Xiaoguangong

Chapter 165

Imprisonment is a celebrity's glory-but this was many years ago.

At that time, celebrities from all over the world came to greet them when they were released from prison. People at that time thought it was an honor. After a few years, the emperor would have to hold his nose and admit his mistakes.

But Cao Cao even dared to torture Yang Biao and kill Kong Rong, so you still want to go back to your hometown?All right, I'll send your head back.

Now Yunshan made it clear that he didn't trust Liu Ba. If Liu Ba couldn't come up with something different, he might die in prison sooner or later.

It's definitely not worthwhile for him to confront such a reckless man with his own reputation and future.

Liu Ba learned from the painful experience and felt that he should show something different about himself.

But he found to his dismay that he was just like that in terms of military strategy, so he might not be able to meet the wishes of such a madman who dared to sneak attack Jiangling.

As for the aristocratic families in Jingzhou, Yunshan has good friends with Cai Hao and Ma Liang, so he is definitely not needed.

So what can he bring to Yunshan?

After thinking for a few days, Liu Ba begged the jailer to invite Sima Fu again, and this time he told Sima Fu very politely about his strategy——

"Someone thinks that there should be no conflict with Liu Bei right now."

"Oh?" Sima Fu changed his previous negligence, and Huo De straightened up, so that Liu Ba finally saw the hope of seeing the sun again.

"Our army is small, Sun Liu has many soldiers, and we have the advantage of water warfare. The current state is difficult, and it is not the time to use troops.

I think people from Jiangdong have long wanted to plot Jingzhou, but I only regret not being able to find the opportunity.

I think the generals should make a good relationship with Jiangdong, promise to make great profits, and show that Zhou Yu, Cheng Pu and others are all generals, and even let the prime minister make Sun Quan king.

Sun Quan will definitely agree to this in order to sit in Jiangdong. After so many years, Sun and Liu turned against each other, and we will reap the benefits of the fisherman by ourselves, wouldn't it be beautiful? "

"Um……"

Sima Fu nodded vigorously, smiling like a big bad wolf gently wagging its tail, and said:

"Listening to your words is better than reading ten years of books.

Okay, then I will resign and not disturb Brother Liu's rest. "

"I... Changshi won't let me out?" Liu Ba was dumbfounded, not knowing where he was wrong.

"Brother Liu still thinks about it. After thinking about it, let Brother Liu come out naturally."

Liu Ba was completely dumbfounded now. Seeing Sima Fu standing up lightly, he was about to go out. He thought it would be impossible to call the jailer next time, so he rushed up with a tiger pounce and grabbed Sima Fu's Legs trembled:

"Shu Da, Sima Changshi, Sima Engong! You are humble, your life is in the hands of your benefactor! Please give me some advice. If I can go out, I will not forget the great lack of Sima Engong... Great grace Dade."

"Hey, how can you say that, please get up quickly." Sima Fu sighed, stretched out his hand to help Liu Ba, and he did it calmly, and said with a smile, "It is said that Mr. Liu came to vote, and this loyalty really moved me very much, but Mr. Liu came to vote. Vote, don't you have no conditions?"

Liu Ba couldn't help standing up, choked up and said:

"My loyalty to Prime Minister Cao can be learned from the sun and the moon. I am willing to do my best for Prime Minister Cao. What conditions do I need?"

"That's right." Sima Fu's attitude was very good, and he smiled, "Brother is loyal and courageous, but I wait...cough, I have a family to support, and I don't have such ambitions as Brother Liu, but Brother Liu laughs at me." gone."

"This..." Liu Ba was dumbfounded. It took him a long time to realize what was going on, and he murmured, "Gongong means, yes, let me...let me..."

Sima Fu waved his hand to dismiss the jailer, and said with a smile:
"Oh, forget it, I'll make it clear.

I waited out to reimburse the Han Dynasty, wasn't it for my livelihood?General Yun was born in poverty, his family lacked money, and he frequently distributed rewards to his subordinates. Now he can only eat five meals a day, I feel sorry for him.

After Mr. Cao came to Jingzhou, he couldn't wear Shu brocade or ride a horse. There were only five or sixty people around him, and the jade pendants and swords he used had not been replaced for a long time.

Not to mention a certain one, since I came to Jingzhou to help General Yun, I haven't had time to manage the property in Xiangyang, but in the army, at home, state affairs and family affairs are all integrated, if there is no money and food for a long time, what should I do? "

"If Brother Liu can come up with a way to save me from being so tight, I guarantee that General Yun will definitely introduce Brother Liu as a confidant, and then I will thank Brother Liu."

Liu Ba's lips trembled slightly, and he lowered his head in pain.

Why, how could this happen.

He grew up in Jingzhou's aristocratic family, and it's not that he hasn't seen the tricks of those aristocratic families' good deeds and ghosts.

Cai Mao, Kuai Yue and others were frantic for their own benefit and kept grabbing more power. Each of these aristocratic families did not have much culture, and the greed and vulgarity displayed made Liu Ba, a scholarly family, very contemptuous.

He thought that he would be able to show off his talent and learning after defecting to Cao Cao, who represented the orthodox court, but he didn't expect that Sima Fu, who was upright in appearance and elegant in speech, actually asked him to make money for himself and Yunshan!

No wonder everyone opposed his proposal to attack Liu Bei before.

It turned out that it was like this...

