This era, after all, is the era of small-scale peasant economy, although Liu Ba has a certain concept of economics, but in practice, the means that can be used are still those ones.

In addition, Liu Ba is also the first time to operate this kind of economic warfare, and he is not sure, so the method he adopts is actually quite simple and crude.

In the early stage, Liu Ba consciously poured a large amount of five baht money into Guanzhong to "smuggle" and purchase grain and other materials in Guanzhong, and at this time, Liu Ba deliberately exported a large number of Shu brocade, and exchanged all the five baht coins in Shu with Shu brocade.

With this entry and exit, Liu Ba successfully caused the lack of five baht coins in Shuzhong in Guanzhong, artificially creating some price fluctuations.

There is less money on the market, and Cao Wei's five-baht money cannot be exchanged for the Shu brocade, salt, paper and other things that the family needs.

Even at this time, some families began to re-smelt Cao Wei's five-baht coins privately, and privately made five-baht coins according to the standard of five-baht coins in Shuzhong.

It's true that this is a crime that will cost you your head, but this is the family of this era, and there are few things they dare not do.

At this critical moment, Liu Ba also knew that this economic warfare experiment was about to enter the final stage, and he would definitely not be at ease if he did not come to Hanzhong to preside over it in person.

When Liu Ba arrived in Hanzhong and began to preside over the collection of the economic war in the Guanzhong region, he inevitably had to discuss it with Zhuge Liang.

As for Zhuge Liang, he knew that Zhang Xi had a lot of ideas, so he also dragged Zhang Xi to participate in the discussion with Liu Ba.

In this way, during the day, Zhuge Liang and Zhang Xi had to discuss the formulation of the Northern Expedition strategy with Pang Tong, Fa Zheng, and Huang Quan, and at night they had to discuss the collection of economic warfare with Liu Ba. It's busy.

There is no need to ask about the strategy of the Northern Expedition, which itself involves all aspects of the matter, and everyone is not so much arguing as reading all kinds of information, broadening each other's ideas, and formulating a reasonable and prudent strategy together.

And economic warfare, Zhang Xi originally thought it would be simpler. After all, a lot of things were done by Liu Ba in the early stage, and now it's nothing more than closing the net, how difficult can it be?!

But in fact, it wasn't until Zhang Xi really participated in the discussion between Zhuge Liang and Liu Ba that Zhang Xi found out. This economic war seems to be different from what I thought.

Zhang Xi thought that the economic war was a simple economic problem, using his own money advantage, crazy money to converge the wealth of Guanzhong, and causing inflation in Guanzhong, but what Zhang Xi thought seemed to be a little too simple.

Zhuge Liang and Liu Ba are not only discussing economic issues, or these two people actually don't attach too much importance to economic issues, they pay more attention to the people's livelihood, politics, military and other aspects of Guanzhong caused by economic problems.

In these years, the small-scale peasant economy is very fragile, and once a link goes wrong, a lot of social problems will be derived, and these social problems will inevitably affect people's livelihood, politics, military and other aspects in the end.

Not to mention anything else, Liu Ba took the opportunity of arranging economic warfare to open the way with five baht money in Shuzhong, and established a large network of relations in Guanzhong, and once the Northern Expedition occurred, these networks would immediately become useful intelligence networks.

Zhuge Liang had a lot of information on hand, in fact, Liu Ba passed it on through this network.

Coupled with the current Guanzhong region, Cao Wei's main strategy is to focus on military affairs.

After all, Liu Bei had already occupied Longshan Road, and Guanzhong was facing a real threat, and if it was not mainly military, it would be impossible to block the attack that Liu Bei might launch at any time.

Originally, the Guanzhong region was located in the hinterland, with Yongzhou, Liangzhou and Qinling in front of it, so there was no need to worry about war.

At that time, Chang'an also had capable officials such as Zhong Xuan, Zhang Ji, and Wen Hui, who could help Guanzhong restore production and develop people's livelihood, and from the perspective of these people, Liu Ba wanted to start an economic war by smuggling, I am afraid it would not be so easy.

But in the past two years, the main general of Guanzhong was either Cao Ren or Cao Zhen, Wen Hui had already died of illness, Zhong Miao was transferred to Yecheng by Cao Pi, and Zhang Ji was also transferred by Cao Pi to preside over Yanzhou's war preparations. Can you expect Cao Ren or Cao Zhen to have the mind and ability to develop people's livelihood?!

That is, Liu Ba's time in Guanzhong is too short, if Liu Ba is given another year, it is impossible to say that Liu Ba can instigate a rebellion led by the Guanzhong family in Guanzhong.

But even so, Zhuge Liang was already very satisfied.

In the view of Zhuge Liang and Liu Ba, as long as the political or military goals can be achieved, then economic warfare must be carried out even if it is a loss.

What's more, Liu Ba's entry and exit, which is almost equivalent to exchanging Shu brocade for military rations, even if he loses a little, he will not lose too much.

Not to mention that there is still so much intelligence and the intelligence network that has been established, which cannot be exchanged for thousands of dollars.

Zhuge Liang was quite satisfied, and when he discussed the end with Liu Ba, he asked Liu Ba to pay attention to protecting these intelligence networks in Guanzhong, God knows what the results of this Northern Expedition will be, these intelligence networks will be of great use in the future.

