Episode 146 36. Crown War #2(2)
The perfection of absolute money.
It was possible with Lee Han’s power.
“And I did my own research on how easy it would be to print money. So this is what came out of it.”
When Lee Han flicked his finger, several metal discs were summoned from the air.
The details of the original plate have not been decided yet, but it was clear that it would later take the form of a goblin dollar that Rockefeller wanted.
“Everything printed with this will be connected by the blockchain magic you mentioned. Then it will be like this.”
Lee Han picked up a disk floating in the air and stamped it on something like paper.
“If you take a picture like this, a magic engraving is created and the virtual ledger is shared at the same time. And if you put these things together.”
When the two papers taken from the original plate were glued together, the two papers began to emit a blue light at once.
“It’s amazing.”
Rockefeller looked at the blue paper with curious eyes.
It was certainly not much different from the form he had devised.
“You can process this later into the shape you want and hand it over to me. In any case, the papers printed on the same disc are colored blue as if they acknowledged each other. That means they came from the same disc.”
“Then how are fakes distinguished?”
Before answering, Lee Han smiled.
“It’s a fake, of course, it either doesn’t respond, or when a similar guy appears, it changes like this.”
When Lee Han brought another paper that he had brought in advance, the original blue paper suddenly started to take on a reddish color. And this faded as the distance between them increased.
“This is how you can tell them apart. So that means that the wrong guy can’t be the real thing.”
“The only thing we have is the real thing, so there’s no room for fakes.”
“That’s how it will be.”
Lee Han handed several disks floating in the air to Rockefeller.
“Process the disc you just received and try to make the goblin dollar or whatever you want. And you know I’m handing over one disc, right?”
A promise is a promise.
Rockefeller tried to be clear on this one.
“Of course. Instead, write the original for you only. This is my condition.”
“It’s natural, but what are you going to do if I leave that behind and make a lot of copies?”
“Think of it as a kind of effort paid to you for completing Goblin Dollars.”
“It must be a lot of hard work, right?”
“You can take as many pictures as you like. If you get tired of writing, you probably don’t want to take pictures. After that, money will be meaningless.”
“Is that really going to happen?”
“If you try, you will naturally find out.”
Before leaving, Lee Han asked another question.
It was about counterfeiting.
“By the way, is there any other device besides the blockchain? It’s a magical device, I devised it, but wouldn’t it be good to spot counterfeit money if there was something else other than that?”
Then Rockefeller answered, as if waiting.
“I’m going to look into different ways and apply a special dye to the new IOU. And besides that, we have devised a device that can physically detect counterfeit IOUs. And this is a synthesis of the ideas of various guild members through the guild meeting.”
“but.”
“Don’t worry too much about this, as double-triple forged IOUs can be filtered out.”
a few days later.
In the Lyon Guild, the previously issued IOUs were replaced with new ones.
All existing IOUs could be exchanged for new IOUs at Banco belonging to the guild, and the exchanged IOUs were actively circulated in the market again.
Lyon Guild said.
They threatened that the IOUs not exchanged within the specified time could be invalidated or ignored later, so people lined up in front of Banco to hand over the existing IOUs and take the new IOUs connected by the blockchain.
A month passed like that.
Only new IOUs were circulating in the market, and as time passed, the problem of fake IOUs finally started popping up.
The counterfeit Goblin Dollars, which the Sinclairs had printed out ignorantly, landed on a banco.
“I will exchange all of them into talents.”
An unidentified man came to a Banco located in the ecliptic with Goblin Dollars.
The owner of Banco and a member of the Lyon guild, he carefully looked at the goblin dollar he gave him, then brought the goblin dollar he had and checked the authenticity.
‘It’s the same as the real thing, but something doesn’t feel right.’
He habitually traded the real goblin dollar he had on to the goblin dollar he had handed him.
Then, the goblin dollar he was holding began to glow red, indicating whether it was a fake or not.
The funny thing is that, on the other hand, the goblin dollar on the other side is starting to take on a blue color that indicates the truth.
“Where did you get it from?”
“What’s wrong with you?”
“I’m saying it because it’s all fake.”
“Is it fake?”
The man said with a bewildered expression.
‘It can’t be. This is from the Sinclair family.’
“Is it possible? This is real.”
“really?”
“yes.”
He, who believed in the magical power of the Sinclair family, became dignified in this situation.
“Something seems wrong. A fake is a fake.”
Who do you know as a fool
The owner of the banco gave a loud voice to him, who was making unacceptable noises.
“The fake is the one you brought! We don’t accept fakes like that here, so go somewhere else to find out.”
The bewildered man stood unaware inside the store, not knowing what to do, but when the owner of the store assaulted him with a broomstick, he hurriedly ran out of the store.
‘what? What happened?’
that day.
