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Chapter 1983
Chapter 1983
The Pantheon has a complete system, so naturally it has currency. After all, currency is generated by the distribution of resources by the society as a whole, and is formed by transactions between social individuals. The social whole uses resources to trade with social individuals who work, which will inevitably produce a double increase in the use value and value of the commodity. This double increase is distributed among all social individuals according to value, and the distribution method is value distribution rather than physical distribution. In this way, the ticket given by the society as a whole to the social individual has the nature of currency, and once it plays a mediating role in transactions between social individuals, it becomes currency. The emergence of currency is inevitable.
However, unlike other civilizations in the universe, most civilizations will inevitably abandon physical currency and use credit currency when they develop to a certain extent. The formation of the credit currency system is a major change in the financial field. The birth of this system marks the transformation of currency from physical form to abstract credit form, which greatly promotes economic development and social progress. In the early 20th century, with the acceleration of industrialization and the expansion of international trade, the traditional metal currency system gradually exposed its limitations. The supply of metal currency is limited by natural resources and cannot meet the growing transaction needs, resulting in poor currency circulation and hindering economic development. Therefore, countries began to explore new monetary systems to meet the needs of economic development. Against this background, the modern credit currency system came into being. It is based on national credit and realizes the flexibility and controllability of money supply through the issuance of paper money and electronic currency by the central bank. Taking the United States as an example, the Federal Reserve, as the central bank of the United States, affects economic operations by adjusting the money supply. During the global financial crisis in 2008, the Federal Reserve adopted a large-scale quantitative easing policy, injecting a large amount of liquidity into the market by purchasing Treasury bonds and other assets, effectively easing tensions in the financial markets and stabilizing the economy.
The formation of the modern credit currency system has not only improved the efficiency of currency circulation, but also promoted the prosperity of the financial market. It makes the money supply more flexible and can better meet the needs of economic development. At the same time, the credit currency system has also promoted the development of financial innovation and provided more financing channels and investment tools for the economy. However, this system also faces some challenges and risks, such as excessive money supply and inflation.
But all this has nothing to do with the Pantheon.
They still enjoy physical currency.
And there will never be inflation.
That is the power of faith.
The reason why the Almighty City is so important is that it can absorb all the power of faith and transform it into entities, which are the two gold coins that Aphrodite just threw out!
Don't underestimate the purchasing power of this thing.
Because the power of faith in the Pantheon actually does not have much redundancy, because it is determined by faith. Whoever is the believer, the power of faith belongs to him.
The Almighty City cannot be corrupt.
And because the faith is generally fixed, the amount of "gold coins" that each god can get is fixed. This also leads to the fact that this thing is rarely circulated.
There is no way. The "gold coins" of the Pantheon are not real physical currencies, nor are they precious metals such as gold and silver. The reason why gold and silver can dominate the field of currency is primarily due to their unique natural properties. Their scarcity, like the rarity of stars, ensures the extraordinary and stable value of gold and silver. At the same time, the almost eternal chemical stability of gold and silver allows them to resist the erosion of time and become the guardian of value across the ages. This perfect combination of physical and economic characteristics makes gold and silver stand out among many substances and become a currency carrier favored by both the East and the West.
Therefore, although precious metals have monetary properties, they themselves do not actually decrease.
The Pantheon's 'gold coins' are different. They are the necessities that drive the development and survival of the entire Pantheon, and they are decreasing all the time.
So this results in the Pantheon's 'gold coins' always maintaining strong purchasing power.
Charon took the two gold coins and then looked at the two strangers.
A little hesitant.
To be honest, Charon didn't want to take this business.
Because Aphrodite is not from their line. Although Aphrodite has a special identity, being the mother of Eros, but... to be honest, these gods don't really care about blood relations.
You have to know that when Zeus launched the coup, the one who rebelled was his biological father, and those who joined Zeus' side were all his relatives, some of whom were Zeus' uncles, aunts, and the like. In other words, many of those who rebelled against the second generation god king Kronos were actually Kronos' brothers and sisters.
By the time of Zeus' generation, many of those who opposed him were his blood relatives.
Except for a few gods among the gods, most gods only care about interests and positions, and blood ties are not reliable.
Of course, Aphrodite and Eros had a very close relationship, so he was not afraid of Aphrodite's attack on Eros. What he really didn't trust were the two strangers.
After all, who knows who they are?
In this world where even blood relatives are unreliable, strangers are even less trustworthy.
"If that's not enough, how about a jug of Dionysus wine?"
Seeing that Charon was still hesitant, Aphrodite directly increased the stakes.
When Charon heard the name of Dionysus wine, he swallowed and his eyes lit up.
Dionysus is the name of the ancient Greek god of wine, and he is also one of the twelve main gods of ancient Greece.
In addition, Dionysus' status is very high today, and even among other pantheons, his influence is very great.
Dionysus is a very two-sided god. He has a good side. Not only does he possess the intoxicating power of wine, but he also became a very inspiring god at the time for his generosity, joy and love. He promoted the civilization of ancient society, established laws, and maintained world peace.
On the one hand, he represents indulgence and madness.
He himself is quite nice, but the people around him will be unconsciously influenced by him and become crazy.
Wherever he went, music, singing, and revelry followed him. His attendants, known as Dionysus followers, were famous for their rowdiness and disorder. They laughed recklessly, drank, danced, and sang carelessly. Among his female followers, the most unrestrained were the priestesses of Dionysus. They accompanied him from kingdom to kingdom, dancing and drunken in a carnival atmosphere. When they were crazy or extremely excited, they would use cruel violence. They once tore the hands and feet of Orpheus, a talented musician. Even Pentheus, the king of Thebes, was punished by Dionysus for persecuting Dionysus and the Thebans who followed Dionysus because his people worshiped Dionysus. He died tragically at the hands of angry women, and it was Pentheus' own mother Agova who led this group of fanatical women to punish Pentheus.
