Listening to Yan Xing's words, Han Sui shook his head again and again.

Although the current situation is indeed very dangerous, the possibility of asking Guo Peng for help is too low.

"Guo Zifeng is ready to be a minister in power, he doesn't want to fight, half of the soldiers of the three auxiliaries are drawn to him, that is in defense, not aggressive, Guo Zifeng will not rashly move troops because of this matter, Ma Teng is the Liangzhou assassin he sealed, he is not facing Ma Teng, is he facing me?"

"Then you can't sit still, it's better to fight for it than to sit and wait for death, right?"

"That's what I said, but how to win Guo Zifeng?"

"False accusation!"

Yan Xing said: "Let's send someone to Chang'an to falsely accuse Ma Teng to Cao Zixiao, Cao Zixiao is the governor of Guanzhong appointed by Guo Zifeng, let's say that Ma Teng often criticizes Guo Zifeng in Liangzhou, saying that Guo Zifeng hijacks the young lord and blackmails the Son of Heaven to order the princes."

Ma Teng often said that what Guo Zifeng is doing now is what Dong Zhuo used to do, Guo Zifeng and Dong Zhuo are no different, they are Dong Zhuo's second! Let's frame Ma Teng like this, Cao Zixiao will definitely be furious, and he will definitely send troops to fight against Ma Teng. ”

"Is this okay?"

Han Sui looked suspicious: "Although Guo Zifeng is not here, Cao Zixiao is a person that Guo Zifeng trusts very much, will the person Guo Zifeng trust believe in such a simple divisive plan?" ”

"Do it first and then say, no, think of another way, right now, we have no way out, we must send someone to Chang'an to fight for it, it's a big deal to make some money, and then cut some land, Cao Zixiao can still mobilize the 30,000 soldiers around Chang'an Sanfu, that is our only hope."

Yan Xing couldn't think of a better way, so he could only use a dead horse as a live horse doctor, and after fighting for it casually, he said: "If they are willing to send troops, we still have the strength to fight, and we will help them, Guo Zifeng will not kill people, Ma Shoucheng and Ma Mengqi want the lives of you and my son-in-law!" ”

Han Sui felt very reasonable when he heard it, of course, he had no choice but to do this, and he was all dying.

So Han Sui decisively sent his cronies Cheng Gongying.

He asked Cheng Gongying to bring his own handwritten letter to Chang'an to find Cao Ren, and reported to Cao Ren that Ma Teng "criticized Guo Peng's plot against him".

He wanted to ask Cao Ren to recognize Ma Teng's reactionary nature and send troops to exterminate Ma Teng, so that Ma Teng would not become bigger and seize Liangzhou to resist Guo Peng, it would be too late.

In exchange for Cao Ren's troops, he also promised Cao Ren war horses and gold, and promised that after the troops were completed, he would cede Beidi County and Wudu County to Guo Peng as a reward.

Cheng Gongying was Han Sui's confidant, very loyal to Han Sui, and after receiving Han Sui's order, he immediately ignored his own danger and secretly took the path to enter Guanzhong and ran towards Chang'an City.

Chang'an City is now Cao Ren's territory, and Cao Ren is conscientiously and carefully carrying out Guo Peng's orders in Chang'an City.

Cao Ren is very busy, really busy, he not only has political and military tasks to be responsible for in Chang'an, but also has a very important task, which is to collect Dong Zhuo's small money and send it back to Yecheng.

After Guo Peng pacified the land of Guanxi, he ordered Cao Ren to stay in Guanzhong, and at the same time, he ordered Cao Ren to collect the small coins minted by Dong Zhuo left in various parts of Guanzhong and send them back to Yecheng.

After these Dong Zhuo coins were sent back to Yecheng, they were recast into standard five-baht coins to stabilize the economy of the Kansai region and restore economic order.

The five-baht coin is a legendary currency in Chinese history, starting from the minting of the five-baht coin by Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty until the abolition of the five-baht coin in the Tang Dynasty, the lifespan of the five-baht coin has lasted for more than 700 years, and it is the most successful and long-lived currency in Chinese history.

