At the end of Qin, I became a son of the plane

Chapter 653: Intent on Cutting the Han's Leeks and Internal Strife

Chapter 653: Intent on Cutting the Han's Leeks and Internal Strife

The group of princes and sons of the vassal states then noticed Liu Piao, and then fell into silence in embarrassment. The Liu family was considered the most prominent family among the vassal states, and they also had a marquisate that was not inferior to a duchy. The rest of their sons and daughters all held high positions of power in the Han Dynasty, especially Liu Heng, who was the emperor's confidant and was said to become one of the Nine Ministers next year, with a high probability of becoming the prime minister. Even though they were sons and daughters of the vassal states, they did not dare to offend Liu Piao easily.

Zhou Jianyi would not let the scene get cold. He smiled and said, "If you really invest in the stock market of our Han Dynasty, you will not make money. However, the Xiongnu stock market is very profitable. As long as we have enough money, we can increase the stock price as we want. It is easy to make one or two times the profit in a year."

Mei Shao frowned and said, "We can invest in stocks in Tianzhu and Xiongnu. Besides, the local tyrants are not easy to deal with. It's easy to use a weakling to defeat a weakling. After all, those two countries are notoriously poor. The Xiongnu are poor and unreasonable. Even people like us are likely to suffer losses. The Tianzhu people are full of lies. We will be deceived by them if we are not careful."

The Han Dynasty imposed so many restrictions on these princes, but why did they not like to stay in their own homes, but instead came to big cities like Kuaiji County? It was because the Han Dynasty was the center of the world, and this was the most prosperous city in the world. Compared with Kuaiji County, their vassal states were no different from the countryside.

Of course, it is not so easy to do business in other countries. The Han Dynasty's sea merchants have suffered a lot, and the Xiongnu and Tianzhu are the hardest hit. The merchants of the Han Dynasty wanted to make money in the two countries, but sometimes they were taken away by the Xiongnu and Tianzhu. Not to mention the three generations, their relationship with the Xiongnu and Tianzhu is not very useful.

Zhou Jianyi smiled and said, "It is because these two countries are poor that the money in our hands is valuable. Tianzhu owes a lot of debts because of building railways. The king of Tianzhu wants to sell land to pay off the debts. The money in our hands is more than ten times more valuable in Tianzhu than in Han."

Ying Ming asked, "You want me to invest in Tianzhu?"

Zhou Jianyi smiled and said, "Those who have this idea can go, but this is someone else's territory after all. Why don't we build a territory of our own?"

"Establish your own territory?" These young masters were at a loss.

Zhou Jianyi said without riddles, "I plan to build a stock exchange and futures exchange in Jiang Country. We will be the dealers of this stock exchange, and there will be none of the restrictive laws of the Han Dynasty. Mei Shao, you have a property company that can make 200 million yuan a year. If you package this company and list it in Jiang Country, I will give you a 200 times price-earnings ratio. As long as your property company is listed, you can earn back the money you made in years in advance. Instead of making million yuan every year, it is better to make tens of millions at a time."

"30 times!" The whole audience was in an uproar. There were not many factories in Han that had such a high valuation with such a price-to-earnings ratio. A property company with nothing but craftsmen could earn tens of millions. Everyone present was tempted.

Mei Shao was even more excited and said, "If you pay 5000 million, my property company will be yours."

Why would you need a property management company when you have 5000 million? It only makes 200 million a year, but you still have to find ways to collect property fees like debt collectors, and you still have to serve the owners. There are a lot of trivial things to do every day. Who would still want this crappy property management company if you can get 30 years of income in advance?

Zhou Jianyi rolled his eyes and said, "Brother, I was going to take you to make money, but you treated me like a leek."

"I have a small textile factory at home that can produce hundreds of thousands of pieces of cotton cloth a year. Brother, my textile factory can be listed in your Jiang country."

In Dahan, the textile industry is a relatively stable industry because the demand is stable every year, but because the market is saturated, there is no prospect for development. They made 300,000 last year and will make about the same amount next year. For these second-generations, it is just hard-earned money. But if they can get a price-earnings ratio of 30 times, they can immediately get tens of millions. Who would still want to manage this factory? Good or bad, anyway, they have already collected the money for decades in advance, so they will not suffer any loss even if they fail.

