The big man has a living father

Chapter 220 (Big Chapter) Buy the Kingdom of Nanyue!
Huo Hai put down the letter in his hand.

Unexpectedly, this letter was sent by an unexpected person.

It’s Wei Kang.

Huo Hai was so familiar with this little cousin that he never thought he would write to him.

After reading the letter, Huo Hai began to doubt his life.

Does labor really educate people?
Wei Kang had completely changed his appearance.

If it was the current Wei Kang, Huo Hai wouldn't even know why he was stripped of his title.

As the saying goes, a small thief steals needles and a big thief steals gold.

In the Han Dynasty, this sentence is called a small thief's needle and a big thief's adultery.

Wei Kang was stripped of his title because he entered the harem directly without the imperial badge.

This statement is obviously made to save face for all parties. It is 100% certain that Wei Kang had an affair in the harem.

It is hard to say whether she was a palace maid or Liu Che's concubine.

The latter is very likely.

Of course, Huo Hai didn’t remember it so clearly. He only remembered that Wei Kang did something illegal and was then stripped of his title.

Later, he was implicated and killed in the Witchcraft Incident.

Now that Edo has gone to Edo on Totai Island, the possibility of a witchcraft disaster breaking out is extremely small.

But it didn't stop Wei Kang from committing suicide.

But after reading the letter, Huo Hai felt that Wei Kang must have really changed.

The content of the letter was very simple. Wei Kang chatted about some family matters. He first said that after he had been in the mine for June, he was recommended by his fellow workers and elected by the Yulin Guards in charge to become the section chief of the railway. At the same time, he served as the foreman of a mine, responsible for supplying coal to the railway station.

The letter did not explain it clearly, but Huo Hai knew exactly what these sites looked like.

Wei Kang, within his power, developed this site almost to its limit.

It only took one month.

For example, in the letter, Wei Kang mentioned that Bu Shi was replenishing supplies and eating at Yintai Station when he returned from the northern border for the second time. He learned that you, my brother, had not returned to Chang'an yet, so he asked me to say hello to you.

From such a simple sentence, Huo Hai extracted a lot of information.

Yintai is not far from Tongguan Railway Station, only about 20 kilometers away.

It sounds far, but even if the train moves slowly, it will arrive in an hour.

But! This train actually stopped at Yintai for resupply instead of at Tongguan. What does this mean?
You have to know that there are important officials like Bu Shi on this train. It should be a chartered train of the Xiongnu Company, and it belongs to a special train.

This shows that, first, the railway system is becoming more and more prosperous, and the number of platforms at the same station is no longer enough to accommodate so many routes.

Second, Yintai Station is very well built, so much so that other high-end cars are willing to go to Yintai for supplies instead of stopping at Tongguan.

This shows that under the leadership of Section Chief Wei Kang, Yintai Station has undergone earth-shaking changes in just one month.

Indeed, Wei Kang is more knowledgeable than ordinary people. If he uses his brain to think and do things, he will be more likely to succeed than ordinary people.

But has he ever used his brain to do anything in his life?

Is he starting to grow a brain?
The letter also said that Liu Che personally summoned him, said some encouraging words, and asked him to leave the position of Duan Chang and arrange other things for him.

Duan Chang, in the current Han system, is almost at the level of a county magistrate, but he is a super strong county magistrate, only slightly weaker than a county governor.

To put it more simply, it is similar to Huo Hai's position as Lieutenant Chang'an.

After all, the railway is limited now, so it is inevitable that the section chief has such a high status.

This is already a very good starting point for a career.

If Wei Kang had not done an excellent job, Liu Che would definitely not have let him leave this position and reassigned him.

The current situation is that the Han Dynasty is expanding too fast. Not only are there not enough princes, but there are also not enough people from the Wei and Huo families.

If Wei Kang made achievements, there is a high possibility that Emperor Liu Che would look at him differently and then reassign his position.

Afterwards, Wei Kang reported some situations at the mine to Huo Hai, and said that he had met Sima Xiangru, who said that he wanted to compete with Huo Hai in poetry.

After writing this, Wei Kang had basically finished explaining the things going on at the mine, and he began to write about the situation at home.

Recently, General Wei Qing went north again.

This year, the Han Dynasty was originally going to conquer one of the Xianbei and Sushen, but because the south developed too well, a large amount of resources were diverted there.

However, when a region becomes prosperous, it is inevitable that it will have more ideas, so Wei Qing went north again to take charge.

On the one hand, on the Xiongnu Company's side, the Chanyu headquarters had been eaten away and only had about 200,000 cores left, which was very tragic.

