Ookami to Koushinryou: MERCHANT MEETS THE WISE WOLF, episode 3
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*Ookami to Koushinryou (2024), Spice and Wolf (2024), สาวหมาป่ากับนายเครื่องเทศ *
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Holo is on the fast track towards becoming one of my favourite characters. Plus she and Lawrence make for such a nice pairing I can hardly wait to see the ship set sail.
Holo enhancing the Pelts with Apple flavour is a tactic I am surprised no one else has thought of yet. Wise Wolf indeed, though a gluttonous one as well judging by the size of that Apple pile on the cart. A bit more grease between Holo and Lawrence’s interactions would do them well though, as is someone with a fine tooth for conversation subtext might pick up the disconnect between what Lawrence intends and what Holo has planned and subsequently use that to their own advantage. I do wonder what Lawrence has thought up, I can think of several ways to benefit from inflation (really that’s what’s going on here) but none of the options I can think of work in the historic context or without substantial starting funds.
I think what is happening is that the country is devaluing their currency. A country might do this for a couple reasons, but usually it is an effort to promote their domestic goods and boost exports, making imported goods more expensive by comparison (China does this for example). I suspect Lawrence is going to buy imported goods right now, wait for the devaluation to happen (maybe even start rumors/panic about it), and then sell the imported goods for a premium later.
End result of that is prices increasing across the board, historically coins were weighed due to this exact scenario (and general counterfeiting). All inflation really describes is prices going up, it doesn’t necessarily need to be caused by more money being created. Instead it can have many other causes like is the case here with the material value of the coinage being reduced.
Buying imported goods would be an option but it requires considerable starting funds. Plus it might take a good while for the currency to notably decline in value. Selling the information also doesn’t strike me as a good option since Lawrence has neither a reputation as a data broker nor any proof besides a pair of very sensitive wolf ears. So I suspect his scheme must be something more niche I haven’t thought about yet.