As SF Express opened more and more branches in Wu State, the problematic copper coins continued to flow into SF Express like a tide.
In just half a month, Wu Wang Liu Bi used various channels to withdraw a total of 5 million salt coupons from major commercial banks in Shunfeng.
This is clearly treating Liu Deng's SF Express as a place for him to launder money. This old guy is really bold.
Originally, when he received the hundreds of thousands of coins last time, because the war was about to begin, Liu Deng had the idea of suffering a loss, so he asked them to directly withhold the money and not put it back into circulation for the time being, but he didn't expect it. His approach actually made the old guy become a little more serious.
Five million guan, even for Dai Guo, is not a small amount. In this closed society, such a large amount of money must be exposed by that old guy. There is something wrong with the money. Such a large amount of money must be revealed. The money will probably fall into Liu Deng's hands in the end.
After all, the imperial court's five-baht coins had strict casting regulations and were also the strongest coins on the market.
This time Liu Bi took advantage of the imperial court's loopholes and counterfeited the imperial court's five-baht coins. This was clearly his intention to destroy the imperial court's credibility.
He doesn't even need to mine or smelt copper at all. He only needs to take back the five baht from the court from the market, and then go back to the furnace and rebuild it, and he can reap 30% of the profit.
He was clearly carving out the flesh of the imperial court and eating it!
And it’s not just about carving out the meat. After making a huge profit, he plans to give the whole five baht to Lian Guo!
This damn thing is really incompetent!
If the last copper coin in his pocket is not taken out, it seems that this old guy is not going to give up.
After thinking of this, Liu Deng immediately took out a quill and began to write and draw quickly on a piece of paper. He needed to construct a complete plan to deal with Liu Bi properly.
Since Liu Bei, an old boy, was the first to take action on the five-baht money, could he also take action on his private money from the Kingdom of Wu?
But Liu Deng knew in his heart that if he wanted to do this, he had to do it quickly. Otherwise, if he waited for this old boy to take action first, he would be too passive!
Judging from the information sent by the trading firm in Guangling, the day when Liu Bi launched his attack seemed to be very close.
But after taking stock of the gold and silver in his hands, it seems a bit too reluctant to declare war on Wu's private money alone.
Moreover, this time is a bit too hasty. It seems that we must find a way to draw Liu Bi's attention to the side and slow down the explosion of this matter!
At this time, what else could make King Wu Liu Bi so afraid that he would not dare to act rashly?
Liu Deng quickly listed all the industries in Wu State.
In addition to normal taxes, the profitable industries currently in the hands of King Wu Liu Bi are probably divided into a few areas.
Without Liu Deng's blessing, Wu's salt production was now completely dead, and Liu Bi was so happy that he simply changed all the salt-making workshops into paper-making workshops.
Because the two actually have a lot of similarities. In terms of equipment alone, the whole process requires heating and crushing, and both require a lot of water resources.
In addition, they are not short of money, and almost all the salt workers are official slaves of Wu State. They are not afraid of the formula being leaked. As long as they are trained, the transformation speed is still very fast.
In just half a year, Wu's papermaking industry has now become one of the most profitable businesses in the entire Han Dynasty.
The second natural step was to open mines and smelt copper. The imperial court did not allow private gold mines to be opened, but this ban was in vain for these princes and kings.
So while he mined and smelted copper, he recycled the court's five-baht coins and began to mint fake money on a large scale to make a lot of money.
If we calculate it now, these two industries alone are enough to make up for their Waterloo in the salt production industry.
Liu Deng couldn't get involved in copper smelting now, but when it came to papermaking, Liu Deng suddenly had a bold plan!
"Come here, go find Mr. Chen for me, and invite Mr. Taifu here too!"
Although it was already late at night, Liu Deng still couldn't wait for dawn. After all, time was tight now. He knew about this matter a little late, and now he had to solve it quickly!
"promise!"
Du Ziteng responded quickly, then went down to tell people to go quickly, and separately informed Chen Qi and Zhang Tu to come.
"The king summons me now?"
After all, Zhang Tu was old and went to bed relatively early, but not long after he lay down, he was woken up.
"This is what the messenger sent by the king said..."
The old housekeeper said with some embarrassment.
"Come on, order someone to change clothes!"
Zhang Tu only hesitated for a moment and immediately ordered his servants to help him change his clothes.
When he arrived to finish the work, Chen Qi was already waiting at the door.
"You're here too? Do you know what's going on?"
Seeing Chen Qi also appearing here, Zhang Tu was really confused. Why is the king so crazy in the middle of the night?
"Back to Master Taifu, I don't know what the matter is. The king only said that the minister came here and did not say what the matter was..."
Chen Qi felt like he was scolding his mother. You, the master, don't even know. How could I know...
"My lords, the king is waiting in the study. Please come with me!"
Seeing that the Grand Tutor had arrived, Du Ziteng hurriedly came out to greet them.
Chen Qi and Zhang Tu looked at each other, and without saying a word, they followed Du Ziteng straight to Liu Deng's study.
"I have met the king!"
After arriving at Liu Deng's study, they saw Liu Deng still sitting there writing and drawing. Zhang Tu and Chen Qi looked at each other and then spoke.
"Two adults, sit down for a moment. I'll be here soon!"
Liu Deng said while writing furiously.
"Send the order, no one is allowed to come within a hundred steps of the study!"
Liu Deng ordered without raising his head.
"promise!"
Du Ziteng responded quickly, then closed the door from the outside, walked out and started working.
"Master Taifu, Master Chen, you two take a look at this first!"
After hearing the noisy footsteps outside the door, Liu Deng stood up and handed the document from the table.
"Your Majesty, I don't understand. What does it mean that I don't know how to make a decision? What else can I do to make a decision when King Wu sends money to my door?"
After reading the contents of the document, Zhang Tu was a little stunned, wondering what Liu Deng meant...
"It's my fault, I didn't explain clearly! You two adults, look at this and then talk about it!"
After Liu Deng finished speaking, he took out two copper coins from his sleeves and placed them in front of the two of them.
