Steam engines could not pull carts, but irrigation was possible, and at least they could meet the needs of agriculture, which in itself was a huge improvement. However, Shang Wu must also realize that the agricultural technology of the Republican Army is still very limited, for example, agriculture still adopts the method of flood irrigation for irrigation, which wastes a lot of water and is very inefficient.

If it is possible to lay an official road and carry out large-scale spraying, the efficiency may be higher.

However, pipes are still not enough to meet this demand, although pipes are available in many places. For example, in the Handan area, there is a popularization of tap water with pipes, but it requires some input costs, and without such a cost, it is impossible to do such a point.

Moreover, the price of pipes is relatively expensive, if bamboo is used, it is completely not in line with the standard production, who can make bamboo production meet such a demand, on the one hand, the demand increases, and on the other hand, the pipe aspect can not meet the demand, which still allows the Republican Army's industry to go to another channel. That is, they need more civilian equipment to meet civilian needs.

This will enable them to produce more different kinds of products to meet the needs of all walks of life, but this is already a big step forward. Such progress will meet a wide range of needs to the greatest extent. This is the most advantageous way forward.

In Luoyang, Xun Yu met Xi Zhicai. The two of them had a good conversation.

"I wonder what Wen Ruo thinks?" Xi Zhicai asked Xun Yu, and Xi Zhicai knew very well that Xun Yu had a lot of power. Extraordinary insight.

"Oh. I was about to move my people to Jizhou, which was extremely safe even though it was under the control of the Republican Army. And, by the way, do some small business. Xun Yu said that it is not a trivial matter to relocate the clansmen, on the contrary, it costs a lot, first of all, their family property needs to be abandoned, and then they migrate to the past, buy land again, build new houses, and all kinds of losses are very large, and it is precisely because of this that most of the clansmen are opposed, only Xun Yu's one supports the migration, the reason is very simple, they are extremely worried about the situation. In the event of large-scale unrest. The safety of their property and lives will not be guaranteed to the greatest extent. In such a situation, they don't need to do anything at all, all they need to do is put their situation in the most favorable situation.

This is Xun Yu's opinion. And Xun Yu did the same.

But migration is not a simple matter, it costs a lot of money, in order to avoid such a situation, Xun Yu has to do some business. In fact, all the powerful landlords will do this, and no one will be too opposed.

"Oh. What business? Xi Zhicai asked puzzledly, when it comes to business, Xi Zhicai is very interested, not because he is interested, but because there is some business, and he must do this, otherwise, many things will be difficult to continue. For example, Cao Cao's army needed merchants, because only merchants could know what kind of trade to carry out, and then they could make the most advantageous situation, and such a situation could make them extremely advantageous. It's a situation that they have to deal with in order for them to go a lot more smoothly.

"Huh. This business. Saying that, Xun Yu took out a copper coin and said with a smile.

"Copper coins?" Xi Zhicai asked puzzled.

"Huh. Want to hear it. Just ask me to drink, otherwise I won't say anything. Xun Yu said. Xi Zhicai was very helpless, so he could only drag Xun Yu to Cao Cao, because Xi Zhicai didn't have much money, and his money was used to buy newspapers. If the newspaper could be changed, he would rather do it.

"How do you make money with this copper coin?" Cao Cao first asked puzzled. Fighting, Cao Cao thinks that he doesn't know too much, but he won't be too bad either. But this business, he thinks he is very bad, he has also studied, but unfortunately many things are not something he can figure out if he thinks like this.

"First of all, this copper coin is made of copper, and on the side of the Republican Army, they buy copper at a high price, and the price they pay is much higher than the essence of copper coins." Xun Yu said with a copper coin.

"Although the purchasing power of copper coins is very large, now a stone of wheat is only three hundred yuan." Xun Yu said. Originally, the price of grain was very high, but if you add the war, it can easily exceed 500. It even reached a high of seven hundred, but copper money is a resource after all. This determines the difference in another of his attributes.

"But it's not important, it's important that he was able to trade a lot of things, and on the IRA side, they bought them at a high price. Because of the large amount of copper contained in the copper coins, most of their artillery was cast in bronze, and as far as I know, the Republican Army minted at least more than 1,500 cannons, and most of these cannons were cast in bronze. Xun Yu said.

