At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the world was in chaos, the princes were divided, Wei, Shu, and Wu took advantage of the rise, and the three kingdoms were established. This was an extremely chaotic era, and when there was a struggle between political powers, there was bound to be the outbreak of war, and war meant the emergence of new rights, the change of new situations, and there were often mergers of princes of different sizes on this territory, including the famous Battle of Chibi and the Battle of Yiling.
These wars often require extremely high human, financial and material resources, grain and grass, and rewards for officials, which is also the most basic facility to support a team, so in such a war-torn period, how can we get support, and where does this money come from?
During the Three Kingdoms period, there were many princes themselves who were princes and nobles, and naturally had a lot of wealth under them, but there were also some princes from poor backgrounds, so how did they do it? However, returning to the essence of war, excessive land annexation wars, even if cao Cao is difficult to support. As the most powerful prince in the Three Kingdoms period, Cao Cao not only had his strong generals and outstanding abilities, but his family lineage was also very famous. His grandfather was a confidant of the emperor at that time, and the young Cao Cao, with the support of his family, raised an army against Dong Zhuo, but with the outbreak of internal conflicts among the Eighteenth Route princes, Cao Cao also became a force on his own, and also found a way to touch the Jin Lieutenant.
The occupation of land during the Three Kingdoms period was a symbol of power, so at this time the land was controlled by the princes. Cao Cao, who had been reading poetry since childhood, learned that the tombs of many emperors and nobles in ancient times were very grand, and there were many precious funerary items, so Cao Cao deliberately organized a team to dig up the tombs of the emperors and nobles everywhere, obtain money and feed Cao Wei's army, but this practice was too immoral.
So how did Liu Bei, who was also one of the founding of the Three Kingdoms, support the survival of the army? In his early years, Liu Bei was only a commoner, his family was poor, and his conquests for many years only relied on the support of the nobles of the imperial palace to survive, but with the expansion of his power, the number of regions and soldiers increased rapidly, which could no longer satisfy the entire Shu Han army.
At this time, the soldiers under him came up with a plan for Liu Bei, the five baht coin during the Three Kingdoms period was the common currency of the people, and if a new currency we made appeared, the income from mass production could be rapidly expanded. This method worked very well, and soon gained a lot of benefits for the Shu Han army, using the currency they produced to exchange for the army's food and equipment, which can be described as a method that is more than worth the loss. However, this kind of means can only be used for a while, and long-term investment in the people will make the people complain and lose the people's hearts, so that the Shu Han has lost something more important than money.
From the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty to the Three Kingdoms period, as one of the most turbulent periods in China's history, it was not only the struggle for political power, but also the lives of the people were impoverished because of perennial wars. The princes were very poor in terms of money, not to mention the peasants who lived on the land, the so-called war promoted the development of the times, and the lives of the people were closely linked to the danger of the world.