Early February of the second year of Jian'an (AD 197)!
Qingzhou, Beihai County, Prefecture Mufu!
"This is really a big man who wants to die! Why does God keep helping Lei Gong!" Cao Cao shouted angrily!
The crisis of trust in paper money still spread to the entire Qingxu area. Cao Cao knew that all Qingxu's financial expenditures were now supported by paper money, and he could not let the paper money collapse!
In order to maintain the credibility of banknotes, Cao Cao sold all the grain, cloth, gold, silver, salt, and even struvite, salt and other materials in his treasury to the people who exchanged banknotes. Even when the money was insufficient, Cao Cao even threatened
, semi-forcibly borrowed millions of shi of food and hundreds of millions of money from the noble families in Qingxu and Qingzhou, and also sold off a large amount of state-owned land in Qingzhou. It can be said that Cao Cao tried every means to finally maintain the credibility of paper money in Qingzhou.
Let Qingzhou's economy collapse!
Cao Cao was confident that he had done a good enough job. He believed that Lei Gong would be hit hard at this time. Hebei had issued banknotes for several years longer than them, and the number must be more than ten times more than them. Hebei would definitely suffer losses due to this riot of banknotes.
More than them all!
In the next few months, Lei Gong remained stationary, and Da Qian waited until winter and did not launch an attack on Yuzhou. This made Cao Cao believe that Hebei was hit harder than he thought, otherwise it would be impossible to let go of this.
Good opportunity not to attack Yuzhou!
As a result, Man Chong brought him bad news at this time. Treasure Island was discovered in Hebei. Now that Lei Gong has calmed down the riot of paper money, the people throughout Hebei are discussing the location of Treasure Island and want to
Go to the island to dig for gold and silver!
This news was a bolt from the blue for Cao Cao. To a tycoon like Cao Cao, gold and silver were nothing. But the harassment in Hebei was put down. Lei Gong's next move must be to attack Yuzhou and Sili, and he might even attack them.
Qingxu Land, and in order to maintain the credibility of Qingxu Land's banknotes, he has exchanged the grain in his warehouse for banknotes in the hands of the people. Now Qingxu Land only has defensive power, but no offensive power.
When Hebei attacked Qingxu, he could only resist. But if Lei Gong attacked Yuzhou and Sili, Cao Cao wouldn't even have enough food and grass to support the army's expedition!
Cao Cao's roar completely frightened the civil and military ministers around him. No one in the army knew what was going on! Everyone looked at him with great favor!
Man Chong can only tell everyone about the discovery of Treasure Island in these places in Hebei!
These Xun or these people also want to look up to the sky and sigh like Cao Cao. Could it be that this Lei Gong really has destiny? It is obviously a huge disaster, but Lei Gong has not done anything, God sent a gold and silver island to help Lei Gong quell the turmoil.
! But the Han Dynasty is in dire straits. The three major princes of the Han Dynasty now have troops and no food, and it is impossible to jointly send troops.
"Where is this Treasure Island! How much gold and silver can actually quell the paper currency turmoil in Hebei? According to my estimate, the banknotes issued in Hebei as a whole exceed 100 billion yuan. Even if Hebei spends all its grain reserves, it will be difficult to quell it!"
Guo Jia asked.
This kind of thing is the most annoying. They have obviously done everything they can, but their enemies use plug-ins to easily solve the problem that they have spent a lot of effort to solve!
Man Chong said helplessly: "It is said that there are overseas islands not far from Lelang County. These islands are very large. It is said that there are more islands than our Qingxu areas combined. When the desert was still in power, the population of Xianbei was increasing day by day.
Their agriculture, animal husbandry and hunting could not satisfy the Xianbei people's survival. So Tan Shihuai inspected it personally. He saw that the Wuji Qin River was hundreds of miles wide and the water did not flow. There were fish in the water, but the Xianbei people could not get the fish.
Later, Tan Shihuai heard that the Japanese were good at fishing with nets, so he went east to the Japanese island on a simple raft, captured more than a thousand Japanese people, and moved them to live by the Qin River and asked them to fish.
, to make up for the lack of food.”
Then Manchong walked towards a map with the entire Han Dynasty drawn on it, pointed to the northeast corner of the map and said: "This is where the Japanese island is!"
"As for how much gold and silver there is, it is not yet clear, but it is said that Xi Zhong, an official in Hebei, exchanged 10 shipments of salt for 5 shipments of gold and silver. When he came back, the gold and silver were piled up like mountains, and it was so dazzling that it was difficult to open his eyes.
The opera loyalists distributed gold and silver to the people of Quan County on the spot. It is said that everyone received a gold horseshoe!
Now the whole Hebei is spreading rumors about how much money they made. Some say it’s one billion, some say tens of billions, and some even say it’s hundreds of billions. But no one knows exactly how much money they made. They only know about this trip.
Through trading, the people of Quan County in Youzhou have become wealthy people. With this kind of treasure island in hand, no one has to worry that Lei Gong can no longer exchange banknotes!"
