The big man has a living father

Chapter 239 (Large Chapter) Reasons for Currency Reform
"Have you heard that a new printing factory has been built in the lower reaches of the Wei River in the east of the city?"

The person eating with me said: "Oh, printing factories are very normal, what's so strange about that?"

First speaker: "That's really strange. This new printing press prints something called banknotes."

"banknote?"

“It’s paper money.”

"Paper money?" interrupted someone at the next table.

Source: "What is paper money? It's paper money! Do you know what paper money is? We are using copper coins and coins now. They are also printing coins now, but they are made of paper."

In fact, the printed material is made of cotton, and the ink used is much more difficult to imitate than the IOU ink that was previously developed.

"What is that? Money? Made of paper?! Is that still money?"

The people at the next table were not convinced: "How can it not be money? I ask where your current money comes from?"

"It's made of copper. The copper was dug out from the rocks with great effort!"

The person at the next table said: "This banknote is also made of paper with great difficulty and printed."

The skeptic was speechless for a moment, and finally said: "How can they be the same? What is the cost of paper and what is the cost of money?"

The person at the next table said: "You're right, the paper money they print is equal to one thousand yuan."

"It's worth a lot more than your copper coins."

"In addition to one, two, five, and ten coins, they also have twenty, fifty, and one hundred."

After these words were spoken, the diners who had been silent all raised their heads.

Is it so outrageous?
How does this work?
"Copper is a real weight. The paper money is the same weight. Just because there is an extra number printed on it, it is more valuable?"

The person at the next table said, "What's wrong with that? Where do you think copper comes from now? Copper mining is actually very cheap. It's not like ten years ago when it was hard to mine copper. Mining copper is very efficient now, and blast furnaces are also very efficient at burning copper. Copper is not much more valuable than steel."

"What's wrong with changing to paper money? It also saves the trouble of digging."

The group of people suddenly didn't know what to say.

One of them still shook his head in objection: "Then Your Majesty can print as much money as you want? Your Majesty can just print as much money as you want and buy the grain that I have worked so hard to grow for several months?"

The table next to us said, "That's true. Even if you have been raising fat pigs for two years, it's still the same, not to mention growing crops for a few months. Your Majesty also minted copper coins in the past. What's the difference between this and printing money now? The difference is that your Majesty can print as much as he wants to use?"

During these eight years, Emperor Liu Che had been printing money like crazy, but the copper coins were put into the market in a planned manner.

There are many people who specialize in doing various price statistics and product quantity statistics, and then calculate how many copper coins are needed in the market and how much copper coins will not affect the normal operation of the market.

Because the market is developing rapidly, not investing copper coins will result in having no money to use. However, investing a calculated amount of copper coins can actually control the prosperity of the market and thus the quantity of products.

Now Liu Che has pushed this trick to the limit. Even Huo Hai doesn't understand this as well as he does.

So, when Huo Hai wanted to introduce paper money, Liu Che agreed immediately.

While other people in the restaurant were still discussing it.

"I think so too. Printing money? Honestly, printing money is not as fast as making money. Do you know how much the shares of those big companies held by your Majesty are worth? Even if the printing factory runs the steam engine to produce sparks, it can't print that much money."

"Your Majesty did this for one reason: to allow people from other places to bring money to Chang'an at any time, and to allow people in Chang'an to bring money to other places at any time."

Someone in the corner said, "That's not right. We could have brought it with us before. We just had to deposit the money in Huo's Bank and bring the IOU with us."

"That's the difference." The first person to leak the news said, "The Huo family's IOU uses the personal credit of Grand Minister of Agriculture Huo Hai. We trust him, so we use the IOU, right?"

"The current paper money uses the national credit of the Han Dynasty. We use paper money because we trust the Han Dynasty. This has nothing to do with the Minister of Agriculture personally."

"In other words, even you and I are qualified to open a bank. If everyone uses Huo's IOUs, where will other banks have room to develop?"

With this statement, everyone will understand what personal credit and national credit are.

"I believe in the credit of the Minister of Agriculture, but this is not a long-term solution. After all, how can we know whether the Minister of Agriculture's son is trustworthy? From this perspective, the introduction of paper money by the court is actually a good thing."

"Also, are the current court officials being restrained? What if they print money at will in the future? If they print money when there is no money, then won't everyone's money be worthless in the future?"

