At present, the land of Guanxi is in ruins. Because of the lack of copper for coins, Guo Peng asked Cao Ren to be responsible for this matter and searched everywhere in Guanxi for the small coins minted by Dong Zhuo.

It’s true that the extremely large amount of small money that Dong Zhuo cast after the war was regarded as waste by people and was often discarded in large quantities, so it was often found in piles.

Cao Ren was as if he had found a treasure, and immediately excavated it in large quantities, loaded it into a vehicle, and transported it to Yecheng to hand it over to Guo Peng.

In this way, Guo Peng was considered to have enough copper coins, and there was no deflation caused by sudden expansion of thousands of miles.

It is a very serious problem that money is worthless, and it is also a very serious problem that money is worth too much.

The former makes the people unable to buy things with money, and the poor are only money left, while the latter makes the people unwilling to go out to consume, and the poor are only money left.

Therefore, as the controller of the central government, Guo Peng must be careful in the economy and cannot rush to make a move when formulating economic and monetary policies.

At least for now, bank notes and other things are redundant.

Those things are things that need to be used only after the society is completely stable and the commodity economy develops to a certain extent.

And now in such a situation where everything is in trouble and can’t even take out paper, it’s a bit of a self-indulgent to consider these things.

As long as qualified Wuzhu coins can be minted and the right to mint the coin will be taken to the central government and not sent to the local government, Guo Peng will be able to control the whole country in Yecheng.

For now, because the Wuzhu coins cast by Guo Peng are of good quality, sufficient quantity, no shortage of weight, exquisite appearance, and very large users, Liangzhou, Liaodong, Jingyiyang, and Jiaozhou, further apart, all use the standard Wuzhu coins of the Guowei regime by doing business with the Central Plains.

Their privately minted coins have also been reduced in circulation. Although they are not completely cut off, they are also much less.

Having said that, Guo Peng never thought about playing currency wars and other methods to attack these local forces. The reason is very simple, because currency is not indispensable in this era. When people are anxious, they scrapped the currency in minutes and bartered it.

Silk cloth, grain and iron can be used as currency.

After the Three Kingdoms reached its peak, the three regimes faced their own economic difficulties and used the means of over-issuing currency, such as the Daquan series that Sun Shiwan later tinkered with, and the Shih Hundred Months used by Liu Bei.

These emergency measures have played a certain role, but in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, the central government's authority declined and local forces were strong. The people represented by the gentry and powerful people were the masters of the world, and the central government was not.

The rulers want to cut leeks by over-issuing currency. Once the trust of the people is lost and the reputation of the central government goes bankrupt, the people with extensive land and property will dare to use barter and privately minted coins to fight against the central government, so that the central government cannot afford to take advantage of it.

This made Sun Shiwan, who was born in the Daquan Dangqian series, personally served as the personal evidence and provided physical evidence.

Nowadays, playing economic wars requires physical objects, not currency. Guo Peng used Wuzhu coins to establish a stable economic order and slowly restore the trauma of the war.

However, because of the lack of copper, Guo Peng became even more eager for Jiangdong and Yizhou. These two places produce a lot of copper. If you get these two pieces of land, you can get a lot of copper, alleviating his current lack of copper.

So at present, Cao Ren's task is still very important. He took on part of the copper needed for the Guo Wei regime to mint coins, and the pressure was huge.

At this time, Cheng Gongying came to Chang'an and asked to see Cao Ren.

At this time, it was April of the first year of Jian'an. When Cao Ren was very happy that his subordinates had excavated hundreds of millions of Dong Zhuo's small money in the former site of the dock, Cheng Gongying came.

Cao Ren was entrusted by Guo Peng to take charge of the military and political affairs of Guanzhong. He was of high position and was in power and was in the limelight.

But he became more cautious and cautious, not at all arrogant in his work, but became more and more low-key, fearing that Guo Peng would be punished by somehow if he didn't do well.

He respected Guo Peng from the bottom of his heart, and at the same time he knew how eye-catching he was as the second-ranked Wei army below Guo Peng. In this position, he could not make any mistakes. He would rather not do many things than do wrong.

But there is one thing that Guo Peng clearly told him that he should do it when he should do it and never miss out on the opportunity.

That's about Liangzhou.

After Guo Peng appointed Ma Teng as the governor of Liangzhou in early January of the first year of Jian'an, he sent a secret spy to him, telling him that this move would inevitably lead to civil strife in Liangzhou, which was very likely that Han Sui had to ask him for help. At that time, Cao Ren could not remain unmoved.