Everything is fine in Chang'an City now. After Wei Kang left the mine and returned to Chang'an, he visited elders such as Gongsun He and Chen Zhang one after another.

The elders asked Wei Kang to follow Huo Hai's example and stop hanging around like before.

Wei Kang agreed with this and thought that he had indeed gone too far in the past.

Then Wei Kang mentioned that he and Ju Yuan were good friends, and asked Huo Hai to look after Ju Yuan.

He said he didn't know when he would see Ji Yuan again, and that he had never seen the sea and couldn't imagine it. He asked if the taste of the sea was really like the water left after salting meat.

Then, Wei Kang mentioned that there was something he wanted to resolve and asked Ju Yuan. Ju Yuan said that Wei Kang could ask Huo Hai. He said that he really wanted to write a letter to Huo Hai.

But after this incident, it became difficult to write.

I hesitated for a long time before writing this letter.

Huo Hai continued to watch and exclaimed, "Wow!"

It turned out that Wei Qing wanted to marry Princess Pingyang at that time and had already told Liu Che about it.

As a result, Liu Che thought that Ju Yuan was a fake, so he went to visit Ju Yuan's home in disguise.

Ju Yuan's mother then told the story of Wei Kang coming to their house and crying loudly that day.

Wei Qing and Huo Qubing were listening nearby and knew the whole story.

It turned out that Wei Kang mentioned his deceased mother in front of Ju Yuan's mother and talked about the things his deceased mother asked him to do because she was afraid that he would be bullied.

Whatever can be grabbed must be grabbed, whatever can be occupied must be occupied, and whatever can be thrown a tantrum must be thrown a tantrum.

Only then did Wei Qing realize that Wei Kang's mother was so worried that Wei Kang would lose the family business.

After knowing this, Wei Qing no longer mentioned to Liu Che the matter of marrying Princess Pingyang.

Princess Pingyang complained about this to Wei Shaoer, blaming Wei Qing for not keeping his word. He was not even a marshal of the empire, but a man without credibility.

Wei Shaoer told Huo Qubing about this matter.

What could Huo Qubing do? After much deliberation, Huo Qubing simply went to Wei Kang and told him what had happened.

Huo Qubing would not analyze with Wei Kang any family power, any political connection, any power development, or any way of banding together for warmth.

Huo Qubing only told Wei Kang: "How can a hero in the world marry only one wife? What's more, your father doesn't have one."

Wei Kang is no longer a fool and knows what he wants.

For his own sake, Wei Qing decided not to marry again. This attitude speaks volumes.

But if I delay my old father from getting married, it would be a problem.

In the past, it could be said that General Wei Qing had no time to remarry because of the wars in the empire, but what about now?

So Wei Kang asked Huo Hai what he should do.

After reading the letter, Huo Hai wrote back to Wei Kang.

The implicit meaning of his words was that he wanted Wei Kang to talk to Liu Che and at the same time deliver his letter to Liu Che.

……

Wei Kang was very surprised after receiving the letter. Why did his cousin have to ask me to write the letter to His Majesty?

No matter if it was the official postmaster or Huo's messenger, anyone could deliver the letter to the palace as quickly as possible.

What's wrong with me?
However, after careful consideration, Wei Kang decided to do so.

Wei Kang met Liu Che, who was teasing Liu Mo, in the palace.

Liu Che teased him for a while and poked Liu Mo with his beard. Liu Mo resisted, and Liu Che laughed and turned back: "Go ahead."

Wei Kang told the story of his old father's marriage.

Then he said: "Uncle..."

Liu Che thought for a moment and said, "Your father himself is unwilling to mention it because he loves you. What can I say? Do you want me to directly decree that he will get married?"

Wei Kang took a deep breath and said loudly: "This is what I mean!"

Liu Che laughed: "It's interesting, the son is helping his father to propose marriage."

The key is to propose to the bride's younger brother.

I'm afraid this scene will hardly appear in the future.

Liu Che smiled and said, "Let me think about it."

Wei Kang took out the letter from his pocket and said, "Uncle, this is from your cousin."

Liu Che: "Which cousin?"

Wei Kang: "Huo Hai."

Liu Che tilted his head suspiciously: "Huo Hai? Huo Hai wrote a letter to me and asked you to help deliver it?"

Liu Che tore open the envelope and looked inside.

[Long live the emperor, for thousands of years, your majesty has been recorded in history. When I was at the shore of the East China Sea, I saw... and realized that your majesty was very kind, so... your majesty was like...]