There is no way to say this, it depends on your conscience.

Why would Liu Che draw a bunch of rules and regulations for himself first? It is more likely that he added some laws later.

But not everyone is talking about the significance of this.

People in more places in Chang'an City were discussing the pros and cons of this matter.

The benefits are obvious. The previous Huo's IOUs were just IOUs after all. To put it bluntly, the Huo family would redeem them.

Now, I finally have money. I can go to any bank in Dahan and take out a piece of paper money, and naturally I can exchange it for one thousand coins.

This money hasn't even been printed yet, but it already has its name in Chang'an City.

It is called paper money. The word "chao" originally meant robbing money, such as confiscating a house. In fact, it was written as "chao jia" in this era.

Why is it called "chao"? First, it means that paper money has taken the place of copper coins.

Secondly, some people have realized that paper money can actually plunder the wealth of ordinary people at any time.

Just printing 20 percent more banknotes will mean that the money in everyone's hands will depreciate by 25 percent.

At present, Chang'an calls anything with writing on it "xiaochao". The character "chao" has a gold radical, which means money.

When several meanings are combined, it becomes paper money.

Everyone has their own name for this denomination.

A piece of paper money is called one tael.

Because at present, the almost stable exchange rate between silver and big coins is one tael of silver for one thousand big coins.

It could be exchanged for sixteen thousand in the past, but since the Huo's IOU became popular, the characteristic of silver being more convenient to carry than copper coins has been replaced, and using gold does not suit the current situation, so people who continue to use silver in the market have become accustomed to one or two taels of silver being equal to one thousand coins.

Since one new note is equal to one thousand coins, let's call it one tael.

however.

There was a heated discussion with ordinary people in Chang'an City, but there were not many different opinions.

The nobles and big businessmen of the Han Dynasty will not be discussed.

But the opinions are huge!
Very big!
The next day, the Dahan Daily published an article titled "Paper Money is Robbery."

The title directly states everything.

The person who published the article is called Han Shuo.

Han said that he was a descendant of Han Wangxin. His grandfather had defected to the Xiongnu, and several people of his generation defected to the Han Dynasty.

Han Shuo has been cultivating his reputation, hoping that after he has established his reputation, he can enter officialdom.

It's almost grown now.

In terms of writing, Sima Xiangru and Huo Hai were respected, while Han Shuo was well-known for his writing skills. He was also famous for his translation of scriptures, and emerged as a rising star surrounded by Dong Zhongshu's team, the royal translation team and other teams.

Since the establishment of Dahan Daily, Han Shuo has often written articles as a guest writer.

Today, Han said that the article he published was not invited, but he wrote it on his own initiative.

People who are familiar with him can immediately tell what he means.

This is the time to carry the flag!

This incident is intended to be used as a springboard to exert influence on the imperial court.

Han said that it took him a very short time to analyze that this incident was a huge threat and harm to the nobles, families and capital.

If you jump out at this time, you will definitely get great help, which is more worthwhile than any other time.

Han's article clearly describes how paper money robs ordinary people.

"If the entire Han Dynasty had 10,000 banknotes, everyone could buy goods worth 10,000. But if the Han Dynasty ran out of money and issued 2,000 banknotes, then with the total of 12,000 banknotes on the market, they could still only buy goods worth 10,000."

"So, the purchasing power of the person who originally held one banknote has dropped from 0.01 percent to 0.0083 percent, which means that his assets have dropped by 0.0017 percent!"

Ordinary people may not have one hundred thousand or one million, but if they have a piece of paper money, one piece of paper money is worth one thousand coins. Now, how many people in Chang'an don't have one thousand coins?

Most people have around twenty dollars in savings at home. Even eight years ago, the average assets of the people in Chang'an City had already exceeded one thousand banknotes!

Ordinary people who originally had no reaction have to question it after seeing this.

Even more terrifying were Han's last few words.

"Many people have been in the financial market, or in other words, in the stock market. Everyone is well aware of the Huo family's control over the stock market, and everyone is also well aware of Lord Huo Hai's intelligence and wisdom."

"Is it true that Grand Minister of Agriculture Huo Hai has no way to maximize the convenience of paper money while limiting the possible problem of over-issuance of paper money? Of course there is."

"But the Grand Minister of Agriculture did not choose that."

