".Sure enough, you won't accept big money transactions?"
"Oh, of course, you should also vaguely know what the current situation is. I won't hide it. In many areas, big money is meaningless. The food before can be called our goodwill gift, but it is useless now.
It’s a bit excessive to exchange scrap metal for our hard assets.”
What Lu Ping'an said was all true, but it was also common sense that he had just added after he really came into contact with the Holy City.
The Holy City, the super capital of a country, is completely different from the outside world.
When the official's credit remains solid, the currency it issues is naturally rock solid.
But when the official financial institutions have no time to manage, and it is obvious that the market has overflow currency liquidity (too much printing, too much issuance), the value of the currency will plummet in an instant.
Now, when the Holy City is still immersed in false prosperity, big money is still hard currency, but when the people below cannot buy food with money, the coins will naturally depreciate on a large scale and even refuse to trade.
The moment the market collapses, it's not that 70% or 80% of people cannot buy goods, but as long as there is a 10% gap, it means that the price of goods will rise to the point where only 10% of people can afford to buy food.
When the gap of collapse was revealed in front of the world, everything was already out of control.
"Why did it collapse so quickly?"
When he first discovered this situation, Lu Ping'an was a little surprised. Generally speaking, feudal society has a serious lag. Even if there is no news from the central government for several months or half a year, a certain degree of inertia should be maintained below.
But after considering the intelligence from all parties, I still took it for granted. This is not a few months or half a year. In fact, a year or two ago, the central government rarely interfered in local areas, and all kinds of rumors and rumors were flying all over the sky, not just in a day or two.
Yes, it would be too optimistic to calculate using a normal timetable.
"This is just like on the eve of the stock market crash, large investors, institutions, and banks ran away after getting the news, but retail investors and ordinary people still tried their best to get in. It's a bit too cruel."
The higher-ups in the kingdom must have gotten the news. The foreign visitors were running all over the streets without being able to stop them. They had multiple means of verification, so they must have known everything clearly.
The upper-class local nobles with connections must have known the information to a greater or lesser extent, and those unlucky ones who directly conveyed the news that "the end is coming" to ordinary people have become so-called doomsday cultists. How many people are there in a region?
To know the truth, I'm afraid, we can only look at the so-called conscience and self-consciousness of the local lords.
After all, the faster the social order collapses, the higher the cost of maintaining social stability, and the fewer resources will be available for retreat.
The local lords, landowners and nobles of the Holy City are different. Some of them have no way to leave, and they will subconsciously reserve all their resources. Only a very small number of wise and well-informed people will give up what they have in their hands without hesitation.
Everything, try to exchange for a boat ticket. After all, there are not enough signs of doom right now.
"The collapse outside is so severe, and the Holy City is still singing and dancing. These guys are really amazing."
The most realistic index of people's livelihood stability is the Engel coefficient (the coefficient of food accounting for total expenditure). Food prices in the Holy City are falling, and wages are rising. I am afraid that people will not be able to determine the truth until the last moment, and outside, they can no longer control it.
, food prices have risen to more than four or five times, and most people have to consider how to survive.
"It seems that the situation is a bit bad. It's a bit strange. Why did the lord allow the price of food to rise to such an extent." The guide's little Mardel still had a look of confusion on his face. Everyone thought about it and thought it would be better to let him understand it slowly.
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It's one thing whether he understands it or not. Once he understands it, it will be very troublesome for him to lose his temper. I really need this local guide and translator here.
The lady from the Knights came up to buy food. To be honest, she didn't have enough chips.
After confirming the depreciation of the big money outside, it was impossible for Lu Ping'an to accept it. He also understood why even in the Holy City, he could not buy high-end goods with money.
".I can release a batch of obsolete weapons and equipment. Those people from outside the world seem to be quite interested."
The eliminated weapons of the Knights? The kind that is 90% new? Lu Pingan was slightly moved, and then shook his head firmly.
This kind of thing was good in peacetime, but now there are warriors and knights everywhere trading swords for bread. As the social order further disintegrates, these things will soon become worthless.
So, what price will Lu Ping An offer?
To be honest, Lu Ping'an didn't know about it before. Even Big Cat lacked experience in "asking prices" at this time, but some people had expected it.
[.I know everyone has a lot of questions, but I won’t explain it. Let’s make a long story short and talk about the sky-repairing plan. What exactly is the sky being replenished? What exactly are you explorers going to explore? 】
"Ginger is still hotter than old, they have already thought of it"
After the Explorer exam, during the half-hour briefing, Premier Song directly stated "which things are most worth grabbing and trading."
Probably, the higher-ups are also worried that these new explorers, who do not have a high enough vision, have really bought a bunch of garbage with their boat tickets, without knowing what the real value is.
"Rule. No, in your words, it is a truth-level item."
In an instant, the female knight's face froze. She was frightened by the opponent's lion's big mouth.
"As long as you have truth-level items, artifacts, or similar substances, you can exchange them for a ship ticket with me. Do you know what a ship ticket is?"
This matter is a bit far gone.
On that day, Premier Song spent at least 20 minutes educating the senior secret keeper who had "never seen the market" about the existence of the world and what was most valuable when traveling outside.
"The collapse of a world is actually similar to the collapse of a human body. It cannot withstand pollution, causing the entire world to mutate and disintegrate. We use the power of our profession and the rules of order to resist the erosion of pollution. The world is the same, but
, what it needs is reason, the superiority of the 'power of rules', the principle of the world belonging to the gods."
Take this collapsed world as an example. It has the existence of the sun god and the sun, and its "sun principle" is poured into this world, which can be used as a fighting force to resist pollution. Its existence itself is also the stability of the world and resistance to pollution erosion.
Cornerstone.
The more powerful the world, the more "principles" it has, but the principles of a natural world are destined to be effective.
"The first target is the gods. I know that you have a lot of evil thoughts about the gods. You feel that they are not reliable at all and may betray and run away at any time. And I think so too. This is simply a fact. They are not reliable at all."
Gods themselves are unreliable, but if a god is "linked" to a world and becomes part of the world's principles, then the world's power to resist pollution will naturally be stronger.
At the same time, the natural rules within the world will become more complete and diverse, and there will be a series of "career paths" to enhance combat power, which is beneficial overall.
There are many ways to obtain the principles of the world, but the most reliable one is always to abduct mature gods. This is also the reason why four of the seven major gods have defected, making the humans on earth very anxious. They are really reluctant to part with it.
The "Lord of the Seal" also ran away, and now the human rule-level experts are probably trying hard to convince the "Lord of the Seal" to make up his mind.
In a sense, when a god who has been connected to the world escapes, it means that the "principle of the world" of this world is taken away into the new world. It is a hatred of life and death.
The midnight internal fighting in the Holy City these days may be the result of several external forces competing with each other.
Gods only fight against the wind. The more worlds they connect to, the more powerful that world will be, which in turn can cultivate more powerful gods. The current earth is not enough to cultivate the Twelve Pillars, but it may not be possible in the future.
Gods are not trustworthy, but how can mortal races be trusted? Maybe a certain race just lures them there, then kills them and uses their "principles of the world" to repair and evolve the world.
In the eyes of many people, some foreign gods are parasites of the world, but at the same time, they are also nutrients to the world.
This is a two-way choice process, and it is also a battlefield where the big guys are fighting desperately. Of course, Lu Pingan has to leave the Holy City. He does not want to be involved in a divine war that may break out at any time.
"The first priority is always to seize the truth of the world. This is the core goal of the Sky Mending Plan. What we want to mend is our sky and our world."