The Three Kingdoms become stronger when they get treasures

Chapter 465 Economic Warfare

The rest of the people also agree with Cheng Yu's strategy. Although they are very passive, there is no other good way. They come from the sea, but you can go to the sea to drive them away?
In fact, it is not that Cao Cao has no navy at all. When he attacked Yuan Shao, he also attacked by boat. Later, the group of navy trained in Xuanwu Pool in Yecheng did not die, but the gap with the Chu army's navy was too large. It's like the gap between the infantry of Jiangdong Army and the infantry of Cao Army.

What is even more shocking is that Cao Cao actually has a navy under his command.Cao Cao inherited the family business of the Great Han Dynasty. When Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty attacked South Vietnam, he marched by sea and land. He even sent a navy to cross the Bohai Sea to directly attack North Korea.It can be said that the Chinese navy during the Han Dynasty was the most powerful in the world, and the small surrounding countries that thought they were separated from China by the sea and were relatively skinny were severely taught a lesson.

The navy in the Eastern Han Dynasty could reach Japan directly, and a navy has been stationed in Qingzhou, which is now near Yantai, Shandong.It is a pity that the powerful navy in the Western Han Dynasty gradually declined because the later rulers did not pay attention to it.

After Wang Mang became emperor, in order to save money, he carried out a large-scale disarmament of the navy, so a large number of elite navies and ships were decommissioned.

After Liu Xiu became emperor, because there were no enemies and the navy was expensive, Liu Xiu also began to reduce the navy. By the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, most of the navy's ships had been decommissioned, and only a small part was reserved for other purposes.

After Cao Cao came to power, he did not pay much attention to the development of the navy. Perhaps he had forgotten the existence of these people. The remaining navy of the big man had neither military funds to repair ships nor military pay to support his family. In fact, he had already been reduced to fishermen!

Now that they are coming from the sea with a huge warship, Cao Cao can only defend passively. Anyway, the sea is not my territory. If you have the ability, come ashore and fight with me!
Zhang Wu didn't intend to use the navy to capture Xuzhou, Qingzhou and other places. The strength of the navy is not enough now, so he can't go ashore to fight against Cao Jun. His purpose is to harass and destroy Cao Cao's production, increase his burden, and at the same time contain Cao Jun. A part of the force makes them need to constantly defend against attacks from the sea.

It can be said that Zhang Wu's goal has been achieved.

In order to guard against harassment from the sea, Cao Cao not only moved a large number of people from the coast to the interior, but also set up many beacon towers to guard against them, which required a lot of money.

Xuzhou, Qingzhou, Jizhou, and Youzhou are all along the coast, and the coastline is too long. Cao Jun must guard against the Xu Shu Army on the west front, the Gan Ning Army and Ding Feng Army on the East Front, and the Guan Yu Army on the middle road. , how can there be extra troops to guard against threats from the sea.

After Cao Cao destroyed the Yuan Shao Group, because he recruited many Hebei troops, his territory also doubled at once. At one point, his strength increased greatly. He had hundreds of thousands of soldiers under his command, most of whom were elite soldiers who had experienced many battles, and their food and grass were relatively small. adequate.

It's a pity that later Cao Cao was eager for success and wanted to quickly pacify the world and establish a world-class feat. He blindly attacked Jingzhou when the navy was immature. As a result, he was pitted twice by Zhang Wu, not only losing a lot of elite soldiers, but also consuming a lot of food and grass resources.

The defeats in the Battle of Hanzhong and the Battle of Huainan made Cao's army even worse. Coupled with Zhang Wu's continuous economic invasion in recent years, the economy in the area ruled by Cao Cao has already experienced a great crisis. Land annexation has become more serious. Many civilians and even small landowners have All are bankrupt.

Zhang Wu is a very bad guy. He asked the major families in the south of the Yangtze River to pay with books, silk, jewelry and other commodities produced in the south of the Yangtze River when they traded with the north. Here you can give up some profits and exchange the goods for the other party's currency, and the Chuhou Mansion will subsidize them.

The currency of this era is mainly copper. Although gold and silver can also be used, the amount is too small to be used as a reserve for stable monetary policy.

After Dong Zhuo's rebellion, the currency system of the whole country has collapsed, because this shameless person actually melted the five baht coins in circulation before casting them into small coins, called "small coins", but the face value is still the same as before.

This is very deceitful, because in this era, copper is the general equivalent. Now you have a small coin that weighs only one-tenth of what it used to be, and the face value is still the same. This is plundering the wealth of the people.

This is the same as the endless printing of banknotes in some countries now, so inflation comes, and the common people are very resistant to this deceitful currency, do not believe in the value of the official currency, and gradually evolve into bartering. transaction mode.

After Cao Cao came to power, he implemented a series of measures to restore the economy. The economy in the north improved, but the monetary order has not yet been restored.It was not until [-] that Cao Cao completely abolished the small coins minted during the Dong Zhuo period and restored the five-baht coins of the Han Dynasty. However, there were not many five-baht coins circulating in the market at that time, and there was a shortage of currency in the market.

Excessive issuance of currency will cause inflation, and insufficient currency will cause deflation. In any case, the common people will be unlucky in the end, so Cao Cao's restoration of five baht money was terminated not long after.

In the past few years, due to Zhang Wu's secret mischief, the area ruled by Cao Cao has not only become more scarce in currency, but also lost a large amount of copper used to mint currency. Even if Cao Cao suddenly realized the principles of economics and wanted to mint new currencies of sufficient weight, there was no Enough ingredients used.

However, the Jiangnan area ruled by Zhang Wu is different. Not only is the monetary policy stable, the currency system is perfect, and even the currency reserves are very sufficient.

Because Zhang Wu is a time traveler, although his major in college was not economics, as a college student majoring in ideological and political education, he must learn Marxist political economics, so he still understands the general principles of economics.A random college student in later generations may be inferior to the ancients in terms of resourcefulness and scheming, but with years of study and knowledge, his understanding of economics should be much better than the ancients.

Of course, only theory and knowledge are not enough. The so-called "a clever woman can't cook without rice", Cao Cao also has talents who understand economics, but he doesn't have enough copper to make money. If you use iron to make money, I'm afraid the people will not approve .

Zhang Wu has copper in his hand, and there is a lot of copper.

my country's copper mines are widely distributed, but they are mainly concentrated in the south. Among them, the copper reserves of Jiangxi province account for [-]% of the country's copper reserves, and the reserves of Jiangxi, Tibet and Yunnan account for [-]% of the national copper reserves. %.

During the Western Han Dynasty, Huaxia Copper was produced in Danyang, Yueling, Yizhou and other counties.According to the "Hanshu Geographical Records", Danyang County had a Tongguan, which was the only county with a Tongguan in the Western Han Dynasty.

Why did Wu Wang Liu Bi dare to rebel?It is because Liu Bi has a lot of money.

Why does Liu Bi have so much money?Because Liu Bi's fief has three counties: Danyang County, Kuaiji County and Yuzhang County.One of the two largest copper mountains in the country at that time was in Danyang County.

Moreover, Liu Bi is also a relatively well-known "economic master".

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