Picking Up Supreme Treasures in the Dream Realm-Chapter 509 - 347. Kill with a borrowed knife

Older watched the exchange point quietly for a while, then took out his laptop from his backpack and opened a blank document.

As a journalist, for such a major event that influences the course of history, a report must certainly be written.

Older pondered for a moment, then his ten fingers began to type rapidly.

Letter by letter appeared on the screen, word by word emerged.

"Today is the sixth day of the Great Xia New Year and the last day of the holiday.

"I’m in a hotel in Eastern City, yet I see people enduring the terrible cold in a snowy landscape, standing in long lines to exchange their Shapudian currency for Xia Yuan.

"Because the Great Xia people set harsh time limits, if they exceed the deadline, the money they earned through hard labor would turn into a stack of waste paper."

Many people know that CDD News is adept at being sarcastic in various ways.

Older is one of the most outstanding among them.

This guy is what is commonly known as an "old sarcastic."

So he subtly created an atmosphere between the lines — poor Shapudian people being forced by the Great Xia in severe cold to queue up to exchange currency. 𝕗𝗿𝕖𝐞𝐰𝗲𝕓𝐧𝕠𝕧𝗲𝐥.𝚌𝐨𝚖

Older didn’t mention a word about how every Shapudian in the line was wearing a cold resistant suit, making it undoubtedly bearable to stay outdoors for one or two hours.

Yet, in his home country Lan Shi Kingdom, the price of cold resistant suits is extremely high, and many poor people simply can’t afford them, whereas almost every Shapudian owns one.

There are also several patrol officers around the exchange point patrolling back and forth, and drones hovering in the sky, closely monitoring the crowd to prevent any accidents.

Several volunteers wearing red vests handed out steaming free ginger tea to the queuers, most of whom had smiles on their faces.

At a glance, this scene was very harmonious.

Recently in Shapudian, this spicy drink made from ginger has become very popular.

It’s said that ginger tea can effectively prevent colds and has certain curative effects if one already has a cold.

But Older didn’t believe a word of it.

He glanced out the window and muttered, "Superstitious and ridiculous Eastern witchcraft!"

Older thought for a few seconds, then started typing on the keyboard again.

"I specifically looked up data on the exchange rate changes of the Shapudian Yuan. Before the Age of Calamity, 285 Sha Yuan could be exchanged for 1 Xia Yuan.

"Now the exchange rate has become an unbelievable 1540 Sha Yuan for 1 Xia Yuan, an obvious fact proving that the Shapudian are suffering from cruel exploitation.

"The Great Xia are mercilessly plundering the lifelong savings of the Shapudian in this way."

Outside the window.

Every Shapudian leaving the exchange point smiled happily.

Such a scene obviously didn’t fit the narrative of "suffering cruel exploitation."

But Older ignored this fact.

In fact, he knew full well that before the exchange was implemented, the Shapudian currency was almost worthless.

Because you couldn’t buy anything with Sha Yuan.

The Xia Yuan was the true hard currency on this land.

That’s precisely why the Great Xia were willing to reclaim waste paper at the "1540:1" ratio, every Shapudian was ecstatic.

Older smiled slightly: "This is the charm of journalism; different arguments can be crafted into different ’facts.’"

His ten fingers flew, and a line of text flowed out.

"The financial exploitation of Shapudian by the Great Xia doesn’t stop here; this backward country has paid even more.

"As many as hundreds of mineral resources and large tracts of land have been transferred to state-owned companies of Eastern Great Xia at extremely low prices as compensation for this currency exchange.

"It’s truly a ridiculous thing."

If judged by the crafted "facts," it is indeed absurd to the extreme.

But from the real facts, Great Xia spent real money to reclaim the nearly worthless Shapudian Yuan, giving money to all Shapudian people.

Shapudian transferred a batch of undeveloped mineral resources and land as recompense, which was a very fair transaction.

Moreover, Shapudian had no ability to develop these minerals and lands, letting them sit was like finding money.

Older glanced out the window again, seeing that the queue was getting longer and longer.

Clearly.

The Shapudian people rarely encountered such a good thing, and flocked with their waste paper to exchange for Xia Yuan.

Older watched for a while, then started typing again.

"What’s even more alarming is that Great Xia is rapidly expanding its financial hegemony through its own strength, undermining..."

He stopped, deleting the word "undermining."

Older typed, entering a word with an even more negative connotation — "destroying."

"...destroying the financial order of Canglan Star, with Shapudian evidently being the first victim.

"The Shapudian people are forced to abandon the Sha Yuan, which is tantamount to giving up their national financial sovereignty.

"The Great Xia people only need to run their printing presses, or even click a mouse to make some digital currency, to take away the wealth created by the hardworking Shapudian.

"As the world situation worsens, in the not too distant future, more countries will inevitably fall victim to the financial hegemony of Great Xia."

To be fair.

This passage makes some sense, unlike the previous narratives that were deliberately distorting the facts.

But Older intentionally avoided discussing certain things.

For instance:

Though Shapudian lost the right to issue currency, the Shapudian people obtained ample material supplies, and also received security guarantees from Great Xia.