Chapter 466: Experimental Financial Warfare
Ye Chen left the allied camp, looking a little gray, because it was early in the morning, it did not alarm many princes, or many princes received the news, but chose to watch the play, only a few of these people were closer to Ye Chen, but they did not choose to come out to support Ye Chen.
Ye Chen understood very well that they chose Ye Chen like this, Yuan Shu drove Ye Chen out in the past, the most important thing is that Yuan Shu is in charge of logistics, these princes dare not offend, lest they be cut off from food at the most critical time.
"It's really hard to do." After coming out, Ye Chen thought about how to deal with Yuan Shu, this is not only a matter of face, he wants to stand up for his subordinates, and it doesn't matter if he is humiliated, but he now represents the entire Liaodong.
"Just do it, if it doesn't work, think of other ways."
What made Ye Chen embarrassed was that this time to ask Dong represented justice, and he must not attack Yuan Shu, otherwise his reputation would be ruined, and there was no way to attack Yuan Shu on the battlefield, so Ye Chen wanted to use another method to deal with Yuan Shu.
At the same time, Ye Chen was also trying to experiment with Ye Chen's ideas.
Ye Chen planned to attack Nanyang, Yuan Shu's base, and the first was counterfeit money.
Under the guidance of Ye Chen, Liaodong successfully made a hydraulic stamping machine, which can greatly improve the casting efficiency of equipment.
The efficiency of casting coins with a hydraulic stamping machine is very high, and the quality of the coins is also very good, so Ye Chen made a large number of coins.
In fact, the quality of the coins made by Ye Chen and them is better than that minted by the imperial court before, but because there is no mother plate of the coins, there are slight differences between the coins made and those of the imperial court, so Ye Chen did not dare to put them in the market of Liaodong, for fear of causing financial chaos, so he planned to put these coins in Nanyang.
This is not only for the experiment, but also to raise the price of Nanyang, when Liaodong waved a lot of coins and bought all kinds of materials in Nanyang, it will not be long before the price of Nanyang will rise.
Before this, Ye Chen had to dump salt in Nanyang first, in the past, he didn't dare to sell salt because Ye Chen's strength was not enough, for fear of causing a counterattack from the major families, but now there is no such worry.
When a large amount of salt enters Nanyang, it will definitely be very popular because it is cheap and of good quality, which will cause the local coins in Nanyang to be insufficient, and will exacerbate the rise in prices.
Taking advantage of the fact that the eyes of the world are now focused on the Luoyang area, Ye Chen secretly made some small moves to get some benefits, and at the same time experimented with his methods.
I can only blame Yuan Shu for being unlucky, why do you mess with him if you have nothing to do, Ye Chen doesn't mess with him.
After the plan was decided, Ye Chen wrote a detailed explanation and asked people to take it back to Liaodong, and sent people back to take the waterway, not afraid of being leaked, even if someone wanted to sneak attack, there was completely time to destroy it, so Ye Chen dared to use letters to deliver important news.
Sending the news back to Liaodong, Ye Chen was not thinking about it, but thinking about what to do now.
The grain was snatched away by Yuan Shu, Ye Chen didn't take it to heart, because it was only a small part that Ye Chen brought, and most of them were still on the ship, originally considering that it would not take long for the army to go to Luoyang, and then they would have to carry grain, so Ye Chen put most of the food and other materials on the ship, and when Ye Chen and the others went to Luoyang, they could follow.
"Lord, where are we going next?" Guan Yu asked.
"Let's go to the Yellow River first, we only have half a day's food, so let's go and replenish it first."
When he arrived at the Yellow River, Ye Chen got the supplies and set up camp, and Ye Chen called several generals to his camp.
"Next, we have to think about how to attack, although the coalition army is a rabble, they will inevitably attack Luoyang, this battle against Dong is a just battle, we must participate, and we must make achievements."
There is no problem with the fact that it is a war to gain fame and fame, and the question is how to participate.
"Lord, if you want to attack Luoyang, there are only two ways, one is to attack the Tiger Pass, and the other is to attack the Bishui Pass, the Tiger Pass is very strong, and the Bishui Pass is not easy to attack." Spreading out the map, Guan Yu gestured to the map and said.
"Second brother, we only have 10,000 soldiers and horses, no matter where we attack, it will be very difficult for us, even if we attack, I am afraid that we will suffer heavy losses." Tai Shici reminded.
Ye Chen looked at the map and nodded, he wouldn't be so stupid and take the cavalry to attack these two Xiongguan.
Withdrawing his gaze from the map, he thought for a moment and said, "Actually, we still have a third way to attack. ”
Guan Yu, Tai Shici and Zhao Yun were all stunned, they had studied Luoyang for a long time, if they wanted to attack from other places, they had to go around a big circle, go around to other states, and then attack from the west, but that was basically not feasible, the road was very long, not to mention, they had to enter Dong Zhuo's territory, maybe they would be surrounded.
"Waterway, we go directly to Mengjindu from the waterway, and it is not far from Mengjindu to Luoyang."
A few people suddenly realized that Liaodong has always attached importance to the naval army, and the transportation capacity is very large, and the fleet of ships transporting grain and grass materials alone is very large, and it can transport a battalion of troops at a time.
"Lord, Dong Zhuo and they must pay attention to the defense of the Yellow River, this Mengjin is so close to Luoyang, I'm afraid there will be a lot of defense." Guan Yu said worriedly.
"Mengjindu is a ferry, we used it a lot in the past, Dong Zhuo will not be defenseless, so we can't go now, we can't act until Dong Zhuo fights with the Kwantung princes, and we can't disappear in front of Dong Zhuo's eyes, we have to let Dong Zhuo know where we are, so that the sneak attack can be successful."
Guo Jia, who had not spoken on the side, said: "Lord, this matter is not difficult, our troops are divided into two routes, the lord leads a small number of soldiers and horses to act with the princes of the Eighteen Roads, and the rest take the opportunity to march along the Yellow River, and give Dong Zhuo a heavy blow to the rear at a critical time." ”
"Feng Xiao is right, I also have this idea, my arrangement is that Yun Chang and the eldest brother and third brother are already famous, follow me to attract Dong Zhuo's attention, and Gongming's new joining us has not attracted too many people's attention, so Gongming and Fengxiao took a large team of people and waited for the opportunity to act." Ye Chen said what was in his heart.
After thinking about it, several people had no opinion, Ye Chen's arrangement was very good, and he would definitely be able to succeed in the sneak attack at a critical time.
Once the plan is settled, then the next thing is to wait, that is, wait quietly, wait for the Kwantung princes to attack Dong Zhuo, and then Ye Chen will also go to join in the fun.
However, the efficiency of the Kwantung princes was really low enough, Ye Chen waited for seven or eight days before they started to act, as in history, sending Sun Jian as a striker to attack the Tiger Prison Pass.
After they started to act, Ye Chen also started to act, he only brought 3,000 men and horses, and the rest of the soldiers and horses were transferred to the other side and hidden, so that the Kwantung princes would not find out, and at the same time, Dong Zhuo would not be discovered.