Three Kingdoms Simulator: This Ma Su is too stable

Chapter 120 The Main Quest Starts (Please ask for a monthly pass!)

When Ma Di and Qiang girl's feelings were getting deeper and deeper,
Zhuge Liang is worrying about how to develop the economy of Shu Han.

Especially after the Shu Han changed its strategic goal from an active northern expedition to a steady development, the development of people's livelihood became the top priority of the imperial court.

Therefore, the candlelight in the study of the prime minister's mansion stayed on all night long.

Any time-consuming and protracted war requires a strong economy to support it. Without sufficient economic backing, it is almost impossible to win the war.

Since Shuhan is the poorest of the three countries, people's livelihood has always been extremely difficult.Central Sichuan is not only short of money, food, war horses, people, and so on.

Among these urgently needed materials, the most scarce item is food.

Usually, half of the Shu Han's food sources are self-sufficient, usually through imports, and the food is imported through the Shu brocade trade.

Even Zhuge Liang said: "Today, the people are poor and the country is empty, and the only way to defeat the enemy is to rely on brocade ears."

It is no exaggeration to say that it was the Shu brocade trade that supported the previous Northern Expeditions of the Shu Han.Shu brocade is not only the foundation of people's livelihood in Sichuan, but also a pillar industry.

In Chengdu alone, tens of thousands of weavers are engaged in this industry. Even Zhuge Liang's home has 800 mulberry trees.

Zhuge Liang exported Shu brocade to Wei and Wu in exchange for food and other war supplies to maintain the needs of more than [-] troops, and then went north to attack Cao Wei.

However, that is the old calendar. Since the 19th year of Jian'an (214), when the three pillars formed, the business of Shu brocade has not been easy.

Even though Shu Brocade is a unique commodity in the world and a necessity for dignitaries and upper-class people, it has always been subjected to the highest standard of trade sanctions by the State of Wei.

Unlike Shu Han who had Shu brocade and Wu State who had Jiangnan silk, Wei State did not produce silk.Under this situation, if the State of Wei wanted to check and balance and weaken the economies of Shu and Wu, it could only use a trade war, and the trade war must target Shu brocade precisely, and by the way, attack Wu's silk.

Therefore, the Wei State officials have always banned luxury and fashion consumption, so as to reduce the demand for Shu brocade and Wu silk.

In the early days, Cao Cao himself practiced it by himself, advocating "elegance and frugality, not gorgeous, and the harem clothes are not beautiful." Cao Zhi's wife was punished for violating the embroidery and died.

During Cao Pi's period, Cao Cao's sanction policy was continued. Only in the later period of Cao Rui (after 235 years), Shu brocade was able to enter Wei State openly and became popular among the middle and upper classes of rulers.

For suppressing the consumption of Shu brocade, Wei State did a relatively good job in the early stage.

This made Zhuge Liang's teeth itch with hatred every time, but there was no good way.

Therefore, Shu brocade could only be sold to the upper class of Wu.

However, the population of Wu State itself is not large, and there is a spare supply of Jiangnan silk, so the demand for Shu brocade is not large.

Helpless, Zhuge Liang had no choice but to develop other alternative specialties, trying to reverse the financial poverty of the Shu Han.

At first Zhuge Liang chose well salt, but after trying it, he found that it was difficult to sell well salt in Shu.Because Wei State has lake salt and Wu State has sea salt, neither of these two countries needs well salt.

Later, Zhuge Liang set his sights on the extremely durable Dian horses, but the Dian horses were short and short-legged, and were only suitable for camel transportation, not war horses. Moreover, the Dian horses were produced in the Nanman tribe, and the supply of them was not always stable.

In addition, the state of Wei has three major horse-producing lands, and there are all kinds of high-quality war horses, so it doesn't look down on Dian horses at all.Occasionally, the State of Wu would buy some Yunnan horses, but usually the State of Wu would purchase them directly from the Nanman instead of letting the Shu Han handle them for the second time.

Others such as timber and Chinese herbal medicines are not lacking in the three kingdoms of Wei, Shu and Wu who are still in the farming society.

As for Zhuge Liannu and Mu Niu Liuma, they must be included in the arms embargo list of Shu, and it is impossible to export them to Wei and Wu.

Then the only thing left that can be exported to Wei is the Shu knife. However, due to various objective reasons such as the imperfect iron ore mining process, the output of the Shu knife is very small, and there is very little foreign exchange that can be created.

After a long circle, the question finally returned to Shu brocade.

Therefore, Zhuge Liang is worrying about this now.

