The Three Kingdoms: A vicious plan was offered, and Liu Bei was stunned!

Chapter 365: I've been talking about money, Jiangling Department Store is just that awesome

Luo Yuan talked with Kong Ming for a while and then went to find his elder brother-in-law Sun Quan to talk to him.

"Jiangdong shouldn't restrict the nobles from coming to Jiangling. Trade between us is beneficial to both sides. It doesn't make sense for you to not allow them to come to Jiangling!"

Sun Quan glared and said, "You still have a point. Do you know how much grain Jiangdong lost?"
Those noble families came to Jiangling to shop and brought countless wealth to Jiangling. Some of them even moved their families to Jiangling and never returned to Jiangdong.

Jiangdong lost population and wealth, and Sun Quan's prestige was also hit.

Why did the nobles go to Jiangling instead of staying in Jiangdong? It must be because the rulers of Jiangdong were not good enough.

He was not kind or open-minded. In short, it must be that Sun Quan was not good enough, so the nobles ran away.

As soon as the nobles ran away, the common people would start to talk about it.

At this time, the gentry was the weather vane of society. Whether the world was peaceful or not could be determined by looking at the gentry. If all the rich people ran away, there would definitely be war.

If the rich don’t run away, it means the world is peaceful!
The truth is so smooth.

The Jiangdong nobles came to Jiangling not just a few families but in large groups. Their influence in Jiangdong was particularly great, and Sun Quan had no way to control them.

The Sun family is an outsider family in Jiangdong and their reputation is not very good.

After Sun Ce died, Sun Quan came to power. His main focus in Jiangdong was to ease the relationship between the Sun family and the Jiangdong gentry. After many years, this finally worked. But then Luo Yun came and those gentry were immediately abducted away.

"How dare you tell me this? If we weren't relatives, how could I let you go? How are you going to explain your visit to Jiangling?"

"Why should we have different opinions when we are one family? Isn't what belongs to Jiangdong also mine?"

"Do you have any shame?"

"do not want!"

"..."

Sun Quan was so angry that he was speechless. He had never seen such a shameless person. Luo Yuan was actually a prince?
How can someone so shameless be worthy of being a lord?

Sun Quan thought for a while and said, "It would be better to return to Jiangdong, so that those people will not be considered to have escaped."

"Sure, but can Jiangdong support 800,000 people?" Luo Yuan said with a smile.

Jiangling has a population of 600,000, and the regional population density should be the highest in the world. Together with Jingzhou and nearby counties and districts, there is no problem for the population to exceed 800,000.

In fact, the population may be even higher. Luo Yuan has not made a careful count, but judging from the movement of the Jiangling boundary marker and the transportation of seeds for spring farming to various places!

It should be around one million people.

Sun Quan was stunned: "800,000 people, how can you support so many people?"

How could such a large population be concentrated in such a tiny place like Jiangling?
Chaisang is the capital of Jiangdong, and its current population is only over a hundred thousand, which is already the limit.

This also includes the military.

Luo Yuan smiled. Can I tell you? Of course not! The people of Jiangling are not actually supported by Luo Yuan, but by the people of the world. Through commercial trade, food from all over the world continues to flow into Jiangling, and with the development of more local industries, they are naturally supported.

Jiangling is the only place in the world where rice is sold by the jin, at five five-zhu coins per jin. The price of rice is very high, but the people of Jiangling can afford it now!
The people of Jiangling can now earn seven or eight copper coins a day by working. Well, a salary of two hundred copper coins a month is enough to support themselves!

Life can be good if there are two working people in the family.

In addition, I grow my own crops and vegetables, and catch some fish and other meat from the Yangtze River.

When Sun Quan saw that Luo Yuan was unwilling to talk, he said, "Tell me the secret, and I will consider not pursuing the issue of the migration of the nobles!"

This can happen!

If Sun Quan banned the gentry from coming to Jiangling, it would have a huge impact, as they are all high-spending people.

Jiangling's high consumption depends on the support of the local rich people in Jiangdong. It is not easy for the northern nobles to come to Jiangling.

Twice a year is the best!
It takes only one day to travel from Jiangdong to Jiangling and back.

Luo Yuan said: "Because Jiangling trades with money, the people have money in their hands, so merchants are willing to trade. Merchants bring food from all over the world and can purchase various things they need from Jiangling. Through trade, all the food in the world comes to Jiangling, so why should I feed the people of Jiangling? People all over the world are helping me to feed them. In addition to reclaiming wasteland and building water conservancy projects, Jiangling's summer harvest this year will definitely not be bad. My most difficult days are over. In the future, the local food in Jiangling will be enough to feed Jiangling, and then it can be transported to Jiangdong. So you will also benefit. Don't mind the food coming to Jiangling, it will go back in time!"

"Can Chaisang do this?"

"Sure," Luo Yuan smiled. It's not that simple. If you want Chaisang to be like Jiangling, you must carry out currency reform.
Using currency to regulate the market, it is a dream to expect a place that trades goods to be as successful as Jiangling.

But it was good that Sun Quan was interested. Luo Yuan took the opportunity to promote the benefits of a unified currency to Sun Quan. "The biggest benefit of currency is that it can greatly promote the development of trade. When trade develops, goods will be abundant. However, if merchants want to recognize your currency, you need not power but credit."

"Jiangling's copper coins are popular among merchants. Why? Because Jiangling's military governorship only recognizes two types of coins. One is the copper plate minted by the military governorship, and the other is the five-zhu coin. The rest of the coins are not circulated in Jiangling and have no use. They are just some metals."

"After the currency is unified, merchants can use the currency to buy the goods they need in various places. The currency will circulate, which means the goods will circulate*..."

Luo Yuan blabbered and Sun Quan laughed: "You want to use Jiangling coins to replace Jiangdong's coins!"

Sun Quan felt that he saw through Luo Yuan. This guy was a nuisance.

Do you think you are a fool?
If you give up your own money, isn't that choking yourself?
Everyone knows that minting coins can make money. You can exchange those scraps of copper and iron for various things from the people. It's so cool.

If you listen to Luo Yuan, you will be fooled to death sooner or later.

Luo Yuan's face turned dark. He didn't tell Sun Quan about the UN forces because that guy was suspicious. Although not as suspicious as Cao Cao, he was still less suspicious.

But I didn't expect that this guy actually felt that he was hurting him again
I'm fucking speechless.

Luo Yuan said: "You underestimate me too much. To be honest, is the money in Jiangdong still useful now? Don't you know that merchants like the money in Jiangling?"

Luo Yuan took out a copper coin, which was very beautiful with its golden color. "This is a Jiangling copper coin. One copper coin can buy a steamed bun, while the same steamed bun requires five five-zhu coins, or ten Jiangdong copper coins."

"Why is that so?" Sun Quan was unhappy that he had to pay 10 of his own money to buy a steamed bun. Did he think he was not awesome? :
"Because the purchasing power is different," Luo Yuan said with a smile, "I announced today that one Jiangling copper coin can be exchanged for one hundred Jiangdong copper coins. Do you believe it, because Jiangdong's copper coins are worthless?"

(End of this chapter)