If there is any material surplus in Jiangnan, it must be salt. Guan Yu opened up a million acres of salt fields in Yangzhou. The amount of salt was enough for the people in Jiangnan ten times. Yangzhou's salt even became the first in the Han Dynasty.
Of course, Liu Bei and his friends were not exporting goods to Cao Cao and Lei Gong. After all, they also had mountains of salt.
It's about the millions of Nanbarians in the south of the Yangtze River and the countries south of Jiaozhou. The price of salt in these countries is dozens of times higher than that of the Han Dynasty. Salt earned Liu Bei a lot of money! At the same time, it also gave Liu Bei and the others a good job in the Nanbarians.
Reputation, this is why Ma Xuan can easily recruit a large number of barbarians to come down the mountain!
Zhao Yun's proposal made Liu Bei's eyes light up. Although the price of salt has plummeted due to the sun-drying method, the price of salt has plummeted in the past few years. In the minds of many people, salt is still an indispensable commodity along with food and cloth.
If the people buy salt, it is the best choice for him. Even if he is given time, he can recycle all the 5 billion banknotes issued by the salt bar (of course in reality, it is impossible for the people to buy 5 billion worth of salt, because
Can’t finish it at all)!
So Liu Bei said: "Xianhe, go and tell Yun Chang to prepare salt!"
Then Liu Bei looked at Yuan Ji and said: "Brother Shiji, please contact the noble families in Jiangnan and ask them to lend money to the court to tide over the difficulties!"
Yuan Ji nodded and said: "I understand!"
Zhang Fei said aggrievedly: "After Yuan Tan did this, we can't even rescue him now!"
Yuan Ji felt confused for a while, now the land south of the Yangtze River is in trouble, even the food has to be used to buy back paper money, it is impossible to send troops to support Yuan Tan! With the current situation in Yuzhou, I am afraid that Lei Gong has already sharpened his sword!
Instead, Zhao Yun said: "Yide, our land in the south of the Yangtze River has been hit hard. Lei Gong in Hebei was the first to use banknotes in the world. The banknotes in Hebei must be several times more than ours, and the people's bankruptcies must be more intense than ours. I'm afraid Lei Gong is now."
More distressed than us!"
Zhao Yun was really right about this. Xu Weiguang thought that Yuan Tanchao's currency would collapse Yuzhou's banknotes, but he did not expect that such a collapse would make people all over the world lose confidence in the new banknotes!
Liu Bei is trying to find a way to resist the run here. Cao Cao in the north also faces the same problem as him!
The banknotes in Yuzhou collapsed overnight, and the merchants in Hebei were the first to be frightened. Although Xu Wei treated them well, he only compared them to Dong Zhuo, Yuan Shao and others. The rulers in Hebei still paid less attention to farmers and craftsmen than they did.
superior!
Experts in farming in Hebei can become Litian, enter the Dagan Cadre Academy for training, and become a grassroots official in Dagan. Craftsmen can also be transferred to the county officials of Dagan through factory management positions, but these benefits are not available to businessmen.
, they can’t even become members of parliament!
Zhen An and the others understand that even in the land of Hebei, their status still belongs to cattle and sheep. It's just that they are a little more reasonable in governing, so they have the good life now, but if they are in power, they will be slaughtered like Dong Zhuo.
, they have no power to resist!
Therefore, even in Hebei, their sense of security is not high. Yuzhou's banknotes collapsed, and almost all Yuzhou merchants went bankrupt during this wave of turmoil. This made them even more frightened, fearing that the fate of their colleagues would be their turn after the Hebei banknotes collapsed. .
The paper money they have been using for nearly 10 years is no longer a symbol of wealth in the eyes of these businessmen, but a bomb that may blow them up at any time!
So they began to exchange the banknotes in their hands for grain, woolen cloth, salt, and even iron ingots that were difficult to sell. In short, they did not want to have banknotes in their hands anymore.
The actions of these businessmen soon affected the people of Hebei. Through these businessmen, the people of Hebei also learned that the life savings of the people of Yuzhou were wiped out in this paper money trend, and they were terrified for a while.
