Rebirth of Wu Ba Spring and Autumn

Chapter 413

Buy deer to make Chu?

As soon as Xiong Zhen heard this, he immediately remembered that there was indeed such a thing.

Zixi said again: "Once upon a time, Guan Zhong said: If there are many things, they are cheap; if they are few, they are expensive; if they are expensive, they will be scattered; if they are light, they will gather together."

"In the past, Duke Huan of Qi used Guan Zhong's strategy to conquer the country without fighting. Chu, Lu, Liang, Hengshan and other countries were all deeply affected by it. The king must guard against it."

Back then, Qi State launched a trade war against many countries.

He designated the target of the trade war against Lu as "Ti".

Textiles in this era were generally woven with silk, linen or cotton thread, but ti was a blended product woven with silk thread as the warp and cotton thread as the weft.

It can be said that ti is a kind of high-quality and cheap item, which is widely loved by ordinary people.

Guan Zhong's approach was to first let Duke Huan of Qi wear clothes made of ti, and then followed suit, and the whole Qi State gradually became popular with ti clothes.

As a result, the price of ti, which was originally cheap, rose sharply in Qi.

When this craze was formed, Guan Zhong revealed to the merchants in Lu State and Liang State near Lu State that Qi State wanted to buy a large amount of rice, which was not only large in quantity, but also very profitable.

As a result of this kind of thing, Li Shu of Lu State and Liang State invested money and energy in producing ti.

For this reason, many farmers gave up producing grain.

When almost all the people in Lu and Liang countries invested in the production industry, Guan Zhong began to exert his strength.

He first persuaded Duke Huan of Qi to change to wearing silk clothes, which lowered the popularity of Ti clothes in Qi State, causing the market price of Ti to collapse.

Later, Guan Zhong asked Duke Huan of Qi to close the trade channels with Liang Guo and Lu Guo, so that the price of Ti, which had already plummeted, quickly became an unsalable "waste".

At this time, the grain planting area of ​​Lu and Liang had been greatly reduced.

In this way, what should the people of the two countries do if they don't have enough food, they have to go to Qi State to buy food at a large price.

But Guan Zhong thought of another trick and raised the price of grain by dozens or even hundreds of times.

Just two years later, more than half of the people in Lu and Liang turned to Qi because they couldn't afford food.

In this way, Guan Zhong used the method of trade war to conquer the country without fighting.

As a result of this trade war, Lu and Liang were immediately surrendered to Qi.

Of course, Guan Zhong's trade war application is not just that.

The same victorious experience in "Ti War" was also applied by Guan Zhong to Dai and Chu.

Since Dai's specialty is fox fur, when Guan Zhong launched a trade war against Dai, the item he chose was Dai's specialty fox fur.

The process of launching a trade war can be said to be almost the same as that of Lu State.

First, he went to Daiguo to buy fox fur vigorously, and the price of fox fur was raised, so that the people of Daiguo went to the deep mountains and old forests to catch foxes, thus wasting food production.

When the time was right, Guan Zhong asked Duke Huan of Qi to stop the purchase of fox fur.

As a result, Dai's economy fell into a predicament, and there was also a great food crisis.

When Lizhi State in the north attacked Dai State, Dai State, unable to resist, could only surrender to Qi State and surrender to Qi State.

With such a lesson learned from the past, how can the monarchs and ministers of Chu not learn from it?
Xiong Zhen's face darkened immediately, and he immediately said: "I will issue an edict immediately."

"Strictly prohibit Wu's merchants from entering Chu!"

"No!"

Zixi hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, if merchants from Wu Kingdom are strictly prohibited from entering Chu, this move will only annoy King Qingji of Wu, make him famous as a teacher, and send troops to attack our Chu Kingdom!"

At this time, the army of Chu State was on the way to attack Zheng State, and if they provoke Wu State again, and gave Wu State an excuse to send troops, wouldn't it be death?
"Left apprentice, what countermeasure do you have?"

Xiong Zhen asked puzzledly.

"Your Majesty, the State of Wu cannot be provoked easily now. In my opinion, it is strictly forbidden for the people of the country to sell leather, grain, rice, and various copper and iron weapons to merchants in the State of Wu! Violators are guilty and will be severely punished!"

"good!"

Xiong Zhen nodded slightly, thinking that what Zixi said made sense.

……

When Qingji, who was far away in Jinling, heard about the ban issued by Chu State, he just laughed it off.

Why did Qing Ji dare to openly let merchants from the state of Wu go to various parts of the state of Chu to buy large quantities of grain, rice, leather goods, and various copper and iron weapons at high prices?

One is that the main force of Chu State is attacking Zheng State, and they are afraid that Wu State will take the opportunity to attack Chu State.

It can be said that Qingji has grasped the weakness of Chu State.

Second, Qingji knows very well that the prosperity of the world is for profit, and the world's hustle and bustle is for profit.

The greed of human nature is often endless.

With [-]% profits, ordinary people can completely trample on the law and risk their lives to commit crimes!
Thirdly, the state of Chu has feudal monarchs all over the country, and many feudal monarchs basically obeyed and violated the orders of the king of Chu.

The state of Wu's wanton purchase of grain, rice, leather goods, and various copper and iron weapons at such a high price is actually of great benefit to the lord of the state of Chu.

Even, quite a few feudal monarchs even indulged the Li Shus in their fiefdoms to build furnaces and forge more copper and iron weapons so that they could be sold to merchants in Wu State, so as to make a lot of money.

With Wu's current financial resources, it is not difficult to win this trade war against Chu.

Qing Ji had already ordered people to hoard a large amount of grain, and was planning to raise the price of grain when there was a famine in Chu State.

Price gouging.

At that time, how much property the Chu people ate, not only had to spit it all out, but also gave it to the state of Wu with interest.

This kind of benefit may be several times, maybe ten times!
……

Jinling City of Wu State.

In the Zide Hall, Qingji summoned Fan Li, Wei Wei Wu Zixu, and Grand Sima Sun Wu to meet him.

The three of them are all Qingji's confidantes, and they have the talents of all over the world, and they have made a lot of invaluable achievements for the state of Wu.

At this time, Qingji stepped back to the left and right, and placed a huge sheepskin map on the floor under the platform.

The map shows the cities and lands of the Huaxia Kingdoms, as well as the mountains, rivers, and rivers. Some of them are almost even trails, and some unknown passages are marked.

This is the map that Qingji made the Black Ice Terrace spend many years traveling all over the world.

It can be described as very detailed.

"Second and third sons, the widow wants to send troops to attack Chu in the spring of next year. I wonder if the second and third sons think it is feasible?"

Qingji said slowly.

"This……"

Fan Li, Sun Wu and Wu Zixu were more or less surprised.

Well done, why did Qingji plan to send troops to attack Chu?
Sun Wu pondered for a moment, and then asked: "I don't know if the king wants to weaken Chuye? Exterminate Chuye?"

This question is crucial.

If Chu is only weak, Wu only needs to dispatch tens of thousands of soldiers and horses to encroach on a few cities of Chu and make a small fuss.

However, if Chu was destroyed, it would be absolutely impossible without an army of more than [-] people!
Qing Ji smiled lightly, and said, "The widow's intention is neither to weaken Chu, nor to destroy Chu, but to 'divide Chu'!"

"Clearly?"

(End of this chapter)