IIIFカラー高解像度
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| The Book of Ser Marco Polo : vol.1 | |
| マルコ=ポーロ卿の記録 : vol.1 |
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引用情報
CHAP. XXIV. THE KAAN'S PAPER CURRENCY
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but the Emperor. He has twelve experts chosen for
this business, men of shrewdness and experience in such
affairs ; these appraise the articles, and the Emperor
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then pays a liberal price for them in those pieces of
paper. The merchants accept his price readily, for in
the first place they would not get so good an one from
anybody else, and secondly they are paid without any
delay. And with this paper-money they can buy what
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they like anywhere over the Empire, whilst it is also
vastly lighter to carry about on their journeys. And it
is a truth that the merchants will several times in the
year bring wares to the amount of 400,000 bezants, and
the Grand Sire pays for all in that paper. So he buys
such a quantity of those precious things every year that
his treasure is endless, whilst all the time the money he
pays away costs him nothing at all. Moreover, several
times in the year proclamation is made through the city
that any one who may have gold or silver or gems or
pearls, by taking them to the Mint shall get a handsome
price for them. And the owners are glad to do this,
because they would find no other purchaser give so large
a price. Thus the quantity they bring in is marvellous,
though these who do not choose to do so may let it
alone. Still, in this way, nearly all the valuables in the
country come into the Kaan's possession.
When any of those pieces of paper are spoilt not
that they are so very flimsy neither the owner carries
them to the Mint, and by paying three per cent. on the
value heets new pieces in exchange. And if any Baron,
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or any one else soever, hath need of gold or silver or
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gems or pearls, in order to make plate, or girdles, or the
like, heg oes to the Mint and buys as much as he list,
paying in this paper-money.'
Now you have heard the ways and means whereby
the Great Kaan may have, and in fact has, more treasure
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