late han empire

Liu Bei had just founded the country, but he didn't expect to be forced to Zen in the first place.

Sima Yi became the new emperor, and Sanzong seemed to have been prepared for a long time, and took out all the new dragon robes and all the items he needed.

The name of the new country is 'Chu' because Sima Yi's main territory is in the former Chu State.The Huaxia Dynasty, since before the Song Dynasty, liked to use the area where the vassal states were located in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period as the country name.

In the original time and space, Liu Bei was the uncle of the great Han emperor, so Shu Han was naturally established; Cao Cao's separatist regime in the north started from Wei, so it was Cao Wei; Sun Quan started from the old place of Wu, so the country was named Sun Wu.Adding the emperor's surname in front of the country name is also a way to distinguish these countries in various eras.

Originally, Sima Yi occupied the north, and his birthplace was the former home of the Jin State, and the Wei State was split from the Jin State, so the established country was named "Jin".

It's just that now his territory is mainly in the south, so it is naturally impossible to take the name Jin.Therefore, it can only be changed to 'Chu' according to the scope of the site.

As a founding emperor, he is naturally very busy.Even if there are a lot of powerful people to help with government affairs, but he uses the old system of the Han Dynasty, there are many things that need to be done by himself.Whether it is military or government affairs, there are extremely busy things to deal with every day.

However, Liu Ming played guerrilla warfare again, scurrying around on his territory.What's more, he fired a shot and changed places, leaving no trace of the pursuers at all.

Fortunately, the disciples of the three sects gave their full support, which gave him the best protection for his main strategic reserve base.The guerrillas attacked many times, and in the end they all lost their troops and returned.As a result, the guerrilla forces had to change their attack targets and try to avoid attacking these points.

It's just that if the main point is not broken, the importance of other places will not be much.Moreover, no matter how powerful the guerrilla army was, he would go out to fight far away from the mainland. Under such circumstances, they simply did not have the ability to attack cities and expand territories.

His headache is not these guerrilla troops, but the payment of the soldiers on his side.

If you are not in charge of the family, you don't know how expensive firewood and rice are, and the wartime military pay for tens of thousands of troops is an astronomical figure.Liu Ming has the Silk Road and a powerful chamber of commerce, so he has the ability to pay the soldiers' salaries, even in wartime; Sima Yi has not yet fully integrated the resources of the new site, so the means of payment has begun to fall into difficulties.

Today, the frontline troops have been in arrears with their salaries for more than ten days, and the morale of the soldiers has begun to fluctuate.Many people served as soldiers to eat food not only for the sake of eating enough, and it was impossible for them to work hard without pay.

The payment of military salaries is a problem, let alone the salary of officials at all levels.Speaking of this, Sima Yi hated all the officials from all over the place. After those guys took over on his side, they only found out that at least [-]% of the money and food had disappeared after they cleared the local money and food.These money and grains are all bad debts, but this is the case everywhere, and they all say that they are not responsible to the public. How can Sima Yi be dismissed by officials from all over the place with just one word?

Therefore, this part, which was originally a part of corruption, became Sima Yi's appeasement money for officials at all levels.It's just that the money and food in the whole territory was halved, and when calculating other expenses, there was hardly any that could be sent to the central government. As a result, many restoration work could not be carried out, and even the distribution of salaries of many officials became a problem.

In desperation, Sima Yi had no choice but to invite the representatives of the three sects.

"Seniors, Zhong Da is not ineffective, but now there is a big financial shortfall, and the frontline soldiers complain a lot. Even if we can force them to send troops, this will not prevent them from being timid before the battle. Let alone Now that it has entered the depths of winter, the soldiers are even more complaining..." Sima Yi said modestly to everyone.

"This is not what we care about. We Wen will help you govern the country, Wu will help you fight on the battlefield, and the Natural Sect will protect you from being assassinated, and even protect those key points from being attacked by the other party. Under such circumstances, some money and food issues You can't solve it, so what's the use of you?" The representatives of the three sects didn't care about that problem.

Sima Yi scolded San Zong for being shameless. It is true that they helped him a lot, but they couldn't make money.Now that the north and the south are separated, the caravans in the north stopped going south under Liu Ming's signal, so that the business tax was greatly reduced.That is to say, many places in the south are suitable for growing food, and there is not a shortage of food and grass.

