I Am Not an Ant Thief of the Three Kingdoms Chapter 723: The Turmoil in Jidu
The military of Daqian all agreed with this deal, and civil servants like Niu Gui also agreed with this deal, because what Liu Bei purchased were the products accumulated by Daqian.
Although there has not yet been an economic crisis in this era, and the productivity of Daqian has not reached the level of causing an economic crisis, a few industries that were cheated by Xu Wei have already seen a pile-up of products.
The first one to bear the brunt is the grain industry in Daqian. Because of Xu Wei's cheat, the level of planting technology in Daqian has skyrocketed. Coupled with the large-scale development in various places in Daqian, grain output has increased every year. In the past, there were wars that consumed a lot of food. But now the whole world has been unified by Da Qian, and there has been no war in the world for three years.
Now in Daqian's warehouse, grain is piled up like a mountain. Xu Wei once said that he would prepare three years of grain accumulation across the country, but now no one has mentioned it, or even dared to mention it, because the current grain alone is already very difficult to handle. This thing also has a shelf life. In two or three years, it will become old food and its value will plummet. If it takes longer, it may become moldy and spoil, which will be a complete waste.
Now the digestion channel of Dagan’s old grains is the farms all over Dagan, and it becomes the feed for these farms. However, the old grains used as feed cannot be sold at a high price, and it is difficult for Dagan’s current weak breeding industry to consume Dagan. For the excess old grain, Daqian harvests new grain every year and sells the old grain. The price difference alone will cost the Daqian court more than one billion yuan.
So much so that Niu Gui had to issue a special order to ask the county guards in various places to find ways to expand the scale of the breeding industry and to find ways to consume the old grain in the granaries.
Therefore, local governments across Daqian are now trying to find ways to reduce the area of food crops and increase the planting area of cash crops.
Therefore, Niu Gui and the others were overjoyed at Liu Bei's request to buy grain, because as long as the grain was sold, they would make a profit!
In addition to food, the second largest industry in Daqian is the cloth industry. The use of steam engines has allowed Daqian's cotton, woolen cloth, and silk to enter an explosive period of production. Although the income of ordinary people in Daqian is now also due to The stability of the world has entered a period of rapid growth, but the increasing income of the people cannot match the growth rate of all kinds of cloth in the world. Daqian's cloth has long entered a period of overcapacity.
If industrialized countries in history encountered such a problem, they would definitely trigger an economic crisis, and then find ways to seize colonies to expand their markets. But it is obviously impossible for Daqian to use such a method.
Now the population of Daqian exceeds 50 million. This is the most populous country in the world and the richest country in the world. The silk, cotton and woolen cloth sold overseas by these Daqian merchants only amount to a million pieces every year. Less than one-tenth of domestic demand! In other words, the external market is extremely narrow!
Even if Xu Wei wants to use powerful guns and strong ships to open the outside market, it is impossible, because in this era, Daqian is the most technologically advanced and richest place, and the markets in other places are only a little big, and opening the market will not consume much. Cloth, this profit is not even enough to cover military expenses.
At that time, Niuniu had a population of three million. It could rely on Tianzhu, a market with a population of hundreds of millions, to solve the overcapacity problem caused by industrialization. However, when it was our turn to industrialize, it was impossible to find a market with more than ten times the population. Even now the global population is Turning into a commodity market for Daqian will not be able to solve the overcapacity problem of Daqian, because at this time the global population is only about 200 million!
Therefore, Daqian did not have the conditions to learn about Niuniu's industrialization process. Daqian could only learn from the development process of industrialization in later generations. Therefore, Xu Wei has always been very concerned about the income growth of the people in Zhongdaqian, because Daqian's industrialization can only rely on domestic demand.
Daqian's method of solving overcapacity in the textile industry was also learned from that of later Chinese dynasties. They controlled the scale of the textile industry and used the monopoly of state-owned textile mills to lower the price of textiles so that the profits of the textile industry were not high. For businessmen, profits are life. , the profits in the textile industry are thin, so naturally it is not worth investing in. Daqian has many profitable projects. If the textile industry does not make money, they will invest funds in another industry. Without capital investment, the scale of the textile industry will naturally expand rapidly. .
