Three Kingdoms: I Am Not an Ant Thief Chapter 720, Lively Winter
Jidu is extremely lively this winter, and even Xu Wei, the leader, leading students to install heating systems is not considered hot news.
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Throughout December, the hot spot in Jidu was the copper mine in Luzon. After Li Aimin and others sent a fleet to occupy Luzon Island in September this year, they quickly established a colony near the copper mine and quickly set up a copper refinery. The blast furnace of the mine, and then captured thousands of savages nearby to dig copper mines and smelt copper!
And in December, they returned to Jidu with the first batch of copper ore.
A full 100 tons of copper ingots and a large amount of gold and silver were first pulled by train to Jidu Railway Station, and then hundreds of carriages were pulled into the warehouse of Jidu Money Shop.
This scene made the people of Jidu extremely shocked. You must know that even though Daqian has issued banknotes, there are also gold and silver mines as collateral for the issuance of banknotes. However, the copper coins have still not withdrawn from the circulation market. In fact, due to the prosperity of the economy, rural areas The year-on-year transactions between them were extremely prosperous, the frequency of use of copper coins was extremely high, and the demand increased so much that the price of copper coins increased.
In the past, the exchange ratio of Daqian copper coins was about 15,000 yen per pound of gold. However, due to the continuous increase in the value of copper coins in recent years, the price has gradually increased to the official price of 10,000 yen per pound of gold (this was also the official price of Dahan in the past. Of course, in practice, the price of copper coins is much lower than the official price. In the late Han Dynasty, a pound of gold could be exchanged for 25,000 baht.) And it seems that this price will not last long, and will soon reach 9,000 baht. proportion.
It can be said that the economic prosperity of big money has brought about currency shortage. In order to suppress this situation, Xu Wei re-melted a large number of copper cannons into copper coins, which means that copper became more valuable.
And now the people of Jidu saw hundreds of horse-drawn carriages of copper ingots passing by them, which is equivalent to hundreds of modern cash transport trucks passing in front of them. This is a rare sight in a hundred years, how could you not feel excited!
Overseas is a land of wealth. This rumor has been confirmed again. Li Aimin and the others are just a group of petty officials. In less than half a year, they have obtained a copper mine worth hundreds of millions. It is so easy to make money. There are many People all want to follow Li Aimin's actions, and they also want to demarcate an island and become their own king.
Daqian's senior officials were overjoyed by the arrival of this copper ingot. After these copper ingots were stored in the warehouse, they were immediately transferred to the mint, where they were continuously pressed into new Daqian Tongbao by stamping machines to alleviate the lack of copper coins in Daqian's economy. Case.
After Li Aimin and the others sold out the copper ingots and gold and silver, they got hundreds of millions of dollars, and immediately purchased a large amount of machinery, iron tools, grain, cloth, and even basic materials such as refractory bricks for the blast furnace in Jidu. It can be said that , all the basic materials needed for survival and life are lacking in Luzon Island. They came here just to buy these production and living materials, and these materials were loaded onto the fleet and set sail back to Luzon Island.
Their shopping spree caused a sensation throughout Jidu. Such wealthy local tycoons are very rare even in Jidu where there are many local tycoons. Many people have already begun to recruit partners, preparing to go south to the South China Sea after the spring.
Start a career.
And this wave of local tycoons had just left. In January, a bigger local tycoon came to Jidu again. This time the local tycoons were even more exaggerated. They brought all kinds of gold, silver, jewelry, and precious leather and fur.
In terms of value, it is more than ten times more valuable than Li Aimin and others, and it has also transported hundreds of carriages.
Then the people of Jidu realized that this was Liu Bei's caravan!
Liu Bei and the others really made a fortune in Tianzhu!
More than half a year ago, Liu Bei's envoy Zhang Fei used the financial resources of merchants to purchase a decommissioned fleet and a large amount of weapons and ammunition, food and ordnance, and then the huge fleet went south to attack the country of Tianzhu.
At that time, everyone was basically watching Liu Bei's military operations. After all, they also knew the strength of Tianzhu. Not only did it have the Kushan Empire with a population of more than 10 million, but there were also more than a dozen small countries nearby, like the Spring and Autumn Period.
During the Warring States Period, the entire Tianzhu region had a population of tens of millions, and Tianzhu's strength was not much worse than their current Dagan.
Liu Bei was just a lost dog who was beaten down by them and fled. After he fled to Nanzhong, the people under his rule did not even have a million people, and most of them were barbarians, and the army only had tens of thousands of people.
Even if they think Liu Bei's army is more powerful, they don't think Liu Bei can defeat Tianzhu, which has a population of tens of millions! Even if Tianzhu is divided, it is precisely because of the division that Tianzhu's military strength will be stronger, just like the Warring States Period
There were only 30 million people in the world, but the combined armies of the seven countries at that time exceeded 3 million. The more troubled the times, the stronger the military strength. Everyone thought that if Liu Bei really wanted to gain a foothold in Tianzhu, he would be afraid
It will take many years to fight.
Even Liu Bei himself had this idea. He collected a lot of information about Tianzhu from businessmen, and then selected a small country with a population of less than one million. He wanted to destroy this country first, gain a foothold in Tianzhu, and then carry out
Next action.
But when they finally arrived in Tianzhu, Liu Bei found that he had overestimated the combat effectiveness of Tianzhu's army. The small country's army he attacked also had tens of thousands of people, but their main force was defeated by Liu Bei's fleet's naval guns in one round of bombardment.
Then it was even worse when defending the city. 20,000 troops defended a capital city, but it was captured by Guan Yu with 10,000 people in three days. It can be said that the combat effectiveness of this country's army is completely optimistic. For a small country with hundreds of thousands of people,
In less than a month, it was captured by the army led by Liu Bei.
The combat effectiveness of the army in this country is so poor. Many times when Liu Bei leads his army under the city wall, a white flag will be immediately erected on the city wall. It is difficult for Liu Bei to understand how they came up with the idea that the white flag represents surrender in the Han Dynasty!
When Liu Bei established a foothold in Tianzhu, he followed his agreement and gave priority to repaying all the spoils to the merchants who lent him money. And Tianzhu's wealth did not disappoint Liu Bei. The wealth in the treasury alone was enough for Liu Bei to repay all his
debt.
And this is not all the wealth of this country. There are also a large number of nobles who sacrifice their wealth and wait for Liu Bei to dig it. This time Liu Bei came to Tianzhu to try the joy of Thunder God. Liu Bei also planned to learn from Xu Wei's approach. For the upper class
He killed all the rice insects and used their property to reward the soldiers who followed him. From then on, he replaced the upper class of Tianzhu with his own men.