The people of Yuzhou have been less oppressed and have some savings in the past two years, while the people of Hebei generally have nearly 10 years of savings. The wealth in their hands is far beyond what the people of Yuzhou can compare with. And these people started working in money shops. Take out all your savings, and then use them all to buy items that you can see. Food, woolen cloth, clothes, hats, leather shoes, salt, barreled oil, canned fish, no one cares whether these items are yours. It can be used, and it can be used for how long! I just don’t want to have banknotes in my hands.
When these people also joined the rush to buy supplies, prices across Hebei began to skyrocket, and many places even refused to accept banknotes. The whole of Hebei was experiencing turmoil like Yuzhou!
Youzhou, Jixian!
All the senior officials of Daqian gathered here, and everyone looked worried. It can be said that Daqian will now face the most difficult situation since its establishment! The banknotes issued by Daqian were actually affected by Yuan Tan, and prices in various places in Daqian skyrocketed!
The intelligence coming from all over Hebei made Xu Wei frown! The current scene was something he didn't expect. He just wanted to detonate Yuan Tan's bomb, but he didn't expect to injure himself. He had been using woolen cloth for 10 years The credibility that was just established has now been completely destroyed!
"In power, what should we do now? The people are going crazy now. Many people have bought more than ten kilograms of salt, thousands of kilograms of dried salted fish, and the food is piled up in the house. Even if they can't eat it for a lifetime, After all, they still have to spend all the banknotes in their hands! Now the prices in Daqian are simply unsustainable, even the price of food has exceeded 200 yuan!" Niu Gui said worriedly. This was the first time he had seen this scene. At this time, people spent all their property to buy things they thought could maintain their value. Now all the shops in Hebei are being snapped up!
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Especially when the price of grain exceeds 200 yuan, Niu Gui is extremely worried. You must know that the price of grain has always been the benchmark for commodity prices in Daqian. It has been extremely stable for ten years. Even when food was most scarce, the selling price did not exceed 130 yuan, but now it has soared to more than 200 yuan, and it continues to rise. This is no wonder Niu Gui is worried!
Xu Weidao: "The order is passed and it is strictly prohibited to collect banknotes in various places. The government-run factories will produce various materials in three shifts from today to fully meet the needs of the people! Granary officials from various places cooperate with the county magistrates to open warehouses to release grain! Money shops are also It is not allowed to prohibit people from withdrawing money, but there must be a limit. People in Daqian can only withdraw 500 money per day!"
Old Man Niu also frowned and said: "The materials in our hands are also limited. We have issued banknotes for more than 10 years. The banknotes in Hebei may exceed hundreds of billions. If all these banknotes return to our hands, I’m afraid we won’t be able to produce so much goods!”
But at this time, Xu Juan, the governor of Youzhou, said: "What are you afraid of? Are there a lot of 100 billion banknotes? Our annual fiscal revenue is 40 billion, and it only takes more than two years to pay off the 100 billion banknotes! If it weren't for the people now flocking to buy goods , In fact, their actions are a good thing for our state-owned factories. The profits of our textile factory in recent years have been about 10% or more!"
"Why?"
"It's not just because the people in Daqian have clothes and are unwilling to buy woolen cloth, so the scale of our textile mills in Daqian has not grown over the years, and we can only increase the scale of the industry by annexing our peers, but now wool The price of cloth has soared to 2,000 yuan again, and our profits have more than doubled. If you give me a year, our textile factory alone will be enough to consume these 100 billion banknotes!"
"There is also a salt field factory. Snowflake salt is now piled up like a mountain. But because the quantity produced is so large, the people in Hebei cannot eat it. Even the barbarians in the desert are the same. That is to say, we have been trying our best to make salted fish over the years. Although we can't do it, we still can't consume all the salt. But now that people are rushing to buy more than ten kilo each, all the salt accumulated in our factory can be sold! And the profit is several times higher, and we can make ten years' worth of money in one year! "
Old Man Wang frowned and said: "Although what you said makes sense, the people outside are so crazy now that it is impossible to give us more than a year to produce these goods. They are now eager to get them into their hands in just one day. All the banknotes are exchanged for goods!”
Xu Weidao: "We need officials at all levels in Daqian to persuade these people and let them handle the banknotes in their hands calmly. We in Hebei have so many goods that it is impossible for us to collapse like Yuzhou! Apart from other things, we only have two crops this year. We collected more than 500 million stones, and according to the current price of food, it is worth hundreds of billions, so don’t worry!”
