I became a witch, but I started the industrial revolution

"Your Majesty, please look..."

Hawthorne placed the semi-finished silver coin that he had prepared long ago on a tray and handed it to her. Medea looked down and saw that there was a deep dent inside the two halves of the silver coin. He said:

'The new alloy is slightly heavier than silver for the same volume, and it also does not have a magic circuit, but we can carve a simple magic amplification array inside and fill the depression with elemental crystals.'

'At the same time, the weight can be adjusted by the different density of the crystals filled inside, and the outer layer is silver-plated, so that the silver content is reduced to about 15% while achieving an appearance that is almost the same as the original.'

Hawthorne spoke with pride on his face, but Medea asked a very crucial question: "How do you guarantee that the user will not dissolve it into magical materials for use?"

Silver itself is anchored as currency because of its use value, and its price has remained stable throughout the year. A large part of the reason for this is that it can be used as raw material at any time.

No matter how ingenious the craftsmanship is, won’t the underwear be exposed once it is smelted?

'Hehe... Your Majesty, you don't know this. The common Vatican silver coins in the outside world do have the same problem as you said, but the silver coins used within the Vatican are not the same as those in the outside world.'

'The silver coins they use are honor coins that are only circulated internally, and they are also of higher purity, more exquisite, more ornamental, and more valuable.'

'At the same time, because of their beliefs, they dare not damage it artificially. If they are found out, they will be punished according to the precepts...'

'The most important thing is that it has the same anti-counterfeiting mark as the general silver coin. We can perfectly reproduce the other exquisite patterns. The skills of the minting department of the Union Central Bank are much higher than this.'

The more Medea listened, the brighter her eyes became. She looked at Hawthorne as if she had seen the God of Wealth: "Is the process difficult? What is the output? What is the final cost?"

Caught off guard by Medea's series of questions, Hawthorne thought for a moment and replied:

"It's not difficult. If we want to mass produce it, we need the help of our colleagues at the central bank. The cost of materials and technology is very low. One coin can really produce five replicas."

"hiss..."

Medea took a deep breath. If things went wrong, all the bitter tea of ​​the Holy See might be taken out in one wave.

"First, prepare a batch of samples for me to see. We can discuss this later. I need to go back and think about it carefully."

'As you command, Your Majesty.'

"correct..."

Medea, who was surrounded by maids, stopped and turned to look at Huo Sang with a slightly raised red lip: "Little Nayi is still in confinement at home, right?"

'Yes, Your Majesty...'

Hawthorne scratched his head in embarrassment, his rough face turned dark and red, and he had no idea what to do about his daughter who beat up others in the street.

Forget about spanking Nayi to educate her. If he dares to do that, his wife, who has been brainwashed by the Alliance's equal rights ideology, won't care whether he was a king before or not. She will hit him with a hammer as if he were an iron ingot.

"The verdict is out. It is true that there was an illegal act of molesting a young girl. The principal offender, the father, was sentenced to five years in prison without a parole period. The mother was sentenced to three years in prison for inaction, suspended for one year, and deprived of the child's custody and childbearing rights."

"Nayi and her group of children have done very well. The Union government will bear all their future academic expenses, add the medal of honor to their resumes, and add 5 points to the national entrance examination."

"But the method is not right, so in addition to the reward, she must be detained for at least one day."

"Yes, yes, I understand... Thank you, Your Majesty."

Medea nodded and turned to leave. The problem with the Alliance judge's sentence was not serious. Jail time was not the point. The point was that this scumbag must be deprived of his reproductive rights. If he doesn't know how to be a parent, he shouldn't do it.

According to the street office's full body examination of the girl, although there was some redness and swelling, there were no substantial problems. It was estimated that she was beaten before she could recover.

Therefore, the sentence is not considered heavy, but the alliance has a prison law that prisoners sentenced to more than 5 years will be sent to the front line of infrastructure and dangerous work areas for labor reform.

Therefore, five years is a watershed in sentencing within the alliance. It is a medium-level crime and will be managed in the same area as other higher-level prisoners.

He was admitted to the cell with the name of a child molester. I believe the guys inside will treat him well.

Chapter 157 Farhad Francis

The rewards for the children who bravely performed heroic deeds were just right. Although the alliance had established a four-level educational system early on, people could basically survive in society after graduating from junior high school, and those who continued to study basically took the elite route.

Although the alliance has made primary and junior high schools free, high schools exempt from tuition, and universities subsidized, this does not mean that there is no cost. It is just that the state subsidies offset these costs.

Especially universities. The Seris Union University adopts an inclusive teaching model. In addition to the Seris Union's own knowledge system, it also publishes a large number of collections from colleges on various continents.

