Liu Yu invited six princes and kings who were living in Jizhou to talk about building a high-end restaurant and supporting King Chen and others.
Several princes unanimously decided that the restaurant must be built. This building is the lifeblood of everyone and must be built well.
I immediately scraped together six thousand kilograms of gold. I needed to use bluestone as the base, nanmu as the pillars, carved beams and painted buildings, and cornices and brackets. I needed to use pearls from the East China Sea as strings, corals from the South China Sea as doors, jade screens, and agarwood cases.
A few, white porcelain wine sets and Thuja pendants cannot be left behind.
I also had to ask for the calligraphy of several great scholars, and specifically told me that I must have Cai Bojie’s handwriting.
The most important thing is that the plaque must be inscribed by Liu Qiaoqi himself.
After a rough calculation, the money is not enough.
Can this be a thing?
The six princes had nothing but money, so they immediately made up for it with three thousand gold.
When it was their turn to donate money to King Chen, these people were a little vague, but out of shame, they gave away 1,200 kilograms of gold.
Liu Yu finally decided that the gold could not be shipped directly to King Chen. It would be too embarrassing. He would use the money to buy some weapons and then send them there.
One thousand two hundred gold, based on the cost price, can buy one hundred and twenty sets of cold forged armor. Liu Xiang would be crazy to sell this.
After Liu Yu's hard work, he bought 6,000 ring-headed knives, 10,000 spears, 3,000 shields, and 1,000 bows. However, he could not get the goods for the time being, so he had to maintain and renovate them in the workshop.
I wanted to buy new weapons made by the steel clamping method for 1,200 gold, but I couldn't buy so many. In order to protect the face of those princes, I had no choice but to eliminate them and prepare to equip the militia with old weapons.
In order to support King Chen, the six princes and kings donated weapons capable of arming an army of ten thousand people. This rhetoric is powerful.
If we put it another way and say that six princes donated 1,200 gold, King Chen was so angry that he scolded their ancestors.
Sending beggars away!
This batch of weapons had been refurbished and looked very good. They were also the standard weapons of the Han Dynasty and the quality was acceptable. They were finally shipped to the Yellow River into Chasm and sent to the State of Chen via Langtang Canal.
Liu Chong was very happy. Among the refugees who poured into Chen and Liang, he recruited more than 10,000 young men, and the army surged to 30,000.
There were no natural disasters this year, and the harvest under his rule was okay. As soon as the autumn harvest was over, without waiting for a reply from Rencheng State and Dongping State, he sent his army to attack Jiyin County, preparing to attack directly and connect the territories together first.
At this time, Xun Chen, Mi Zhu, and Luo Jun were talking in the palace of Liu Tuo, the king of Ren City.
The palace was very dilapidated. There were still some ruins in the palace that had been damaged by fire, and they have not yet been repaired. Liu Tuo had no money and was robbed by Cao Cao.
After this experience, he certainly would not oppose the alliance of kings. Rencheng State was a small country, and he would be satisfied if he could hug King Chen and be protected. He had no intention of fighting for power, and neither did Liu Kai, King of Dongping, who was in the same situation as him.
Reject the alliance.
In addition to King Lu, who had long supported King Chen Liu Chong, the five clan princes and princes all agreed to form an alliance, and Liu Chong was asked to lead his army to connect several territories into one.
Xun Chen and Mi Zhu returned immediately after achieving their purpose of sending envoys to other countries.
When the news came back to Kaiyang, Liu Xiang muttered words that only he could understand: "The five permanent members are in place and the United Nations has been established. It's gratifying and congratulatory, hahaha."
In order to provoke a conflict between the Alliance of Five Kings and Yuan Shao, King Pei Liu Yao must be rescued and turned into an Alliance of Six Kings. Only in this way can the purpose of splitting the princes of Henan be achieved.
No, that's not right, Liu Xiang overturned his previous idea.
You cannot rescue King Pei by yourself.
The Five Kings Alliance must send troops to the country to rescue Liu Yao, so that they can completely turn against Yuan Shao.
We need to wait, wait for their territories to be connected, wait for them to unite to offer sacrifices to heaven, to announce to the world, to announce the alliance of clans, to ban Jingnan from thieves, and so on.
They must have this kind of slogan. Han law strictly prohibits princes and kings from raising troops. It is illegal for them to raise troops. In order to be famous, they must come up with a slogan to get rid of the crime. They are the beneficiaries of Liu Han's orthodoxy and must maintain the reputation of orthodoxy.
Also, the clan members surnamed Liu are spread all over the world, and they will definitely want to use this force, so the slogan of uniting the clan will also be raised. Although this force may not necessarily be mobilized, the meaning must be expressed.
Only then can it be justified and can it win over people's hearts.
At this time, if King Pei asks for help, they must send troops to rescue them for the sake of reputation and righteousness. Otherwise, they will lose their face. Who among the clan members will listen to their call? What will the people of the world think of them? Those who originally wanted to defect,
You have to turn around and leave.
Liu Xiang needed a letter asking for help, someone asking for help in public, and sending it to Chen Wang Liu Chong at the appropriate time.
