At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty

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Basically, except for small daggers with daily functions, no iron weapons are allowed.

The reason is also very simple. The Wei Empire completely forbids the possession of weapons by civilians. Bringing weapons here will threaten their safety and cause them injury. Therefore, it is not allowed to bring long weapons into the Wei Empire.

It is for your face to let you carry the dagger, otherwise the dagger will not let you bring it in.

As for your safety, you must unconditionally trust the security forces of the Wei Empire.

Do not believe?

Then don't come, one more of you is not more, one less of you is not much.

This is the policy at the border, either drop your weapons and come in, or go back the same way.

No one would have trouble with money, so most of the merchants chose to leave their weapons and hand them over to Wei Jun for safekeeping, and only kept their daggers to enter the Wei Empire to do business.

A small number of those who didn't believe in the Wei Empire's law and order capabilities could only go back the same way angrily and complain to the end.

Of course, the Wei Empire soon used practical actions to let them know what "public order" is, so it didn't take long for merchants to know that there is no need to bring any self-defense weapons when doing business in the Wei Empire, which is meaningless.

They believed in the level of law and order in the Wei Empire, and they have never had any worries in this regard since then.

Some teams didn't even carry a dagger, and complete businessmen would relax after entering the territory of the Wei Empire, and would not have the worry of encountering bandits and bandits in their own country.

This can't be blamed on them. Who told us that apart from the Wei Empire's efforts to crack down on thieves and bandits and repair traffic roads, their own government did not do this at all?

Doing business these days, if you don’t go in groups and bring some weapons, you really dare not go on a long journey, otherwise you will encounter groups of horse bandits roaring on the road, and you will die.

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

Who can think of it?

The high-ranking Sima Duhu actually ended up robbing them personally, threatening them to hand over their money and goods.

In their view, the Wei Empire, whose business environment is like heaven, actually has such a situation!

Anyway, they had no choice but to spend money to buy peace, spend money to eliminate disasters, and pooled a large sum of money in exchange for Sima Yi's protection and disaster relief.

Then he scolded Sima Yi in his heart that his son was immature, and he would die a good death. After death, his soul would have nowhere to go, so he could only wander in the world forever, being a lonely ghost.

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

As long as there is enough money, any crisis can be overcome.

Relying on 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, the traders and merchants relieved their urgent needs, resolved the turnover crisis, and handed over the arrears of wages to the workers.

The workers got their wages and returned to their homes outside the city with peace of mind. They went to the fields with their families to cultivate again, resumed production, and stopped making trouble.

The threat of crisis is less, and the pressure on Sima Yi is also less.

Next, there are widely bankrupt restaurants and hotels that rely on the flow of people to support their businesses. This cannot be solved simply with money.

This group of people was hit at first, and it was hit harder and harder than farmers and traders, so it was more miserable.

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

If it is said that these accounts can be found by the responsible person and slowly filled by agricultural production, then a series of operating losses have already made some families overwhelmed. rise.

Life has lost hope, with no end in sight.

If they abandon the land and run away, or even worse, commit suicide, it is not only a civil affairs problem, but also a serious financial problem.

Not only will it affect his reputation as an official, but it will also make those loans really bad and irretrievable.

Both the Ministry of Civil Affairs and the Ministry of Finance will have opinions on him, which is not good for his promotion to the central government.

How can this work?

How can my career be affected?

Sima Yi felt that helping people to the end, sending Buddha to the west, bullying people should also bully thoroughly, leaving no hidden dangers.

So he decided to cheat at last... no, cheating... also wrong!

One last time to ask those merchants to rest in peace.

Let them bleed some more, give some money to the government, and let the government have money to cancel the excessive debts of some merchants, so that they can afford to pay back the money, so that they will not commit suicide and cause unnecessary incidents.

Then he told the merchants in Anxi that if they didn't do this, Sima Yi would expel them from the state of Wei and drive them back to Anxi in the midst of the war, so that they would be ravaged by the rebels and lose everything.

The Anxi merchants who settled in the city were terrified and almost collapsed.

How far do you want to bully us before letting us go?

To what extent do you have to be treacherous to let us go?

It's the first time to come to Wei country, the first time to experience exotic customs, and the first time to make so much money. How pleasant is this?

The three pleasant things together should have been even more pleasant things, allowing us to reach the pinnacle of life!

But why, things turned out like this?

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

We are thousands of miles away and have nothing to do with the domestic war, why are you inciting people to bully us?

What did we do wrong?

Being cheated by you again and again, and being threatened by you to hand over money, we are almost out of money!

This time, I still need so much money, and I have a bigger appetite each time. This time I will satisfy you. Do you have other requirements next time? !

Is it time to kill us?

No!Resolutely don't give it!

They pose like this.

They acted spontaneously, organized, and jointly protested, driving the officials sent by Sima Yi out of the street where they lived together, showing a resolute non-cooperation.

Sima Yi became angry, and dispatched the police to arrest the early bird, confiscated his property, forcibly escorted him from his own home, drove him out of the city, and sent people to escort him all the way west to drive him out of Wei. territory of the empire.

Good guy, really hands-on.

The businessman who led the rebellion screamed and was expelled from Ningmi City, and the atmosphere in the city suddenly became very strange.

Facing the tyrannical force, the terrified Anxi merchants immediately gave up resistance. They were very afraid that Sima Yi would drive them out of Wei State and return to the war-torn Anxi Empire.

They knew a little about the current situation of the Parthian Empire through their relatives and friends who escaped before, and they dared not go back at all.

It is said that civil strife has broken out within the Parthian Empire, and some ambitious guys have risen to overthrow the rule of Altaban V. The entire Parthian Empire is in turmoil at the top, and the provinces at the bottom are also in chaos.

