I am not an ant thief in the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 507, bringing disaster to Chiyu

If there is any material in the south of the Yangtze River that is surplus, it must be salt.Guan Yu opened up a million-acre salt field in Yangzhou. The amount of salt is ten times larger than that of the people in the south of the Yangtze River. Even the salt in Yangzhou has become the number one export commodity of the Han Dynasty. Naturally, Liu Bei and others are not exporting to Cao Cao and Lei Gong. After all, they The table salt is also piled up like a mountain.

It is the millions of Nanman in the south of the Yangtze River, as well as the countries south of Jiaozhou. The price of salt in these countries is dozens of times higher than that of the Han. The salt has earned Liu Bei a lot of money!At the same time, it also gave Liu Bei a good reputation in the Nanman, which is why Ma Xuan could easily recruit a large number of barbarians to go down the mountain!

Zhao Yun's proposal made Liu Bei's eyes shine. Although the price of salt has plummeted because of the salt drying method, the price of salt has plummeted in the past few years. In the minds of many people, salt is still an indispensable commodity for grain and cloth. If the people buy salt, it is the best choice for him. Even if he is given time, he can use all the 50 billion banknotes issued by the salt bar to recycle (of course, in reality, it is impossible for the people to buy 50 billion worth of salt, because Can't finish it at all)!
So Liu Bei said: "Xianhe, go tell Yunchang to prepare salt!"

Then Liu Bei looked at Yuan Ji and said, "Brother Shiji, please also contact the aristocratic families in various places in the south of the Yangtze River, and ask them to lend money to the court to tide over the difficulties!"

Yuan Ji nodded and said, "This subordinate understands!"

Zhang Fei said aggrievedly, "Being treated like this by Yuan Tan, we can't even rescue him now!"

Yuan Ji felt dejected for a while. Now that the land in the south of the Yangtze River is in danger, and even the food has to be used to buy back banknotes, it is impossible to send troops to support Yuan Tan!With the current situation in Yuzhou, I'm afraid Lei Gong has already sharpened his sword!
On the contrary, Zhao Yun said: "Yide, our land in the south of the Yangtze River has been hit hard. Lei Gong in Hebei was the first to use banknotes in the world. The paper money in Hebei must be several times more than ours. The people's run must be more intense than ours. I'm afraid Lei Gong is now Worse than us!"

Zhao Yun is really right about this point. Xu Weiguang thought that Yuan Tanchao's issuance of currency would cause Yuzhou's banknotes to collapse, but he did not expect that such a collapse would make the people of the world lose confidence in the new banknotes!
Liu Bei is here to find a way to resist the run, and Cao Cao in the north is also facing the same problem as him!
The banknotes in Yuzhou collapsed overnight, and the first merchants in Hebei who were afraid, although Xu Wei was good to them, were only compared with Dong Zhuo, Yuan Shao and others. The attention and attention paid to farmers and craftsmen in Hebei is still higher than theirs. superior!
Farming experts in Hebei can become Litian, enter the Dagan Cadre Academy for training, and become a grassroots official in Dagan, and craftsmen can also be adjusted to officials in counties and counties of Dagan through management positions in factories. , they can't even become MPs!

Zhen An and the others understand that even in the land of Hebei, their status still belongs to the genus of cattle and sheep, but their ruling is a little reasonable, so they have a good life now, but if they are in power, they will be slaughtered like Dong Zhuo , They have no resistance at all!
So even in the land of Hebei, their sense of security is not high. The banknotes in Yuzhou collapsed, and almost all merchants in Yuzhou went bankrupt during this turmoil. .

The banknotes they have used for nearly 10 years are no longer a symbol of wealth to these businessmen, but bombs, which may blow them up at any time!
So they began to constantly exchange the banknotes in their hands for food, woolen cloth, salt, and even iron ingots that were difficult to sell. In short, they didn't want to have banknotes in their hands anymore.

And the actions of these merchants soon affected the people in Hebei. Through these merchants, the people in Hebei also learned that the life savings of the people in Yuzhou had been wiped out in this banknote craze, and they were terrified for a while.