"I am not doubting the Grand Minister of Agriculture here. I personally respect the Grand Minister of Agriculture, but I want to know the reason."

After these words came out, everyone began to think about this issue.

Indeed, if it were someone else, they might not be able to think of a solution, but who is Huo Hai?

Huo Hai is the most talented, thoughtful, wisest and smartest person in the world.

In the past, he had always been able to arrange everything properly and convincingly, and it should be the same now.

In fact, Han Shuo used a little debating trick here.

In the past, not everything Huo Hai said was convincing when it was announced, but looking back from the current perspective, it is very convincing.

And the way he spoke about this matter made it seem as if Huo Hai's approach on the current matter was very unconvincing.

Will Huo Hai respond?

In other words, will Huo Hai use the same techniques to fight Han Shuo?
In the past, Huo Hai would definitely do that.

After all, the reason why Huo Hai says one thing to one person and another thing to another is not because he is fickle, but because of his moral character in dealing with people.

Anyone who plays tricks on Huo Hai will be killed by him.

But now Huo Hai is not only Huo Hai, he is also the Minister of Agriculture.

This requires considering the impact.

Therefore, Huo Hai did not write an article to respond, nor did he use any means to respond.

Instead, when facing a reporter who came to interview him, he said: "Method? Yes, I have a way to limit the over-issuance of currency."

“But the question is, who can figure out whether excessive money supply is beneficial or harmful?”

"Let's not talk about whether the Han Dynasty will over-issue currency. Even if it does, it is for the development of commerce, not for making extra money."

"In a few days, you will know why I said that."

"When will the banknotes be put on the market? It's still too early to print banknotes. Copper coins can be counterfeited. For banknotes of such large denominations, we need to ensure that no one can make unrecognizable counterfeits. Therefore, we need to carefully verify them several times, even though we have already verified them hundreds of times."

Huo Hai's words didn't have any of their former sharpness.

It gives people the feeling that he is very guilty.

But in fact, years of success have made people really listen to Huo Hai's emotionless speeches.

Yes, is over-issuance of currency really harmful?
Yes, copper coins can be adulterated, but paper money cannot be adulterated. So, is paper money more suitable for large-value storage than copper coins?

The Dahan Daily published the views of both sides and also interviewed stock market guru Zheng Antai.

That’s right, Lord Zheng Antai has now truly become a master.

In the beginning, Zheng Antai's activities in the stock market relied on buying the reverse side of Huo's stocks.

Later, when his dream was shattered, Zheng Antai began to doubt his life.

My previous theory of destiny no longer works.

Then, Zheng Antai was in decline and no longer paid attention to finance. Instead, he paid attention to how the bigwigs in the Prince's Palace operated. He gave up making money and was obsessed with getting promoted.

As a result... Zheng Antai discovered a shocking secret.

Zheng Antai discovered that the anonymous great scientist who had never appeared in public, the founder of physics, Niu Dong, was Dong Zhongshu!
After knowing this, Zheng Antai was devastated.

His whole being was torn apart.

This is not a joke, nor an expression. It is true that Zheng Antai's world view, outlook on life, and values ​​have all been torn apart.

Dong Zhongshu first came up with the theory of destiny.

Zheng Antai chose to believe, and then he went from being a small scholar to becoming a Zhonglang in the Prince's Palace.

What is this concept?
This means that twenty years later, when he is fifty years old and has reached the best political age, Crown Prince Liu Ju will be exactly thirty-six years old, in the prime of his life.

At that time, as an old minister of the Crown Prince Gong Beigong, I would be able to soar to the sky as long as I did not fail.

It is just like many people in the court today were officials in Emperor Liu Che’s Prince’s Mansion.

Zheng Antai believed that all this was destiny, and that this was fate.

Fate has destined Zheng Antai to become an official in the Prince's Palace, and Fate has destined Zheng Antai to be extraordinary.

However, after suffering a blow in the stock market, Zheng Antai began to avoid it. After thinking about it, Zheng Antai did not think it was a matter of fate, but it was precisely because of fate that he suffered such a catastrophe in the stock market.

Because it was destiny, Zheng Antai should be a pillar of the Han Dynasty, not some stock market hero.

Therefore, Zheng Antai gave up the stock market and the economics he had studied in part, and began to study big shots. At this time, Zheng Antai was honing his cultivation to make himself look more like a big shot.

