Around 3000 AD, a strange ore appeared on the Mesopotamian plains. This ore quickly became a symbol of status because of its shiny luster like the sun and its gorgeous colors, as well as its unusual and rare characteristics.

People use metal extracted from this ore to compete for brightness with the sun, and the metal that completely conquered everyone because of its brilliance made many nobles think that eating this kind of thing can lead to new life.

It can be said that from the day it was discovered, gold has become a terrible thing that ruled human emotions and greed.

Later, the emergence of gold coins made gold assume the special responsibilities as currency. It seemed that everything in the world could be measured by gold. From a precious specialty to the freedom and life of a beautiful or strong male and female slave, everything is just a more or less number in front of gold.

Ladia gold coins are one of the representatives of this seemingly measure all the values ​​in the world.

The inscribed smart patterns and sufficient quality make Ladia appear for a short time, but it immediately became a high-quality currency with extremely good reputation and was sought after.

Many people are optimistic about the prospects of Ladia. In addition to the reasons for the currency itself, the Holy See also the Holy See who issued Ladia.

Although the Vatican's reputation has been very bad due to the various depravities, debauchery and even rebellious actions over the years, no one doubts the authenticity of the huge wealth accumulated by the Vatican over the centuries.

Because of this, people have never doubted the credibility of Ladia's gold coins. After all, Alexander VI himself endorsed Ladia.

Although the pope's reputation is really not good, his credit in this regard is still favored by many people.

As for the great nobles, they knew that the Pope had the power to issue currency was equivalent to discovering a gold mine, so unless Alexander VI was foolish, he would not do anything like destroying his reputation.

However, this seemingly reasonable idea only lasted until the sudden gold run occurred in Le Havre, France.

Then suddenly, starting from the west coast of France, a tide of Ladia that no one could stop was surging towards mainland Europe like a tsunami that broke through the dam.

What rages Europa with this tide is a rumor that Pope Alexander VI had exhausted the Vatican vault in order to arm the army of his illegitimate son Caesar.

This made people who had great confidence in Ladia start to worry about whether this gold coin could continue, or whether the Pope would reduce the gold content of the gold coin in order to offset the cost of minting gold coins. If so, Ladia would inevitably face the risk of depreciation.

From merchants to citizens, from civilians to nobles, people began to become nervous, and soon people discovered that the casting and distribution of Ladia did not come entirely from the Holy See, at least not entirely from the Vatican. Bishops of some dioceses forcibly banned or obstructed people from selling Ladia in various names because they were worried about the run in Ladia. This quickly attracted the attention of people from all over the country.

Even some nobles began to send people to investigate because of suspicion, and soon people discovered that these bishops had the right to mint coins in the diocese granted by the Pope.

And it is precisely because of this that Ladia's reputation and quality immediately encountered unavoidable doubts.

Alexander VI ordered the tightening of the amount of coins on the day he received the news from the Parish of Montpellier in France to reserve gold to deal with possible troubles.

It is obvious that although the Pope is an amateur, he has indeed made a wise and reasonable decision based on his years of experience.

But he forgot or should have underestimated the diocese's bishops were not inferior to his greed.

In order to recover their losses, the bishops not only did not follow the orders conveyed by Alexander, but instead they began to try to make up for the risk of rapid depreciation in Ladia by increasing the issuance of gold coins.

At the same time, some of them seemed to have discovered some subtle opportunity.

Then these people also joined the crazy run.

It was only then that Alexander VI discovered that Ladia's circulation had far exceeded the burden that his accountants calculated to have the Vatican's vaults could bear, or that no country, including at least the Vatican, could afford to spend so much money at a time to make up for such a terrifyingly huge equivalent hole!

The city of Rome began to feel uneasy.

The Popes are now stationed outside the city of Rome, but they are now under the joint command of a group of temporary officers. They have claimed that because of Caesar's death, they now do not know whose command they should obey or where to receive their salary, so they have decided to choose neutrality.

This statement caused an instant uproar in the people of Rome, but then they found that something worse had happened.

Many futures trading on the Roman exchange have begun to no longer accept settlement by Ladia, or even if it can, they will only trade at a price of 20% or 30% or even more than Florin of the same price.

This not only alarms the merchants, but also the Romans who are already accustomed to enjoying the benefits brought by the exchange.

At the same time, the exchange merchants of all sizes that began to appear on the market began to move around openly or secretly. The largest of them was the exchange shops opened by the Fuguer family, which was originally considered bankrupt.

1:2, 1:3, or even 1:5. Even such a harsh exchange rate could not stop the good business, which finally alarmed Alexander VI. Although he felt the pain of losing his son, he still forced himself to send people to understand what was going on.

But the report from the person who came back to him was hopeless.

"People are doubting the value of Ladia?" The pope looked at the people who were exploring, and then looked at the several priests standing beside him with ugly faces, some of whom were sweating on their foreheads, the officials of the Vatican treasury and the accounting and financial advisors around Alexander VI, and now each of them seems to be facing a doomsday trial.

"How many Ladias are missing on the market now?" Alexander VI asked impatiently.

"About what we calculate now," a priest said dryly, "80 to 1.3 million Florin."

