I am not an ant thief in the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 719, Lively Winter
Jidu is extremely lively this winter, and even Xu Wei, who is in power, leading students to install heating systems in their homes is not a hot news.

Throughout December, the hot spot in Jidu is the copper mine in Luzon. After Li Aimin and the others dispatched a fleet to occupy Luzon in September this year, they quickly established a colonial distance near the copper mine and quickly built a copper refining facility. The blast furnace of the mine, and then arrested thousands of savages around, and used it to mine copper ore to smelt copper!
And in December, they returned to Jidu with the first batch of copper ore.

A full 100 tons of copper ingots and a large amount of gold and silver were first pulled by train to Jidu Railway Station, and then hundreds of horse-drawn carts were pulled into the warehouse of Jidu Qianpu.

This scene made the people of Jidu extremely sensational. You must know that even though Dagan has issued banknotes now, there are also gold and silver mines as collateral for the issuance of banknotes.However, copper coins still have not flowed out of the circulation market. On the contrary, because of the prosperity of the economy, the year-on-year transactions between villages are extremely prosperous.

In the past, the exchange ratio of Dagan copper coins was about 15 yuan for a catty of gold. However, due to the continuous increase in the value of copper coins in recent years, the price has gradually increased to the official price of 000 yuan for a catty of gold (this is also the official price of Dahan in the past. Price, of course, in practice, the price of copper coins is much lower than the official one. At the end of the Han Dynasty, a catty of gold could be exchanged for 1 baht.) And this price does not seem to last long, and it will soon enter The ratio of 2 money.

It can be said that the economic prosperity of big money has brought about a currency shortage. In order to suppress this situation, Xu Wei remelted a large number of copper cannons into copper coins, which means that copper is more valuable.

And now the people in Jidu see hundreds of copper ingots passing by in horse-drawn carriages, which is equivalent to hundreds of money transport trucks passing in front of them in modern times.
Overseas is a place of wealth, this rumor has been confirmed once again, Li Aimin and the others are just a group of petty officials, and after less than half a year, they have obtained copper mines worth hundreds of millions. Everyone has a desire to follow Li Aimin and his actions, and they also want to delineate an island and establish themselves as kings.

The senior management of Dagan was also overjoyed by the arrival of this copper ingot. After these copper ingots were collected in the warehouse, they were immediately transferred to the mint, and they were continuously pressed into new Dagan Tongbao by stamping machines to alleviate the lack of copper coins in Dagan's economy. Case.

After Li Aimin and the others sold out the copper ingots, gold and silver, they got hundreds of millions of dollars, and immediately bought a large amount of machinery, iron tools, grain, cloth, and even basic materials such as refractory bricks for building blast furnaces in Jidu. All the basic materials needed for survival and life are lacking in Luzon Island. They came here to buy these production and living materials, and these materials were loaded into the fleet by them and set sail to return to Luzon Island.

Their shopping spree caused a commotion throughout Jidu. Such rich local tyrants are very rare even in Jidu, where rich local tyrants are everywhere. Start a business.

And this wave of local tyrants just left. In January, a bigger local tyrant came to Jidu again. This time the local tyrants were even more exaggerated. They brought in all kinds of gold, silver, jewelry, precious leather fur, In terms of value, it is more than ten times more valuable than Li Aimin and the others, and it also transported hundreds of carriages.

Only then did the people of Jidu know that this was Liu Bei's caravan!
Liu Bei and the others really made a fortune in Tianzhu!

More than half a year ago, Zhang Fei, Liu Bei's emissary, used the financial resources of a businessman to purchase a decommissioned fleet and a large amount of weapons and ammunition, food, and ordnance, and then the huge fleet went south to attack the country of Tianzhu.

At that time, everyone was basically watching Liu Bei's military operations. After all, they also knew the strength of Tianzhu. Not only did they have a Guishuang Empire with a population of more than [-] million, but there were more than a dozen small countries nearby, just like Spring and Autumn In the Warring States period, the entire Tianzhu region had a population of tens of millions, and Tianzhu's strength was not much worse than their current Daqian.

Liu Bei was just a bereaved dog who was beaten by them and fled. After fleeing to Nanzhong, the people under his rule did not even have a million people, and most of them were savages, and the army only had tens of thousands of people.

Even though they think Liu Bei's army is more powerful, they don't think Liu Bei can defeat Tianzhu, which has a population of tens of millions!Even if Tianzhu split, it was precisely because of the split that Tianzhu's military strength would be stronger. Just like the Warring States incident, there were only 3000 million people in the whole world, but the combined army of the seven countries at that time exceeded 300 million.The more troubled the world, the stronger the military strength. Everyone thinks that Liu Bei will have to fight for many years if he really wants to gain a foothold in Tianzhu.

Even Liu Bei himself thought this way. He collected a lot of information about Tianzhu from businessmen, and then selected a small country with a population of less than one million. He wanted to destroy this country first, gain a firm foothold in Tianzhu, and then proceed next move.

But when he arrived in Tianzhu, Liu Bei found that he had overestimated the combat effectiveness of the Tianzhu army. The small country he attacked had tens of thousands of troops, but their main force was defeated by Liu Bei's fleet's naval guns.

Then it was even worse when defending the city. A 2-strong army defended a capital city, but Guan Yu led 1 people to conquer it in three days. It can be said that the combat effectiveness of this country’s army is completely good. A small state with tens of thousands of people, In less than a month, it was captured by the army led by Liu Bei.

The combat effectiveness of the army of this country is too poor. Many times, under the city wall where Liu Bei led the army, a white flag was immediately erected on the city wall. It was difficult for Liu Bei to understand how they made the white flag to represent surrender in the big Han!
And when Liu Bei gained a firm foothold in Tianzhu, according to his agreement, all spoils of war would be repaid first to the merchants who lent him.And Tianzhu's wealth did not disappoint Liu Bei. The wealth in the treasury alone was enough for Liu Bei to repay all his debts.

And this is not all the wealth of this country, there are still a large number of nobles, and their wealth is sacrificed to wait for Liu Bei to dig.This time Liu Bei came to Tianzhu to try Lei Gong's happiness.Liu Bei also planned to learn from Xu Wei's practice, to kill all the rice worms in the upper class, and use their property to reward the soldiers who followed him.With his own men, this has since replaced the upper echelons of these Tianzhu.

(End of this chapter)