At present, the land of Kansai is in ruins, because of the lack of copper for coinage, so Guo Peng asked Cao Ren to take charge of this matter, searching for the small money minted by Dong Zhuo everywhere in the land of Kansai.

Not to mention, after the war, the extremely large amount of small money minted by Dong Zhuo was regarded as waste by people, and it was often discarded in large quantities, so it was often found in piles and piles.

If Cao Ren found the treasure, he immediately excavated a large number of it, loaded it into a truck, and transported it to Yecheng to be handed over to Guo Peng.

In this way, Guo Peng was able to find enough copper to mint coinage, and there was no deflation caused by the sudden expansion of thousands of miles.

The value of money is a serious problem, and the value of money is also a serious problem.

The former makes the people unable to buy things with their money, and the poor only have money left, while the latter makes the people pinch their money and are unwilling to go out to spend, and the poor only have money left.

Therefore, as the controller of the central government, Guo Peng must be careful in the economy, and he cannot rashly pat his brain when formulating economic policies and monetary policies.

At least for now, any bank notes and the like are redundant.

Those things are things that will be needed only after the society has completely stabilized and the commodity economy has developed to a certain point.

And now, in this situation of being in ruins, and not even being able to get out the paper, it is a bit self-inflicted to consider this.

As long as he can mint qualified five-baht coins and return the coinage rights to the central government, Guo Peng will be able to control the whole country in Yecheng.

For the time being, because the five-baht coins minted by Guo Peng were of good quality, sufficient amount, not short of weight, and beautiful in appearance, and had many users, the three prefectures of Liangzhou, Liaodong, Jingyiyang, and Jiaozhou farther away all used the standard five-baht coins of the Guo Wei regime through business with the Central Plains.

As a result, their internal private coinage was reduced in circulation, and although it was not completely cut off, it was much less.

Having said that, Guo Peng did not think of playing currency wars or other methods to fight these local forces, and the reason is very simple, that is, because currency is not indispensable in this era, and everyone is in a hurry, and everyone abolishes the currency in minutes to barter.

Silk cloth, grain, and iron tools could all be used as currency.

After the establishment of the Three Kingdoms, the three regimes faced their own economic difficulties, and they all used the means of over-issuing currency, such as the Daquan series that Sun 100,000 made up later, and the Zhibaiqian used by Liu Bei.

These emergency measures have played a certain role, but in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, the central authority declined and the local power was strong, and the people represented by the scholars and Haoqiang were the masters of the world, and the central government was not.

Once the trust of the people is lost and the credibility of the central government is bankrupt, the people who have extensive land and property dare to use barter and private coins to oppose the central government, so that the central government will not be able to eat and walk around.

At this point, Sun 100,000, who came up with the Daquan Dangqian series, can personally serve as a witness and provide physical evidence.

In these years, economic warfare needs to be carried out in kind, not currency, and Guo Peng used five baht coins just to establish a stable economic order and slowly recover from the wounds of the war.

However, because of the lack of copper, Guo Peng is even more eager for Jiangdong and Yizhou, these two places produce a lot of copper, and if he gets these two plots, he can get a lot of copper, alleviating his current lack of copper.

So at the moment, Cao Ren's task is still very important, he took on part of the source of copper needed for the coinage of the Guo Wei regime, and the pressure is great.

Cheng Gongying came to Chang'an at this time and asked to see Cao Ren.

At this time, it was April of the first year of Jian'an, and when Cao Renzheng was very happy because his subordinates had excavated hundreds of millions of Dong Zhuo's small money in the area of the old dock site, Cheng Gongying came.

Cao Ren was entrusted by Guo Peng with the power to manage the military and political affairs in Guanzhong, and he was in a high position and power, and he was in the limelight for a while.

But he became more and more cautious, and did not do things in the slightest, but became more and more low-key, for fear that he would be punished by Guo Peng for not doing well.

He was in awe of Guo Peng from the bottom of his heart, and at the same time he knew what an eye-catching position he was as the second person in the Wei army below Guo Peng, in this position, he couldn't make the slightest mistake, and he would rather not do many things than make mistakes.

But there is one thing, Guo Peng clearly told him that he should do it when he should do it, and don't miss the opportunity.

That's about Liangzhou.

After Guo Peng canonized Ma Teng as the assassin of Liangzhou at the beginning of the first month of the first year of Jian'an, he sent a secret agent to bring him a letter, telling him that his hand would inevitably cause civil strife in Liangzhou, and it was very likely that Han Sui would have to ask him for help, and when the time came, Cao Ren could not move.

