Gold is a form of savings which keeps its value, and the peoples of the Orient also like to use it for ornaments and jewelry, and so buying gold in those times would seem not to have been a bad idea at all.
黃金兼具保值、儲蓄功能，東方民族又喜歡拿黃金來裝飾，買黃金在當時似乎是個不錯的點子。