Balder first repeated in confusion, and then seemed to understand what Loki meant. Then a look of astonishment appeared on his face, and he couldn't help but shake his head.
"Although those dark elves are all excellent craftsmen, they are not servants of the gods. Forcing them to build palaces for the gods is really... really..."
Dark elves are dwarves. At the beginning of creation, after Ymir, the founder of the frost giant, was killed, his blood turned into rivers, his muscles turned into mountains, and his bones turned into ores. At the same time, inside his rotten body,
There are still some maggots on it.
Those who turned to the light side turned into beautiful and kind-hearted light elves, who were loved by the gods. The gods asked these little elves, who were less than half a man in size, to take care of the gardens, while those who turned to the dark side turned into dexterous elves.
As for the cunning dark elves, the gods hated them and sent them to Watheim in the west. The short dark elves could not stand the sunlight, so they lived underground all year round.
Although ugly in appearance and deceitful in temperament, these dwarves are out-and-out master craftsmen, whether it is Mjornir, the invincible war hammer of Thor, the God of Thunder, or the hammer worn by Freya, the God of Love and Beauty.
The necklace Brichgaman, which makes everyone irresistible to its charm, is a masterpiece of dwarves. In addition, many of the artifacts in the hands of the gods were made by dwarves.
There is no doubt that it would be an easy task for those dwarves to help the gods rebuild their palaces.
However, Baldur, the God of Light, is an out-and-out good man, tolerant of everyone, hard-hearted, and indecisive. He often has difficulty deciding on any judgment given to him. For a good god, he is very tolerant.
In other words, this is an excellent quality, but for a heir to a god-king, it obviously lacks the courage that a god-king should have.
In fact, a large part of the reason why his son Forseti, the god of truth and justice, is one of the twelve leaders is to assist him in deciding those disputes.
Otherwise, Thor, the god of thunder, is out fighting frost giants all year round. In theory, the throne of God King should be succeeded by Balder, who is more supported and liked by the gods and is Odin's eldest son besides Thor.
, but if the god-king lacks courage, it is obviously not a good thing, and a god who can assist the future god-king in making decisions is naturally qualified to be one of the twelve leaders.
For Baldur, forcing the dwarves to build a palace was obviously disgusting to him, but obviously, not everyone thought the same way as he did.
"However, if we can let those dwarves build the palace... it seems good."
Beside Balder, the eyes of the winter goddess Scarty lit up and she was thinking thoughtfully.
For this goddess who has been driving away winter wolves and cold all year round and is accustomed to seeing death and cruelty, any act of violence does not matter, it is a trivial matter.
But faced with the speculations of the gods, Loki looked at them in astonishment, then sneered and shook his fingers.
"Forced? No, no, no, you are wrong. It's not forced, it's bought with gold coins."
"Buy with gold coins?"
The beauty goddess Freya asked with some confusion.
It has to be said that even in a mythical world, there are still some places where objective laws must be followed. Just like this world, which was essentially born no more than a hundred thousand years ago. Although long before the creation of the world, when there was chaos, the gods and the
The frost giants waged a long war for countless years, but after all, there were not many gods and frost giants at that time. Therefore, in the less than 100,000 years since the creation of the world, human beings were gradually born and gradually evolved from the wilderness to the modern world.
civilization.
Even with the help of gods, humans in this world are obviously suspected of being seriously biased in many places. For a long time, they have been in a nomadic state of tribes and clans, living among birds and beasts. There is still no history of real settlement and farming.
Less than two thousand years ago, and the concept of currency gradually emerged during these thousands of years. For a long time, humans still traded things for things. Even now, many human villages still remain in the
In the concept of bartering, people are still ignorant of currency. The concept of measuring wealth is often how many cows and sheep the family has, rather than how much money the family has.
And the gods who are often busy with their own responsibilities, managing mountains, rivers, stars, grass, trees, birds and beasts, and even the four elements of wind, fire, water and earth, all the living and the dead, obviously still lack enough knowledge for these little things that are gradually born from human civilization.
Even though he had a rough understanding of it, he didn't pay much attention to it. Only Loki, who often mingled among humans, was keenly aware of the true value of this yet-to-be-popularized concept.
"Of course I bought it with gold coins."
Loki said matter-of-factly.
He looked around and looked at the gods in front of him.
"Did you know that in the mortal world, some valuable things are traded using something called currency, and the most important materials for making currency are gold and silver."
