I am not an ant thief in the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 722, The Turmoil of Jidu
Dagan's military is in favor of this deal, and civil officials like Niu Gui are also in favor of this deal, because Liu Bei is buying products accumulated by Dagan.

Although there has not been an economic crisis in this era, and the productivity of Daqian has not reached the level of an economic crisis, the few industries that Xu Wei opened up have already seen product accumulation.

The first to bear the brunt is the grain industry in Dagan. Because of Xu Wei's plug-in, the level of planting technology in Dagan has risen sharply. Coupled with the large-scale development of the entire Dagan, the grain output has been increasing every year.There used to be wars that could consume a lot of food, but now the whole world has been unified, and there has been no war in the world for three years.

Now in Dagan’s warehouse, grain is piled up like a mountain. Xu Wei said before that he would prepare three years of grain accumulation across the country. This thing also has a shelf life. It will become stale grain in two or three years, and its value will drop sharply.

Now, the digestion channel of Dagan old grain is the farms in various places in Dagan, and it becomes the feed for these farms.However, the old grain used as feed cannot be sold at a price, and it is difficult to consume the excess old grain in the current large and weak breeding industry. Every year, the large dry harvests new grain and sells the old grain. The imperial court lost more than one billion yuan.

So much so that Niu Gui had to issue a special order to let the county guards in various places find ways to expand the scale of the breeding industry and find ways to consume the old grain in the granary.

So now the government offices in various places in Dagan are trying to find ways to reduce the ethnic area of ​​food and increase the planting area of ​​cash crops.

So Niu Gui and the others were overjoyed at Liu Bei's request to buy grain, because as long as the grain was sold, it would be profitable!
In addition to food, the second largest industry is the cloth industry. The use of steam engines has brought large-scale cotton, wool cloth, and silk into a period of explosive production, although the income of ordinary people is now due to The stability of the world has entered a period of rapid growth, but the increasing income of the people is not as fast as the growth rate of all kinds of cloth in the world. The large-scale cloth has already entered a period of overcapacity.

If industrialized countries in history encountered such problems, they would definitely trigger an economic crisis, and then find ways to seize colonies to expand their markets.But obviously it is impossible to use such a method.

Now Dagan has a population of more than 5000 million. This is the most populous country in the world, and it is also the richest country in the world. The silk, cotton and wool cloth that these Dagan merchants sell overseas is only a million pieces every year. Less than one-tenth of domestic demand!In other words, the external market is extremely small!

It is impossible even for Xu Wei to open up the outside market with sharp guns, because in this era, Dagan is the place with the most advanced technology and the wealthiest, and the markets in other places are only so big, and it doesn’t take much to open up the market. Cloth, this profit is not even enough for military expenditures.

At that time, Niu Niu had a population of 300 million, and it could rely on Tianzhu, a market with hundreds of millions of people, to solve the problem of overcapacity brought about by industrialization. It is impossible to solve the problem of overcapacity in Daqian by becoming a commodity market in Daqian, because the global population is only about 2 million at this time!
Therefore, Niu Niu’s industrialization process has no conditions to learn from Daqian. Daqian can only learn from the development of industrialization in later generations. Therefore, Xu Wei has always been very concerned about the income growth of the people in Dagan, because the industrialization of Daqian can only rely on domestic demand.

And the way to solve the overcapacity of the textile industry is to learn from the later generations of China, control the scale of the textile industry, and use the monopoly position of the state-owned textile factories to lower the price of textiles, so that the profits of the textile industry are not high. For businessmen, profit is life. , the thin profits of the textile industry are naturally not worth investing in. There are many projects that make money. If the textile industry does not make money, they invest their funds in another industry. Without capital investment, the scale of the textile industry will naturally expand rapidly. up.

But this does not mean that Dagan cannot expand the textile industry. If the Mayi Textile Factory is released, the production capacity can be doubled, and it does not mean that the number of fabrics in Dagan's warehouse is scarce.In order to preserve the value of banknotes, Xu Wei has stored 5000 million pieces of fabric in warehouses all over Dagan, and there are tens of millions of pieces of fabric of various colors in Light Thistle!

