Stage 6: War
Nature corrected those arrogant manipulations of value, those arbitrary notions of wealth in Europe with centuries of war.
When one royal family sought to declare that its value exceeded another, that it had the right to dominate and to conquer other lands, a true clash of hydrogen bonds occurred during battle, using not only hydrogen-bonded human bodies but also weapons manufactured and transported using quantifiable measures of hydrogen-bond expenditure.
The H Bond Theory is a logical principle founded in science of the twenty-first century, intended to repair policies of those corporations and governments whose charters were commissioned during academic eras of the past.
Recurring regional wars and failed foreign conquests forced bloodied citizens to consider other uses for the cheap alloys issued to them as currency, to reconsider the very notion of absolute value. Blacksmiths forged new weapons, eventually generating round balls of lead alloys to fire through muskets like little cannons.
Although gold certainly remained the intermediate standard of value for all monarchies, therefore, its price was highest in exchange for primary access to the most hydrogen-bonded materials, usually in the form of land and slaves, as might be acquired through battle, but which must be maintained by standing armies.
