At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty

"Your Majesty, he wanted to ask about tea. He said that he asked many friends and learned that tea is a very rare drink in Shang Kingdom. I don't know if it is true or not."

Upon hearing this, Mr. Guo knew that this big dog had taken the bait.

Chapter 1029 One thousand and thirty-nine

It is not surprising that Guo Dahu's bait was expected by someone in Guo.

Someone Guo even wanted to laugh.

But in front of the big dog, Guo couldn't laugh, and had to put on an expression of surprise.

"How did he know about tea? Who told him?"

Thatch translated the emperor's question.

Long Lihe murmured for a while.

"It was introduced by Ma Yuan, the emissary sent by His Majesty, and Xin Butang, Minister of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He said that he wanted to buy some to bring back to the emperor and nobles of Guishuang Kingdom to taste. If possible, he would like to buy more. Some."

Having said that, Sachs sighed in contempt or envy, and then said something——

"He said price was not an issue."

He really has the demeanor of a big dog, and there is nothing wrong with saying that he is a big dog.

Under the absolute information asymmetry, these shrewd merchants have also become big dogs with a lot of money in the eyes of Guo.

Guo smiled secretly in his heart, but on the surface he showed a embarrassed expression.

"Well, tea is not a cheap thing. It was originally a whim, and I changed a drinking method. Who knows, it spread in Luoyang. Now the production of tea is low, there are many people who need it, and the price is more expensive than gold. I don’t have a place to buy it yet, so how about I give a box to the envoy as a gift.”

Someone from Guo called Su Yuan to let him make arrangements, and soon Su Yuan came to Longlihe with a small wooden box in his arms, opened it to Longlihe, and saw a small ball of tea inside .

He wants to buy more, not just a little to drink for himself...

"Is it really impossible to buy?"

Sage relayed Long Lihe's inquiry.

"This……"

Guo walked up and down, thinking for a while.

"Well, Su Yuan, you take the envoy to Cao Shoufu's side, let Cao Shoufu talk to the envoy, I just remember that there should be a lot of tea in Cao Shoufu's side, how to buy and sell, you just let them talk, anyway No one will suffer."

Knowing that he had the opportunity to buy tea, Long Lihe immediately became happy. After thanking Guo Peng, he left the court under Guo Peng's happy gaze.

Not long after, Cao Cao came to see Guo Peng.

Cao Cao was deeply implicated in the Cui Yan case before, so he received a relatively severe punishment, but he has not lost his political power, and he has retreated in a sense, so Cao Cao can still feel Guo Peng's preferential treatment for him.

Afterwards, he apologized to Guo Peng several times, and promised that he would not casually participate in political struggles in the future, which earned Guo Peng's "forgiveness".

Among the officials who have been punished, Cao Cao is the first to regain his strength and bring back the work of the cabinet.

He was busy here, but Guo Peng actually asked Su Yuan to bring a Guishuang envoy to buy tea from him. Once he bought it, he would buy a lot, and the lion opened his mouth.

Cao Cao felt very unhappy.

He felt that the Guishuang envoy was deliberately showing off his wealth.

Is it amazing to be rich?

You can do whatever you want with money?

Let me tell you, in our country of Wei, money is always a slave to power!

redneck!

So when he got angry, Cao Cao raised the price even higher than the price of gold itself.

Cao Cao set the price, saying that one catty of tea leaves needs two catties of gold, can you afford it?

He was ready to ridicule this country bumpkin who only knows how to use money to make a way, and let him know that money can't buy anything.

As a result, this guy quickly sent a box of about [-] catties of Guishuang gold coins to Cao's mansion, put it in front of Cao Cao, and told Cao Cao that he wanted to buy [-] catties of tea to take away.

The gold coin is heavy, golden, and shiny.

As soon as the box was opened, Cao Cao's ridicule that had rushed to his throat dissipated for no reason.

Sorry, you can do whatever you want with money.

The reason why some people think they can't is probably because there is not enough money.

