Dragon's Origin

## Chapter 630: Gold Notes (Part 1)

The previous intense fighting was because the ownership of the Shanyue region had not been determined. Each faction had seized some territory, but it was intricate and crisscrossed, with each side having a presence in the other's area. No one had a continuous stretch of land, and no one was completely cut off.

Each faction wanted to expand and connect their territories, leading to mutual attacks and constraints. The Thousand Severed Lands became a quagmire, directly involving at least 50% of each faction's external forces.

The remaining 50% were distributed among the various principalities, each country having a presence in the other, all wanting to take the opportunity to destroy some of the opponent's experts and foundations.

Regardless of the size of the principality, they all had the same idea. In this regard, the lords still behaved like the families of old, considering only the interests of their own families.

Now, stimulated by a series of news about billions of gold coins in the capital, especially with Lizhen Workshop willing to participate, the small profits in the Shanyue region could almost be ignored.

Everyone seemed to have forgotten that Mei'er had already reached an agreement with the various lords to only engage in pawnshop and lending businesses, and not in physical commerce. The brilliance of the gold coins was too great, overshadowing all other minor details.

Just when all parties wanted to end this chaotic state as soon as possible to concentrate their efforts on making money, Mei'er did not disappoint them, first providing them with an opportunity to get rich.

Each principality, regardless of size, had some local specialties, some of which were very rare and valuable anywhere. For example, some precious medicinal herbs, some precious demon beasts, and so on. These good things were not only valuable but, more importantly, had great uses. They could be used for alchemy, to set up formations, to make weapons and armor, and so on.

Through Lizhen Workshop, Mei'er directly placed orders with various parties, willing to purchase any rare specialties that the countries had, without limit.

This was a windfall, and the various parties were skeptical. No one would doubt Mei'er's ability to pay, but unlimited purchases were no joke. Even if Lizhen Workshop had mountains of gold and seas of silver now, they couldn't just throw it away like that, right?

A group that had inventory in the capital immediately brought their goods to Lizhen Workshop without saying a word and received gold coins very readily.

Lizhen Workshop now had so many gold coins that they didn't know where to store them, and they needed these people to help share the burden. However, the first batch of goods took away tens of millions of gold coins. But these tens of millions of gold coins were just a drop in the bucket for Lizhen Workshop's billions of cash reserves.

Because they were not sufficiently prepared and didn't bring enough storage rings, the first batch of people from the Tang family ended up returning to the Tang family's residence with dozens of carts of gold coin boxes. The later ones naturally learned their lesson and brought enough storage rings to take away that many gold coins.

The Song family, after delivering their goods, did not intend to take gold coins. They directly stated that they would leave the gold coins and take a batch of goods from Qiansheng Yuan, Runzi Workshop, and Mengzhi Workshop. This way, the gold coins would not have to be moved back and forth, and only internal settlement within Mei'er's industry would be needed.

How could Mei'er disagree with such a good thing? She directly gave the Song family's manager a stack of gold notes for internal settlement within Mei'er's industry, a pile of 10,000 gold coins each, and also a pile of 5,000, 1,000, 500, and 100 each.

The gold notes received were all carefully printed using the best paper, with various anti-counterfeiting measures and verification methods. As long as they were brought there, they would be used as cash, which was extremely convenient. Moreover, whether in Qiansheng Yuan, Mengzhi Workshop, Runzi Workshop, or Yayun Lizhen Workshop, as long as they were industries under Wang Sheng and Mei'er's names, these gold notes could be exchanged for gold coins of equal value anytime and anywhere.

The fact was indeed so. When the Song family's manager nervously brought this batch of gold notes, accompanied by a manager from Lizhen Workshop, to Qiansheng Yuan, after selecting a batch of goods, he took out the gold notes to settle the account. The chief manager of Qiansheng Yuan directly accepted them according to their face value without hesitation.

After the handover was completed, the manager from Lizhen Workshop who accompanied him said to the Song family's manager, "Originally, a handling fee of one-thousandth was to be charged for the acceptance of these gold notes, but the Song family's manager's situation is special today, so this one-thousandth handling fee is waived for the Song family's manager. However, there will be no such good things in the future, so please forgive the Song family's manager."

The Song family's manager was not surprised. The Song family also had internal settlement between commercial firms, but that was not a one-thousandth fee, but at least one percent. It was already a convenient move for Mei'er's industries to only charge one-thousandth for mutual settlement, and it was also because Mei'er's industries were few and all located in the capital. Moreover, they had waived this first handling fee for him, which also saved him thousands of gold coins. He was content.

If he hadn't used gold notes, the Song family's manager would have had to carry a large number of storage rings, not to mention having experts to protect him, or dozens of large carts like the Tang family. Just these costs would probably be more than a few thousand gold coins. Not to mention anything else, counting gold coins was a troublesome matter.

These gold notes were quite convenient to use! After shopping at Qiansheng Yuan, the Song family's manager still had hundreds of thousands of gold coins worth of gold notes left. He did not immediately exchange them for gold coins, but put them in his arms and took them back directly. Anyway, they were so convenient to use, and hundreds of thousands of gold coins were not worth Lizhen Workshop reneging on the debt. Maybe they could be used conveniently in the future. Anyway, this batch of gold notes had no handling fee. He wouldn't be a fool to not take advantage of it.

The news was sent back to various countries, and the lords' eyes turned red again. They could barely scrape together a little bit of gold coins, but here, people had so many gold coins that they were asking them to help store them. How could this not drive people crazy?

Countless messengers began to circulate between the countries, and the countries began to seek solutions by discussing the problem, no longer fighting and killing so fiercely. The elders in charge of each family also spread out rapidly, heading to their respective destinations with their own purposes, and began to negotiate with each other.

Such a thing could not be settled in a short period of time. Even if everyone was sincere in temporarily putting aside their disputes, it would probably take half a year to gradually stabilize. The competition for territory and the pursuit of interests were probably not so easy to quell. Perhaps there would have to be one or two major fights if they couldn't reach an agreement. Only when everyone couldn't afford to lose anymore would they truly negotiate.

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Wang Sheng also got more time to quietly sculpt, and the capital also had more time to develop. It looked like everyone was happy.

"Master, Sister Yan sent a confidant with a letter." When Wang Sheng and Mei'er were eating together in the evening, Mei'er handed a letter to Wang Sheng.