"Brother Jianyi, my family has a silver mine. Although the production capacity is not high, it still makes thousands of dollars a year. Can I go to your Jiang country to list it?" Suddenly, Zhou Jianyi became everyone's elder brother, and these princes and sons all tried to please him. If the profits could be cashed out thirty years in advance, not to mention calling Zhou Jianyi brother, even calling him foster father would not be a problem.

Only Ying Ming smiled and asked, "It's easy to cut leeks, but you have so many leeks in Jiang Country. If we want to list all the factories we have, and estimate them all at 30 times the price-earnings ratio, it's impossible to buy so many stocks without tens of billions."

Of course, there is one thing he didn't say. Zhou Jianyi would be so generous as to let them harvest the leeks from his own home. Even if he agreed, Jiang State did not belong to him, but to Zhou Jianren.

After hearing Ying Ming's words, these people calmed down. Although Jiang State was rich, it was only a wealthy vassal state. The ordinary people were about the same as those in other vassal states in Southeast Asia. The size of Jiang State was simply not enough to support a large stock trading market. Without "leeks" entering the market, where could they go to cash out thirty years' income in advance?

Zhou Jianyi smiled and said, "The people of Nanyang are not rich enough, but the people of the Han Dynasty are extremely rich. Didn't the emperor say some time ago that the Han Dynasty has entered the primary stage of prosperity and is now moving towards moderate prosperity. In Kuaiji County, every family is a millionaire. Instead of letting these farmers hide their money in the pigsty, it is better for us to collect it and build the industrialization of the Han Dynasty. We can also help these shareholders contribute to the Han Dynasty."

Hearing that Zhou Jianyi was going to stick his sickle into Dahan, trying to cut the leeks of the Dahan people, everyone frowned. Mei Shao said, "This is not good. Dahan has a stock exchange in Kuaiji County. If Brother Jianyi dares to mess around, I'm afraid we will have to visit Brother Jianyi in the prison of the Imperial Censor's Mansion."

Some people even thought that Zhou Jianyi was crazy. The Han Dynasty had extremely strict financial supervision. If they were caught by the imperial court, even their families would not be able to protect them.

Zhou Jianyi smiled and said, "You think the people of the Han Dynasty don't like to play stocks? They also want to enter the market, but the conditions for entering are too high. Look at the stocks in the Kuaiji County Stock Exchange. Any one of them costs thousands of coins. Let alone ordinary people, even we can't afford to buy a few. There are also various restrictions, which make our Han Dynasty's stock exchange dead."

Then he said with great sorrow: "Our Great Han is the number one country in the world, but the stock valuation is not even as good as that of the Xiongnu. This is a shame. That's why I want to establish a stock exchange in Jiang State and lower the conditions to stimulate the enthusiasm of the people of the Great Han for stocks. The people of the Xiongnu can pursue wealth, so why can't the people of our Great Han? I want to let the people of the Great Han make money in the stock market!"

Many people rolled their eyes when they heard this. How could Zhou Jianyi make the term "cutting leeks" sound so righteous?

Ying Ming said, "Are you planning to use ships to transport people to your Jiang country to trade stocks? Although this circumvents the laws of the Han Dynasty, I'm afraid you won't make much money."

Zhou Jianyi smiled and said, "This is an old calendar. Now it is the era of telecommunications. A telegram only takes a stick of incense to deliver news from Kuaiji County to Jiang State."

The Han Dynasty established a telegraph network around the world. In addition to the World Island, it also spent a high cost to lay submarine cables, so the telegraph systems of various vassal states in Southeast Asia and the Han Dynasty were connected.

Then Zhou Jianyi told his plan. He planned to acquire a small money house in the local area. As long as the people of the Han Dynasty opened an account in this money house, he could use the telegraph system to go to Jiang State to buy stocks. The stock brokers in Jiang State would report the stock information every day.

Then Zhou Jianyi said, "Make your company's financial statements look better. If you have connections with money houses, find a way to contact them. Jianguo Stock Exchange belongs to all of us. We will make money together. We must build Jianguo Stock Exchange into the best exchange in the world."

