After all, Liu Bei is not Xu Wei, and he can easily get into an industry that makes tens of billions of dollars! Although the big man now has more taxes than before, he also spends more! After all, he has an overall situation of 300,000 people and maintains a navy of 50,000 people. It all costs money.
Especially in the great war last year, the entire Jingzhou suffered tens of thousands of casualties. Jiujiang County and Lujiang County, the richest counties in Yangzhou, were even beaten to pieces. Later, in order to compete with Dagan for population, Liu Bei even destroyed Jiujiang County and Lujiang County. All the people have migrated to the south of the Yangtze River, and resettling hundreds of thousands of immigrants is a huge expense. It can be said that the treasury of the Han Dynasty is already empty!
Faced with this problem, Yuan Ji and Jian Yong were powerless. They knew how to spend money, but making money was a bit difficult for them!
Yuan Ji thought for a while and said: "General, why don't you ask Su Shuang and Zhang Shiping to come over and see if you can get Da Gan to buy more silk!"
Now the largest foreign trade commodity in Jingzhou is silk. In one year, more than 3 million pieces of silk were sold to the Han Dynasty, and the sales volume exceeded 5 billion yuan. It can be said that this money was the most important financial revenue for the Han Dynasty!
This is not because Da Qian wants to help Liu Bei stabilize the Han court, but because Da Qian really has such a big need. There is no defensive tool in the world that can withstand arrow wounds and knife wounds better than silk. Soldiers only need Wearing silk inner armor, even if a big man's fang arrow is hit, there will be no heavy bleeding, and it is easy to pull out. Not to mention that such silk inner armor can also protect against terminal diseases such as tetanus. Therefore, Xu Wei for his subordinates To protect his life, he had to spend a lot of money to import silk from Jingzhou every year to make military inner armor!
The same goes for Liu Bei. He also knows that because of the silk inner armor, the casualties of Dagan soldiers are very low. He heard that as long as there are no immediate fatalities on the battlefield, they can usually be saved. This has led to more and more veterans in Dagan. , the combat effectiveness of Daqian’s army is getting stronger and stronger!
But who made him short of money? This fund was indispensable to stabilize the Han Dynasty. Of course, Liu Bei was not willing to suffer. The two countries were at war, and money was of little use (of course, melting copper coins to make artillery was an exception!), so Liu Bei was a Han Dynasty. The silk must be exchanged for cattle and horses of equivalent value!
Of course, the war horse Xu Wei could not be given to Liu Bei, so the deal became that the Han Dynasty traded silk for Da Gan's cattle, with 8 pieces of silk in exchange for one cattle. Of course, Liu Bei did not suffer a loss. After he increased the price from Xu Wei, he paid per The cattle were sold to wealthy nobles and rich peasants of the Han Dynasty for 20,000 yuan, and were also given as rewards to soldiers with military exploits. It can even be said that rewarding cattle like this makes the soldiers happier than rewarding 50,000 yuan. Both parties are satisfied, and now Liu Bei is more Even cattle were used for pensions, which reduced Liu Bei's troubles a lot.
At this time, the Jiangnan development was beginning to bear fruit. The entire Jiangnan region was short of labor. One cattle could be worth several labors. Therefore, even though Liu Bei's cattle were expensive, many people still came to buy them. The cattle from Daqian also made great contributions to the development of Jiangnan!
This kind of counterpart trade was in the hands of Liu Bei and handed over to Su Shuang and Zhang Shiping, so Yuan Ji asked Liu Bei to invite them over.
Liu Bei thought it made sense when he heard it, so he asked Su Shuang and Zhang Shiping to come to the General's Mansion!
After the two arrived at the General's Mansion, Liu Bei explained the Han's financial problems to them and asked them to provide advice!
Zhang Shiping said with a gloomy look: "Daqian is establishing silkworm plantations in Yuzhou and Yanzhou, especially the silkworm plantations in Yanzhou, which have been around for three years, and their silk will soon be available. It can be said that we have already It’s hard to do anything!”
Su Shuang even said: "If the people of Daqian had not become increasingly wealthy and the silk market had not grown in the past two years, I am afraid that Daqian would have reduced the amount of silk we buy here. It would be very difficult to maintain the current situation. If we want to I’m afraid it will be difficult to ask Daqian to increase the purchase of silk!”
Jian Yong said anxiously: "The south of the Yangtze River is so vast that it is difficult to find some goods that Daqian needs. You must know that Yangzhou is now in danger. We have not thought of a way out, so Daqian attacked Kuaiji County from the sea!"
Zhang Shiping and the others also had some understanding of Da Gan's actions. After all, this was an aboveboard strategy. Not only did they not worry about the big men discovering it, they would also put pressure on Liu Bei and the others if they discovered it!
And now the land of Jiangnan is indeed feeling tremendous pressure. In the past six months, although the war between the two sides has not yet begun, the powerful people in Yangzhou have been fleeing to Jingzhou. When they arrived in Jingzhou, they saw that Daqian's troops had already When I arrived at Nanyang County, even Beibei County of Nanyang County was captured by Daqian. I immediately felt that Jingzhou was not safe. Now every year, people escape from Jingzhou towards Yizhou. It can be said that there is an endless stream of people escaping!
In addition, Liu Bei had just finished the battle with Daqian last year and moved the temporary capital of the Han Dynasty to Chengdu again. This made the powerful people in Jiangnan even more worried about their safety. The emperor's departure led the powerful people in Jiangnan to flee to Chengdu. Under such circumstances, the entire Jiangnan area is indeed devastated. How could Su Shuang and Zhang Shiping not understand the situation that the Han Dynasty is facing now?
Liu Bei was kind to the two of them, and they also wanted to report Liu Bei. After thinking for a long time, the two said: "Master, we have thought of a way. Although we can't get the money to build an ocean-going fleet, we can't get enough money to build an ocean-going fleet. But we can find a way to provide 100,000 prisoners to General Guan, so that General Guan can strengthen the defense of Kuaiji County!"
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Yuan Ji looked at the map of Kuaiji County and said: "If we can really get 100,000 prisoners of war, we may not be able to defend Yangzhou. We are different from Cao Cao at the beginning. Cao Cao was caught off guard by Da Gan, so he lost everything. And now Daqian wants to use his power to suppress us, and his strategies are all out there, so these words give us time to prepare!"
"Kuiji County is different from Qingzhou. Qingzhou has fertile land and a large population. It can be said that there were densely populated towns all along the way to Fan Xian. But even with our ten years of development, most of Kuaiji County is still in a In the wilderness, we can occupy several important strongholds and block Dagan from the core of Yangzhou. We can't even reach those wilderness areas. If there are too many people in Dagan, it will be difficult to support them with food and grass, but if there are too few people, We can’t conquer Kuaiji County at all!”
But Liu Bei was surprised and said: "You can actually make 100,000 prisoners of war. Could it be that the entire Shanyue in the south of the Yangtze River has been captured by you!"
He knew that these prisoners of war could not be Daqian prisoners of war, but Baiyue mountain people who refused to be naturalized. They said that prisoners of war were actually slaves. Didn't prisoners of war sound better?