Chapter 488 Financial Attacks Begin to Show Power

"What's so interesting, the little girl is just a prisoner of yours. General Zhang can say anything at any time, and the little girl just obey." Sun Shangxiang said calmly.

Zhang Yu never took Sun Shangxiang as a hostage, and he just said it casually at the beginning.

In Zhang Yu's view, hostages are useless at all, the most important thing is strength.

As long as he is strong enough, he is not afraid that Sun Ce will not pay back the money.

In the same way, if you have no strength, what if you let Sun Ce come as a hostage?

"Haha, I didn't take you as a hostage. If you want to leave, you can leave at any time. Of course, I have never sent anyone to watch you." Zhang Yu said.

Sun Shangxiang remained silent, how could she not care about the identity of the hostage, she cared very much.

Zhang Yu saw the resistance in Sun Shangxiang's heart, so he said: "Okay, I won't bother you anymore, you can ask for anything you need, and I will try my best to help you. In other words, if your brother hadn't attacked me first, I would have been with you back then. Your father is still a close friend."

Sun Shangxiang understood that Zhang Yu had helped Sun Jian a lot and also Sun Ce a lot back then. Zhang Yu had helped a lot when their Sun family was able to gain a foothold in Changsha.

It was also Sun Ce who attacked Zhang Yu first, trying to destroy Zhang Yu, and provoked Zhang Yu to retaliate.

"Is it really possible to ask for it?" Sun Shangxiang said at this time.

"Of course, I can help if I can," Zhang Yu said.

"I want to go to school." Sun Shangxiang said.

Zhang Yu scratched his head strangely, and then said: "I have never prohibited any women's college from going to school, you can go anyway, no one will dare to stop you, right?"

"But I am a hostage, no one dares to teach me." Sun Shangxiang said.

It turned out that this was the reason, and Zhang Yu also had a headache.

After thinking for a while, he said, "Okay, I will personally apply for a student status for you. Students have the right to attend classes in any school."

Zhang Yu can only help here, because if many teachers are unwilling to teach, then Zhang Yu is helpless, and he can't force them to teach Sun Shangxiang.

After all, there is still a lot of prejudice against women in this era.

Zhang Yu didn't want to change this thinking all at once.

Sun Shangxiang nodded silently, and then whispered thank you.

Zhang Yu didn't stay any longer, but continued to do his own thing.

This time, he did not dare to be sloppy at letting the masters in the academy give an open class.

Zhang Yu walked around and recorded the areas that needed to be rectified before going to the teachers of the college.

Zhang Yu confirmed the members of the open class with them.

This time Zhang Yu is going to make a big one, and he will not only talk about Chinese studies.

Maybe Lu Zhi, Cai Yong and most of them only talked about the classics and their meanings, but Zhang Yu wanted to tell them more.

Even if they are not interested, even if it is regarded as miscellaneous, Zhang Yu has to talk about it, and it is good to attract some interested people.

Zhang Yu stayed in the academy for several days and met Cai Yan twice. The two chatted like friends for a long time, but they didn't talk about the upcoming wedding.

The two talked a lot about poetry, but fortunately Zhang Yu has a strong memory and knowledge of future generations, so he can handle it.

Zhang Yu's memory is so strong because it has been strengthened several times.

Zhang Yu didn't go back until the academy's affairs were settled.

After Zhang Yu left, many places in the college began to be rectified.

The first place to be rectified is the two gazebos in the college. All the facilities around the gazebos have been demolished and flowers and plants have been planted.

Zhang Yu wanted to arrange two large gazebos as the master's school, and asked Lu Zhi and Cai Yong to give lectures in the gazebos.

After finishing these, Zhang Yu went back.

After returning, Zhang Yu has been paying attention to the dynamics of the whole world.

First of all, Zhang Yu is very concerned about his neighbor Xuzhou.

Zhang Yu called in the person in charge of intelligence.

"What is the situation that I want you to pay attention to?" Zhang Yu asked in his study.

The person in charge of intelligence, Zhang Yu, asked him to set up a special team to investigate the situation of money shortage in Xuzhou.

"My lord, as you expected, the people of Xuzhou don't have much copper coins to use. Not only them, but according to what I know, there is indeed a serious money shortage in Xuzhou. Even Xuzhou's tax revenue has been reduced a lot."

Xuzhou's tax revenue decreased a lot, but Tao Qian didn't notice it, thinking it was because of the war.

In fact, there is a lot of money shortage in the whole Han Dynasty. The simple reason is that the population has suddenly skyrocketed, and then the coins have not increased much.

Another reason is that more and more money is concentrated in the aristocratic family, and the money in the hands of the common people is getting less and less.

There is only so much money. If an average person can have ten copper coins, now that the population has increased several times, the average is only one copper coin.

Then most of the money is in the hands of the aristocratic family, and the coins in the hands of the common people may have an average of one copper coin per person.

In this way, the transaction is very inconvenient.

It may be fine in other places, but not in areas such as Jiangdong and Liaodong, because the economy is active under Zhang Yu's rule, and copper coins are necessary.

Tao Qian from Xuzhou, along with a group of high-level officials, did not find that there was a serious money shortage among the people, and many people wanted to barter.

A lot of troubles arose during this process. Maybe they wanted to buy salt, but they didn’t have the money to exchange it for grain, but the price of grain was lowered slightly, which caused the common people to suffer.

Moreover, in order to barter, both parties need to be in demand, which increases the difficulty of the transaction.

The government collects taxes, and the people have no copper coins in their hands, so they can only pay other things.

It is also very inconvenient for the government to collect a lot of sweet potatoes.

"Okay, don't think that there would be no financial crisis in ancient times. When people have too little money and transactions are difficult, various problems will also arise." Zhang Yu said after listening to the report.

Generally speaking, there is a money shortage in the whole Han Dynasty, the most serious one is Xuzhou, and then Jingzhou.

Jingzhou is rich and the people live relatively well, but because Zhang Yu dumped a lot of goods there and took away a lot of copper coins, and a lot of copper coins were taken away by Cai Mao, so there was a money shortage in Jingzhou.

The third place where there is a money shortage is Zhang Yu's territory, because Zhang Yu's economy is too active and needs a lot of copper coins.

Fortunately, Zhang Yu has a strong ability to absorb money, and he earned a lot of copper money from outside.

Now that copper coins are more abundant, Zhang Yu spends copper coins through various channels, so that the copper coins in the hands of the people gradually increase.

Today, Zhang Yu has minted a large number of coins, and the money shortage can be solved.

"I'm really looking forward to what kind of problems will arise in the ancient money shortage." Zhang Yu said after listening to the report.

Xuzhou's market is completely open to Zhang Yu, and some private businessmen have gradually penetrated into Xuzhou, but their scale is still small.

Zhang Yu's policy of emphasizing business has always been unfavorable. Although Zhang Yu's rule is rich, he is still not favored.

But if someone conducts in-depth research, he will find that it is true that Zhang Yu is focusing on business, but he has not relaxed at all in agriculture, and has invested more than anyone else. If he takes out agriculture, Zhang Yu is definitely the one who supports and invests the most in agriculture. The strongest system to dominate the Three Kingdoms