Cao Cao was shocked when he heard Man Chong's words. He distributed gold and silver to the people in the county. This kind of thing has never been heard of in history. How much gold and silver did Lei Gong get? No wonder the people in Hebei don't worry about the credit of banknotes. If he had
With so much gold and silver, the people of Qingxu no longer have to worry about the credibility of banknotes!
"Brother Zhicai!"
Guo Jia was also shocked. After the two of them separated in Youzhou, this was the first time in the past few years that he heard the news about Xi Zhong, who could distribute gold and silver to the people of the county. Obviously Xi Zhong was highly valued in Hebei. Seeing
Guo Jia is a little envious of the fact that he is so handsome now that he can only do what he likes, instead of worrying about Qingxu's survival like him!
Cheng Yu looked at the map and said: "It seems that our Donglai County is not very far from this Japanese island. Can we also log in to this treasure island? The gold and silver on the island can solve the problem of the credibility of our banknotes.
We can’t just let Lei Gong monopolize it!”
But Xun You smiled bitterly and said: "Although it seems that we are about the same distance from Lei Gong, our navy can't compare with Lei Gong's navy! Lei Gong's largest warship is tens of thousands of stones in size and can carry dozens of naval guns, but we can't compare with Lei Gong's navy at all.
There is no such battleship!"
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Cao Cao's artillery quantity is already small, and the cities in Qingxu and Xu are not enough to allocate it. Only important cities have artillery defense. Naturally, it is impossible for him to install such an important weapon.
On the ship.
"Lei Gong attached great importance to the construction of the navy. When he was still in Mayi, there was only one Sanggan River in the territory. He had already built a battalion of navy. After occupying Youzhou, he built ten more naval forces along the coast of Youzhou.
Several docks connect the entire Youzhou by sea, not to mention building a navy of tens of thousands of people. They also use the ocean as a source of food and build tens of thousands of cement ships to catch marine fish. Now the output of marine fish is large every year.
It costs more than 50 million shi. The cheapest meat in Hebei is fish, which is only five times more expensive than grain! If our fishing boats dare to enter the waters of Hebei, they will be sunk by thunder! It is impossible to cross thousands of miles to get to any Japanese
island!"
There is another point that Xun Or did not mention. The strength of Lei Gong's navy was enough to sink all the fishing boats in Qingxu Land and trap them on the shore, making it difficult for them to catch sea fish and dig out struvite. But I don't understand why Lei Gong didn't do this. !
After hearing this, Cao Cao's face darkened, and after a long time he asked: "After Lei Gong has solved the internal troubles, he will definitely launch another attack on us. How should we respond?"
Xun You, Xun You, Cheng Yu and others looked at each other and saw that they had no food and grass. They were really determined to kill the enemy now, but they were unable to save their lives!
However, Guo Jia saw Man Chong and asked: "Is there any mobilization of materials and troops in Hebei?"
Man Chong said: "The military strength has not changed much, but during this period, Daqian accelerated the transportation of grain and grass supplies to Yanzhou and other places. At this time, the unrest in Yuzhou has not subsided, and even the Yellow Turban thieves have not appeared for many years. Yuzhou appears again, obviously Lei Gong is not willing to let go of this good opportunity!"
When Cao Cao heard the news, he said dejectedly: "It's over. Sili and Yuzhou are completely over. Yuan Tan doesn't even have one-tenth of Brother Benchu's abilities. We will be killed by him!"
If Sili and Yuzhou were also captured by Lei Gong, Cao Cao would know without thinking that he would be Lei Gong's next target!
It's hard for a good woman to make a meal without rice. Faced with this situation, everyone has to think of a good way. We can only hope that Yuan Tan can resist for a while.
Guo Jia even said: "Now I can only hope that Liu Bei will still be able to support Yuan Tan!"
And Cao Cao and the others were not wrong! The civil strife has subsided, and now it’s Da Gan’s turn to harvest the fruits!
Early April of the second year of Jian'an (AD 197)!
As soon as the spring plowing ended, the generals of Daqian began to mobilize their troops and attack in the direction of Sili and Yuzhou. Hundreds of thousands of troops launched an all-out attack. The war in the Central Plains that had been calm for more than a year was raging again!
In Yin, Henan, in Zhongmucheng, Yang Feng, the general of the Western Expedition, summoned the generals of Daqian for a meeting.
Li Le, who joined the army, explained the attack strategy in detail
"This time our army will firstly capture Yingchuan County and completely cut off Yuzhou's support for Luoyang City. Secondly, it will attack Xingyang, Aocang and other defensive cities on the front line of Luoyang City to lay the foundation for an early attack on Luoyang City."
Xu Huangchi asked: "Instead of General Huanglong leading an army of 100,000 to attack Yuzhou, why should we also separate our forces to attack Yingchuan County? You must know that the city in front of us is Luoyang City. Even with an army of 100,000 people, it will be difficult to attack Luoyang." city!
