Struggle in the Steam Age

After reaching a consensus, Lawrence and the others immediately got busy with the next work. For example, the priests of the Fortune Church held a ceremony immediately after returning home, hoping to obtain divine revelation about this aspect. 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 local side of the empire was also very smooth. The empire agreed not to send supervisors on the premise that Lawrence allowed the Church of Fortune to supervise the entire currency issuance process.

But on the other hand, they said that the wealth previously used as collateral was converted into gold. Stored in the vaults of the Imperial Bank as a reserve for the currency issued by the Isle of New Saure.

After all, Nova Sauer is a noble territory belonging to the Holy Visby Empire, so it is impossible to be completely independent in these aspects. For example, in some cases, the military power on the island must obey the orders of the empire itself. Another example is that when issuing currency, the empire, especially the emperor's thoughts, need to be considered.

What's more, in Lawrence's opinion, the reliability of storing the gold in the vault of the Holy Visby Empire on a certain astral plane is much better than storing it 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 reserve funds being placed in the treasury of the empire, the minting and printing of these new currencies on the island were all entrusted to the Royal Mint of the Holy Visby Empire. After all, casting and printing currency is a very complicated matter, and it is definitely impossible to do it with the current strength of New Sauer Island. And this also has to consider the idea of ​​​​the empire.

The new currency naturally adopts the monetary unit of the Holy Visby Empire, with the krona as the basic unit, and the coin Helle is issued at the same time.

It's just that in order to avoid a series of complicated financial problems, the currencies prepared for Neue Sauer are completely different from the native currencies of the empire in other respects, and can be regarded as a basically independent currency.

In the newly issued currency, known as the star sea krona, 1 krona is equal to 100 heleks. After taking into account the overall economic development of Shaw Island, the economic aggregate and the scope of economic radiation. In terms of exchange rate, 1 krona of the Star Sea Krona is equivalent to 0.25 Federal Dollar of the White Eagle or 0.2 Krona of the Holy Visby Empire.

In terms of face value, the new star sea krona has three denominations of 10 krona, 5 krona and 1 kroner. Like the imperial krona of the Holy Visby Empire, the new currency also has the imperial eagle and denomination numbers printed on the front, but the back The badge of the royal family was replaced by the badge of Earl Sauer.

However, to avoid confusion, the Star Sea Krona is noticeably slimmer than the Reich Krona note. What's more obvious is that the main color of the currency has also changed from purple to dark green. From the outside, it looks far from the currency of the empire, but closer to the currency of the White Eagle Federation.

The same is true for the small denomination coins and coins, which also have the imperial eagle plus numerals on the front, and the imperial royal coat of arms is replaced by the coat of arms of Earl Sauer on the back. Its denominations are 1 Helle, 2 Helle, 5 Helle, 10 Helle, 50 Helle and 1 kroner, of which 1 Helle, 2 Helle and 5 Helle are nickel coins, 10 Helle and The 50 khellers are made of brass, and the largest denomination of one crown is made of silver coins.

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

In order to set the shape of the currency, Lawrence stayed in the communication room of the Goddess of Wealth Society for several days in a row to contact the Empire.

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

"It's finally done." After passing the last blueprint back to the empire and obtaining permission, Lawrence said with a sigh of relief. For him who didn't have much aesthetic talent in his two lifetimes, even if the currency design this time was only modified on the basis of the currency style of the old empire, it would be a tough enough job.

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

"Although they said so, they actually participated in the currency design and kept pointing fingers." Nora also looked unhappy on the other side. "For example, at the beginning we wanted the currency to have a red base color, but they insisted on asking us to change the color on the grounds that red is easily confused with the imperial krona—"

"Okay, okay, anyway, haven't we already finished these designs?" Hearing the complaints from the two ladies, Lawrence hurried out to smooth things over. "This can be regarded as the completion of the most important work during this period, and then I think we can relax for a while."

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

The Visby area, whether it is the states of North Visby or the Holy Visby Empire in the south, has always been the main area for immigrants to the New World because of the long-term peace and narrowness of the land. This is especially true for countries like the North Visby region, which is surrounded by territories of intelligent races.

After all, unlike the Holy Visby Empire, they still have newly recovered territory to accommodate the newly increased population, and because there is no unified government in overseas colonization, various small and medium-sized states simply cannot concentrate enough power Raise enough for expensive inputs for colonization.

Moreover, the overall population of each state in the northern Visby Empire is not large, so the size of the colonial teams that each country can organize is too small. Coupled with the fact that the previous big countries have already occupied areas that are easier to colonize, these states cannot establish their own colonies in such dangerous and wild areas.

Under such circumstances, it is naturally inevitable that domestic personnel emigrate to other places. It's just that the formerly lost people mainly immigrated to the White Eagle Federation, but now that the territory established by the Visby nobles on Shaw Island is slowly on the right track, some people choose this island as their immigration destination.

However, considering that this is a colony with agriculture and medicine as its key industries, the main people who go to this colony are farmers with their families, and only a small part of them are technicians. Fortunately, because of Lawrence's identity and the bonus of the Church of the Passion, several people from the medical field come to the island to join the research institute and hospital every month.

After investigation, Lawrence and the others found that the overall quality of those who immigrated to New Shaw 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 immigration introduced from the Algarve Empire in the south. On the other hand, it is conducive to the development of agriculture, the main industry on the island.

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

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