Baek Mu-Gun arrived at the Nanjing Vault and reached the credit notes payment department with the staff’s guidance.

“Do you want to exchange the credit note for cash?” The employee of the credit notes payment department asked.

“Yes.”

“Please let me check the credit note first.”

Mu-Gun took out an envelope containing the credit note and handed it to the employee. The employee took the credit note out to check for any forgeries. Seeing the amount written on it slightly surprised him, but he soon fixed his expression and proceeded with the checks.

“I apologize for keeping you waiting for so long. I’ve confirmed that there is nothing wrong with this credit note and that our vault has indeed issued it.”

“Can I cash it in right away, then?”

“A 100,000 silver nyang is quite a lot of money, so it will take about a day to prepare the cash. Would you like to exchange all 100,000 silver nyang for cash?”

“How long do I have to wait if I want to convert 10,000 nyang only?”

“We can settle that amount within thirty minutes.”

“I’ll just convert 10,000 nyang for now, then. Can you issue the remaining amount as a credit note?”

“Understood. As requested, I’ll issue a 90,000 nyang credit note and prepare 10,000 nyang in cash.”

“Thank you.”

The employee of the credit note payment department immediately went to work, and a 90,000 nyang credit note was issued shortly afterward. 10,000 silver nyang was also prepared within thirty minutes, as the employee had mentioned. The 10,000 silver nyang were divided into ten units of 30-kilogram...