Liu Che took a glance and saw the first page was full of words like this.

Liu Che was also tired of reading and read directly from the first page to the end.

If paper had not appeared for such a short time and there were not many calligraphers, Huo Hai would have been the most famous calligrapher and Liu Che would have just given him this piece of waste paper to throw away.

It was fresh when he heard it for the first time, but after listening to it many times, Liu Che realized that Huo Hai was just playing with his literary talent.

Who says you can’t show off when you’re flattering someone?
After reading a paragraph on the second page, Liu Che was ecstatic.

Huo Hai wrote that Princess Wei Chang vomited a few days ago, and the accompanying doctor confirmed that Princess Wei Chang was pregnant after examination.

Liu Che was overjoyed.

I am going to be a grandfather, or to be more precise, a grandfather-in-law.

Liu Che continued reading.

It turned out that Princess Wei Chang was seasick. If she took a boat during this period, her morning sickness would definitely be more severe. And if she took a boat again in a few months, it might not be suitable with her big belly.

Therefore, Huo Hai discussed with Princess Wei Chang and decided to return to Chang'an only after the child was born.

After Liu Che's ecstasy, he was also deeply worried.

Princess Wei Chang is indeed very seasick.

Princess Chang could still bear it when she was in the Caoyun Guard. It took her a long time to adapt to it. But when she arrived at the Yellow River, the situation became even worse.

There is no need to say more when you are out on the sea.

Huo Hai used the excuse every day that Princess Wei Chang was getting used to seasickness and stayed in Qiancheng for seven or eight months.

Now that Princess Wei Chang is pregnant, she is even more sensitive. Even if she has adapted to the sea ship before, she is afraid that she will not be able to do so now.

After reading it, Liu Che wanted to call someone, but he was holding Liu Mo in his arms, so the big man said, "Come here!"

Eunuch Wang and Luo Lie both stepped forward.

Liu Che: "Notify the Queen to come over!"

"Also... you go and pass on the order to ask Princess Pingyang to come over!"

Wei Kang was confused. Did his cousin plead for mercy?
But why did His Majesty make such a big fuss when my cousin said that?

Don’t think about things that you can’t figure out clearly. Wei Kang will just watch from the side.

When Wei Zifu arrived and heard the conversation between Liu Che and Wei Zifu, Wei Kang finally understood what was going on.

It can even be said that this incident is the most important event in Chang'an City this year.

Do you know how much of a blessing Huo Xian received after he was born last year?
Huo Qubing was raised by Liu Che, and Huo Qubing's son was like Liu Che's grandson, whom Liu Che loved very much.

Now, Huo Hai is so favored, and Princess Wei Chang is Liu Che's most favored child. What kind of favor will the child born by these two have?
This time, Wei Kang knew what was going on.

Liu Che was now in an extremely happy mood. Anyone who went up to him and said something auspicious would be rewarded with a thousand gold coins. Therefore, his father's marriage should be settled.

However, Wei Kang did not expect that his own affairs would also be settled.

After talking with Princess Pingyang, Liu Che summoned Wei Kang again and made it clear that he had issued an edict to grant a marriage between Wei Qing and Princess Pingyang.

Then she told Wei Kang: "A man should have great ambitions. You are no longer the child protected by your mother. Only children like Liu Mo are under the protection of their mother."

"If your mother is worried that your lineage will be lost, then there is no need to worry. From today on, you are the Great General of America. Go to America and build a career."

Wei Kang is willing to accept any current position and any future.

General Zhenmei?
Wei Kang also knew that the New World had been discovered and was named America because the coastline with snow-capped mountains and giant trees along the coast was too beautiful.

Going to the sea?

Wei Kang hadn't seen the sea yet: "Yes, Your Majesty!"

……

In November, the first batch of rubber tree seedlings shipped from America were planted on the edge of the Red River Delta.

This action was undoubtedly a provocation to Zhao Yingqi.

However, Zhao Yingqi was not moved at all.

Zhao Yingqi determined that Huo Hai was about to collapse.

In the Nanyue Kingdom, the price of an acre of high-quality land was two hundred coins, the price of an acre of medium-quality land was one hundred coins, and the price of poor-quality land was forty coins.

It’s half a pound here.

Converted into Han money, high-quality land cost 400 coins, medium-quality land cost 200 coins, and poor-quality land cost 80 coins.

This price is almost the same as the land price in non-suburban areas of Luoyang.

Among them, inferior land is cheaper than the cheapest land in Dahan.

