After returning from the boat tour of the lake that day, Zhou Yu reported Zhuge Liang's intention and the price offered by the imperial court to the lord Sun Jian.

Although Sun Jian has a strong temperament, he is not unscrupulous, and compared to his son Sun Quan, he still has feelings for the Han family. Although he now actually controls the land of Yizhou, he has always been easy to disobey the orders of the imperial court, so after listening to Zhou Yu's report, he has made his own decision in his heart.

Although he had made up his mind, Sun Jian routinely gathered his warriors together to discuss how to cooperate with the imperial court and once again confront Zhao Xing of the Jin state.

After everyone was seated, Sun Jian informed everyone of the current situation and the imperial court's intention to attack Zhao Xing through the matter of snowflake salt, and then asked for everyone's opinions.

Han Dang, who was born as a military general, was the first to stand up and speak: "It is understandable to respond to the call of the imperial court, but this time Wuzhou will easily not send troops to the north, and only need to provide grain and grass support to the imperial court and several states in the Central Plains." Dongwu Erlang is good at water warfare, if he goes to the vast and sparsely populated north to fight against the iron cavalry of the Jin Kingdom, wouldn't he use his own shortcomings to attack his strengths? The year before last, the matter of the princes of the Thirteen Roads jointly fighting Zhao is still in front of him, and I hope that the lord will think twice!"

Han Dang's words represent the voices of the vast majority of military generals who have suffered losses in Bingzhou, not because they are afraid of death and war, but because they feel that their own shortcomings and attacking the enemy's strengths are too child's play. Instead of being sent to the door to be ravaged by the Jin army again, it is better to honestly defend the feng shui treasure of Wuzhou and watch others fight to the death.

The elder Zhang Zhao disagreed with Han Dang's opinion, and retorted: "Since the imperial court has sent a special envoy to come, if we disobey the yang and the yin, it is just a move to cover our ears and steal the bell, and I am afraid it will be difficult to pass the test." ”

The strategist Zhang Hong also said: "Although Wuzhou is located in the southeast, separated from the Jin State by thousands of mountains and rivers, it is safe for a while, but if you sit back and watch its expansion and expansion, it will one day affect this place." Therefore, I thought that I should not only vigorously support the imperial court, but also mobilize heavy troops to go north!"

Seeing that the civil and military factions had different opinions, Sun Jian was not in a hurry to express his attitude, so he turned his head and asked Lu Su, who had been an envoy to the Jin Kingdom twice, and said: "Zijing has sent two envoys to the Jin Kingdom on behalf of me, and he has had several encounters with Zhao Xing, and he is also familiar with the current situation of the Jin Kingdom, so I don't know how he feels about this matter?"

Lu Su pondered for a moment, got up and replied: "The opinions of General Han and Mr. Zibu (Zhang Zhaozi) and Mr. Zigang (Zhang Hongzi) are all considered by Wuzhou, and there is no distinction between superior and inferior. Now the imperial court and the Jin state are on the same page, and although Wuzhou and the Jin state were dirty before, but after elimination and repair, they are gradually improving, so Zhao Xing agreed to teach the production process of some novelty goods at the trade fair to Wuzhou craftsmen. Therefore, I think it is not appropriate to refute the face of the imperial envoy, nor to break the relationship that has just been friendly with the Jin State. ”

As soon as Lu Su said this, everyone in the audience was in an uproar. Everyone can say beautiful things, and everyone wants to step on two boats, but you can't solve the actual problem by just saying it with one mouth.

Sun Jian knew that Lu Su had a gentle temperament, but he was not a frivolous and casual person, since Lu Su dared to say this in public, he must have a plan in his heart to have the best of both worlds, so he coughed twice and motioned for everyone to be quiet and listen to Lu Su's next words.

After everyone returned to calm, Lu Su continued: "Su Bucai, he knows a thing or two about doing business, and he can secretly offer advice to the imperial court, which can make the imperial court not move his troops, and can also offset the impact of this snowflake salt incident. After Lu Su said this, he kept silent, which made everyone who had just heard a little taste very annoyed, but there was nothing they could do. Lu Su said clearly, if you want to make a secret suggestion, you can't let everyone hear it, otherwise the plan will fail.

Zhou Yu, who had always been good friends with Lu Su, opened his mouth and said: "What Zijing means is that if you secretly give advice to the imperial court, you can be worth sending tens of thousands of troops to Wuzhou?

Lu Su nodded and replied, "That's right." ”

As soon as Sun Jian heard Lu Su's words, he was immediately overjoyed, and immediately dispersed everyone, leaving only Lu Su and Zhou Yu present, and then ordered someone to invite Zhuge Liang to come and discuss major matters.

