The Warriors of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 436 Currency Wars
This was a war without gunpowder. Although Dongfang Sheng seemed to be sitting in Beiping city to deal with various things relaxedly, his heart flew to Xu Du's side from time to time.

After Tang Youqian left, several months passed.

In the past few months, Dongfang Sheng has been recruiting soldiers to deal with some matters in various states and counties.

Cao Pi didn't even think that Dongfang Sheng would launch another war in a short period of time, and even some uninformed generals under Dongfang Sheng's command felt that Dongfang Sheng was recharging his energy and recharging his energy.

However, in Xudu, a war without gunpowder is quietly unfolding. A few months ago, someone suddenly began to buy Cao Pi's newly issued small five baht coins at a high price.

The so-called small five baht coins are imitations of the five baht coins released by Dahan before, but the original five baht coins are better than the imitated ones in terms of weight and workmanship.

The main purpose of Cao Pi’s issuance of new currency is to make money and create inflation. This method is to squeeze the difference directly from the people. The specific method has been used in history by Sun Quan of Soochow and Liu Bei of Shu Han. There is nothing new. of.

Of course, once this small five baht coin is released, the common people don't buy it, but you always have to use the official currency, so everyone has no choice but to accept it.

But now that a big guy wants to buy five baht coins, why don't everyone rush over and give him all the five baht coins?
As a result, the people of Xudu rushed to the bully to exchange the small five baht in their hands for big five baht or grain and silk.

Moreover, this bully threatened to collect all the five baht, not afraid that you would not come, but afraid that you would not come.

The common people threw away the small five baht coins in their hands happily. The five baht coins were not heavy enough, and the writing on them was illegible. It was simply inferior currency, and they didn't want to use it.

However, a group of people suppressed their excitement and did not follow the crowd and throw away the small five baht coins in their hands.

These people are the scholar-bureaucrats and gentry surnames who control the entire economy of Wei State, plus some merchants who are vassals of Cao Wei. Of course, these people will not immediately lose their minds and join the sell-off tide.

These people gathered together, after some discussion, they finally decided to observe first before making a decision.

But just after they made their decision, there was a big news that threw them into chaos. The Eastern Bodyguards all over Cao Wei also began to sell the small five baht coins in their hands. Cars lined up from street to street.

As soon as the news came out, many merchants couldn't sit still. After quietly sending a few people to try it out and succeed, they immediately sent people to start large-scale purchases of small five baht coins in Cao Wei's territory.

It is understandable that a businessman lives for profit, the main thing is that you can keep the moral ruler in your heart.

Seeing that those merchants were still acting, Cao Wei's scholar-bureaucrats and gentry officials couldn't sit still, and they also began to use all their abilities to snap up small five baht coins.

For a while, the whole Cao Wei was caught in the vicious circle of frantically buying up five baht coins. The price of five baht coins that were not in circulation had increased several times, even surpassing the real five baht coins.

This incident caught Cao Pi's attention, and Cao Pi was also happy that the small five baht coins he discovered were so sought after, so he specially mobilized the small five baht coins in the treasury to exchange some big five baht coins, so Also made a small profit.

Cao Pi's action completely ignited Cao Wei's frenzy of buying small five baht coins, and the whole country fell into a frenzy of buying.

At this time, in a certain mansion in Xudu, Tang Youqian in a black robe was listening to the people below reporting on the exchange of small five baht coins in the past few days.

"Now we have received about 100 million small five baht coins... There are still a large number of people who come to exchange outside. I guess we don't have enough big five baht coins and silk cloth here." A very shrewd man Reporting to Tang Youqian.

Tang Youqian was lying on a rocking chair, squinting his eyes slightly, after listening to the report from the people below, Tang Youqian raised his hand and said: "Transport the small five baht money collected these days to other places and sell it at a high price! "

"Is this okay? They are all throwing away the five baht coins in their hands?" The people below asked hesitantly.

"It's fine if I say yes. Remember to separate the different places. The price must be high. If it's cheap, don't sell it!" Tang Youqian said categorically. Full of slander, I went out to do errands.

But then the reaction of those inside Cao Wei surprised the old subordinate who had been with Tang for many years. Even if he raised the price several times, there were still people rushing to buy it, and some even fought because of the queuing problem.

Then he returned to Xudu with a large sum of five baht money and grains.

Then a new round of exchange frenzy also began. After a day's pause, Tang Youqian ordered to restart the exchange of small five baht coins.

For a while, the whole Xudu could smell a stench of copper, and some dropped five baht coins could be picked up on the street, and the whole street was filled with the sound of transporting small five baht coins.

In this way, the price of the small five baht coin keeps rising, five times, ten times, twenty times... .

This situation has been maintained, and the entire Cao Wei people began to boil, from the princes and nobles to the common people began to join the frenzy of panic buying.

As the saying goes, to destroy it, drive him mad.

The entire Cao Wei was caught in this frenzy of chasing interests. Although some people once raised doubts, this voice was quickly drowned out by the continuous price increase of small five baht coins.

At the end of this turmoil, even the army got involved, and many generals of Cao Wei made a lot of money by taking action one after another.

When Tang Youqian heard from the bottom that the small five baht coins on the black market had been sold to 500 times their original value, he immediately ordered all the small five baht coins to be sold, and the price must be high.

This round of selling was the largest sum since the frenzy of exchanging small five baht coins. It was sold at a price five hundred times higher than the original value.

The exchange point in Xudu also announced that it would temporarily suspend the exchange for three days.

All the people who hold the small five baht coins wait for three days before the exchange point reopens. Some people even stay at the door of the exchange point, eating, drinking, and messing around nearby, in order to be able to exchange the small five baht coins in their hands as soon as possible. .

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