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Volume 2 Chapter 123 The Fool¡¯s Trick

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    Liu Bei had just founded the country, but he did not expect that he would be forced to abdicate immediately.  Sima Yi became the new emperor, and the three sects seemed to have prepared the new dragon robes and all the necessary items.  The name of the new country is "Chu". This is because Sima Yi's main territory was in the former Chu State. The Chinese dynasties, since the Song Dynasty, like to use the area where the vassal states in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period were located as their country names.  In the original time and space, Liu Bei was the emperor's uncle of the Han Dynasty, so he naturally established the Shu Han; Cao Cao's separatist rule in the north started from Wei, so it was Cao Wei; Sun Quan started from the hometown of Wu, so the country's name was Sun Wu, and God was added in front of the country's name.  The surname of the emperor is also a way to distinguish these countries in each era.  Originally, Sima Yi occupied the north, and his birthplace was the hometown of the Jin State. Moreover, the Wei State was split from the Jin State, so the established country was named "Jin".  But now that his territory is mainly in the south, it is naturally impossible to name him Jin, so he can only change it to "Chu" based on the scope of his territory.  As the founding emperor, he was naturally very busy. Even though he had a lot of powerful people to help with government affairs, but using the old system of the Han Dynasty, he had to do many things himself. Whether it was military or government affairs, he was extremely busy every day.  Things need to be dealt with.  However, Liu Ming started playing guerrilla warfare again, running around in his territory, and changing places after shooting, leaving no trace of his pursuers at all.  Fortunately, the disciples of the three sects gave their full help, which allowed his main strategic reserve base to be best protected. The guerrilla troops attacked many times, but in the end they all returned with casualties. As a result, the guerrilla troops had to change their strategy goals and try to avoid attacks.  These points.  But if the key points are not broken, the importance of other places will not be much, and no matter how powerful the guerrilla forces are, they will go out to fight far away from the homeland. Under such circumstances, they do not have the ability to attack cities and expand territory.  His headache was not with these guerrilla troops, but with the pay of his own soldiers.  You don¡¯t know how expensive firewood and rice are, and the wartime pay for an army of hundreds of thousands is an astronomical figure. Liu Ming has the Silk Road and a powerful chamber of commerce, so he has the ability to pay the soldiers¡¯ pay, even in wartime; Sima Yi is not yet completely  Integrating the resources of the new site, the payment methods began to be in trouble.  Now, the frontline troops have been in arrears with their military pay for more than ten days, and the morale of the soldiers has begun to fluctuate. Many people serve as soldiers not only to have enough food to eat, but it is impossible for them to work hard without pay.  The distribution of military pay was a problem, not to mention the salary issue for officials at all levels. Speaking of which, Sima Yi hated officials everywhere. After those guys took over his side, they calculated the local money and food and found that at least 50% of it was missing.  Money and food, these money and food are all bad debts, but it happens to be like this everywhere. They all say that they do not blame the public. When Sima Yi came to power, he could not say a word and was dismissed by officials everywhere.  Therefore, this part that was originally part of the corruption became Sima Yi's appeasement payment to officials at all levels. However, the money and food throughout the territory were halved. Taking into account other expenses, there was almost no amount that could be sent to the central government.  As a result, a lot of restoration work could not be carried out, and even the payment of salaries to many officials became a problem.  In desperation, Sima Yi had to invite representatives from the three sects.  "Dear elders, Zhongda is not without his efforts, but now there is a huge financial deficit, and the soldiers on the front line are complaining a lot. Even if we can force them to send troops, there is no way to avoid their timidity in the face of battle, let alone  Now that it has entered deep winter, the soldiers are complaining even more" Sima Yi said to everyone in a very humble manner.  "This is not a matter of concern to us. We will help you secure the country and govern the country, and our military will help you fight on the battlefield. The Natural Sect will protect you from being assassinated, and even protect those key points from being attacked by the opponent. Under such circumstances, there are some money and food issues.  If you can't solve it, then what's the use of you?" The representatives of the three sects will not care about that problem.  Sima Yi scolded the three sects for being shameless. It is true that they helped him a lot, but they could not produce money or food. Now that the north and the south were separated, the northern caravans stopped going south under Liu Ming's instructions, so that business taxes were greatly reduced, and  That is, many places in the south are suitable for growing food, and there is no shortage of food and grass.  "Well, let me tell you a method. We studied it not long ago. Nowadays, banks are opened by Liu Ming everywhere, and the money issued by them is used everywhere. For an emerging country, you should have  Your own bank, your own currency, you can even print and issue some paper money yourself, which is much more convenient than gold and silver coins. The most important thing is that you can print as much as you want. "Perhaps San Zongzhen.  Knowing that Sima Yi was troubled, he simply gave it to him.A solution.  But this method is 2X enough. He actually plans to encourage Sima Yi to establish his own bank and print his own banknotes. This thing is a devil, especially the intention of Sanzong, who also asked Sima Yi to print as many as he wanted.  "If Sima Yi were a time traveler, I'm afraid he would immediately jump up and yell: Are you sent by Liu Ming to play with me on purpose?"  But he¡¯s not, so he doesn¡¯t see anything wrong with this, and he even thinks this might be a solution.  The next thing will be easy. A comprehensive seizure of banks in various places. The name of the bank is that it is a detailed operation base sent by Liu Ming from the north (Jin Yiwei said: How did you know?). At the same time, the Chu State Central Bank was opened in the name of Chu State.  , issue new currency.  The new currency is actually made of paper, which made many people dumbfounded. Only after taking a closer look, they discovered that the paper banknotes can be of large or small denominations, and the paper quality and special printing process are different from what others thought.  Counterfeiting is not that easy. With this in mind, some businessmen began to try to use it. After a lot of publicity, many businessmen also felt that the paper version might be good, and it was easy to carry with them in large or small denominations.  Slowly, everyone got used to the existence of this currency, and it began to circulate in Chu State.  With the right to mint money, the soldiers on the front line also began to receive military pay, all with such banknotes.  At first, the soldiers couldn't accept it, but they found that the use of this thing was no different from gold and silver coins, so they acquiesced. The main reason was that they discovered that the officers and officials at all levels were also using this kind of banknotes.  With the help of banknotes, Sima Yi integrated the resources of the south as quickly as possible, so he further abolished the use of gold and silver coins and ordered the people of Chu to exchange gold and silver coins within the specified time. Otherwise, these two things can only be regarded as ordinary things in the future.  Gold and silver are used and do not have equivalent purchasing power.  Sima Yi was making a big splash in the south, and Liu Ming in the north naturally received the news. In fact, the chicken-feather letter was about just that.  The caravans in the north are no longer engaged in business in the south. In fact, the aristocratic families in the south don't have much moral integrity. If the northern ones don't go, they will try their best to come to the north to purchase goods. Liu Ming plans to use this method to impose economic sanctions on the south.  , consuming the wealth of the South to the maximum extent.  I thought this would be a long process, but I didn¡¯t expect that Sima Yi would issue banknotes at this time. He was not sure he could control this kind of demon, but the South released it so quickly.  It¡¯s not that he has no plans to issue banknotes. He formed a discussion group for the issuance of banknotes a year ago. They have made predictions on a series of issues such as currency circulation and inflation, and the method to ensure that banknotes must be safe. ??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? Hasn't been able to make banknotes appear for more than a year, Sima Yi hastily mounted, is afraid that loopholes are inevitable.  Under such circumstances, Liu Ming would not be willing to make a profit if he did not make a good profit.  For Sima Yi, Liu Ming's resentment towards him has exceeded that of Liu Bei, just because this guy did things that even Liu Bei would be worried about in order to gain the approval of the three sects.  If this guy is not destroyed, the Han Dynasty will definitely be severely injured, and others will die. In the process of the Jin Dynasty unifying the world, this guy wasted so much manpower. It only said that when the Jin Dynasty was completely unified, there were only a million people left in China.  Many issues have been explained.  "Immediately give me a set of the other party's currency, and then send someone to imitate it immediately. I still don't believe that the other party's manufacturing technology can surpass ours. You can discuss other methods among yourselves. What I need is a result." Liu Ming said to the banknote discussion group  The members were summoned, including of course Zhang Xue, the bank¡¯s general manager.  "Here." Zhang Xue accepted the order happily, and then immediately summoned the group members to start a discussion.  He returned to his office happily, but he didn't expect that at this time, a guard would hand over a letter asking for help. Seeing this, Liu Ming's face turned ugly.  ¡°When he opened it and took a look, he immediately became happy.  "I knew that old thing wouldn't die that easily." Liu Ming laughed.
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