Cao Cao always thought that he was still very rich.

But when he saw that the other party took out so much gold easily, he was sure that he was really not as rich as the nobles of the Guishuang Empire.

Not only him, Cao Hong, the richest member of the Cao family, couldn't easily spend so much gold to buy tea.

Most of the gold of the Wei Empire is in someone Guo's treasury.

Except for those buried in the ground, the amount of gold in private hands is not much, because a large part of it was obtained by someone Guo by destroying the powerful manor during the war.

Precious metals such as gold and silver scattered among the people were mastered by Guo in his unification war, and the gold in the hands of Cao Cao was no exception.

Over the years, these gold and silver have been taken back into their own vaults by Guo in various ways, and they don't have much gold and silver in their hands.

They have money, but basically they are copper coins, silk cloth, silk, grain and other equivalents, as well as other antiques and jade books.

Others are real estate and people, such as land and population in private estates.

Not gold, but real wealth.

According to the rules of the Wei Empire, someone from Guo will reward you with a small amount of gold or silver if you have made some contributions over the years.

The gold and silver are basically in the hands of someone named Guo, so Cao Cao was amazed to see so much gold all of a sudden.

How do they have so much gold!

Cao Cao had the idea that Guo Peng had had before.

Then immediately, the body begins to act against the will of the brain.

He didn't have so much tea in hand, so he rushed to Cao Hong's house to get tea.

He knew that Cao Hong's family would definitely not be short of tea.

Cao Hong didn't know, so when he heard that Cao Cao wanted more than 30 catties of tea, he was shocked.

As a result, Cao Cao couldn't help but want to take it. In a hurry, Cao Hong didn't carry it, so Cao Cao led someone to snatch more than 30 catties of tea in a way that was close to robbery.

Cao Cao just put down a word, saying that he will definitely not let you suffer, and left.

Now that Cao Cao had tea, he pooled fifty catties together and asked Long Lihe's envoy to take it away, and then got one hundred catties of Guishuang gold coins.

The golden color almost dyed Cao Cao's pupils the same color.

After that, Cao Cao went to the palace to talk to Guo Peng about it.

"Guishuang Kingdom can use gold and silver as coins to circulate. It can be seen that there are gold and silver in the country, so I must do business with them to obtain enough gold and silver. Although copper coins are in large quantities, they are cheap after all."

Then someone Guo looked at Cao Cao with inexplicable eyes.

"People in Guishuang gave a lot of gold to buy tea, right? Is there a lot of it? How fine is it? Is the casting exquisite?"

Cao Cao was a little panicked by Guo's look, and soon understood what Guo meant.

Soon, someone Guo exchanged fifty catties of tea for a box full of gold coins, which didn't hurt Cao Cao.

At least until the tea production exploded, Cao Cao would not suffer a loss, and Cao Hong naturally would not either.

But Mr. Guo is a gold swallowing beast!

Of course, just a small amount of tea is not enough.

Tea can't help Guo to make a lot of money in the country of Wei. It will take two or three years to fully occupy the Guishuang market. The most important thing is the bulk of the goods that can be exported.

Silk, porcelain, lacquerware, iron pots.

These four samples are the most readily available bulk traded goods in the hands of Mr. Guo, among which silk is naturally the flagship product of the Wei Empire's foreign trade exports and cannot be replaced.

Mr. Guo now asks Manchong to vigorously support the Shu brocade industry in Sichuan, and manufactures a large number of high-quality Shu brocades in order to accumulate large-scale foreign trade orders in the future.

Chengdu was originally called Jinguan City, and now someone Guo has re-established Jinguan to control the Shu brocade silk trade in his hands, preventing private participation in this matter, and fully nationalizing it.

The production of silk requires a stable political situation, which is the task of Man Chong and Le Jin.

Since Man Chong took office as Governor of Yizhou, in just a year, he has assisted Le Jin to put down all the people, vassals and thieves in northern Yizhou, and the situation in northern Yizhou has basically stabilized.

