I am not an ant thief in the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 475, The Failed Silk Journey
Guo Jia recalled the battle between the coalition forces and Dagan, and found that even if Leigong didn’t have a thousand cannons in the end, they would be the ones who lost the battle, because they couldn’t defeat Dagan’s cavalry in field battles. There is no Lei Gongduo, they will still run out of food and grass if they persist for half a year at most, and they will be defeated in the battle, but this will consume more money on Daqian!Let Lei Gong have no power to fight again within a year or two.

Guo Jia thought that Dagan had already occupied the five prefectures of the Han Dynasty, and that the huge desert was also in the hands of Lei Gong. Not so powerful, at least the first emperor could not afford hundreds of thousands of cavalry!
He said helplessly: "The population of Dagan is ten times that of ours, and the land is dozens of times larger than ours. Lei Gong himself is a famous general in the world. Facing such a powerful enemy, it is normal to not think of a way to defeat it. That's why the Lord will fight with you." Liu Bei and the others join forces to deal with Lei Gong!"

No wonder Tian Feng, as a famous scholar in Hebei, could only think of the idea of ​​dragging Lei Gong to death, because he found that Daqian is really hopeless!Although his lord Cao Cao is also capable, he is too close to Hebei and has no time to develop.Even if Lei Gong will attack Sili next year and Yuzhou the year after, they will face the big fight in Qingzhou in at most the third year.

And three years is not enough to make a qualitative change in Qingzhou. At this time, Guo Jia wants to curse Lei Gong to death!

At this time, they found that the team suddenly became much noisier.

Xia Houdun and Guo Jia noticed that smoke and dust were billowing not far from them, and a huge team appeared, and that team was approaching them.

Guo Jia looked for Bao Xin who escorted them and asked, "General, is this your big army marching?"

Bao Dao said, "These are members of the noble family in Yanzhou. Don't you want to trade them back, so we escorted them to the border of Qingzhou!"

Sure enough, it didn't take long for them to find out that most of the huge army was old and weak, women and children, and these people were crying and crying obviously unwilling to leave Yanzhou like this!
Seeing this, Bao Xin sneered and said: "They are lucky now, and they are not satisfied. You must know that the nobles in Hebei either dig guano stones on islands, graze sheep in the desert, or live in the Western Regions." Eat sand, now they can go to Qingzhou thanks to your Caozhou Mu! But this is good, we can save a lot of food, and the fields in Yanzhou will be easy to distribute after they leave!"

Bao Xin's words chilled the two of them. They had always heard about the methods they used to deal with powerful families, but when they saw this scene, they realized that all the rumors were even more sensational than reading them all. For the sake of the land of Yanzhou Drive these masters away, and this is not a family, but the entire Gaomen family in Yanzhou.

In contrast, Lingdi's party prison is like scratching an itch, and they feel that it is nothing.The two thought that if Qingzhou was captured by Lei Gong, their family members would be driven out of their hometown and exiled to the desert thousands of miles away, and they shuddered at the thought.

Bao Xin walked forward quickly, trying to join the team in front.

Guo Jia took Xiahou Dun and said in a low voice: "Seeing this scene in front of you, you should understand why we have to die against Lei Gong. This is not only for the great man's country, but also for our own family! We and Lei Gong are destined to fall The next one, this will not end with surrender, but a life-and-death war!"

Xiahou Dun nodded firmly as he looked at the team in front of him. All thoughts of being frustrated in Changyi were gone. The war between them and Lei Gong was completely different from the previous wars. This was a war without surrender.

The words are divided into two ends!At this moment, Xu Wei was receiving another group of people in Changyi County Governor's Mansion, and the mansion was very lively at this time!
"Government, we have lent you so much money to fight the war, we are loyal to Dagan!" Zhen An said!

Xu Wei said with a smile: "Of course, we are in a prosperous situation, and we can't do without your credit!"

Xu Wei is not talking politely, but a fact. Over the years, there have been frequent wars, and he has launched hundreds of thousands of troops on expeditions for thousands of miles. He has successively conquered Youzhou, Jizhou, Xiliang, and Yanzhou. Field consumption is large, and each field is farther than each field.The finances of the main army alone cannot support such frequent battles!

