Mythical Qin: I, Gao Yao, will never be a eunuch!

Therefore, Gao Yao had to carefully plan the relocation of some production bases. The first thing to consider was the wine factories and clothing factories, which would gradually move to Guilin County and Xiang County. Although on the surface, this did not seem to be a groundbreaking move, it was extremely necessary.

First, such a move can provide a considerable number of jobs, thus effectively resolving the current problem of oversupply of labor. With many workers joining these new industrial bases, not only will the employment pressure be relieved, but it will also attract a large number of merchants to go to Xiangjun and Guilinjun for purchasing needs. In this way, the business of local post stations, restaurants and other stores will inevitably flourish.

Nowadays, the entire southern border has a wide variety of goods that can be exported. Let's talk about wine first. Since the beginning of brewing, even though Gaoyao has expanded its production scale four times, the market demand for wine is still high, and it is always in short supply. Especially in this time of chaos, many other commodities are not selling well, only wine stands out and is always selling well.

One thing worth mentioning is the clothing manufacturing industry. High-quality cotton and advanced weaving machines complement each other, making all kinds of clothing produced in the South Territory become extremely popular commodities in the market. However, since clothing is not an absolute necessity in people's daily lives, its sales inevitably fell sharply when the world fell into chaos.

Of course, the more critical and important materials are salt and food. Apart from special items such as weapons, it can be said that almost everything can be bought in the southern border. However, the price will fluctuate according to the market conditions in the surrounding areas. Moreover, Gao Yao is a smart man! For indispensable necessities such as salt and food, he resolutely does not accept any other form of payment. If buyers want to buy them, they can only take out real gold and silver or ore of equal value.

After all, Gao Yao would never do a business that would lose money, and he would never even think about trying to get something for nothing. In this way, the financial revenue of the Southern Territory was effectively increased, and from another perspective, more people from surrounding areas were encouraged to migrate to the Southern Territory to settle down. After all, the convenience of life in the Southern Territory was clearly there, and who wouldn't want to live a more comfortable and convenient life?

After this shocking war with the imperial court, it is foreseeable that the southern border will usher in unprecedented prosperity. After all, that was a full 300,000-strong imperial court army! Such a large, well-equipped and well-trained army is not something that any of the kings can easily contend with. Not to mention just one king, even if several kings united, it would be difficult to confront it head-on and win.

If the South Territory finally succeeded in winning the battle, then all discerning people would immediately realize that the South Territory had officially risen to become an extremely powerful force in this turbulent and chaotic world. Not only that, with its unique natural terrain as a natural barrier and fortifications, even if the South Territory could not be completely safe, it was at least close to it.

Because of this, there is no doubt that this news will spread quickly like wings, attracting countless people who have suffered from war to rush to the South. Faced with such a surging population influx, the South urgently needs to have enough land resources, complete infrastructure, vast farmland and other basic conditions to properly accept these people who are constantly pouring in.

For Gao Yao, the above-mentioned tasks are important and urgent, but there is a more critical point that needs to be solved urgently - that is the currency issue. As we all know, currency is the blood of economic operation. It is related to whether the business activities of the entire region can be carried out normally and whether the social order is stable and orderly. Therefore, Gao Yao knew very well that no matter how complicated and difficult the re-coining of currency was, he had no choice but to bite the bullet and go all out to promote its implementation.

In fact, it was not the currency used by the Qin Dynasty that had problems. The real reason was that as the Qin Dynasty gradually declined, the so-called kings began to act independently, and they minted copper coins in their own areas without scruples. You know, it is not easy to gather an army of a certain size, and once such a team is successfully formed, it will need to continuously purchase various materials to meet its needs.

Items such as food, salt and ironware are all necessary. In addition, the soldiers must be paid the most basic military pay on time. All of this is inseparable from the support of money. However, if there is not enough financial reserve, the only feasible way is to secretly mint coins to fill this huge gap.

As a result, prices soared wildly, and this adverse effect spread rapidly like a plague, even to the far south. Fortunately, Lü Zhi was a visionary and decisive person. As soon as she noticed the abnormal market fluctuations, she took immediate measures to decisively cut off the channels for ordinary copper coins to be used for daily transactions, and completely replaced them with gold, silver and iron as the medium and conditions for transactions.

At the same time, she also cleverly used the Chamber of Commerce to sell off the large amount of currency that was originally accumulated in the warehouse in several batches. In this way, before the entire Great Qin currency system completely collapsed, she successfully cleared out the massive amount of copper coins hoarded in the southern border.

Over the past few years, the amount of currency accumulated in the South Territory is simply staggering. It is an extremely large and astonishing number, and its scale is at least close to one-tenth of the total currency of the entire Qin Dynasty! From a certain perspective, what Lu Zhi did seems to be nothing wrong, because she did this just to maximize the interests of the South Territory. However, her move was tantamount to adding a heavy blow to the already shaky and collapsing Qin Dynasty's monetary system.

At one time, a large number of copper coins flooded into the market, causing a sharp increase in the amount of currency in circulation. But at the same time, the supply of food did not keep up with the pace of this currency flood. As a result, although people had a lot of money in their hands, it was extremely difficult to buy enough food. In desperation, everyone had to choose to increase the price to buy in order to survive. In this way, with the rising prices and the ensuing wars, the price of food soared all the way, and it actually rose to a full ten times the price before Qin Shihuang's death!