We must seize the opportunity and let Han Sui cooperate with him to take down Longdi, break the barrier of Liangzhou, and then annex Liangzhou, eliminate the warlords of Liangzhou, completely occupy Liangzhou, and remove the biggest threat in the north.

Then, you can go south with all your might.

So when Cao Ren knew that Han Sui's confidant Cheng Gongying had come to visit him, his heart suddenly beat faster, and he realized that maybe the opportunity had come.

Guo Peng deliberately transferred 30,000 troops to repair Tongguan, the purpose was very simple, that is, to let the simple-minded and well-developed Liangzhou warlords relax their vigilance, so that these military leaders who did not read much would suffer a big dumb loss.

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Cao Ren did not meet Cheng Gongying immediately, but hung Cheng Gongying for five days, and only met Cheng Gongying impatiently when Cheng Gongying was about to get angry.

Then Cheng Gongying anxiously handed over Han Sui's letter to Cao Ren and explained his intentions.

Cao Ren took it and read it, and was immediately furious.

Ma Shoucheng actually said such a thing? Do something like this?! ”

Cao Ren looked very annoyed: "I'll send someone to question him immediately, you go back and let Han Beijia not worry." ”

Cheng Gongying was shocked.

"No, General! In this way, wouldn't it be a surprise to the snake? Ma Teng will inevitably take action against Han Bei immediately, Han Bei is in danger! Please send troops to the rescue! ”

"Sending troops?"

Cao Ren's face froze, and he suddenly looked very hesitant: "You can't act rashly without the order of Duke Wei to send troops, Duke Wei doesn't plan to rashly raise troops now, Duke Wei wants to rest with the people, recuperate, send troops to fight or something, it's inappropriate, it's inappropriate." ”

"But once Ma Teng kills Han Bei and makes trouble in Liangzhou, Duke Wei can't do it even if he wants to suspend the army and raise the people! Now it's all up to Han Beijia to support it, once Han Beijia can't support it, Liangzhou will inevitably be in chaos, is this the situation that Wei Gong wants to see? ”

Cheng Gongying immediately asked.

Cao Ren looked thoughtful.

"What you said also makes sense, but Ma Shoucheng is the Liangzhou Assassin appointed by His Majesty personally by Duke Wei, how could he do such a thing?"

Cao Renhu looked at Cheng Gongying suspiciously.

Cheng Gongying immediately said what he had thought of.

In the early years, Ma Shoucheng and Han Beijia had a relationship, but the friendship was not deep, but there were many contradictions, so Ma Shoucheng has always hated Han Beijia, this time Wei Gong played Ma Shoucheng as the assassin of Liangzhou, Ma Shoucheng villain was ambitious, and immediately began to take revenge on Han Beijia.

He wants to annex Han Beijia's army and make it bigger, and now many people around Han Beijia have betrayed Han Beijia and taken refuge in Ma Shoucheng, once Ma Shoucheng's power is successful, it will inevitably attack Guanzhong, Duke Wei is eager to rest with the people, but Ma Shoucheng will not.

Ma Shoucheng will definitely send troops to attack and disturb, and at that time, Duke Wei will have to send a large army to pacify Liangzhou, and he will have to pay a great price to do it, is this what the general and Duke Wei are looking forward to? ”

Cao Ren seemed to be shaken by what Cheng Gongying said, thought deeply, and said that what Cheng Gongying said made sense.

"What you said is not unreasonable, but the stakes are big, Ma Shoucheng is the Liangzhou Thorn History sealed by the imperial court after all......"

"If the general is willing to send troops to help, Han Bei is willing to give gold and war horses to the general to reward the general, if it is successful, kill the traitor Ma Teng, then Han Bei is willing to dedicate the two counties of Wudu County and Beidi County to the Duke of Wei to thank the Duke of Wei for his reconstruction!"

Cao Ren's eyes widened suddenly.

"Is that true?"

"Seriously! May you make an oath! ”

"So ......"

After Cao Ren thought about it "carefully", he patted the case: "I will immediately send someone back to you to discuss the matter of cooperation, I will wait here for the news, as soon as the news arrives, I will make an appointment to send troops together to kill the traitor!" ”

Cheng Gongying was overjoyed and immediately thanked Cao Ren, and then returned to Liangzhou with Cao Ren's envoy Zhang Ji to find Han Sui.