Prepare for the future.

When it was discovered that Dong Zhongshu was drawing a satellite system diagram, designing an artificial satellite for launch, and identifying the moon as a satellite, the article he wrote was published anonymously in the Science newspaper.

Zheng Antai's life was torn apart.

Dong Zhongshu was the originator of the theory of destiny.

It turns out that Dong Zhongshu was secretly a great scientist!
This made Zheng Antai completely deny his previous life.

In fact, from the perspective of ordinary people, Zheng Antai was a Zhonglang before he was twenty years old. Although Zhonglang was only the most basic official in the court, he was also a court official!
Many county officials and governors never came to Chang'an in their entire lives.

More people in Chang'an did all kinds of fancy things just to attract the attention of the court, the royal family, and become officials.

Many people were very famous in Chang'an, but they did not achieve success until they were in their forties or fifties, an age when others had already died.

For example, Li Guang’s friend, the astronomer Wang Shuo, was such a person.

And what about Zheng Antai? He reached this point at the age of 20.

And he was not an ordinary Zhonglang, but the one who accompanied the crown prince to study!
Now eight years have passed, and Zheng Antai is no longer that ordinary young man. His current position is Chancellor of the Imperial Household Department.

If he is transferred to another place, he will definitely be assigned to be the chief officer of a region.

Moreover, after Chen Zhang gave Huo Hai another position, he got another job after a while. He was no longer the Prince's Palace Secretary, but the Queen's Palace Secretary.

The number of people to be managed was more than three times that in the Prince's Palace, so Chen Zhang wanted to take Zheng Antai away.

It was just that Zheng Antai was depressed at the time and didn't want to go.

In the entire Han Dynasty, a young man like this is at least one in a hundred thousand, right? Not to mention more than 999,999 out of a million.

Zheng Antai is doubting his life and thinking that he is a waste, so what is the point of others playing?
Zheng Antai's wife, Mrs. Wang, played a key role at this time.

Although Mrs. Wang beat Zheng Antai severely at the beginning, she was an expert in domestic violence.

But now, only Mrs. Wang can wake her husband up.

After Zheng Antai was beaten up, he was no longer depressed.

Then Mrs. Wang said, "You have only experienced a short-term failure now, but you may soon achieve greater success."

Zheng Antai was speechless, and Madam Wang continued: "At the beginning, the King of Qin did not conquer the world, but encountered a setback in the State of Chu, and finally conquered the world in one fell swoop."

"In the past, Emperor Gaozu and Overlord made an agreement that whoever entered Xianyang first would be the King of Guanzhong. But later they had to retreat to Hanzhong."

"But he barely stopped after entering Hanzhong and set out again. This time, Emperor Gaozu defeated Xiang Yu and became emperor."

Zheng Antai still had a slap mark on his face, and he said miserably: "Madam, do you want me to start a rebellion?"

Mrs. Wang was so upset that she changed her example: "When Huo Hai was banished to Maolin by His Majesty, he was not allowed to leave. Huo Hai became famous for writing the Ode to Afang Palace, but he could not meet His Majesty's high expectations of him."

"However, Huo Hai was not discouraged. He secluded himself for seven days and wrote the "Ode to the Goddess of Luo River" which shocked the world."

"How do you know that your current failure is not the beginning of a greater success?"

Zheng Antai's mentality changed.

Yes, even if destiny is in my hands, it doesn’t mean I will not lose. Didn’t the Qin Emperor and the Han Emperor all fail?

then!

Zheng Antai regrouped and continued to study the stock market.

Mrs. Wang: "..."

"Don't study the stock market anymore. If you continue to study the stock market, be careful of getting hit on the head. When I hit you, it's just a slap mark, but when others hit you, they use sticks or even hoes."

Zheng Antai: "Madam, I have been a master in the stock market, and I am as immersed in it as I am now. Who dares to say that I will not be a master in the stock market when I come back to life?"

Zheng Antai gave up his research on destiny and turned to studying stock market transactions and mathematics.

It was actually figured out by Zheng Antai.

He was smart, otherwise he would not have been chosen to the Crown Prince's Palace at such a young age. After all, Liu Che was not stupid.

The smart Zheng Antai made rapid progress after truly studying the laws of things.

Soon Zheng Antai created a model for stock price rise and fall.