"Engong, Sima Changshi, Shu Da... This, this is an important frontier defense area, so there is no room for loss."

Sima Fu rolled his eyes, a trace of impatience had already appeared on his face, and the original peace and elegance gradually disappeared.

"Just say what you want to do!"

Liu Ba clenched his lips in pain, feeling a little dazed for a moment.

Even if the dynasty changes, the emperor is the emperor, and the family is still the family. For the sake of one's own interests, let alone unite with Liu Bei, so what if you unite with the barbarians in the north?
As long as the moral bottom line is more flexible, life can be more relaxed.

Sima Fu decided that anyway, Cao Cao, Liu Bei, and Sun Quan would not be able to be the emperor. It would be too stupid to offend people to death if they are free.

Well, anyway, Cao Cao’s moral level is like this, Cao Cao ruled the world, and I am a loyal minister and righteous man. If Cao Cao is gone, I will hold Zijian’s nephew and cry loudly, and I can still pass on the name of loyalty.

The truth is this, if you don't adapt, you have to adapt slowly.

The expression on Liu Ba's face was extremely depressed. He stood there blankly for a long time, and finally squeezed out a sound through his teeth.

"I, I have a way."

"Oh, I would like to hear the details." Sima Fu said happily.

Liu Ba lowered his head and said painfully:

"Jiangling leads to Bashu in the west, Jiaozhou in the south, Wuhui in the east, and the Central Plains in the north.

This place of the Four Wars, if... If there is no war, it will be able to make a lot of money. "

"Oh, how to make money."

"Before Dong Zhuo gave out small coins, the people would rather exchange grain and silk than copper coins.

The prime minister garrisoned the fields, only the military warehouses and official warehouses had grain, and it was hard to find goods in the market.It's better to set up an official market in the army first, and pay hundreds of dollars in the official market, and exchange wine, jewelry, and horses.

As long as Liu Bei is married and food is the foundation, when the time comes... the treasury will definitely be full! "

Liu Ba, who was born in a wealthy family in Jingzhou, is not particularly talented in military affairs, but his talents in internal affairs and economics are very impressive.

Now Le Jin has minted coins under Ma Liang's bewitchment, but the people in Xiangyang and Nanjun are fine, and the people in Jingnan, Jiaozhou and the surrounding areas don't like to use copper coins, which makes Liu Bei very distressed - he really wants to take advantage of Jiangling's convenience Do a good job in economics, but Liu Ba, who is good at economics, is unwilling to be used by him.

Fortunately, Zhuge Liang is particularly good at making the best use of people and materials.

It doesn't matter if Liu Ba doesn't want to follow us, isn't there Cao Jun general Yunshan in Jiangling?As long as Liu Ba is willing to come up with an idea, he can use it first with Cao Jun.

Liu Ba suggested that Yunshan mint big coins, which are different from five baht coins, and set up official market circulation first.

The official market is not for anyone to enter, it is equivalent to a trading platform endorsed by the government, where we first sell some luxury goods that do not affect people's livelihood, and the targets of the transaction are also Yunshan Army, Liu Beijun, Wu Army, etc. Waiting for soldiers.

As long as there is no war, everyone can use Jiangling as an intermediary to turn smuggling in the dark into open transactions, so that the efficiency of transactions will naturally be greatly improved, and the sergeants who like to save will be able to sell all the rewards they have saved through this platform.

As long as there are more goods on the market, the role of coins will naturally gradually come into play.

The biggest advantage of the government-market transaction is that it can gradually control the impact of the transaction on people's livelihood.

As long as there is no war...

Sima Fu held Liu Ba's hand with a smile, and said with a smile: "Listening to what you say is better than reading ten years of books - living in this kind of place is really wronged Brother Liu, let's go, let's go to the general's mansion, I can't wait for today." Don't get drunk."

At this moment, a thought of regret suddenly appeared in Liu Ba's heart.

Suddenly I felt that Liu Bei and Zhuge Liang still wanted to show their faces.

"Can I go to Xudu to meet Prime Minister Cao?" He asked expectantly.

"Of course not." Sima Fu flatly refused, "I just came back from Liu Bei, there are still some things, hehe, I can understand.

Don't worry, as long as you make some achievements with one step, the treasury of Jingzhou will be full, and General Yun will naturally leave with one step. "

Liu Ba nodded silently, but he didn't believe Sima Fu's nonsense at all.

People are like this, as long as an idea is working and some results have been achieved, it will not be easily changed afterwards.

Even if Yunshan and Sima Fu left, the successors would definitely not be willing to change the matter arbitrarily, in case there were any mistakes that would be hard to explain.

He will probably stay in Jingzhou for a long time.

Cold heart, really cold heart, I only hope that the prime minister can see me sooner.

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Liu Bei finished reading Liu Ba's suggestion to Guan Ping completely, and couldn't help sighing:

"Okay, Zichu really has a great talent, but it's a pity...it's a pity that I can't use it."

"It can't be used by us, but it's the same for Ping'er. It just happened that Ping'er taught him a lesson." Zhao Yun remembered Liu Ba's madness at that time, and there was a trace of joy on his face, and he was looking forward to seeing it. Liu Ba's expression.

With Guanping as a barrier to the north, they can concentrate on development, and Liu Ba's suggestion is just right.

"It's been a long time for the generals to go to the official city of Jiangling, but it's time for everyone to enjoy it."

(End of this chapter)