But this does not mean that Daqian cannot expand its textile industry. If the Mayi Textile Factory opens up its production capacity, it can double. It does not mean that the quantity of fabrics in Daqian's warehouses is scarce. In order to preserve the value of banknotes, Xu Wei There are 50 million pieces of cloth stored in warehouses all over the country, and there are tens of millions of pieces of cloth of various colors in Jidu alone!
Therefore, Liu Bei's more than one billion money is nothing to Daqian's production capacity, but Niu Gui and others regard it as a good start.
If Liu Bei opens up the market for Tianzhu with tens of millions of people, their food and cloth will definitely have a huge market. Now Liu Bei only occupies Tianzhu, a small country with a population of hundreds of thousands, but he can already spend 2 billion , and if the whole of Tianzhu is occupied by Liu Bei, I'm afraid Daqian's factory will be at full capacity to supply Liu Bei.
So this time Liu Bei's envoys were taken seriously by the Daqian people, and their billions of gold, silver and jewels were quickly replaced by a transport fleet of hundreds of ships, filled with food, cloth, and food from the Daqian. Iron armor, swords, and powerful artillery were all delivered to Daqian's doorstep, and Liu Bei's shipping charges were waived.
The behavior of Liu Bei and the others caused a sensation among the people of Jidu. They purchased goods worth more than one billion yuan at a time. Even the well-informed people of Jidu saw such a wealthy person for the first time!
At the same time, the results of Liu Bei's victory in Tianzhu spread to Jidu. Only then did the people of Jidu understand why Liu Bei, a down-and-out loser, had become so rich!
Tianzhu, a small country with hundreds of thousands of people, was actually captured by Liu Bei with 20,000 people. Liu Bei robbed all the local temples in Tianzhu, learned their governance methods and confiscated all the homes of Tianzhu nobles, and then spent 2 billion of treasure!
This chapter is not finished yet. Please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! "Is Liu Bei bragging? I remember that he has never won any battles in his life. Every time he came to power against us, he was defeated and fled. The big man He has defeated tens of thousands of miles of territory, and how can this person win the battle? Is he bragging here in Tianzhu?" A commoner from Jidu said in disbelief.
Liu Bei is so powerful in wars. Even a small country with hundreds of thousands of people was conquered by Liu Bei in just one month. This Liu Bei has become too brave! Is this still the Liu Bei they know as the always-defeated general?
Yes, in the eyes of the people of Daqian, Liu Bei was just a defeated general who couldn't fight. They were in power all the way from Youzhou to the Yellow River and the Yangtze River, and finally drove him out of the territory of Daqian. Outside, they can only live in the wilderness and become savages. It took such a person less than a month to conquer a small country. No matter how you look at it, it seems a bit like bragging. It is completely unreasonable for Liu Bei to be so powerful.
But another person immediately said: "This matter can't be faked. If I didn't tell you, there wouldn't be so many people who would cooperate with Liu Bei in lying. Even if Liu Bei lied, it would not be good for him. The most important thing is that Liu Bei didn't loot a country. How could he?" Maybe you can get that much money!"
"Don't forget that many businessmen united and borrowed 500 million from Liu Bei. Now all the money has been repaid by Liu Bei. Now Liu Bei's subordinates come to us with more than a billion dollars in treasure to buy armor with a lot of money. Swords and artillery, the money can't be fake, right? These hundreds of transport ships are all filled with cargo.
In this way, Liu Bei got 2 billion this year. Even the richest businessman in our country does not have such a net worth of 2 billion. Liu Bei could only get this money by robbing a small country, so this You never make a mistake again." After this person's reasonable inference, everyone accepted the fact that Liu Bei had really turned over.
"Is this country in Tianzhu really so rich? A small country with hundreds of thousands of people can actually collect 2 billion yuan. This is difficult even for the big men back then, right? Aren't overseas countries generally more wealthy than us? Poor, how can such a small country have so much wealth?"
One person explained: "It is said that many countries in Tianzhu are ruled by monks. These monks like to use gold to make a statue of the Buddha. A bottle of such a statue is said to be several feet high, and the outer layer is made of gold. It was cast. Liu Bei got the money by stealing the gold from these statues.
Think about it, everyone, the country of Tianzhu is an ancient country that has been inherited for thousands of years. They especially worship gods and use gold to make gods. How can there not be a lot of gold accumulated over these thousands of years? It is said that Liu Bei sent soldiers to lead I scraped off all the gold from the statues and loaded it into hundreds of carriages. This gold allowed Liu Bei to earn so much money."
