Buy deer to make Chu?

As soon as Xiong Zhen heard this, he immediately remembered that there was indeed such a thing.

Zixi said again: "In the past, Guan Zhong said: If there are many things, they are cheap, and if they are few, they are expensive; If it is expensive, it will be scattered, and if it is light, it will be gathered. ”

"In the past, Qi Huan used the policy of managing Zhong, and the country of surrendering people without a fight, Chu, Lu, Liang, Hengshan and other countries were deeply affected by it, and the king had to guard against it."

Back then, Qi launched a trade war against a number of countries.

He designated the target of the trade war against Lu as "Xuan".

The textiles of this era were generally woven with silk, linen or cotton thread, but silk was a blended product woven with silk thread as warp and cotton thread as weft.

It can be said that the silk is a kind of high-quality and inexpensive item, which is widely loved by ordinary Li Shu.

Guan Zhong's approach was to first let Qi Huan Gong wear clothes made of silk, and then go up and down, and the entire Qi State Secretary and doctor gradually began to wear silk clothes.

As a result, the price of the originally low-priced silk in Qi rose sharply.

When this craze formed, Guan Zhong revealed to the merchants of Lu State and Liang State near Lu State that Qi State wanted to buy a large number of silk, which was not only large in quantity, but also very profitable.

As a result of this kind of thing, Li Shu of Lu and Liang invested money and energy to produce silk.

For this reason, many farmers have given up producing food.

When Lu Guo and Liang Guo almost all invested in the silk production industry, Guan Zhong began to exert his strength.

He first persuaded Qi Huan Gong to change to wear silk clothes, which lowered the popularity of Qi Guo's silk clothes, causing the market price of silk to collapse.

Then, Guan Zhong asked Qi Huan Gong to close the trade routes with Liang and Lu, so that the original price of the silk quickly became a "waste product" that could not be sold.

At this time, the grain planting area of Lu and Liang had been greatly reduced.

In this way, what to do if the people of the two countries do not have enough food, they have to go to Qi to spend a lot of money to buy food.

But Guan Zhong thought of another trick and raised the price of grain dozens or even hundreds of times.

Only two years later, more than half of the people of Lu and Liang went to Qi because they could not afford to buy food.

In this way, Guan Zhong achieved the surrender of the country without a fight in the form of a trade war.

The result of this trade war was to immediately make the Lu and Liang states submit to the Qi state.

Of course, Guan Zhong's trade war application is not limited to this.

The same victory experience of the "Silk War" was also applied by Guan Zhong to the State of Dai and the State of Chu.

Since Daiguo's specialty is fox fur, when Guan Zhong launched a trade war against Daiguo, the item he chose was Daiguo's specialty fox fur.

The process of starting a trade war is almost the same as that of Lu.

First of all, he went to Daiguo to vigorously buy fox skins, and the price of fox skins was speculated, so that the people of Daiguo went to the deep mountains and old forests to catch foxes and waste food production.

When the time was ripe, Guan Zhong asked Qi Huan Gong to stop the purchase of fox skins.

As a result, the economy of the country fell into an embarrassment, and there was also a great food crisis.

When the Lizhi State in the north attacked the Dai State, the Dai State, which was unable to resist, simply threw itself into the Qi State and gave in to the Qi State.

With such a lesson from the past, how could the monarchs and ministers of the Chu State not take this as a warning?

Xiong Zhen's face suddenly sank, and he immediately said, "The widow will issue an edict immediately." ”

"It is strictly forbidden for Wu Guoshang Jia to enter Chu!"

"No!"

Zixi hurriedly said: "King, if it is strictly forbidden for Wu State merchants to enter Chu, this move is not to annoy Wu Wang Qingji, make him famous, and send troops to attack my Chu State!" ”

At this time, the army of Chu was on the way to attack Zheng State, and then provoked Wu State and gave Wu State an excuse to send troops, wouldn't it be a death?

"Zuo disciple, what do you do?"

Xiong Zhen asked puzzled.

"Great King, Wu Guo can't be easily provoked now. In the opinion of the ministers, it is strictly forbidden for the countrymen to sell leather goods, grain and rice, as well as all kinds of copper and iron weapons to the merchants of Wu State! Violators are guilty and will be severely punished! ”

"Good!"

Xiong Zhen bowed slightly, thinking that Zixi was reasonable.

……

When Qingji, who was far away in Jinling, heard the kind of ban issued by the Chu State, he just laughed it off.

Why did Qingji dare to openly let the merchants of Wu State go to various parts of Chu State to buy a large number of grain, rice, leather goods, and all kinds of copper and iron weapons?

First, the main army of Chu was attacking Zheng State, and it was afraid that Wu State would take the opportunity to attack Chu.

It can be said that Qingji has grasped the weakness of the Chu State.

Second, Qingji knows that the hustle and bustle of the world is for profit, and the hustle and bustle of the world is for profit.

Human greed is often endless.

With 100% profits, ordinary people can trample on the law and risk their lives to commit crimes!

Third, the feudal monarchs of Chu are everywhere, and many feudal monarchs basically disobey the orders of the king of Chu.

The purchase of grain, rice, and leather goods at such a high price, as well as all kinds of copper and iron weapons, was actually of great benefit to the feudal monarch of Chu State.

Even, many feudal lords also connived at Li Shu in their fiefdoms to build furnaces and forge more copper and iron weapons for sale to the merchants of Wu, so as to make a lot of money.

With the current financial resources of the State of Wu, it is not difficult to win this trade war against the State of Chu.

Qingji has already made people hoard a large amount of grain, and is ready to raise the price of grain when there is a great famine in Chu State.

Price gouging.

At that time, how much property the Chu people eat, not only must they spit it out, but they will also give it to Wu with interest.

This kind of benefit, it may be several times, it may be more than ten times!

……

Jinling City of Wu State.

In the Zide Palace, Qingji summoned Shi Fan Li, Wei Wei Wu Zixu and Sima Sun Wu to meet him.

The three of them are all Qingji's confidants, and they have the talent to go through the heavens and the earth, and they have made a lot of immortal contributions to the Wu country.

At this time, Qingji retreated left and right, and placed a huge sheepskin map on the floor under His Majesty's platform.

The map depicts the various cities and lands of the Chinese countries, as well as the mountains, rivers and rivers, and some of them are almost even sheep intestine paths, and some unknown passages are marked.

This is a map drawn by Qingji that made the Black Ice Terrace spend many years traveling all over the world.

It's very detailed.

"The second and third sons, the widow wants to send troops to attack Chu in the spring of next year, I don't know if the second and third sons think it is feasible?"

Qingji said slowly.

"This ......"

Fan Li, Sun Wu and Wu Zixu were more or less surprised.

is good, why does Qingji plan to send troops to attack Chu?

Sun Wu pondered for a moment, and then asked, "I don't know if the king wants to be weak?" Extinguish Chuye? ”

This question is crucial.

If it is only weak Chu, Wu only needs to dispatch tens of thousands of soldiers and horses to encroach on a few cities of Chu and make a small fight.

However, if Chu is destroyed, without an army of more than 100,000 people, it will definitely not be possible!

Qing Ji smiled indifferently and said: "The meaning of the widow is neither weak nor annihilated, it is for 'dividing Chu'!" ”

"Divided?"

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