end of december

In Luoyang City, Huang Zixing frequently met with powerful people from aristocratic families and promoted his Zhengguo Canal reconstruction plan to them.

The project has good prospects and will be able to irrigate eight million acres of fertile farmland upon completion.

The yield of dry land is very small, usually about one or two stones. The yield of paddy fields is at least doubled, and three or four stones is no big deal.

More importantly, due to the disrepair of the Zhengguo Canal and the deteriorating environment of the entire Guanzhong, only one million acres of the planned eight million acres of paddy fields are now dry fields, which are owned by owners, and the remaining seven

One million acres are wasteland.

Eight million acres of paddy fields can easily produce 30 million shi of grain. Even if one shi of grain only costs 50 yuan, this is still 1.5 billion yuan!

Moreover, this is 1.5 billion per year!

Such a large project, including the first phase of the Zhengguo Canal renovation and the second phase of land reclamation, will only cost 5 billion yuan.

In other words, in about three to four years, you can get your capital back, and then you will make a net profit, and you can make money just by lying down!

It's not that the big man can't come up with 5 billion yuan. The two brothers He Hou and He Jin just grabbed 10 billion yuan half a year ago, but it's unrealistic to take out so much in one go.

In the end, the imperial court released the land, the aristocratic family received the money, and Huang Zixing was responsible for the overall affairs. At the same time, he recruited refugees on a large scale to come and work.

Everything is perfect in theory!

After Huang Zixing took out the Zhengguo Canal project for financing, newcomers appeared one after another and proposed one project after another.

These projects are similar to those of Zheng Guoqu, and in addition, the descendants all passed by Changkong Taoist's Baiyun Temple to introduce their projects to the powerful families.

Over time, Baiyun Temple became a gathering place for aristocratic families, powerful people and descendants.

Slowly, someone came up with the concept of stock trading.

In April of the following year, one year and one month after everyone arrived, Baiyunguan established the first stock trading market in Han Dynasty.

For a time, one project after another kept appearing in Baiyun Temple, and powerful people from aristocratic families would look at projects here every day, looking for good projects, and then take out the copper coins, gold cakes, and silver nuggets hidden in the cellar and invest them in!

This project is very good, I, Cao Mengde, voted for it!

Although the prospects of this project are not very good, it is a business started by a descendant of the clan, and I, Liu Xuande, invested in it!

This project is very good. I voted for it this time, but brother, don’t do business in the future.

At the beginning, it was just the descendants who went to wealthy families with projects, ideas, and creativity to invest money. Later, the local scholars also came to their senses, and started to start businesses overseas one after another.

At that time, a large number of bastards and powerful sons from aristocratic families came here to make money with project descriptions.

But after all, it is a nascent trading market, so many rules are not perfect. Once you get the money, no one will supervise how you spend it.

Some people are thin-skinned and more conscientious. After receiving the money, they work on the project seriously and really want to benefit their hometown or a country.

After some people get the money, they build roads. After building the roads, they collect tolls, which can be regarded as indirect business taxes.

But there are also many people with dark hearts. After they have defrauded the money, they will just spend it freely. At most, they will fool the shareholders when it expires. Once the scam is discovered, they will run away immediately.

However, the Han Dynasty was so big and there were so many wilderness areas. If you just look for an old forest, the traces will disappear.

Only a group of powerful men on the verge of bankruptcy were left, and the family members were yelling and cursing!

Even recently, a sentence suddenly appeared in Baiyun Temple: Have you heard of...?

In addition, financial scams are also brewing.

For example, at this moment, Xiong Yan looked at the information in front of him and was amazed: "Chu Xuan, are you really not responsible for this?"

The content of this information is also very simple. About three months ago, a Taoist suddenly came to Baiyun Temple and said that he had a big project and the monthly return rate could reach 5%.

If you invest 10,000 dollars in him today, you will get 15,000 dollars in one month.

It doesn’t seem like much, but it’s only one month! What if it’s a year? What if it’s compound interest?

If you calculate carefully, you will find that this is a serious loan shark!

Then the Taoist priest hinted in various ways that he had a wide network, many connections, knew many people, and that there were people above him. He also hinted that the family was powerful, saying that he was engaged in a loan sharking business, specializing in lending money to certain unnamed people and making huge profits.

The most important thing is that one month later, he really took out 5% of the profit. Those who took the money back also really got the principal plus interest.

As a result, when he attracted funds for the second time, the initial amount of one million dollars turned into ten million dollars. This was the result that he said he didn't want more.

A month later, they were all returned.

Then he announced that the third time would take longer, this time two months, but the profit would be 12%. If you can trust me...

This time, he has already absorbed 100 million yuan.

If nothing else happens, he should take out 112 million next month. Then this time he will announce that the time will be longer and the interest will be higher.

However, when that time came, it was unclear whether he just ran away with a billion dollars or something else.

