Chapter 284: Taking care of Lu Boyan who shot Sun Quan in the foot
Wang Chen said with a smile: "I still want it. This is what I should do. I hope that the noble people will take care of me in the future when I am in Shu!"
Huang Gouer smiled and said: "In that case, I will accept it. If you need help with anything in the future, as long as I can help, just ask."
Wang Chen said again: "In that case, I would like to thank you here in advance. If we get any benefits in the future, we will not forget you." After saying that, he stuffed a bag of gold grains into Huang Gouer's chest. In his sleeves, Huang Gouer secretly thought that these people knew the rules and were worth getting along with.
The third currency war occurred in the ninth year of Chiwu of Sun Wu. The main two parties were Sun Wu and Shu Han.
At this time, Zhuge Liang was dead, and the power of Shu Han fell into the hands of Jiang Wan. After years of foreign wars, Shu Han finally had a chance to recuperate. Jiang Wan had governed Shu for twelve years, and his main task was to defraud Sun Wu of money.
At this time, Sun Wu and Shu Han reluctantly restored their alliance and jointly fought against the powerful Cao Wei. Although they were in harmony on the surface, secretly the two sides still had no hesitation in trying to trick each other. After all, this was what both sides had done before.
Jiang Wan often sent soldiers disguised as merchants into the territory of Wu to exchange grain for a hundred coins. A hundred and five bahts were twice the weight of a five-baht coin. In Shu, due to force and coercion, there was no way to trade for a hundred coins. Five baht coins are used, but when you go to Wu State, if you want to spend a hundred five baht coins, no one will bother you at all.
But because Shu Han and Sun Wu were in alliance at that time, and Shu Han's national credit endorsement, these hundred and five bahts still found some markets in Wu. One hundred and five bahts could be exchanged for ten five bahts. Jiang Wan was indeed deceived. Get a little money.
But the situation soon began to go wrong. Those Wu people who received one hundred and five baht, from wealthy families to ordinary people, fled to Shu to exchange money. Didn't your Shu country stipulate that one hundred and five baht can be exchanged for one hundred and five baht? Baht money? Then I will come to you and exchange a hundred and five baht for food like crazy. In the war years, food is the most precious material. If you have food, you can live. If you don't have it, you will die.
In the end, even the soldiers of Shu got involved in this speculative game, causing the Shu Han to suffer heavy losses. Originally, Sun Wu had already won the currency war, but unexpectedly Lu Xun stepped in and reversed the outcome. come over.
Isn't this very similar to the first currency war in the 7th year of Jian'an? But this time the situation is reversed.
If this continues, the Shu Han will soon suffer the same consequences as Sun Wu did. But a miracle happened. At this time, Lu Xun stood up. Under Lu Xun's leadership, the Wu Kingdom began to rob the Shu Kingdom more violently.
Lu Xun thought, why don't you treat one hundred big coins as one hundred five-baht coins? Then I will treat you as one thousand, two thousand, five thousand, and kill you. Lu Xun really doesn't have a long memory, Jian'an Seven That time in 2008, it was because Sun Wu promoted false currency in Cao Wei's territory that he lost everything. This time he did it again.
Lu Xun minted Daquan five thousand, Daquan two thousand, and Daquan one thousand, which can be exchanged for 5,000, 2,000, and 1,000 five-baht coins respectively. These coins are lighter than a hundred five-baht coins, but they can be used as thousands of five-baht coins. Without exception, all the money was shipped to Shu.
Sun Wu failed in the first currency war because Sun Quan could not prohibit the export of materials, but Shu could. Shu did not have a wealthy family to restrict Jiang Wan.
As a result, almost all of this large amount of money flowed back to the territory of Sun Wu. This is the legal currency of your Kingdom of Wu. It cannot be used in Shu, but it can be used back in the embrace of the motherland. In the end, Jiang Wan even planned to use these large spring currencies to buy Jiangnan.
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Lu Xun's monetary policy aroused strong dissatisfaction among the wealthy families. Lu Xun had to cancel the Daquan Five Thousand and Daquan Two Thousand that year and recast them.
Because of this currency war, Lu Xun was dismissed from the prime minister amid the opposition of the wealthy families. However, Lu Xun was dismissed from the prime minister not only because this incident defrauded the wealthy families of Soochow who minted copper coins privately and sent people to Sichuan to buy supplies.
What's more, it was his excessive involvement in Sun Quan's "family affairs" (the selection of the crown prince) that made Sun Quan "bear the pain" and suppress him, in order to comply with the wishes of those wealthy families.
