Chapter 450 Financial War in the Late Eastern Han Dynasty
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Li Ru, however, remained silent!
After a long time, he stood up and walked to the corner of the tent, took out a small box from a pile of debris, then walked back and sat down. He gently rubbed the small box with his palms. After a while, Li Ru sighed, as if he had made up his mind.
Open the box. Under the light, there is a bunch of dark, rough-looking coins in the box...
"Master, can you recognize this thing?"
Cao Peng stretched out his hand and took the coin from Li Ru's hand, but he couldn't help but frown.
"This is……"
The size of a copper coin is much smaller than a five-baht coin, but it is quite poorly made. Moreover, there is no writing on the coin.
He recognized that this was the uneducated money that was popular on the market during Dong Zhuo's time.
Dong Zhuo controlled the court and did not have enough copper coins, so he began to mint coins privately. However, making coins required a large amount of copper. Dong Zhuo did not have such copper in his hands, so he destroyed folk copper goods, bronze bells and other copper products.
, minted coins. Because Dong Zhuo recast small coins, not only the weight was insufficient, but also a large number of bad coins were flooded, causing prices to rise crazily. In a short period of time, the price of a single grain rose to tens of thousands of qian, or even hundreds of thousands of qian per stone.
the point.
There was a saying at that time that if you wanted to buy a liter of grain, you had to trade with a liter of copper coins...
Later, people began to consciously eliminate this kind of coins.
I won't buy it!
As a result, barter emerged, causing further confusion in prices throughout the market.
The small money made by Dong Zhuo was the "unwritten money" in Cao Peng's hands.
Li Ru smiled and said softly: "Young Master must have recognized this as 'Wu Wen Qian'. Back then, my father-in-law controlled the government and the princes attacked me, so I had to retreat to Chang'an. In order to disturb Guandong at that time, I came up with Wu Wen Qian."
In just two years, I made the Guandong market chaotic and almost ruined... Originally, if I persisted for another one or two years, my father-in-law would have conquered the entire world without losing any blood. Unfortunately... So, I will
This matter is hidden in my heart."
"There is no money, and it comes from sir?"
Cao Peng looked at Li Ru in astonishment.
In his memory, when everyone mentioned "no money", they would say that it was Dong Zhuo's method of amassing money through extortionate expropriation.
But it’s unexpected...
At the same time, Cao Peng shivered with excitement.
Bad money eliminates good money! Isn’t Li Ru’s move the financial means of future generations?
By pouring a large amount of bad currency into the market, it caused market price chaos in a certain region or a certain country, and eventually collapsed. Such methods would appear in endlessly in later generations, which is not surprising. But I didn't expect that this would happen in the late Eastern Han Dynasty.
Cao Peng no longer has much memory of the disaster caused by the lack of money...but he often heard Cao Ji and his wife, or Deng Ji and his wife, talk about the bleak scene during the period when there was no money and plenty of money.
Take Zhongyang Mountain as an example: Cao Ji was repairing farm tools and making ironware at that time. He did not accept money at all, but asked for direct barter. However, due to the differences in the value of the goods, he often quarreled with others and even disagreed.
Happy and dispersed.
Those years were really painful!
In fact, Cao Peng is also rare and strange.
He didn't know that this kind of financial war, which was taking shape, was not uncommon in the Three Kingdoms era.
Liu Bei, Liu Huangshu, who was famous for his "benevolence and righteousness" in later generations, also did such a thing. When he conquered Bashu, due to insufficient military supplies, he minted a large coin called "Straight Hundred and Five Baht".
One hundred coins.
Later, Liu Bei proclaimed himself emperor in Bashu and named himself "Han", which was later called Shu Han.
The currency of the Shu Han Dynasty was more complicated. In addition to the straight hundred and five bahts, there were also Taiping hundred coins, Dingping hundred coins and other large coins. Among them, the most famous one was the "Jianwei five baht". Liu Bei continued to gather the wealth of the Shu Han through this kind of coinage.
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For example, if the total amount of private funds is 10,000 yuan, and Liu Bei mints a large coin, it can be exchanged for 150 private coins. Then, as long as Liu Bei mints 100 large coins, it is equivalent to having 10,000 yuan. It sounds like
, social wealth does not seem to have changed as a result... But don't worry, when all these 100 yuan enter circulation and are exchanged for five baht or for shopping, the 10,000 yuan in the hands of your people will be devalued by half, and
The other half went into Liu Bei's pocket.
Perhaps Liu Bei was trying to raise military funds...
Perhaps, he wanted to enrich the treasury. But the harm caused by flooding the market with such huge amounts of money is self-evident.
In fact, not only Liu Bei, but also Sun Quan also did this kind of thing.
Historically, Sun Quan once minted a copper coin called "Daquan Five Hundred". As you can tell from the name, one coin is worth five hundred coins. Later, there were also "Daquan Dangqian", "Daquan Two Thousand" and "Daquan Two Thousand".
Currencies like 'Daquan Five Thousand'... Fortunately, Sun Quan discovered it in time, and finally stopped circulation and ordered the government to take it back.
It can’t be done without recycling!
Because of this huge amount of money, it almost caused riots throughout Soochow...
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Of course, Cao Peng didn't know these things. When Li Ru revealed his plan to eliminate good coins with bad coins, he couldn't help but be surprised.
