Qiming 1158

Chapter 1196 Prohibition of Shu Brocade Trade

Chai Yuanming's statement means that the Ministry of Finance does not support launching the war into Shu right now, which is a very important statement.

In this regard, Su Yonglin held the same attitude.

There are too many places to spend money. Once Chuan Shu wins more places to spend money, it will bring a huge burden to Ming's finances. Su Yonglin doesn't want to do this.

Moreover, Wu Lin's resistance will be very fierce now that he is heading south. Wouldn't it be better if he could use special means to weaken Wu Lin's resistance or simply destroy Wu Lin's resistance?
"I know this."

Su Yonglin nodded: "Of course it's not wise to attack Chuanshu now, and we don't need to deploy troops now, Chuanshu is a trap for the dragon, if they can't fight, they will trap themselves to death, they just need to cut off internal and external merchants in Shu. Road, the effect will not be worse than direct use of troops."

"Cut off the trade route? Then... what about Shu Jin?"

Chai Yuanming opened his mouth and said: "Apart from some tea leaves, the most important thing in Shu is Shu brocade, and many merchants from Fanbang need Shu brocade. Now is the time when we are in control of Shibo Company. If we stop supplying Shu brocade, we will I'm afraid it's not suitable, is it?"

This is the most important breaking point.

This is Su Yonglin's purpose.

"Or else? In this case, the possibility of the Ministry of Finance entering the land of Shu to receive Shu brocade and weaving Zhuangzi is no longer possible. To continue to do business with them is just to capitalize on the enemy."

Su Yonglin shook his head: "Fanbang wants Shu brocade, so tell them that they are out of stock now, and replace it with something else for a while. When we free up our hands to clean up the land of Chuan and Shu, we will give them Shu brocade. Good goods are not afraid of being late, and they can't make Shu brocade. Gotta buy ours."

"understood."

Chai Yuanming thought for a while, and then asked again, "So now the tea-horse trade between merchants in Guanzhong, Hexi and Chuanshu..."

"There will be some losses for a while, but we have a solid foundation, and they have a weak foundation, and they won't last long. After all, this part of trade losses is a small number. If some people are involved, let them report to the Ministry of Finance, and the Ministry of Finance will send commissioners to verify. Then the court will make up for it as appropriate, and the time will not be very long."

"understood."

Chai Yuanming didn't say anything more.

As far as the scale of commercial trade in Guanzhong is concerned, it is really only a small number for the Ministry of Finance, and it is not a big deal.

Fighting a full-scale war will certainly hurt the Ministry of Finance, but it is only a small-scale economic war, and the Ministry of Finance can handle it.

In economic warfare, it depends on who has a thicker blood bar, or who has more channels for replenishing blood. There are a lot of these in the Ming Dynasty. There is also an extremely broad and deep agricultural base as a reservoir.

But Chuanshu has nothing.

What they have is just a false and prosperous commodity economy. Once the economic channel is blocked, the commodities in Shu will not be sold, and the people of Shu will be angry and kill them.

Chai Yuanming, the second-in-command of the Ministry of Finance, is very familiar with the fragility of the pseudo-commodity economy in the south of the Yangtze River.

A few years ago, in order to pierce the problems caused by this false prosperity to agricultural production, Daming also experienced a small economic crisis.

Fortunately, these are in the past tense.

At present, Daming has no such problems. Daming's economic base has been solid and very solid. Any country that wants to engage in economic warfare with Daming will be powerless in the face of Daming's huge agricultural base.

Given the current economic situation in Sichuan and Shu, even if Zhuge Liang was reborn, if the trade of Shu Jin was blocked, he would not be able to find a way to break the situation.

In the face of the situation that Ji Han suffered heavy losses after Liu Bei's death, Zhuge Liang said a word - [Today the people are in trouble and the country is empty, and the only resources to decide the enemy are to look up to Jin'er].

Shu brocade is the hard currency among the Three Kingdoms. Whether it is Wei or Wu, the thirst for Shu brocade by their ruling class is huge and irresistible.

Senior officials and dignitaries need Shu brocade to decorate their facades to show their identity, they need to use Shu brocade to show their difference from others, they need Shu brocade to make clothes, quilts, cloaks and everything, and even Shu brocade can be used as money.

Cao Pi even issued a special edict to persuade officials not to buy Shu brocade, saying that to do so was to fund the enemy and endanger the interests of the country.

But to no avail.

In order to show their identities and satisfy their desires, noble clansmen and local tyrants should buy or buy high-end hard currency such as Shu Jin. The more Cao Pi discourages them, the happier they are.

