Chapter 376 - 11: Because You Have Me_2
The number of the Divine Mysterious Court’s Shield Guard Army was unclear, but only a little over a hundred were dispatched for the Battle of the Kings, and the Shield Guards also had terms of service.
This meant that every thirty to fifty years, the Divine Mysterious Court would have to commission at least a hundred sets of Mountain Copper Plate Armor, requiring a total of one hundred thousand catties of copper—not including the loss during forging.
And this was merely what the Divine Mysterious Court needed; the Divine Mysterious noble class also required this extraordinary metal.
If Divine Mysterious needed all this copper, what about the other Earth Countries?
More importantly, the development and circulation of commerce also required metal coins as a foundation.
In this medieval era with limited production capacity and non-widespread ironware, metal coins were already quite expensive.
It wasn’t hard to understand why lower-class farmers couldn’t afford copper coins, silver coins, gold coins.
It could only be said that this land was just like that, as long as one had the ability to cast metal, the more money one had, the stronger one was, and sometimes countries even had to legislate to prevent the outflow of copper coins. But that’s a different story.
Sanna, after hearing Roman’s question, thought for a moment and said, "We can’t defeat a dragon, but Monica and Gwen said that if there were a Seat Witch, then the cost of dragonslaying wouldn’t be prohibitively high."
Roman gently caressed Sanna’s delicate cheek, "You mean Margaret?"