At the beginning of the night, the dock in Keelung was already brightly lit, and many military and civilian shipwrights were still busy unloading the goods that needed to be loaded and unloaded by the Yizhou fleet. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

On a certain high platform on the dock, Lu Renzheng stood side by side with Zhou Yu, who had just returned from the north, watching the busy dock from a distance. After a long time, Zhou Yu looked sideways at Lu Ren and asked, "Lu Zhengnan, since you intervened in the war, I am afraid that there are only a few money, food and equipment spent before and after, right?" ”

Lu Ren sighed lightly, shook his head a little helplessly, and said, "No way." The country is in trouble, since I have the ability, how can I sit idly by? But seriously, the amount of money I've spent so far isn't a small amount. ”

Zhou Yu took a breath of cool air: "Isn't Lu Zhengnan afraid that acting like this will hurt Yizhou's vitality?" ”

Lu Ren looked at Zhou Yu sideways, but there was a slight mockery on his face: "Gongjin, aren't you testing me?" Want to see if our Yizhou will be exhausted because of this, and give Jiangdong a chance to take advantage of? Then Gongjin, you may be disappointed. Yes, we in Yizhou will use a considerable amount of money, food and materials for this, but ...... All of a sudden, I don't know how to explain it to you. Well, I think Gongjin you must know what it means to 'feed war with war', but you don't necessarily understand what it means to be a 'deficit economy'. ”

"Deficit economy!?"

How can Zhou Yu understand this word? In fact, don't talk about Zhou Yu, Lu Ren himself seems to understand and half-understand. But now Lu Ren can still explain to Zhou Yu to some extent:

"Gongjin, let me explain it to you like this. Since Yizhou opened up its own territory, the development of agriculture and industry has been very rapid, and except for a naval battle with Wu Hou more than ten years ago, there has basically been no real war. There has been no war for 20 years, and the money and grain economy has developed very well, so how much money and grain do you say we have to save in Yizhou? ”

Zhou Yu bowed his head slightly. Zhou Yu can't figure out this account, anyway, there are a lot of things he doesn't know.

Lu Ren continued: "As a prince of a town, it is a good thing to have food in hand, but when there is more food in hand than a certain limit, it may not be a good thing. ”

Zhou Yu was puzzled: "There is a wide range of grain stocks, and the warehouse is overflowing, why is it not necessarily a good thing?" ”

Lu Ren smiled: "Don't you all say that you are full of warm thoughts/***?" Although this is a bit ugly, it is very realistic. What the people need is food, clothing, shelter and transportation, not just to eat enough. When your stomach is full, you want to dress better; After eating and cloning, I want to have a mule and a horse to ride and live in a better house when I go out, and then what will happen, who can say?

"But there is one thing, clothing, housing, and transportation, for the peasants, they have to use the grain they grow to sell it for money, and then use the money to buy it. As we said earlier, more grain is a good thing, but if we talk about too much grain, it will inevitably lead to an excessive decline in food prices. The price of grain is too low, and the peasant people will work hard for a year, even if they have a good harvest, but they will not be able to earn any usable money. ”

How quickly Zhou Yu reacted, he immediately said dumbly: "Listening to Lu Zhengnan's words, he actually wants to use this war to consume the excessive money and grain that Yizhou has accumulated for many years?" ”

Lu Ren laughed: "At the beginning, I didn't have these ideas, and I was worried that if I participated in the war like this, my national strength would decline, but these economic things, I'm afraid that if you talk about these economic things, you will only get more and more confused when you talk about Gong Jin, and I myself only know a little about it, so let's stop here."

