13 To much gold and a new holiday

Year-114 bc

Years in world-3,886

With Rome constantly in a state of war either conquering someone or being attacked by someone I was making mountains of money and I mean literal small mountains.

The funny thing is when the Roman government ran out of money, they came to me for money to buy more of my weapons for war.

So of course I said yes but with a fifteen percent interest on the money.

In other words, I gave them millions of gold and made millions of gold just by letting them pay me my own gold.

The thing about back then was there wasn't a set amount of currency in circulation in Rome. No, it was all a matter of how fast they could make the coins.

With my gold, I started another venture. Horses.

I bought hundreds of horses. Along with land for them.

Then the horse breeders and the people to take care of the horses.

Within a decade I had horses ready for the military. And of course, the Roman government needed my gold to pay me for my own herds.

With interest on it of course.

I was getting more gold than I knew how to spend.

I was practically Rome's piggy bank.

Except every time they took money out, they had to put it back with a little extra.

But hey I'm not complaining. The only problem was. Where can I keep all of it?

At the moment it was all in my home, filling the rooms of my villa to the ceiling.

It was cool at first to walk by rooms full of gold but I was running out of rooms. So I decided to make a bank.

And so I did. I made it underground. With massive walls surrounding the entice with a big metal gate. To keep people out.

I made it about one hundred feet underground with stone walls and massive iron doors that were made in my foundry.

I had different size rooms for use some of them were as big as fifty feet across. And some of them were as small as broom closets.

For people who just wanted something small. We had small lock boxes.

So I turned the place to keep my gold into a way to make more, by people paying me to keep their money safe. And it was safe.

Because almost every Roman senator and high-ranking official stored their it in my voults.

With that, I was able to get the military to guard my vaults for free.

Of course, I wouldn't trust them completely, so I hired my own guards. I picked them myself to work the inside and the military to stand outside and be intimidating.

It had around-the-clock guards and we always kept records of how much gold you had. And took out.

It was a huge hit with the rich. Every rich person with two gold coins to rub together was scrambling to put it in my vaults.

Making me all the richer.

After that, I started looking out words to other countries.

And had a great idea.

I bought eleven ships and started importing and exporting goods from Rome to other countries and bringing spices and dyes to Rome.

In a couple of years, I bought out my competitors making me the only person that imported and exported goods to Rome and Having over one hundred ships to transport the goods.

After that, I decided to stop.

I was making too much gold.

With all my businesses and Rome constantly using my gold to pay me I was about to explode with gold.

At my peak, I had a little under one billion gold coins.

I remembered reading something that said Rome minted twenty billion coins over its rule. So I had a huge chunk of Rome money in my volts.

So I started a new tradition.

Every year I would dress up in all red and put on a fake white beard.

sneak into people's homes leaving a gold coin in the open with a note that says from Santa Claus.

I used my speed to visit most of the city in one night.

And let's just say It became a big deal. People thought it was from a new god.

But hey whatever rows there boats is fine with me.

I was just trying to stop an economic crisis from happening by spreading the money around for people to spend. And generate some spending.

So I started Christmas all to stop an economic collapse.

Thankfully it seemed to work and I didn't need to give gold away anymore.

and gave me an idea.

Now that the economy is stable again, why stop it?

So In the far north of Italy, I bought some land and hired a bunch of wood craftsmen to build toys.

I would let the toys build up until once a year I would have all the toys delivered to some of my warehouses in Rome.

At this point it was too big for me to do alone so I paid helpers to help me deliver the gifts.

But only to their doorsteps.

Some people were upset that they didn't get gold anymore but they got over it.

After a few years, it came out that someone paid for all the toys to be delivered to the houses.

But no one knew who it was and they never did.

I was just happy they found out before they started building temples to the god Santa Clause.

After a decade it became an actual holiday for giving gifts.

And I didn't need to give the toys away anymore. Because they sold very well for the holiday of giving.

Accidentally Making me even more money.