The Emperor's favorite activity was to strip away the right to mint coins and declare the invalidity of such currency every time he conquered a place. The affected currency had to be exchanged into Aran Golden Dragons within a short period. Anyone still holding that currency after the designated time would face a bleak situation at the Northern Realm Elegance Seat.
There was still a vast room for devaluation with metal currency, and its anti-counterfeiting technology was even more preposterous than that of paper bills.
The Divine One-Eyed Brother, who accompanied the Emperor on a military expedition to the Royal Capital and kept a hundred thousand troops from collapsing in hunger for four days, was now not in the military. Instead, he served as the head of the Aran National Bank.
Aran's authority, overly fierce and aggressive, manifested not just in military expansion but also in a highly dominant currency status.
