Chapter 1983

The Pantheon has a complete system, so naturally there will be currency. After all, currency is generated by the allocation of resources by the society as a whole and 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 the transaction 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 demand, resulting in poor currency circulation and hindering economic development. Therefore, countries began to explore new monetary systems to adapt to the needs of economic development. Against this background, the modern credit currency system came into being. It is based on national credit and achieves flexibility and controllability of money supply through the issuance of paper money and electronic money by the central bank. Take the United States as an example. As the central bank of the United States, the Federal Reserve 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 the tension in the financial market and stabilizing the economy.

The formation of the modern credit currency system not only improves the efficiency of currency circulation, but also promotes 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 the economy with more financing channels and investment tools. 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 important is that the Almighty City 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 is actually not much redundant, because this thing itself is determined by faith. Whoever is the believer, the power of faith belongs to him.

The Almighty City cannot be corrupt.

And because faith is generally fixed, the "gold coins" that each god can get are fixed. This also leads to very little circulation of this thing.

There is no way, the "gold coins" of the Pantheon are not real physical currencies, not precious metals such as gold and silver. The reason why gold and silver can lead the field of currency is primarily due to their unique natural properties. Their scarcity, as rare as stars, ensures the extraordinary and stable value of their value. 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.

So although precious metals have monetary properties, they actually do not decrease in themselves.

The Pantheon's "gold coins" are different. They are equivalent to the necessities that drive the development and survival of the entire Pantheon. They are decreasing all the time.

So this leads to the Pantheon's "gold coins" always maintaining a strong purchasing power.

Charon took 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 and is the mother of Eros. But... to be honest, these gods don't really care about blood relatives.

You know, when Zeus launched the coup, he was rebelling against his biological father, and those who joined Zeus were all relatives, some of whom were Zeus' uncles, aunts, and so on. In other words, many of those who rebelled against the second-generation god Kronos were actually Kronos' brothers and sisters.

In Zeus' generation, many of those who opposed Zeus were also Zeus' blood relatives.

Except for a few gods, most gods only look at interests and positions, and blood relatives are not reliable.

Of course, Aphrodite and Eros have a very close relationship, so he is not afraid of Aphrodite pointing a gun at Eros. What he really doesn't trust are the two strangers.

After all, who knows who they are?

In this world where even blood relatives are not very reliable, strangers are even less trustworthy.

"If this is not enough, then what about a pot of Dionysus wine?"

Seeing that Charon was still hesitant, Aphrodite directly increased the stakes.

As soon as Charon heard the name of Dionysus wine, his throat immediately swallowed. Eyes shining.

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's status is very noble today, and his influence is also very great even among other pantheons.

Dionysus was a very two-faced god. He had a good side. He not only possessed the intoxicating power of wine, but also became a very inspiring god at that time by giving joy and love. He promoted ancient society. civilization and established laws to maintain world peace.

On the one hand, he represents indulgence and madness.

He himself is quite nice, but people around him will be unconsciously affected by him and become crazy.

Music, singing, and drinking followed him wherever he went. His attendants, known as Dionysians, were also known for their rowdy and disorderly behavior. They laughed unbridled, drank, danced and sang carelessly. Among his female followers, the least formal were the Dionysian priests. In the carnival atmosphere, they were so drunk that they danced and accompanied him from one kingdom to another. When they are crazy or extremely excited, they will use brutal violence. They had torn the limbs of Orpheus, the gifted musician. Even Pentheus, the king of Thebes, insisted on persecuting Dionysus and the Thebans who followed Dionysus because his people worshiped Dionysus, so he was punished by Dionysus and died tragically at the hands of an angry woman. , and the person who led this group of fanatical women to punish Pentheus was Pentheus's own mother Agova.

This ability is innate to him.

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 manly thigh. After the baby matured in the father's thigh, Zeus cut the thread and removed the baby. The newborn baby had a pair of moon-like horns on his head, and the goddess of time, who foreshadowed the future, put on him a garland of ivy and a crown of snakes. Because Zeus had trouble walking when he was pregnant with Dionysus, the child was named Dionysus, or Zeus Limp after birth.

