Bai Dong is really soft-hearted, otherwise he would not have purchased refined salt from salt merchants in various countries at a price higher than the market price; Under the joint suppression of him and Xu Gong, the price of refined salt in Wei fell rapidly at a speed similar to that of a free fall, and I am not afraid that you will refuse to sell, because if you sell it late, the loss will be greater.

Bai Dong called this a bailout. The establishment of a large market was not just to fight against Wei, Huaxia needed such a market to regulate the goods of various countries, and he never thought that the market would collapse with just one use. Duke Xu was also a very insightful businessman, and if it was just to fight the Wei State, he might not be willing to wade into this troubled water; After all, Wei Ying is crazy, and all countries in the world are at great risk, and the first to bear the brunt is a country like Qi that can threaten the hegemony of Wei. Xu Gong's mind was actually very contradictory, on the one hand, he was worried that Qi would not be able to withstand the crazy Wei State, and on the other hand, he was very dissatisfied with the Qi people's atmosphere of being content with wealth and not seeking progress, but in the end he decided to teach Wei some lessons.

Salt merchants in various countries are not fools, seeing the price of salt plummeting all the way to fifty percent, everyone has the heart to vomit blood, but at this moment, there are Bai Zi willing to buy the refined salt in their hands at a price one percent higher than the market price, where is this still business? This is charity!

So before Zhao Ji's words fell, he was surrounded by a group of salt merchants, this 50,000 stones, that 100,000 stones, how many were sold, because they were scrambling to almost fight, in Zhao State, Yan State, Qi State, Chu State, the stewards of various salt industry strongholds were busy purchasing refined salt from Wei State, loading it into the cart that the Bai family and the Xu family had prepared a long time ago, and transporting it to the secret warehouse south of the Great River and west of Kunshan. These warehouses were all arranged by Bai Dong a few months ago. According to the historical knowledge he remembers. The locations of these warehouses are far away from the Shandong battlefield in the future. It will not be affected by the war, and it is a place where the water transportation is very convenient, just wait for the end of the war, these Wei refined salt is enough for the whole of China to eat for three years, if it is exclusively for Lao Qin, you can eat the day when King Wu of Qin lifts the crown.

The collapse of salt prices was a disaster for Wei, and the salt merchants from all over the world who gathered in Wei ran away without a trace, and the high-grade refined salt produced suddenly became unsellable. It is useless to reduce the price of salt, no matter how Wei reduces it, the speed is not comparable to the price reduction speed of the salt market, and if Wei dares to reduce the price of salt by half, the market will dare to fall by one percent. At present, Wei Guo is engaged in the production and sales of salt industry alone There are more than 500,000 people, not counting the increase of 100,000 Wei soldiers, these new 'professional soldiers' are all 'extra-budgetary expenditures', and it doesn't matter if the salt sells well, but now once the price of salt falls, their military situation will become the biggest problem, if it is not solved properly. It can be dragged across the Wei State.

The fastest to respond were the officials of Hui Shi and Gongzi Ang, and now the bamboo folds sent to Daliang have been piled up into a mountain. Wei Ying was about to be buried alive; If it weren't for Gongzi Ang being his own brother, and Hui Shi being even more loyal, Wei Ying would almost suspect that the two of them were deliberately unable to get along with him. It's only been a few days, huh? The officials of these two people's family were all crazy, some demanded that the production of refined salt in the whole country be stopped immediately, some demanded that the number of Wei Wushu be reduced, and even directly pointed the finger at Pang Juan and demanded that he be held accountable! If it weren't for Pang Juan's instigation that day, how could Wei use the national capital, and how could it be so wolf now? These people think that Pang Juan should be killed, and the five horses are not enough to punish!

It's really the whole country that can be killed, Wei Ying is really grateful to Pang Juan now, because even if Pang Juan doesn't propose to invest the national capital in the large-scale production of the salt industry, he will be tempted to use it sooner or later, and now Pang Juan has become a scapegoat and is attacked by the ministers, and he, the monarch, just needs to hide behind the general and wait for this storm to pass.

Pang Juan had no consciousness on the cusp, and was more excited and excited than anyone else, like a chicken blood, the general laughed heartily when he heard the news of the drop in salt prices, and couldn't stop praising Bai Dong's clever methods! It's amazing, it is worthy of our Qingxi disciples, and it really does what he says, half a year to plan the situation, and once he makes a move, the strong foundation that Wei has accumulated for decades is actually shaken? Hui Shi's gang are all fools, they can't see the current situation clearly, do they really think that the king's military expansion is just for the sake of good looks? What are you afraid of if you have no money, we can grab it! Didn't the princes of Huaishang always disobey the king's yang and yin? Now that the Wei Kingdom has changed greatly, the monarch just doesn't want to fight, and I will lead 400,000 elites to sweep the world, complete my king's hegemony, and also complete the general's name!