"I can only tell you that although we have spent a lot of money, food and materials in Yizhou since we entered the war, we have not lost our financial resources in Yizhou. Let's put it this way, if this war is fought by you Jiangdong, then after the war in the past two years, you will definitely have to forcibly collect money, food, and ordnance from the common people to meet the needs of the war. However, we in Yizhou are buying grain and utensils from the people, so although we have used a lot of money and grain in Yizhou, the people are getting richer and richer. ”

Zhou Yu was slightly shocked: "Buy grain and grass utensils from the people? Are you getting richer and richer? That...... Where does your money come from? ”

Lu Ren smiled again: "It's very simple. The northern border, well, mainly refers to the fact that after several wars in Liaozhou, our army plundered countless cattle, sheep, mules and horses, and countless special products of the grass desert. Except for the necessary military supplies, we all transported the rest back to Yizhou to exchange money and food for the people...... Gong Jin, do you want us to sell some to you Dongwu too? It's a big deal, I'll be cheaper, and I'll make less money and food from your Jiangdong. ”

"......" Zhou Yu was speechless for a while, and only after a long time passed did he squeeze out a sentence from between his teeth: "Feed war with war?" ”

Lu Ren smiled: "Almost." ”

Zhou Yu was silent for a long time before he shook his head and said, "Lu Zhengnan, I find that I don't want to be your enemy of Yizhou anymore. Forget it, don't mention this, or I'm afraid I'll really think I'm ill-intentioned...... To be honest, in fact, Yu asked Lu Zhengnan about these things to see if Yizhou still had the strength to fight again. ”

Lu Ren said: "Don't worry, the battle can still be fought." In fact, Gong Jin, you ask carefully and calculate, it is not difficult to know that in the past year or so, I have not lost much in other aspects except for spending a little too much. Or ......"

Saying that, Lu Ren looked at Zhou Yu with a wicked smile: "Or do you want to go back to Jiangdong after you have turned around in the north for such a circle, and after a few small victories, you want to go back to Jiangdong now?" ”

Zhou Yu looked back at Lu Ren and replied with a meaningful smile: "I really want to go back to Jiangdong, but it depends on whether Lu Zhengnan is willing to go back to Jiangdong next time." ”

Lu Ren smiled: "What do you think?" ”

Zhou Yu also smiled: "What do you want me to say...... Lu Zhengnan, let's tacitly take it to heart. ”

They looked at each other and smiled, and they didn't say much more on this topic. They are all smart people, and they don't need to be so clear, otherwise they will be a little unbearable on their faces.

Looking at the busy dock again, Lu Ren suddenly spoke: "Two hundred artillery pieces, ten powerful warships." ”

Zhou Yu didn't react: "What does this mean?" ”

Lu Ren said with a smile: "I borrowed your Gongjin from Wu Hou, of course, I have to take some things out to thank Wu Hou." Gong Jin, isn't this what you came to my Yizhou for? ”

Zhou Yu reacted at this time, and the person also smiled slightly: "Hate less!" ”

Lu Ren said: "Enough is enough, you!" You think it's easy for me to get these things here? Besides, you and Lord Sun are going to attack Guishan with my navy next, and I have to arrange ships for your five thousand Jiangdong children. And I didn't expect you to give them back to me. If you calculate it like this, do you think the amount of money I paid to Wu Hou will be less? ”

Zhou Yu lowered his head and thought for a while, then nodded and said, "In this way, it is far more than what is worth it below." It's just Lu Zhengnan, Guishan is remote and abnormal, is it really worth it for you to attack across the sea like this? ”

Lu Ren looked at Zhou Yu and said with a smile: "It's worth it!" Gong Jin, although you are very intelligent and can be called a peerless national warrior, your vision is still a little too limited. Today I will give you something like this: Use the sword of our great man to open up the land for the plough of our great man. ”

After saying this, Lu Ren actually wanted to reach out and slap his mouth, because the original words of this sentence were made up by the big devil of Hitt/T/Lemo, and Lu Ren replaced the "Germany" in the original sentence with "big man".

However, this was the way it was in that era, and Lu Ren always felt that there was an opportunity for outward expansion in ancient China, but it was limited by many too pedantic things, as if he hadn't done much to expand outward. Of course, there are actually many reasons for this, and things are not so simple, but don't say that there is enough land in Huaxia, the problem of land distribution in Huaxia has always been very serious. In Lu Ren's view, when there is a problem with land distribution, why not expand outward and transfer the problem of self-ministry to the outside world?

In modern times, such ideas would be considered war maniacs and madmen, but in those days and times they didn't matter. To put it mildly, if we don't expand, some people want to expand, why should they be able to, but we can't? So Lao Tzu is going to expand now!