What kind of news will cause the stock price to rise, and what kind of news will cause the stock price to fall.

The price increase in a certain industry will lead to price increases in certain industries, and which industries will be affected and become worthless.

What kind of inventions will make what kind of industries rise, and what kind of industries will suddenly die out.

Such a large model is actually very simple, it is just some logical linkages, but after all, the stock market has only been around for a few years, and no one has done special research in this area.

Therefore, Zheng Antai uses his model to select stocks and control multiple stocks to look at annual rise and fall, rather than short-term delivery.

As a result, it was actually done.

Three years ago, Zheng Antai split his 8 million into 1,000 stocks. Of course, this is the total number. There were several times when Zheng Antai predicted the overall rise and fall of a certain industry and jumped directly into the market.

Jumping off the car once is luck, but jumping off the car three times is not luck.

A year later, the eight million turned into more than fourteen million after tax.

Almost doubled! If the tax rate is taken into account, it will be doubled.

Zheng Antai became famous again!
People have heard that Zheng Antai is a stock market master before, but they didn’t know why. Now, after seeing the one-year delivery data released by Zheng Antai, I am convinced and believe it.

Master Zheng Antai's name is revived.

Last year, Zheng Antai had 14 million in his hands, but he did not continue to invest in the stock market. Instead, he established the Zheng Fund.

Zheng’s Fund leveraged 1.8 billion yuan in funds, with an annual return rate of 33%!
Excluding newly added stocks, the overall increase in the stock market in one year was 11 percent!

Three times higher than the natural increase.

This year, Zheng Antai has accumulated 7.8 billion yuan in funds.

However, Zheng Antai also told his clients that he had more and more funds in his hands and it was impossible for him to buy small stocks. If he bought larger stocks, the annualized interest rate might not be that high, and it might even be lower than the overall 11%.

But customers don't care.

First, clients themselves cannot actually achieve an average increase of 11% in the stock market (nonsense, otherwise how would Huo Hai and Liu Che make money).

Second, Zheng Antai’s delivery data for two consecutive years has been amazing.

This year, Zheng Antai not only runs the Zheng Fund with a few of his men, but also recruits many new talents with good mathematics to study finance with him.

To be honest, Zheng Antai is now truly the stock god of the Han Dynasty.

The Great Han Stock God gave his own interpretation of Huo Hai's remarks: "In my opinion, it is absolutely wrong to say that the money has depreciated by 17% just because there are 10,000 products in the market and the money is 12,000."

"The reason is simple. If there are 10,000 banknotes in the market, it can stimulate all workers to produce goods worth 10,000. Then, a 20% increase in banknotes can actually stimulate the potential labor force to produce 20% of the products."

"The labor market in Dahan is newly developed and has great potential. A 20% increase in paper money a year is nothing. According to the stock market situation, the stock market has risen by more than 10% in recent years, and the share value of newly added companies has increased by more than 40%."

"In other words, the court should actually produce 50 percent more currency every year. Otherwise, it would be incompetent and the speed of printing money would slow down the economic development."

"At present, it is obvious that the Han Dynasty needed paper money because the production of copper coins was too slow and it could not produce enough coins."

"As for what the Minister of Agriculture said about waiting and seeing, if I'm not mistaken, it should be that a large number of precious metal mines have been discovered overseas, with extremely high-purity gold, silver, copper, and even some scientific research metals. These metals are being mined and will be shipped back soon."

The reporter from Dahan Daily asked curiously: "How do you know?"

Zheng Antai pointed to his eyes and said, "Actually, you told me that your Dahan Daily newspaper published a lot of important information."

“Ordinary people filter out important information at a glance.”

"And I grabbed important information from it."

"For example, I found that the Han Dynasty increased the number of ships going to Central America starting from April last year. If we calculate the time, they will be able to return to the Han Dynasty between June and September. Coincidentally, starting from August last year, the prices of copper lamps and copper bowls in places close to Qiancheng, such as Lu and Qi, began to drop."

"Even the Dahan Daily reported as an interesting story that ordinary people were starting to use the copper barbecue stoves used by the nobles."

"And there are no copper mines near Qiancheng. Even Jiazhou in Shu County, which has just started producing copper, hasn't been able to get ordinary people to use copper furnaces. How can Qiancheng do it?"

"Isn't the answer self-evident? Qiancheng is a transportation port where copper is shipped back from overseas."

