Faced with Sima Yi's coercion and inducement, the merchants gathered together and shivered. Look at me, I look at you, and I can't see you, helpless.

If the money is gone, they can still make it back. Most of them are not simple businessmen, and simple businessmen can't go so far and can come to the Wei Empire to do business.

Their family has a close relationship with the resting powers, and no matter what, they cannot be poor.

But if your life is gone, you will really lose nothing.

They saw the powerful force of the Wei Empire. The Anxi Empire wanted to be with the Wei Empire, and it was impossible for any major conflict with the Wei Empire, and the possibility of a war was minimal.

If Sima Yi uses some means to seek money and kill him, what can they do?

Fighting with the Wei army?

If you don’t have enough force, no matter how rich you are, you are a fat pig. No matter how fast you run, you will come up with a knife, and the white knife goes into a red knife, and you will still die.

Just like the Mi family in Xuzhou, if it weren't for its strong force, it wouldn't be able to gain any advantage under Tao Qian's rule. If it weren't for its own military basis, Tao Qian would have been killing Mi family long ago.

The rest merchants may not not understand this principle, but the force they can bring is too limited.

The borders of the Wei Empire have strict restrictions on foreigners entering the territory of the Wei Empire. One of the most important ones is that they are not allowed to hold iron weapons and bows and crossbows of more than a certain length.

Basically, except for small daggers that have daily functions, there are no iron weapons allowed.

The reason is also very simple. The Wei Empire completely prohibits the people from possessing weapons. If you bring weapons over, it will threaten their safety and cause them to be injured. Therefore, long weapons are not allowed to bring them into the Wei Empire.

It is better to give you face if you want to carry a dagger, otherwise you won’t be able to bring it in.

As for your safety, you must unconditionally believe in the security power of the Wei Empire.

Don't believe it?

Then don’t come, one more you are not more, one less you are not less.

This is the policy of borders, either dropping weapons, coming in, or returning the same way.

No one will be unable to get along with money, so most merchants chose to throw down their weapons and hand them over to the Wei army for safekeeping, leaving only the dagger to enter the Wei Empire to do business.

A small number of people who do not believe in the security capabilities of the Wei Empire can only return in anger and complain to the end.

Of course, the Wei Empire quickly used practical actions to let them know what [public security] is, so not long after, the merchants all knew that there was no need to bring any self-defense weapons to do business in the Wei Empire, and it was meaningless.

They believed in the level of public security in the Wei Empire and had no worries in this regard from then on.

Some teams do not even bring daggers. The complete merchants will relax after entering the territory of the Wei Empire and will not have the same concerns as encountering robbers and bandits in their own territory.

It cannot be blamed on them. Who made their own government not do this except for the Wei Empire vigorously cracking down on thieves and repairing traffic roads?

Nowadays, when doing business, you don’t have to carry some armed forces in groups, and you really don’t dare to set out for a long journey. Otherwise, you will encounter groups of horse bandits roaring on the road, so just wait to die.

As a result, they never expected that such a thing would happen now.

Who could have thought of it?

The arrogant Sima Dugu actually came to the scene to rob and personally threatened them to hand over the money.

In their opinion, the Wei Empire, which has the same business environment as heaven, actually has such a situation!

There was no way around, and in grief, they could only spend money to buy peace, lose money to eliminate disasters, and gathered a large amount of money for Sima Yi's protection of them and relieve the disasters.

Then he scolded Sima Yi for not having a son, and not having a good death. After death, his soul has no place to return, and he can only wander in the world forever and be a lonely ghost.

Sima Yi doesn't care about these, Sima Yi only cares whether the current crisis can be overcome.

As long as you have enough money, you can survive any crisis.

With this money, Sima Yi saved the business of a large number of traders and gave them a much-needed working capital.

Relying on this working capital, traders solved the urgent problem, resolved the turnover crisis, and handed over the wages owed to the workers. They cleared the money and made peace for everyone.

The workers got their wages and returned to their homes outside the city with peace of mind. They went to the fields to farm with their families, resumed production, and no longer caused trouble.

The threat of crisis is smaller, and Sima Yi is under less pressure.

Next, there are widely bankrupted taverns and hotels, which rely on traffic to support, which cannot be solved simply with money.

These people were hit hard at first, and the blows were bigger and more serious than farmers and traders, so they were even more miserable.

More importantly, they fell down and owed loans from the court, and the court still had loan accounts that could not be filled.

