When Liu Bei stopped mentioning the big things, the atmosphere in the camp finally became lively. Liu Bei was not stingy about giving wine and food to the generals following him to celebrate! And Zhang Fei, Guan Yu and other generals also relaxed completely to celebrate this event. A hard-won victory.
When the banquet was over, Liu Bei left Yuan Ji behind!
A soldier placed a cup of tea in fine porcelain on Yuan Ji's table!
Liu Bei himself took out a cup of tea and said while drinking: "The porcelain in Daqian is getting better and better. It is said that we here in Tianzhu spend hundreds of millions of dollars on porcelain alone every year!"
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Most of the people who followed Liu Bei were from noble families, even military generals. In the past, people naturally didn't need to care about these things in the wilderness, and even used pottery bowls to eat.
But after Liu Bei established a foothold in Tianzhu, many civil servants and generals began to be particular about it, and even Liu Bei couldn't stop this. After all, there is no need to doubt the loyalty of those who can come to Tianzhu with him, and now the conditions are good. , it’s hard for him to say anything to improve his life!
Yuan Ji said calmly: "The porcelain factory in Tianzhu is already trying to crack this kind of porcelain. Maybe this kind of porcelain can become one of our financial resources in Tianzhu in the future!"
"Can our finances satisfy the rewards for the generals?" The reason why Liu Bei was dissatisfied that the people who followed him started to act extravagantly was because Tianzhu's finances had been very tight.
And just when he was short of money, his people still spent a lot of money on silk, tea, cane sugar, and even various precious fruit wines, which were constantly consuming Tianzhu's small wealth. This was what he was most dissatisfied with. The place!
Now, although he won the battle, he still had hundreds of thousands of soldiers to reward, and the money was enough to bankrupt Liu Bei.
Yuan Ji said calmly: "We can completely distribute the land here to the soldiers, and the tens of thousands of prisoners in our hands are also a huge wealth!"
Selling prisoners of war in Tianzhu during this period has become a tradition for Liu Bei's army. As long as there are financial problems, he will find a way to get tens of thousands of Tianzhu people to sell to the South China Sea, and he will have more than one billion yuan! So for Yuan Ji, in his hands With tens of thousands of prisoners, there is no need to worry about financial problems.
Daqian's development of the South China Sea has entered a period of acceleration. With simple infrastructure and docks built, a large number of reclamation sites in the South China Sea have entered a period of rapid development, and this requires high-quality labor to do the work.
Compared with the savages in the South China Sea, the Tianzhu people have always been the favorite labor force in the reclamation sites of the South China Sea. Over the years, they have purchased millions of Tianzhu labor forces from Tianzhu, but there are still a large gap. Because of the lack of labor, the prices of Tianzhu prisoners of war and so on Instead, people are slowly rising!
Of course, this was not considered a legitimate business after all, and Liu Bei found it difficult to even speak of it.
He took a sip of tea and said after a while: "Shiji, after defeating the Kushan Empire, we have become the overlord of Tianzhu. Do you think we can issue banknotes?"
Liu Bei had long been dissatisfied with Daqian's use of banknotes to steal a large amount of Tianzhu's wealth, but now he needed Daqian's supplies, and these banknotes could also buy Daqian's goods. He could only endure it, but now he He thinks that Tianzhu no longer has the power to threaten him, so he doesn't want to endure it anymore, because he knows that as long as Tianzhu is still using Daqian's banknotes, Daqian will continue to absorb Tianzhu's wealth to strengthen himself!
Yuan Ji thought for a moment and shook his head: "Daqian issued banknotes based on the equivalent of gold, cloth and grain crops. As long as the Daqian court can obtain these three things, their banknotes will be real money!"
Then he smiled bitterly and said: "But we have been fighting in Tianzhu for 10 years. We have exchanged the gold that Tianzhu has accumulated for thousands of years for weapons, equipment and artillery, and we have exchanged the human beings for cloth and food. Now Tianzhu is completely poor, except for people. A little more and nothing else, what do we use to pay for the paper money we find?”
After Liu Bei thought for a long time, he could only smile bitterly and said: "Yes, we have nothing. Who will use our banknotes if we talk in vain?"
Yuan Ji thought for a while and whispered: "It's not impossible. We still have a population in Tianzhu. If a young man can exchange for 30,000 yuan now, we can support the issuance of hundreds of billions of banknotes with a population of one million!"
When Liu Bei heard this, he immediately shook his head and said: "Trading prisoners of war has made us stink for thousands of years. If we still treat people as goods, I'm afraid we will all be stink after a thousand years."
Forget about the prisoners of war and the nobles of Tianzhu. These are his enemies. He can be justified even if he sells them. But the other Tianzhu people are the common people under his rule. If they really want him to exchange money, can he really use himself to rule them? The people under the mortgage?
Liu Bei couldn't help but said: "Why does Lei Gong always have more and more money? We have been fighting with him for decades, and we have never heard of Lei Gong being short of money!"
Yuan Ji smiled bitterly and said: "I have to admit that Lei Gong is a genius. He created a brand new world. This world is more than 10 times stronger than our big man. This is the reason why we were completely defeated!"
After hearing this, Liu Bei was silent for a long time and said: "Does it mean that we really have no chance to defeat Thunder Lord?"
Obviously Liu Bei still misses the big man and wants to return the old capital!
Yuan Ji thought for a while and said calmly: "Lei Gong was extremely successful as an emperor. It can even be said that none of the emperors of the Han Dynasty was more successful than Lei Gong. An emperor like him only appeared in 500 years, and only the one who annexed the six countries was Only the First Emperor can compare!"
"However, Daqian is not without its hidden worries. When the First Emperor ruled the world, he did not expect that the Qin Dynasty would be destroyed by the second generation. Lei Gong said it well. The collapse of the Qin Dynasty was not due to the failure of the second generation, but because the officials of the Qin Dynasty were facing a completely new world. world, but they used the old system of war results to manage the Qin Dynasty, so the Qin Dynasty collapsed."
"The same applies to Daqian now. Daqian is also a brand new world. No one knows how to manage this world and what is the principle of how this world works. Now Lei Gong has high prestige and can suppress everything, but when Lei Gong After death, Daqian may collapse!"
Liu Bei doubted: "Daqian was so strong in its heyday, and it doesn't look like it will collapse at all!"
Yuan Ji smiled and said: "Ming Gong, don't be confused by these appearances. Lei Gong can be said to be a very wise man. Judging from his actions over the years, it is not an exaggeration to say that he is a holy king for three generations. He has never been a saint in history." No emperor like him regards caring for the people as his lifelong career. The people are the most important, the country is second, and the king is the least. Lei Gong has truly done this."
"But I don't think such a system can be maintained. His requirements for the emperor are too high. This requires all the rulers of Daqian to be holy kings like Lei Gong. Is this possible?"