"Okay, let's make money together!" All the princes cheered. These were the leeks of the Han Dynasty, and they had been raised by the retired emperor and the emperor for decades. They couldn't even imagine how huge the profits would be if they cut them.

"Everyone, we must strike while the iron is hot. All your connections must be mobilized. Go back to your country and make contacts now. The opportunity to make money does not wait for anyone."

In the carriage, Liu Piao's face was full of delighted fantasies, and from time to time she couldn't suppress a smile.

Chen Wu said, "My dear, don't associate with Zhou Jianyi anymore. He is not a good person. He actually wants to take advantage of the Han people. Sooner or later, he will be arrested by the court."

Liu Piao said dissatisfiedly: "What do you mean by not a good person? Brother Jianyi knew that we wanted to build a transportation company. He said that as long as the stock exchange is built, he would find a way to help us go public first. He valued us at 10 billion yuan. As long as a small portion of the stock is sold, we can make more than 10 billion yuan."

It was also the first time that Liu Piao discovered that there was such a good way to make money. She didn't want the remaining stocks. When she was talking to Zhou Jianyi just now, she almost said that he would give her 100 billion and give him two transport ships. Chen Wu saw that his wife had become obsessed with money and immediately warned her: "Xijun, don't forget what you promised the master at the beginning. He asked you to work hard and be an honest person. Zhou Jianyi and we are not the same kind of people. We spent more than 2 million to buy two transport ships, but he can make us easily earn more than billion. There is such a good thing in the world. We made these billions, so who lost these billions."

Liu Piao said: "We are taking out the money we have worked hard for for thirty years in advance."

Chen Wu said sternly: "This is the crux of the problem. Have we worked hard for 30 years? If we don't work hard to transport iron ore in the middle, can we still pay back the money? Zhou Jianyi is obviously taking crooked paths, and we should not get involved."

Chen Wu thought for a moment and said, "Let's go back to Ancheng first."

He was worried that he could not convince his wife, so he had to ask his master to do it. A group of dandy boys wanted to make a big business worth tens of billions of dollars, but they should not make a hole of tens of billions for the Han Dynasty like his father did decades ago.

On April 50, the 4th year of the Han calendar, the Seleucid Empire, the territory of the rebels.

Since he began to guide the rebel army to establish a stable regime, Liu Ruyi discovered that he was actually a stable and conservative person. As expected, everything requires comparison. He was considered a relatively radical in the Han Dynasty, but after joining the rebel army, they finally had a stable food income in the first year, which made Liu Ruyi breathe a sigh of relief.

But at this time the rebels announced that they would attack Antioch, which made Liu Ruyi speechless. The rebels' territory was barely enough to keep people from starving to death, and they couldn't even get a full meal. And now they were thinking about fighting. How much do you like fighting? In the past, the emperor had to calculate his own family's grain reserves before going to war. I've taught you for so long, but you don't even know how to calculate the grain.

After the autumn harvest of the following year, the rebel army finally had some savings in its territory, and the rebel leaders began to talk about going south to attack Antioch. However, Liu Ruyi rejected their proposal on the grounds that the three-year period had not yet expired and there was not enough food stored in the rebel territory.

But in the third year after Liu Ruyi came to his territory, the wheat had just been planted, and the rebels from top to bottom were willing to go south to capture Antioch, and it was difficult for him to suppress the rebels' voices requesting a fight.

During the revolution in the Seleucid Empire, he deeply felt that the Seleucid Empire was different from the Han Dynasty in terms of culture, history, people's views on things, and the level of development of productivity.

Most people were overjoyed to be able to farm in the Han Dynasty for three years, but in this area, most people still had a resistance to farming.

Even facing hail of bullets on the battlefield, these rebel soldiers could remain fearless, but after digging canals for more than two years and reclaiming land for more than two years, most of the rebel soldiers were disgusted with such hard work.

At this moment, he understood the true meaning of what the retired emperor said: "Dying is easy but living is difficult." People's resistance to labor even exceeds their fear of death.