There is no way. This is the Kingdom of Nanyue. There are two delta alluvial fans and an entire coastal plain. Although this coastal plain is narrow, it is thousands of kilometers long.

The amount of fertile land they have developed so far is 930,000 hectares. What does that mean? It is not much worse than the number Shu County counted last time.

However, the arable land in the Chengdu Plain is naturally fertile and has been transformed for hundreds of years.

The soil here is of inferior fertility and has only been transformed for a few decades.

One hectare is equal to one hundred mu.

Therefore, the total value of all the land in the entire Nanyue Kingdom is less than 2.8 billion yuan.

The total price of the soil in circulation is less than 2.2 billion yuan.

The price of all the important land and houses in their county is less than 1.7 billion.

All together, the total is 6.7 billion.

In fact, Huo Hai’s money was enough to easily swallow up the entire Kingdom of Nanyue.

Even now, as the Han Dynasty has developed to this day, there are still people besides Huo Hai and Liu Che who can take over this place.

For example, if the Li and Cao families join forces, the gap will not be that big.

For example, there is not much difference between Liu Pengzu and King Liu Guang of Lu.

The reason why Huo Hai ate slowly was to give the officials in the court of Nanyue time to react.

Don't think that these people will be able to become local tyrants here in the future.

As soon as the Kingdom of Nanyue returns, thousands of funds from Chang'an, Chengdu, Luoyang and even elsewhere will pour in to take over the land.

As for the money these people got, Huo Hai would not touch it.

But people cannot own money beyond their own abilities, the market will take it back.

However, at this stage, Huo Hai needs them to own a large amount of assets of the Nanyue Kingdom, and then stand on his side to take down Zhao Yingqi.

Huo Hai was looking at the account book, and Shang Fuxing came hurriedly: "Let's start!"

Huo Hai raised his eyebrows: "Oh?"

Shang Fu: "An unknown force has emerged in the market and started buying up IOUs."

This business is very strange. The IOU is actually equivalent to money. It can be circulated directly, used to purchase items, and exchanged for metal currency.

Why are there still people willing to pay to buy IOUs?

And they are buying it at a higher price?
What does this person want to do?
This man has only one purpose.

Run for half a tael of money.

He was afraid that others would not follow his lead when he ran a run on the bank, so he needed to purchase a large amount of half-liang coins.

"Nowadays, the deflation in Nanyue is so serious, and Zhao Yingqi still took out half a tael of money to exchange for the IOU. Guess who has no food to eat?"

Shang Fu thought for a moment and looked up: "South Vietnamese Army."

Huo Hai nodded.

Now all the people of Nanyue follow the Huo family.

Agricultural residents are about to start planting on Huohai's land, because soon no one else will have land but Huohai, so they can only rent Huohai's land to plant.

Even ordinary farmers who own their own land have to rely on the high price of rice sold by the Huo family and buy wheat products that are only one-third of the price of rice to make a living. This way, they have extra money to buy other necessities of life they want, such as firewood, rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar and tea.

City residents work along with Huo's industries.

Even if they are not workers under Huo's, they are reselling Huo's wholesale goods at the second level. They buy Huo's goods, eat Huo's fish, and serve Huo's bowls.

Scholars are reading new knowledge.

The Nanyue Kingdom was destined to be unable to remain isolated because they had always used the Han language.

They did not only use small seal script. After the Han Dynasty changed to official script, the knowledgeable people here immediately began to learn it.

After the new school was introduced in Chang'an, the knowledgeable people here immediately began to learn simplified Chinese characters. Now the Huo family is actively promoting the establishment of schools, and more people are learning simplified Chinese characters.

Hundreds of officials in Nanyue followed Huo to purchase land and assets.

Together with the Huo family, they now control 80% of the fixed assets of Nanyue.

Except for the undeveloped mountains and forests that cannot be bought and sold at present, the land directly under the Zhao Yingqi royal family, and the land directly under the county government offices in various places (land reclaimed by the government), all other assets are jointly held by them and Huo Hai.

In the entire Nanyue Kingdom, among all classes, only two groups followed Zhao Yingqi.

One is the local fishermen, who get angry when they see Huo.

One is the army, they only eat the emperor's food.

However, not long after, the Huo family began to collect fish meal from all coastal areas of Nanyue Kingdom and transport it to Qiancheng and Chang'an to increase the production of pigs, dogs, chickens and ducks.

Soon after, all the fishermen from Nanyue had to board Huo’s boats.

The only thing left in the hands of Nanyue King Zhao Yingqi was the Nanyue army.

