A character's intelligence can never be higher than the intelligence of the author writing him. This chapter showed this well.
He could have used a much more reasonable amount of money and still made the same point. And the author portrays this move as an intelligent person's move. It isn't. If 25 million of their currency is their average salary, then 10 billion is equivalent of 400 years of average salary. He could have made the same point with 1/10 that and it would still be impressive to the peasants.
The author is unintelligent for another reason too - how exactly do you represent 25 million with gold coins? In medieval times, currencies all had lower denominations for a reason. Money was often represented with real objects. And not paper, you couldn't just draw whatever you want on them. So often times it was coins where each coin was 1 of something. Not 1000. In the modern digital era, it's fine if the currency uses such large denominations that your average salary is 25 million. It's complicated, but it works. But in a medieval setting? No chance.
Oh well, fun little story I guess. Good for some time wasting. But unintelligent.
He could have used a much more reasonable amount of money and still made the same point. And the author portrays this move as an intelligent person's move. It isn't. If 25 million of their currency is their average salary, then 10 billion is equivalent of 400 years of average salary. He could have made the same point with 1/10 that and it would still be impressive to the peasants.
The author is unintelligent for another reason too - how exactly do you represent 25 million with gold coins? In medieval times, currencies all had lower denominations for a reason. Money was often represented with real objects. And not paper, you couldn't just draw whatever you want on them. So often times it was coins where each coin was 1 of something. Not 1000. In the modern digital era, it's fine if the currency uses such large denominations that your average salary is 25 million. It's complicated, but it works. But in a medieval setting? No chance.
Oh well, fun little story I guess. Good for some time wasting. But unintelligent.
