In front of the bond promotion booth, some relatively smart people already understood.

Some of the people who seemed rich and had some spare money said one after another: "It turned out that the government office borrowed money from our public! It was just anonymous, and it was proof of this paper. How many years can it be cashed out? How much is the interest?"

And those who looked very poor suddenly lost interest and turned around and left. For them, this matter had nothing to do with them.

The official who was still standing on the chair said loudly: "This bond is divided into three types according to the exchange period: short-term, medium-term and long-term. Short-term ten years, medium-term twenty years, and long-term thirty years. As for interest, of course, the longer the years, the higher the years, seven points, twenty years, ten points, and fifteen points in thirty years!"

When they heard this, people who were still a little interested shook their heads. They said in a verbal way:

"Ten years? Do you know what it looks like in ten years? Also, the interest rate of these seven points is not enough to fill the gap between the teeth!"

"That's right, I'll get thirty points of profit a year when I go to loan sharks. If you want to say that your national debt is stable, haha, to put it bluntly, if you change the emperor in ten years, I don't know if you still admit it?"

"This government bond seems to have guaranteed it, but in fact there is no guarantee. I lend money to the beggar more than this. He can't pay it back. I can still detain him as my slave according to the terms of the loan contract. I wonder if ten years later, the government will not recognize my account, and can we still riot and rebel?"

The official who was still standing on the chair was blushing and white, and he became speechless. At this time, the crowd was separated by seven or eight people, who were headed by seven or eight people wearing a new and luxurious Roman official robe.

Even ordinary people, when they look at the style of the official robe, they know that this person is a high-ranking official. This person is Julius, the financial officer.

He first revealed his identity, and then said with a voice: "How can the government bonds of the Roman Empire be comparable to those who lend money to usury? Unless the Roman Empire no longer exists, anyone who becomes the consul or the emperor will admit it. This has nothing to do with who is the consul now! The issuance of this government bond was also approved by the Senate. If the Roman Empire really does not exist and perish, what kind of debts do you have will disappear. Not to mention the debts, your family wealth may not be able to be protected! Yes, the interest on private mortgage loans is higher than that of the government bonds, but how much can it be? Even if a person who specializes in lending for a living can give out such money in a year?"

Julius' call made those who had previously questioned the conversation a little while. However, some of them quickly responded and said, "But these decades, decades, and so long, it's a bit uneasy. In addition, even if we firmly believe in the empire's credit, we dare not buy them. Because in this way, the living money in the pocket has become dead. In the past ten or decades, no one has promised that we will not encounter a time when we need to use money in a hurry. Should we be bet our money in the treasury and borrow usury?"

Julius laughed and said, "You have not carefully read and listened to the introduction of the government bonds, so you have this doubt. In fact, although the government bonds can only be cashed out after ten or decades. However, they are unnamed and can be circulated freely like ordinary commodities. When you urgently need money, sell them."

Another person shook his head and said, "That's right, but we are eager to wait for the money to use it. When we want to resell it, how can we find a buyer so easily? At that time, we will still have to make a big loss. And when we sell, we have to set up stalls and set up some places to sell."

Julius smiled again, "You don't need to set up stalls and sell them yourself. Let me tell you. The official office has also set up a bond exchange for this purpose for everyone to trade. The exchange will display the bond price of the day every day. People holding treasury bonds can directly sell them to the official traders there. If you want to buy circulating bonds, you can buy them directly at the price of the list. The purchase and sale price is the same, but the handling fee will be charged, which will not be higher than 5% of the thousandth."

When Julius said this, the people around him had nothing to say. However, although they could no longer say the reason for questioning the national debt, they were still full of doubt. Few people really had the idea of ​​buying the national debt. Most people shook their heads and left without saying anything.

Whether people believe in this national debt or not, the promotion activities of the Financial Office for several consecutive days have allowed Rome City to have a certain understanding of this thing.

Soon, the day for the first batch of treasury bonds was coming soon. Because this batch of treasury bonds was just a pilot, the amount was not very large, with a total face value of only 10,000 gold coins, and they were all short-term ten-year treasury bonds.

In order to create an atmosphere, Alexander and Julius planned to set the starting location in the big gladiatorium, and there were also exciting gladiatorial performances and competitions before the release to attract popularity.

On this day, Rome was crowded with people, and a large number of people rushed to the arena. In addition to watching the lively issuance of national debt, it also made for those wonderful and important gladiator performances and competitions.

The gladiator performance and competition came to an end with the noise of crowds. Alexander personally came to the platform to start a speech on issuing government bonds. After a passionate speech, he finally said: "Citizens of the Roman Empire actively purchase these first batch of government bonds."

As soon as he finished speaking, the audience burst into thunderous applause. However, no one came down from the stage and went to the stall in the center of the venue to buy bonds. However, Alexander seemed to have foreseeed this.

After waiting patiently for a few minutes, a large group of people came from the noble seats in the stands. These people were servants and servants of the nobles. They lined up in front of the stalls and started to buy treasury bonds one after another. Most of them bought dozens or hundreds, and some bought hundreds or thousands of denominations.

The crowd at the civilian table began to whisper, and all kinds of voices emerged.

"Haha, are they singing double acts here? Are we civilians fools? I think we can cheat our hard-earned money by using some help?"

"It must be agreed in advance. If you don't believe it, they will buy it openly. After the market is over, the government will immediately return the money to them. Then divide the money that we cheated from our civilians. Only fools will be fooled."

"Even if it's not a scoop or a double act, this little money is a drop in the bucket for these high-ranking officials and nobles, just like playing. We ordinary people don't want to throw the money into the water and listen to the noise."
Chapter completed!