I seek economic hegemony in the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 311 Li Heng: We have Sun Quan in the east and Cao Shuang in the north. Do you dare to fight?
"What exactly does Li Jian want to do!"

Sun Quan angrily lifted the desk, his eyes red, and then roared at the ministers.

"He raised the price of iron to ten guan per catty! Ten guan! Doesn't he know how much ten guan is?"

A zhibai coin weighs about 10 grams, and a jiguan is 10000 coins, about 100 coins.

The copper content is about 60%, and ten strings contain about 600 grams of copper.

One kilogram in the Eastern Han Dynasty was about 224 grams.

In other words, Shi Guan Qian itself contains more than two kilograms of copper. Taking into account other metals and artificial casting costs, the price far exceeds the price of iron itself.

The ministers did not say a word.

Because there is really nothing to say.

Did he call Li Heng a stupid pig in front of Sun Quan?
If he scolded me, he would probably become a stupid pig.

Sun Quan raised his eyebrows and asked, "How much money does the national treasury have?"

"You mean, he..."

Sun Quan's mood relaxed a little.

Liu Ji stopped talking for a moment.

"Here!"

This is clearly asking me to pay for a price war with Li Jian out of my own pocket!

Zhu said: "He is targeting Cao Wei."

Buy iron?

That's definitely impossible!

"Yes, yes, he is targeting Cao Wei!" Liu Ji quickly jumped out to add.

Wu State took a lot of salt from Jingzhou and sold it to the nobles of the country, and also sold it to Cao Wei's territory at a high price.

Why accelerate armament?
Catwalk?

After a moment of silence, Liu Jicai stood up and said: "Your Majesty, Li Jian is making money, and we are also making money. Although we are not making as much as him, we are still making more than before. We can also buy a lot of iron!"

"Why don't you say a word, sir?" Sun Quan said coldly.

This method of buying iron is to accelerate military armament.

However, the profits were divided up by various forces in Wu State, and Sun Quan only got a part of it.

Both Cao Wei and Sun Wu knew that Li Heng was expanding armaments in Jingzhou.

The only purpose is to fight!
And as we all know, a large amount of money is now flowing into Jiangling like water, and there is no way to stop it.

"Closely monitor the shipbuilding situation in Jingzhou. If Li Jian dares to build ships, send an envoy to condemn him! Cut off his trade routes! I will see where he gets the money to fight Cao Wei!"

"Your Majesty, I think Li Jian's incident is not against us." Zhu Ju stood up and said, "Li Jian wants to attack us in the future, so he can only use water. He has to build warships. I, Da Wu, rely on our naval skills to Powerful, impregnable!"

He was originally a middleman, but he was divided up and left. Now Liu Ji categorically said that Wu State can also buy iron.

Although what Zhu said might appease Sun Quan's emotions, it does make sense.

News of Li Heng's high-profile military expansion in Jingzhou spread back to Luoyang, which immediately caused a great shock.

There are even rumors that Li Heng has already deployed 200,000 troops on the border of Xiangyang, ready to attack Nanyang at any time.

This frightened the nobles of Cao Wei who were making money between Xiangyang and Nanyang and made them sleepless for a day longer than Sun Quan.

Officials from the main war faction began to raise their heads. For example, Wang Ling, the governor of Yangzhou, openly wrote a memorial saying that Luoyang's current attitude towards Jingzhou was very dangerous.

This appeasement strategy will only promote Li Heng's arrogance.

Nearly half a year has passed since the Battle of Jingzhou. The imperial court should quickly dispatch more elites from Yuzhou into Nanyang to fight Shugou at any time.

Instead of discussing which salt tastes better in Luoyang all day long.

Wang Ling even named this responsibility on Cao Shuang's head in the memorial.

Cao Shuang wrote back to Wang Ling, saying that the court had received his memorial and attached great importance to it. At the same time, Cao Shuang wrote to Li Heng to reprimand Li Heng for his breach of trust.

After finishing writing, I wiped my butt with Wang Ling's memorial.

After coming out of the seven-star toilet, Cao Shuang turned around, took off his underwear, got into the crowd of women, and did not forget to yell at the messenger who was about to leave: Tell that idiot, if he continues to mess around in Jingzhou, I will stop him. Stop all business and reinstate the ban on Shu money!

On the first day of March, on a bright spring day, Li Heng received a letter from Cao Shuang.

My beloved General Li, if we continue like this, we will be in a bit of trouble in Luoyang! That old man Wang Ling is shouting every day asking me to send more troops to Nanyang. Why don't you stay quiet for a while and let's make some money first?

Li Heng wrote to Cao Shuang as soon as he wrote: My beloved General Cao, don't you know how to use this excuse to recruit more Chinese troops in Luoyang and take all the military power in Luoyang into your own hands? Let me tell you, old thief Sima has long been unhappy with you. If you don’t kill him this year, he will kill you next year!

After writing the secret letter and sending it out, Li Heng turned around and took the people out of the city to inspect this year's spring plowing.

In addition to inspecting spring plowing, he would carefully inquire about the progress of the weapons supervisor almost every few days.

One day in mid-March, Cao Shuang, who was squatting on the toilet, received a letter from Li Heng. He frowned and read it carefully.

After reading it, my whole body felt smooth.

Yup!

Why the hell didn't I think of that?
Why didn't I think of that!

Someone come! Tomorrow, word will spread that the Shu thieves are armed in Jingzhou in an attempt to cause rebellion and cause trouble in China. I have no choice but to mobilize the people of Sizhou.

It’s all to protect my country, Wei Dynasty!

The next day, Luoyang's mood became unprecedentedly tense.

It is said that even the beggars on the roadside knew that the dog thief Li Heng was gathering troops in Jingzhou to go north. Fortunately, the wise and powerful general discovered it in time, and then, against all opinions, began to issue a conscription order.

In order to recruit more troops, Cao Shuang announced that Sizhou and Yuzhou would implement the government military system.

What if the soldiers run away again?
Drag their women over here!
Drag them all over here!
In the next period of time, another group of Qingliu sent memorials to persuade Cao Shuang not to act recklessly.

He even openly opposed it in court.

Cao Shuang sighed and said to them: "Sichuan thieves are so rampant in Jingzhou now. I am deeply trusted by the late emperor. How can I ignore it? You object to me doing this. Are you colluding with that thief Li Heng?"

Those who objected were speechless for a moment.

Two days later, someone searched the home of one of the petitioners and found the letterhead of Li Heng's affair.

Cao Shuang immediately announced the incident to everyone and severely reprimanded the official.

The next step is beheading, ransacking the house, one-stop service, and going through the whole process.

Then, Luoyang's opposition to Cao Shuang's arms expansion disappeared.

"Cao Shuang is crazy!" Sima Zhao hurried into the back garden and slapped a piece of information on the table.

"Why are you so anxious?" Sima Yi wrote calmly and calmly.

"Cao Shuang is unscrupulously expanding armaments in Luoyang. Anyone who opposes it is having an affair with Li Heng. His own people secretly sell a large amount of iron to Li Heng!" Sima Zhao said angrily, "He himself is the one who has an affair with Li Heng!"

(End of this chapter)