Chapter 536: Two Fires in the Han Dynasty
The wreckage of Luoyang City seems to be able to see the fire of that day. The abandoned villages around Luoyang City are like a shell that has lost its vitality, gradually decaying in the wind and rain.
Fei Qian was silent for a long time under the city of Luoyang.
The mood is extremely heavy.
Why is it always easier to destroy than to build?
Since Liu Xiuding's capital Luoyang, the Han Dynasty has been building endlessly, and it has been nearly two hundred years since then, but to destroy her, it only takes a fire......
The fire in Luoyang burned for ten days.
Black smoke covered the sun, and it could be seen for hundreds of miles.
Some things are like oranges, and if you don't peel them off, you can't necessarily tell exactly what is good or bad, whether it's sour or sweet......
In the Han Dynasty, the fall of Luoyang was like being peeled off the peel of an orange.
And his thrust in it is actually not much smaller than Dong Zhuo's fire......
The vitality of a regime under a feudal system like the Han Dynasty is sometimes largely determined by the dictator emperor. Whether it is Liu Che or Liu Xiu, they both have strong personal charm, and they also have a very clear direction of thinking and means to balance the government and government, so as to maintain a strong momentum of upward development.
But it is clear that Emperor Han Ling is not such a person.
And now Liu Xie, no one knows what he can grow......
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When Fei Qian set foot in the Jingxiang area again, it already felt like a farewell year.
Eight hundred cavalry and some horses responsible for carrying some supplies are almost nearly a thousand horses, and if they rush directly to Xiangyang City, it is estimated that Liu Biao's eyes will be staring out, so he can only turn to the south first, which belongs to the area of the Huang family.
All the way to the south, Fei Qian felt that it was obviously a lot of depression.
Originally, the Yingchuan region was extremely rich, but after repeated wars, it has shown a sign of decline.
It may not be obvious to many people in the Han Dynasty now, but for Fei Qian, who has been instilled with CPI, GDP, GNP and other index concepts in later generations, in fact, his sensitivity to economic changes, Fei Qian, who once lived in the era of a thousand shares in the first few days and then a thousand times down, has an innate advantage compared to those people who are used to a slow life in the Han Dynasty.
Just as in later generations, many experts put on a kind face and said that inflation of less than 5% is called mild and benign inflation......
To put it simply, the original 100 yuan of currency can now only buy 95 yuan worth of things for some indescribable reason, which is 5% inflation.
However, just as Fei Qian used Dong Zhuo's large amount of coinage in the Jingzhao area, and then plundered a large number of materials from the rural Haoyou in the Hedong area, he slowly but resolutely robbed the wealth accumulated by those rural Haoyou perhaps through several generations and more than ten generations into his own hands, casting the rapid expansion and wealth of Pingyang City.
This inflation is not more than 5%!
The bad money is only two baht, and the quality is not good, according to the normal conversion, at most it can only be only 20%-30% of the original five baht money......
This predatory nature is very terrible.
Then Fei Qian did not stop, and continued to use the urgency of these nobles again to guide these people to pass on the losses again, and at the same time, it also eased the emotions of these nobles and nobles in Hedong, and to a certain extent, they also formed a common force......
The caravans kept coming, and at first the bad money accumulated was used quickly and cheaply, and then slowly began to spread to other regions like a snowball.
Of course, it is always the propertied class that has the greatest impact. As for those Han Dynasty farmers who don't have any wealth left on hand on weekdays, the temporary impact is not great now, so in this sense, the plundering of Feiqian Yangping did not cause large-scale social shocks for the people in Jizhou, Yuzhou, and even Jingzhou, Yangzhou and other regions, so in a sense, it is also "mild".
It's just that it doesn't have much impact on the lives of people in the county for the time being, but as time goes by, the sequelae of slow inflation will become more and more intense, until it collapses and destroys the economy of the entire Han Dynasty.
And the scholars, I'm sorry, these people have nothing to say about the court, the military, and the scriptures, and they are quite skilled, but for this piece of economic content, they may not be able to find one out of a hundred.
Fei Qian estimated that under the lure of chasing profits, the Shi clan would definitely subconsciously spread the evil money to those who did not know, so the evil money that was originally only in the Jingzhao area and the Hongnong area in Hedong Province would inevitably spread to the whole country at a faster speed than in the original history.
And with the continuous expulsion of the whole five-baht coin, it will withdraw from the monetary system of commodity trading, and once this money system collapses, it will inevitably trigger a new wave of homesteaders bankruptcy, and the greed of the nobles will not lend a helping hand to the peasants at this time, but will only increase the intensity of land acquisition.
Then the disputes between the princes in various places accelerated the loss of the original hoarding of materials by the rural nobles, and the population reduction caused by the war, the barren land, coupled with various droughts, snowstorms and even plagues, will soon crush the already extremely fragile economy of the Han Dynasty......
Of course, this is like burning Luoyang, and another economic representative of the Han Dynasty, the five-baht coin, will eventually withdraw from the stage of history......
A fire burned Luoyang, and a fire burned five baht coins.
This fire was also lit by Dong Zhuo, but it was Fei Qian who provided fuel to boost.
It's just that most of the first fire burned the people, and the second fire burned the countryside heroes......
Fei Qian slowed down his pace, Huang Xu, as the advance team, had already taken more than a dozen soldiers to the Huangjia Hidden Courtyard to report the news, and walked slowly, on the one hand, so that these galloping horses could take a rest, and on the other hand, it was not easy to cause panic among the people on both sides of the official road.
A very interesting thing, the same soldiers and horses, the same costume, galloping and slow, the difference in speed, but the senses of these people are completely different......
But in fact, as long as they are soldiers, they have existed to kill people since the day they were founded, just like politics, which was born for the purpose of taking in profits from the day it appeared.
However, like Fei Qian, he led the troops slowly, occasionally smiled, nodded at the people on both sides, and did not order the swords and guns to be pointed at each other, so most of these people would just stand blankly and look stupidly.
But Fei Qian knew in his heart that a large part of these stupid people would be about to die in the next turmoil......