Sun Jian listened to the advice of his subordinate strategist Zhou Yu, and because Sun Shangxiang became Zhang Chao's wife, and there was no actual land border between Eastern Wu and the Celestial Empire, the pressure was not so great in comparison, although some preparations were also made for conscription, but the scale was indeed limited.

It can be said that Soochow is the most rational. In comparison, Liu Bei's conscription work in Yizhou under the pretext of restoring the Han dynasty is more radical, but if it is compared with Cao Cao, the scale is much smaller.

This is, of course, Zhuge Liang's personal reasons.

In terms of wisdom, Zhuge Kongming did not dare to say that he was the first person during the Three Kingdoms period, and it was not far behind. Whenever anything happens, he will carefully study it, as if it is the generation of this money bank and the sticker, and he has been paying attention to it.

In fact, Zhuge Liang received the news from the beginning of the operation of the Zhonghua Bank, and he also agreed with this method at that time, turning large sums of silver into silver bills for circulation, which can reduce the trouble of transportation and reduce losses.

Even if the transportation of gold and silver is well prepared, it is inevitable that there will be bumps and collisions, and there will be a certain amount of loss. The method of money circulation minimizes this kind of loss, which is worth advocating and learning.

For good things, Zhuge Liang has never given up studying and researching. So as soon as the matter of Qian Zhuang sticking tickets appeared, he quickly studied it thoroughly, so that he had to cooperate with Zhang Chao's method.

It's just that there is a good side to everything, and there is also a bad side.

The danger of sticking tickets, Zhuge Liang also quickly discovered its drawbacks, this kind of taking from the people, it does need to pay more returns, at first glance, it can indeed play a role in enhancing strength in a short period of time, but in the long run, it doesn't seem so suitable.

Under Liu Bei's management, although Yizhou has also developed, it is indeed not so fast. First, the road conditions here are not good, and transportation is very problematic; Second, Liu Xuande himself was educated by the ideology at that time, and he did not attach great importance to businessmen.

How can it be like Zhang Chao, not only to encourage business, but also to obtain the same official position if he makes contributions, which is fundamentally corrupting the social atmosphere and insulting Sven.

Although Liu Bei is a straw mat weaver, in a certain respect, he is also a low-level person, but he is self-proclaimed orthodox, the last thing he wants to do is to be afraid of being looked down upon, and he himself is under the banner of restoring the Han family, so how can he do something that the people of the scholar clan criticize?

Because Liu Bei was not optimistic about the status of merchants, the business here in Yizhou was not developed. Without a sufficient commercial foundation, there will naturally be no sufficient source of taxation, and most of Yizhou's income is supported by the people who farm the land.

This leads to the fact that in terms of economic resources, Liu Bei is not as good as Zhang Chao too much.

In this case, who will pay for the shortfall caused by this discount?

Zhuge Liang knows the situation in Yizhou, so he naturally has a lot of things to consider, he is worried that now that he has taken the people's money, he will not be able to cash out the tickets after he can, which is easy to cause misunderstanding among the people, and even cause greater harm.

For this reason, although Yizhou has also built money villages in various cities and implemented ticket stickers, under the guidance of Zhuge Liang, the profits returned are indeed very small, compared to Zhang Chao and Cao Cao's half of the profits, they only promise to return one percent of themselves.

But because Yizhou is far away from Jinyang City, even such a policy has also increased their military strength a lot.

The advantage of this is that it can ensure that the situation is stable enough, but the disadvantage is that such a small reward cannot stimulate the attention and enthusiasm of the people, and the result is that except for some honest people who put their money in Yizhou's bank, the rest of the people did choose to put it into the Cao Cao money village that was allied with them.

This news, after reaching Cao Cao's ears, attracted him to Longyan Dayue.

The sudden change gave him a great inspiration, that is, the money of Yizhou can attract him here, so why can't the money of the Celestial Empire do this? And if it could, wouldn't it be equivalent to using the money of the people of the Celestial Empire to deal with the Celestial Empire? Think of what a beautiful thing that is.

Of course, Cao Cao also knew that it would be very difficult to do this, so why should others put the money into your hands instead of putting it into the Celestial Empire under the same conditions?

If Cao Cao wants to achieve his goal, he can't use some means, such as increasing the profit of ticket sticking, isn't it only half a return for others? Okay, I, Cao Cao, will give you a reward of one percent, and I don't believe that no one will be tempted under the heavy reward.

Cao Cao thought like this, and did it like this, and for a while, it really attracted a large amount of private funds to flow into the Wei State Bank.

