Three Kingdoms, I open a tavern in Xudu

Not far from Guanghan, the capital of Shu, in the imperial city of Shu.

"Your Majesty, recently, Sun Quan has sent more and more letters to his ministers."

Zhuge Liang took out a piece of letter paper from his pocket, handed it to Liu Yan, and continued: "I think Sun Quan can no longer use it, so this plan has to be abandoned."

"Could it be that Chen Yang already knows about Sun Quan?"

Liu Yan read over what was written on it, and frowned instantly.

Sun Quan was ordered by Chen Yang to write as deliberately as possible. The meaning in the letter was obviously that Sun Quan was discovered by Chen Yang.

In this way, all the plans they had thought before would not work.

"Looking at Sun Quan's meaning, this is exactly the case, and it is even more difficult for me to guess the truth."

Zhuge Liang has lost his self-confidence recently, and has various doubts about life.

As long as it was related to Chen Yang, he would feel panic and resistance.

"Then what should we do about this matter?"

Liu Yan put down those letters.

"Ignore it, and don't reply."

Zhuge Liang looked at the letter paper and said in a low voice: "It is assumed that we have never cooperated with Sun Quan. I am worried that if this continues, it will backfire and give Chen Yang an opportunity. Moreover, I have been thinking of ways to deal with Chen Yang recently. Yang, but... I'm afraid I will disappoint His Majesty."

Liu Yan understood that he was under a lot of pressure, so he shook his head and said, "As I have seen with my own eyes, the strength of the military division is not weak at all. I can only blame Chen Yang for being too scary. Fortunately, there is only one Chen Yang in this world, but it is a pity that he just got it. Hanzhong has no choice but to give it up, and the emperor, I, has to live in Yizhou, which is a tiny place."

Recalling that outside of the Kingdom of Shu, Sima Yi has four northern states, plus Xudu Yingchuan and other places, and there are also places outside the Great Wall such as the Xiongnu and Xianbei. The land is very vast.

Cao Cao occupied Jingzhou, Guanzhong, Hanzhong and the Western Regions of Liangzhou, and even got involved in Jiangdong.

Both of them have a much larger sphere of influence than a mere Yizhou.

Liu Yan felt that he was the worst one, and said: "Hanzhong can't be taken, and we can't expand northward. The military adviser thinks we can invade south?"

Hearing this, Zhuge Liang pondered for a while: "Your Majesty intends to take down the Seven Counties of Nanzhong?"

"And Jiaozhou!"

Liu Bei's ambition is very long-term, and he sets his sights on the southern regions: "Although the climate in the south and other places is complex, changeable, and there are many barbarians. But the land is vast and the water is abundant, which is convenient for production and farming. What they lack It's just farming technology. Also, we can gather barbarians to fill the army. As a source of troops, I think it is necessary to expand south."

"The seven counties in Nanzhong were originally Han land. The Han family was in chaos. The barbarian leader Meng Huo occupied the land as king, including Jiaozhou and other places. If we can recover it, there will be a lot of benefits."

Liu Yan was looking forward to Zhuge Liang's response, hoping to get his affirmation.

"What Your Majesty said makes sense!"

Zhuge Liang agreed: "But it is not easy to implement. We are not familiar with the seven counties of Nanzhong, especially in the current climate. The barbarians are more brutal than the barbarians. We can defeat them, but we may not be able to recover them. "

Liu Yan's enthusiasm was extinguished a lot, but he insisted: "Since we can fight, let's fight. If we attack with violence, of course not, but it may not be impossible to recover the barbarian leader Meng Huo and let him voluntarily become a minister." At that time, we will gradually invade Nanzhong through the military and political aspects, and slowly assimilate the barbarians and become the citizens of our Shu Kingdom."

Using various cultural, economic, and political means to recover the people in Nanzhong is what Liu Yan has been thinking about recently. Although he thinks a lot and is very complicated, he always believes that it can be implemented.

"Your Majesty intends to expand to the south, and I will do my best to help His Majesty." Zhuge Liang did not object any more.

Anyway, their plan to expand to the north has been difficult, and if they go north, they will definitely not be Cao Jun's opponent.

Maybe they can pass through the seven counties of Nanzhong to strengthen their strength, and after another year or two of recuperation, with sufficient troops, it is not impossible to defeat Cao Jun, or even defeat Chen Yang.

Thinking of the end, Zhuge Liang felt that the seven counties in Nanzhong might be his new springboard.

He also said: "Your Majesty, don't worry leave this matter to me. There is no Chen Yang in Nanzhong, and I will definitely not let Your Majesty down."

The person they feared was not Cao Cao, but Chen Yang alone.

Zhuge Liang is like this, and so is Liu Yan.

"I will kill Chen Yang sooner or later!" Liu Yan snorted coldly.

Similar ideas, they are not the first time.

From hope to disappointment, Zhuge Liang has found new hope now, and he has never given up.

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A few more days passed.

According to Chen Yang's instructions, Zhuge Jin bought a store in the most popular place in Shifang, and armed the entire store according to Chen Yang's design.

How armed is this?

Inside the shop, it can be said that it is as solid as gold. First, I bought all the shops and houses near the shop, planned it, and built a large courtyard. I cast the tall inner and outer walls with iron, and then wrapped the iron with bricks and stones, which is extremely hard.

Zhuge Jin dug another basement, paved a layer with hard stones, and then reinforced the layer with iron, as if building a city wall, the kind that even an army of 2000 people could not break down.

According to Chen Yang, this place will be used to save money in the future.

Zhuge Jin heard it right, Chen Yang really said that it was used to save money.

To buy such a big place to save money, how much money do you have to save?

He couldn't see more and more what Chen Yang was going to do now, but he could only follow orders and plans.

Chen Yang didn't explain to him, and asked Mi Zhen to keep conveying his plan to Mi Liang.

It took half a month to decorate this shop, and it was finally done.

All the people in Hanzhong looked at the shop curiously every day, until one day half a month later, they saw a large plaque hanging on the door of the shop, with two big characters written on it - Qianzhuang.

Then, Zhuge Jin, as the representative of the bank, announced the official opening of the bank.

"Qianzhuang? What is this?"

The people of Guanghan who came to watch, all had various doubts when they saw this place.

What is a bank, even Zhuge Jin heard it for the first time, but this concept refreshed his understanding of money.

"My friends, I'm going down to Zhuge Peak, and I'm the treasurer of this bank!"

Zhuge Jin stood up, and he also prepared a fake name, and continued: "Mr. Shu's military advisor, Mr. Wolong, Zhuge Kongming, is my cousin."

Hearing that he actually had a relationship with Zhuge Liang, all the surrounding audience exclaimed.

"Mr. Zhuge, what is your bank used for?"

Immediately someone raised his own doubts.

"Save money!"

Zhuge Jin said: "Although an ordinary coin is very small, it is very heavy when it is multiplied. It is inconvenient to store, takes up space, and is even easy to be missed by thieves. Our bank was established to solve your troubles."

Coins in this era are indeed troublesome, and it is inconvenient to carry and store them in large quantities.

The earliest banknotes Jiaozi appeared in Shuzhong, and they were made by merchants in Shuzhong.

"How do you solve it?"

someone else asked.

"It's very simple, everyone, send all the money stored at home to our bank, and we will keep it for you..."

Before Zhuge Jin finished speaking, someone in the crowd suddenly booed.

"Are you sick? Why should we keep our money for you!"