He was born with this ability.
When Dionysus was not yet born, his mother died because of Hera's jealousy. Zeus could only sew Dionysus, who was not yet full-term, into his masculine thigh. After the baby matured in his father's thigh, Zeus cut the thread and took the baby out. The newborn baby had a pair of moon-like horns on his head. The goddess of time, who foreshadowed the future, gave him a wreath made of ivy and a crown made of snakes. Because Zeus had difficulty walking when he was pregnant with Dionysus, the child was named Dionysus, or Zeus Limp, after he was born.
It means "lame person", which is an expression of the fact that when he was conceived in Zeus' thigh, Zeus walked like a lame man.
Near the hill of Dracanum on the island of Ikaros, Hermes took little Dionysus from Zeus, held him in his arms, and traveled across the sky to Boeotia. He gave the child to the Lamides, daughters of the river god Ramos, to raise. The Lamides held the lovely child in their arms, feeding him with milk in turn, and carrying him on their backs to play. Little Dionysus often gazed at his father's starry sky, and when he was happy, he kicked the sky with his feet and laughed.
But Dionysus' power began to show from that time. The Lamides suddenly became crazy. They beat servants in the house, hacked travelers to death and cut them into pieces on the road, and did many terrible things. They ran around in a trance, sometimes crying and laughing wildly, with terrible eyes rolling on their twisted faces, and the white foam from their mouths dyed the front of their clothes white. Just when they were about to chop little Dionysus into pieces with a knife, Hermes suddenly flew over and quickly snatched the child from their hands.
It can be said that while he is popular, he is also synonymous with danger.
However, there was one thing that won him the favor of all the gods, and that was his ability to make wine.
Everyone said that the wine brewed by Dionysus was the best wine in the universe. Gods were different from ordinary people. The wine of the mortal world was just a simple drink to them and would not make them drunk.
Only the wine of Dionysus could intoxicate the gods.
However, Dionysus did not like to be constrained by nature, so it was basically impossible for him to become a winemaker and brew wine all the time. He would only brew wine when he wanted to.
As for when he wants to brew wine...even the goddess of fate can't guess.
In a sense, Dionysus is the unfathomable chaos.
This also resulted in Dionysus' wine being the scarcest luxury item in the entire Pantheon.
As for why Aphrodite has the wine of the god of wine... This question hardly needs to be asked. One represents desire, the other represents indulgence. It would be strange if there is no connection.
In addition, the god of wine was deeply in love with Aphrodite's daughter Beloa. He even had a fight with Poseidon, the king of the sea, but he lost... Beloa married Poseidon. However, Dionysus always loved Beloa. (Beloa was the daughter of Aphrodite and the beautiful boy Adonis)
This relationship seems very confusing, but since they are ancient Greek gods, those who understand will understand.
In short, Charon did not doubt Aphrodite's ability to pay. After all, Aphrodite had a wide network of contacts. In fact, if Aphrodite wanted to, she could almost build a huge trading network by herself, but Aphrodite was not very keen on this kind of thing.
"make a deal!"
The appeal of Dionysus' wine is much greater than that of 'gold coins'. After all, almost no gods can resist the temptation of divine wine. (The ancient Greek gods were basically alcoholics, and many of their myths have stories about being drunk)
Kai and Thor didn't speak the entire time, which Aphrodite deliberately emphasized.
In the underworld, only the dead can speak. If the living speak here, it will alarm the dead. You have to know that they are here to sneak in. If they alarm the local gangs, they will not be able to enter the City of Almighty.
The key point is that everyone is not very familiar with the underworld.
In fact, Hades is a very lonely guy. He doesn't like to interact with other people. In addition, Aphrodite has a very bad relationship with Persephone, another powerful figure in the underworld.
Well, they are rivals in love.
For the super handsome boy Adonis.
Back then, Aphrodite and Persephone had a good relationship. Adonis was born to the Greek beauty Myrrha and was handsome and charming. Adonis was a royal handsome man with beautiful and delicate features like flowers, which made everyone and everything in the world pale in comparison to him. Aphrodite was also fascinated by him.
Aphrodite was afraid that her other lovers would be jealous of Adonis, so she gave him to her best friend Persephone to raise... Because Persephone was one of the few friends of Aphrodite who kept herself clean, she felt that Persephone would protect her beautiful boy well.
However, the law of preventing fire, theft and best friends appeared at this time.
Persephone also fell in love with Adonis.
The two besties quarreled over this, and both of them thought Adonis belonged to them, which even alarmed Zeus. Seeing that Hades didn't care about his wife (who knows what Hades was thinking, anyway, he didn't care), Zeus had no choice but to let the two goddesses share Adonis.
Six months per person.
Unfortunately, although both of them had good intentions, they were unable to guard against the sneak attack.
Adonis was killed by a wild boar sent by Artemis while out hunting.
For this reason, Aphrodite broke with the god of war Ares.
Some people wondered, wasn't it the wild boar sent by Artemis that killed the beautiful boy? Why did Ares have to take the blame?
Because Ares' jealousy will turn him into a wild boar.
In fact, Artemis was just a coincidence, and Ares was the real murderer.
This reckless god thought that he could win back his lover in this way, but ended up completely angering Aphrodite and causing her to break up with him.
Because of the death of Adonis, Persephone completely hated Aphrodite, because all this was the bitter fruit of Aphrodite's insistence on snatching Adonis from her. Of course, Persephone also hated Ares very much.
The two goddesses have become mortal enemies since then.