A mage's journey begins with a battle mage.

Chapter 262 Negotiations Begin

"Alright, that's enough of the opening remarks. Let's get down to business."

Jiang Shuzhou spoke for another twenty minutes before choosing to end his speech.

After all, compliance testing only needs to be done once; taking it for too long might have the opposite effect.

"Okay, let's begin."

Professor Wang breathed a sigh of relief; he was genuinely worried that this young man would talk for hours.

"First, there's currency exchange."

"The alliance's plan is that gold coins must circulate, and virtual payments are out of the question. However, if it's magic stones, then online transactions are possible."

The only reason mages mint gold coins is because they can be used as a raw material for refining lucky metals.

If everyone goes online, what will happen to the interests of the Mage Alliance?

Although there are banks, and Jiang Shuzhou's large transactions are all conducted through banks, it's because he's a mage. In fact, the banks of the Mage Alliance don't offer any interest, and they even charge a storage fee for non-mage individuals.

The goal is to make the gold coins come into contact with people as much as possible, so as to ensure the production of lucky metals.

Magic stones are different; after all, they are things with practical value. They can not only supply energy for various magic arrays and machines, but also allow mages to increase their cultivation speed.

It's simply not worth the effort.

If a mid-level mage wants to cultivate at full efficiency for a day, it would consume about one hundred magic stones. Even Jiang Shuzhou wouldn't dare to cultivate like that, although he didn't need to.

At the same time, it is very difficult to exchange gold coins for magic stones. Not only is it 80,000 gold coins for one magic stone, but there is also a long period of no stock. After all, only a very small number of people will exchange magic stones for gold coins.

The league won't restock, so basically forget about it.

Furthermore, there is a tax on exchanging magic stones. By exchanging them through official transactions, you can get 5 back and sell them for 8, which is essentially making money from both ends.

"That doesn't matter, but what's the exchange rate between Chinese currency and gold coins?"

After Professor Wang whispered a few words into his headset and received a response, he dared to continue speaking.

Clearly, he is not the one who makes the final decisions.

But Jiang Shuzhou is someone who is open to negotiation as long as there's no bottom line.

Jiang Shuzhou didn't immediately start by giving a detailed explanation. Any policy matters should be handled in moderation; being too lenient is not good.

"As for currency, you can mint your own if you want, as long as it meets the standards. At the same time, I want to emphasize again that you absolutely cannot engage in virtual payments using gold coins, nor can you use silver or copper coins."

"As for the exchange system, the answer is no, but haven't you saved up quite a bit? You can use that to tide you over."

"At the same time, you can also barter with goods. The Alliance is quite interested in many things, such as mobile phones."

Cell phones are perfect for ordinary people or low-level warriors, and mages can use them occasionally.

But high-level mages can forget about it; Jiang Shuzhou can easily conjure up a whole bunch of these things.

"As for games and other entertainment, you guys figure it out yourselves."

Jiang Shuzhou casually offered a suggestion; if this weren't his hometown, he wouldn't have said these things at all.

"Is the matter of currency acceptable?"

"Yes, but we need time. After all, adjusting the prices of various commodities is an extremely arduous task."

Professor Wang said in a deep voice.

"Either is fine, next one."

"Regarding faith, it doesn't matter if the local temples and monasteries on this blue planet are not religious, but there are some you should avoid worshipping."

To be honest, Jiang Shuzhou also couldn't hold back when he saw the league's information.

Many mythical figures in Taoism have been verified to be real, possibly people from a time when Earth had abundant elements.

They didn't follow the divine path; they all cultivated on their own and eventually broke through the void to reach the Star Boundary. I wonder how they are now. I guess they're in trouble. Otherwise, how could they not have gone back to their hometown for so long?

Some within the alliance even believe that these people are likely also mages.

After all, aren't cultivators able to manipulate the power of heaven and earth?

Isn't that a coincidence? Well, even we monks can do that.

Cultivators have magical treasures, and we mages have magical items, don't we?

Cultivators can fly on swords, so we mages can create a magic sword too!

Many things are just phrased differently.

So theoretically speaking, we mages are cultivators of immortality!

You know what, it actually makes some sense.

And actually, although there are all kinds of hair colors in the league, black is still the most common, so...

Jiang Shuzhou stopped daydreaming.

"Which ones specifically?"

"Many of those in the West are just disguises of the main plane of gods, which can easily lead to problems."

Professor Wang frowned, looking quite troubled.

"But our country has a total of..."

"This is a notification, not a discussion. You should know the Alliance's attitude towards these believers."

"For personal reasons, I'll give you another method: ask them if they're willing to abandon their faith. If they're not, just send them abroad."

"this……"

Professor Wang was dumbfounded. What kind of suggestion was this?

"Anyway, by then, probably half the people here will switch to the gods. By the way, those charlatans won't let people live comfortably. After all, if life is too comfortable, how can there be devout faith?"

"Militarily, the alliance will help withstand the pressure. These gods will not start a war in the short term. They are fighting for faith and have a lot of mess to deal with."

"Even if everyone on Earth devoutly believes in one god, they can only maintain a high level of divine power without falling down in rank. These guys won't waste that much time on it."

"Okay, we have no objection."

Professor Wang had no objection to this matter.

"The alliance won't concern itself with things like sovereignty; you just need to cooperate partially."

The mages had no interest in ruling a world.

Even Jiang Shuzhou, who cared most about the territory, was only responsible for the major aspects of the management, leaving all the other messy tasks to Pierre.

So this is quite lenient.

"As long as you don't violate the alliance's constitution, you can do whatever you want."

Professor Wang nodded; this was something he had anticipated.

"Oh, and don't forget the mages' immunity."

Professor Wang was stunned.

"Immunity?"

"You've never used it before?"

Jiang Shuzhou is a habitual murderer and arsonist who constantly uses his immunity. However, he doesn't kill without cause, and the people he kills are usually not good people, so no one bothers him.

"no."

Professor Wang answered honestly.

"If you haven't used it before, use it more often; you'll need it sooner or later."

Then, Jiang Shuzhou thought for a moment, and suddenly, as if he had thought of something, he took out a book from his spatial ring.

"This is a detailed explanation of the Alliance's laws, from several years ago. I haven't used it since, so I'm giving it to you."

This thing was given to him by the receptionist when he was an arbitrator, who said it might be useful. However, Jiang Shuzhou never used it; it was as good as new.

"Is this newly bought?"

"No, it's from several years ago, but I've never used it. Most of the content is useless to me, since I have high magic resistance and it's also unselectable."