When Qin Feng was the leader of the Taiping Army, when Qin Feng was still the leader of the Taiping Army, Qi had helped him openly and secretly. Of course, this was not for the benefit of friendship, but for the political needs of Qi at that time. When Qin Feng won a great victory, completely subverted Yue, established the Ming Dynasty and flourished, Qi immediately became extremely vigilant against this country that was as vigorous as a little tiger. He wanted to kill this country that had not yet become stronger into the blue, and at the very least it would make him extremely weak. But what did not know that things went against his wishes. In the war, the Ming Dynasty became stronger and stronger, and it was like a nail, pierced in the north of Qi.

When it was discovered that the nail could no longer be pulled out in a short period of time, Qi could only temporarily stop and while preventing it, it began to use each other with the Ming Dynasty. The most typical example was that the two countries carefully planned and killed the Chu State, the second most powerful state in the world, and made the Chu State fall into a slump.

After that, Qi State fell into a fierce border battle with Chu State and a dispute within the empire and could not extricate itself. However, the Ming Dynasty seized this opportunity and while diligently cultivating internal affairs, it destroyed Qin State in one fell swoop, greatly increasing its strength. It then formed an alliance with Chu State, and while supporting Chu State to resist Qi State, it eroded Chu State with omnipresent economic means. Finally, when the Ming Dynasty attacked Chu State, Chu State had basically no resistance, but some fierce resistance occurred around Shangjing City and was finally declared destroyed.

At this point, the Ming Dynasty had basically grown into an opponent that was evenly matched with Qi.

For more than ten years, although Qi State was unable to free up his hands to deal with the Ming Dynasty for all his might, their vigilance towards the Ming Dynasty, from the emperor to the officials, has never been reduced. The economic and trade exchanges between the two countries are basically negligible, and a large number of commodity transactions exist more through smuggling.

However, after the two emperors signed a peace agreement, the economy and trade between the two countries finally began to normalize. Of course, out of being cautious about the Ming Dynasty, Qi State only opened two prefectures and counties as trading venues for both parties, one was Changning County and the other was Luzhou County.

The Ming Dynasty was a warning to the economic erosion of Chu and all the knowledgeable officials in Daqi, and also made them realize that war was not the only way to destroy a country. The once powerful country, Da Chu, was fragile under the economic invasion of the Ming Dynasty. When the Ming Dynasty raised the butcher knife, the Chu State fell down.

Until now, Qi State has not figured out what the financial system of Ming State is about. But they know that they must be strictly guarded and that Ming people should not be allowed to enter this field in Qi State. A light piece of paper can exchange real money and silver from Daqi and a cart of physical objects, which is not at ease in the hearts of Qi State officials.

The result of the efforts of the negotiators of the Ming Dynasty was that Qi State agreed that Ming Dynasty banknotes could be used in Changning County and Luzhou. If we step out of these two areas, Ming Dynasty banknotes were worthless in Daqi and could not buy anything. Without official permission and promotion, Ming Dynasty banknotes naturally lack credibility among the vast majority of Qi State people, and they are the kind of things that are hard to wipe their butts.

However, the Ming Dynasty was not in a hurry. For them, it was enough to pry a gap open. The Ming Dynasty banknotes would slowly win the position he deserved bit by bit with the increase in the strength of the Ming Dynasty and its lightness and easy portability.

The signing of the peace agreement between the two countries has brought great prosperity to the border transactions between the two countries.

The Ming Dynasty's commodities are now in an extremely prosperous stage. Domestic goods production is slowly getting rid of the past production model one by one and going to a workshop-style transition. Merchants concentrate their manpower and collective production, greatly reducing the cost of goods, which makes Ming goods have a great price advantage in the transactions between Ming and Qi.

Merchants were pursuing profits, and merchants of Qi quickly discovered this. From the Ming Dynasty, they launched goods to Qi for sale. Even if the freight was added, the price was still lower than that of Qi. The lower prices naturally had stronger productivity. What's more, this centralized production had to be more guaranteed to control product quality, with high quality and low price, and was gradually becoming synonymous with Ming Dynasty goods.

The two countries have only opened up their markets for a year, but the trade advantages of Ming Dynasty are slowly emerging. Most of the finished products that have entered Qi from Ming Dynasty are processed, while the goods that have entered Ming Dynasty from Qi State are the most authentic raw materials.