Before the Yellow Turban Rebellion, the economy of the Eastern Han Dynasty had always been relatively stable, and the circulation of five-baht coins was relatively prosperous and smooth.

This situation was broken after the Yellow Turban Rebellion, and after Dong Zhuo entered Beijing, the economic situation in Kansai was completely collapsed.

Originally, it was not a strange thing that war would cause economic recession, but it was really rare for Dong Zhuo to completely destroy the economy of Guanzhong, which was very prosperous in the Han Dynasty.

This is not the credit of Dong Zhuo alone, the princes' alliance to fight against Dong, especially the attack of Guo Peng and Sun Jian is also an important thrust to add fuel to the fire.

Dong Zhuo was beaten by them and had no choice but to move the capital, but moving the capital cost a lot of money and required a lot of money, and the first way Dong Zhuo thought of was not to mint money, but to rob.

On the day of moving the capital, Dong Zhuo first charged the rich people in the city of Luoyang, robbed the property, and ordered his subordinates to burn all the palaces, government offices and private houses within 200 miles of Luoyang, and also ordered Lu Bu to lead his troops to dig graves and collect treasures, from the imperial tomb to the tombs of ordinary officials.

Under such a catastrophe, the court and the people lost all the necessities of life, and after the wave of looting passed, life problems followed.

People always have to solve the problem of food, clothing, housing and transportation, and it will not work if they don't solve it, no matter how rigid Dong Zhuo is, he will also face such a problem.

In desperation, Dong Zhuo had to order the minting of coins, so that he could go to various places to purchase daily necessities to solve the living problems of the military and civilians in Xindu.

So Dong Zhuo looted copper in Chang'an, and for this reason, he also destroyed the "Twelve Golden Figures" cast by Qin Shi Huang, and also destroyed the original good five-baht coin, which was used as a raw material to mint money.

The money he minted was Dong Zhuo's small money, which had no outline or ornamentation, and was extremely light, with no weight of five baht at all, and the amount was very large, presumably as much as seven or eight billion.

He thought the more money the better.

Originally, Guanzhong lacked living materials at that time, Dong Zhuo did not understand the economy, did not have any economic common sense, and did not know the relationship between money and goods, so he put a large amount of small money into the market.

He thought that this would be fine, the money would appear, and the problem would be solved.

Then, the circulation of Dong Zhuo's small money almost immediately triggered a very serious hyperinflation in the market.

The speed of inflation is extremely terrifying, but Dong Zhuo doesn't care, he has accumulated a large amount of materials that are enough to live for 30 years and hoarded them in Hewu, and he is chic and happy, regardless of people's lives and deaths.

After Dong Zhuo died, Li Dao and Guo Yan took power, causing even more terrible chaos, and hyperinflation reached the extreme.

According to the information collected by Guo Peng, the price of Yihu Valley around Chang'an rose to as much as 50,000 yuan at that time.

At the same time, in Guo Peng's base camp of Qingyan Erzhou, a large amount of grain and materials have been accumulated because of the Tuntian policy, and Guo Peng has confidence.

Therefore, after killing Lu Bu, Guo Peng set up grain stores, cloth shops, and salt shops in his own jurisdiction to assist in restoring the minting and circulation of standard five-baht coins, and slowly restore the destroyed commodity economy.

At that time, the grain he ruled under his rule was only ten yuan.

Ten to fifty thousand, this figure may be exaggerated, but it can give a glimpse of how terrifying the inflation in Guanzhong was at that time.

It's basically the level of waste.

Therefore, after the Hongnong court stabilized, the Kansai region at that time had completely stopped accepting the circulation of Dong Zhuo's small money, and everyone agreed to give up the currency, and the whole directly degraded back to the primitive era of barter.

The Liangzhou Group was stunned to return the prosperous money, goods and commodity economy in the Kansai region during the Han Dynasty to the primitive era of barter.

vertex