Li Rudao: "My idea is to first go through the imperial court and cast five baht in a unified manner in the name of this silver tower to stabilize the situation in the Central Plains. Then, the young master tried to cast five baht and mixed it with sundries to make it look the same as five baht in appearance.
The money is the same. Then put this large amount of bad coins into...for example, Bashu! Well, it is Bashu...Bashu is a country of abundance, and it is especially relaxed under Liu Zhang's rule. It is rich in products and has sufficient grain and rice, which is what Liangzhou is like.
need.
Through the Hexi County Chamber of Commerce, the young master put a large amount of bad coins into Bashu in exchange for goods.
This is a slow process, maybe one or two years, maybe four or five years, but Liu Zhang will never be able to detect it at the beginning. When so many low-quality five-baht coins flood Bashu, it will inevitably cause a large-scale increase in the value of goods.
Liu Zhang wanted to govern again, but it was already too late... Even if he was willing to pay for these bad coins, it would probably be difficult to achieve success. In this case, Bashu will be in chaos. When the time comes, the young master can send troops.
Occupy the land of Bashu without losing any blood. This is an idea of mine, but if we want to implement it, we need careful planning."
Damn it, isn't this counterfeit money?
Cao Peng was really confused!
He looked at Li Ru in surprise, a little confused.
But if you think about it carefully, you feel that this is not impossible.
But the prerequisite is that the currency of the Central Plains must be unified to avoid the huge impact caused by the return of bad currency.
Bank, equal to the central bank?
Isn’t the silver building mentioned in Li Ru’s words the function of the central bank in later generations?
However, in this case, the ownership of the silver building must be completely taken back. Previously, the silver building was in the hands of Cao Peng, Chen Qun and others. If this plan of using bad coins to eliminate good coins is really going to be implemented, then Cao Cao will immediately
The silver building was recovered.
If we say that what Liu Bei, Sun Quan and others did in history was to collect food and salary.
Then Li Ru is consciously using currency to disrupt the other party's market and destroy the other party's economy...
Can this be done?
There is no doubt that it can be done!
If this can be achieved, maybe the Three Kingdoms War will not need to last too long.
Cao Peng closed his eyes, digesting Li Ru's plan while trying to recall the details of the financial war in later generations.
Although he is only a criminal police officer, he has seen and heard of many such things.
As a result, Cao Peng kept putting forward the financial crime methods in his memory, and Li Ru continued to change them to adapt to the needs of this era. Later, Li Ru simply picked up a pen and paper, recorded and started writing. Unknowingly,
, it was dawn... When Li Ru's soldiers walked into the small tent and wanted to wake Li Ru up, the two of them had already written down a thick stack of paper.
"Its daybreak?"
Li Ru didn't feel tired at all, and seemed to be back to the state he was in when he was planning for Dong Zhuo, extremely excited.
Cao Peng felt confused.
When I stood up, I even felt like my world was spinning...
"Sir, that's it for today.
The key is that these things are only an outline at the moment, and there will inevitably be many specific problems in operation. Why not, sir, please start planning. If you need my help, you can ask. I will look for opportunities and report to Sikong step by step.
To improve this plan... it would be best if we improve it as we go along, how about it?"
Li Ru laughed and nodded repeatedly.
The way he raises his hands and feet makes people feel a high-spirited and high-spirited spirit.
“It’s actually not difficult to do.
When the Hexi County Chamber of Commerce is in operation, this is the day when this plan will be promoted. In this way, I don't need any soldiers, just Su Shuang and Zhu Dao are with me, that's enough!"
One is the future leader of the Hexi County Chamber of Commerce and is proficient in business.
The other is a ranger and has a lot of friends. It is more than enough to have the two of them as assistants. After all, if you really want to implement this plan, what you need is not a great talent or an outstanding literary talent. This is a need.
Only practical people can implement plans. Relatively speaking, Su Shuang and Zhu Dao are indeed the most suitable candidates.
Cao Peng said: "I will let the two of them provide full assistance."
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The last day of the eighth year of Jian'an, and the new year is about to come.
Although the environment is poor, the people living in Hongshui Camp are still very interested. They happily arranged the camp, and every simple tent was wrapped with a touch of red silk to show
Happy. Cao Peng also ordered people to drape the angry lanterns in red and colorful to add to the New Year atmosphere.
At the same time, he ordered the slaughter of cattle and sheep, and each tent would share some as a New Year's gift.
When everyone was busy welcoming the new year, Cao Peng called Xu Shu, Pang Tong, and Bu Zhao Jia Xing, and told everyone what Li Ru said last night. Sure enough, Pang Tong and others heard about it.
, immediately felt the slightest threat. They whispered to each other, and then proposed one plan after another to Cao Peng...
Night falls!
When Cao Peng returned to his residence, tired, he saw Guo Huanbuluan and others preparing meals.
Cai Yan and Zhen Mi were also helping, while Ameiguai (Cai Mei) supported her chin with her little hand and watched everyone busy.
"What are you preparing for?"
"The New Year is approaching, so of course I have to prepare the New Year's Eve dinner."
Cao Peng glanced at the materials prepared by everyone, and suddenly said with great interest: "Since it is the New Year, how can we miss dumplings?"
"dumpling?"
"Hahaha, don't worry, I'll show you, it's actually not difficult.
Tonight is New Year's Eve, there are no taboos... Call Cai Di over, and let's celebrate our fate together. I hope that in the coming year, everything will go well and without any disaster... Come all over, let's spend this New Year together."