The centrifugal forces in the Sichuan Basin have been wiped out, and the ruling power of the Wei Empire has gained a firm foothold in the Sichuan Basin. Since this is the case, it is time to transition to the stage of smooth governance.

Mr. Guo's demand for the output of Shu brocade has been very high. If Man Chong can't deliver a satisfactory answer, even if Mr. Guo doesn't blame him, he can't forgive himself.

So Man Chong started to do it.

Chapter 1030 One thousand and forty Yizhou counties were completely changed beyond recognition

After eliminating the centrifugal forces on the surface, Man Chong began to consolidate the rule of the Guo Wei regime in Yizhou.

He abolished some bad policies in the former Han Dynasty, and then formulated some brand new policies.

For example, as a victor, after establishing a strong martial arts, Man Chong began to fight against the financial difficulties in the ascendant and financial difficulties of the farmland in central Shu.

The way to do it is also very simple, Guo Peng has already given him a standard answer, just copy it.

Man Chong announced that Yizhou will also implement the official salt and iron policy, and Yizhou is not allowed to make exceptions.

After this order was issued, it aroused opposition from many local people. They jumped up and down to make connections, and came to Chengdu one after another to find Man Chong and cry poorly, thinking of making themselves a special case.

While weeping, they said that they were very difficult, and their life was too difficult. They were plagued by yellow turbans and bandits successively, and they also suffered disasters. Now the landlord's family has no food left.

Some people threw the pot on Liu Zhang's head.

It is said that they were persecuted by Liu Zhang and lost a lot of land and tenants. Now it is very difficult. What kind of salt and iron official camps are set up, it is completely killing them.

Some people make comparisons to Man Chong.

"Master Man, I won't say much else. Think about it, how many people are there in my family, how many mouths do I need to eat? I open my eyes every day and do nothing. Hundreds of thousands of people eat and drink. Lazar wanted me to serve him, and he wanted me to pay for it.

They are working on my land, but they also have to eat. They eat one bite at a time, and how many bites fall into my mouth at the end?What do I have left?I've been struggling all these years. "

Although a group of people don't know what the theory of surplus value is, but when they start to do things in this area, the ability to exploit is self-taught, and they can be implemented directly without theoretical guidance.

The efficiency is so high that it surpasses all engineering constructions in ancient and modern times.

Fortunately, Manchong is also well versed in this, regardless of 21 [-], no matter who intercedes and who exerts pressure, enforces the government-run policy of salt and iron, and demands that it be implemented.

Allocate tasks to grassroots officials and complete them within a limited time limit.

I really thought I could do without you?

Many grassroots officials feel very embarrassed.

On the one hand, there are the powerful Man Chong, and on the other, the entrenched local snakes. The grassroots officials are also in a dilemma, and they are at a loss when dealing with it.

Many people are watching the situation to see who will win the struggle between Man Chong and the natives of Sichuan.

Did the strong dragon crush the local snake, or did the strong dragon not suppress the local snake.

This will make it easier for them to judge whether to follow Man Chong to attack Hao Qiang, or to help Hao Qiang to obey Yin Yin.

The battle between the central forces of the Wei Empire and the local forces in Yizhou started like this.

Man Chong is determined to set up a salt and iron official camp, and is determined to attack the powerful and expand the power of the central government. The gentry and powerful families with land in Sichuan will not sit still, and have adopted various methods to resist Man Chong's policies.

The so-called policies above have countermeasures, you are allowed to make policies, and I am not allowed to toss about countermeasures?

There has been no such reason for thousands of years.

A group of people are thinking, using various tricks, or giving gifts and money, all kinds of coercion and temptation, using their local influence to intimidate grassroots officials and make them restrain their hands and feet.

Of course, this method was also encountered by Guo Peng when he first promoted the official salt and iron camps in Qingyan Erzhou and other places.

At that time, Guo Peng's general situation had already been established, and he promoted it with one hand and forced it with the other. The powerful officials under him took the lead in responding and stood by Guo Peng's side, so many people directly followed.