Chapter 552: Creating a Money Famine
The tiger's words frightened the guards on the city gate, and the guard battalion lined up, not only with momentum, but also with enough numbers, and the guards also knew very well that they couldn't stop it.
"Who the hell are you? This Nanyang is the territory of Lord Yuan of the Yuan Highway of the Fourth and Third Dukes. "The general who defended the city was still not giving up, intending to use Yuan Shu's name to suppress the other party.
"Bullshit, Lao Tzu is beating him Yuan Shu, talking nonsense, wait for us to break through the city gate, don't worry about killing." The tiger head pointed the long knife in his hand at the head of the city and said.
The face of the general defending the city was uncertain, and he was definitely not an opponent if he only had a few people, and the other party was not afraid of Yuan Shu.
After some struggle, he still surrendered in Kaejo.
"Keep them all in your custody, and don't let them out until we leave." The tiger head ordered all the soldiers in the city to be put under guard.
Ye Chen didn't care much about it this time, he asked Guo Jia to do it, anyway, with his previous experience in blackmailing, it was not too difficult to operate.
Ordered everything to be done by his subordinates, Ye Chen was idle, he took the tiger head, made an appointment with Zhao Yun, and went out for a walk together.
Although the guard battalion took over the city, it did not disturb life here, and did not even let the soldiers appear on the streets, so the impact on the streets was not very great.
"Second brother, although this Nanyang is a rich land, it is still far from our Liaodong." Zhao Yun looked at the pedestrians on the street and said.
Ye Chen also observed, this place is indeed incomparable with Liaodong, the last time I went back to Liaodong, it was already quite prosperous, but the people here were obviously very poor, almost all of them had blue faces, and their clothes were shabby, and their mental outlook was also very poor.
"Hehe, young master, this is my credit." Tiger Head laughed out loud and said.
"That's right, the tiger head cooperated with Zhang Qing to make a mess of Nanyang's economy, and now Nanyang's economy is close to collapse, if I add another fire?" Ye Chen thought as he walked, and a more radical plan formed in his mind.
First of all, Ye Chen would not let Nanyang collapse, he didn't have that time, Yuan Shu was chasing after him, and it was not what he wanted to let Nanyang collapse.
But Ye Chen can let the large amount of treasures that Yuan Shu brought back be consumed, and if Yuan Shu comes back to stabilize the situation in Nanyang, he has to use up all the treasures he has obtained, otherwise he doesn't want to develop.
"Go back." Ye Chen stopped shopping and turned back.
Zhao Yun didn't know what was wrong with the tiger head, but he didn't ask much and followed back.
"Lord, what are you looking for me?" Guo Jia was starting to investigate those big families according to Ye Chen's request, but he was busy but was called over by Ye Chen.
"I want to cause more trouble for Yuan Shuzhao." Ye Chen said.
"My lord, what else can be done, but we can't stay in each city for too long." Now Yuan Shu is behind, although there is a distance of a few days, but they can't stay too long in each city, otherwise it won't take long to catch up.
"Let there be a shortage of money in Nanyang, and also increase the cost of Yuan Shu's grain collection."
After the operation of Hutou and Zhang Qing, a large amount of dumping salt has become a money shortage in Nanyang, and the money in the hands of the people has bought salt, and then it has been taken away by Liaodong, but it has not been too serious a consequence.
The reason is that the dumping of salt, the people who buy it, and the family only needs a small amount of salt, so these families still have a lot of cash in their hands, they want to consume, they have to hire workers, and constantly release the money, so that there is cash in the market to use.
"Lord, how do you do it?" Guo Jia does not have a good understanding of some modern theories.
"It's very simple, continue to extort these families, they have a lot of cash in their hands, and if they are extorted, there will naturally be a shortage of money, and there is also to smash those small landlords, these people also have cash in their hands, but we have another way, that is, to forcibly distribute the seized materials to them, let them buy, and collect the cash in their hands."
Ye Chen's plan was not complicated, he took away the cash in their hands as much as possible, so that Nanyang was short of money everywhere.
"Also, it is grain, we not only have to extort money this time, but also extort food, and then distribute it to the people, when Yuan Shu has no place to collect grain, he will have to go to other places to collect grain, and the price must be much higher, which will soon drain the treasure in his hand."
The food was distributed to the people, and it was impossible for Yuan Shu to snatch it back from them, first, if he wanted to eat some of it, and second, if he really dared to do that, he would definitely lose the support of the people quickly, and it would be even more troublesome at that time.
"Okay, I'm going to bring in the rich people, and let them pay for the food, and let them buy our things." Guo Jia nodded and said.
Some of them are not from families, but they have quite a lot of assets in the family, and these people are also targeted by Ye Chen and them.
Many of the soldiers in the city began to arrest people everywhere, but not ordinary people, but wealthy people.
Why catch, because they are only going to stay here for a day, and it is very efficient to use the catch.
At the same time as the arrest, Ye Chen and the others had already opened the granary and began to distribute the grain, distributing all the grain to these people.
However, there is not so much grain seized this time, it is directly reduced by two-thirds, only tens of thousands of stones, and the previous grain was prepared for Yuan Shu's army, so there will be so much.
These families and wealthy families were all arrested by Guo Jia, and after being arrested, they were not so polite this time, they directly asked for money according to their heads, and they could give as much as they wanted.
And immediately after the amount was set, soldiers took them over to get it, and truckloads of money were brought back.
The city was very lively, some people were elated, and some wealthy families were crying, but no matter what, there was no bloody disaster, and Ye Chen had no intention of killing anyone.
"How?" In the evening, when Guo Jia was busy in the middle of the night, he hurriedly asked.
"My lord, this is a rich place, we have made about 150 million yuan this time, and we have distributed a large amount of food to the people."
150 million is just cash, it can be seen that the people here are still very rich, if you count the real estate, many families are hundreds of millions of existences, but those things are of no use to Ye Chen.
"Very good, tomorrow morning we will leave, go to the next city, I looked at the map, continue to the south, it doesn't take long, there are more than a dozen cities connected together, and some of us will be busy at that time." Nanyang is extremely rich, there are 36 counties, of which more than a dozen counties are very close, basically half a day apart.
"My lord, we have to collect a batch of horses next, and we have collected their weapons and equipment, as well as money, so that our horses will soon be insufficient." Guo Jia said.
Ye Chen put everything on the back of the horse, so that they could move quickly, but they had hundreds of extra horses, and these horses would soon be unable to carry the weight, so they would either slow down or get more horses over.