"I continued to observe similar news and found that the prices of gold and silver in Qiancheng had fallen to varying degrees, so..."

"You are the ones who told me all this."

The reporter did not hesitate to publish all of this in the news.

After reading this, readers immediately realized that over-issuance may not be a bad thing, and the amount of over-issuance depends on the economic situation.

Simply put, over-issuance may be the result of increasing the amount of banknotes to a level suitable for the market in advance, rather than printing them indiscriminately.

If you don’t print it, something bad will happen!

When Zheng Antai said that there was information about overseas copper mining hidden in the news, many people thought about it again and found that there were more copper products since this year.

Good man, I realized it too late and bought the bronze ware at an expensive price!
But! Money itself is made of copper, so it’s a bit strange to say that it’s expensive!
Then, when everyone thought about it, they realized that they had not anchored copper and copper coins together in their lives for a long time.

I have long stopped considering copper as money, and I also don't think that money must be copper.

Just as Zheng Antai analyzed, a few days later, the share prices of several copper companies on the stock market began to fall, and the corresponding shares of coastal warehousing and coastal shipping rose again.

Then came the shocking news.

Qiancheng is distributing dividends. A shipping company that is affiliated with the imperial court and His Majesty but has a super high output value is directly distributing eighteen months' salary to its subordinates as a reward!

This further confirmed the news that precious metals were being shipped back from America.

This is not direct enough, and many people still don't believe it.

However, three days later, the Dahan Daily published the news that a shipload of copper and silver from overseas was transported back to Chang'an.

At the same time, Wancheng Daily published news saying that the army of the Nanhai Provincial Governor's Office developed ordinary natives on the southern islands to work as miners and dug a large amount of red copper back to Chang'an.

Because it is particularly suitable for use as a boiler, perhaps every household in Changan will actually use heating in the future.

Some houses didn’t have them before, but now that prices are falling, many people will definitely install radiators.

Everyone suddenly realized that due to the shipment of copper back from overseas, copper and copper coins were no longer the same concept.

Now only the Wuzhu coins minted by the imperial court and the previous Sanzhu coins can be used as money.

But now, the same weight of Wuzhu coins can buy 1.5 times more copper products!

If you don't look at the finished product and only look at the copper raw material, you can almost buy twice as much!
The transportation company said that if you want to stockpile copper as money, they will have as much as you want.

All this proves that copper coins and copper are two different things.

In the past, copper may have been more expensive than copper coins because copper coins could be counterfeited.

Copper is now much cheaper than copper coins because of its large output!
The craftsmanship of copper coins is also improving. Nowadays, it is becoming increasingly difficult to imitate coins. The value of copper coins seems to be reflected not only in the metal, but also in the craftsmanship.

People are starting to accept this.

The world has changed.

Money is no longer copper.

At this time, a large number of nobles knew the reason behind all this.

It was clearly Huo Hai's intention!
North America has been discovered five years ago. If mining was to be carried out, it would have been done five years ago. Why now?

It is obvious that the minerals were stored overseas after being mined and have never been shipped back, waiting for this day.

This is a conspiracy.

No, this is an open conspiracy.

If anyone wants copper coins, they can take out the IOU to exchange them.

Then Huo Hai and Liu Che would work at full capacity to produce copper coins.

The manufacturing price is only half of the value of the copper coin itself.

If anyone exchanges on a large scale, his assets will shrink by half.

Although...it can be exchanged, Huo's Bank will exchange it.

But what if the Huo Bank suddenly announced that it would not exchange the money, or would not exchange the money for those who had run on the bank?
Several great nobles gathered together.

The leader was Cao Xiang.

Cao Xiang sighed, "Now the situation is clear. Huo Hai, or your majesty, has stored a batch of copper overseas. If we go to exchange it now, we will definitely be able to exchange it for money, but the value of copper is only half of what it used to be. We will lose half of it after the exchange."

"If you are not convinced, then I can only take you to exchange it."

"Even if it can disrupt the Han currency market and vent some anger, it will be calmed down soon."

"If you give in, then we will give up the confrontation and accept everything."

Cao Xiang actually didn't want to be an enemy of Huo Hai, but the problem now was that his assets could be threatened by the paper currency policy at any time.

But, if we want to launch a counterattack, we don’t have enough people!

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