Liu Ba has realized where the root of the problem lies, not outside, but within. Different from Chen Xi's idea that Liu Ba didn't realize what the basic disk was, Liu Ba's mind was also very clear. It wasn't that he didn't know the basic disk. He was dealing with these things based on the thinking of doubling the amount of hair. But he never thought about it. Other people's super hair also needs to be carried by him in the end.
Just like Liu Ba anchors Chen Xi's national credibility and uses this as a backing to establish his own credibility, what does the Zhen family and the Wei family, who have just come in and have not yet established their credibility, anchor their credibility on? There is no doubt that it is anchored by Liu Ba.
So in the end, Liu Ba was actually responsible for all the super hits.
After realizing this, Liu Ba knew what the problem was.
So what to protect, Liu Ba knew even better than Chen Xi. Chen Xi was on the outside and only saw a general picture, while Liu Ba was in the game and experienced it twice, so Liu Ba knew what to do.
"Ah?" Cao Cao looked at Liu Ba in disbelief. How come he suddenly wanted to behead someone? The people were so angry. Isn't everything good here? Moreover, the Helmand River Irrigation District was divided, which was the hen that laid golden eggs!
"This is the only thing we can do now. The generals and the people under the rule can't understand why the money is gone. They will only see that the result is that their accumulation over the years has been turned into paper." Liu Ba explained very calmly, as a Confucian-Legalist The orthodox descendants taught by a line of people still have the consciousness to face death calmly, especially for the sins they have done, and they must bear responsibility for themselves.
"Wait, wait, I don't even know what's going on now." Cao Cao looked at Liu Ba and said with some panic. He really didn't understand what happened.
Liu Ba sighed and recounted everything. Cao Cao stumbled and almost fell to the ground on the spot. The veins on his forehead jumped and jumped. He pointed at Liu Ba, but in the end he didn't curse anything. Wei Zi hurriedly He stretched out his hand to support Cao Cao.
"Go away!" Cao Cao rebuked Wei Zi angrily for the first time in his history, because Cao Cao had realized who was the perpetrator here. There was no super wealthy family like Wei Zi or Zhen who could leverage tens of billions of dollars. , It really can’t be this big.
"Lord, don't blame Zi Xu. A big part of why things are like this is because I'm not proficient in this thing." Liu Ba sighed and said, "As long as I have Chen Zichuan's ability, when things have happened to this point, I had already choked it before, and now it’s too late to say anything.”
"Is it enough?" Wei Zi suddenly looked at Liu Ba and asked.
"Of course it's not enough, so we also need the accumulation of the Zhen family and some of Erwei's assets. Only in this way can we keep part of the ownership." Liu Ba said with a sigh.
"Zhen family..." Chen Qun smacked his lips, but in the end he didn't say anything. At this point, if the other party wants to complain, just go ahead and complain.
"Of course, these combined are only enough to control the common people and generals and soldiers." Liu Ba said calmly, "But it is enough to solve this part."
Yes, it is enough to solve this part. When there is no civil strife in Cao Cao, others can't do anything to Cao Cao. Moreover, Chen Xi said many years ago, don't take the problems between your major families and princes. On my side, you can either all respect the law and let us calculate it according to the law, or you can rely on your own political power to compete.
Therefore, as long as Cao Cao solves the internal problems, other economic problems can be solved by Cao Cao even without Liu Ba. Therefore, the first problem is to solve the internal economic problems.
After hearing this, Cao Cao's eyes darkened and he almost fainted. However, Cao Cao, who was as strong as iron, resisted the black vision and held on to Wei Zi like an eagle's claws, preventing himself from fainting.
"This is the only solution at the moment. Protecting your subordinates first, the Zhen family and the Helmand River Irrigation District are basically enough. Moreover, the exchange of money will help increase the price of the Helmand River Irrigation District, which can further reduce losses. ." Liu Ba helped Cao Cao plan with a calm expression.
"Is there really no other way?" Cao Cao said in a deep voice to Liu Ba, but the hoarseness in his voice could no longer be concealed.
"No more." Liu Ba shook his head, "It's too late. We must protect the people and generals at the moment.