The Romans are gone, but peace has not returned, the authority of the emperor no longer exists, and ambitious conspirators flock to compete for the dominance of the empire, and it is still unknown who will die.

Now I don't know how chaotic the Anxi Kingdom is going to be, and I don't know how many more wars will happen. Going back is tantamount to courting death. It is safest to hide in the peaceful Wei Kingdom.

Who wants to go back?

So they could only pool a sum of money again, and told Sima Yi with snot and tears that they were really hollowed out and drained, not a drop...ah no, not a penny.

There can be no next time! ! !

Next time, we will commit suicide collectively!Let you not get a penny!

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

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

I guarantee that you will be properly protected and arranged, and no one will come to harm you.

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

He found those who owed a lot of debts and found it difficult to pay off the debts, reconciled with Ren Yong, and then wrote off their excessive debts, leaving them to the extent that they could repay, and let them repay through agricultural production.

Of course it’s not enough to pay it all off, and the money is not so much. Cut some of them and leave what they can afford, so as to help more people.

Using this blackmailed money, Sima Yi solved the debt crisis of the Annan Governor's Mansion in one go.

The crisis in the Annan Protectorate's Mansion is slowly coming to an end.

Chapter 1564. One thousand four hundred and eighty four

Ren Yong was very puzzled about Sima Yi's smooth resolution of the debt crisis.

"Where did you get the money? Can you cancel the debts owed by so many merchants?"

Ren Yong asked with doubts on his face: "Didn't you rob someone? You are an official of the court, not a bandit. You can't learn from the officials who were robbers in the former Han Dynasty!"

If you do something, tell me quickly, and I can help you take a look. If you don’t tell me, you will be responsible for the problem. I don’t care about you, don’t blame me. "

Sima Yi waved his hands and laughed.

"Mr. Ren, you are too good at joking. How could Yi be that kind of person? Yi just did what he was supposed to do. Don't worry, the source of this money definitely does not violate the law and is absolutely clean. It is still possible to use this money to help merchants solve their debts."

After Sima Yi finished speaking, he left, leaving Ren Yong in doubt for a long time before sending someone to investigate the source of the money - he was still worried, suspecting that the money came from a wrong source.

How can money appear inexplicably?

You, Sima Yi, don't have the authority to mint coins either.

Could it be that the money was obtained from someone or a group?

But it was too late for Sima Yi to announce his achievements.

He called the merchants who were red-eyed because of their debts and told them that because of Sima Yi's activity, after negotiating with relevant departments, most of their debts have been forgiven, and they only need to bear the remaining small part.

The merchants couldn't believe it, and asked Sima Yi what was going on.

Sima Yi smiled and said nothing, just told them that they don't have to bear so much debt, they can go to the Ministry of Finance official office to reconcile the account tomorrow, and then slowly repay the debt according to the relevant amount.

However, this time, you are not allowed to escape the debt!

The merchants were immediately moved, and they were so grateful to Sima Yi that they almost knelt down to Sima Yi.

In a short period of time, the negative impact of Sima Yi's previous behavior of dispatching the police to forcibly close many shops disappeared, and was replaced by more intense praise.

Praise Sima Yi's benevolent government to relieve the people from suffering.

Merchants went to the Ministry of Finance to consult and learned that a large part of their debts had really been written off, leaving only some that they could definitely afford.

Even if you only rely on the production of the land at home, you can definitely pay back the clean part!

Very good!

Very good!

For a while, the entire city of Ningmi was full of praises for Sima Yi, praising Sima Yi for his special ability.

Sima Yi was very happy, and felt that such a good thing couldn't be done only in Ningmi City.

So Sima Yi went on to attack the Anxi businessmen in several other cities, intimidating and luring them to pay the Governor's Mansion to settle the crisis.

Faced with Sima Yi's threat of power, Anxi merchants had no choice but to accept Sima Yi's conditions and hand over money in exchange for their own safety.

The Anxi merchants were squeezed dry, and the debt crisis of most people was lifted. The debt crisis was settled and limited to a tolerable range. This wave of economic crisis has actually come to an end, and there is no harm.

Sima Yi led the Annan Protectorate's Mansion through the crisis. Next, he dragged his injured body while recovering while waiting for the next economic recovery.

At this time, it was May of the second year of Xingyuan.

Guo Peng led the team along the Shannan Dachi Road to the Annan Protectorate's Mansion. Along the way, he witnessed the Annan Protectorate's Mansion from panic and social disorder to the restoration of stable social operation and the resumption of production by farmers.

Sima Yi did a good job. He stabilized the order of the Annan Protectorate with great courage, and he never used a single soldier. At most, he used the police in his hands to maintain law and order.

Then the entire Annan Protectorate's Mansion praised him for his ability to do things, to stabilize people's hearts, and to help everyone reduce losses.

For such a situation, Guo Chengzhi was very happy, and praised Sima Yi for his ability to do things. He felt that Zhuge Liang was a good person, and he could recommend excellent officials to Guo Peng.

However, Guo Peng asked people to go out to inquire about the news, and caught some unusual information from some gossip in the streets and alleys.

Then Guo Peng went directly to meet the magistrate of a county, revealed his identity, and learned from the county magistrate how Sima Yi solved the economic crisis by stabilizing people at a very fast speed.

"So, Sima Zhongda got a huge sum of money from Anxi merchant, wrote off most of the debts, and solved this crisis?"

"That's it."

Li Feng, magistrate of Xicheng County, sat beside Guo Peng, carefully watching Guo Peng's expression.

He didn't know that when Guo Peng came here, all his thoughts were on dealing with the crisis. If Guo Peng hadn't revealed his identity, he would have thought it was some rich old man who came to visit him and wanted to do business here.

In the end, it was the Supreme Emperor.