"Shi Ah, sneak into Xiang County, the capital of Pei State, and contact Pei King Liu Yao. There is no need to rescue him. All you need is a token or a letter. It is best to bring out a trusted person."
It shouldn't be difficult. Yuan Shao didn't imprison King Pei, just like he didn't imprison King Pengcheng and King Xiapi. He just occupied the territory, or wooed the prime minister, or sent people to monitor. The few princes and kings surnamed Liu still
Have fun in the palace.
He doesn't want to bear the reputation of being a master of killing clan kings yet, nor can he bear it.
Shi A set off, taking with him three still immature Tiger Ben Langs.
The Huben Army finally has useful people, although there are only three, but this is a good start.
Liu Xiang had to comfort himself.
Let's wait for the good news from Huben, and also wait for the news about Liu Chong's alliance.
Cao Cao fought in Nanyang, and it was difficult for his army to turn back. Yanzhou was empty, and an army of 30,000 was enough to capture the territory he wanted.
Yuan Shu is struggling with Yangzhou's soldiers and horses. Even if he wins, he will return to attack Nanyang or attack Yuan Shao. After all, they are nominal allies.
Yuan Shao and Liu Xiang faced each other across 200,000 yellow turbans, leaving no room for him to take care of them.
Dong Zhuo was struggling in the land of Sanfu, and the spies reported that in Jianyiwu, this fat man's enterprising spirit was about to be exhausted. He rose and fell quickly. His mentality was already out of balance, and he was no longer the cool and cool man.
Dong Zhongying from Zhouzhou.
Time is passing.
The autumn harvest harvests from various places have been reported. This year's output is much higher than last year. The replacement of paddy fields in Youzhou and Jizhou has basically been completed, and the Anping Army's military rations have been completely replaced by rice.
Most of the people under his rule have also changed their staple food. Although there is a lot of wheat and millet planting area, the yield gap is huge. Qingzhou is also changing paddy fields according to the situation. The main reason is that the people have insufficient financial resources, and greenhouses are a big deal for them.
A big burden.
We can't worry about this for the time being. The government doesn't have enough money to provide them with interest-free loans. They spent too much money on land redemptions. Hundreds of thousands of people will immigrate to Liaodong this year, so the money is almost gone.
Although the minting speed of new money has increased, it is still not enough. After occupying Qingzhou, the money shortage is still serious, and the value of new money continues to rise. Now the price of grain per stone is less than 20 yuan.
It’s not that food prices are falling, it’s that the purchasing power of money is increasing.
The new money is already more expensive than copper. The original price of a pound of copper has increased from thirty-two dollars to twenty-four dollars per pound. This is a very high increase because the speed of Ping An Tongbao's circulation abroad is increasing, and the people of Yanzhou have fully
After accepting new coins, Yuzhou and Xuzhou also have a lot of new coins in circulation.
This was all the fault of Fatty Dong, who became even more frenzied in minting bad coins. Prices of goods increased thousands of times, and the price of grain per stone has risen to half a million yuan.
Carrying a bag of money on his back, he bought only enough corn to make a bowl of porridge.
The five-baht coin monetary system completely collapsed.
Even good money can't buy anything anymore. Many people are melting five baht coins into copper and selling them for Ping'an Tongbao. This makes pure copper cheaper than copper coins cast from bronze. This ridiculous thing is still
is intensifying.
Tian Yu has been under a lot of pressure recently. He is the captain of Shuiheng and is responsible for minting new coins. He has tried every means, and the efficiency has indeed improved a lot. The casting speed has increased by more than 40%, and he can produce nearly 7 million coins every month.
Ping An Tong Bao, but the money shortage continues.
He felt that he was very incompetent. There was no shortage of copper. As long as he opened his mouth, he could use pure copper materials as much as he wanted. There was no shortage of other materials, and no one was blocking the demand for fine steel. Mint workshops and cold-forged armor
At a certain level, other workshops may be short of materials, but he has never been short of materials.
But the money just isn’t enough!
Not enough manpower.
For confidentiality.
Keep it secret, keep it secret, what can be more secret than a dead person?
He submitted a petition asking for death row prisoners, the more the better.
He wants to use a large number of death row prisoners to mint coins, and then he can kill them after he has overcome the money shortage.
Tian Yu's submission was approved, and a large wall was built next to the courtyard of the Zhuoxian Mint. Workers built sheds and buildings under the watch of guards, and death row prisoners from all over the place gathered here.
The first to arrive were a thousand soldiers selected from the Central Army. They were all from Youzhou, had joined the army in their early years, and were loyal and reliable. They were placed under the jurisdiction of the Shuiheng Commandery, with the same treatment as sergeants in the Central Army, and were responsible for guarding prisoners.
The speed of minting coins is accelerating, getting faster and faster, doubling in price, but the money shortage continues.
Tian Yu was dissatisfied. The number of death row prisoners was still increasing. Death row prisoners from four states were being escorted here. A group of life-long servicemen from the hard labor camp were also transferred. The number had exceeded 5,000, which was ten times more than the original mint.
times, the coin minting speed tripled.
The money shortage is still getting worse!
Nineteen-year-old Tian Yu did not know that he was minting new coins for the entire Han Dynasty. The shortage of coins would be the norm for a long time.