"Forget it, let me tell you a method. We researched it not long ago, and now there are banks opened by Liu Ming everywhere, and the money issued by them is used everywhere. For an emerging country, you should have Your own bank, your own currency. Even, you can print and distribute some paper silver money yourself, which is much more convenient than gold and silver coins. The most important thing is that you can print as much as you like." Perhaps three cases are true Knowing that Sima Yi was troubled, he simply gave a solution.

However, this method is 2x enough, and he actually planned to encourage Sima Yi to set up a bank by himself and print banknotes by himself.This thing is a devil, especially the meaning of Sanzong, and Sima Yi can impress as much as he wants.

If Sima Yi was a time traveler, he would probably jump up and yell at him immediately: Did you guys come here by Liu Ming to play on me on purpose? !

But he wasn't, so he couldn't see anything wrong with it, and even thought it might be the way to go.

The next thing will be easy. Banks in various places will be completely sealed off. The name is that the bank is a secret base sent by Liu Ming from the north (Jin Yiwei said: How do you know?), and at the same time, the Central Bank of Chu State will be established in the name of Chu State. , to issue new currency.

Many people were dumbfounded that the new currency was actually made of paper.It was only after a closer look that I realized that the denominations of these paper banknotes can be large or small, and the paper quality and special printing process are not so easy for others to counterfeit.Knowing this, some merchants began to try to use it. After a lot of public opinion, many merchants also felt that the paper ones might be good, and the denominations can be large or small, and it is convenient to carry.

Gradually, everyone got used to the existence of this currency and began to circulate in Chu State.

With the right to mint coins, soldiers on the front line also began to receive military pay.All these paper notes.

At first, the soldiers couldn't accept it, but they found that it was no different from gold and silver coins in use, so they acquiesced.The main reason is that they discovered that those military officers and officials at all levels were also using this kind of banknotes.

With the help of banknotes, Sima Yi integrated the resources in the south as quickly as possible.So he further abolished the use of gold and silver coins, and ordered the people of Chu to exchange gold and silver coins within the specified time, otherwise these two things can only be used as ordinary gold and silver in the future, without equivalent purchasing power.

Sima Yi made a big splash in the south, and Liu Ming in the north naturally received the news.In fact, that chicken feather letter was talking about such a thing.

The caravans in the north are no longer running the business in the south. In fact, the aristocratic families in the south don’t have much integrity. If the northern ones don’t go, they will try their best to come to the north to buy back. Liu Ming intends to use this method to impose economic sanctions on the south. , to maximize the consumption of the wealth of the south.

I thought this should be a long process, but I didn't expect Sima Yi to issue banknotes at this time.He wasn't even sure he could control this kind of demon, yet Nanfang released it so quickly.

It's not that he didn't plan to issue banknotes, and a discussion group was formed on the issue of banknotes a year ago.They have made predictions on a series of problems such as currency circulation and inflation, and the method of ensuring banknotes must be safe.

If that's the case, it's been more than a year since the banknotes appeared, and Sima Yi hastily got on the horse, fearing that loopholes are inevitable.

Under such circumstances, if he didn't make a good profit, how could Liu Ming be reconciled?

For Sima Yi, Liu Ming's resentment towards him has surpassed that of Liu Bei, just because in order to gain the approval of the three sects, this guy has done things that even Liu Bei would be scruples about.

If this guy is not destroyed, the big man must be seriously injured.Other than life and death, how much manpower was spent by this bastard in the process of unifying the world in the Jin Dynasty?Just talking about the complete unification of the Jin Dynasty and the fact that there are only a million or so people left in China has already explained a lot of problems.

"Give me a set of the other party's currency immediately, and then send someone to imitate it immediately. I still don't believe that the other party's manufacturing technology can surpass ours! You can discuss other methods yourself. What I need is a result." Liu Ming put the banknote discussion group The members of the group were summoned, including Zhang Xue, the head of the bank, of course.

"Here!" Zhang Xue accepted the order happily, and immediately called the team members to start a discussion.

He happily returned to his office, but he didn't want a guard to hand over a letter for help at this time.Seeing this, Liu Ming's face turned ugly again.

But when he opened it, he immediately became happy.

"I knew it, that old thing didn't die so easily!" Liu Ming laughed.