The main reason is that Xu Wei is generously rewarded. Soldiers who fight in a battle can be rewarded with tens of thousands of dollars, and civilian husbands can also be rewarded with rewards ranging from several thousand to tens of thousands. Tens of billions of money, now Xu Wei consumes food, grass and materials in every battle, and none of them is less than 200 billion dollars, and after the war is over, he will spend billions or even tens of billions of money to restore This led to the consumption of Xu Wei's battle, which was almost 10 years of tax revenue during the period of Emperor Ling. Without the accumulation of more than ten years, Emperor Ling could not even fight any battle since Xu Wei came out of Bingzhou!
Of course, these expenses are also worthwhile, because the soldiers are rewarded generously. The morale and morale of the Dagan army in the Han Dynasty are the best, and the military discipline is also the best. This is not even comparable to Liu Bei's Jingzhou Army.

And also because Xu Wei spent a lot of money to help the localities, Youzhou, Jizhou, and Yanzhou can quickly recover after the war. Now the prosperity of Youzhou and Jizhou is not inferior to that of the Emperor Ling. The world has not yet been in turmoil when.If it weren't for the ongoing war outside, the people in these two places might think that it is a peaceful and prosperous age!
And it is far from enough to rely on Dagan's annual income of nearly 300 billion yuan to support Dagan's battles over the years.

It was Xu Wei who used the method of bonds to turn the funds in the hands of the merchants in Dagan into war resources to maintain Dagan's wars over the years. Now Dagan's bonds have swelled to nearly 800 billion.

Therefore, it is said that businessmen like Zhen An used their money to allow Dagan to have enough supplies to conquer the world. It is not wrong to say that they are great heroes!

Of course, this will also bring a very big trouble, now one-fifth of Dagan's fiscal revenue needs to be used to repay the interest on these bonds!And judging from the current situation, as long as the war does not end, the interest rate will inflate even higher!

With such a high interest rate, Old Man Wang, Old Man Niu, and Niu Gui were all frightened, for fear that the debt crisis would ruin Daqian's good situation!
But Xu Qiang didn't worry too much. Where did he go? Did he see a debt higher than GDP? People are not living well. As long as the artillery is too fierce, who dares to ask for debts!
Not to mention that Xu Wei has also learned a bunch of methods of cutting leeks from modern times. If the debt is too high, a stock market, a large textile factory, a glass factory, and a fish canning factory will all be listed on the market, and the market value will increase dozens of times , this debt will be easily paid off!For Xu Wei, getting money is not a problem at all.

Zhen An said sincerely: "The villain now has a win-win deal with the big boss, and needs the support of the ruling party!"

Jia Xu frowned when she heard Zhen An say these words, if this was in Luoyang City where Dong Zhuo ruled, Zhen An would have been cut down long ago!Although Dong Zhuo attached great importance to the nobles, he despised the merchants very much. Otherwise, he would not have launched the warning order that affected the entire Han Dynasty.

From Jia Xu's point of view, the big businessmen like Zhen An can float with a little money, and they dare to offer any support for the ruling party!
Xu Wei asked with interest: "What kind of win-win deal?"

At this time, the other big businessmen looked at Zhen An and pinned all their hopes on him.

Zhen An said: "The Central Plains has been the most important silk producing area since ancient times, but the world has been in turmoil these years, and Yanzhou has suffered from three years of severe drought. It was all spent on growing food! Now I have finally opened up the Silk Road, but I don’t have much silk to sell? Even the Central Plains don’t produce silk anymore!”

Tian Zhong was even more distressed and said: "In power, we have spent tens of billions of money in Xiliang to open up the Silk Road. If there is no goods to sell our money, it will be wasted! That's why we have to ask the power to restore the silk in the Central Plains." production!"

In the Han Dynasty, silk was greatly developed, and the complex jacquard loom was basically finalized.But at this time, the production place of silk was not the wild land of Jiangnan, but Qilu, Central Plains, and Central Shu became the silk production centers of the Han Dynasty. The main areas are today's Chang'an, Zibo, and Chengdu. Only Yanzhou is in their hands as the production center of China, so Zhen An and the others want Xu Wei to resume silk production in the Central Plains!

Xu Wei said strangely: "Although I produce relatively little silk, we have a lot of woolen cloth, even enough for each tribe to have one. If you don't have silk, can't you sell woolen cloth?"

