Chapter 102 The “Cornucopia” plan against Yuan Shao!
"how is this possible?"

Lu Bu's first reaction to Ji Hao's words was disbelief, because to a person at Yuan Shao's level, owning five states and a million troops, he was already a powerful figure with overwhelming power.

It is almost impossible for conspiracy to shake it.

In this case, what kind of "huge thunderbolt" can blow him up?
"Nothing is impossible. When a person's vision is not limited to the present, many things that seem to be impregnable will become riddled with holes." Ji Hao smiled and said, "This was the case with the Han Dynasty in the past, and it is also the case with Yuan Shao today."

Having said that, he turned around, looked at Guo Jia and said, "We can start implementing our 'Treasure Bowl' plan!"

Guo Jia smiled and nodded when he heard this.

At this moment, I don’t know if it was an illusion, but everyone felt that the wind this spring was colder than in previous years!
……

The loss of Chang'an City was the turning point of the coalition's expedition against Yuan Shao. After taking control of the emperor and his ministers, Yuan Shao was unstoppable and captured the entire Sizhou in a very short time. Liu Bei, the king who had originally been the pillar of the court, retreated to Hanzhong and relied on the natural barrier to avoid Yuan Shao's edge.

Many people felt that Yuan Shao's momentum was set and he could no longer be stopped.

He himself felt the same way.

Although Yan Liang and Wen Chou were killed, which was a heavy loss, he still had Zhang He and a bunch of second- and third-rate generals. His son could lead troops, and so could his nephew Yuan Yao. In the short term, the impact was not that great.

When the army is at its peak, the disadvantage of lacking a capable general will not be apparent.

"Attack the city, lead the army to attack Luoyang and take Chengtian Ferry. No one in this world can rival me!" Yuan Shao gave the order and launched a general attack on Luoyang City.

However, this time, it was completely opposite to Chang'an City.

Chang'an is like paper, which will break at the slightest touch, but Luoyang City is as solid as a rock.

The ten-zhang-high city wall reinforced by Ji Hao was like a mountain, insurmountable. Ji Hao, who mastered cement, also piled a large number of cement bricks on the city wall. Whenever Yuan Shao attacked the city, the soldiers would throw stones down desperately.

Once smashed, there is no sound.

As a result, the battle situation once again became a stalemate.

At this time, in Jizhou, Yuan Shao's old nest, something called "longevity wine" quietly spread.

The person who invented it was called Punchi, also known by his courtesy name Youqian, a famous winemaker.

He is a illegitimate son of the top aristocratic family "Pang Family" and is a relative of Pang Tong, Pang Degong and others. He inherited his father's winery twenty years ago and has been making wine diligently ever since then.

He had a big business and was a staunch supporter of Yuan Shao, often donating money to the army.

As long as it was Yuan Shao's territory, he would expand his business.

After Yuan Shao took over Sizhou, he expanded his business to the entire Sizhou, increased his investment, and developed a health-preserving medicinal wine called "Changsheng Wine".

This kind of wine is not only highly alcoholic, spicy and delicious, but also has health benefits.

Just take a sip and you will feel refreshed and not tired for several hours.

It is loved by all major families.

The longevity wine is divided into "nine grades", from high to low, divided into first grade, second grade... all the way to ninth grade longevity wine, from kings and nobles to ordinary people, everyone can drink it.

The only difference is that what ordinary people drink is a little bit harder to drink and has no "health-preserving" effect.

But ordinary people love it more.

Because they can sell it, as long as they join and become the distributor of "Ponzi Winery", they can distribute it through layers and make money by selling wine - this part is the routine of "pyramid selling" in later generations.

In just one year, it spread to four states, and even in one month, it covered Sizhou.

But in this regard, Punch did not cheat anyone.

Although ordinary people were trapped in "pyramid schemes", Ji Hao, the instigator of everything, had no intention of targeting ordinary people, so they really made money from it.

Relying on selling wine, tens of millions of people became rich. The wine shop also became prosperous and became the largest commercial organization under Yuan Shao.

Once upon a time, Yuan Shao also had doubts.

But Pang Qi is from the Pang family. Born into an aristocratic family, he is naturally on the opposite side of Ji Hao. There is no reason for him to be "Mr. Datong". The winery he opened is also ancestral property, which he inherited only 20 years ago, and his ancestors had been running it for more than a hundred years.

It is impossible that it has anything to do with Ji Hao.

Everyone knows that before Ji Hao entered the world (traveled through time), he lived alone in the mountains and did not care about worldly affairs.

Therefore, after some investigation, Yuan Shao trusted Pang Qi more.

After all, the "taxes" he paid were real money.

Under such circumstances, Pang Qi recently launched the "First-class Longevity Wine" and aggressively solicited investment, promising that anyone who participated in the investment would receive a 40% profit return within one month and double the principal within two months.

Due to its huge scale and long-standing credibility, investors are flocking to it.

He kept his promise and in the first month, he distributed four times the original capital as dividends to the first batch of investors, and also promptly paid those who withdrew their principal.

It made those who invested at the beginning smile.

Make those who were originally on the sidelines regret not investing money.

As a result, a second larger batch of funds poured in, and all the major families rushed to join in - the status of Changsheng Liquor itself was there, and it was a business that was sure to make money, so what reason was there not to invest in?
It’s not like the wealthy and powerful families don’t eat grains.

In the second month, Ponchi kept his promise and distributed a large amount of dividends.

Everyone made additional investments.

In this cycle, almost all merchants and families in Jizhou, Youzhou, Bingzhou, Liangzhou, and Sizhou got involved, earning more and more money and investing more and more.

Punch is very heroic.

In particular, he gave huge concessions to the tens of millions of people who sold alcohol and compensated them generously.

The major families also received a large amount of dividends.

The investment is even greater.

During this period, Jizhou was not without risk control, but Pang Qi only did business within Yuan Shao's territory, and no funds flowed out. It seemed that there was no risk, so Yuan Shao did not ask any more questions.

until a certain day.

When Yuan Shao's eldest son Yuan Tan was preparing to take back part of the principal in order to raise military supplies for his father, he was rejected by the winery on the grounds that the investment funds had been turned into wine and could only be taken back after it was sold.

There's nothing wrong with that.

At first, Yuan Tan didn’t think much about it. He just asked for a specific time and went back.

However, when the time came and he went there again, he was still rejected.

The reasons are exactly the same.

This made him feel something was wrong, and he hurried to inquire about the situation. It turned out that all the money invested by the major families was trapped, and dividends had not been paid for three months.

As for why it was so calm, there was no rumor at all.

That's because the money from selling wine to the common people was still paid, and the base amount of up to 10 million covered up the less than 1% of the wealthy families and nobles.

"What is Pang Qi doing? Someone, go and call him over to me!" Yuan Tan said.

(End of this chapter)