If these accounts can be found and the person responsible can be slowly filled by agricultural production, then a series of operating losses in addition have already overwhelmed some families. Even if they are plowing the fields and paying off their debts, they don’t know when they can afford it.

Life has lost hope and cannot see where the end is.

If they abandon their land and escape, or even more serious, commit suicide, it is not only a civil affairs problem, but also a serious financial problem.

It not only affects his reputation as an official, but also makes those loans really turn into bad debts and cannot be recovered.

The Ministry of Civil Affairs and the Ministry of Finance will both have opinions on him, which will not be beneficial to his central promotion path.

How can this work?

How can I affect my career?

Sima Yi felt that he would help people to the end, and sent Buddha to the West to bully people should be bullied thoroughly without any hidden dangers.

So he decided to cheat... no, fraud... it wasn't right!

Finally, ask those rest merchants once.

Let them spend some more blood and give some money to the government. Let the government have money to save some of the merchants from excessive debts, so that they can afford to pay back the money and avoid short-sightedness and causing unnecessary trouble.

Then he told the merchants of Anxi that if they did not do this, Sima Yi would expel them from the Wei Kingdom and return to Anxi in the war, so that they would be ravaged by the riots and lose everything.

The rest merchant who settled in the city was frightened and almost collapsed.

To what extent do you want to bully us before letting us go?

How much do you have to betray us?

What a pleasant thing to do when I came to Wei State for the first time, and when I came into contact with exotic styles for the first time, I made so much money for the first time.

The three pleasant things combined together should have been a more pleasant thing, which can help us reach the peak of our lives!

But why did things turn out like this?

Is it our fault that the national army has lost the war?

We are thousands of miles apart and have nothing to do with the war in China. Why do you incite people to bully us?

What have we done wrong?

We are all out of money if we are deceived by you and threatened by you!

This time I actually cost so much money, my appetite is bigger than that of another time. This time I satisfy you, will there be other requirements next time?!

Should we kill us?

Don't give it! Never give it!

They made such a gesture.

They acted spontaneously, organized, and protested together, driving the officials sent by Sima Yi out of the street where they lived, looking determined to be uncooperating.

Sima Yi was angry and sent a police force to capture the bird, confiscate his property, forcibly escort him out of his own home, drive him out of the city, and send someone to escort him all the way west to expel him from the territory of the Wei Empire.

What a good guy, I've really taken action.

The businessman who took the lead in resisting was expelled from Ningmi City and the atmosphere in the city suddenly became very strange.

Faced with powerful force, the fearful Anxi merchants immediately gave up their resistance. They were very afraid of being driven out of Wei by Sima Yi and returning to the Anxi Empire in the midst of war.

The current situation of the Rest Empire was known to them by their relatives and friends who had escaped before, and they did not dare to go back at all.

It is said that civil strife has broken out in the Silent Empire, and some ambitious guys have raised their troops to overthrow the rule of Ardaban V. The upper class of the entire Silent Empire is in turmoil, and the grassroots provinces are in chaos.

The Romans left, but peace did not return, the emperor's authority no longer existed, and ambitious conspirators flocked to fight for the dominance of the empire. It is still unknown who will win.

Now I don’t know how chaos will be in Anxi, nor how many wars will take place. Going back is like seeking death. Only the safest Wei State is hiding in peace.

Who would like to go back?

So they had to raise a sum of money again, and told Sima Yi with tears in his eyes that they were really hollowed out and squeezed out, a drop... no, there was no penny left.

There can't be another next time!!!

Next time, we will commit suicide collectively for you! You won’t get a penny!

Sima Yi felt that he had indeed reached the limit. Continuing to squeeze would only have the opposite effect, so he nodded with a smile and allowed.

OK, just this time, there will be no next time.

I promise that you will be properly protected and arranged, and no one will harm you again.

After getting the money, Sima Yi was very confident. He found Ren Yong from the Ministry of Finance and compared him with him the list of merchants owed money.

He found those who were owed very much and had difficulty paying off their debts, and reconciled them with Ren Yong, then dispossed their excessive debts, leaving the extent they could repay, and let them repay them through agricultural production.

Of course, it will not be enough to pay off all of them, and there is not that much money. Cut a part of it and leave what they can afford, which can help more people.

Using this blackmailed money, Sima Yi solved the debt crisis of Annan Protectorate in one breath.

The crisis in Annan Protectorate slowly came to an end.
Chapter completed!