At this point, we have to talk about what Lu Ren told Xun Yu before, that is, Lu Ren is going to put his big move a little and appropriately this time. Seriously, if it were in those prosperous times when the society was stable and the political situation was clear, Lu Ren's big trick would not have any effect at all, because the emergence of those prosperous times is often "broken and then established", in other words, the cards have just been shuffled on the issue of land distribution, and everyone can live in peace and stability on the farm, plus they are ideologically influenced by some traditional Chinese thoughts, no one will want to go to war.

But if it is a different matter when the land annexation is serious and the vast number of peasants have no land to plant, Lu Ren is now in such a stall. Originally, Lu Ren had always held back, and he didn't put this big move, because he wanted to wait for time to delay it a little longer, and then release it when the land annexation in various regions was more serious. If you insist on an accurate timing, Lu Ren originally planned to launch a big move after Cao Wei's side abolished the tuntian system. Let's put it this way, when Lao Cao's tuntian system was abolished, it meant that the strength of the Shijia Hao clan at that time reached its peak, and the land annexation during the Three Kingdoms period was at its most serious...... In fact, there are many countries in history that have done so.

In the long run, it is difficult to say what those colonies will become in the end, at least in modern society, many colonies are basically the same in the end, and there is even a region that was originally a colony, and finally became one of the largest powers in the world. But for Lu Ren, what Lu Ren cares about is not whether the colony can be managed well in the end, but the cultural impact that the vast colony can bring in the end.

If you don't understand what this means, think about why crosses and "ingori" are so widespread around the world. And what Lu Ren thinks is that the Chinese culture and language can also be like this. Land may not be occupied and colonized forever, but the influence of culture can be passed on forever. No matter how vulgar and vulgar it is, Lu Ren just hopes that the foreign language that foreign children will learn in school in the long future is not ABC, but our square words.

Well, that's a bit of a stretch. For some reason, Lu Ren's big move was not intended to be released too early, but this time due to the incident caused by Wan'er, it seems that such a thought would be considered a war maniac and a madman in modern society, but it didn't matter in that era. To put it mildly, if we don't expand, some people want to expand, why should they be able to, but we can't? So Lao Tzu is going to expand now!

At this point, we have to talk about what Lu Ren told Xun Yu before, that is, Lu Ren is going to put his big move a little and appropriately this time. Seriously, if it were in those prosperous times when the society was stable and the political situation was clear, Lu Ren's big trick would not have any effect at all, because the emergence of those prosperous times is often "broken and then established", in other words, the cards have just been shuffled on the issue of land distribution, and everyone can live in peace and stability on the farm, plus they are ideologically influenced by some traditional Chinese thoughts, no one will want to go to war.

But if it is a different matter when the land annexation is serious and the vast number of peasants have no land to plant, Lu Ren is now in such a stall. Originally, Lu Ren had always held back, and he didn't put this big move, because he wanted to wait for time to delay it a little longer, and then release it when the land annexation in various regions was more serious. If you insist on an accurate timing, Lu Ren originally planned to launch a big move after Cao Wei's side abolished the tuntian system. Let's put it this way, when Lao Cao's tuntian system was abolished, it meant that the strength of the Shijia Hao clan at that time reached its peak, and the land annexation during the Three Kingdoms period was at its most serious...... In fact, there are many countries in history that have done so.

In the long run, it is difficult to say what those colonies will become in the end, at least in modern society, many colonies are basically the same in the end, and there is even a region that was originally a colony, and finally became one of the largest powers in the world. But for Lu Ren, what Lu Ren cares about is not whether the colony can be managed well in the end, but the cultural impact that the vast colony can bring in the end.

If you don't understand what this means, think about why crosses and "ingori" are so widespread around the world. And what Lu Ren thinks is that the Chinese culture and language can also be like this. Land may not be occupied and colonized forever, but the influence of culture can be passed on forever. No matter how vulgar and vulgar it is, Lu Ren just hopes that the foreign language that foreign children will learn in school in the long future is not ABC, but our square words.