Chapter 1172 Gold Standard
The perfect artificial devil fruit created by Vegapunk was sold at an auction for 20 billion Baileys. After the third bid, it was finally won by a distinguished guest in the box.
In the general mainstream perception, the Red Dragon Fruit is not worth the price. If it were auctioned at a different venue, it would definitely not be sold for 20 billion berries.
Some customers began to suspect that there were price aides during the bidding process, who actively raised the price and attracted the unscrupulous people to take advantage of them.
This kind of thing can only be thought about in the mind, and there is no actual evidence. If the mythical beast fruit promoted before the auction was just an artificial devil fruit, then it may involve false advertising.
If Tianmu had not released the future footage about the Red Dragon Fruit, and the host Mr. Koro had exaggerated the price of the Red Dragon Fruit, the transaction price would have been around 5 million at most, and definitely not more.
"An artificial devil fruit is so expensive, I don't think it's worth it"
"Opening a business is not charity. Being able to sell things proves that the organizer of the auction is capable."
When Master Roshi was refuted by his own old turtle and remembered that the other party had eaten the pornographic magazine, his anger was ignited again (╬??皿??), and he raised the crutch in his hand, ready to hit the old turtle on the head.
When the old turtle saw that things were not going well, he retracted his fragile body into his shell so that he could hide away if he couldn't afford to offend it. He almost forgot that his master was a bit petty.
"You dodged quite quickly without any reflection at all. Luffy, you fell asleep again. Young people don't work hard and just sleep." Master Roshi swung his cane and hit Luffy on the head without any hesitation to wake up his good apprentice. He needed to race against time and had no time to sleep.
Luffy, whose sweet dream was disturbed once again, could only cover his swollen head and force himself to keep his eyes open to feel the so-called energy in his body.
When the old turtle heard Luffy's screams, it knew that the boy was suffering for it, and that he would not take his anger out on it after his old master left, so it poked its head out of its shell again.
As an animal with a longer lifespan than humans, this is the first time that the old turtle has become interested in auctions held by humans since he became intelligent. Previous small auctions were all held privately and outsiders rarely knew about them.
The old turtle rolled his black eyes. He had some understanding of human money. "The prices in Pandora's venue are really outrageous. They are all measured in 100 million. Is the value of Berry depreciating so fast now?"
Luffy, who was unable to clear his mind for the time being, couldn't help but interrupt: "Is 20 billion berries expensive?"
Luffy has never had a concept of money since he was a child. His food, clothing, housing and transportation in Windmill Town are all supported by his grandfather, a navy man who would send Berry to trusted friends to help take care of his grandson.
Although Luffy's background is very impressive, he has never lived a luxurious life since he was a child. At most, he could fill his stomach and had no worries about food, but he did not have much entertainment.
He was a wild child raised by bandits. The life of a naval noble was very far away from him. Apart from playing with people of his generation, his greatest dream was to be a pirate.
After becoming a pirate, you can leave your hometown, go outside the East China Sea to appreciate other scenery, and pursue your own freedom.
Fortunately, after becoming the captain, the person in charge of the money on the ship was the little thief cat Nami. This housekeeper strictly controlled the expenditures, otherwise the Straw Hat Pirates would have been bankrupted by Luffy long ago, so he had no concept of money.
"The two giants I met in the small garden, I remember the bounty was 1 million, so one fruit could be exchanged for twenty giants"?
Luffy started to calculate with his clever little brain, which made Master Roshi beside him speechless. The giants only offered a reward of 1 million berries. What year's almanac was this?
The old turtle's brain and memory are stronger than his master's. He did not immediately refute Luffy's words. Instead, he followed the Straw Hat Boy's words and calculated the time when the Navy's bounty order would be issued.
A famous giant pirate offered a bounty of 100 million berries. This must be traced back at least a hundred years. Only the price of 100 million berries a hundred years ago could be worthy of the strength of a single giant soldier.
"If a giant pirate today encounters the captain of the Giant Pirates, his bounty will definitely be more than 15 billion berries." The old turtle personally helped Luffy convert the calculation to the current algorithm. It couldn't help but sigh that berries are becoming less and less valuable now.
In the subsequent conversation, Lao Gui was very surprised to find one thing: Luffy was very lacking in some common sense knowledge and he had not studied it systematically.
Luffy, the son of the leader of the Revolutionary Army, the only grandson of a naval hero and the future Pirate King, did not know that the world currency - Berry, was actually issued by the World Government controlled by the Celestial Dragons.
As an extension of the will of the Gods, Berry has penetrated almost into most of the gathering areas of living beings and has become a unified currency in circulation.
As long as most creatures in the world continue to use Berry, the God Clan will not fall. Just relying on the unique right to mint coins, they can feed those fat vampires.
Only the more closed islands in the world, such as the Sky Island that was washed up into the sky and the artificially closed country of Wano, have their own unique currency and operate their own economic logic.
"To put it more bluntly, I think the currency of Berry should be based on the gold standard. Each unit of currency is equal to a certain weight of gold, and gold and Berry can be converted at will." The old turtle has lived long enough, and it can understand at a glance many things that young people don't know.
In the future that has not happened, Luffy and his friends who had experienced the Sky Island adventure would exchange the gold they brought down from Sky Island for hundreds of millions of berries in the Water Seven City.
In the end, this money was used to build the Thousand Sunshine, which can be regarded as a proof that Berry belongs to the gold standard. The Celestial Dragons collect celestial gold from various countries, which can confirm the old turtle's point of view.
The speed at which the Gods print money is quite restrained. After a hundred years, the purchasing power of Berry has not shrunk too much. They have not dug their own graves quickly, and they still have some brains.
"There is one more point you cannot ignore. In the past ten years, a person with the ability of the Gold-Gold Fruit has appeared. He can detect the reserves of gold in the geography. As a result, gold is no longer as rare as it was decades ago. The circulation of gold in the market has greatly increased," Master Roshi thought of the Golden Emperor who was very ostentatious in the second half of the Grand Line.
Gild Tesoro has no cooperation with the Celestial Dragons, and Master Roshi would not believe it at all. The increasing amount of Berry printed is positively correlated with the increasing amount of gold.
An artificial devil fruit was sold at a high price of 20 billion berries. After squeezing out 6-7 million berries, it is roughly equivalent to 1 million berries a hundred years ago.
Most of the bounties currently reported by the Navy are no longer realistic. Bounties will increase significantly in the future, and Kaido, the King of Beasts, will exceed the high of 100 billion.
In the eyes of the old turtle and the turtle master, this matter is really unremarkable.