Chapter 114: The Choice
At this time, Wei Yan was thinking about whether to choose to take refuge in Liu Bei's account, he had already felt the olive branch thrown by Liu Bei, but it was not Liu Bei himself, but Sun Qian, who was under him;
This made the arrogant Wei Yan feel that he couldn't save face, and he still felt that now was not a good time, and now it is not certain who can finally sit in Diaoyutai in the Sili area, Wei Yan still thinks that it is better to wait first, and when he has more chips in his hand, he believes that several forces will win him over;
At the other end of Luoyang [Luoyang Commercial Bank], the people and small traders who came to run have formed a long queue of two streets, and the street is full of strange atmosphere, these people are all queuing up to withdraw the money they have deposited in the bank, they are all holding silk money tickets in their hands and lining up, as if they are worried that the bank will have no money to exchange for them when it is their turn;
"I said, big brother of the Li family, did you say that the bank would run out of money when it was our turn? I heard that Luoyang built so many buildings with bank money, all of which we saved."
A sister-in-law of the neighborhood who was queuing said worriedly, in fact, to be honest, those who can line up here with silk money tickets are also considered to be the middle class in Luoyang, because a few copper coins in the hands of those poor people are not worth saving, most of these middle class are some money saved by tomb robberies before, or merchants;
In fact, there was no possibility of a middle-class group in Luoyang before, because everyone was poor, and the only difference was that the poor would starve to death if they couldn't eat, or the poor would starve to death in a few days;
"I said the brothers and sisters of the Zhang family, what I'm afraid of is not that the bank has no money to exchange for us, what I'm afraid of is that we don't run now, when Dong Zhuo's army arrives, the whole of Luoyang will be slaughtered, we can't run even if we want to, what's the use of asking for this money then?"
The eldest brother of the Li family said;
"Yes, what Brother Li said is right, I heard that many people in Luoyang have run away now, Wang Wu, Zhao Shui, and Tu Er Mazi have all run away, and they didn't come to exchange money, so they ran away with some money saved at home and their wives and children."
A young man surnamed Shi said;
After hearing this, the people around were also scared enough, but they all felt that they had already lined up here, and it was too cost-effective to run now;
"Then Brother Li, why didn't King Hongnong run? Give us back the money here? And why don't those big families run? Didn't see them come to exchange money? Zhang's daughter-in-law asked;
"Then I don't know, whatever, they have money, anyway, let's exchange the money first."
This kind of discussion is still happening in many places, the same long queue at the door of Luoyang Agricultural Bank and Luoyang Construction Bank also happened, some of these people have been queuing for several days, it can be seen that there are many people in line;
From the rush to the beginning of the bank, to Liu Bian's idea that the people at the bank who do not queue up will not be exchanged, the number of people queuing in these days has not only not decreased, but has become more and more, and the hundreds of millions of dollars that Liu Bian has melted from another time and space are rapidly losing at the same speed as the evaporation of surface water;
This is still not including the premise of several big gang forces and a few big businessmen in Luoyang, because these people have made a lot of investment in Liu Wei, and their families have been tied to Liu Wei, so they have not participated in the crowd frenzy;
But this is also based on the premise that there is no news of defeat from the front, if once the front line Hangu Pass misses, Liu Wei knows that as long as Hangu Pass misses, there is no need for Dong Zhuo to fight Luoyang, Luoyang itself will collapse internally, and there will be no battles such as the Battle of Luoyang at all, Liu Wei himself is very clear about this result;
Before, many people persuaded Liu Wei not to give money to the people, and fled to other places with the money and his family, and made a comeback, as long as he had money and soldiers in his hands, he could naturally develop;
Before, even Liu Wei himself thought that it would be better to simply take the money and run away, why bother to take the money out to fill the big hole in the previous construction of Luoyang, but then Liu Wei himself denied it;
He knows that the current prototype of Luoyang's business system and the little bit of commercial credit that everyone still believes in in Luoyang, which has just been built, once he does this, there will be no commercial credit in the future;
At this moment, the scouts in the direction of Hanguguan and Mengjin Port came back, and Liu Wei did not call many people to come together, because at this time he was also very confused, Liu Wei only called Jia Xu to read the letter with him;
From the letter, I learned that the Hangu Pass front was victorious, but Liu Bei's power had grown a lot and had lost control; And the news from Meng Jin was that Bocai pursued Yan Baihu and Yan Leopard who fled all the way;
As a result, Yan Baihu suffered heavy casualties, and under the pursuit of Bocai, they failed to flee to Dong Zhuo's side, but fled to the direction of Jizhou, because it was Yuan Shao's sphere of influence, so Bocai was not pursuing. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
When Liu Wei just heard the news of the victory ahead, he felt that his heart had finally let go, but when he learned that Liu Bei's power was out of control, he couldn't help but move;
But then I thought that when Liu Bei's daughter died because of herself, I still felt that I owed Liu Bei, after all, Liu Wei was only a 16-year-old boy, not a mature politician, so he couldn't be ruthless, although Liu Bei's family was still in Luoyang, but Liu Wei still ordered people to take care of him and not to be lazy;
"Teacher, what do you think the students should do now?"
For many days, the shadow of Liu Wan'er's death has been haunting Liu Wei's mind, coupled with the huge pressure from the front line, and the fluctuation of the people's hearts in Luoyang City, it makes the young Liu Wei feel a sense of vicissitudes.
"My lord, the plan now is to quickly announce the news of the victory at the front in Luoyang to the public to reassure the people." Jia Xu said
"In the teacher's opinion," Liu Wei replied in a low voice
"In addition, the current plan is to quickly send people to form a good alliance with Cao Cao and Yuan Shao at the east gate, and it is best to form an alliance to ensure the stability of the rear, so as to watch the final hegemony of Wang Yun, Lu Bu, Dong Zhuo, and Liu Bei in the west."
"Teacher, can you see that Bocai's letter says that Yan Baihu and Yan Bao have defected to Yuan Shao in Jizhou?" Liu Wei's eyes suddenly became cold, and his voice was much lowered;
"The lord can't be rash in today's affairs."
Jia Xu is such a person who can observe people's hearts, how can he not know what Liu Wei thinks in his heart, if it was put in the past, Jia Xu would definitely follow the people above and say, not in this autumn of life and death, Jia Xu had no choice but to go back and forth with loyal words and contrary words.
"The teacher doesn't have to say any more, I can listen to the teacher for anything else, this matter is not good, I will send someone to Yuan Shao in Jizhou and ask Yuan Shao to hand over Yan Baihu and Yan Leopard, if you don't hand it over, you will bear the consequences" Liu Wei said gloomily;
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Jia Xu still wanted to say something, he wanted to say that according to Yuan Shao's character, this threat would definitely backfire, and he might not have accepted Yan Baihu and the others, but the threat here made Yuan Shao turn the gun;
Even if Yuan Shao couldn't pull away, he would find his ally Cao Cao to let him do it, but Jia Xu knew that it was useless to say anything now, and it was futile to say anything to a person who was blinded by hatred, so he had to do his best to obey the destiny of heaven.
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