Getting these colleges to hand over the knowledge reserves of their school tutors is not something that can be done by just talking, and it is even more impossible to do so by snatching them.

The most direct way for an alliance is to use money. The alliance pays the other party copyright fees based on how many copies it sells, and shares profits with the other party annually.

If money doesn't work, then use reputation. When Seris publishes materials, the author's signature will be left on them, and they will be recompiled and reorganized into teaching materials.

This is in itself a kind of alternative way of establishing a sect. In the future, as long as the alliance does not disappear, their names will remain with the alliance. The temptation is no less than money.

Because the amount is so large, it is impossible for the federal government to waive all fees. Once this gap is opened, it will be a very heavy burden in the future, so the university adopts a subsidy system.

Every college student receives a grant from the central bank on a regular basis, which they can use to solve their living problems and buy one or two categories of textbooks of their favorite categories.

This is the reason why the alliance provides these girls with free courses. As long as they want, they can learn what they want to learn without having to worry about money.

Moreover, children with good temperaments should receive better education, and giving them certain privileges in education is the most appropriate reward.

As for rewards such as money, the central government of the alliance does not need to give them at all. The local state governments are not blind. They will naturally give material rewards in addition to visiting to express condolences and encouragement.

On the way back, Medea turned back to the old manor and chatted with her mother for a while. She also took Doudou, who was sent back to the manor by her to give birth to a baby. Then, she went to the study to rest with Anna who came hurriedly.

She had previously sent a private message to Anna to explain the situation and asked her to bring over the information of the intelligence department members in Surya.

On the way, she kept thinking about how to operate this batch of counterfeit coins. How much can she buy with these silver coins? How much can she buy with these silver coins?

You have to transport the things you buy, right? Although space rings exist, the space without them is very large. A hundred square meters is already very rare. The most important thing is that it takes time for people to gather and distribute raw materials.

Even the dumbest country would be suspicious if it saw such a large amount of silver coins coming in in a short period of time. Moreover, there is no guarantee that it will not be discovered 100%. Transporting the materials away would be equivalent to exposing itself as the mastermind behind the scenes.

Swapping fake for real? Before the coins were released, the Seris Federation could still determine which ones were real. Once fake silver coins began to flow into the market, it would be difficult to verify unless they dissolved the silver coins.

So it is not a good idea to use the money directly. We should use a more subtle method to turn the counterfeit money into something more valuable.

A plan began to take shape in her mind. Maybe this time she needed to train a financial expert step by step.

Two months later...

A luxurious carriage arrived at Itzamain, the capital of the Demetria Church, in a dusty manner, attracting the attention of passers-by on the road, who were curious about which country's nobles were out for fun.

Yes, the Holy See has a king, and in addition to the royal capital there is also a holy city, but the coronation of their king requires the approval of the Pope to count.

The Holy See itself does not participate much in the governance of the entire country. They only focus on three things: listening to oracles, attracting believers and external expansion.

The rest of the people's livelihood work was left to the king and the nobles to govern, and they also had traditional armies to govern the areas ruled by the Vatican.

John Lawes lifted a corner of the car curtain and looked out, and found that he had arrived at his destination. For no reason, a feeling of nervousness rose in his calm heart.

This carriage is one of the higher-end ones sold by the Surya Kingdom. They absorbed the industrial advantages of the Seris Alliance and combined them with traditions. In addition to the gorgeous decorations that a large number of nobles love, the interior of this carriage has been almost completely replaced.

Four horses pulled the first two-wheeled carriage for servants, which was connected to a four-wheeled carriage at the rear by a lock, and the chassis used a spring shock-absorbing system.

The wheels are all made of rubber tires and light alloy hubs, which ensures their sturdiness while being much lighter than wooden materials. They are also engraved with a large number of magic arrays to further reduce weight.

The interior space of the four-wheeled carriage is extremely spacious, the layout is exquisite and luxurious, and the comfort is high. Most importantly, it is expensive, so it is very popular among the nobles of various countries.

The nobles really dislike the current sedans coming from the Seris Alliance.

On their bad roads, the space comfort of the car cabin is really very low, and the appearance is black, without any gold, silver or gemstone embellishment, it looks like a broken thing used by poor people.

After selecting suitable executors, the Seris Alliance spent a lot of manpower and resources to set up two communication node networks from the capital of Sera to Surya and then to Ichamain.

A long-distance communication system consisting of a radio device for encrypted text transmission and a magic circle, which is a visual two-way communication circle.

Medea spent three months giving him intensive training in finance. John's external role, which he used to obtain intelligence, was a newly emerging economic expert in the Surya Kingdom.

Of course, this identity is a character created by the alliance. Anyway, he is responsible for bragging, and the alliance behind him helps him realize it and let the corresponding people make profits. He can even say that he is the god of economy.

