Three Kingdoms

  Chapter 536 The Two Fires of the Han Dynasty

   The wreckage of Luoyang City seems to be able to see the fire that day. The abandoned villages around Luoyang City are like a shell that has lost its vitality, gradually decaying in the wind and rain.

   Fei sneaked into Luoyang City and remained silent for a long time.

   Feeling extremely heavy.

  Why is it always easier to destroy than to build?

  Since Liu Xiu established Luoyang as his capital, the Great Han has been under continuous construction for nearly two hundred years, but to destroy her, all he needs is a fire...

  The Luoyang fire burned for ten days.

  The black smoke covered the sun and could be seen within a hundred miles.

  Some things are like oranges. If you don’t peel them off, you may not be able to fully understand whether the inside is good or bad, whether it is sour or sweet...

  During the Han Dynasty, the fall of Luoyang was like being peeled from an orange.

  As for myself, the thrust in it is not much smaller than Dong Zhuo's fire...

   The vitality of a regime under a feudal system like the Han Dynasty, whether to advance or retreat, is sometimes mainly decided in the hands of the dictator emperor. Whether it is Liu Che or Liu Xiu, they all have strong personal charm, a clear direction of thinking and means of balancing government affairs. Only in this way can they maintain a strong momentum of upward development.

   But it is obvious that Han Lingdi is not such a person.

  But now, no one knows what Liu Xie will grow up to be like...

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  When Feiqian set foot in the Jingxiang area again, it felt like it had been a long time.

Eight hundred cavalry and some horses responsible for carrying some supplies, almost nearly a thousand horses. If they rushed directly to the city of Xiangyang, Liu Biao's eyes would probably pop out, so he had to turn to Miannan first, which belongs to the area of ​​Huang's family. .

   All the way to the south, Fei Qian felt that he was obviously depressed.

  Originally, the Yingchuan area was extremely rich, but after repeated wars, it has shown signs of decline.

It may not be obvious to many people in the Han Dynasty now, but for Feiqian, who has been instilled with the concept of CPI, GDP, GNP and other indices in later generations, in fact, his sensitivity to economic changes is not obvious to Feiqian. People who used to live in the era when thousands of shares had a daily limit in the first few days, and then they would go down for thousands of years, had an inherent advantage over those who were accustomed to a slow life in the Han Dynasty.

  It’s like in later generations, many experts put on a kind face and said that inflation of less than 5% is called mild and benign inflation...

   To put it simply, the original 100 yuan currency can only buy 95 yuan worth of things for some indescribable reason, which is 5% inflation.

However, just like Fei Qian used Dong Zhuo's large amount of coins in the Jingzhao area, and then plundered a large number of materials from the rural tyrants in the Hedong area, slowly but resolutely, those rural tyrants may have passed through several generations, or more than a dozen generations. The accumulated wealth was robbed into his own hands, which created the rapid expansion and prosperity of Pingyang City.

  This kind of inflation is more than 5%!

  The bad money is only two baht, and the quality is not good. According to normal conversion, it can only be 20%-30% of the original five baht at most...

   This kind of predatoryness is pretty scary.

  Then Fei Qian did not stop, and continued to use the urgency of these nobles again to guide these people to pass on the loss again, and at the same time eased the emotions of the nobles in Hedong, and formed a joint force to a certain extent...

  With the uninterrupted traffic of caravans, the bad money accumulated at first was quickly and cheaply used, and then slowly spread to other regions like a snowball.

   Of course, the most influential will always be the propertied class. As for those peasants of the Han Dynasty who had little wealth left on hand, the temporary impact is not too great. Therefore, in this sense, the plunder of Fei potential Yangping has a great impact on Jizhou, Yuzhou, and even Jingzhou, Yangzhou and other regions. For the common people, it did not cause a large-scale social shock, so in a sense, it was also "moderate".

It's just that, for the time being, it doesn't have much impact on the lives of the people in the county, but as time goes by, the sequelae of inflation will become more and more intense, until it drags down and destroys the economy of the entire Han Dynasty .

   As for the gentry, sorry, these people have nothing to say about the court, the army, and the scriptures. They are quite skilled, but for this piece of economic content, it is possible that no one out of a hundred people can find it.

Fei Qian predicted that under the lure of chasing benefits, the gentry would subconsciously spread the bad money to those who didn't know it. Therefore, the bad money that was originally only in the Jingzhao area and the Hedong Hongnong area, which destroyed the economy, would inevitably It spread to the whole country at a faster speed than in the original history.

With the continuous expulsion of bad money, the entire five baht coin will withdraw from the currency system of commodity transactions, and once this currency system collapses, it will definitely trigger a new wave of self-cultivating farmers' bankruptcy, and the greed of the gentry determines It will not extend a helping hand to farmers at this time, it will only increase the intensity of land intake.

Then the disputes between the princes of various places accelerated the loss of the original hoarding materials of the rural gentry Haoyou. With the decrease in population caused by the war, the barren land, coupled with various droughts, snowstorms and even plagues, it will soon crush the land. The already extremely fragile economy of the Han Dynasty...

  Of course, this is like burning Luoyang. Another economic representative of the Han Dynasty, the five baht coin, will eventually withdraw from the stage of history...

  With a fire, Luo Yang was burned, and with a fire, five baht coins were burned.

   This fire was also lit by Dong Zhuo, but it was Fei Qian who provided the fuel to boost it.

   It’s just that the first fire burned most of the common people, while the second fire burned the country’s tyrants...

Fei Qian slowed down a bit. Huang Xu, as the vanguard, had already led a dozen soldiers to report to the Huangjiayin Temple. He walked slowly, on the one hand, to let the galloping horses rest, and on the other hand, to It is less likely to cause panic among the people on both sides of the official road.

  One very interesting thing, the same soldiers and horses, the same attire, coming galloping and coming slowly, the speed is different, the senses brought to these people are completely different...

  But in fact, as long as it is a pawn, it has existed to kill people since the day it was established, just like politics, it was born to absorb benefits from the day it appeared.

However, people like Fei Qian led the troops, walked slowly, smiled occasionally, nodded at the people on both sides, and did not order to point swords and guns at each other, so most of these people would just stand there dumbfounded, I looked stupidly.

  But Fei Qian knew in his heart that a large part of these stupid people would die in the ensuing turmoil...

   As long as it is inflation, it is not the proletarians who are hurt, nor the rich

   Because the rich can make two-way investment at home and abroad, and even get more benefits than before there is no inflation...

   Those who fall under the knife are the poor ghosts like the author with wages, the small and middle class, because of inflation, they just become poorer day by day...

  (end of this chapter)