Therefore, Zhuge Liang can be said to have praised Liu Ba, and at the same time asked Liu Ba to pay attention to various information in Meixian County, Wugong County and other places, as well as whether it is possible to plot against the guards and families of Meixian County.

When Zhuge Liang asked Liu Ba this question, Zhang Xi was a little dumbfounded. Didn't you say that "Zhuge Liang is only cautious in his life"?!

If Pang Tong asks this, then Zhang Xi can still understand it, after all, Pang Tong is thinking about his strange plan, and the biggest problem is that he is stuck in conquering Meixian.

If Meixian County can't be conquered in a short period of time, then all of Pang Tong's plans will have to be wasted.

But if you can turn against the Meixian guards and the family, then Pang Tong's plan is only one obstacle left to overcome Chen Cangdao.

And Xiahou Nan, the guard of Chen Cangdao, will probably turn this obstacle into no longer an obstacle.

Therefore, if Pang Tong came to ask Liu Ba this, Zhang Xi felt that it was understandable. Why Zhuge Liang?!

Haven't you, Zhuge fish head, always opposed to the use of strange tricks?!

In fact, on the question of whether he can rebel against the guards of Meixian County, Zhang Xi has long wanted to ask.

But considering Zhuge Liang's presence, this dead fish head is a well-known cautious and cautious in history, Zhang Xi was worried that when he asked like this, Zhuge Liang directly objected, and Zhang Xi was not very good at ignoring Zhuge Liang's face, so Zhang Xi planned to ask Liu Ba for advice in private for a while.

But I didn't expect Zhuge Liang to take the initiative to ask, which made Zhang Xi a little incomprehensible.

What made Zhang Xi even more incomprehensible was that after Zhuge Liang asked Liu Ba what he said, he turned his head and comforted Zhang Xi with a smile, saying what he said, "Yuan Chang, don't be impatient, listen to the words of the first brother and make a decision." ”

It sounds awkward to that - it fits your meaning. Are you afraid that I will object?!

Actually, Zhuge Liang really means this.

Zhang Xi is sometimes influenced by some inherent concepts of later generations, and the biggest disaster area is Zhuge Liang.

Zhuge Liang in history, he was only cautious in his life, that was because he fought Kyushu with one state, and he couldn't afford to lose at all, so he had to be cautious.

And even so, Zhuge Liang in history is not without that kind of whimsical use of troops, especially in the battle of Lucheng with Sima Yi, Zhuge Liang's use of troops is simply magical.

Not only did he use the elusive soldier to let Sima Yi be completely led by the nose and won the victory of "The First Three Thousand", but later when he retired from the army, he also solved a Zhang He by the way, leaving the famous stalk "an arrow in the knee"!

In this battle, Zhuge Liang did not have the so-called "cautious and cautious" style at all.

The current Zhuge Liang is not to the point where he can't afford to lose.

Dahan has the four states of Jing, Yi, Yong, and Liang, and he can also directly enter the military pass, and peek into the Central Plains, why can't he afford to lose? !

On the contrary, in Zhuge Liang's heart, Zhang Xi is the real "cautious" style.

In Zhuge Liang's opinion, Zhang Xi is good at everything, he can be literate and martial, and he has a lot of ghost ideas, but he is too cautious in using soldiers, which sometimes leads to missed opportunities.

In the last Northern Expedition, if Zhang Xi's advance could be decisive and occupy the east bank of the Wei River, then even if Liu Bei chose to withdraw in the end, the east bank of Weishui had to be caught, but the Sanguan of Longshan Road may be in the hands of his own family, and it will not be like now, as soon as he gets out of Longshan Road, he will face the obstruction of Xiongguan.

And this time, when formulating the strategy, Pang Tong's strategy can't be said to be bad, but the risk is too big and a little unsafe, but if the two problems of Chen Cangdao and Meixian can be solved, this strategy is a strategy that can be decided in a war.

Zhuge Liang objected, just because Pang Tong's strategy was not complete. But Zhuge Liang really thought that with Zhang Xi's cautious and cautious character, he really felt that this strategy was too risky, so he resolutely opposed it.

That's why Zhuge Liang asked Zhang Xi not to be in a hurry after asking Liu Ba, and first heard if there was any possibility of rebellion.

If there is, Zhuge Liang will have a good talk with Zhang Xi, so that Zhang Xi does not want to seek stability in everything, although there is no big mistake, but he will also miss the opportunity.

If not, then if Zhuge Liang didn't ask, continue to make a strategy together according to the original plan.

And Liu Ba hesitated a little and nodded.

The rest, then don't ask.

didn't wait for Zhuge Liang to persuade Zhang Xi, Zhang Xi directly called his entourage and asked the entourage to hurry up and invite Huang Quan, Fa Zheng, and Pang Tong.

The strategic plan of the Northern Expedition has to be revised again!!

Zhuge Liang was also slightly stunned, then smiled bitterly and stopped speaking.

Although Zhang Xi was a little anxious, it was already dark now, maybe the three of them had already fallen asleep, since Zhang Xi took the initiative to accept the feasibility of this strategy, it would save him the trouble of talking.

That's a good thing, too.

(End of chapter)