Originally, part of this problem could be solved through the Northern Expedition. In order to solve the food problem, Shu State had always relied on robbing Wei State's grain to supplement logistics.

Every year when the autumn harvest comes, Zhuge Liang will organize a grain grabbing team to go to the land of Wei State and enthusiastically help the people of Wei State "harvest grain".

Then it was transported back to Shu Han for its own use.

Occasionally, they would plunder a little more people by the way.

The State of Wei has nothing to do about it, except to relocate the people inward, and only impose stricter trade sanctions, which will form a vicious circle in the relationship between the two countries.

One year after coming to this era, Ma Di has a deep understanding of this.

In war, the victory or defeat has never been decided simply by putting on soldiers and horses. Economic sanctions also choke the life of weak countries.

Among the three countries, Shu is the poorest and weakest with the fewest resources, so it is the most afraid of being sanctioned.

Wu Guo is the least afraid of being sanctioned.Wu State has sea salt, silk and satin, prosperous shipping and developed shipbuilding industry.Moreover, the country of Wu is backed by the East China Sea and also borders Southeast Asia. The foreign trade business of the country of Wu has always been the best among the three countries.Even Cao Pi once exchanged war horses with Sun Quan for foreign rare treasures such as overnight pearls, peacock feathers, and rhino horns.

In addition, human trafficking and robbery are also another pillar industry of Wu State.Soochow's sea-going ships often wander around Liaodong Bay and Bohai Bay, and they often go ashore to rob.Sun Quan also occasionally sent troops to overseas expeditions such as Yizhou and the Ryukyu Islands to plunder the population.

As the country with the largest population and resources, Wei State is in a dominant position, so the sanctions against Shu and Wu have never been soft.

Wei Guo usually starts from three aspects.

One is to curb the leading products of the two countries, such as Shu brocade and Wu silk.

The second is the embargo on strategic materials. Wei State has a lot of strategic materials, the most important two being food and war horses.

Needless to say, the grain, Wei Guo will definitely not sell it to the Shu and Wu countries.

Speaking of war horses alone, Wei State not only produced war horses in Guanxi Hetao, but Liaodong, Xianbei, Xiongnu, and Qiang, which bordered Wei State, were all rich in war horses.Because war horses are rare goods to live in, and there are none in Shu and Wu.Wei Guo can control the war horses, and control the size of the cavalry of the two countries.

The two countries of Shu and Wu do not have large-scale cavalry, so they cannot fundamentally threaten Wei, which has a large number of cavalry.

As long as you enter the northern plains, you will be killed by the cavalry of the State of Wei, throwing away your helmet and disarming your armor.

Therefore, this is also the foundation of Wei's invincibility.

Just relying on controlling the horses is enough to make Wei Guo rest easy.

The third is cultural export, which is also Wei's most gentle method.For example, the poems and songs of the Seven Sons of Jian'an, the calligraphy of Zhong Yao, and the talks of famous scholars in the Great Wei Dynasty.Scholars in Wu and Shu must take the northern culture as their authentic and weather vane, and be subtly and indirectly influenced by the thought and culture of the Central Plains.

The two countries of Shu and Wu have nothing to do about this kind of invasion similar to peaceful evolution.

Due to the huge difference in size, the two countries are not even qualified to fight a trade war with Wei Guo.

It is precisely because of realizing that the advantages possessed by Wei State are irreversible to Shu State, Wei State never regards Shu State as a real opponent, but Wu State as a lifelong enemy, and has repeatedly marched south.

Because the state of Wu has nothing but war horses.Moreover, the waterways of Wu State are criss-crossed, and the war horse itself is of little use.

Most importantly, the state of Wu has ships.

Having a boat is enough for self-defense.

While Zhuge Liang was racking his brains to boost people's livelihood, Ma Su turned on the system in Yongzhou Governor's Mansion.

Since returning to Chengdu, the main and branch missions have also started.

As the light screen flashed, nine icons unfolded in sequence.

[Roulette lottery draw], [Scan other character attributes], [Dungeon experience], [Main task], [Weather forecast], [Sub-task], [System mall], [My history], [Personal attribute].

At this point, all options are available.

Ma Di raised his hand and clicked on the main thread, and looked up.

There is only one main task, namely "Kuang Fu Han Shi", and there are four sub-tasks under it.

"Northern Expedition to Cao Wei", "Eastern Expedition to Sun Quan", "Western Ping Zhu Rong", "Development of People's Livelihood".

Ma Di backhandedly clicked on the side mission, and looked intently.

(End of this chapter)