The general's money won an economic victory, and after that, in Jizhou, the general's money was used not only to buy salt and Shu brocade, but also to buy goods sold in any market.

Merchants of all sizes have a much greater level of trust in military money than in other locally minted currencies.

The value of the general's coins was stable and not fluctuating, and he could buy the most important commodity, salt, so the merchants in Jizhou soon followed the old path in the area west of Luoyang.

They habitually linked the value of the general's money to the value of the goods, stipulating how much general's money could be used to buy some daily commodities.

The currency trade system established on the basis of the general's money gradually took shape in Jizhou.

In this way, it is also very advantageous for the commodity economy, because ordinary people can buy a certain amount of goods with a certain amount of military money for a long time.

In the case of privately minted currency elsewhere, it will have to change according to the exchange ratio of privately minted currency to military money, which changes frequently in the market.

It may be that this kind of private coinage is more valuable today, but tomorrow there will be a scandal, saying that this kind of private coinage actually does not contain enough copper, only the first batch is considered good money, and the others are scrap, so the value of this private currency immediately plummeted.

This kind of thing is not uncommon in recent years.

It can be purchased directly with military money, and it is necessary to pay attention to specific changes when using private currency, and the time cost during this period also invisibly pushes up people's transaction costs.

The things that originally hindered the development of the monetary economy were solved by Liu Bei with the general's money, and on this basis, the general's money ushered in a brilliant victory.

At the time when Manzhong proposed to Liu Bei to fully recover the right to mint money, the general's money also completed the full circulation in Jizhou, and the ten counties of Jizhou fully passed the general's money, and all kinds of goods have formed a fixed exchange ratio with the general's money in the market.

In this way, it is not far from the established fact that the local county and county governments and private individuals in Jizhou have lost the right to mint money.

At present, the market that General Qian has not yet conquered, that is, the four states of the Central Plains and Yangzhou and Jingzhou.

But whether it should be said or not, the four states of the Central Plains, Yangzhou and Jingzhou are not completely unaffected by the general's money.

Although commodity trade has been very difficult in these years, it is unrealistic to say that there is no trade between regions at all.

At least, there is no geographical restriction for this kind of thing as Shu brocade, it is produced in Yizhou, but in the entire Han Dynasty and even some surrounding foreign countries, Shu brocade is a well-known ultra-high-quality luxury product.

The people of the Central Plains flock to it, and the people of Yangzhou and Jingzhou cannot escape its charm.

And the full power of its production and sales is in the hands of Liu Bei.

Want?

Take the general's money to buy.

No general money?

I have it, and I'll exchange it for you.

Because many of the positions vacated after the Great Purge of the Literary School and the slave restriction order in the four states of the Central Plains were occupied by Liu Bei's cronies, they also began to implement the circulation of Liangzhou salt to a limited extent.

Moreover, all the counties and counties that were close associates and protégés of Liu Bei's subordinates and encouraged to serve as the chief executive, as long as there was a private coinage department, they all stopped the local private minting of coins in accordance with Liu Bei's requirements, and handed over all technical craftsmen and production tools to Liu Bei.

These places also introduced Liangzhou salt production technology almost synchronously, and the locally produced "Liangzhou fine salt" produced had a violent impact on local salt households, and thus began the large-scale circulation of military money.

In this process, because of its proximity to Yizhou, Jingzhou was affected by the general's money earlier than the four states in the Central Plains, and the upper echelons of Jingzhou accepted the existence of the general's money earlier and began to actively use the general's money in some economic activities.

All in all, in addition to military coercion and political power seizure, Liu Bei also played a combination of punches economically.

Liangzhou Salt, Shu Jin and General Qian, this is his economic tactic, it is his lightning triple whip in the economy, although it is two less whips than the lightning five whips, but the effect may be much better than the lightning five whips.

If you really want to talk about it, the areas where Liu Bei's power is the weakest in the Han Dynasty, and the areas that are least affected by Liu Bei's forces, are Jingzhou and Yangzhou.

Especially Yangzhou, it is because of Jingzhou that he will come into contact with the general's money, so as to have a trace of contact with Liu Bei's forces, and nothing else at all.

Liu Bei did not have a protégé who held positions in Jingzhou and Yangzhou, and only the Gu family and the Lu family had some close relations with Liu Bei because of the existence of Gu Yong and Lu Kang.

But relying on these two families alone is obviously not enough.

Liu Bei's current political power is slowly infiltrating into the four states of the Central Plains, and there is still a lack of influence in Jingzhou and Yangzhou in the south of the Yangtze River, so even if he implements the slave restriction order, he will first attack the four states of the Central Plains, and then attack Jingzhou and Yangzhou when the problems of the four states of the Central Plains are almost dealt with.

The problem raised by Man Pet is a problem that Liu Bei will have to solve sooner or later, but the involvement of this matter is relatively large, and there will be relatively large resistance when Zhengda Guangming raises it, so Liu Bei feels that it is better to directly cause the established facts.

Anyway, under his economic triad, the local forces that can withstand it have not yet been seen.

If you want to fight Liu Bei's economic axe, you can either make a better currency and a more meaningful goods pegg, or engage in counterfeit currency tactics.

It is difficult to have a better currency, Liu Bei's level of currency is already very high-quality, unless pure copper is engaged, but pure copper is too soft, if it is used as currency, the loss rate will be very large, and the Han Empire is not a country with a lot of copper that cannot be used up.

It's also tough to hook up with more meaningful goods.

Salt and Shu brocade, two strategically important national commodities, have been completely controlled by Liu Bei and have been linked to the general's money.

Other strategically important commodities that could still be produced by the Han Empire were not monopolized by the central government, only steel.

But I'm sorry, although Liu Bei didn't announce that steel was linked to the general's money, it was because in all the regions within the radius of the steel system under his control, the general's money had become the only currency.

People in those places not only used military money to buy iron tools, but also used military money to buy other daily necessities such as food and cloth, and other coins were already considered to be inferior currency with no reputation, and were effectively banned from circulation.

And the general's money did not cover the places in the past, and the tax barriers have not been broken, and if the high-quality steel he has is sold in those places, the price will be very high, so Liu Bei did not push his high-quality steel into those high-tariff areas at all.

Once the tax barriers are broken, high-quality and cheap steel will instantly crush the inferior steel in those high-tariff areas, forming an absolute advantage and quickly seizing the market.

The old interest groups will fall apart.

Their inferior steel simply cannot compete with the high-quality steel mastered by Liu Bei, and not only is it inferior, but it also cannot stabilize the supply in sufficient quantities, and the peasants hate this situation, even if they engage in linkage, they will not be able to shake the dominant position of the general's money.

So at present, Liu Bei doesn't think that there are any local forces that can support the new currency to fight against his general's money, give them ten years, they can do one thing, Liu Bei will admit defeat.

So what are you worried about?

Let's prepare for the creation of the current Nakashutai.

(End of chapter)