Li Su had to deal with the "Shujin Exchange Rate Defense Battle" a few months later. The most important preparation work at the moment is to secretly join a group of direct merchants with small enough quantity and easy to keep confidential, and at the same time, the total production capacity was large enough.

Everyone concealed production capacity in a unified front and showed weakness to the outside world for the time being, and they had to resist the temporary small profits. Li Ru told them not to rush to ship the goods, and they could be obedient and able to hold back.

If there are too many people who know it, it will inevitably leak the secret. At that time, the speculators in the hostile camp will know that they are digging a hole to fish and will not take the bait. There are too few people and there are not enough chips.

So the best thing is that a large business has thousands of new looms, and as long as you tell a few people, you can cover tens of thousands of machines. As for the people in each link below, because they lack a general account, they actually don’t know how many looms their owners have.

For example, if Li Su wins over the Zhen family's united front (the Zhen family is completely dependent on Liu Bei's camp, he will definitely be willing to do it), then there will be at least seven or eight thousand machines at once, maybe nearly ten thousand. This is the largest textile industry tycoon in Shu now. To win over such an ally, perhaps only Zhen Yao and the great manager Zhang Liang and others know the general account.

The person in charge of a specific factory below does not know how many machines the owner has, nor does he know where the broth produced by his factory will be sold in the end. The business, production and sales of the big family are separated by different people. This is destined that even if middle-level managers leak secrets or even bribed during the implementation of the plan, they are not afraid of being leaked or even bribed.

Li Su can't join forces with a large number of small retail investors who have built hundreds or dozens of units in private, because if they are also ventilated to the small shareholders, they will definitely leak the secrets to the ears of those hoarding profiteers who are about to become leeks, and they will not dare to take over the market at that time.

Li Su briefly explained this simple truth to Liu Bei. After all, Liu Bei was also a young man who helped people lead the way to sell horses. He knew some business knowledge. He quickly understood it and continued to ask:

"This theory is very good. What reliable direct families should we win over? The Zhen family can definitely win over. We and the second and third brothers have wives and concubines sent by the Zhen family, which is definitely a common mind. There is no need to mention the management of the Mi family who came with Azhen's dowry. As for the second and third brothers' own property, let alone who else? Boya, I remember that you actually have a lot of looms, right?"

Li Su hurriedly told the truth: "No, my looms are pitifully few. They are all in this county (Pi County). I still feel that "men farming, women weaving" must be made. It is estimated that less than one or two thousand units will be less than one or two thousand. I have invested in the water truck workshop for all my money."

Li Su's words were definitely not deceptive, because he is now considered a "farming and studying and passing on family members". Although he is an official, more than a thousand households in his family have helped him farm. Of course, the female family members in more than a thousand households also have to weave brocade work.

The loom that Cai Yan invested money to buy was to ensure that every household in the fiefdom had machines to work, and to allow the people to permanently pay 20% of the Shu brocade weaved every year as machine rent. At first glance, this was quite exploiting the people, but in fact it was fine.

Because the machine has a service life, it will break down after being used for many years, and the elastic strings of the beef tendon on the shuttle have to be replaced every year. Who makes the beef tendon age quickly? High-strength use will lose elasticity? At this time, the Hou Mansion, as the lessor, is responsible for repairing or buying new ones for the tenant. The weaver is equivalent to a machine from "financial leasing".

Since the rapid expansion of new looms in Shu, the purchase price of beef tendons in the entire Han Dynasty has increased several times year by year in the past three years. Any Yizhou merchants who went out to Sichuan to do business, especially in areas with developed animal husbandry in the north, are frantically purchasing strategic material beef tendons.

So the price was so high that Yuan Shao, Cao Cao and Li Jue wanted to expand their troops to produce more powerful crossbows, but they found that the cost was so high that it was unimaginable that in the past, the money could only be made for one thousand crossbows, but now it could only be made for six or seven hundred.

Nowadays, if two female workers work day and night, the machine will start working ten hours a day and a year, and about five pieces can be weaved. The people will pay 20% as rent, which means paying a wide brocade every year. Cai Yan also exchanges cow tendons for the weaver every year, so the rent is not too much.

Compared with other capitalists, Cai Yan is considered kind. She is not seeking money, but is simply looking for some comfort in her heart. The Han Dynasty said that farming and reading are passed down from family, and when a tenant farms farm, it means that the male owner farms. When a woman is governed, she is considered that the female owner weaving brocades, and she does not do her job properly.

When Liu Bei heard about this number, he was also a little surprised: "I didn't expect that you have less than 2,000 units, so that's really not a big deal. When discussing the new law that day, I saw Yang Hong jumped out to refute you and confessed that his family also had a lot of looms. Later I asked him and said that there were more than 2,000 units, which should be more than you."