It wasn't their people who died anyway, and the falling of the sky couldn't stop them from pretending to be forced by Shu Jin.

Relying on Shu Jin, Zhuge Liang fought a beautiful and miraculous economic battle.

He directly linked Ji Han's Zhibai money to Shu brocade, and stipulated that any person and group could only buy Shu brocade with Zhibai money, thus stabilizing the face value of Zhibai money and giving the market huge confidence.

Before Liu Bei's death, the Zhibai money was supported by the credibility of Liu Bei himself and the Jihan government. Otherwise, a Zhibai money was only four or five five-baht money, and it could not be used as a hundred five-baht money. .

After Liu Bei's death, Zhibaiqian's reputation plummeted and it was almost unusable. Jihan's government's finances were immediately depleted. At this critical moment, Zhuge Liang stabilized the existence of Zhibaiqian as a kind of credit currency, and directly reversed the situation. Ji Han's endangered financial situation.

Shu brocade is linked to Zhibai money. To buy Shu brocade, Zhibai money must be used.

How did the two countries of Wu and Wei get direct money?
In exchange for [-] pieces of [-]-baht money or [-] pieces of [-]-baht money equivalent to the goods approved by the Jihan government.

For every 96 coins exchanged, the Ji Han government earned [-] five baht coins with tears and blood.

This not only stabilized the precarious dominance of the Jihan government at that time, but also laid the economic foundation for the subsequent southern expedition to Menghuo and the northern expedition to Guanzhong.

If the economy is stable and Zhuge Liang has money in his hands, then Ji Han's regime will be stable.

Because of the thirst for Shu brocade by the ruling classes of Wu and Wei, the Shu brocade, which can be regarded as a strategic material, cannot be blocked from trade. Therefore, Cao Wei failed to successfully attack Ji Han's economy, and he could not trap Ji Han to death. Ji Han's blood transfusion can be described as an example in the capitalist world.

Jihan straight money is not only circulated and used in Jihan, but also a popular currency in Cao Wei and Sun Wu. Therefore, the circulation of currency between the three countries has been realized.

How could Zhuge Liang be able to use the power of one state against Cao Wei and even counterattack five times?
Because he is really rich.

Where did his money come from?
Most of them were given by Cao Wei.

It means that Cao Wei paid Zhuge Liang to attack him.

I hit me!
Who can do it?

Su Yonglin raised his hands in surrender, gave up the competition in this area, and quit the track in this area.

Because he really can't do it.

His regime was indifferent to Shu Jin.

In the past, the limited business of Shu brocade mainly wanted to be a second-order dealer between the Southern Song Dynasty and the Western Xia and grasslands.

The nobles in Xixia and the grasslands like Shu brocade, and they need Shu brocade to decorate the facade and support themselves in front of other nobles.

The Ming Kingdom monopolized the trade route between the two sides, and of course, it wanted to be a middleman and make a profit, so it started this trade.

In addition to the Shu brocade accumulated during the Wanyanliang period, the entire Zhongdu court has not purchased even a single piece of Shu brocade for use in the entire six years.

Su Yonglin originally wanted to use Shu brocade to make some clothes for Zhao Xirui, but Zhao Xirui refused it on the grounds that "Da Ming has just been established and needs to be diligent and thrifty". After that, Shu brocade was useless, and all of them were sold by Su Yonglin to the grassland tribe to exchange for horses. .

The Ming court's current definition of Shu brocade is something that can make money. Other than that, there are not many ideas, and any official actions of the court have not used Shu brocade.

After all, the ruling class who liked Shu Jin was wiped out on a large scale by Su Yonglin.

And Su Yonglin guessed that the reason why Sichuan and Shu officials dared to support an emperor to openly oppose Ming and Jiangnan countries, in addition to the indignation and fear of the Lin'an court betraying the Song royal family, the next reliance is estimated to be the production and possession of Shu Jin.

They probably also know the story of Zhuge Liang who relied on Shu Jin to earn military expenses for Cao Wei, so they felt that as long as they mastered the production and sales of Shu Jin, they were not afraid that they would not be able to grasp the Ming and Jiangnan countries.

As long as the Shu brocade trade continues, they will not worry about having no money to use, but as long as they have money to use, they can continue to do whatever they want, and they can continue to train and fight.

But what if the Shu brocade trade was cut off?
What if the entire Sichuan-Shu trade was cut off?

Someone will replace Su Yonglin to clean up this inexplicable Shu-Song regime.

(End of this chapter)