Xie Hong, secretary of the Department of Accounting and Profit of the Ministry of Household Affairs, was indeed from Kuaiji County. In other words, he was probably the person who proposed to Sun Quan in history to issue Daquan for thousands.
After Zhang Xi talked with Xie Hong, he probably understood why this person from Kuaiji County did not serve as an official in Soochow and instead came to the Han Dynasty to be a secretary in the Ministry of Household Affairs.
Everything has to start with Sun Deng, the late prince of Soochow.
Back then, Sun Quan had high hopes for Sun Deng, so he gave Sun Deng the right to open a palace and let him form his own team, the so-called prince's guests.
Xie Hong was also one of the guests of the Prince's Mansion at that time.
However, there were dozens of guests at the Prince's Mansion, many of whom were recommended by each other. Among the people who came to the Prince's Mansion for a meal, Sun Deng really valued less than ten people.
Obviously, even a great talent like Yang Xi is a marginalized person in the Prince's Mansion, let alone Xie Hong.
With Sun Deng's death, the guests in the Prince's Mansion basically dispersed.
People with connections and abilities, such as Zhuge Ke, Gu Tan, Zhang Xiu, Chen Biao, etc., were all recruited into the court by Sun Quan. People without connections, or those with insufficient abilities, naturally had to find their own way out. .
Yang Xi was lucky. Zhang Xi really had no one to choose from. When he caught Yang Xi scratching the lottery ticket, Zhang Xi actually got a special prize and created a navy commander.
But Xie Hong didn't have such good luck.
What Xie Hong is good at is profit calculation, which is to put it bluntly, arithmetic and economic affairs. However, Xie Hong is still young after all. He is not as experienced as Liu Ba and has experienced too much practice and formed his own theory. Xie Hong's set of economics , it is still just an idea and has not experienced the test of actual affairs.
So, some of Xie Hong's ideas and rhetoric are somewhat shocking and shocking.
In addition, there are only a few scholars in these days who read "Guanzi" seriously, let alone those who concentrate on studying economics.
This leads to a problem - if you ask Xie Hong to talk about economics with big guys like Zhang Zhao, Bu Zhi, and Gu Yong, they will think that Xie Hong's idea is too childish, but if you ask Xie Hong to talk to his peers of similar age When it comes to talking about the economy, they will feel that Xie Hong is completely ignorant.
Therefore, Xie Hong really couldn't survive in Jiangdong.
When the prince Sun Deng was still there, Xie Hong still had a fixed salary and could rely on him in the future. But after the prince Sun Deng died of illness, Xie Hong completely lost his support.
Xie Hong himself was not from a wealthy family. He could no longer survive in Jiangdong, so he naturally had to find another way out. It just so happened that when Deng Zhi was on his mission to Soochow, Xie Hong and Deng Zhi met once, and the two chatted. Not bad, so Xie Hong sold his property and shamelessly went to Chang'an to defect to Deng Zhi.
As for Deng Zhi, in fact, she is not very familiar with Xie Hong. The two of them really only met once.
However, scholars of this era are very concerned about face. Xie Hong traveled thousands of miles to join Deng Zhi. If Deng Zhi did not treat Xie Hong well, it would be a shame for Deng Zhi if word spread.
In addition, Deng Zhi's temperament is indeed relatively generous, especially when it comes to treating friends. Deng Zhi is relatively reliable. Now that Xie Hong has come to join him, Deng Zhi really recommended Xie Hong to the imperial court to become an official.
It's just that Xie Hong was also unlucky, and the timing of arriving in Chang'an was not very good.
At that time, exactly six years ago, when Zhuge Liang was presiding over the reform of the civil service, he happened to catch up with the Eight Departments of Inspectors inspecting the local areas. From the central court to the local areas, they found a group of weak officials and mediocre officials, so that Zhuge Liang had no idea about all the new officials. All recommended talents have undergone a rigorous assessment.
Xie Hong did not have any great talents in local governance and economics and history. His assessment results were not ideal, that is, he had good results in mathematics and was eventually assigned to be a minor official in the Accounting and Profit Department of the Ministry of Household Affairs.
Xie Hong couldn't be said to be satisfied with this, but there was nothing he could do about it. After all, he came to Chang'an by selling off his family property, and there was no way out.
In the past six years, Xie Hong has been working hard. He has slowly been promoted from a small official to the position of secretary. If he gets through the qualifications, it should not be a problem to be promoted to a member of the household department. .
Whether he can be promoted to the level of Right Minister of the Ministry of Revenue in the future is not only a matter of ability, but also depends on whether he has the support of noble people. Deng Zhi may not be enough, but fortunately, Li Yan did see Xie Hong's ability.
Li Yan couldn't help it. Compared with Zhuge Liang and others, his qualifications in the court were too junior. People like Jiang Wan, Fei Yi, and Dong Yun had more or less been promoted by Zhuge Liang. He thought If you want to gain a foothold in the government, you must promote some of your own people for your own use.
