I was pulling trees in Daming, and Lao Zhu begged me to come out of retirement

Chapter 142: Returning to the Yuan Dynasty in the Stone Age Overnight
As Shen Wansan expected,
Emperor Shun of Yuan Dynasty and Liu Futong tragically witnessed the dimensionality reduction attack from the future currency war.

The collapse of its own monetary system directly caused the domestic economy to regress by hundreds of years.

No, to be exact, we are almost regressing to the Stone Age.

Except for those smart people who jumped into the river on the spot by leveraging loans to speculate on raw silk, the rest held on to their savings certificates, hoping that one day a miracle would happen and the price of raw silk would go up again.

There were some business wizards who saw some tricks here. They once joined forces to try to inject funds to force expectations in an attempt to save the market.

But the ideal is full, the reality is very skinny.

The Ming Empire, the banker, was ready to crash the market, but with the intervention of state capital, this little bit of money didn't even make a ripple before it was instantly swallowed up by a large number of raw silk certificates of deposit.

After raw silk lost its monetary properties, the landlords found that they didn't even have the currency to use for transactions.

Therefore, they can only exchange what they need through bartering, just like the ancient cavemen.

If it happened in modern times, such a large-scale stock market crash would inevitably affect the grassroots people, making them the leeks.

But unfortunately, this was in ancient times. It was already difficult for the lower-class people in ancient times to just maintain food and clothing, and it was simply impossible for them to have the money to exchange the deposit certificates for raw silk futures.

As a result, all the wealthy landlords and businessmen were trapped.

Now the only thing that awaits them is to accept the replacement price of 65 taels, or keep the pile of waste paper deposit certificates or exchange the raw silk on the deposit certificates for mold.

Just like that, another three months passed in the Stone Age-like life.

The Yuan Shun Emperor and the Mongolian nobles, who were already extravagant by nature, were the first to be unable to bear it.
If this continues, they will probably have to live on meager food.

So Emperor Shun of Yuan Dynasty waved his hand and directly ordered the army to surround the Sun and Moon Trading Company.

"Someone, come here! Take down these rebel shops for me!"

Cheli Buhua waved his hand arrogantly at the Yuan Dynasty soldiers behind him, and then he shouted to a group of merchants and landlords who were watching:
"The Sun and Moon Trading Company is a spy planted by the Ming rebels. They used raw silk to make the people suffer and have no clothes to wear! Now the court has eliminated all the traitors of the Sun and Moon Trading Company for the sake of the people, and confiscated all their money and returned it to the people!"

Cheri Buhua's remarks caused the surrounding landlords to cheer loudly.

Now that the remaining silver in their families was almost used up, many people had to grit their teeth and sell their raw silk to the Sun and Moon Trading Company in exchange for the Ming Empire's People's Currency (Ming Baochao) to make a living.

If he could get back the gold and silver he bought, even if only a portion of it, it wouldn't be so miserable.

However, the shopkeeper and clerks of the Sun and Moon Trading Company did not show the slightest fear when facing the swords and guns of the Yuan army.

Instead, they looked at Chelibuhua with a joking look on their faces and stood obediently outside the hall without any intention of resisting.

After a jingle,
A group of soldiers hurriedly ran out of the Sun Moon Trading Company and shouted in fear:

"Oh no! General, there is no raw silk or money in the warehouse of Sun Moon Trading Company. It's so empty that rats can run in it!"

Tetsu Rifuka shuddered when he heard this: "What!? Impossible!"

The imperial court was not stupid enough to allow the enemy to make money on its side.
In their view, the Riyue Trading Company is a fat sheep waiting to be slaughtered, and they can take control of them at any time. So what if you take the money? As long as you can't transport it out, we can take it back at any time, and we can also cheat those landlords and merchants out of their money.

God knows how many kinds of taxes the imperial court has imposed in order to make money. They themselves can’t even think of a good reason to collect taxes, and as a result, the Ming Dynasty merchants came.

So, with the mentality of turning a blind eye, they allowed the Sun and Moon Trading Company to develop to this point.

Just when the court was preparing to pick the fruits, you told me that the fruits were lost?
Cheli Buhua looked at the shopkeeper fiercely and shouted:
"Damn it! Where did you hide your money?! Hand it over now, or I'll make you pay!" The shopkeeper was not panicked at all, he just spread his fingers leisurely and pointed in the direction of Yingtian and said with a smile:
"Of course we sent it back to the headquarters. The security here is so poor. What if someone steals it? These are all valuable assets of our clients."

Tetsufuka roared with red eyes:
"Impossible! How could you possibly transport such a large amount of treasure back? You must have hidden the gold and silver somewhere!"

The shopkeeper looked at the frantic Tetsuli Buhua and laughed:
"We have gods behind us in the Ming Dynasty. It's just a trick up our sleeves."

He didn't hide anything, he just threw the clerk's backpack to the ground and said with a smile:
"General, you can observe it yourself. Just put on your backpack and focus on it."

Tetsujiro picked up the backpack and put it on his back,
Then focus your attention on the back.
Suddenly, a storage space similar to the system space appeared in my mind.

Inside were neatly stacked raw silk ingots, silver, gold and copper coins.

Cheribuka used his mind to take out a gold ingot and trembled all over.
Finished!

This was the only word that came to his mind.

The shopkeeper spoke slowly with a mocking expression on his face:

"Each store only has the silver and raw silk needed to maintain daily transactions, and the value of these silver and raw silk is no more than a thousand gold coins at most. The rest of the silver and raw silk have already been shipped back to Yingtian headquarters by us."

"I advise the general to honestly restore the Sun Moon Trading Company to its original state. If any account books are lost, the deposit certificates in the hands of the people will not match."

"And don't forget, General. 80% of the food that the people of the Yuan Dynasty need is provided by our Sun Moon Trading Company."

"If our Sun Moon Trading Company goes bankrupt, there will be no affordable grain."

"To put it bluntly, all of you generals are paid by the Ming Empire. If you anger His Majesty, you will starve to death."

"Of course, you can also try to send troops to attack the Ming Dynasty. If you succeed, you will have inexhaustible wealth. However, I think if you want to start a war, you may not be able to pay the military pay, right? Oh, sorry, there is no military rations. Tsk tsk, General, you are a hero who knows the current situation. You should have some idea of ​​who owns the world now."

Cheli Buhua opened his mouth.

Finally I realized the seriousness of this matter.
Due to years of agricultural reforms, the Yuan Dynasty had long relied on imports from the Ming Dynasty to meet domestic needs.

Now, Da Yuan has no money or food left. If something happens to the Riyue Trading Company now, they will have problems with food for next month.

You want to fight a war without money or food? Fight a fart!

Cheli Buhua looked at the shopkeeper in shock and asked in a hoarse voice:

"You guys planned this a long time ago?"

The shopkeeper sternly refused:

"Nonsense, how could we be so immoral? After all, you just paid extra money to buy the raw silk, and the Ming Dynasty's purchase price has always been made public in advance. We, the Sun and Moon Trading Company, only provide a platform for information transmission and an intermediary guarantee."

Are you kidding? Malicious market manipulation will damage the country's credibility. How can we, the Ming Dynasty, admit it?

Tetsuji Buka curled the corner of his mouth. He had no way to deal with such shameless behavior.

But the other party is right about one thing.

I really should consider my new employer...

(End of this chapter)