Now, in order to buy back the IOUs, Zhao Yingqi began to sell half a tael of money to recover the IOUs.

He has been minting coins, but how much can he make from minting coins with the Nanyue Kingdom's coin-minting technology and copper refining technology? How fast can he mint coins?
Therefore, he could only embezzle military funds.

The soldiers of the Nanyue Kingdom, in a prosperous environment where everyone was getting richer and richer, suddenly had no food to eat.

Are they still on Zhao Yingqi's side?

Ordinary citizens of Nanyue suddenly got jobs and their monthly income increased seven or eight times.

The rich people in Nanyue sold their fixed assets and had more money on hand.

The officials of the Nanyue Kingdom went from having a hundred acres of land to having a thousand acres of land, to having a huge thousand acres of land, and even to having ten thousand acres of land.

Everyone is getting richer and eating better.

At this time, the army was out of food. Shang Fu said: "But sir, if you exchange money this way, Zhao Yingqi will still launch a run on the bank."

"Where will we get the money to exchange it then?"

Huo Hai said calmly: "We have as many IOUs as we have half an ounce of money."

Shang Fu: "But didn't we use a lot of half-liang coins to exchange for the rich people in Nanyue to buy their land?"

"Now we are short of a full five billion and a half taels of silver!"

Shang Fu thought for a moment and continued, "Besides, now that Zhao Yingqi has started to exchange IOUs, there will definitely be others who will follow suit. Once this trend becomes popular, many wealthy people will also hoard IOUs."

"When Zhao Yingqi runs a bank run, a large number of rich people will also run a bank run."

"The market is so chaotic right now that some people who have exchanged their IOUs will not deposit the money or exchange it to a bank for the time being. They may just hold onto the half liang of money and wait and see."

"According to this calculation, we are at least 7.5 billion and a half taels short."

"How do you solve this?"

Huo Hai laughed: "Zhao Yingqi thought so too."

Shang Fu was puzzled: "Isn't it?"

Huo Hai said calmly: "Really?"

Yes, no matter how you calculate it, Huo Hai still has a shortfall of 7.5 billion and a half taels of silver.

The gap is too big.

Even if the King of Nanyue, Zhao Yingqi, gave the right to mint coins to Huo Hai and asked Huo Hai to start minting coins, he would not be able to produce so many coins in several months.

How to solve this problem?
Of course, Shang Fu knew that the Han fleet could bomb Panyu to the sky at any time.

However, Huo Hai said that only by peacefully conquering South Vietnam can we achieve the effect of making them no longer have any rebellious intentions.

How to solve it?
Huo Hai smiled, looked out the window and said nothing.

Shang Fu knew that others who pretended to be experts were just pretending to be experts, but the young master was a real expert.

So I stopped asking.

The young master is confident that he can do it, so all he needs to do is watch the performance.

The Kingdom of Nanyue will be the first country in history to be swallowed up by money.

……

Time flies.

Zhao Yingqi inspected the military camp.

Zuo Huangtong, the general of Ou Luo in South Vietnam, said anxiously: "Your Majesty! We haven't given subsidies to the soldiers' families for a long time."

The Nanyue Kingdom was a country with military as its backbone, and the soldiers were treated very well, similar to the good families in Chang'an in the past.

The family of a soldier can get a food allowance of half of the amount of food he or she consumes in a year, while his or her minor children can get the full amount.

But it has been suspended for four months now.

Zhao Yingqi pressed Huang Tong's shoulder and said, "Do you know what I am doing?"

How could Huang Tong not know this? Zhao Yingqi had promised that if this was accomplished, he would give him all the good farmland in the entire county in the future.

Huang Tong was a member of the Yue ethnic group. He became the representative of the Yue ethnic group after Lu Jia left and was also the highest-ranking official in the army.

Because his mother was Han Chinese and his children were married to Han Chinese, he was not treated hostilely by other generals and was able to hold this position.

Currently, apart from Lieutenant Gao who is in charge of the defense of the royal city, he has the most power.

The other general representatives had fewer soldiers under their command, or were directly under the Internal Guards.

Huang Tong: "But now the people are living better and better, the soldiers are disheartened!"

In the past, soldiers were well fed and watched the common people starve.

Now the common people are enjoying abundant fish and meat while watching the soldiers starving.

There were also children of the common people who were almost dying of poverty, who asked the children of the soldiers: "Why don't you eat meat at home? Don't you like it? Why don't you eat dinner? Are you eating less to lose weight? I heard that dieting is popular in Chang'an. You guys are living a good life. You even have time to lose weight."