At the orders of the 3rd Prince, all of the 3rd Prince’s men had to return empty-handed, who tried to collect the talents with fake IOUs from various bancoes in the Empire.
The 3rd Prince, who had been struggling with the battle with the 2nd Prince, which was intensifying every day, had a hard time believing this when his expected subordinates returned empty-handed.
“What do you mean? They are all counterfeit currency and cannot be exchanged for talents.”
“I do not know. I know it’s almost completely counterfeit, but Banco gave me real goblin dollars and they said it was fake.”
“Why did you give me the same blue light?”
“We don’t know.”
The idea that came out of a situation where there was not enough military funds to lead the army immediately was to cover the insufficient military funds by forging the loan deed of the Lyon Guild.
However, it was the 3rd Prince who became in trouble if he could not use counterfeit currency in this way.
“Go and call the family members.”
At the direction of the third prince, some wizards belonging to the Sinclair family came to him sooner or later.
“I heard it’s perfect, what’s the matter?”
The wizards even brought a magnifying glass and looked carefully at the real and the fake.
But what was indistinguishable from the outside was the fake Goblin Dollars they made.
“As you can see, what we made is perfect. It’s 100% perfect in appearance, not nearly as good, and it’s the same thing that gives them a bluish color when they’re placed against each other.”
They thought the real goblin dollars were simply blue.
“But why is the real thing red instead of blue when the real and the fake are put together?”
“that… … .”
“Tell me why. If this isn’t resolved, I’m the only one who believed in you and sent the older brother away, so I’ll be a fool.”
If counterfeiting of the Goblin Dollars had been impossible, the 3rd Prince would never have sent the 1st Prince that way.
With the power he has now, it was almost impossible to deal with the second prince.
Only if he could forge the goblin dollars could he find the meaning of beating the first prince.
It was enough to replenish the army with counterfeit currency.
But even the famous wizards had no idea how the real Goblin Dollar worked.
Do they even know what blockchain means?
“Sir Kalman. As for us, we have no idea how this will manifest itself. This can only be explained by bringing in the wizard who implemented it.”
They didn’t have anything to say either.
“But this currency we counterfeit is outwardly identical to the real thing. The only catch is that when the real meets the fake, it’s very easy to tell the real from the fake. But we do not know the principle.”
“Are you okay with saying you don’t know? If we don’t solve that problem right away, the military will collapse.”
The wizards, who only sighed, found their own way.
“Ms. Azabella is the best in this regard, how about calling her and asking her?”
“Are you going to call Isabella all the way here?”
She was at the forefront of a direct confrontation with the papal forces for the revival of the Sinclairs.
She’s on the front line, so if she’s missing, there’ll be a significant power loss.
However, there was no way that the third prince, whose instep was on fire right away, could afford to take care of it.
“Bring Isabella. I have to solve this problem somehow.”
Isabella, who was fighting fiercely in the vanguard of the 3rd Prince, who was struggling with the mercenary troops hired by the Pope and the Guild, stopped the battle at an untimely call and came to the barracks where the 3rd Prince was.
“I heard you called me urgently.”
“The counterfeit failed.”
“yes?”
The 3rd Prince told Isabella about the forgery of the IOUs yesterday and today.
Isabella, who thought that the wizards of the family would take care of it even if she didn’t have to go out, couldn’t help but panic at the unexpected news.
“Did you say that counterfeiting is impossible now?”
“Yes, counterfeiting is completely impossible. It is said that even if the English language is completely copied, it is easy to distinguish the fake IOU from the real one.”
“How is that possible?”
“I don’t know either, so you should take a look.”
The third prince gave Isabella real and fake goblin dollars.
And after looking at it for a while, Isabella was able to recall the story she had had with Rockefeller before.
‘Then that person. I was so full of confidence.’
For magic, the Sinclairs were the best.
To be able to put on such a smile against such a wizarding family meant that he had his own beliefs.
Isabella quickly recognized who had helped Rockefeller.
“I think a person named Lee Han helped me.”
“Lee Han?”
When the story of Lee Han came out, the third prince immediately wrinkled his face.
Lee Han was now active in the second prince camp.
For him, a man who is as troublesome as the second prince.
The 3rd Prince asked with a look as if he had chewed poop.
“Is this that Lee Han invented it?”
“Yeah, it looks like that. At that time, the guild leader said he was very confident. So at the time, I just let it go, but when I found out, I believed Lee Han.”
“Lee Han or whatever. Either way, we can only live by counterfeiting those goblin dollars.”
The third prince was really desperate.
‘If I had known this would be the case, I wouldn’t have sent my eldest brother like that!ね… … .’
“You have to figure out how the magic is implemented. That way we can create a forged IOU.”
Isabella then showed her that it was impossible.
“It will be difficult. If Lee Han had intervened and helped in the first place, they might have created a perfect IOU that was absolutely impossible to forge.”
“Is it impossible to forge itself?”