Chai Yuanming's statement means that the Ministry of Finance does not support the immediate launch of the invasion of Sichuan. This is a very important statement.
In this regard, Su Yonglin held the same attitude.
There are too many places to spend money. Once Sichuan and Shu take over, there will be more places to spend money, which will bring a huge burden to the Ming Dynasty's finances. Su Yonglin does not want to do this.
And now going south, Wu Lin's resistance will be very fierce. Wouldn't it be better if special means could be used to weaken Wu Lin's resistance or simply destroy it?
"I know this."
Su Yonglin nodded: "Of course it is unwise to attack Sichuan and Shu now, and there is no need for us to use troops now. Sichuan and Shu are trapped in a trap. As long as they cannot fight out, they will trap themselves to death. All we need is to cut off domestic and foreign trade in Shu." Road, the effect will not be worse than directly mobilizing troops."
"Cut off trade routes? What about... Shu Brocade?"
Chai Yuanming said: "Besides some tea, the most important thing in Shu is Shu brocade, and what many foreign merchants need is Shu brocade. Now is the time for us to take control of the Shipping Department. If we stop the supply of Shu brocade, I’m afraid it’s not appropriate?”
This is the most important breaking point.
This is Su Yonglin's purpose.
"What else? In this case, the possibility of the Ministry of Finance entering Shu to take over Shu brocade weaving Zhuangzi is gone. Continuing to do business with them is just staking the enemy."
Su Yonglin shook his head: "If Fanbang wants Shu brocade, tell them that they don't have the goods now, and replace it with something else for a while. When we are free to clean up the land of Sichuan and Sichuan, we will give them Shu brocade. Don't worry about it being late for good goods. They can't make Shu brocade." You have to buy from us.”
"clear."
Chai Yuanming thought about it and asked: "Then the current tea-horse trade between Guanzhong, Hexi and Sichuan-Shu merchants..."
"There will be some losses for a while, but we have a strong foundation and they have a weak foundation. They will not be able to hold on for long. After all, this part of the trade losses is a small number. If some people are involved, let them make a report and submit it to the Ministry of Finance. The Ministry of Finance will send a commissioner to verify. The court will then make up for it at its discretion, and it won’t take long.”
"Understood."
Chai Yuanming said nothing more.
Commercial trade on the scale of Guanzhong is indeed just a small number to the Ministry of Finance, and it is not considered an important matter.
Fighting a full-scale war will of course severely weaken the Ministry of Finance, but it is only a small-scale economic war and the Ministry of Finance can withstand it.
When fighting an economic war, it depends on who has a thick health bar or who has more channels to replenish blood. The Ming Dynasty has many of these, and it also has an extremely broad and deep agricultural basic market as a reservoir.
But there is nothing in Sichuan and Shu.
What they have is a falsely prosperous commodity economy. Once the economic channel is blocked, Shu products will not be sold, and the people of Shu will be filled with resentment, which can kill them.
Chai Yuanming, the second-in-command of the Ministry of Finance, is very aware of the fragility of Jiangnan's pseudo-commodity economy.
A few years ago, in order to expose the problems that this false prosperity brought to agricultural production, Ming Dynasty also experienced a moderate economic crisis.
Fortunately, these are all things of the past.
At present, Ming Dynasty no longer has this problem. Ming Dynasty's economic fundamentals have been stable and very solid. Any country that wants to engage in economic war with Ming Dynasty will be powerless in the face of Ming Dynasty's huge agricultural fundamentals.
With the current economic situation in Sichuan and Sichuan, even if Zhuge Liang is reincarnated, if the Shu brocade trade is blocked, he will not be able to find a way to break the situation.
When faced with the situation where Ji Han suffered heavy losses and was seriously injured after Liu Bei's death, Zhuge Liang said: "Today the people are in dire straits and the country is weak, and the only way to defeat the enemy is to rely on Jin'er."
Shu brocade is the hard currency among the Three Kingdoms. Whether it is Wei or Wu, their ruling class's thirst for Shu brocade is huge and unquenchable.
High-ranking officials and dignitaries need Shu brocade to decorate their appearance to show their status, they need Shu brocade to show their difference from others, they need Shu brocade to make clothes, bedding, cloaks and everything else. Even Shu brocade can be used as money.
Cao Pi even issued a special edict to advise officials not to purchase Shu brocade, saying that doing so would be endangering the enemy and endangering national interests.
But it was of no use at all.
In order to show their status and satisfy their own desires, noble families and local powerful people had to decide whether to buy high-end hard currency such as Shu brocade. The more Cao Pi tried to dissuade them, the happier they were in buying.