Yan Liang smiled and said: "Gong Ming, you want to take the lead in conquering Luoyang City, but you actually don't even take the credit of conquering Yingchuan County!"
Xu Huang said with a smile: "Luoyang City has been the capital of the Han Dynasty for 200 years. If we can attack Luoyang City, who can take the credit of Yingchuan County!"
Yang Feng said: "Although Brother Huanglong has an army of 100,000, he not only has to face Yuan Tan's army of hundreds of thousands, but also has to guard against Cao Cao between Qing and Xu. It is difficult to face such an army with the army in the hands of Brother Huanglong alone." There are many enemies, but the attack on Sili is not limited to our group. Xiliang Zhang Baiqi has prepared 100,000 troops, and Bingzhou has also prepared 100,000 troops to attack Hedong County and Taiyuan County in two groups. In addition, our group , the army attacking Luoyang City has exceeded 250,000. Relatively speaking, the Yuzhou direction needs more troops! So we have to detach an army of 50,000 to attack Yingchuan County and support Brother Huanglong in attacking Yuzhou!"
Hu Cai said excitedly: "The commander-in-chief plans to join forces with the commander-in-chief Huang Long to completely annex Yuan Tan's power?"
The operational goal set by Daqian this time was to annex Sili and severely damage Yuan Tan's army in Yuzhou. Of course, he could annex Yuzhou if he had the opportunity, but Xu Wei did not force it. After all, Yuan Tan had more than 200,000 troops in power, so he forcibly annexed Xu Wei. Also worried about making uncooked rice.
But obviously Huang Long and Yang Feng were not willing to continue watching Yuan Tan stay in Yuzhou. They concentrated most of their main forces to attack Yuzhou, but only sent 50,000 troops to attack Luoyang City!
Yang Feng smiled and said: "Brother Huang Long has secretly led his army southward to Dingtao and Changyi. Duan Yun's cavalry has also arrived at the border of Yuzhou, ready to launch an attack on Yuzhou at any time. Sili, we will not make peace with the Xiliang army. The Bingzhou Army is competing for the credit, but we want to swallow up all of Yuzhou!
Yanzhou, Dingtao City!
Huang Long led his personal guards to patrol the fields in the suburbs of Dingtao!
But the farmers in the fields are all frowning. After the end of winter this year, it has not rained for dozens of days. This has cast a shadow on the hearts of the people in Yanzhou. In the past few years, it can be said that the Han Dynasty has experienced nine out of ten years. Disaster, with weather like this without rain for dozens of days, it is very likely that Yanzhou will suffer from drought again this year. They have just divided the land, but they did not expect that the good times have only been a year, and God still refuses to let them go. !Now these people are carrying water to their fields and trying to find ways to reduce the drought in the fields!
Huang Long looked helpless when he saw this scene and said: "Report what happened in Yanzhou to the ruling party and see what the ruling party can do?"
Guan Hai beside him said: "Commander, judging from the situation in the past two years, Yanzhou is going to be devastated again. It is a good thing for Yanzhou to start a war now. The people of Yanzhou should not spend their energy on the fields. It’s better to become a civilian and earn food. Anyway, we have prepared 500 million shi of food for this war, so feeding the people of Yanzhou will not be a problem at all!”
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! But Huang Long worriedly said: "It would be okay if only Yanzhou suffered from drought. What I am worried about is that this drought will expand and affect Hebei, resulting in a large reduction in grain production. The government must It will take several years to cultivate, which will affect our progress in unifying the world!"
Fuyun said: "Commander, you can think on the bright side. The drought continues to expand. Maybe Cao Cao in Qingzhou and Liu Bei in Jiangnan will also be affected. By then, their food production will be reduced, and it will be even less possible to support Yuan Tan. A Yuan Tan, who is isolated and helpless, is no match for us! If we attack Yuzhou with an army of hundreds of thousands, Yuan Tan will definitely not be able to defend it!"
Huang Long said: "Cao Cao is also a problem. Although the Jizhou army will hold back Cao Cao's army, we can't completely guard against him!"
Guan Hai said: "Leave ten thousand cavalry in Changyi. When we attack Yuzhou, these cavalry will rush into Xuzhou. Then it will be Cao Cao who is afraid. This paper money crisis will also affect Cao Cao's territory. If the morale of the Qingzhou army is If nothing happens, maybe we can capture the entire Xuzhou, and then Cao Cao will be completely surrounded by us!"
Huang Long smiled and said: "You are really more ambitious than the other. In power, you only want to capture Sili, but we want to wipe out Yuan Tan's strength. But you want to capture the three states of Han Dynasty at once, and you are not afraid of us suffering from indigestion!"
Fuyun said: "If you have indigestion, digest it slowly! There is no way we can leave Xuzhou there without capturing it. To be honest, Xuzhou is the easiest territory to capture, and after capturing Xuzhou, Cao Cao was completely surrounded by us.
Once he sees that he is in such danger, he might surrender without a fight!"