Chapter 560: The Currency War Begins!
In March, the White Tiger Legion was in an emergency, and Sima Hong, the generalissimo of the White Tiger Legion, who was already in his fifties, suddenly fell ill.
This news made Yang Mu's heart chuckle.
Fighting, in fact, is also fighting.
No matter how good the weapons and equipment are, they must be handed over to people to use, and an army that is not rigorous and bloodless, even the best equipment will not be able to win a battle.
As the saying goes, if a soldier instigates one, he will instigate a nest, and a good general can bring out a good army, a good commander, and that can definitely affect the fate of a legion.
Counting up, Sima Hong's age is not young.
It's not just Sima Hong, in fact, the commanders of the six major legions are not young.
Among them, Wei Zhongquan, the generalissimo of the Blue Dragon Legion, is the oldest, more than sixty years old, and is a real elderly commander.
Fortunately, with the scale of the Blue Dragon Legion and the abundance of talents, there is no need for Wei Zhongquan to go into battle to kill the enemy, just need to sit in the rear and arrange a big strategy, just like Zhuge Kongming in a wheelchair in "Three Kingdoms", the important thing is the brain rather than the physical strength.
Immediately, Yang Mu ordered the Ministry of Medicine to send a team of doctors to the White Tiger Army to treat Sima Hong's illness.
Then, he ordered the Qilin Legion to open and join the White Tiger Legion.
Almost at the same time, the Blue Dragon Legion completely took over the clouds, and the main force of the Vermilion Bird Legion retreated all the way north to join the Xuanwu Legion.
As a result, the tasks of the six major legions of Cangguo are basically clearly divided.
The Blue Dragon Legion has an army of more than 500,000 people, guarding Chu and Yundi, blocking Mang and Fan.
The Guiyi Army was in the territory of Kang and confronted the Jin Kang army.
The White Tiger Legion and the Qilin Legion, on the Nguyen-Wei border, were responsible for resisting the Nguyen-Wei coalition forces.
The Xuanwu Legion and the Vermilion Bird Legion converged and swept away the coalition forces left behind by the Ruan, Wei, and Jin kingdoms one by one.
In other words, four war zones have been formed in the world.
Among them, the White Tiger Legion and the Qilin Legion are the main forces, and the Xuanwu Legion and the Vermilion Bird Legion have just gone through the Great War, which can be regarded as cultivating while fighting, and at the same time replenishing the soldiers and returning to a full state.
Around Wang Ji, there was a smell of beacon fire.
Even ordinary people know that there is about to be a big war here, and the big families who have the ability to move their families to the vicinity of Xincangcheng, as for the ordinary villages, they have formed a township patrol to find out the news, and once an army passes nearby, they will organize the whole village to hide in the mountains to avoid military disasters.
The government also knows that the people are afraid of war, although they know that Cangguo has the ability to deal with the invading army, but there is no way, it is human nature to seek good fortune and avoid evil, and it is normal for the people to have this kind of thought.
However, in this way, spring plowing will be delayed.
The climate of Wangji is suitable, the staple food of the people is rice, which can be harvested twice a year, and March is the planting season of early rice, and the tense atmosphere is undoubtedly very delayed in spring ploughing.
In some places, all the farmland around the city is simply deserted, for fear that when the war comes, it will be ruined by the generals.
It is foreseeable that this year's harvest in Wanggi will not be as good as in previous years, which is inevitable.
Just when the whole world thought that this war was about to break out, there was another thing that was noticed by the countries first.
The Cang and Wu countries, and even the Mu countries, the Yan countries, and the Shao countries, have been buying grain, salt and iron on a large scale since February.
And it's all paper money!
In just one month's effort, truckloads of grain and salt were transported from Ruan, Wei, Jin, Mang, Fan, and even Kang to these countries.
If it is just Cangguo, it is just that, because fundamentally speaking, the official trade between Cangguo and these countries has been cut off, and even private trade is very scarce, basically relying on smuggling.
However, countries have not severed diplomatic relations with military countries!
Not only the Wu Kingdom, but even the Mu Kingdom and the Yan Country have not broken off diplomatic relations.
As a result, the trade of money and grain was very smooth, and in just over a month, many grains were purchased from Ruan, Wei, Jin, Mang, Fan, and Kang.
Grain is in the hands of big grain merchants, the government can really control very little, the general small landlords, the local government does not dare to restrict, if it is a big landlord or a big family, then even the imperial court can not manage it, there is nothing to be done.
In just one month, taking Ruan Guo as an example, a large amount of grain was purchased by Wu Guo, and now the domestic grain price has more than doubled.
And that's just the beginning!
Because the price given by Wu Guo was very high, almost twice the market price, the grain merchants in Nguyen were moved to hoard grain, and at the same time bought grain from the people at a high price, and then sold it to the merchants of Wu Guo.
This situation also happened in Wei, but it was even more serious, and the price of grain increased threefold in a month!
The price of grain in Mangguo has doubled.
The price of grain in the country has tripled.
The Jin State and the Cangguo State have a long border, and the Cangguo is the issuing country of the Dacang coins, which can continuously print the Dacang coins, so even if the people of the two countries are just smuggling grain, it has led to the price of grain in the Jin Dynasty, which has more than tripled!
You know, even in the years of natural disasters, the increase in food prices will not be so large!
It doubled, and the people could bear it.
But it rises two or three times all of a sudden, which is a looting of the people, and the lives of the people at the bottom are just running around for food, and the money that many families earn in a month can only maintain food.
If the price of food doubles, the livelihood of the people at the bottom will not be able to be maintained, and even families with small savings can only sit on the mountain and eat nothing.
Merchants seek profits, even if a very small number of businessmen see the clues, know that Cangguo is not well-intentioned, but there is no way, the vast situation is unstoppable, thousands of big grain merchants will not care so much, and the money and grain trade with Cangguo is in full swing.
By March, when Cangguo was purchasing grain, the price had already risen five times!
It is a fool not to make money, even if it is a peasant people, they only leave some rations that can support the autumn harvest, and the rest are all sold, all want to make a big profit before the price of food falls.
Suddenly, the trade of grain and salt and iron became the most profitable industry in the Jin Kingdom!
In the countries of Fan and Jin, which were the most affected, an extremely large famine was brewing.
Not only that, but the purchasing power of money was actually relative, and the rise in food prices naturally gave rise to the prices of other goods, and the financial and monetary system of the Jin State was crumbling.
Such a large price fluctuation among the people naturally attracted the attention of the government and the imperial courts of various countries.
General: Qin Kan (good at defense)
General: Varianch
Commander: Wang Hanyang
Old Prime Minister: Zhou Wen
Emperor of the Jin Kingdom: Wang Hanning ()
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