Anyway, those who died were not their people, and even if the sky fell, they would not be able to stop them from showing off with Shu brocade.
Relying on Shu brocade, Zhuge Liang fought a beautiful and miraculous economic battle.
He directly linked Ji Han's Zhibai coins to Shu brocade, stipulating that any person or group could only use Zhibai coins to purchase Shu brocade, thus stabilizing the face value of Zhibai coins and giving huge confidence to the market.
Before Liu Bei's death, the straight hundred coins were supported by the credibility of Liu Bei himself and Ji Han's government. Otherwise, one straight hundred coins would only weigh four or five five-baht coins and would not be used as one hundred five-baht coins anyway. .
After Liu Bei's death, the reputation of Zhibaician plummeted and could hardly be used. Jihan's government's finances suddenly fell into a state of depletion. At this critical moment, Zhuge Liang stabilized the existence of Zhibaician as a credit currency and directly reversed the situation. Ji Han's critical financial situation.
Shu Brocade is linked to Zhibai Qian. To buy Shu Brocade, Zhi Baiqian must be used.
How did Wu and Wei obtain direct money?
Use one hundred five-baht coins or the equivalent of one hundred five-baht coins in exchange for goods recognized by the Jihan government.
For every one hundred cents exchanged, the Jihan government earned ninety-six five-baht cents with tears and blood.
This not only stabilized the precarious ruling position of the Jihan government at that time, but also laid the economic foundation for the subsequent southern expedition to Menghuo and the northern expedition to Guanzhong.
When the economy stabilizes and Zhuge Liang has money, Ji Han's regime will be stable.
Because the ruling classes of Wu and Wei were eager for Shu brocade, Shu brocade, which was regarded as a strategic material, could not be blocked from trade. Therefore, Cao Wei failed to successfully attack Ji Han's economy and could not trap Ji Han to death. Instead, he continued to fight in successive years. The blood transfusion for Ji Han can be described as an example for the enemy community.
Ji Hanzhi's hundred coins were not only circulated and used in Ji Han's country, but also a well-known currency in Cao Wei and Sun Wu's countries. As a result, currency circulation was realized among the three countries. Don't be too happy about Ji Han's leeks.
How could Zhuge Liang use the power of one state to resist Cao Wei and even counterattack five times?
Because he is really rich.
Where did his money come from?
Most of them were given by Cao Wei.
It's like Cao Wei paid Zhuge Liang to attack him.
Hit me!
Who can do it?
Su Yonglin raised his hands in surrender, giving up competition in this area and withdrawing from the track.
Because he really can't do it.
His regime has no interest in Shu brocade.
In the past, the limited business of Shu Brocade mainly wanted to be a second-tier dealer between the Southern Song Dynasty, Xixia and the grassland.
The nobles in Xixia and the grassland like Shu brocade and need Shu brocade to decorate their appearance and support themselves in front of other nobles.
The Ming Dynasty had a monopoly on the trade routes between the two sides, and of course it wanted to further act as a middleman and make a profit on the price difference, so it started this trade.
Except for the Shu brocade accumulated during the Wanyan Liang period, the entire Zhongdu imperial court had not purchased even a piece of Shu brocade for use in the entire six years.
Su Yonglin originally wanted to use Shu brocade to make some clothes for Zhao Xirui, but Zhao Xirui refused on the grounds that "the Ming Dynasty had just established and needed to be thrifty". After that, the Shu brocade was of no use anymore and was sold to the grassland tribes by Su Yonglin in exchange for horses. .
The Ming court currently defines Shu brocade as something that can make money. Other than that, it doesn't have many ideas. Shu brocade has not been used in any official actions of the court.
In the final analysis, the ruling class who loved Shu brocade were wiped out on a large scale by Su Yonglin.
Su Yonglin guessed that the reason why Sichuan and Shu officials dared to support an emperor and openly oppose the Ming Kingdom and Jiangnan Kingdom was not only their indignation and fear of the Lin'an court's betrayal of the Song royal family, but also the production and possession of Shu brocade.
They probably also knew the story of how Zhuge Liang relied on Shu brocade to earn military expenses and invaded Cao Wei, so they felt that as long as they mastered the production and sales of Shu brocade, they would not be afraid of being unable to control the Ming Kingdom and Jiangnan Kingdom.
As long as the Shu brocade trade continues, they will not worry about running out of money. As long as they have money, they can continue to do whatever they want, and they can continue to train troops and fight.
But what if the Shu brocade trade is cut off?
What if the entire Sichuan-Sichuan trade is cut off?
Someone will replace Su Yonglin to clean up this inexplicable Shu-Song regime.
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