Facing the aristocratic family is something that the emperor has to do in every era, but the emperor who can really subdue the aristocratic family can be counted on one hand from ancient times to the present. Chen Xi does not think that the fledgling Liu Bei can suppress these guys. Even if there is a traverser who seeks good fortune, avoids evil, and the vision that transcends the times, it may not be possible. After all, directly facing the family class at this time is not in line with the instinct of the traverser who seeks fortune and avoids misfortune.
With two kinds of preparation, a radish in one hand, and a big stick in another hand, if Su Shuang and Zhang Shiping can squeeze the Zhen family business down and let them understand the difference between the warlords and the noble family, it would be great. Just let Liu Bei continue to blow his anger.
In case the Zhen family really has no eyes, Chen Xi can only do it personally. At that time, whether it is a commercial squeeze or a brazen attack to erase the upper class of the Zhen family, and give the Zhen family a decent funeral or something. In short, Chen Xi can guarantee that even if Zhen Mi really has the vision of an empress, it is estimated that she can only be reduced to someone else's plaything, and Yuan Shao at most will feel ashamed but he will not directly go to war with Liu Bei.
"Chen Xi, how much money do you have? Ever since you entered Fenggao, you have continued to invest money, but I have not seen any return and you have survived. Do we have so much money?" Jian Yong saw that Chen Xi was in a habitual daze again and seeing that the sun was about to come down, he finally couldn't restrain his curiosity and asked. Even Zhao Yun on the side raised his head curiously when he heard Jian Yong's words. This matter is very important and people are very interested.
"Yes, there is a lot of money, and it's constantly increasing. What's the matter?" Chen Xi said with a yawn, "Don't stand outside, Liu Bei, come in if you want to hear it. Probably all of you are very interested in this, right?"
"Ha ha ha.... "Liu Bei laugh, trying to obscured the awkwardness, but seeing Chen Xi listless and not focus on him, he stop laughing.
"Yeah, many people now think that you Chen Xi is a wealthy person, with a lot of money." Liu Bei chuckled. Others don't know, but he still doesn't know? Chen Xi sits here every day, drinking tea and reviewing some things. There is no such thing as getting money from a certain place every day, but he did make everyone live and work in peace and contentment.
"I have only so many copper plates in my hand." Chen Xi unwrapped a sachet from his waist and threw it on the table with a clatter. This was made by Chen Lan only after he came to Fenggao, as for the one hanging on the left, a sachet, which was made by his wife Fan Jian, is very delicate.
"What does Chen Xi mean?" Liu Bei casually found a seat and sat down, looking at Chen Xi's sachet thrown on the table and asked puzzledly.
"It means that I didn't invest a copper plate in Fenggao. Fenggao's seemingly large amount of money actually doesn't exist at all." Chen Xi sat up and said seriously, "Of course, the refugees gathered by us continue to create value. So it looks like I'm constantly putting money into it. In fact, I don't have any money to put into it."
Liu Bei couldn't understand, Jian Yong's eyes were dull, and Zhao Yun scratched his head.
"Well, let's make it simple. You see, I pay them daily wages, right? Although it's not a lot, the amount of money that has flowed out of my hands has exceeded millions of yuan, but you never thought about it, that not only me but the people who have made money are also spending money. After all, when they are paid, they don't have to worry about dinner." Chen Xi said with a pause, and the whole person looked very decadent.
Still unable to understand, the few people still had a blank expressions.
"I asked people to open a few steamed bun shops." Chen Xi said with a yawn.
This is because Chen Xi couldn't stand the hard bun and was forced to study it, and he failed many times, but after the first success, it was much better. Compared with the hard bun, the steam bun industry was more profitable. The steamed buns are delicious and good for digestion. Also, no one knows that one or two big buns doesn't use more than one fifth of the original flour amount, so the business is booming.
In addition, Chen Xi can only provide enough steam buns for lunch at work. Steam buns can make people full, while millet porridge can barely fill people. Compared with steamed bun shops, the number of people who eat lunch provided by the official is directly reduced by half. It is also the same for dinner. Now that they have a choice, why would they eat hard bun like stone from the official if it is the same price as the steam buns? They also provided a small dish of pickle vegetables. Well, the steamed bun shop opened by Chen Xi has become more prosperous.
After waiting for a while, the officials seemed to have waken up, and fewer and fewer people came to them for lunch. So the officials negotiated with the steamed bun shops. The officials issued a note to the working refugees, who took the note to the steam bun shop and the store let them eats steamed buns. Because the so-called large quantity is more prefer, it can also be relatively cheaper. Therefore, the refugees are grateful and the officials also save money to cook lunch, and everyone is happy.
After that, Chen Xi took all the unemployed cooks who used to make lunch to open steamed bun shops. They were really happy and most of the official expenditures were gone. The new refugees have no notes, only copper plates. Then the new refugees were eating steamed buns, and found that they had spent dozens of copper plates more than others in a month, and immediately stopped doing it. They strongly demanded that the copper plates be converted into notes. Well, they avoided not having enough money...
