I seek economic hegemony in the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 141 Cao Wei’s Counterattack Strategy

The 13th year of Jianxing ended in a light snowfall.

In the first half of this year, the Han army captured the strategic check and balance point of Chencang in Guanzhong, marched westward to Longyou, and gained a large amount of resources.

The pattern of the Wei-Han Western Front underwent tremendous changes.

Of course, it was not just the Han-Wei Dynasty that changed.

The situation in the Three Kingdoms affects the whole body.

The Battle of Guanzhong between Han and Wei forced Wei to change its foreign policy towards Sun Wu, and also affected Sun Wu's strategy towards Wei and Ji Han.

These influences are invisible to the naked eye, but they are surging secretly, pushing the situation in the Three Kingdoms in an unknown direction.

The first month of the 14th year of Jianxing.

Cao Rui had just finished changing his clothes, and after retreating to the left and right, he called Liu Fang in and asked, "How is it?"

"Just here, I bought 300 million pieces of paper last year and made [-] shi."

Cao Rui took a deep breath, sixty thousand stones!

I went to the enemy to buy the enemy's paper, and then resold it to the noble families in the country, and I was able to earn [-] shi!
And it's definitely more than [-] stone. Liu Fang doesn't know how much he deducted in the middle.

Cao Rui asked hurriedly: "Where is papermaking?"

"For the time being... I haven't gotten it yet."

"It's been half a year and there's no movement at all?"

"Some time ago, the Shaofu of Shu State took over the matter. Our people went to Qi County and almost succeeded."

"What do you mean you almost succeeded?" Cao Rui's face dropped.

"I didn't expect that the breach of Tan Cheng would be closed so quickly. Moreover, according to the news, the person handling the Tan Cheng case acted very quickly and did not give us any chance."

"Who is handling the Tan Cheng case?"

"My name is Li Heng."

Cao Rui was slightly startled, his eyes changed, he patted the table and lowered his voice: "Why is it this person again!"

"This man is now in Chengdu and has caused quite a stir. He first established the Taifu Temple, then the Ministry of Industry, and even Dali is under his control."

"Dali is also in charge of him?" Cao Rui was even more surprised.

Dali is the punishment for being in charge of a country and has great power.

In the past ten years, Ji Han's Dali was personally controlled by Zhuge Liang.

"Yes." Liu Fang said, "This Li Heng is highly valued by Zhuge Liang."

Cao Rui couldn't sit still at all.

He stood up and walked back and forth, a layer of anxiety on his brows.

"Is he really just the son of a doctor?"

"Yes, we checked. His father, Li Ruji, is just a doctor."

Cao Rui's eyes changed again, and he suddenly said: "Last time, the long article said that the Shu Army's strategy in Guanzhong was related to this person. Now it seems that what Chen Changwen said is true!"

Otherwise, how could a doctor's son hold so many important positions in just a few months?

And coincidentally, after returning from Guanzhong, his official career was smooth.

Obviously he made great contributions in Guanzhong.

Cao Rui said: "This person is a thorn in your side. Who said you wanted to assassinate him before?"

Liu Fang was silent for a moment and suddenly said: "Your Majesty, it's just Li Heng."

"Now the Shu thieves are selling paper, and I, the Wei Dynasty, use grain in exchange for it. The papermaking skills won't be available for a while. Could it be that the Wei Dynasty has been giving blood transfusions to the Shu thieves!"

"No, Your Majesty, I do have an idea." "What idea?"

Liu Fang chuckled and said, "You can follow Guan Zhong Qi Wan's strategy."

"Qi Wan Lu Jin?" Cao Rui was slightly startled, then looked at Liu Fang with surprised eyes.

"Yes."

Cao Rui's eyes lit up, and he shouted excitedly: "Gather the ministers to discuss politics!"

Not long after, Cao Rui's key ministers all arrived.

Cao Rui seemed very happy. He glanced at the old Chen Qun and first asked Chen Qun: "Chen Qing, I sent people to Yizhou to obtain papermaking technology, but failed."

"Failure is only temporary."

"What I want is to get the papermaking technology immediately! But now that I can't get it back, the powerful people of the Wei Dynasty secretly bought paper from Shu thieves. How is this different from capitalizing on the enemy!"

The ministers sat down and said nothing, but they were muttering in their hearts: Your Majesty, don't think we don't know what you have done.

Everyone was wisely silent.

"Every day, countless grains enter the Xiegu mouth and fall into the hands of Shu thieves. I feel very sad!"

Liu Fang was stunned for a while.

"However, just now Liu Ziqi gave me an opinion. We can now adopt Qi Wan and Lu Jin's strategy. What do you think?"

As soon as Cao Rui said this, the ministers immediately started talking.

The so-called Qi Wan and Lu Can were a tactic used by Guan Zhong to deal with the state of Lu during the Spring and Autumn Period.

Guan Zhong asked officials across the country to change their clothes from Qi's cotton cloth to Lu's silk cloth, which caused the price of silk cloth to rise.

At the same time, the people of Qi were prohibited from weaving silk cloth, but they were open to the state of Lu. On the surface, the state of Lu made a lot of money from the state of Qi's silk cloth, but the state of Lu gave up agricultural production because of the whole country's weaving of silk cloth.

A year later, Qi refused Lu's silk cloth. At this time, Lu had no food and had to respect Qi.

This was the earliest trade war.

Now Cao Wei does not have that kind of papermaking technology, but the ministers of Cao Wei are buying paper.

According to Qi Wan and Lu Jin's strategy, there is no need for Cao Rui to ban domestic paper production. He can directly buy a large amount of paper to guide Ji Han to increase production and let more people join the paper making industry.

"Your Majesty, there may be something wrong with this plan." Chen Qun said, "Increasing the purchase of Shu paper will help the enemy in a short time. Our army and the Shu army are facing off in Guanzhong. This will undoubtedly help Zhuge Liang."

As soon as Chen Qun said this, many ministers nodded.

"Chen Sikong's words are serious." Liu Fang stood up and said, "The western front has been stabilized. Even if Zhuge Kongming wants to use troops this year, he will not be able to break through the Chang'an defense line. Moreover, the Shu thieves have taken Longyou, and what they lack is not food. Even if they rely on The paper was exchanged for a large amount of food, and the impact on the war situation was minimal."

Chen Qun wanted to refute something, but Liu Fang continued: "If we increase the purchase of paper, Yizhou will produce more paper. To produce more paper, more people will be needed. After a while, Yizhou will People think that paper can be exchanged for food, and everyone is making paper and no one is farming."

"Liu Changshi, this is wrong." Gao Tanglong stood up and said, "Zhuge Liang is an extremely smart man, how could he not see it?"

Liu Fang said: "Even if Zhuge Liang can see it, can he stop the entire Yizhou from making paper?"

The specific explanation of Liu Fang's words is that the collective has no unified consciousness.

Even if Ji Han's top management has noticed it, many people will still make paper privately due to the huge profit drive.

It is impossible for Ji Han's top management to absolutely ban papermaking.

In fact, in the allusion of Qi Wan and Lu Zhen, some people in Lu State also saw it. After all, there are smart people in any era and in any country.

But this is a conspiracy, so what if you see it?

Groups will quickly split in the face of huge interests.

If you don’t make this money, others will make it. Do you make it?

(End of this chapter)