The middle and high-level people are basically Zhuge Liang's people, and Li Yan doesn't dare to think about it. Therefore, he can only select talents from the middle and low-level people to enter his own talent training pool. It was at this time that Xie Hong was noticed by Li Yan.
Otherwise, how could a dignified Shangshu Ling pay attention to a Shuzuo of the Department of Planning and Profit of the Ministry of Household Affairs? The level difference between the two people is too big.
To a certain extent, Xie Hong is Li Yan's man, and both Zhang Xi and Zhuge Liang actually know this.
But, nowadays, the Han Dynasty is full of waste and needs to be revitalized. Many things are in harmony with everyone, and it is not time to fight for power and profit. Therefore, as long as Xie Hong is talented, it is not impossible to use him.
Not to mention, such a large economic war plan will definitely require Li Yan's full cooperation. It is also very necessary for Li Yan to put one of his own people on the front line to control the situation.
In this way, in the first month of the fourteenth year of Yanxi, Zhang Xi took Xie Hong back to Jingzhou after attending the New Year's meeting, and Xie Hong and Ma Di began to preside over the economic war plan.
The first thing to do is to suspend trade with Wei and Wu at the official level.
Yes, it is a very strange phenomenon - although Han and Wei and Wu are at war with each other, in terms of trade, the three countries, whether official or private, are in a very normal state of trade.
Now, the Han Dynasty has directly stopped this official trade.
The reason is reasonable. Both sides are enemies of each other. Isn't it normal for official trade to be suspended?
But, in fact, all the three countries know that even if the official trade stops, private trade still exists between the three countries, and even some so-called private trade is simply official smuggling disguised as private merchants.
Therefore, Dahan's second measure is to raise the price of private smuggling. The reason is equally reasonable. Official trade has stopped, private smuggling is too risky, and costs have risen. Isn't it normal to raise prices? !
Finally, the last killer businessman of the Han Dynasty, on the grounds that private smuggling is extremely risky and the circulation of large amounts of copper coins will easily attract the attention of the government, requires that all smuggling trade between Wei and Wu be settled with Zhibai coins issued by the Han Dynasty.
This trick is a bit too obvious.
No one is a fool. Why would you take a hundred dollars worth of goods from me when you have a big man's money? Isn't this a clear trap of money?
In Wei and Wu, no one who engages in this kind of private smuggling trade is a fool. They will not accept such a loss easily.
However, because today’s market conditions are different from those in the past.
Back then, when the Han Dynasty was not strong and needed to fight for years, there was still a hard need for food and other daily necessities from Soochow. But now, as the Han Dynasty is getting stronger and stronger, the demand for these things has been declining.
On the contrary, Cao Wei and Soochow's demand for Han's luxury goods and daily necessities has been rising.
Although Cao Wei is in a corner, Cao Wei's senior officials are still eager for the exquisite Shu Brocade.
As for Soochow, although Sun Quan could order strict frugality and reduce the demand for Shu brocade, they could not save the salt in Bashu, the coal and iron resources in Nanzhong, and the paper that affected the status of the family. .
After getting used to these cheap things, no one can stand it if they go back to the days when they had to use bamboo slips to write.
Official trade has been stopped, and these things would have been greatly affected, especially the price of paper, which has now increased more than five times. If it continues to rise, even the children of aristocratic families will not be able to bear it.
So, just give it a hundred dollars, as long as it can be used.
Moreover, the aristocratic families of Soochow and Cao Wei are not all fools. After receiving hundreds of dollars from Ji Han, they will naturally find ways to pass on the crisis.
Some people used these hundreds of dollars to pay for the goods from Ji Han. They found that the big man actually recognized the money, and he recognized it in full.
As long as the big man accepts this one hundred dollars, then the matter will be easy to handle. It is just a disguised barter, and he has nothing to lose.
Others, thinking of passing on their own crises, poured hundreds of dollars into the private market in Soochow.
Anyway, a group of ordinary people or small and medium-sized aristocratic families cannot compete with the big aristocratic families for the right to speak. I said that this hundred coins are worth one hundred five bahts, and he is worth that much.
The big aristocratic families threw out a large amount of hundreds of dollars and continuously exchanged various five-baht coins from the private sector to protect their own interests and in turn passed the risks to the small and medium-sized aristocratic families.
And small and medium-sized aristocratic families are not idle, passing on this crisis to ordinary people.
In this way, the first group of people ensured the credit value of Zhibai money as a virtual currency by constantly trading with the big Han people with Zhibai money, while the latter group allowed Zhibai money to start large-scale transactions in Soochow. circulation.
With the large amount of direct money circulating in the Soochow region, the Han Dynasty also began to slowly relax official-level trade restrictions, with great intention of resuming trade between the two countries.
But according to rumors, Dahan's official trade also intends to settle with hundreds of coins.
This further accelerates the circulation speed of direct money.
At this time, Sun Quan became anxious.
(End of chapter)
