I am not an ant thief in the Three Kingdoms

After all, Liu Bei is not Xu Wei, and he can easily get into an industry that earns tens of billions of dollars!Although the big man now has more taxes than before, he spends more!After all, there are 30 overall, and there is a navy of 5 people, all of which cost money.

Especially in the war last year, the entire Jingzhou suffered tens of thousands of casualties, and the richest Jiujiang and Lujiang counties in Yangzhou were even smashed. All the people have moved to the south of the Yangtze River, and resettling hundreds of thousands of immigrants is not a small expense. It can be said that the current big man is already empty of the treasury!

In the face of this problem, Yuan Ji and Jian Yong can't do anything, they understand spending money, but making money is a bit embarrassing for them!

Yuan Ji thought for a while and said, "General, why don't you ask Su Shuang and Zhang Shiping to come over and see if you can get Dagan to buy more silk!"

Now Jingzhou's largest foreign trade product is silk, and the sales to the Dagan court alone exceeded 300 million pieces a year, and the sales volume exceeded 50 billion yuan. It can be said that this money is the most central fiscal revenue of the Han Dynasty court!
It's not that Daqian wants to help Liu Bei stabilize the Han Dynasty's court, but that Dagan really has such a big need. In this world, there is no defense tool that is more resistant to arrow wounds and knife wounds than silk. Soldiers only need to Wearing silk inner armor, even if it is shot by a big man's mace, it will not bleed profusely, and it is easy to pull out, not to mention that such silk inner armor can also prevent terminal diseases such as tetanus.Therefore, for the safety of his subordinates, Xu Wei had to spend a lot of money to import silk from Jingzhou every year to make military inner armor!
The same is true for Liu Bei. He also knows that because of the silk inner armor, the casualties of soldiers in Dagan are extremely low. He heard that as long as there is no immediate death on the battlefield, they can generally be rescued. This has led to more and more veterans in Dagan , The fighting power of the Dagan army is getting stronger and stronger!
But whoever made him short of money, this money is indispensable to stabilize the situation of the big man. Of course, Liu Bei is not willing to suffer. The two countries are at war, and money is useless (except for melting copper coins to make artillery!), so Liu Bei is a big man The silk must be exchanged for equivalent cattle and horses!

Of course, Xu Wei, the war horse, could not be given to Liu Bei, so the deal became that the big man traded silk for a large number of farm cattle, and 8 silks were exchanged for one farm cattle.Of course, Liu Bei didn't suffer a loss. After he raised the price from Xu Wei, he sold each cattle for 2 yuan to the nobles and rich peasants of the big man, and gave them to soldiers with military exploits as rewards.It can even be said that rewarding cattle in this way makes soldiers happier than rewarding 5 yuan.All parties are satisfied, and now Liu Bei has even started to use cattle for the pension, which saves Liu Bei a lot of trouble.

At this time, the great development of the south of the Yangtze River was beginning to bear fruit. The entire Jiangnan area was short of labor, and one cattle could be worth several labors. Therefore, even though Liu Bei's cattle were expensive, many people still came to buy them.And the cattle from Dagan also made great contributions to the development of Jiangnan!

And this kind of counterpart trade was in the hands of Liu Bei, and it was handed over to Su Shuang and Zhang Shiping, so Yuan Ji asked Liu Bei to invite them over.

Liu Bei also thought it made sense, so he asked people to invite Su Shuang and Zhang Shiping to the General's Mansion!
After the two came to the General's Mansion, Liu Bei explained the big man's financial problems to them!Let them provide input!

Zhang Shiping said with a gloomy expression: "Dagan is building silkworm plantations in both Yuzhou and Yanzhou, especially the silkworm plantations in Yanzhou. It has been around for three years, and their silk is coming out soon. It can be said that we have already completed silkworm plantations on silk. It's hard to make a big deal!"

Su Shuang even said: "If it weren't for the fact that the people who have worked hard in the past two years have become richer and the silk market has grown larger, I am afraid that the big work will reduce our silk purchases here. It is already very difficult to maintain the current situation. If you want to I'm afraid it will be difficult for Dagan to increase his purchase of silk!"

Jian Yong said anxiously: "The south of the Yangtze River is so vast, it is so difficult to find some goods that Daqian needs. You must know that Yangzhou is in imminent danger now. We have not thought of a way, and Dagan will attack Kuaiji County from the sea!"

Zhang Shiping and the others also had a little understanding of Dagan's actions. After all, this was an aboveboard strategy. Not only did the big man discover it, but he could put pressure on Liu Bei and the others when he discovered it!

And now the land in the south of the Yangtze River is really feeling the huge pressure. In the past six months, although the war between the two sides has not yet started, the tyrants in Yangzhou have been fleeing to Jingzhou, waiting for them to arrive in Jingzhou.They saw that Dagan's soldiers had arrived in Nanyang County, and even Beibei County in Nanyang County had been captured by Dagan. They immediately felt that Jingzhou was not safe. Now people flee from Jingzhou to Yizhou every year. Said to be in an endless stream!

In addition, Liu Bei moved the temporary capital of the Han Dynasty to Chengdu again just after the battle with Dagan last year. These made the tyrants in Jiangnan even more worried about their safety. Under such circumstances, the entire south of the Yangtze River is indeed in turmoil. How could Su Shuang and Zhang Shiping not understand the situation that the big man is facing now!
Liu Bei was kind to the two of them, and they also wanted to report on Liu Bei. After thinking for a long time, the two said, "My lord, I have thought of a way. Although we can't get the money to build an ocean-going fleet, but But we can find a way to provide 10 captives to General Guan, so that General Guan can strengthen the defenses of Kuaiji County!"

Yuan Ji looked at the map of Kuaiji County and said: "If we can really get 10 prisoners of war, we may not be unable to defend Yangzhou. We are different from Cao Cao at the beginning. Cao Cao was caught off guard by Dagan, so he lost everything. But now that Dagan wants to overwhelm us with force, his strategy is clearly on the surface, and these words give us time to prepare!"

"However, Kuaiji County is different from Qingzhou. Qingzhou has fertile land and a large population. It can be said that Fan Xian was a densely populated town along the way. However, even though Kuaiji County has been developed by us in the past ten years, most of it is still in the In the wilderness, we can completely occupy several important strongholds and block Dagan from the core of Yangzhou. Those wilderness lands are not even reached. If there are too many people coming to Dagan, it is difficult to support food and grass, and there are fewer people coming. We can't beat Kuaiji County at all!"

But Liu Bei was surprised: "You can actually get 10 prisoners of war. Could it be that the entire Shanyue in the south of the Yangtze River has been captured by you!"

He knew that these prisoners of war could not be the prisoners of Dagan, but the Baiyue mountain people who refused to be naturalized. They said that the prisoners of war were actually slaves.