In fact, he also resisted the life of constantly digging canals. If it were in Yanzhou Governor's Mansion, Liu Ruyi would have thrown down the shovel and shouted, "I quit."

But in the Seleucid Empire, not only could he not do that, he also had to charge at the front, do the most work, and encourage the soldiers around him. This advisor is really not a human being.

"Advisor Liu." Someone called out from outside the door.

"Come in!" Liu Ruyi said.

At this time, Chiron and other rebel leaders came in with joy on their faces and said, "Great news, Antiochus V and Demetrius I are fighting. No wonder you, Advisor, don't want us to go south, it turns out you are waiting for them to fight among themselves."

Liu Ruyi was also surprised when he heard this and said, "There is a civil war among the Seleucid royal family. How could they be so unwise?"

This actually has something to do with Liu Ruyi. After he came to the rebel army's territory, the rebel army finally began to learn how to establish a political power and organize the people. Although there were many mistakes in the process, at least the direction was right.

Because of the equal distribution of land, every year a large number of slaves and landless farmers in the Seleucid Empire ran to the rebels' territory. The local nobles naturally did not want to see their property escape, so they set up strict checkpoints in an attempt to intercept the slaves and farmers.

But the rebels would not allow these nobles to set up checkpoints. Although there were big wars in the past three years, it was just a matter of not fighting large-scale wars. The small-scale wars between the rebels and the nobles never stopped.

Liu Ruyi sent guerrillas into the nobles' territories to rescue slaves and civilians and eliminate the nobles' armed forces. The armed struggle between the two sides on the border became even more intense.

This kind of small-scale guerrilla warfare is more suitable for the rebels. Under the oppression of the nobles, the local people gave the guerrillas a lot of help, which is equivalent to opening up the entire map. They cannot defeat large-scale armies, but small-scale noble private soldiers and fortresses can still be broken through, especially the primitive rocket launchers specially made by the Han Dynasty for the rebels, which can accurately hit the noble castles.

As long as there are a hundred or so guerrillas and a few hundred local civilians are mobilized, the noble castle can be surrounded.

"Bang" with a rocket, the noble's castle became a pile of construction waste. The rebels then cooperated with the local people to annihilate the nobles and their private soldiers. After breaking the castle, except for a few precious metals, food and cloth were distributed to the local people. This helped the guerrillas win the hearts of the local people. In this way, the rebels used such guerrilla tactics to gradually squeeze the power of the nobles out of the countryside.

The rebels' territory was also slowly expanding in the constant guerrilla warfare, recovering lost territory bit by bit. After two years of expansion, the rebels had recovered most of the lost territory.

The rebel army's transformation brought great pressure to the Seleucid nobles. They thought that their safe castles became vulnerable. The rioters rushed into their castles and not only robbed all their wealth, but also hanged all the nobles and their relatives. This was what frightened the Seleucid nobles the most. They could hang civilians without changing their expressions, but when it was their turn to enjoy this treatment, they were terrified.

Faced with the increasingly powerful rebel army, the nobles of the Seleucid Empire began to become dissatisfied with the situation of royal division, so that the Seleucid Empire was unable to concentrate its forces to deal with the rebel army.

So the nobles of the Seleucid Empire added their support to the royal families of the two countries, and the forces of Antiochus V and Demetrius I had the same idea as the transport captain, that is, to settle the internal affairs first, and then deal with the rebels. So although Liu Ruyi thought that the nobles of the Seleucid Empire were unwise, they believed that this was the most correct process for suppressing bandits.

Qi Lun said: "Shouldn't we also concentrate our forces now and prepare to attack while the mantis stalks the cicada and the oriole is waiting behind?"

But Liu Ruyi shook his head and said, "The forces of Antiochus V and Demetrius I have just started fighting. If we gather our forces, they will definitely shake hands and make peace and fight us together. After all, they are brothers, and we are their enemies. But if we wait until both sides are exhausted and we are ready before attacking Antioch, maybe we can even take back Damascus by then."

Then Liu Ruyi said to everyone seriously: "So now, we have to be patient and wait until the autumn harvest when there is enough food. That will be the time for us to sweep across the entire Seleucid Empire."

(End of this chapter)

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