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Chapter 41 Old Coins of the Six Nations

However, Wei Liao's face was gloomy because he understood that the scope of this conspiracy was covered and the layout was so amazed by Wei Liao, who was accustomed to conspiracy. W√w    W     . ★8★1    z     W★. ★CoM

"Okay! OK! OK!" After hearing the conversation, Wei Liao said three good words in a row. Obviously, he was sincerely impressed by the person who designed this conspiracy.

Although Gu Haoran is good at analyzing information, he can't find much connection between the answers between himself and Chen Sheng. He couldn't help but smile bitterly, bowed to Wei Liao and Chen Sheng, and asked, "The official is foolish, please analyze it."

Wei Liao smiled indifferently and signaled Gu Zheng to speak.

Chen Sheng stood up and said, "Just said just now that those who buy large quantities of food and goods use the old coins of the six countries."

"No," Gu Haoran nodded. This was indeed what he told Chen Sheng. This was also one of the main clues he pursued. Because only the nobles of the six countries could own so many old coins. Now the court has basically determined that this matter was done by the remnants of the six countries.

"Yes." Chen Sheng nodded and said, "That means that the court believes that the old nobles and ministers of the six countries have started this buying trend."

"Not bad." Gu Haoran admitted to the opposite.

Chen Sheng shook his head and said, "I don't think so. At least I think it's impossible to rely on the remnants of the six countries."

"Please tell me." Gu Haoran's heart moved.

"The incident I asked about was isolated just now, but in fact, it was inseparable and eventually connected. The final consequence was today's situation: the empire's southern expedition army was short of food and grass! There was no food to supply!"

Gu Haoran felt a little nervous, and after thinking about it carefully, he became more and more shocked. He was just tracing the mysterious people or groups that mysteriously acquired a large number of grain in the empire, tracing the whereabouts of the food, and finding out the purpose of these people. However, he did not connect everything.

"Didn't you show up? Is all this life too accidental? The food was snapped up, and the Ling family and the Wu family paid a lot of tribute to the goods, and then the emperor started a southern expedition, and finally the food was sold out. This kind of thing was born in my empire, just by chance? Have you ever thought about what impact would it have on our empire if the southern expedition failed?"

Gu Haoran's face suddenly turned red and his breathing became rapid. If the empire fails in the southern expedition, its vitality will be greatly damaged, its elite will be greatly reduced, and its combat effectiveness will be weakened. If it loses its strong combat effectiveness, this empire that has just unified the six countries may have unstable foundations. If the remnants of the six countries take the opportunity to cause chaos, the world will be in danger.

Before Gu Haoran could react, Chen Sheng continued: "Strictly speaking, there will be no real accidental birth in this world. Even if there is one, it will not be possible to happen one after another. So I concluded that these things were designed and arranged by someone, and they were stripped of the thread and cocoon, and they were linked together!"

"How is that possible!" Gu Haoran trembled all over and shouted loudly.

"How is it impossible?" Chen Sheng retorted Gu Haoran indifferently and said: "It's not impossible now, but how to find the person who is in this layout." When Chen Sheng said this, his voice became serious: "This person's identity must be extraordinary."

After clearing his throat, Chen Sheng said: "First, this person must be very familiar with the imperial political and internal affairs. From the emperor's move to reduce taxes from the world, he guessed the emperor's thoughts."

"How do you say this?" Seeing Chen Sheng say this, Gu Haoran asked in confusion again.

"After the destruction of Qi, the emperor had not yet become emperor. What kind of governance is still under discussion. Among them, the old prime minister Wang Wan and the current prime minister Li Si each recommended one method, namely the division of feudals and the county system. If the emperor tended to divide the feudals, he would definitely not reduce the taxes of the world, because the power of tax collection belongs to the power of the princes of the country. The emperor reduced taxes within the empire from the beginning, and had expressed his inner thoughts."

"This makes sense." Gu Haoran nodded and agreed.

"Then this person is quite familiar with the content of the new policy." Chen Sheng said again: "Unify the weights and measures and currency. In the next few years, the imperial currency will inevitably be unified and regulated. The currencies of other countries will be exchanged according to the prescribed prices, and the currencies of the six countries will inevitably depreciate. Therefore, this person will change the currency he has in his hands to large quantities for food and other things as soon as possible. However, this is just one part of his big plan. The empire's exemption from tax collection also makes the treasury empty and buying large quantities of food is just one part of his big plan!"

"Who is this person and why did he do this?" Gu Haoran frowned tightly, and had a preliminary belief in Chen Sheng's analysis.

"I don't know." Chen Sheng sighed when he said this: "But I believe that buying so many grains and goods across the country will definitely require a lot of coins. I believe that adults know, how many coins are needed?"

"I know, if you change it to half a liang, it will take about 200 million Qin and half a liang, which is 200 million yuan, 2 million yuan! This is also close to all the coins circulated by the six Shandong countries in the world!" Gu Haoran exclaimed a breath of turbidity. Such a huge amount of wealth was enough to support the entire empire in large-scale wars for several years! So many coins circulating in the empire at once was enough to make the empire unstable foundation.

"Does anyone within the empire have such huge wealth?" Chen Sheng asked.

"Only the Ling family in Bajun or the Wu family in Longxi!" A glimmer flashed in Gu Haoran's eyes. "What do you mean is their trick?" Gu Haoran's heart was shaking and thought of what happened later.

"No, that's not what it means." Chen Sheng frowned and denied Gu Haoran's words. However, he believed that Gu Haoran's judgment was correct, and these two families must have participated in the matter. Otherwise, the two families would not have paid a large amount of money and funded the emperor's war plan when the emperor was about to stop. However, the roles played by these two wealthy families in this matter must be carefully considered.
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