigated this matter so clearly.

However, your worries are somewhat unnecessary.

After all, Archduke Ferdinand was a duke. How could he stop talking about interests just because he was teased once? "

Ethan smiled: “You should be able to guess some things even if I don’t say them.

Think about it for yourself, the people of the Iris Society are not fools. They would rather choose Duke Arsinoe, who has a huge appetite, as their partner than Ferdinand, and they even play tricks on him. There must be a reason for this. "

Sofia thought for a moment and said, "Does Archduke Ferdinand have a bigger appetite?"

"It can't be said to be bigger! It can even be said to be reasonable." Ethan pursed his lips: "You also know that the territory of the Grand Duke Ferdinand borders the Common Country of Helingard. Due to the tense situation in the surrounding area, the economy has not been very good. prosperity.

Therefore, he wanted Iris to help him establish several trade routes, firstly to transport goods from his territory, and secondly, to transport some important commodities to his territory.

Logically speaking, this is understandable, but you should also know that Archduke Ferdinand's territory is located in the Midwest, where transportation can only be done by land.

But everyone knows what the current situation of land transportation is.

As long as you dare to pass through other people's territory, the lord will peel off your skin and even remove your bones.

Didn’t Archduke Ferdinand know about this?

Doesn't he want to solve it?

No, he can't solve it!

How could Iris give or take something that he couldn't even handle himself? "

"Then what are you going to do?" Sophia asked.

"I don't know!" Ethan spread his hands: "Take a step and take a look!"

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