In this impassioned petition for war, Senior Brother Juan really cooperated with Senior Brother Bai tacitly, blaming the main responsibility for the fall in salt prices and the economic damage of Wei on the 'insidious' methods of Qi Zhao and other countries, but did not mention the dark hands of the Bai family and the Xu family trading company.

Since the Wei State wants to feed the war with war, it is meaningless to seize the two trading companies to fight, and the Shandong countries are the fat meat in Pang Juan's eyes; When Wei Ying praised the general's wisdom and courage in the court, and established the national policy that Wei would give priority to military affairs in the next five to ten years, Hui Shi and Gongzi Ang could only helplessly look at each other, they always opposed Pang Juan rather than Wei, since the monarch had set the national policy, they could only wave the flag for Pang Juan, and put the basin on the heads of the Shandong states headed by Zhao Qi, but turned a blind eye to Bai Dong, the initiator.

Wei Ying and Pang Juan never thought of the idea of fighting Lao Qin at this time, firstly, because of the armistice agreement between the two countries, and secondly, Lao Qin was too 'thin', and the people were strong, far inferior to the oil and water of Shandong countries, especially the Qi State, Qi people are rich in the world, and the people have no fighting spirit, and it is the most convenient to bully.

If there is no military and we are not afraid, we will go to Zhao State, Qi State, and Lu State! This is how Pang Juan appeased the screaming Wei Wushu. Once the decision was made to start a war, the terrible war machine of Wei showed the highest efficiency, and the veteran Long Jia led Wei Wu with 50,000 soldiers and 50,000 soldiers, and Chen soldiers at the border of Qi; And Pang Juan raised 100,000 soldiers and 50,000 soldiers, and the whole 150,000 troops pressed on the border of Zhao, ready to hold down Zhao and attack fiercely.

The Great War of Wei, Qi, and Zhao, which was originally going to take place in the fifteenth year of King Xian of Zhou, that is, around 353 BC, was staged eight years ahead of schedule under the influence of Bai Dong, a little butterfly, and this battle is afraid that even Lu Song and other countries that should have stayed out of the matter will inevitably be affected.

***

Sun Bin was holding a simply bound book, and his face was full of surprise and inexplicable expressions, even more surprised than hearing the news that Senior Brother Juan had brazenly launched a war.

On the cover of this book is written four big characters - 'Soldiers Exploring the Micro', and on the first page after opening, it is written: 'Soldiers, the major affairs of the country, the place of death and life, the way of survival, must not be overlooked.' It is divided into thirteen articles, such as the beginning of the plan, the battle, the attack, and the military form, among which the records are mostly consistent with the "Art of War" of the secret transmission of the teacher, although there are occasional discrepancies, some of them are even more profound, and the views put forward in them should be admired by him, the descendants of Sun Wu.

How is this possible!

Because this set of "The Art of War" was written by the ancestors, the teacher only passed it on to him, and even Senior Brother Juan never learned it. When he was in Daliang, Senior Brother Juan asked about this art of war several times, but he never talked about it, the reason was not that he deliberately wanted to hide it from Senior Brother Juan, but that the teacher was not allowed to pass it on to others, otherwise he would be sorry for his ancestors. But where did this Senior Brother Bai learn? Sun Bin looked at Bai Dong, only to feel a chill to the center of his feet, could it be that he accidentally leaked it in his sleep? But shouldn't it be so completely leaked?

Bai Dong looked at Sun Bin, who was sweating profusely, and almost burst into laughter. "The Art of War" is a secret in this era, but it is not rare in later generations, and there are hundreds of versions of the Art of War in later generations. He was a lawyer back then, in order to show his knowledge in front of the client, he really memorized the full text of "Sun Tzu's Art of War", and now he writes it silently, although it cannot guarantee complete accuracy, but it can also be used on eight or nine times out of ten, and it also adds the experience of researchers of previous generations, some of which may not even Sun Wu thought that it would be strange not to scare Sun Bin to death if he took it out this time.

"Hehe, the senior brother asked me where I learned the truth of 'going to the army and plotting', and now the senior brother should have understood?"

"You thief!"

Sun Bin grabbed his chest with his hand and said angrily: "Say it quickly!" Where the hell did you steal my family's war book? (To be continued......)