Free giveaway?
When Hou Junji heard Chen Ye’s name, his face immediately darkened.
How could this person be like this?
We’re offering a loan.
How did it become a free giveaway?
You have to pay it back!!!
Hou Junji now realized that, within this convoy, the man before him was a real troublemaker.
Who thinks a loan is a free handout?
Chen Ye seemed to realize he’d misspoken and hurriedly clamped his mouth shut.
Chu Che instantly jumped in to smooth things over, hurriedly backpedaling, "You heard wrong, you heard wrong. Elder Hou, isn’t your interest rate a bit high?"
Hou Junji shook his head, and the bird perched on his shoulder squeaked in a sharp voice, "Not high, not high!"
"Silent Gold Coins are different from pre-apocalypse currency, and their uses are different!"
"With Silent Gold Coins, your power can grow quickly."
"Maybe in less than a month, you could repay the loan!"
"This would definitely be a good thing for you!"
"…"
The bird on Hou Junji’s shoulder began to speak at great length.
One had to admit, the bird’s rhetoric was impressive.
Its speech was almost indistinguishable from a human’s.
If you couldn’t see the bird and only heard the voice, you’d think a person stood opposite you.
The bird unpacked all the advantages of Silent Gold Coins one by one.
The others listened, their hearts stirred.
In truth, the only ones seriously thinking about it were Chen Ye and Chu Che.
Gong Yong wasn’t desperate about gaining strength. Compared to personal power, Gong Yong was more interested in machinery and the like.
Ding Dong had already gone to check her Ideal Grain Seeds.
Since acquiring those Ideal Grain Seeds, that woman’s interest in those few seed stocks far exceeded any desire for increased power.
Xu Lina had no strong opinion either; her current problem was lifespan.
She could only live to thirty.
Right now the priority was finding ways to extend her life.
If the Silent Council had a life-extension method, she would be interested in Silent Gold Coins.
Until she solved the problem of only living to thirty, no matter how strong she became, it wouldn’t mean much.
Then there was the pink-haired girl. She had been raised to spend strictly within her means, to refuse early consumption and avoid spending traps.
Therefore, she was never keen on taking out loans.
Also, she only trusted the sword in her hand.
Even if Silent Gold Coins could buy other Wonders, she had little interest.
She knew clearly that the Fire Dragon Sword she held was an innate Wonder.
It was a treasure more precious than any other Wonder.
Even if the Silent Council seemed powerful now, she didn’t think they possessed many innate Wonders.
As for Chu Che and Chen Ye…
Those two…
No need to comment!
Seeing that the two of them looked somewhat interested, Hou Junji brightened further.
He began explaining in still more detail.
Actually, Silent Gold Coins were not easy to promote.
In recent days, Elder Hou had pushed out no more than ten coins.
The Silent Council wanted to restore the old world’s order, and the first step was to restore productivity.
To restore productivity, currency naturally mattered most.
The fall of the Oasis had made the Silent Council’s leadership discuss and study the issue repeatedly.
One important reason was the Oasis’s low production levels.
When in the Oasis, the economy was almost nonexistent.
People still traded by barter.
That primitive trading method wasn’t a big problem between two convoys.
But in an already established city, it would be a major problem.
Thus the Silent Council urgently wanted to establish a new currency system.
A system completely distinct from pre-apocalypse money.
If they could capture Xi City, this currency system would play a crucial role.
They could use the currency to control Xi City.
Even if they failed to capture Xi City, controlling the currency system would still be advantageous.
If attacking Xi City failed, what then?
Humanity couldn’t keep migrating forever.
Eventually people would find suitable places to gather.
Once a suitable gathering place was found, this currency system would find purpose.
Anyone who could read would understand how many benefits that entailed.
Therefore the Silent Council invested great effort to design this Silent Gold Coin.
But even though the Silent Council had grand ambitions for the coin, they still sent Hou Junji to handle the matter.
Despite that, promoting the currency remained difficult.
There were many reasons.
Reason one: interest was too high.
A monthly interest rate of 23.95%.
With compound interest over a year, the debt could multiply several times.
It was worse than any usurer.
Even loan sharks weren’t this ruthless!
Reason two: the exchange rate between Silent Gold Coins and grain was ridiculously high.
Ten jin of food for one Silent Gold Coin.
That exchange rate left people speechless.
No one was willing to exchange.
Remember, food was the hard currency now.
Reason three: Silent Gold Coins were new, and everyone was still waiting to see.
People naturally treated new things with caution.
Reason four: everything is hardest at the start…
Reason five: people weren’t confident in the Silent Council’s strength yet…
Reason six…
In short, many mixed reasons were at play.
"This trip to Xi City will have numerous superhumans accompanying us. Although Xi City isn’t a first-tier metropolis like Shanghai or the capital,"
"the supplies there should not be underestimated!"
"At that time, if you pillage freely, you can easily repay the loan!"
"With the Silent Council backing it, taking a loan now will definitely not be a loss!"
"Our Silent Council has ten Elders. I am, admittedly, the least of those ten."
"Blah blah blah…"
To promote Silent Gold Coins, Hou Junji even let slip some of the Silent Council’s strength.
He mentioned the Council’s organizational structure, saying the Silent Council was led by a President, beneath whom were the Ten Elders.
Hou Junji claimed he himself was one of those Ten Elders.
This time, the Silent Council had sent Hou Junji, one of the Ten Elders, to oversee matters in Xi City and the Silent Gold Coin project.
This showed how important the Council considered both tasks.
The Ten Elders were divided into the upper five elders and the lower five elders.
By Hou Junji’s account, he was the last of the lower five, yet he still possessed Sequence 4 strength.
He said the Silent Council’s President might already be Sequence 6 or Sequence 7, maybe even higher!
Beneath the Ten Elders were cadres.
Below them were ordinary officers and peripheral officers.
For example, that bear-like man before had been a peripheral officer of the Silent Council.
A peripheral officer with Guardian Sequence 2 was still pretty persuasive.
According to Hou Junji, the Silent Council even owned a Wonder ranked in the top ten by number.
Moreover, Silent Council members were spread across the world.
Membership had long surpassed one hundred thousand.
One hundred thousand…
This was not something possible before the apocalypse; to have a hundred thousand members under current circumstances indicated the Council’s strength.
Whether it was true, however!
No way to verify!
Chu Che had always failed to gather even a thousand-person convoy.
Of course, Chen Ye believed about ten percent of what Hou Junji said.
Chu Che believed even less than ten percent.
At least this supposedly low-ranking Elder Hou appeared to have some ability.
At least that endlessly chattering bird on his shoulder was strange.
Hou Junji’s long speech was meant to tell Chu Che and Chen Ye that Silent Gold Coins had huge potential.
So come swap or borrow from us.
The Silent Council’s might would naturally lend confidence to the coin.
The bird’s voice had become hoarse from talking so long.
Xu Lina handed over a cup of water.
Hou Junji took it and promptly lifted it to the bird’s beak.
The bird tilted its neck back and drank in gulps.
It kept muttering, "I was dying of thirst, dying of thirst!"
During this brief pause, Chen Ye and Chu Che exchanged a glance and then both fell silent.
When the bird finished drinking, Hou Junji held the cup and looked expectantly at Chu Che and Chen Ye.
The bird spoke, "I’ve said so much. I trust you now understand something about Silent Gold Coins!"
"Captain Chu, Mr. Chen, how much do you plan to borrow?"
Chen Ye: "Borrow as much as we can get!"
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