179 Creating a positive disaster (1/2)
11th June 1574
”What do you mean, it's impossible?!”
Forced to realise that I didn't really have any real court for myself, I was trying to slowly build it with the people I trusted the most, yet just the first meeting of what I hoped to remodel from a simple advisory council into a proper court instantly turned into a disaster.
”If we use paper to make those acts, what will stop anyone from making them by themselves? While minting the coin is against the law, if we could somehow use our production means to create something no one else would be capable of reproducing, it could work way better. The other way to go about it is to start from the bottom.”
Hearing Matsu's arguments, I couldn't help but agree with them silently, yet the fact that my idea shattered the second it was put against the reality of the current times still made me quite angry and disappointed.
”What do you mean, from the bottom? If we find out a way to create something that is hard to counterfeit and use it to pay our workers instead of using the gold to do so… That might work!”
Suddenly changing my opinion in the middle of my own sentence, I was about to sink in my own thoughts like usual, yet the sudden slam of the table stopped me from doing so.
”Are you out of your mind? If we suddenly cut their income and turn it into some kind of new currency, they will simply stop working!”
Looking at the guy that spoke up, I only managed to hold myself back from scoffing at him due to the fact that he was one of the most effective managers in the entire mining town. Even if he failed to understand the concept behind this new currency and the ways that we could use to implement it, he was still one of my most valuable managers!
”It's actually pretty simple. We won't force this change, we will simply offer it to the workers. They will be able to choose whether they want to be paid with the usual gold or with… Hmm… merit papers? Yeah, I think that this name is fitting.”
Figuring out the details of such important matter on the spot might not be the best idea, but when it came to naming stuff, it didn't really hold that much meaning. No matter what kind of name we would use for this new currency, its worth would still remain the same!