So Liu Bei's more than a billion dollars is nothing to Daqian's production capacity, but Niugui and the others think this is a good start.

If Liu Bei opened up the market in Tianzhu with tens of millions of people, their food and cloth would surely usher in a huge market.Now Liu Bei only occupies a small country with a population of hundreds of thousands in Tianzhu, but he can already spend 20 billion yuan, and if the entire Tianzhu is occupied by Liu Bei, I am afraid that the big factories will have to supply Liu Bei at full capacity.

So this time Liu Bei's envoys received the attention of Dagan. Their billions of gold, silver and jewelry were quickly replaced by a transport fleet of hundreds of ships, which were full of food, cloth, Iron armor, swords, and powerful artillery, not to mention the door-to-door delivery of the imperial court, and Liu Bei's shipping fee was also exempted.

Liu Bei's behavior of local tyrants caused a sensation among the people of Jidu. They bought more than one billion worth of goods at one time. Even the well-informed people of Jidu saw such a rich local tyrant for the first time!

At the same time, the results of Liu Bei's battle in Tianzhu also spread to Jidu, and the people of Jidu finally understood why Liu Bei, a down-and-out dog who lost his family, became so rich!
Tianzhu, a small country with tens of thousands of people, was captured by Liu Bei with 10 people. Liu Bei robbed all the local temples in Tianzhu, learned their ruling methods and ransacked the homes of the nobles in Tianzhu, and then took out 2 billion treasure!

"Is Liu Bei bragging? I remember that he has never won any battles in his life. Every time he was in power against us, he was defeated and fled. He defeated the tens of thousands of miles of the country. ? He must be bragging here in Tianzhu." A citizen of Jidu couldn't believe it.

Liu Bei is so good at fighting. Even a small country with hundreds of thousands of people was conquered by Liu Bei in only one month. This Liu Bei has become too brave!Is this the long-defeated general Liu Bei they knew?
Yes, in the eyes of the people in Dagan, Liu Bei is a often defeated general who can’t fight. He was ruled by them all the way, fought the Yellow River from Youzhou, fought the Yangtze River, and finally drove him out of the territory of Dagan. outside.You can only live in the wilderness and become a savage.It took such a person less than a month to conquer a small country. No matter how you look at it, this is a bit like bragging. It is completely unreasonable for Liu Bei to be so fierce.

But another person immediately said: "This matter can't be faked, not to mention that there won't be so many people who will cooperate with Liu Bei to lie. Even if Liu Bei lied, it would not be good for him. The most important thing is that Liu Bei didn't loot a country. It’s possible to get that much money!”

"Everyone, don't forget that many businessmen united and borrowed 5 million yuan from Liu Bei. Now Liu Bei has paid off all the money. Now Liu Bei's subordinates came to us with a fortune of more than one billion yuan to buy armor. Swords and artillery, the money will never be faked, these hundreds of transport ships are all full of cargo.

In this way, Liu Bei got 20 billion yuan this year. Even the richest businessmen with 20 billion yuan do not have such a net worth.Liu Bei could only get this money by robbing a small country, so this time it can't be wrong. "After this person's reasonable deduction, everyone accepted the fact that Liu Bei really turned over.

"Is the country of Tianzhu really so rich? A small country with a few hundred thousand people can earn 10 billion yuan. This is difficult even for a big man at the beginning, right? Isn't overseas countries generally more powerful than us? Poor, how can such a small country have so much wealth?"

One person explained: "It is said that many countries in Tianzhu are ruled by monks. These monks like to use gold to make a statue called Buddha. A bottle of such a statue is said to be several feet high, and the outer layer is made of gold. It was cast, and Liu Bei got the money by stealing the gold from these statues.

Let’s think about the country of Tianzhu, at any rate, it’s an ancient country that has been passed down for thousands of years. They especially worship gods and use gold to make gods. Can the gold accumulated in these thousands of years not be too much? It is said that Liu Bei sent soldiers Scrape off all the gold from those god statues, and install hundreds of carriages. The gold made Liu Bei so much money. "

While everyone was envious, they couldn't help sighing: "Sure enough, when people become bad, they will become rich. Now that Liu Bei has even scraped off the gold from the statue, he is not afraid of being punished by the gods of Tianzhu."