Cao Cao also seemed to have discovered for the first time that the power of the people was so strong. In the past, he was only the poorest of the people, and whether he could eat enough was a problem, so who would have thought that they would have so much money to spare?

It wasn't until he made a money bank and made a sticker that he realized that his previous thoughts about the economy had always been wrong, and the wealth of the emotional people was really huge, which was amazing.

With the money, Wei not only began to recruit troops on a large scale, but also began to form a huge cavalry team. This also made the Wei State, which was originally only about 1.2 million, reach a total of 4 million troops in a very short period of time.

Under the generous treatment of serving in the army, many men in Wei gave up farming and switched to the army. Because the income from farming in a year is not even one-third of the salary of the army, even if this is the case, what kind of land is planted?

The combat power of the Wei State is changing at a rate that changes day by day, and the strength of Liu Bei's department in Yizhou has also increased a lot, and all of this has been paid attention to by the members of the Tianyan who are watching the ground, and the news has been sent to the hands of Zhang Chao, the first emperor of the heavens.

At this moment, Zhang Chao was indeed not in a hurry, as if he had long known what was about to happen, after hearing this, he did not have the slightest anxiety, but said to the head of the guard, Xu Chu: "Zhongkang, are you going to the Weapons Academy today?" ”

"Back to the emperor, exactly." Xu Chu clenched his fists and stood aside.

"Okay, let's go to the Weapons Academy." Zhang Chao said with a plain forehead. He really won't look at the news about other forces.

This time, Zhang Chao came to the Weapons Academy to test the scientific research results here.

No one will know that most of the money saved in the form of money stickers was used by Zhang Chao here, compared to the lively conscription scene seen outside, it was more of a fool's own.

Zhang Chao knows the power of more soldiers, but he knows the disadvantages of doing so. First of all, the daily expenses required to feed a large number of troops are unimaginably enormous, and even the military alone will consume nearly half of the revenue from the treasury.

This is still the proportion of the Celestial Empire, this is because they value commerce and have high taxes, especially now after trading with the whole country of Rus, after a large number of opium 0 pieces are transported to foreign lands, the benefits related to life are all counted (after making friends with the Rus State again, relying on the five-year commercial non-tax policy, Zhang Chao will send a large number of opium 0 pieces to Zhang Qiang every month to sell to the Russ State, even if it is not enough to describe his effect by earning 10,000 gold a day), but even so, military expenditure is still a huge expense.

Even the mercantile Celestial Empire was so financially tight, not to mention the Han Dynasty and the Wei Dynasty, which were far inferior to them in terms of revenue. Although I haven't calculated it, I can roughly think that the proportion of their military spending will only be larger, and I am afraid that they will have half of the expenditure.

If a large army is being levied, the pressure is far from imaginable.

Seeing this clearly, Zhang Chao will not expand the scope of conscription in the short term, at least not until there is not enough economic foundation.

There was no large-scale conscription, but Zhang Chao, who was just pretending, used the money he got from the stickers to build roads and water conservancy, which can benefit future generations. Of course, more of it is used in weapons research.

Zhang Chao believed that having advanced weapons was equivalent to having an incomparably powerful army, and that he saw it far more clearly than the people at that time when science and technology drove productive forces and social development.

It is precisely because of this understanding that the research funds of the Weapons Academy have been greatly increased, and with Zhang Chao's ideas, they finally began to study the black-coated cannon.

Yes, the black-coated cannon is similar to the kind of artillery in modern times, and to put it bluntly, it is a further use of gunpowder.

The simplest way to use gunpowder is on firecrackers, and then it can be extended step by step. It was only because there was no powerful forging technology at that time that the function of gunpowder could not be fully developed, but Zhang Chao, who came from later generations, was indeed completely different, as a general in the modern battlefield, he had a better understanding of the use of gunpowder. The black-clothed cannon in front of him was developed according to his ideas.

To be precise, there is no research yet, and there are still many technologies that need to be cracked. It's just that when Zhang Chao saw the prototype of the first black-clothed cannon, he couldn't help but have a bright light in his eyes, and at this moment, he seemed to have returned to the original battlefield full of modern weapons and warfare.

"yes, that's pretty much it." After seeing the first black-clothed cannon that was made, Zhang Chao couldn't help but say in admiration. He first praised the security personnel, and then elaborated on all the extremely specific details, so that the contemporary weapons scientists who were standing aside and looking at Zhang Chao with a look of admiration nodded one by one.