Chu Xuan directly took out a piece of paper from in front of him and handed it to Xiong Yan: "What I am doing is a Ponzi scheme, and I have been doing it since April. Now I have absorbed a huge amount of more than 6 billion yuan."

Good guy!

As expected of you, Chu Xuan!

"As for this person, I also found out that behind him is Dong Zhuo, the pastor of Bingzhou. Their money has our mark on it. It was the money Peng Bing used to buy the refugees."

Peng Bing took money, food and weapons to buy the landless refugees from Dong Zhuo's command, then resettled these refugees, trained his private army, and was always ready to launch an army.

After Dong Zhuo got money, food and weapons, he continued to expand his army and train more troops. At the same time, in order to make money, he asked Jia Xu to take the money and go to the Luoyang stock market to make money.

Then Jia Xu had an idea and came up with such a scam.

Jia Xu: You are interested in my high interest rate, but I am interested in your principal!

"This is what Jia Xu did. He was appointed as a military advisor by Dong Zhuo, and then he took the money to Luoyang to engage in financial scams."

To put it bluntly, it is the greed of taking advantage of the human form.

Human beings are very strange things. When you are smart, you are smarter than anyone else, and when you are stupid, you are stupider than everyone else!

Especially when greed takes over the mind, this kind of scam in which you plot my high interest and I plot your principal has been openly publicized countless times in later generations, but people still fall for it time and time again.

"Jia Xu? Well, given his understanding of people's hearts and his wisdom, I'm not surprised at all that he came up with a financial scam after carefully studying the current situation of the stock market."

Having said this, Xiong Yan couldn't help but smile, and then shook his head: "These heroes of the Three Kingdoms are really too smart!"

The stock market was only established in April, and it is only December now, and Jia Xu started this financial scam three months ago.

In other words, he started playing like this in September. At that time, the stock market had only been established for five months, five months!

It takes five months to pull off such a covert financial scam. If you give him five years, will he be proficient in spreading false news and short selling, and directly transform into the legendary reactionary short seller, single-handedly blowing up Luoyang?

stock market?

Looking at the smiling Xiong Yan, Chu Xuan said: "Now the Luoyang stock market has become the most important place in Luoyang. Every day, powerful people from all over the country come here with money hidden in the cellar."

"This is the data provided by Taoist Changkong. So far, the Luoyang stock market has absorbed more than 80 billion yuan."

More than 80 billion yuan, this is an incredible number. Did the Han Dynasty really have so much money?

The answer is yes!

There really is!

But, usually, most of the money is buried underneath.

Moreover, these more than 80 billion yuan are not all copper coins, but also a large amount of gold cakes, silver nuggets, silk, and land.

In the face of a shortage of currency, the imperial court had no choice but to print land currency. It directly used Zheng Guoqu's eight million acres of paddy fields as collateral to print currency, print 500 yuan per mu of land, and use the eight million acres of land as a reserve fund.

Four billion dollars were printed.

After the imperial court printed land currency, major powerful families printed a series of currencies such as toll currency and land currency.

In short, the overall look can be described as burning oil, flowers and brocade, a scene of prosperity!

Under the premise of currency shortage, money continues to circulate. Every time it circulates, the economic situation of the Han Dynasty improves. Even ordinary people can now obtain food and clothing through hard work. However, is this really the case?

…

January 1, 191 AD, night

More than half a year has passed since the advent, and there are only one year and three months left before this return.

After spending so long cultivating the fields and unifying our thoughts, it is finally time to take action.

"This is the big man today. It looks like everything is going well, and it can be said that the prosperous age is approaching, but the contradictions behind the scenes are becoming more and more intense."

Having said this, Xiong Yan looked at the descendants from all over the world with the help of the treasure.

"The aristocratic families have completely divided their faces around the seats in the Noble Council. He Jin directly worked with Queen He to take the opportunity to issue a huge amount of long-term low-interest bonds, and claimed that it didn't matter which aristocratic family ranked among the top families.

, but you must pay enough money and buy enough national bonds!”

"Then he directly spread the rumor that if he didn't buy enough 10 million yuan of national debt, he wouldn't be able to join the Parliament of the Nobles."

"The aristocratic family felt that He Jinhe was too greedy, so they deliberately created many financial scams. Even Jia Xu's success was inseparable from the support of the aristocratic family."

Although the stock market has just been established for less than a year, smart people in aristocratic families have already learned to use the stock market to attack the clan, the royal family, and the eunuchs.

"If nothing goes wrong, Jia Xu will simply run away in the near future, and then the stock market will be turbulent and stock prices will plummet. Eventually, a large number of good family members and descendants of the clan will go bankrupt."

"If last time it was He Jin and He Hou who teamed up to rob the good and powerful family in Luoyang, then this time it is the top families in the world who joined forces to rob the powerful and good family."
To be continued...