"How can you be afraid? Liu Bei is one of us who does things. Even if there is a god to punish Liu Bei, it is our god who will punish Liu Bei."

"Then those who follow Liu Bei are all rich?" A commoner in Jidu enviously asked!
Looting the wealth of a country, even a small soldier can get a considerable amount of wealth. You must know that the soldiers who followed the ruling and conquered the world back then, even if they were not promoted, are now worth a lot. People, so the people of Jidu know how to copy a noble's house!

A retired veteran who had been with Xu Wei smiled and said: "That's right, Liu Bei and the others have made a lot of money this time. If Liu Bei really learns the method of governing and confiscating their homes, it is inevitable that those soldiers who follow Liu Bei will be promoted and get rich. Maybe there will be lucky ones." Married to a noble woman from Tianzhu, and became a master.

This method, these veterans who followed Xu Wei are too familiar with each other. At the beginning, they were all poor and about to starve to death. After following Xu Wei, they fought a few battles and not only gained a huge fortune, but also Xu Wei gave them wives. At the beginning, he was assigned to a concubine of Helian, the Great Khan of Xianbei. Such a beautiful woman had no possibility of meeting him, but because of being in power, she has now become his wife.

These words aroused the envy of the crowd. The people of Jidu knew the background of this veteran and imagined what he said, but it was a pity that they could not abandon their life in Jidu and go to Tianzhu to fight. They could only watch enviously. Following Liu Bei, he became a soldier of the nobility.

After all, it has only been a few years since there were no nobles in Daqian. Xu Wei's failure to proclaim himself emperor does not affect everyone's desire to become nobles.

At least the common people in Dagan live most of their lives with aristocrats. To them, aristocrats are nothing but synonymous with backwardness.Many people even want to become nobles spiritually, but they just don't have the opportunity.That's why they envy Liu Bei's men for having such an opportunity.

On the contrary, Xu Wei's ruling is a bit too advanced, which makes it difficult for everyone to understand why Xu Wei does not proclaim himself emperor.

At the same time, they didn't understand why such a good place in Tianzhu should be reserved for Liu Bei. If we knew that Tianzhu people were so vulnerable, we would have fought over it ourselves.

No one knew that the Tianzhu people would be so vulnerable. You must know that their overlord country, the Guishuang Empire, is said to have millions of soldiers, and it is also the local hegemony in the Western Regions. They did not expect that their vassal state could not even defeat the bereaved dog Liu Bei.

Jidu, Zhoufu!
Zhou Yu is entertaining Sun Ce who has just returned from the sea.

He also asked curiously: "Recently, people in Jidu are doing what Liu Bei did in Tianzhu. He really scraped off all the gold from the statue?"

Sun Ce sneered and said, "It's true, but those magic sticks in Tianzhu are not good things. They have monopolized Tianzhu's ruling power for generations, but the people under their rule are worse off than when I was a big man. We just went there At that time, Tianzhu was full of starvation, and the most chaotic period of the Han Dynasty was better than Tianzhu's current situation. Although the people were about to starve to death, the temples were resplendent and resplendent."

Zhou Yu was surprised: "Did the local people rebel?"

If it was left to the big man, there would have been wars all over the place long ago. You must know that in the last years of Emperor Ling, all the people of insight in the world knew that the world would be in chaos, because the big man had never stopped small-scale rebellion back then.

The doomsday scene of the empire's impending doom can be felt by the entire upper class of the Han Dynasty, but there is no way to stop this decline.

Sun Ce said contemptuously: "There was no rebellion, because these raw monks ruled the thoughts of the local people. They told the local people that they are suffering now because of the sins committed in the previous life. It is impossible for the country to have any strength if it governs the people."

"When Liu Bei sent people to fight, they didn't even think about resisting, they surrendered directly. When Liu Bei attacked them, they really resisted, but at this time Liu Bei had already won over the people of the whole country, and they wanted to resist. There is no chance, after all, Liu Bei now owes hundreds of millions of foreign debts, and if he wants to repay the debts, of course he has to deal with these magic sticks."

(End of this chapter)