While everyone was envious, they couldn't help but sigh: "Sure enough, people will become rich when they become bad. Liu Bei has even scraped the gold off the statues, and he is not afraid of being punished by the gods of Tianzhu."
"How could you be afraid? Liu Bei is our leader. Even if a god punishes Liu Bei, it will be our god who punishes Liu Bei."
"Then those people who followed Liu Bei have become rich, haven't they?" a commoner in Jidu said with envy!
After looting a country's wealth, even a small soldier can get a considerable amount of wealth. You must know that the soldiers who followed the government and conquered the world, even if they were not promoted, are now worth a lot of money and have become the people of Jidu. People, so the people of Jidu know how to raid a noble's home!
A retired veteran who had followed Xu Wei said with a smile: "Yes, Liu Bei and the others have made a lot of money this time. If Liu Bei really learns the methods of governing and confiscating properties, it is inevitable that the soldiers who follow Liu Bei will be promoted and make a fortune. Maybe there will be lucky ones already." He married an aristocratic woman from Tianzhu and became a master.
These veterans who followed Xu Wei were very familiar with this method. At first, they were so poor that they were about to starve to death. After following Xu Wei, they not only gained a huge fortune after fighting several battles, but Xu Wei also gave them a wife. , he was assigned a concubine from Helian, the great Khan of Xianbei. Such a beautiful woman had no chance of meeting him, but just because she was in power, she now became his wife.
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These words aroused waves of envy from everyone. The people of Jidu knew the background of this veteran and imagined what he said. Unfortunately, it was impossible for them to abandon their life in Jidu and go to Tianzhu to fight. They could only look at it with envy. He followed Liu Bei and became a soldier of the nobles.
After all, it was only in the past few years that there were no nobles in Daqian. Xu Wei's failure to proclaim himself emperor did not affect everyone's desire to become a noble.
At least Daqian people have been surrounded by nobles most of their lives. To them, nobles are nothing but synonymous with backwardness. Many people even want to become nobles spiritually, but they just don’t have this opportunity. So they Only then would he envy Liu Bei's men for having such an opportunity.
On the contrary, Xu Wei was a bit too advanced in power, making it difficult for everyone to understand why Xu Wei did not proclaim himself emperor.
At the same time, they don't understand why such a good place in Tianzhu should be reserved for Liu Bei. If we had known that the people of Tianzhu were so vulnerable, we would have fought it ourselves.
No one knew that the Tianzhu people would be so vulnerable. Their overlord, the Kushan Empire, was said to have a million-strong army and was a local hegemon in the Western Regions. Little did they expect that their vassal country could not even defeat Liu Bei, who had become a lost dog.
Jidu, Zhou Mansion!
Zhou Yu was entertaining Sun Ce who had just returned from the sea.
He also curiously asked: "Now the people of Jidu are everywhere following what Liu Bei did in Tianzhu. Did he really scrape off all the gold from the statues?"
Sun Ce sneered and said: "It's true, but those magicians in Tianzhu are not good people. They have monopolized the ruling power of Tianzhu for generations, but the people under their rule are living worse than when I was a Han Dynasty. We just went there At that time, Tianzhu was full of people dying of hunger, and the most chaotic period of the Han Dynasty was better than the current situation of Tianzhu. Although the people were starving to death, those temples were magnificent."
Zhou Yu was surprised and said: "The local people didn't rebel?"
If this had been left to the Han Dynasty, wars would have spread all over the country. You must know that in the last years of Emperor Ling, all the wise people in the world knew that the world would be in chaos, because the Han Dynasty had never stopped small-scale rebellions.
The doomsday scene of the empire's demise was felt by the entire upper class of the Han Dynasty, but there was no way to stop this decline.
Sun Ce said contemptuously: "There is no rebellion, because these monks control the thoughts of the local people. They tell the local people that they are suffering now because they committed sins in their previous life. After they have suffered the sins in this life, they will be rich in the next life. They use this method to fool the people." By ruling over the people, the country will naturally not have any strength."
"When Liu Bei sent people to fight, they didn't even think about resisting, and simply surrendered. It was when Liu Bei attacked them that they really resisted. But by this time, Liu Bei had already won over the people of the entire country, and they wanted to resist.
There is no chance. After all, Liu Bei now owes hundreds of millions in foreign debt. If he wants to repay the debt, of course he must attack these magicians."