Xu Wei remembered that when Zhen An and the others were excited to open up the Silk Road as soon as possible, they wanted to sell their woolen cloth to the Western Regions. Why do they all want to become second-hand silk dealers now?

Zhen An wryly smiled and said: "In power, people in the Western Regions don't recognize our woolen cloth at all, they only like silk from big men! Although we also sold some woolen cloth in the Western Regions, there were only less than a million pieces. Compared with our I can't even pay back my money!"

Then Zhen An told Xu Wei in detail what happened to them in the Western Regions this year!

It turned out that last year Xu Wei's expedition of 5000 miles completely wiped out the Qiang people who had been in turmoil for a hundred years. All the big businessmen of the Han Dynasty came to Xiliang, wanting to be the first caravan to go to the Western Regions!
People like Zhen An paid Wang Dang to help him buy weapons and equip camels!Then Wang Dang led an army of 2 on an expedition to the Western Regions. At this time, the prestige of the Han in the Western Regions had not completely dissipated. The common people started a family, and with these natives of the Western Regions taking refuge, Wang Dang destroyed Che Shiguo, making the prestige of the big man a sensation in the entire Western Regions.

At this time, the people in the Western Regions didn't know the situation of the Great Han at all, and they regarded Wang Dang's army as the army of the Great Han, but Wang Dang found that the Great Han had a very high prestige in the Western Regions, pretending that the Great Han's army would help them take root in the Western Regions, so he did not explain. , and also advertised that he is the army of the big man!
Wang Dang's victory made Zhen An and the others extremely excited. They formed a caravan and entered the Western Regions with a large number of big man goods!But soon they discovered that their main wool cloth was not as popular as silk in the Western Regions!

Because the Western Regions are sparsely populated and there are a lot of sheep, the people at the bottom use wool glued into threads to weave cloth. Of course, this kind of cloth not only tastes heavy, but also punctures people, and is easy to break. It can be said that the quality is extremely poor. In the Western Regions wool Cloth is for the poor!

So when Zhen An and the others brought a large amount of woolen cloth, although their woolen cloth was of high quality, the preconceived notions made the nobles of the Western Regions seldom buy woolen cloth, and they still prefer the bright and beautiful silk!
Although ordinary people in the Western Regions like woolen cloth, the price is too high for them to afford. The price of woolen cloth in Xiliang will not exceed a thousand dollars, but after the caravan traveled long distances to the Western Regions, the price directly soared to 5000. However, at this price, few families in the Western Regions can afford it, and those who can afford it prefer to buy silk.

Moreover, Zhen An and the others still have to face the competition of native cotton cloth in the Western Regions. People in the Western Regions in this era have begun to weave cotton cloth from cotton, but the technology is not advanced enough. The price of a piece of snow-white cotton cloth exceeds 3000 yuan, and cotton cloth in the Western Regions is only available from wealthy families. It just came into use.

So when Zhen An and the others transported a large amount of woolen cloth to the Western Regions full of joy, they found that the nobles in the Western Regions dismissed the woolen cloth, and they could not compete with the cotton cloth of other people. For local merchants in the Western Regions, I bought some Western Region goods and cotton cloth at the same time and returned to Dahan!
It can be said that Zhen An and the others went to the Western Regions for the first time to do business. Although they made money, they lost money on the woolen cloth. Agates, diamonds and other jewels have made them dozens of times the profit. This time they came to the Western Regions and it was a complete failure.

This is completely different from the Western Regions where gold and honey flowed in their imagination. If they followed this profit every time, they would find that it would take decades to earn back their 10 billion license!

This made Zhen An and the others unbearable, but the way they thought of was to go the old way and sell the special silk that is not available in the Western Regions!

And just when they returned to Dahan, they heard that Xu Wei occupied Yanzhou, and Yanzhou has been the most important place for silk since ancient times. If they find a way to let Xu Wei expand the scale of Yanzhou's silk industry, they will completely open up the Silk Road. industry chain!
So today, Zhen An and the others came to Xu Wei and said that they congratulated Xu Wei for completely defeating the Han coalition forces and winning an all-round victory over the Han!In fact, they are trying to get Xu Wei to develop Yanzhou's silk industry!
(End of this chapter)