Soldiers, let them maintain a state of unity, and there is nothing cheaper and more effective than continuing to maintain our credibility. Liu Ba said softly with a sigh.
Yes, this is the cheapest and most effective solution.
However, even the most low-cost plan would require Cao Cao to pay for the entire Helmand River Irrigation Area, as well as various industries built near the irrigation area, as well as the Zhen family's more than 800 people in Central Asia. Nearly all of the assets of the participants.
Yes, even if the Zhen family is just here to make money, and there are Liu Bei and Chen Xi behind the Zhen family, but it is meaningless to say that there are some things that even Chen Xi can only protect personally, but not theirs. property.
Just like what happened this time, as long as Liu Ba is involved, Liu Ba can die, and the Zhen family's business group, and the huge meeting with thousands of people voting can also die. Can Liu Bei and Chen Xi be eliminated by death? Behind the scenes, the so-called explanation to all the people is so rough.
After all, it is too fancy, and it is meaningless to the people. For the people, there is only one simple and crude solution. Beheading to anger the people is the simplest and most effective solution. The others are, Neither is enough to resolve public outrage.
Liu Ba also knew this. In fact, the bureaucrats of Qin and Han Dynasty knew this. Suicide is a kind of dignity. At least if it can be covered, suicide can at least ensure that no harm will come to the family.
"Lord, make up your mind early. Every day you delay, the problem will get bigger. When the military camp really breaks out because of this matter, it will be troubled internally and externally, and it will be too late to say anything." Liu Ba sighed and said.
In fact, the problem is not just about the military camps. The middle and lower-level officers are only part of it. In this era of clan and township parties connected by blood, even if many personal attachments are cut off, the idea of everyone making money together still exists.
Therefore, after thinking about all this, Liu Ba actually already knew which people's problems he had to solve first. Only by solving these people's problems can there be any future. If these people's problems are not solved, none of these people present will be able to solve the problem. Later.
It is not only the generals and soldiers who invest in this system to make money, and it is not only Cao Cao's middle-level people, but also the rural party who connect the soldiers and soldiers together.
Just like the fund-raising in local towns in the 1980s, one person was the one who finally gave the money to buy something, but the money came from all directions, and these all need to be accounted for.
Liu Ba was not stupid, he was just used to being aloof and had forgotten what the foundation was. But when Chen Xi clarified a part of it and returned to Kandahar and saw certain facts, Liu Ba understood everything, but it was already too late.
Liu Ba doesn't have that much money, and the Wei family doesn't have that much money, but now the generals and soldiers in Kandahar are about to explode. It only takes a spark to blow up everything here, so it is impossible to delay, even if you know that you can do it directly The Central Asia branch of the Zhen family will empty out the assets of the Wei family, and then urgently withdraw part of the future funds from Rome, and it will be possible to cash them out to the people.
But there is no time. The time it takes to complete these things is enough to kill everyone present, so it is impossible to delay. We can only cash in the fastest way first, and the fastest, most effective, and most trustworthy method The method is to directly cash in the Helmand River Irrigation District.
"There's no time." Wei Zi said with a pale face. As the head of the five wealthy merchants, he understood more or less, especially when Liu Ba said what he said, Wei Zi didn't understand.
"Yeah, there's no time." Liu Ba said with a bit of desolation, "Chen Zichuan is really a man of heaven. He drove us back. I'm afraid he also realized that I could finally clean up the mess when I came back, so he delayed it any longer. , there’s no need to come back.”
Although there were some deviations, Chen Xi's original intention was to let Liu Ba go back and clean up the mess, but Chen Xi never thought that Cao Cao had already sat on the explosive barrel so early.
"If, what I'm talking about is if Chen Zichuan is willing to pay to settle the account now, and we mortgage all this to Chen Zichuan, Chen Zichuan can pay today as long as he is willing, can he be saved?" Xun Yu was very serious. looked at Liu Ba and asked.
"Not enough money." Liu
Ba said bitterly, "We can repay in this way because there is a premium, and the people have accepted the premium for sugar cane plantations and their supporting facilities in recent years. This is partly due to my continuous trade with Rome in recent years. The results come out.”