Zhuge Liang, who had been staying in the pavilion, saw the person sent by Sun Jian to deliver the message, so he entered the state pastor's mansion with the person who came, wanting to hear what Sun Jian thought.

After everyone met, Sun Jian introduced Lu Su to Zhuge Liang, and then handed over the right to speak to Lu Su.

Lu Su was not hypocritical, and said to Zhuge Liang generously: "Mr. Kong Ming is here to unite Wuzhou to fight against Zhao Xing of the Jin State. ”

When Zhuge Liang heard Lu Su's words, he was also shocked in his heart. He secretly thought that he had already thought about the strategies that could deal with Zhao Xing, and there were even more powerful people than himself, who could be tens of thousands lower than the army with just one strategy. Zhuge Liang didn't know whether Lu Su's words were true or false, but he still said without hesitation: "Brother Zijing might as well make it clear that if it is true as Jun Zhi said, he can take back many benefits from the Jin State without using troops, and naturally Wuzhou has made great efforts for the imperial court, and the original conditions will not change." ”

Lu Su nodded, and then said: "The people in the court only know that the Sihai Trade Warehouse is the minions sent by the Jin State to the states to earn money, but they don't see that what really affects the commercial development of the Jin State is the 'Agriculture, Soldiers, Merchants and Gold Stores'. The Jin State issued paper money instead of real money and silver to circulate in the market, which implied many mysteries. If there are only two million taels of silver in the territory of the Jin Kingdom, and the 'Peasants, Soldiers, Merchants and Gold Firm' prints five million taels of banknotes in order to help the merchants of the Jin Kingdom loot wealth from all over the world, the final result is that the merchants and people of all states in the world hold the paper money printed by the Jin State in their hands, and Zhao Xing uses the real money and silver exchanged for it in the internal affairs of the Jin Kingdom, the Liang Kingdom and Youzhou. ”

With the deepening of Lu Su's words, everyone vaguely heard the problem of the Jin Kingdom's "peasant, soldier, merchant and gold bank" "absorbing gold" from all over the world, so they looked at Lu Su one after another, and waited for him to continue to analyze.

Lu Su continued: "After the peasants and soldiers have been operating like this for a period of time, they will inevitably consume the wealth of the world into the Jin Kingdom, resulting in the incomparable exchange between paper money and actual wealth, which means that the real money and silver reserves of the peasants, soldiers and merchants will have a huge secret deficit. At that time, if someone gathers a large amount of paper money and exchanges it for gold and silver at the Farmer's Merchant Gold Bank, how will the Jin Kingdom respond?"

Without waiting for everyone to answer, Lu Su said: "As long as all the states and imperial courts in the world mobilize one to two percent of the idle gold and silver in the treasury, secretly replace a large number of peasant, soldier, merchant and gold banknotes from the hands of the people, and then suddenly ask the Jin State to exchange them, how will Zhao Xing deal with it? The real money and silver that the merchants of the Jin State have absorbed from all over the country have already been used by him in the construction of internal affairs, and I am afraid that even if he has his hands and eyes to the sky, he can only watch the credibility of the peasant and soldier merchant gold bank lose completely!"

When several people heard this, they immediately gasped in their hearts. It's no wonder that Kong Ming was smart, he couldn't see the problem of "deposit reserves", but he was really a scholar of that era, all of them were high-minded, and they regarded people in business as lowly and lowly people, so they didn't pay much attention to the financial methods that the Jin Kingdom was keen on, so that they couldn't see the key.

The reason why Lu Su was able to discover the huge trap implied by the "Peasant and Soldier Merchants and Gold Bank" was mainly related to the fact that his family was wealthy, familiar with business, and he had been to the Jin Kingdom several times and made secret observations. I have to say that although Zhao Xing moved some financial means in later generations to the Han Dynasty, there are still people who understand the essence through the phenomenon.

There is a fundamental difference between gold and silver circulating as money, while paper money is the currency symbol of gold and silver. Once the issuer of paper money issues money indiscriminately, the direct result is the depreciation of paper money, and then the bankruptcy and collapse of the country or government that issued the paper money.

If there is a large-scale run storm in the territory of the Jin Kingdom, and the "Peasants, Soldiers, Merchants and Gold Bank" cannot come up with a huge amount of real money and silver in time, it means that Zhao Xing's reputation will go bankrupt, and once the paper money guaranteed by Zhao Xing's reputation becomes waste paper, then the prestige and popular will collapse in an instant!

Lu Su's plan to draw wages from the bottom of the kettle really stabbed Zhao Xing's heart with a knife.