As he spoke, he stood up from the throne and held up two coins that he took out from nowhere, one gold coin and one coin. They were roughly made, but there were already some patterns and patterns on them.
He was walking among the gods, holding up these two coins and displaying them in front of the gods, while speaking slightly proudly.
"This is a very interesting thing. As long as you have it, you can buy anything and everything. Now, both humans and dwarves have begun to become popular with this novel gadget..."
"I still don't quite understand what you mean."
Tyr, the God of War, who knew nothing about these things, touched his head and looked blankly at Loki, who suddenly became energetic in front of him.
Loki looked at the gods in front of him. Some of the gods had thoughtful faces, but most of them still had blank faces and couldn't help but shake their heads.
"Do you know how much gold and silver there is in Asgard?"
Without waiting for the gods to answer, he directly raised his voice a few degrees and spoke loudly.
"Nine out of ten!"
"More than nine-tenths of the gold and silver in this universe are in Asgard! What does this mean? It means that we can use these nine-tenths of gold and silver to directly control all the gold and silver in the entire world.
Silver currency!"
"The value, circulation, and use of all currencies in the world will be under our control!"
"As long as we strictly control the output of gold and silver and stabilize the price of gold and silver, we can use this gadget called 'currency' to control the value of all goods in the world, whether it is sophisticated weapons or mercenaries.
It will be extremely easy and effortless for mortal warriors to fight for us, or to buy those exquisite and compact novelties, and all we need to pay is a little bit of gold and silver that is not important at all."
"Even if the concept of currency is extended to those frost giants, and they are allowed to enter the world market, buy goods, and use currency, we will not even have to go to war with those frost giants. We only need to use these currencies.
It can seduce the greedy people among the frost giants, cause them to be divided and have civil strife, and even use these small currencies to hire those frost giants to fight for us..."
"And if the concept of gold and silver = currency is deeply rooted in people's hearts, we can even use leaves to replace actual gold and silver and turn them into conceptual currencies. Then we won't even need to mine gold and silver, we will only need to use those fundamental
A worthless leaf can make all living beings in the nine worlds be controlled by us..."
"Without war or plunder, as long as we establish a complete world economic system, we can easily control the nine worlds and completely bring them into our actual rule!"
At the end of the sentence, Loki's expression became obviously excited. He spoke faster and faster, and his eyes seemed to be shining, as if he was proud and proud of his sudden idea.
"Leaves can control the world? How is it possible?"
Hearing this, Thor couldn't help but instinctively retorted.
Although he was confused after hearing a lot of what Loki said, there was one thing that he undoubtedly understood, and that was that Loki, who often had all kinds of strange thoughts, seemed to have come up with something else. "
Ridiculous" weird ideas.
But then Odin spoke.
"What Loki said is not completely unreasonable..."
The King of the Gods gently rubbed his forehead with his thumb, thinking carefully about something. After drinking the spring of wisdom, he vaguely realized that what Loki said seemed possible, but
, but his reason was telling him that these words were too absurd. Although he could barely understand Loki's concept of gold and silver currency, he could not understand the "circulation currency" and "leaf currency" that followed.
Something that is unimaginable.
Finally, he shook his head and said.
"Loki, your idea is very interesting, but the leaf currency is really ridiculous... However, if we can use those gold and silver to make those dwarves work for us, that would be good, you can try
Negotiate with those dwarves."
Looking at the confusion on Odin's face in front of him, and the undisguised astonishment and sneer on the faces of the other gods, Loki knew in his heart that he wanted to convince these gods to believe and support him in establishing a "world economy."
System" seems to be impossible.
But that didn't matter. Anyway, it was just a flash of inspiration. He himself was not completely sure whether he could succeed. Although he was regretful, he didn't really care.
He thought to himself and threw away the two coins in his hand, no longer taking seriously the "world economic system" he just thought of.
Then, he confidently said to Odin.
"I have expected this for a long time. I have already negotiated with the dwarves. They have agreed to use gold as reward to repair the palace for the gods."
As he spoke, he turned around and looked at the gods behind him, and then said.
"Before I came to Asgard, I thought there might be other places that needed repairing, and I consulted with the dwarves on various other tasks, but now it seems... it shouldn't be necessary."
"So, the only question now...is to talk about the sun that was devoured by my child."
Hearing this, the expressions on the faces of the gods froze. They all knew that a really difficult problem had arisen.