However, the reason why he was given such a role was that the other party did have a certain talent in economics, otherwise he would not have been allowed to play such a role.

In addition to helping him with intensive training, Bratt, who was accidentally recruited by Medea, also used his status as a prince to intentionally or unintentionally enhance John's reputation, facilitating his trip to Itzamain this time.

And his target, or the target of the Seris Alliance, is the Grand Duke of Demetria [Farhad Francis] who is currently in charge of the finances of the Holy See.

It is well known that the rise of the Seris Alliance originated from the subcontinent, which was once the rear base of the Holy See. The rise of the Seris Alliance is far more than just adding another country.

Before the emergence of the alliance, the entire subcontinent was a dumping ground for the Vatican's products and an exporter of high-quality and low-cost raw materials. There was no need to learn how to import at low prices and dump at high prices. Every human being understood the principle of buying low and selling high.

Therefore, the life of the Holy See was very comfortable before this, but the rise of Seris dealt a fatal blow to this cycle system.

First, the religious area was communistized, then integrated and incorporated, and spiritually expelled. Then, the Kingdom of Ovinia and other kingdoms were defeated and incorporated one after another, and in a real sense, the Holy See was also driven out of overseas.

It lost a large number of faith areas, over 100 million believers, failed in foreign wars, and the Invincible Fleet was destroyed. The former dumping ground has now become a major country that dumps products abroad, and it has become an exporter of raw materials.

This behavior of father-son exchange is not only a spiritual humiliation, but also a severe blow to the economic cycle within the Holy See. Small workshop owners were wiped out by the impact of industrial products, and the raw materials they exported were exchanged for the alliance's banknotes.

Although it had little impact on the nobility, precious metals were flowing out of the entire Vatican, and reserves were seriously insufficient.

As a result, they could only purchase cruisers from Seris by exchanging low-priced raw materials for gold and silver coins. If the raw materials could not be sold at a good price, it would be even more difficult to alleviate the crisis.

And Grand Duke Farhad Francis was the unlucky guy who came to power to save the economy of the Holy See Kingdom in this environment.

Chapter 158 The show begins

After arriving in the royal capital, John attended various aristocratic cocktail parties and entertainment venues to eat, drink and have fun. Even the two male servants following him were dressed in clean and expensive suits, fully demonstrating his financial strength.

Medea once told him that squandering money in a reasonable way was one of the ways to integrate into mainstream society and quickly improve one's social status, and asked him not to worry about the budget in this regard, as the budget given to him by the Seris Alliance was unlimited.

As long as you think it is right to do so, then you can do it. The entire central government's finances will provide a guarantee for you.

In order to boost the economy of the Vatican, Grand Duke Farhad Francis came up with a very tricky idea, which is to artificially lower the silver content in the Vatican's common silver coins by 20%. Wouldn't it be possible to mint more money in this way?

However, this genius operation was stopped by his aide, a businessman from Surya background. After the other party analyzed the pros and cons with him, he himself was scared and broke out in a cold sweat.

But things had to be done. The king gave him almost all the power and gave him absolute support.

Nowadays, not only is the internal situation of the Holy See grim, but it is also forced to expand its military and prepare for war under the pressure of the goddess' oracle. It is so poor and yet it still has to fight a war. It can be said that the king is almost driven crazy by the Pope.

Under such circumstances, John, who spent a lot of money to make a conspicuous bag at a gathering of nobles in the royal capital, aroused Farhad's curiosity.

Because John told the public that he was the financial adviser to Prince Brat of the Surya Kingdom, and that he came to Demetria to travel and relax.

Prince Bratt is currently very famous on the mainland. He has been advocating the introduction of industrial development in Surya, allowing the Kingdom of Surya to reap the generational dividend after rapid industrialization.

Especially after the Seris Alliance discovered that there were a large number of shallow oil fields in the kingdom, it gradually increased the proportion of crude oil imports, and the Kingdom of Surya slowly became a major oil exporting country.

The entire Surya Kingdom is now extremely rich, and black liquid gold may gush out of a well in anyone's backyard.

It is not uncommon to see Suryas coming to the Vatican to spend like crazy. It can even be said that there are too many of them. They are all very generous and even want to wear gold slippers.

John Surya's identity made Farhad subconsciously accept the rationality of his spending money, but what attracted his attention most was the title of financial advisor and economic expert.

The words "consultant" and "expert" are very interesting. Both of them come from the alliance. As the name suggests, "expert" means a professional expert.

Coupled with Surya's current strong economic growth, it has also created an illusion for outsiders that the people of the Surya Kingdom are good at making money, and that Surya aide is one of them.