When the officials of Qi were still reaping more commercial taxes for the prosperity of business, they did not find that the products produced by small farming workshops in China were slowly missing. In addition to the harvest from farming, some of the original additional benefits were gradually disappearing. The treasury of Qi seemed to be full, but the people at the bottom of the country were not better than before. Although most of them now have their own land, heavy taxes and corvee labor were also added to them.

In the past, the tenants of Qi, who were dependent on the wealthy families, did not have to bear much taxes, but when they owned the land and became self-cultivated farmers, the taxes followed. More importantly, the land distributed to them was not free. Qi, which imitated the Ming land policy, stipulated that these expenses would only need to be paid off within the next few years, but it was not easy for farmers to pay off these funds.

Because there is one thing that the people of Qi did not learn, that is, the Ming Dynasty completely exempted corvee and greatly reduced the taxes borne by farmers.

All of this, because it was just revealed, the policymakers of Qi did not realize the problem. The Ming State was using these two ports opened by Qi to adopt another economic means that were different from the time when they invaded Chu State.

Changzhu, a border city that had become a barren land in the past due to war, is undergoing drastic changes due to the trade between the Ming and Qi countries.

The Ming Dynasty's rail car system finally extended from Wuling to Taoyuan County. Taoyuan County Rail Station became the busiest station in the Ming Dynasty for a time. Countless goods produced from the mainland of Daming were continuously transported to Taoyuan County through rail cars, and then transported to Changzhu through the cement avenue leading to Changzhu.

Changzhu County, which was once ruined, has been filled with tall buildings in one year. There are very few indigenous people living here. Most of them are merchants from all over the country. They buy land here to build shops, huge warehouses, countless goods fill these warehouses, and then in a very short time, they are bought and emptied by merchants in Qi. Restaurants and inns came into being. Many merchants in Qi either buy shops here and take root, or rent inn rooms for a long time as a base for transactions.

The National Taiping Bank of the Ming Dynasty and the Private Changlong Bank all opened semicolons here. Every day, you can see merchants from Qi State pulling carts of copper coins or boxes of gold and silver into these two banks, exchange them into Ming Dynasty paper money, and then trade them with Ming Dynasty merchants. Because the merchants of the Ming Dynasty did not accept these copper, silver, gold and silver items, they only recognized Ming Dynasty paper money.

Of course, if the Ming Dynasty wanted to purchase goods from merchants in Qi State, it also needed to exchange gold, silver or copper coins from the bank to pay to the other party, because the other party returned to the domestic purchase, the Ming Dynasty banknotes would not be circulated.

In such transactions, Qi State did not do statistics, but the two major banks of the Ming Dynasty were silently collecting these data. As soon as they went in and out, these hard currency of Qi people were flowing into the Ming Dynasty quietly.

In addition to these open means, the two major banks also used a small means, that is, the prices between these banknotes and gold, silver and copper coins were not the same. Using the same copper coins and gold and silver to exchange banknotes at the Ming Bank, you can get more. For example, one tael of silver, one tael of silver, one tael of banknotes, one tael of coins, one tael of coins, one tael of coins, one to two dozen coins, this small point one does not seem conspicuous, but if the amount is large enough, it will be a considerable income.

This inconspicuous little method immediately destroyed the emergence of another business. Many merchants in Qi used various means to obtain these hard currency in Qi, and then exchanged them into paper money at the two major banks, and then used these paper money to buy Ming's goods and transport them back to the country for sale. They were all money inside and out, and while making a fortune, they were still mocking the stupidity of Ming people in private.

The merchants of Qi State were very happy, and the two major banks of the Ming Dynasty were also happy, because they were implementing another financial intrusion plan of the Central Bank of the Ming Empire. After long-term implementation, this plan will reduce the gold, silver and copper coins in Qi State year by year, resulting in a shortage of money.

After using economic and financial means to destroy the economy and people's livelihood of another country, the Ming people are now familiar with it after the battle of Chu. More conspiracy methods are being thought of by professional talents in the public housing of the Central Bank of the Ming Dynasty, and then they are used one by one into actual means.

The two plans are being promoted simultaneously, with goods dumping and financial plundering.
Chapter completed!