From Wild Mage to Wizard King

After entering the city in front of him, Veron was shocked by the prosperity in the city.

As a city on the outskirts of the territory that undertakes foreign trade, although this newly built city has a small permanent population, the number of people moving around every day is a huge number.

The influx of a large number of caravans caused a large amount of materials to flow in the city, which also brought commercial prosperity.

However, although the city was very prosperous, Veron seemed to be unable to find a few shops. It seemed that there were warehouses everywhere and only occasionally a few restaurants and the like.

Veron's doubts were naturally inseparable from the half-elf's gaze. He explained enthusiastically while running skillfully.

"Most of the business here is large-scale business. The caravans coming and going basically negotiate directly with the officials. Basically, they accept everything, and they charge as much as they bring over."

"The requirements for opening stores in the city are very high. They are basically concentrated in one area, and most of them are officially opened stores. The prices of various daily necessities are fixed. The few private stores are mostly opened by locals and outsiders. It’s very difficult to open a store, as few stores are actually opened by outsiders.”

"The current situation is so chaotic. If there is an official store, businessmen who come and go will not take a particularly big risk to open a store here without huge profits."

Veron nodded and said.

"I see."

Following the half-elf, Veron and Edison walked into a large building.

This is a large store that is completely different from the stores they have talked about before. The interior of the store is huge, and there are wooden shelves one after another. On the shelves, there are various products densely packed.

At the door, several clerks in uniforms were quickly calculating something.

They took out the items in the wooden basket in front of them one by one and counted them. After finishing the calculation, they took some papers with unknown objects drawn on them from the hands of the customers in front of them.

Finally, the customer put the items back into the wooden basket and walked out of the store with the items inside.

Seeing the customers lined up in several lines, the clerks with their heads down and calculating, and the papers they handed back and forth, Veron's head was a little hard to react.

What kind of store is this? Never seen it.

Just when Veron and Edison were at a loss, the half-elf had skillfully brought three wooden baskets from the side, stuffed one into each of them, and said.

"Although you just want to buy a map, you are here. Let's take a look. Maybe you will want to buy something else later."

Veron and Edison held wooden baskets and looked at each other.

Finally, in the spirit of what comes, what comes, they followed the half-elf into this strange shop.

The half-elf first enthusiastically led the two of them to an unoccupied corner of the shop, and pulled out a map from a shelf that was gathering dust.

"By the way, you two, do you want one or two? Here, the price of one is 2 yuan."

The half-elf said as he took the map from the shelf.

As he spoke, he suddenly reacted, turned his head hesitantly, and asked Veron and the others.

"By the way, do you have money? It's not the gold and silver outside. Do you have any food stamps?"

Listening to the half-elf's words, Veron and Edison both showed confused expressions.

Veron scratched his head, took out some silver coins, and said with some embarrassment.

"Can't this money be used here? If food stamps refer to those pieces of paper, then we probably don't have them."

After hearing this, the half-elf was silent for a while, patted his head slightly helplessly, and said.

"Well, I should have known. It's not that it can't be used, it's just that the official store won't accept these gold and silver."

With that said, the half-elf pulled out two maps from the shelf and said.

"Just think of it as making friends, and I'll pay for it."

Veron and Edison looked at each other. Gold and silver are not hard currencies, so why can't they be used here?

How can a piece of paper be as reliable as real money?

Although Veron didn't understand, but in the spirit of asking if you don't understand, he helped the half-elf carry things while curiously asking why it was like this.

While the half-elf put the things he wanted to buy into the wooden basket carried by Beron, he also answered Beron's questions.

Food stamps were originally just an old reward used to improve workers' labor efficiency.

As long as you do a good job, you can get a food stamp, which can be used as a basis to exchange for a big cake at the official food store in Jiuqi.

As Jiuqi developed, Jiuqi began to recruit formal workers, providing them with food, housing and wages.

It is said that Jiuqi had insufficient gold and silver reserves at the beginning, so he wanted to use higher-value food stamps to pay part of his wages in order to slow down the consumption of gold and silver.

However, Jiuqi did not force exchange. It was up to the workers themselves to decide how many food stamps they were willing to exchange their wages for.

Since the business system of Jiuqi collapsed at that time, only official stores were left that could still sell goods to the outside world.

In order to ensure that food stamps can be exchanged stably, official stores prefer to recycle food stamps. Therefore, the goods that gold and silver can buy are limited.

As long as the daily quota is sold out, even if there are still goods, in order to avoid the situation where there are food stamps but no goods, no one will buy them with gold and silver.

Later, after working for a few days, some workers who exchanged their wages for gold and silver found that they were doing the same work and receiving the same wages, but the workers who exchanged their wages for food stamps were much more comfortable than they were.

So, the workers began to try to exchange their wages for food coupons.

"Well, although food coupons can be used here, what if..."

Belon did not continue to speak, and hesitantly glanced at the other guests around.

The half-elf did not even raise his head, took a bag of rice from the shelf and put it on the wooden basket, and replied casually.

"Do you think that gold and silver are more useful in Donnar now, or food is more useful?"

Everyone in the old Qi knows that if the old Qi is destroyed, the so-called food coupons will naturally become worthless if they cannot be exchanged for food.

Therefore, although the people of the old Qi basically accept the concept of food coupons, no matter who they are, they will spend them quickly as soon as they get the food coupons, and exchange them for substantial goods such as food. Even if they don't need them, they will store them first.

Moreover, they don't completely don't want gold and silver. Basically everyone will store some gold and silver.

Once the Green Tide comes and the Old Qi is defeated and destroyed, they will immediately run away with their stored food and gold and silver. As for the food coupons that may not have been spent, as long as they keep spending them and don't save them, there will be no problem.

After yesterday's painful lesson, I decided to update a little earlier.

Maybe I can change the introduction? I feel that the introduction is not good enough