Hearing such a result, Cao Cao felt very frightened, 1,500 cannons, what kind of concept is this, if it is calculated according to the twelve artillery battalions, wouldn't they be able to equip 125 artillery battalions, and the power of one artillery battalion is quite large.

Xi Zhicai was also very surprised, even Cao Cao, the artillery they were equipped with was only second-hand artillery that had been replaced by the Republican Army, and the number was only four. It's still shabby for a team of eight hundred people with only four guns, but you have to admit that the price of bronze artillery is too expensive.

"This." Cao Cao and Xi Zhicai didn't know what to say.

"Of these 1,500 cannons, only a few were cast from copper ore, and most of them were cast from copper coins." Xun Yu said.

"And the Republican Army absorbs copper coins, and there are generally fewer copper coins on the market, while the price of copper coins is getting bigger and bigger. Some places had to appear to be treated with silver. In addition, in Yecheng, where private transactions are carried out using Republican Army banknotes. Because they represent good credit. This small copper coin can bring such a big benefit, and this is not counting, take the collected copper coins to the Republican Army to exchange, and after depositing them in the account, you can buy all kinds of local materials, such as arms, artillery, the Republican Army recently said in the newspapers that they have reorganized many armies and eliminated a number of arms weapons and equipment, and many people have already done so. On top of that, there's a lot of things they're changing, for example, they're going to do a lot of business that we wouldn't think of. Xun Yu said.

"All kinds of commodities are procured from there and exchanged for a large amount of copper coins, after all, we are the ones who lack so many goods, and the greatest thing in money is exchange. The Republican Army's monetary means are higher than ours. Xun Yu said.

Hearing this, Cao Cao suddenly understood why the Republican Army did this. Or rather, to say that something makes sense. That's business.

Don't underestimate the copper coins, but they are the main currency in circulation, but the Republican army needs a lot of copper resources. The Republican Army needed a lot of artillery. But copper ore is strictly restricted, the IRA will increase the price of purchase, which leads to the smuggling of copper ore, but the high price of copper ore has led to the cost of artillery has been very high, which is very unfavorable to the Republican Army, and breaking the trade restrictions, this is an extremely difficult thing, to do such a thing, it takes a long time.

The only way to do this, how to solve such a problem, is to use a large number of copper coins to recast them into the artillery they need.

The Republican Army then purchased copper coins on a large scale to cast artillery, which led to a large-scale reduction in copper coins in the surrounding area and affected the vicinity of Luoyang, and the number continued to decline, which further exacerbated the development of deflation, which was extremely unfavorable to the workshops and merchants, because they lacked the necessary currency in circulation, and the business became difficult, but this did not bother them, and a group of people began to specialize in the copper coin business. target

They privately bought a large amount of copper coins, and then transported them to the IRA for delivery, and after the delivery, they began to purchase a large number of materials, purchasing all kinds of materials, cloth, boots, milk powder, and even salt, which were the things that the people needed most, and even some medicines could be purchased on a large scale. Then they bought a large number of copper coins in this way, which further intensified the demand for copper coins.

"Now there are fewer and fewer copper coins on the market, and they began to run to Nanyang, Jingzhou, Yangzhou, and Xuzhou. I've heard that business there is much bigger. Xun Yu said.

The impact of the IRA's large-scale acquisitions was great, for the simple reason that they needed copper money, a lot of copper.

There are more artillery in the Republican Army. But the imperial court had fewer copper coins. Deflation is getting worse and worse, and the tightening of money creates a big vacuum, and this vacuum is the best time for the expansion of the Republican Army's banknotes.

A large number of paper money appeared in the periphery, even in the Luoyang area, this is a kind of expansion on paper money, after all, the republican army has a good reputation, coupled with its own lack of a large number of copper coins, commercial exchanges have suffered a great obstacle, these are caused by copper coins, if this situation is not changed, it is difficult to complete such a situation, this is their biggest problem at present, and even many things can not change such a fact. This is their biggest disaster at the moment. Such a catastrophe would cause them to suffer extremely heavy losses and would be difficult to carry out in the end.

"Mr. Xun is talented, if you don't explain, we still don't know." Cao Cao said. This was Cao Cao's first initial realization of the seriousness of financial warfare. Although it was still very marginal, it was enough to exceed his realization.