My God, the soldiers can hardly afford lunch and can only eat breakfast.

Zhao Yingqi gritted his teeth and said, "Let the soldiers be patient. Tell the news to some middle-level generals, let them know the secret, and let them hold on. The squeeze will start soon!"

Huang Tong breathed a sigh of relief when he heard that the bank run was finally about to begin.

Zhao Yingqi wanted to laugh at this moment.

In order to accumulate IOUs, Zhao Yingqi sold all his imperial farms and all the assets that could be sold.

They even secretly sent people to take out some non-existent wild mountain tops and sell them at a very high price.

Huo Hai accepted it all!

Don’t blame Huo Haishou.

In the past few months, the rubber tree seedlings have really taken off!

Huo Hai didn’t know where the rubber industry in Southeast Asia would be in the future, but the weather was hotter now than in the future, and rubber could be planted in the foothills of the entire Red River Delta!

After planting this batch of trees, we can start tapping rubber seven years later.

So Huo Hai urgently needed to buy land at the foot of the mountain.

Field? Even if Huo Hai was rich, he couldn't afford such extravagance.

This year, Huo Hai led the entire South Vietnam country to plant grain in all places that can produce grain, and all this rice will be sent to the north in the future.

Many places have begun to plant fruit trees on a large scale. Soon the Kingdom of Nanyue will build a fruit canning base. Canned food will be needed both at sea and in the entire north.

Because you need to supplement vitamins.

Nowadays, there are too many people suffering from night blindness, and even if food is provided, it will not be cured in a short time.

Only fruits and sea fish can solve this problem.

The Kingdom of Nanyue is a place that can make the dragon open its eyes.

So, Huo Hai accepted it all.

According to the calculations of Shang Fu and Zhao Yingqi, Huo Hai's shortfall of half a tael of money has reached 9.8 billion!

It’s about to break 10 billion!
If it weren’t for Huo Hai, Zhao Yingqi wouldn’t have known that the Kingdom of Nanyue had so much money!
This is still a gap!

How much money is hidden in the hands of the rich?

Zhao Yingqi had already made up his mind that after dealing with Huo Hai, it would be time to harvest these people.

As long as it can be completed, the national strength that we have accumulated will definitely be enough to counterattack the Han Dynasty!

Huo Hai was also calculating which window Zhao Yingqi would take action from.

However, when the news spread that a large number of people had started to exchange half a liang of coins, Huo Hai still didn't understand what Zhao Yingqi was doing.

There is no landmark event, no hot spot that can ferment, nothing, and yet the exchange starts abruptly?

Without building up public opinion first, you start exchanging things out of thin air?
After a long time, Huo Hai finally figured it out.

Zhao Yingqi did not intend to create public opinion and then start a run on the bank, but to start exchanging the money himself, hoping that the Huo family would be unable to exchange the money, and then create public opinion.

Isn't this quite stupid?

However, Huo Hai also understood Zhao Yingqi's timing.

It is possible that Zhao Yingqi started the exchange when he calculated that Huo’s Bank had a funding gap of 10 billion.

In Zhao Yingqi's opinion, the figure of 10 billion is too exaggerated.

There is absolutely no way to smooth it over.

So, he took action.

Facing the letters that flew in like snowflakes from Huo's Banks all over the country, Huo Hai had only one word: "Exchange."

We will exchange as much as he wants.

In just one day, 1.3 billion were exchanged!

In every county and county town in the entire Nanyue Kingdom, the laborers who transported coins were drawn from various construction sites.

How could they normally come into contact with so much money?

No courage to push the cart.

But then they adapted.

1.8 billion.

2.3 billion.

Three and a half billion.

Thirty-seven billion.

After hesitating for a day, Zhao Yingqi went into full force again.

Four and a half billion!

Five hundred and eight billion!

Ten days later, the amount of money Zhao Yingqi had exchanged amounted to 8.2 billion.

These were all the Zhao family’s property, all the fertile fields, and the mountains that originally could not be sold. After the frantic sales, all the money was now here.

When Zhao Yingqi only had an IOU of 50 million in his hand, he went crazy.

"What's going on? Why?! Logically, he should have already exploded with a gap of 3 billion!"

"what happened!"

According to Zhao Yingqi's calculations, when he exchanged the second billion, Huo Hai should not be able to take out any money.

Once the exchange process slows down, he can send people around the world to spread the word that banks do not have so much money in them and that IOUs are all fraudulent, thereby triggering a bank run.

but.

Huo Hai has always been able to come up with money.