Li Su took the conversation and settled the accounts: "That's true, so, according to my estimate, there are 30,000 looms in the entire Sichuan market. In the five months between April and August, seven or eight thousand can be produced. Therefore, when the tax revenue is over in early September, the total number of looms on the market should be about 38,000, and the end of the year can exceed 43,000.

Now among the 30,000 units, the largest household is the Zhen family, with nearly 8,000, and the second one is the Mi family, with five thousand, Yun Chang, Yide... By the way, Yide, how many of your family are? I mean, your wife's parents' home is not counted."

When Li Su calculated that he suddenly raised his voice and asked Zhang Fei, who was eating and drinking in the distance, without asking about things. Zhang Fei was stunned for a moment, wiped his hands and mouth, and then said, "My family is more than two thousand, and my second brother's house should be similar to mine."

Li Su continued to add on the paper: "That's a total of 18,000 yuan. If you count the pieces, you can count them in just over 20,000 yuan. Add me, Yang Hong, 23,000 yuan, Ziyu, Aliang's family and Zijing's family, a total of 26,000 yuan - that is, there are only 5,000 retail investors now.

Considering the acceleration of subsequent production expansion, retail investors will follow up. By the beginning of September, when the total volume is 38,000, we can rise from 26,000 to 30,000, and retail investors will only have a total of 8,000, which is completely within the controllable range. We will keep those secrets and not join forces."

Li Su's account is also very consistent with the undervalued level of external profiteers. Because when Sun Jian was given 35,000 pieces at the end of last year, it was mainly borrowed from the above-mentioned big players such as the Zhenjia Mijia, which led to the undervalued by retail investors and "potential futures speculators".

Liu Bei did not settle the accounts carefully, but just looked at the list and nodded in recognition of the scope of this "unified front".

Li Su continued, "Since that's the case, I thought that we could take this opportunity to give Yang Hong and others some official positions. On the one hand, we could better ensure that they were completely devoted to the use of the king.

Secondly, these people are giving opinions to the new law after all, and outsiders do not know whether they are kind-hearted suggestions or purely resisting against the new law. The king gave them official positions, which seemed to be respectful and polite, listened to both sides and accepted advice humbly, and gave the opposition some confidence to be ready.

Moreover, since Yang Hong appears in an admonishing manner, if the hoarding and hype battles really become fierce in the future, perhaps hostile people will risk winning over Yang Hong. As long as Yang Hong is not stupid, he will know what to do..."

Li Su even thought of the illusion that if the act seems to be in full swing and the enemy wants to poach, who will be an undercover agent to spread false information to the enemy and let the enemy "we can win" illusion for a while, and they will think of it.

Who has made people in the 21st century have too many cases of undercover acts of disseminating false information when trading futures. Anyone who has bought futures slightly has this common sense and knows to initially identify fake news.

But the Han Dynasty never speculated on futures. They only had traditional hoarding business experience, so they could not be protected from futures smoke bombs.

This is simply a slap.

Liu Bei was indeed dumbfounded: Damn it! Isn’t it just a fraud to hoard profiteers to take over? Is it because they are not ruthless enough to place bets, so he even arranged for an undercover agent to spread fake information?!

Fortunately, Liu Bei had never watched "God of Gambling", otherwise he would have thought of Gao Jin deliberately showing the other party a fake trump card back when Chen Jincheng was hesitating whether to follow the last card, and increasing his confidence in releasing.

Yang Hong was obviously used by Li Su as Gao Yi. His value was to leak the news that "can see the code on the back of the opponent's trump card through LCD developing glasses" to the enemy when necessary.

But Yang Hong will not be thrown away by Li Su after taking advantage of it.

Liu Bei asked gladly: "Well, then Yang Hong and Wang Lian should be promoted to the official position?"

Li Su leaned back half a foot: "Appointing an official is the power of the king. When I personally decide, my kindness will come out, so I did not make this suggestion at the end of the meeting of discussing the new law that day..."

Liu Bei: "I know, of course I am alone. I am the only three of us now, so why are we acting? Let me talk about it first, and see if it is suitable."

Leaders like to do multiple-choice questions, and it is even better to do multiple-choice questions.

Li Su obviously thought about it: "Before, Yang Hong was suppressed by the Yang family of the four sects of Shu Confucianism, he did not accept the enlistment, so it is not advisable to be promoted suddenly. Combined with the achievements of writing this time, let him be a county magistrate first. In Du'an and Mianchi of Wenshan, you can choose any place.

Wang Lianze was well aware of the way of supervision of the official industry. He was originally the magistrate of Zitong County and was renamed the commander of the Salt and Iron Commander. He went to Jianwei County to supervise the official salt and iron in Zigong and other counties. He would definitely make up for the gaps and make some profits."

Liu Bei thought about it and found that this was indeed the case. He immediately made a decision: "I will make an order after returning to Chengdu."

