In today's world, the US dollar is bound to oil, and trading crude oil must be traded in US dollars, which has established the US dollar's status as the world currency and also allows the United States to harvest other countries at will. , energy crisis caused by this Russian-Ukraine war, , was regarded by the United States as a scythe to cut Europe.
But if you look at these tricks in the United States carefully, they have been used many times in our long history. Below we will talk about some wonderful examples of the ancient countries' economic war .
The earliest economic war recorded in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period was . The ministers of Qi State . Guan Zhong .
Duke Huan of Qi has always wanted to occupy the territory of Lu , so he asked Guan Zhong, Lu is like us, is there any good way to conquer Lu?
Guan Zhong pondered for a moment: " I heard that the Lu silk made by the people of Lu State is very good. Please take the lead in wearing clothes made of Lu silk, and order that the people of Qi will not allow textile production of Lu silk, but only allow them to buy from Lu State. We will purchase them at a high price, so that our Qi people will engage in grain production more ."
The news slowly spread to Lu State. When the people of Lu State heard this, there was such a good thing? Where can I earn more food? The whole people attack and textile production. A year later, the whole country of Lu was weaving and grain was purchased from nearby countries.
Guan Zhong then ordered that from now on, the Chinese people will no longer use Lu silk made in Lu, and instead use silk clothes. At the same time, the order was issued to close the trade checkpoints with Lu and not to have trade between the two countries. Not long after, Lu's country was piled up like mountains of scattered in the country, but there were not a few grains of food, and they were hungry all over the country. At this time, Guan Zhong ordered to lower the grain prices in Qi, but the export of grain to Lu is still not allowed. At this time, due to food shortage in Lu, the price of grain soared, and a stone of grain costs one thousand yuan. As a neighbor, Qi State had a lot of food, only ten coins per stone of grain. Soon, 60% of the people of Lu State surrendered to Qi State. Three years later, the lost king of Lu was forced to surrender to Qi.
Check out this wave of operations by Guan Zhong more than 2,000 years ago, and then look at the current operations of British Prime Minister Trass, and the difference is immediately judged by .
Another example is the Shu Kingdom's 100 coins during the Three Kingdoms period. This is a currency issued by Liu Bei when he was in Yizhou. Various currencies during the Three Kingdoms period were in chaos. Each country issued its own currencies, such as Wei State Wei Wuzhu , and Wu State Daquan coins. The Shu Kingdom stipulated that one straight 100 coins were exchanged for 100 coins of Wuzhu coins, but the copper content was only 3-4 times that of 1 Wuzhu coins, so it was actually equivalent to an imaginary currency.
Then who can guarantee the credit of this currency? Unless the government forces the transaction to use direct 100 yuan, who would use this "bad currency" with lower copper content? Even if it is used in Shu, why should Wei and Wu use 100% coins? In fact, this kind of money was still widely circulated during the Three Kingdoms period, which makes people wonder how this is done?
In fact, it was not popular when Liu Bei was in power. It was actually due to the fact that it was Zhuge Liang's . Zhuge Liang used a very advanced idea to ensure the monetary status of 100 coins. The idea of is to link 100 coins with Shujin . It is necessary to buy 100 coins. 100 coins at that time. 100 coins were used for 100 coins at that time. 100 coins were used in the " Shu Han " clearly records that from the wife of two thousand stones to the queen, all silkworm clothes were used as court wards, and in the world, Shujin was the best. When I saw this, did I think that the US dollar is linked to oil, and Russia requires that the purchase of energy must be settled in rubles? Zhuge Liang proposed this approach 1800 years ago, which was an economic war of dimensional reduction at that time.
Through this operation, Shu Kingdom exchanged the Wuzhu coins with higher copper and iron content, and melted them into weapons and agricultural tools. In turn, it promoted the economic development of Shu Kingdom and gradually became rich in people's livelihood, which also laid the economic foundation for Zhuge Liang's several northern expeditions.
So it’s not that I exaggerated it for the ancients, but that those sages were indeed full of great wisdom, which makes people sigh that the current world situation is just another historical reincarnation.
