Chapter 352 Is this the ancient economic sanctions?
Chapter 352 Is this the ancient economic sanctions?
As for medicinal materials, the rise of commerce has led to the proliferation of caravans. Special medicinal materials from various places have become much more convenient for transportation.
In the past, the prices of medicinal materials were inflated due to difficulty in transporting them. Now, some of them are sold on street stalls, and their prices have fallen sharply.
Many people who had no cure before have been treated!
Even some expensive medicinal materials appeared in various places, saving some important people and maintaining social stability.
The specialties of some places were originally very good and produced in large quantities, but because they could not be sold, they had to rot at home in the past. But now, these products have the opportunity to be shipped out and sold!
By selling the excess and buying the scarce, the lives of the people of Wei were improved.
However, now everyone is still not wealthy enough. The savings of countless people are only enough to treat minor illnesses. They cannot afford serious illness or live in a luxury house.
If we further accumulate wealth, everyone's life will be more comfortable.
Jia Xu thought for a while and then said: "Your Majesty, I have a plan. I can send someone to assassinate the Roman Emperor. Once he dies, Rome will definitely fall into civil strife again! By then, Rome will be weak and we can easily conquer it!"
Zhao Feng nodded: "This plan is good, but I don't know if there are other masters in Rome, and do people like assassins exist in Wei? Even if there are, we still need to think about it again."
Hearing this, Zhuge Liang was the first to stand up and made a suggestion: "Your Majesty, since population is the top priority, then Wen He's plan will ultimately require a battle, and there will still be a lot of casualties!"
"We might as well use commerce to disrupt the Roman economy. When the Romans are so poor that they have no food to eat, we will help them, provide them with opportunities to make money, and then use this opportunity to control them!"
Jia Xu's eyes immediately lit up: "As expected of you! Your Majesty, this is a good strategy. You can make the enemy surrender without losing any blood!"
Everyone else also looked at Zhuge Liang with admiration.
Zhao Feng nodded and said: "In that case, is there any clever plan to disrupt the Roman economy?"
Jushu immediately said: "Your Majesty, the Romans launched the war in the name of robbing wine! Why don't we export wine in large quantities and sell it to them at high prices? The Romans are good at wine, and we have more sweet potatoes and more wine. I guess we won't be able to export wine."
In a few years, the Romans will drink themselves into poverty!"
Xun Yu also said: "We also have a lot of paper. This paper is easy to write on and cheap to make. If it is exported to Rome, it will definitely make a lot of money! Moreover, many of the raw materials for paper making are in the south. The economy of the south was originally very poor. This move also
It can improve the income level of the people in the south and let them know the many benefits of following me in the Wei Dynasty, which will easily make them feel a sense of belonging, gain a sense of happiness, and make them more loyal to the court!"
Zhuge Liang said: "Your Majesty, we should also sell weapons to Rome on a large scale!"
"Ah?" Everyone was immediately shocked.
Zhou Yu couldn't help but dissuade him: "This is impossible. The Romans can dispatch more than a million troops in any one expedition. If they are allowed to arm a huge army, how can we resist it?"
Zhuge Liang laughed: "Because they have too many troops, they will definitely buy armaments on a large scale and further weaken the economy. If their army attacks again, the rear economy will be weak and it will be difficult to maintain the war for a long time. We only need to have a stalemate with them."
Soon, they will have to withdraw their troops, and these armaments will be nothing more than scrap metal."
When everyone heard it, it seemed to make sense.
Zhao Feng then nodded: "Well, since you have mentioned this, let's select talents to implement these plans. All the necessary materials and money can be allocated from the imperial court."
Everyone was overjoyed. After they dispersed, Jia Xu went to look for powerful assassins in the famous mountains, rivers, urban areas and wilderness. Jushu organized a caravan and went to Guishang to establish the national winery of the Wei Dynasty, where he would sell fine wine to Rome. Gou Yu went there.
Organize a caravan to accumulate a large amount of domestic paper in Kushan and sell it to Rome in large quantities.
Zhuge Liang not only led a large army in Guishang to strengthen Wei's influence here, but also took charge of everything to ensure that the commercial crackdown was in the right direction and could unknowingly trick the Romans into traps.
In Rome, Emperor Severus was in a very bad mood recently.
Damn it! Two hundred thousand Parthian cavalry were completely wiped out. These were the last elite troops of Parthia. Now that they are all defeated, how can we quickly attack powerful enemies everywhere in the future?"
"This is unreasonable! The infantry was also defeated! The knights of the Senate were also defeated? What's the point of supporting your Holy See? What a waste! What a waste!"
"Who can tell me where my navy has gone? Why has there been no news for half a year? Are they alive or dead? Can someone tell me?"
On land, the infantry and cavalry were defeated, and at least some news came back, but there was no news at all over the sea.
"Millions of people, millions of people! How could the news be completely cut off? All died suddenly?"
Severus cursed viciously.
However, what bothered him even more was that after his defeat, the forces that he suppressed everywhere now felt that he was a weak person who could be bullied, and they rebelled again.
"Your Majesty, the Macedonians have rebelled!"
"Your Majesty, the Gauls and Celts have also rebelled!"
Severus waved his hand dissatisfied: "I know, I know, just send someone to suppress them. They are just some fleas, huh."
Severus was in a bad mood and felt extremely irritable, so he shouted: "Bring the wine, bring the wine!"
The waiter quickly brought the wine, and Severus couldn't wait to pick up the wine jar and start drinking.
However, as soon as he took a few sips, he immediately threw the wine jar on the ground angrily, smashed it to pieces, and shouted with his eyes wide open: "This is not wine, it is clearly water! Get me some wine! I need Da Wei's side.
of wine!”
The waiter was helpless: "Your Majesty, the wines of the Wei people are too expensive. At the same price and the same quantity, if you buy one jar of theirs, you can buy at least a hundred jars of ours! Their selling price is at least a hundred times that of our wines! You
Aren't you allowed to buy wine at high prices? It's out of stock now.
"Go and grab it, go and grab it! How stupid!"
The waiter shrugged: "Your Majesty, didn't a million soldiers go to rob it? They couldn't rob it. Now they have been lost by millions of navy troops."
The waiter's words made Severus feel very aggrieved, but when Severus clenched his fists and wanted to beat the waiter to death for daring to tell the truth, he lowered his fists in frustration.
The waiter then shook his head and said: "Your Majesty, with all due respect, your army has gone to various places to suppress rebellions. The elders had not had a good relationship with you before. Now that you are weak, I am afraid that you will never help again! What will happen next?
Let’s not talk about the crazy talk of sending troops to grab wine and force Wei to lower the price of wine.”
Severus immediately went up to the waiter and beat him.
The waiter's mouth was swollen after being beaten, but he still poked his neck and said: "Your Majesty, it's useless even if you beat me to death. Now it has been spread outside, saying that you shout slogans too high, and now you fall really hard."
, saying that you are good at killing your own people, but not when you meet foreigners. Some people even say that you are just a licking dog raised by the Wei Dynasty because you directly gave away more than a million soldiers."
"That's enough! Stop talking, stop talking." Severus almost collapsed.