Xu Wei said worriedly: "I'm not worried that we won't be able to deliver the goods. I'm just worried that the people are wasting their savings of more than ten years by spending money like this! When they wake up and sell a bunch of hard-to-use things, they will definitely You will regret it!”
Xu Wei has seen the rush to buy supplies too many times. When the Japanese Nuclear Power Plant happened, it was said that the sea water was polluted and the salt could not be used in the future. This caused everyone to frantically rush for salt. His family bought dozens of bags of salt, which was enough. It took several years, and the price increased five times. Only later did everyone find out that this was a rumor. Instead, the salt factory eliminated the goods it had accumulated for several years and made several times the money. It can be said that the salt factory should He is the biggest winner of this rumor.
In the end, he didn't even know how his mother disposed of the pile of salt! The price of salt was not high, and the Xu Wei family could still afford this loss.
But now the people in Hebei really spend all their wealth to buy Daqian's goods! When they wake up and lose half of their wealth, it will be light! Many people even returned to the era of Han rule overnight.
Of course, the Hebei people's looting of supplies also caused him huge trouble. Originally, he wanted to take the opportunity to attack Yuzhou, but now this situation can be said to be a lose-lose situation. He did not dare to attack Yuzhou at this time. He could only calm down the people's anger. Afraid, the war against Yuzhou can be launched!
After Xu Wei said this, everyone felt a sense of security.
That’s right! Their Daqian is different from Yuan Tan. The goods in Daqian’s warehouse are enough to consume the currency issued by them!
"Don't these people use their brains to think about it? We in Hebei can be like Yuzhou. Yuan Tan is a wolf with nothing, but we have hundreds of factories and the food in the warehouse is enough for everyone to eat for two years. When have we ever done anything dishonest in Da Gan?" Xu Wei's worries also made them anxious. Most of the senior leaders of Da Gan were from low-level backgrounds. They have not changed their identities yet, and their stance is still on the side of the people!
At this time, Jia Xu, who was sitting at the back, said: "The people in power and Daqian just don't understand our strength and think that the banknotes we issue will become the same as Yuan Tan's, so they are so panicked!"
"As long as we find a way to let the people of Daqian understand the strength of our Daqian, we can gather people in various places and let them visit our granaries, textile mills, steel plants and other factories in batches. Let them see our factory and see it. How much grain is there in the warehouse, how much cloth is there in the textile factory, how much steel can be refined in the steel factory, how many sea fish can be caught in the fishing factory every day.
When people in the tribe have a deep understanding of these, the banknotes issued by our Dagan will not collapse, and they will naturally not spend money randomly. After all, the people of our Dagan still save money, and every piece of clothing needs to be new for three years. , the old three years, and another three years of mending, they will not use their hard-earned money to buy something they can’t use!”
Xu Wei's eyes lit up and he said: "Wen He's knowledge is indeed extraordinary!"
"Niu Gui, you fly pigeons and send a letter to the county officials in Daqian, asking them to organize people to visit our granaries and factories according to Wenhe people. We must let them feel the power of my Daqian and dissuade them from using The idea of exchanging paper money for goods! The turmoil in Hebei must be settled quickly. Only in this way can we launch an attack on Yuan Tan and completely occupy the entire Yuzhou and Sili! If we waste this plan, wait for Yuan Tan to deal with it like us. Due to the turmoil in Yuzhou, we have lost the opportunity to eliminate Yuan Tan in one battle!"
Niu Gui saluted and said: "No!"
Xu Wei continued: "Master Xiangkai, please inform the major merchants in Hebei. If they really want to exchange the banknotes in their hands into commodities, they can make a contract with us. I promise to use the grain in their hands to Woolen cloth, steel and other large dry goods are sold to them at the current price. I, Lei Gong, have made a promise in Hebei over the years. They should believe that I have this credit!"
This is a variant version of futures. As long as these merchants don’t rush to grab goods, half of the turmoil in Daqian will be solved!
Xiangkai immediately said: "I will definitely let Zhen An and the others stop raiding the goods in Hebei, so that they will not affect the pace of the government's attack on the Central Plains!"