Was Annie rich? Compared to commoners, she was rich. With nearly four silver coins in assets, she could buy a 120-square-meter apartment.
"Annie, you have so much money." Ayesha exclaimed.
"It's all rewards from Young Master." Annie said, smiling lightly and putting the money ticket back into her notebook. Annie handled government affairs, and whenever she dealt with them in a way that quite pleased Lucas, she would receive rewards, mostly in coins. Accumulating them, Annie had become quite well-off. This was how she was able to get so much money to buy lollipops.
Helen nodded, handed the silver coins to Sophie, and said, "Please help me exchange this for copper coins."
"Okay." Sophie took the silver coin, placed it on a balance scale to check its weight, and then placed it in a cup of water and watched the water level reach a certain mark on the cup. After finishing that, Sophie nodded slightly. This was a counterfeit detection technique that Lucas had taught in order to prevent people from giving them counterfeit silver coins.
Sophie opened another large drawer that contained many paper boxes. Each box contained 999 copper coins, with 1 copper coin less for exchange fees.
Anyone who exchanged a silver coin would have to pay an exchange fee. The exchange fee was 0.1% for a silver coin, which came out to 1 copper coin. Anyone who could exchange a silver coin wouldn't complain about it. The money depository didn't exchange money for free, and besides, doing it without asking anything in return would make people feel uneasy.
"Teacher Helen, here are your copper coins. One copper coin has been deducted as an exchange fee." Sophie said, pushing the coins through the window.
"Okay. Thank you." Helen said, taking the coins. She intended to bring them back to the tribe to show the tribe members so that they would believe what she said.
"And mine. Please take out 30 copper coins for me, and put the rest in a money ticket like Annie's." Ayesha said, handing over her silver coin.
"Huh?" Sophie froze for a moment, then smiled and took the silver coin. "Okay. You're the second person to deposit money with us."
"Second? Too bad I'm not the first," Ayesha said regretfully.
"Heh. I'll always be the first." Annie felt prideful. She remembered that the number 0000000000001 was printed on the back of her money ticket. Lucas had told her that 30 years later, even if there was no money in it, people would fight to buy it with money.
"Please fill out this form." Sophie handed over a piece of paper and a quill.
"Okay." Ayesha filled out the form as requested with the help of Annie and Helen.
"Please wait a moment." Sophie took the filled-out form and placed it in a leather money drawer, then took out a ticket and used a specially made stamp to print 970 copper coins on the ticket.
In the astonished eyes of Ayesha and Helen, Sophie opened another drawer filled with numerous stamps, each bearing a single character. She found the stamps for the characters that made up "Ayesha", and imprinted Ayesha's name on the note. This was movable type printing.
The money depository was almost a testing site for movable type printing. Lucas was planning to extensively use movable type printing later, as he wanted to control the charm of language.
"Okay, here are your coins and money ticket, Lady Ayesha." Sophie said, handing them over.
"Okay." Ayesha took the note, looked at it closely with her purple eyes, and exclaimed, "It's so beautiful."
"Right? I think so too." Annie agreed.
The money ticket featured a beautiful plum blossom image and a simplified landscape of the Forbidden Mountain Range. Lucas had made the image and found someone on Earth to make the template. In other words, it was impossible for anyone to counterfeit it using the technology in this world. Because the words and images were imprinted with movable types, the ink on the money ticket had a sense of depth. This was also one of the anti-counterfeiting methods.
Helen was a little envious. She leaned over to look at the money ticket, which caused her to have the urge to get one herself. 'It's so beautiful. Unfortunately, I can't get one because I have to take my coins back to my tribe.'
"Alright, let's go." Annie said, walking out with the copper coins.
"Yeah. It's almost four o'clock; the buns are about to be sold out." Helen said anxiously.
"Then let's hurry up and run." Hearing them, Ayesha also became anxious, picking up the short-legged Annie and ran outside.
"Hey hey! Big Cow, let me… down… I almost… can't breathe," Annie said angrily.
"No, you run too slowly." Ayesha responded.
"You… damn it."
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Elisa stared blankly at the three beastkins who had run off, and now, only she was left in the money depository.
"Miss, are you here to exchange for steel coins?" Sophie greeted and asked. "You can come over here."
"Okay." Elisa, who had heard some things, pretended to be calm, sat in front of the window, and whispered, "I want to exchange a silver coin for copper coins."
"Ah?" Sophie glanced at Elisa's attire, then smiled politely. "Certainly." Sophie didn't expect a girl dressed almost like a refugee to possess silver coins. This was quite surprising and taught her that she couldn't judge people by their appearances.
"By the way, can the money ticket they got only be used in Sedona City?" Elisa asked while holding a silver coin. She had managed to sneak a few looks at the money ticket, and she was tempted upon seeing how beautiful it was.
"For now, yes. This money depository is currently the only money depository." Sophie hadn't expected someone to ask this question. She tilted her head and pondered for a moment, then said, "However, City Lord has said that he will open money depositories in other cities in the future. When that happens, people won't need to carry around heavy copper coins. They can just take their money tickets to cities with money depositories to take out coins."
"Wow…" Elisa's eyes widened, and her jaw dropped. This idea startled her. If this revolutionary idea can be implemented, then I won't have to carry around heavy coins and will be able to travel around the world with just a money ticket.
In fact, if this idea succeeded, then the next step would be to transition the money ticket into passbooks and paper money.
"Please give me thirty copper coins and put the rest into the money ticket." Elisa was willing to try something new. After all, the money ticket was extremely beautiful, and she had gotten the silver coins from the bounty hunters. Even if she got tricked, her heart would only ache for a little while.
"Okay. You're the third customer to deposit money with us. Please fill out this form." Sophie said as she handed Elisa the form. Elisa was educated by her parents from a young age so she knew how to write and where she stopped Sophie helped her.
After filling the form Elisa handed the form to Sophie and checked the form again. Sophie again repeated the process and handed Elisa thirty copper coins and the money ticket. Elisa took the ticket and said, "Wow. It really is so beautiful."
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