The people in Yuzhou have been less oppressed and have some savings in the past two years, while the people in Hebei generally have savings for nearly 10 years, and the wealth in their hands is far from what the people in Yuzhou can compare.And these common people took out all their 10% of their savings from the big dry money shop, and then used all of them to buy items they could see.Grain, wool cloth, clothes, hats, leather shoes, salt, barreled oil, canned fish, everyone doesn't care whether these items can be used by themselves, and how long they can be used for!I just don't want to have banknotes in my hands.

When these people also joined the trend of rushing to buy supplies, the price of goods in the whole of Hebei began to soar, and even many places refused to accept banknotes, and the whole of Hebei was in turmoil like Yuzhou!
Youzhou, Jixian!
All the top executives of Dagan are gathered here, and everyone is worried about their ugly faces. It can be said that Dagan is about to face the most difficult situation since its establishment!The banknotes they issued in Dagan were actually influenced by Yuan Tan, and the prices of goods in Dagan skyrocketed!
The information from all over Hebei made Xu Wei frown!The current scene is something he didn't expect. He just wanted to detonate Yuan Tan's bomb, but he didn't expect to injure himself. The reputation he built with woolen cloth for 10 years is now gone. !

"In power, what should we do now? Now the people are crazy. Many people bought more than a dozen stones of salt, several thousand catties of dried salted fish, and piled up the house with food. Even if they can't eat it for a lifetime After all, they still have to spend all the banknotes in their hands! Now the price of goods in Dagan can't be suppressed at all, even the price of grain has exceeded 200 yuan!" Niu Gui said worriedly, this is the first time he has seen such a scene It turned out that the common people took out all their family property to buy things they thought could preserve their value, and now the shops all over Hebei are going to be snapped up!
Especially when the price of grain breaks through 130 yuan, Niu Gui is extremely worried. You must know that the price of grain has always been the benchmark of the price of Dagan. It has been extremely stable for ten years. Even when the grain is most scarce, the price of selling It didn't break through 200 yuan, but now it has soared to more than [-] yuan, and it continues to rise. It's no wonder Niugui is worried!

Xu Weidao: "The order will continue to prohibit the collection of banknotes in various places. From today, the government-run factories will start producing various materials in three shifts to meet the needs of the people! The granary officials from all over the country cooperate with the county magistrates to open warehouses to release grain! Money shops also It is not allowed to prohibit people from withdrawing money, but there must be a quota, and the people who work hard can only withdraw 500 yuan per day!"

The old man Niu also frowned and said: "The materials in our hands are also limited. We have issued banknotes for more than 10 years, and the banknotes in the whole of Hebei may exceed hundreds of billions of dollars. If all these banknotes flow back into our hands, I'm afraid we won't be able to bring out so many goods!"

But at this time, Xu Juan, governor of Youzhou, said: "What are you afraid of? Are there a lot of 400 billion banknotes? I have a fiscal revenue of [-] billion a year, and the [-] billion banknotes can be paid off in just over two years! If it weren't for the people flocking to buy goods now , In fact, their actions are a good thing for our state-owned factory, and our textile factory has been making more than [-]% of its profit in the past few years!"

"why?"

"Isn't it just because the people in Dagan have clothes on them and are unwilling to buy woolen cloth, so that the scale of our textile factory has not increased over the years of Dagan, and we can only increase the scale of the industry by annexing peers, but now wool The price of cloth has soared to 2000 yuan, and our profit has more than doubled. If I can be given a year, our textile factory alone will be enough to consume the hundreds of billions of banknotes!"

"There is also the Yantian Factory, where snowflake salt is piled up like a mountain, but because the amount produced is too large, the people in Hebei can't afford to eat it, even if the barbarians in the desert are added, that is, we have been desperately using it to make salted fish all these years Dry, but the same cannot consume all the salt, but now the common people rush to buy more than a dozen stones each, and all the salt accumulated in our factory warehouse can be sold! And the profit is several times, and one year can earn ten years of money! "

The old man Wang frowned and said: "Although what you said is reasonable, but now the people outside are crazy, it is impossible to give us more than a year to produce these goods, and they look like they can sell them in one day. All the banknotes are exchanged for goods!"

