Trade-I Feel Like I've Seen You Somewhere Before?

"Currency? The new lord of Origin Territory actually dared to issue currency!" As he stared at the busy exchange office before him, Su Mo suddenly gained a new understanding of this sudden lord.

He couldn't call it bold and enterprising. Arrogant to the extreme was a much more fitting description.

Even if a new currency wasn't used for circulation with the outside world and was only convenient for internal territory transactions, the problems it would encounter would be considerable.

First, the authorities had to collect resources and exchange them for currency to supply the people below for trade. In doing so, preserving those resources would require a great deal of manpower and space.

If anything went wrong during storage and the resources were drastically depleted, leaving them unable to satisfy everyone's redemption demands,

what remained would inevitably be a severe collapse of official credibility.

At best, everyone in the territory would become anxious and fend for themselves. At worst, they would rise up, overthrow the lord, and redistribute benefits and resources.

Second, resource prices could not possibly remain fixed at a single level, while Origin Territory had no power to regulate them.

There were many traveling merchants, and the consumption of more than thirty thousand people was no small figure.

Today, one currency might buy a cabbage. Tomorrow, if cabbage prices rose, two currencies might be needed to purchase one.

Most people might exchange a cabbage for one currency today and use it.

The next day, when they went to exchange it, they might discover that the currency in their hands could only buy half a cabbage.

Such terrifying asset depreciation would make it nearly impossible to keep the currency stable for long. Once prices exploded, turmoil would inevitably follow.

Third, after collecting these supplies, what exactly was Origin Territory's