The only person in the world who is willing to sell sugar to Rome at the price of one denarius per kilogram is Liu Ba, and Liu Ba never cares about transportation. After production, Rome just takes it away. This process is actually a way for Liu Ba to anchor Rome. Way.
Clear, reliable and visible cash flow is a means to stabilize people's hearts. Liu Ba would rather suffer a slight loss and export to Rome just for this anchor.
The same stable transactions for several years were the basis for Liu Ba to withdraw part of the funds in advance from the nobles of the Eastern Province of Rome, but Chen Xi did not recognize these.
If you don’t understand, you may think this is unkind, but the basis for Liu Ba’s ability to anchor Rome is Chen Xi’s international trade. To put it simply, the basis for Liu Ba’s ability to do this business is based on Chen Xi, but Chen Xi believes that this trade It's reasonable, so just let it be.
But it would be completely unreasonable for Chen Xi to accept the premium price for this thing.
"We can bear the premium and provide several times compensation in the future. In this way, in the form of a slowdown, can we get Chen Zichuan to agree to withdraw the funds first?" Xun Yu's mind was spinning very fast at this time, and he figured it out instantly. Lots of stuff.
"A very good proposal." Liu Ba looked at Xun Yu and praised him. However, before Xun Yu could say anything, Liu Ba shook his head and refused, "Chen Zichuan will not gamble with the country's reputation, because materials and production companies cannot be bought from the sky. Those that fell were directly exchanged for money. In the current market panic situation, for the sake of peace of mind, it is unavoidable to exchange them for physical resources."
Once it cannot be exchanged, it is not a problem of Cao Cao's power, but a problem of the impact on the country's credibility. This is why Chen Xi rejected the proposal when he met Liu Ba directly. Chen Xi did not know how to gamble and did not dare to gamble.
What's more important is that this bet is bound to lose.
What's the idea of suppressing the country's credibility when it's bound to lose?
For Chen Xi, it is acceptable for Liu Ba to die. Even if Cao Cao pays for it, the Han forces headed by Chen Xi are not damaged. There are many candidates to replace them, but if the country's credibility is affected, then The Han Dynasty as a whole had to enter a period of contraction.
Therefore, what Xun Yu thought of was impossible to achieve.
"There's no way that guy could do that." Liu Ba shook his head slightly, interrupting what Xun Yu might say, "If you say something outrageous and compare the importance of national credibility, all of us here will die. Chen Zichuan may not accept the reality, so don’t think about it. The tickets issued by the Central Asian economic circle centered on Kandahar are about to collapse.”
Liu Ba knew better than Xun Yu what kind of result he was facing. It was not a matter of money and tickets, but a matter of insufficient materials to exchange for these things, and the materials could not come.
Xun Yu was extremely silent when he heard this, and finally heaved a long sigh and said nothing more.
Liu Ba looked around, then set his eyes on Xun Yu again, "Wen Ruo, after I die, you and Chen Changwen will take over everything I left behind, and then everything will be centered on industry, all fund-raising, all All means of absorption must be focused on tangible industries, and we must not follow my old path."
Liu Ba has already begun to make arrangements for his funeral. He knows very well that he will not survive. If he can only honor Cao Cao's generals and soldiers and the people under his rule, then others must have an outlet, and this outlet is himself.
As Chen Xi said, he was chopped into eight pieces, and Ting Wei chased one of them to commit suicide. Now that I think about it, it is really not unfair. But as long as he dies first, his generals, soldiers and the people under his rule will be fine, then he will definitely not die. So miserable.
As long as I die quickly enough, no one else can commit suicide for me!
"Is this the only way?" Cao Cao even had a look of defeat on his dark face.
That look of almost despair appeared on Cao Cao's face, which made Liu Ba extremely regretful. If he had been more cautious, he would have been more cautious at that time, paid more attention to the middle and lower classes, and contained the Zhen family, Wei family, etc. early on.
It's a pity that it's too late to say all this now. Under the fait accompli, there is no other choice. Even a strong woman like Cao Cao can only nod when faced with the current situation.