Xu Wei said: "We need officials at all levels to persuade these people to calmly deal with the banknotes in their hands. We in Hebei have a lot of goods and it is impossible to collapse like Yuzhou! Other than that, we have two seasons of grain this year. Just collected more than 5 million shi, according to the current grain price, it is worth hundreds of billions, so don't worry everyone!"

Xu Wei said worriedly: "I'm not worried now that we won't be able to produce the goods, but I'm just worried that the common people are wasting their savings of more than ten years! I will regret it!"

Xu Wei has seen this matter of buying supplies too many times. In the case of the Japanese nuclear power plant, it was said that the seawater was polluted and the salt in the future could not be used. This caused everyone to rush for salt. He bought dozens of bags of salt at home. It took several years, and the price increased by five times. It was not until later that everyone knew that this was a rumor, but let the salt factory eliminate the accumulated goods for several years, and made several times the money. It can be said that the salt factory should It is the biggest winner of this rumor.

In the end, he didn't even know how his mother handled the pile of salt!The price of table salt is not high, and Xu Wei's family can afford this loss.

But now the people in Hebei really spend all their wealth to buy a lot of goods!When they wake up, it will be easy to lose half of their wealth!Many people even returned to the era of Han rule overnight.

Of course, the looting of supplies by the people in Hebei also caused him huge troubles. Originally, he wanted to take the opportunity to attack Yuzhou, but now this situation can be said to be a lose-lose situation. He did not dare to attack Yuzhou at this time. Fear, the war against Yuzhou can only be launched!
When Xu Wei said this, everyone felt a sense of security.

Yes!Their Dagan is different from Yuan Tan, the goods in Dagan's warehouse are enough to consume the currency they issue!
"Don't these people use their brains to think about it? We in Hebei can be the same as Yuzhou. Yuan Tan is an empty-handed wolf, but we have hundreds of factories, and the food in the warehouse is enough for everyone to eat for two years. When did we do something that broke our promises!" Xu Wei's worry also made them anxious, most of the top executives of Daqian came from mud-legged backgrounds, and they have not changed their identities yet, and they still stand on the side of the common people !

At this time, Jia Xu, who was sitting at the back, said: "The people who are in power and working hard just don't understand our strength, and they think that the banknotes we issue will become the same as Yuan Tan's, so they are so panicked!"

"As long as we find a way to let the people in Dagan understand the strength of Dagan, we can gather people in various places and let them visit our granary, textile factory, steel factory and other factories in batches. Let them see our factory with their own eyes. How much grain is in the warehouse, how much cloth is in the textile factory, how much steel can be smelted in the steel factory, and how much sea fish can be caught in the fishing factory every day.

When the ministries have a deep understanding of these things, the banknotes issued by our Dagan will not collapse, and they will naturally not waste money. After all, the people in my Dagan are still saving, and a piece of clothing needs to be new for three years , Three years old, three years of sewing and mending, they will not use their hard-earned money to buy something they don't need! "

Xu Wei's eyes lit up and he said, "Wenhe's knowledge is really extraordinary!"

"Niu Gui, you fly pigeons to send letters to the county officials of Dagan, and ask them to organize people to visit our granaries and factories according to the people of Wenhe. The idea of ​​exchanging banknotes for goods! The turmoil in Hebei must be settled quickly. Only in this way can we launch an attack on Yuan Tan and completely occupy the entire Yuzhou and Sili! If we waste this plan, we will wait for Yuan Tan to deal with it like us With the turmoil in Yuzhou, we will lose the chance to wipe out Yuan Tan in World War I!"

Niu Gui saluted and said, "No!"

Xu Wei continued: "Master Xiangkai, please inform the major merchants in Hebei, if they really want to exchange the banknotes in their hands into commodities, they can make a contract with us, and I promise to use the food in their hands. Woolen cloth, steel, and other large dry goods, sell them at the current price, and I, Lei Gong, have been promising money in Hebei these years, so they should believe that I have this credit!"

This can be regarded as a variant version of futures. As long as these merchants don't loot the goods, half of the turmoil will be solved!

Xiang Kai immediately said: "My old man must let Zhen An and the others stop raiding Hebei's goods, so that they will not affect the pace of the ruling Central Plains!"

(End of this chapter)