"So much," the pope frowned slightly. His face looked thin due to the continuous blows showed a hint of helplessness. "At least the gold we store now is enough. Although doing so almost cost us our lives, don't forget that this is the Vatican. As long as St. Peter's Tomb of Glory is still here, we can overcome this difficulty..."

"Your Majesty," the priest who replied before seemed to be unable to help but finally spoke. His face turned red at this time, as if he was trying to muster up the courage to say the following words. "It's not like that. Although we calculated that such a sum of money was missing on the market, because the value of Ladia is getting lower and lower now, and there have been even 10 Ladia for 1 Florin in some places, and Ladia must be minted with gold, which means we need to pay much more money than the market to block this hole."

"How much more money does it take?" Alexander's face began to become uneasy. He didn't know much about this, but obviously this was not good news.

"Probably, probably..." The priest stammered and looked at the companions next to him. Encouraged by their spiritual support, he finally said carefully, "It costs about 5 million, and I mean at least 5 million equivalent Florin can be equal."

"What did you say?!"

Alexander VI suddenly stood up from the chair, and his body shook as he looked dark, and he stood firm with the help of the priest.

"How is this possible, why do you need so much money?"

Alexander asked out loud in disbelief, answering him with the priests looking at each other and panic.

"Who can tell you what's going on?"

The Pope's questioning voice resounded throughout the room.

"Now, the Pope should already know what happened."

On the ruins of an ancient building made of stones about 8 miles away from the city of Rome, Ruosha stood on a relatively flat stone platform and looked down at the ruins of this magnificent building that were old, although they were old, from the abandoned stone porches and the pedestal of typical Romanesque marble columns.

The wind blew through her body, cloak slanted on one side of her shoulders and raised it high. A gorgeous long skirt with a finely crafted breastplate set off, making her look charming and brave and upright that other women absolutely do not have.

She was not armed with weapons, but those who were familiar with her never thought of comparing her with ordinary noble women, especially those grenadiers who followed her. In their minds, Ruosha was their queen, but even their commander.

"But I think the Pope still doesn't know what the things are going on now," Ruosha said, showing off a proud look, as if she was showing off to others at this moment and said to the female servant who had been with her all the time, "This is called the leverage effect, just like using a wooden stick to pry up these huge Roman pillars. All we do is to use a limited amount of money to pry up the wealth in the entire Vatican treasury."

After saying that, she smiled and said in a proud tone: "My brother told me this method, which was said by Alexander."

The waitress always plays the role of a loyal listener. The key is that she always only has ears and no mouth, because she knows that the queen will tell her that these things are not intended to hear her praise, but just want to show off to others that her brother who is incomparable to no one.

So she not only wants to be a good listener, but also has to keep in mind the important creed that she forgets after listening.

"Roma," Ruosha took a step forward, which made the female servant look at the edge of the stone platform not far from her with a little concern. "Now it is right in front of my fingers, just grab it forward like this."

Ruosha made a false grasp in the air, then she sat down and placed her legs outside the stone platform, allowing the hem of the skirt to vaguely reveal the slender and graceful shape of her wrapped legs to be blown by the wind.

"What will Alexander VI do?"

Ruosha seemed to be in deep thought, and she sat there thinking quietly until a follower came over with a letter.

Ruosha opened the letter and looked at the content on it. Her expression suddenly showed a hint of strangeness. After thinking about it, she was very careful to put the letter in.

Long after looking at the ruins below the villa of Emperor Hadrian, which was said to be the ancient Roman Empire era, she suddenly let out a "splash".

"Alexander and all his women's brothers are destined enemies," Ruosha said to the maid "because the women love him, their brothers hate him as much as they do, but fortunately I am an exception, because my brother is himself."

The waitress nodded to the queen with a expressionless face as a response. If Alexander was here, she would definitely guess what she thought, it would be clearly like "Whatever you say, as long as you are happy."

Rome is now in panic. Rich people are running around to lose less, while poor people are nervous about their possible loss of a job.

The sudden collapse of Ladia's gold coins was almost without warning, and when news came one after another, Rome was in a tragic scene where the nobles were silent and the merchants burst into tears.

More detailed news about Le Havre has been heard.

When I heard that the British ships attacked the French coast, some merchants who were willing to cast their fortunes on Caesar because of the rich rewards were already completely desperate from the pessimism brought by Caesar's death.

At the same time, a more crazy news has been proven.

The Free Trade Zone Alliance has jointly announced the cancellation of all business deals with France and Rome!

This news hit everyone like a bolt from the blue, and when most people were still at a loss because of this sudden accident, some smart people were still seeing unlimited opportunities from it.

Smuggling became popular almost overnight. Any commodity that could not be traded with the Free Trade Union became gold and wealth in the eyes of those black market merchants. Even if Alexander VI immediately ordered the issuance of strict laws, these laws were not only not restrictive in the eyes of those black market merchants, but also became the best helpers to make a fortune.

As long as Florin doesn't want Ladia, or uses Ladia that is several times higher than a few times more than that, the black market merchants still flock to the merchants who used to exchange gold coins before, and then seemed to start black market transactions.

This time, the Fuguer family's business was still booming, and they were in the city of Rome for a time.

It was in such a weird atmosphere that was half heaven and half hell that Constantine de la Rovery rushed to Rome from the front line in early June.
Chapter completed!