"Gold Standard currency..." Feng Jun pondered for a moment before answering. "I can provide no less than three hundred thousand tons of gold in the initial phase."
He had made a preliminary estimate of gold prices. At three hundred Xia Currency per gram of gold—not tied to real-world gold prices—one ton of gold would be worth three hundred million Xia Currency, and ten thousand tons would be worth three trillion Xia Currency.
Based on a broad money supply of two hundred trillion Xia Currency, one million tons of gold would be more than enough. Three hundred thousand tons would be sufficient to launch the linkage between Xia Currency and gold.
Feng Jun truly wanted to serve his country, and gold truly did not mean much to him—what he needed more were Spirit Stones. But in practical terms, he would not hand over all his gold at once.
That enormous Gold Nugget in his possession alone contained at least tens of millions of tons of gold. But if he brought it out, it would vastly exceed the reserve requirement, and something unpleasant might happen.
He was not afraid of trouble. To put it bluntly, there were not many weapons left in the Blue Star Realm that could hurt him. Taking into account delivery methods and reaction time, there were even fewer—practically none.
But he disliked trouble, and... he might be immune to most underhanded tricks, but the people around him might not be.
Some matters should not be examined too closely, but the same old saying applied: never test human nature lightly.
Many times, when people did wrong while meaning well, it was not a matter of ability or intelligence, but because they were too naïve.
What Feng Jun intended to do was a great good, beneficial to both the country