Although there is a Lu family behind Lu Boyan, his Lu family is not the only aristocratic family in Soochow. There are four families in total. The world calls them the four surnames of Wu County. With the strength of his family, it is impossible to compete with the other three families.
The four surnames of Gu, Lu, Zhu, Zhang and Wujun in Wuzhong during the Six Dynasties originated in the Eastern Han Dynasty and emerged in Soochow. They rose and fell over the past several hundred years and made outstanding contributions to the politics and military at that time.
In the Han Dynasty, there was a custom of monopolizing the state and county offices by well-dressed children. This situation also existed in Jiangnan, and was particularly prominent in Wu County.
Since there were many dignitaries in Wu County and there were many children of the four surnames seeking official positions, Sun Quan took special care of them, so that "there were often thousands of county officials."
Since the Han Dynasty, the prefecture and county governors have appointed local people to serve as governors. This system was also the same in the Three Kingdoms.
The rise of the four surnames occurred in the Soochow generation. Sun Quan took over Jiangdong and became king, and he had to rely on the full support of the Jiangdong aristocratic families.
The four surnames of Wujun, Zhu, Zhang and Gulu represent the core and main body of the Jiangdong family. They played an important role in the entire process of the creation, stability, development and decline of the Sun Wu regime and became an important pillar of the Sun Wu regime.
When Sun Wu started his business, people from Wu County followed him, including Zhu Huan, Zhu Yi, Zhu Zhi, Zhu Ran, Lu Xun, Lu Kang and others in the military field, and Gu Yong, Zhang Zhao, Lu Xun, Zhang Wen and others in the political field.
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Zhu Huan and Zhu Yi's father and son made numerous military exploits in the battle against Cao Wei.
Zhu Zhichu went to war with Sun Jian. After Sun Jian's death, he supported Sun Ce and persuaded him to return to the east of the Yangtze River in order to capture Wu County.
After Sun Ce's death, Zhu Ran, Zhang Zhao and others jointly obeyed Sun Quan's orders to conquer Yiyue and assist in pacifying the southeast.
The heir, Zhu Ran, was well versed in military affairs and had extraordinary courage. He was brave enough to deal with emergencies and was always successful at every turn.
In Jian'an, he followed Lu Meng to attack Jingzhou and captured Guan Yu alive.
Later, he guarded Jiangling on behalf of Lu Meng and repeatedly defeated the armies of Wei and Shu.
Lu Xun was the general of Soochow. In the first year of Huang Wu, Liu Bei led a large army to attack. The whole country was shocked. Sun Quan appointed Lu Xun as the general governor. He was the governor of Zhu Ran, Pan Zhang, Han Dang, Xu Sheng, Sun Huan and other 50,000 people to resist the enemy.
Lu Xun attacked with fire in Yiling and destroyed more than 40 battalions of the Shu army. Liu Bei fled to Baidi City at night and died of shame. Soochow eliminated the threat of Shu.
Gu Yong was the earliest representative of the Jiangdong family who followed Sun Ce and Sun Quan. In the fourth year of Jian'an, Sun Ce took over Hefei and made Gu Yong the chief of Hefei.
Sun Quan was the prefect of Kuaiji, and he made Gu Yong the prime minister of the county. He performed the duties of the prefect, suppressed the bandits, and made the county peaceful and the officials and people surrendered.
Sun Shao, the later generation, became prime minister. "He selected civil and military generals and officials according to their abilities. He did not know what was suitable for him. He visited the people and government officials from time to time, and kept secrets to hear about them."
If you see that the promise is used, you will attribute it to the superior. If you don't use it, you will never let it go. This is how the authority attaches importance to it."
Gu Yong served as prime minister for nineteen years. With his careful and tolerant elder style, he maintained a harmonious cooperative relationship between the Sun Wu regime and Jiangdong families, and the country's power was stable and rising.
In his later years, Sun Quan feared that the power of the Wuchang family would expand and endanger the royal power, so he changed his trust to control and appointed Lu Xun as prime minister. However, "the governor of Wuchang remained the same as before", and he was actually unable to return to Beijing to fulfill his duties as prime minister.
Therefore, after Lu Xun shot Sun Quan in the foot during the Third Currency War between Wu and Shu, he was easily pulled out of his position with almost no resistance.
Wang Chen smiled again and said: "Young nobleman, why don't you and I go to the nearby wine shop to have some food and wine, and then you can return to the palace to resume your life?"