It means "the lame one", which describes that when he was conceived in Zeus' thigh, Zeus walked like a lame man.

Near the hill at Dracanon on the island of Ikaros, Hermes took little Dionysus from Zeus, held him in his arms, and traveled across the sky to Boeosia. The child was given to the Lamides, daughters of the river god Ramos, to be raised. The Lamids held the lovely child in their arms, took turns feeding him with milk, and playing with him on their backs. Little Dionysus would often stare at his father's sky full of stars. When he was happy, he would kick the sky with his feet and giggle.

But the power of Dionysus began to appear from that time, and 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 horrible things. They were running around in a daze and madly, sometimes wailing, sometimes laughing wildly, with terrible eyes rolling on their twisted faces, and the foam on their mouths stained their chests and clothes white. Just as they were about to chop little Dionysus into pieces with their knives, Hermes suddenly flew up 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 is one thing that he is favored by all the gods, that is, he can make wine.

Everyone said that the wine made by Dionysus was the best wine in the universe. Gods are different from ordinary people. For them, wine in the world is just a simple drink and will not make them drunk.

Only the wine of Dionysus can intoxicate the gods.

However, Dionysus' nature does not like to be restrained, so it is basically impossible for him to become a brewing craftsman who brews wine all the time. He only makes wine when he wants to.

As for when he wants to make wine... even the goddess of fate can't guess.

In a sense, Dionysus is the unfathomable chaos.

This also resulted in the wine of Dionysus being the rarest luxury item in the entire pantheon.

As for why Aphrodite had the wine of Dionysus...this question almost doesn't need to be asked. One represents desire and the other represents indulgence. It would be strange if it didn't matter.

In addition, Dionysus also deeply loved Aphrodite's daughter Boluo. For this reason, he even had a fight with Poseidon, the king of the sea, but there was no fight...Belloe married Poseidon. However, Dionysus has always been deeply in love with Beluohe. (Belloe is the daughter of Aphrodite and the beautiful boy Adonis)

This relationship seems messy, but the ancient Greek gods understood it all.

In short, Charon did not doubt Aphrodite's ability to pay. After all, Aphrodite's connections were really wide. In fact, if Aphrodite wanted to, she could almost form a group by herself. A huge trading network, but Aphrodite is not very keen on this kind of thing.

"make a deal!"

The attraction of Bacchanalia's wine is much greater than 'gold coins'. After all, almost no god can resist the temptation of divine wine. (The ancient Greek gods were basically drunkards, and many of their myths contain stories about drunkenness)

Kai and Thor were silent throughout the whole process, which Aphrodite specifically emphasized.

In Hades, 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 is that everyone is not familiar with Hades.

In fact, Hades is a very lonely guy. He himself does not like to deal with other people. In addition, Aphrodite and another powerful figure in Hades, the Queen of the Underworld, Persephone, have a very bad relationship.

Well, they are rivals in love.

For the super beautiful boy Adonis.

Back then, Aphrodite and Persephone had a good relationship. Adonis was born to the Greek beauty Myra and was handsome and charming when he was born. Adonis is a royal handsome man with beautiful and delicate facial features like flowers. All people and things in the world are eclipsed in front of him, and Aphrodite is 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 thought Persephone would protect her beautiful boy very well.

However, the law of fire prevention, theft prevention and best friend prevention appeared at this time.

Persephone also fell in love with Adonis.

The two best friends quarreled over this, and both of them thought that Adonis was hers, and even alarmed Zeus. Zeus saw that Hades didn't care about his wife (God knows what Hades was thinking, anyway, he didn't care), so he had no choice but to let the two goddesses share Adonis equally.

Six months each.

Unfortunately, both of them thought well, but they couldn't prevent the conspiracy.

Adonis was killed by a wild boar sent by Artemis when he went out hunting.

For this reason, Aphrodite broke up with the god of war Ares.

Some people wondered, wasn't it the wild boar sent by Artemis that killed the beautiful boy? Why should Ares take the blame?

Because Ares' jealousy would 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 redeem his lover in this way, but it completely angered Aphrodite and made her break up with him.

Because of Adonis' death, 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.

From then on, the two goddesses became mortal enemies.