Huo Hai shouldn't have so much money.

Unless... someone secretly gave money to Huo Hai!

Zhao Yingqi found two random excuses and directly raided the properties of two wealthy families in Panyu City!
The result of the house search disappointed Zhao Yingqi greatly.

These two wealthy men sold thousands of acres of fertile land in and around Panyu, and should have at least four hundred thousand and a half taels of silver at home.

As a result, eight hundred thousand were copied!
Not only did they not give Huo Hai money, they also secretly had other businesses, all of which they sold privately! That's how they got so much money!
How is this going? ! ! !
What happened? Where did the money come from?

Huo Hai secretly minted coins?!
Absolutely impossible!

Because Zhao Yingqi sent people to check, all the half-liang coins exchanged were real.

Zhao Yingqi refused to accept the defeat and continued to send people to search the house.

This time, Zhao Yingqi raided sixty households in seventeen counties of Nanyue Kingdom!
This time, forty-five households had no money!

However, these people have IOUs at home.

After taking out the IOU, they went to Huo’s Bank to exchange it, and it was immediately converted into money, filling their house with it.

No, no one gave money to Huo Hai.

There was something strange about this, and Zhao Yingqi didn't understand it, but he didn't doubt it.

At this time, the entire Nanyue Kingdom fell into unprecedented panic.

The Nanyue King Zhao Yingqi inexplicably confiscated the property of 62 wealthy families!!!

The entire Nanyue Kingdom was in panic.

Soon, they agreed on a common approach.

They began to tell ordinary people in Nanyue that Zhao Yingqi was frantically confiscating people's property and might be crazy.

Zhao Yingqi is a madman.

Ordinary people knew that Zhao Yingqi often killed people indiscriminately. Some ministers suggested using Han Dynasty laws, but he didn't use them. He just liked to kill people based on his likes and dislikes.

Sometimes a man robbed someone and killed him, and Zhao Yingqi sentenced him to three years in prison. Sometimes a man stole five copper coins, and Zhao Yingqi drew his sword and killed him.

Before they saw the law, everyone had absolutely no problem with this. They were the kings and could do whatever they wanted.

But now, everyone is learning the new simplified Chinese textbooks, which contain many allusions, many of which are from the Han Dynasty.

The Emperor of the Han Dynasty is so nice. He doesn't kill people casually!
Everything is done in accordance with the law!
Nobles of the Han Dynasty: Thank you!

Indeed, although Liu Che adopted the most stringent laws in history, which were even stricter than those imposed on nobles during the reign of Zhu Yuanzhang, he would never kill people at will.

When the people of South Yue compared themselves to Zhao Yingqi, they felt that he was really crazy.

Zhao Yingqi is really going crazy.

He exchanged so much money and calculated that the Huo’s Bank had a huge gap, but where did the Huo’s Bank get so much money!

Zhao Yingqi went crazy and started sending people everywhere to sell assets.

The mountains that originally belonged to the imperial court, the undeveloped forests, and the land surrounding remote county towns were all put up for sale!
In the market, Huo Hai accepted all orders.

Even Shang Fu, the person who was in charge of all this, couldn't understand it.

Yes, there should be a gap in Huo’s Bank. It’s a huge gap. Why does it feel like there is endless money now?
Shang Fu, who had studied economics for several years, suddenly remembered an urban legend of Chang'an.

Legend has it that Huo Hai is the God of Wealth who has descended to earth and can create money directly.

Could it be that the young master could really create money out of thin air? !

Huo Hai was even more surprised when he saw that Zhao Yingqi had sold all his underwear.

Is Zhao Yingqi serious?
The deeds in Huo Hai’s hands can almost be pieced together to form a map of the Kingdom of Nanyue!

Huo Hai was really not being polite and directly announced to the public that Zhao Yingqi was frantically selling off the assets of Nanyue and was about to sell all of Nanyue’s territory to Huo’s Bank.

The King of Nanyue is preparing to run away with the money and live a wealthy life in Chang'an!

This news was too outrageous when it came out.

But no one disbelieved it.

This is because all the title deeds to all the territories in various places are kept at Huo’s Bank.

Anyone is eligible to see it.

As long as you want to see, even if you are a beggar, the people from Huo’s Bank will show you the written deeds directly.

These are all true!

Many ministers were also confused. "We are ready to fight to the death, why did Your Majesty surrender first?"

Huang Tong was also confused: "Your Majesty! So you don't want to distribute food to the soldiers, are you going to run away with the money?"

Roll money?