After a while, Chen Xi found out that there are too many refugees, and the money was not enough. Then a fellow among the refugees discovered that the notes can actually be use to eat steamed buns at a steamed bun store at night, instead of spending the same or even more money at home to eat the hard buns like stone.
This secret spread out quietly, then the salary was paid less and less. What Chen Xi had to do every day was to use his own seal to stamp the white paper that had just been researched, and then let Zhao Yun chop it into neat pieces. Zhao Yun did this very neatly, more than a thousand sheets were placed on the table, Zhao Yun's sword light flashed, and it didn't hurt the tabletop.
Once this kind of unreasonable paper came out, that was general equivalent to changing history, there was nothing to say. No one can imitate it anyway. Even if the paper is imitated, it needs Chen Xi's seal. It is said that forging a privately engraved seal in the Han Dynasty gets the punishment of nine familial extermination. Anyway, forging this is not as good as making small money like Dong Zhuo. At least this is control by no one, and at most the people are unlucky. Paper is reasonable as money.
To be honest, Chen Xi originally planned to let people carve the words "two steamed buns" out of wood. In the end, he found that this slender piece of wood looked like it had to be use to stamp a lot of paper, so it was simpler to use Liu Bei's commander seal. After all, it's big enough. According to the standard price of two steamed buns, Chen Xi said that he only needs to pay a small amount of salary every month.
A small amount of wages is still money. What about the 500,000 people making trouble? Bandits and thieves changed jobs and became refugees. The Yellow Turbans in Qingzhou near Mount Tai became refugees. In short, there were more and more refugees. Later, the refugees changed jobs in Taishan and became citizens. Taishan looks more and more prosperous.
So Chen Xi opened some shops for daily necessities. Anyway, the entire Taishan county is under his control. The bandits in Taishan are all his. They retrieved most of the copper plates that are sent out. So he send them out, and the better thing about the shops that Chen Xi ordered to open is that they allow the use of the white paper.
Just this one killed more than ninety-nine percent of the merchants. It is a common equivalent that can't be used out of Taishan. Isn't it death to accept it? Don't you just keep it in Taishan for the steamed buns? Have you finished eating?
To put it bluntly, if there is a merchant who is willing to accept white papers, Chen Xi will consider the character of that merchant. For example, a good baby merchant like Mi family, Chen Xi is willing to exchange white notes with food. Those like the Zhen family that irritated Liu Bei, Chen Xi doesn't mind giving them a white note to fill the warehouse. As a human-shaped money printer, he has no pressure, so he knew it well that the Zhen family ran away.
Chen Xi explained to everyone in detail his previous actions, but Liu Bei and others were still confused. Looking at Chen Xi, who was holding his head, Liu Bei finally couldn't help interrupting Chen Xi's words.
"Stop, although we don't understand what you are saying at all, you are really powerful in terms of actual effect." Liu Bei cut off Chen Xi's speech and said with a confused expression.
"Sure enough, no one can understand. It seems that I must find a master of internal affairs with more than 90 out of 100 points. It is too lonely now." Chen Xi propped his head with the lonely expression of a master.
"Why does Chen Xi always look so tired? He always seems to be drowsy." Liu Bei changed the subject. He felt that continuing to listen to the explanation really challenged his brain to the limits. Anyway, no matter what method Chen Xi uses, as long as it works, the reason seems to be less important.
"Sleepy in the spring, tired in the summer, sleepy in the autumn, and lying on the bed in winter. Now I am in a state of autumn sleepiness" Chen Xi said with a tired face. "But Liu Bei can rest assured that there will not be too many problems in government affairs." Chen Xi said in a posture, trying to make himself more comfortable. It is not good to do nothing, it is easy to fall asleep.
Liu Bei, Jian Yong, and Zhao Yun all looked at Chen Xi helplessly. Is this a reason? I have been sleepy for the whole year. You are a pig. You just eat and sleep. I really doubt how you learned your abilities. Is there really a so-called god-like man in a dream?
"Report!" Just when all the people was cold, a messenger rushed in and shouted loudly. Chen Xi woke up instantly. Zhao Yun and Liu Bei, two warriors with good eyesight, clearly saw something coming out of Chen Xi's body. It was a layer of sweat. It is estimated that he should have been frightened when he woke up.
Chen Xi looked at herald soldier solemnly, and the sleepiness that was finally brewing was frightened away, and he was also scared to death. He sighed inwardly, [I can't sleep in the government office anymore, it's too scary.]
"What do you want to report?" Chen Xi asked calmly.
"Xuzhou Mi Zhu, and Linhuai Lu Su came to visit." The herald replied loudly.
"Huh?" Chen Xi was shocked, then his complexion recovered, and he was overjoyed, "Liu Bei, talented people are coming."