After agreeing to seal the official and layout, the rest was to let the Jingnan Front cooperate with the blockade news and let Zhao Yun use the naval army to block the Yangtze River waterway in Baqiu.

After listening to this matter for a few words, Liu Bei was just worried that it would harm the commercial interests, so he asked: "Business and traveling are not allowed, and at least two months of news will be blocked. Will it lead to a major reduction in the treasury tax and the people will be in trouble?"

Li Su also explained that he had already thought of: "Two months of closure of the pass will not lead to shortage of materials. Yizhou and Jingnan are safe and prosperous places, and there is very little need for material supply from Jingbei and Yangzhou. The money is in hand, and it is the same if you buy it after the closure period. Moreover, before Zilong sealed the river, he could still purchase a batch of urgently needed items to be stored in a centralized manner.

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On the other hand, we do not prohibit merchants from going out to Sichuan to sell goods. Even because our Shujin production must be kept confidential, the output must be specially "sold far away but not near", so the official organization of merchant fleets to go out to ship goods.

What we prohibit is only local merchants in Yangzhou. Because they saw that Sun Jian was profitable after shipment, they took the initiative to come to Yizhou to purchase goods and leaked our business secrets to local hoarding speculators in Yizhou."

Li Su made it very clear that he did not forbid his own people from selling things during this period, but only prohibited retail investors from other states from coming to purchase goods spontaneously. In other words, Li Su already had the prototype of "dealer authorization" thinking. If you want to sell my goods, you must have regional distributor agency rights. It is not a cat or dog who is qualified to purchase goods as long as you get the money.

Moreover, after this matter is over, Li Su will normally allow powerful merchants in Yangzhou and even other states to be dealers.

Liu Bei nodded: "Then there is no worry. All that is left is Zilong's troops in Jingnan to create tension. Whether the division is famous and whether it is a rampant military advancement... By the way, who is the prefect of Guiyang in Lingling now? Did Brother Jingsheng just seal the title of the past two years?"

Liu Bei was not very familiar with the personnel of prefectures and counties that were not under his rule. After all, he didn't know that Li Su suggested that he move troops like this and did not do his homework in advance.

Li Su did his homework and immediately replied: "It was Liu Du and Zhao Fan, who were both natives from Lingling County and Guiyang County. After Zhang Xian, Su Dai and others were killed by Yun Chang the previous year, the local people expressed their own great clans to Liu Biao.

Because Wuling was in the hands of our army at that time, Changsha was still in the hands of Sun Jian, he could not send troops to cross our defense zone to actually take over the southern two counties, so he accepted the local self-recommendation. Therefore, these two people were not Liu Biao's confidants, and their loyalty to Liu Biao was not very high."

In order to emphasize the plot of Zhao Fan cursing against Zhao Yun in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", Zhao Fan is also a "Zhangshan Zhending person", and also said that his sister-in-law Fan is also a Changshan Zhending person. In fact, these are all the novelist's words. Zhao Fan and Liu Du are both natives in Jingnan, local clans, that is, Liu Biao should be eliminated when he eliminates the "Zengshen thieves". Moreover, Liu Du did not dare to resist Liu Bei in history, and basically surrendered directly when the troops arrived.

As for Fan, although it was not stated clearly, it was mostly a local woman in Hunan. Moreover, because Zhao Yun went to Jingnan in this life for fifteen years, the Fan family, who should have been in his early thirties and appeared as a widow, is still a girl who is still a 15 or 16-year-old unmarried girl. She is probably not famous and has not yet become Zhao Fan's sister-in-law.

Liu Bei was very satisfied after hearing this: "I have heard that Jingnan and the arbitrary people were led by Zhang Xian. Although the other sect thieves were powerful, they might not be determined to resist. We helped Brother Jingsheng to subdue these sect thieves on the grounds that their sect thieves recommended themselves and threatened the court. It should be that there should be no need to send reinforcements to Zilong? I remember that when Zilong was guarding Yidu, there were only thousands of veterans, and the rest were new soldiers."

Li Su: "There are enough new recruits. Changsha County has only been newly established for a few months, but Changsha has a population of 700,000. Zilong operates there for three months. Even if he is a recruit who is trained, it is not enough to deal with Liu Du and Zhao Fan. The king can order it today. Now the busy farming of spring has not yet ended. When Zilong gets orders, it will be around mid-April. He should be in the middle of the month of dispatch, so he can avoid the busy farming."

By the time Bai Juyi wrote "Watching the Wheat Crushing" in the Sui and Tang Dynasties, the fifth month of the lunar calendar was already busy with farming, but now it is still a single-season crop, and there is no intercropping. Therefore, one or two months in summer are slack farming, and the busiest spring and autumn are the busiest. This level of military movement does not delay the farming time at all and does not consume people's strength.
Chapter completed!