There are billions of coins lying around everywhere, and they can't even be transported. How can they be rolled up?
But Zhao Yingqi couldn't tell the people that he was trying to run a run on Huo's Bank.

There is no use talking about it, just do it!
Because if it were to be told to others, it would appear that I was plotting to seize the property of all citizens!

Zhao Yingqi made his final crazy move.

He is gambling!
He is gambling!
I bet Huo Hai is on the brink of collapse. If I increase the bet a little more, Huo’s Bank will collapse!

Zhao Yingqi found someone who was secretly buying up land just like Huo's Bank: "I know you are buying up land. I have a piece of land..."

When Shang Fu went to Huo Hai to report, Huo Hai spat out the tea.

Zhao Yingqi sold a piece of land three miles outside Panyu City to a wealthy businessman.

Others may not know what this is.

Simply put, that place is the tomb of Emperor Wen of Nanyue, and it was called the Tomb of King Wen of Nanyue in the Han Dynasty.

King Wen of Nanyue was Zhao Yingqi's father.

Zhao Yingqi sold his father's tomb! He also said that it was the tomb of Emperor Wen, and that the tomb was filled with gold, silver, treasures, jade, and seals, so the price was very high.

Sold for three hundred million!
Then he used the IOU to exchange for half an ounce of money.

Obviously, Huo Hai can still exchange it.

"He really did sell his father's grave, but he didn't even consider selling his wife."

Shouldn’t gamblers start by selling their wives and then their children?
On that day, in Panyu City, all the royal family members knelt at the palace gate and cried loudly.

The king is mad.

The king sold his father's grave!
Does the king really want to run away with the money?

In the Nanyue Kingdom, everyone, from scholars to farmers, merchants, soldiers, guards, warriors, craftsmen, beggars, kings, and prostitutes, knew that Zhao Yingqi had gone mad.

Fortunately, everyone stood on the big man's side.

On this day, a ship set out.

A giant cruise ship, one hundred meters long and thirty meters wide, set off.

When the ship set off, Zhao Yingqi spat out a mouthful of blood.

He finally realized what he had calculated wrong. He finally understood why he had calculated that Huo Hai had such a huge gap of half a liang of money, but in fact there was none.

Huo Hai did not mint coins, nor did Huo Hai use counterfeit money. All of Huo Hai’s money was real.

Now that the prices in Nanyue have dropped to this level, even if another Nanyue is offered for sale, Huo Hai will not be able to exchange all of the half a tael in his hand.

A shrill scream was heard from the palace of the King of Nanyue.

Zhao Yingqi: "Huang Tong! Gather the troops! I want to kill the evil thieves."

I? Huang Tong shook his head.

The king is really crazy. Report this to Lord Wu Hou immediately.

At the dock, Huo Hai walked forward holding the pregnant Princess Wei Chang.

Princess Wei Chang patted Huo Hai's hand and said, "Don't hug me. It's uncomfortable."

Huo Hai smiled apologetically: "How can I not hug you? You're pregnant..."

Princess Wei Chang: "By the way, why did I just see the Prime Minister of Nanyue, General Zuo and the Grand Tutor reporting documents to you?"

Huo Hai searched his trouser pockets and said, "Zhao Yingqi's seal is a fake. The real one is with me. It was sold to me by a eunuch in the inner palace."

Princess Wei Chang: "Where did you get so much money?"

Huo Hai: "That's just a few points. My assets in Chang'an City can buy fifty Nanyue countries."

Princess Wei Chang: "But you don't have it in Nanyue."

Huo Hai smiled: "Want to know?"

Princess Wei Chang: "Forget it. I'm not interested in these things anymore after I get pregnant."

Huo Hai's face drooped. Oh my God, you left half of the question unanswered. How can I pretend to be cool? How can I pretend to be cool?

But soon her face was full of smiles again: "Let's walk a few more steps. The weather is hot now. I know you are hot. Walk a few more steps and exercise. The baby will be born soon..."

Princess Wei Chang: "What name do you want?"

Huo Hai: "Just call me Huo Yan. I'm dying of heat for this little bastard!"

Princess Wei Chang: "Didn't my elder brother say that if you didn't name your son Huo Yuanjia, he would break your legs?"

This is what Huo Qubing said when Huo Hai gave him a name at first and Huo Qubing gave it to him blindly.

Huo Hai: "Then your name is Huo Yan, and your courtesy name is Yuan Jia."

Princess Wei Chang: "Ouch, he kicked me."

Huo Hai: “???”

Is it so effective?

(End of this chapter)