We must seize the opportunity and let Han Sui cooperate with him to take down Long Di, break the barrier of Liangzhou, and then annex Liangzhou, eliminate the warlords of Liangzhou, completely occupy Liangzhou, and eliminate the biggest threat in the north.

Then, you can go south with all your might.

So when Cao Ren learned that Han Sui's confidant Cheng Gongying came to pay his respects, his heart beat faster and he realized that the opportunity might have come.

Guo Peng specially transferred 30,000 troops to repair Tongguan. The purpose was very simple, to let the Liangzhou warlords with simple minds and developed limbs relax their guards, and to let these military leaders who were less likely to suffer a huge loss.

The plank road was built openly and crossed Chencang secretly.

Have you heard of these big words? If you don’t know how to read the shoulder pole, you don’t know if it’s a single word?

Do you understand?

Reading is really important.

Cao Ren did not meet Cheng Gongying immediately, but let Cheng Gongying go for five days. When Cheng Gongying was anxious and about to get angry, he met Cheng Gongying with an impatient look on his face.

Then Cheng Gongying anxiously handed Han Sui's letter to Cao Ren and explained his purpose.

Cao Ren took it and read it again, and was furious.

"Ma Shoucheng actually said such words? Do such things?!"

Cao Ren seemed very annoyed: "I will send someone to question him immediately. You can go back and tell Han not to worry."

Cheng Gongying was shocked.

"No, General! If this happens, wouldn't it be a frightening attack? Ma Teng will definitely attack Han Bie immediately, Han Bie is in danger! Please send troops to rescue him!"

"send troops?"

Cao Ren's face was stunned and hesitated: "It is impossible to act rashly without the orders of Duke Wei. Duke Wei does not intend to start a rash battle now. Duke Wei wants to rest with the people, recuperate, send troops to fight, etc., which is inappropriate or inappropriate."

"But once Ma Teng kills Han Biejia to rebel Liangzhou, Duke Wei can't do it even if he wants to resign and support the people! Now it's all up to Han Biejia to support him. Once Han Biejia can't support him, Liangzhou will inevitably be in chaos. Is this the situation that Duke Wei wants to see?"

Cheng Gongying asked a question immediately.

Cao Ren looked thoughtful.

"What you said makes sense, but Ma Shoucheng is the governor of Liangzhou appointed by Duke Wei personally, how could he do such a thing?"

Cao Ren looked at Cheng Gongying suspiciously.

Cheng Gongying immediately expressed his thoughts.

"In the early years, Ma Shoucheng and Han Biejia had a relationship, but the relationship was not deep, but there were many conflicts. Therefore, Ma Shoucheng had always hated Han Biejia. This time, Wei Gong made a statement that Ma Shoucheng was the governor of Liangzhou. Ma Shoucheng was successful and immediately began to retaliate against Han Biejia.

He wanted to annex Han Biejia's army to grow bigger by himself. Now many of Han Biejia's people have betrayed Han Biejia and defected to Ma Shoucheng. Once Ma Shoucheng has great power, he will inevitably harass Guanzhong. Duke Wei longs for rest with the people, but Ma Shoucheng will not.

Ma Shoucheng will definitely send troops to harass him. At that time, Duke Wei will have to dispatch a large army to pacify Liangzhou, and will have to pay a great price to do so. Is this what the general and Duke Wei are looking forward to?"

Cao Ren seemed to be shaken by Cheng Gongying's words, and thought deeply, indicating that what Cheng Gongying said made sense.

"What you said is not without reason, but this matter is very important. After all, Ma Shoucheng is the governor of Liangzhou who was granted by the imperial court..."

"If the general is willing to send troops to help, Han Biejia is willing to offer gold and war horses to the general to repay the general. If the matter is successful, the rebel Ma Teng will be killed, Han Biejia is willing to offer the two counties of Wudu County and Beidi County to Duke Wei to repay the re-creation of Duke Wei!"

Cao Ren suddenly glared at his eyes.

"So you're serious?"

"Be serious! Wish you a vow!"

"in this way……"

After Cao Ren had some "careful" thinking, he slapped the table: "I will send someone back with you immediately to discuss the cooperation matters. I will wait for the news here. As soon as the news arrives, I will send troops together to kill the rebels!"
Chapter completed!