In fact, just as Liu Chan was fighting in Yizhou for more than a month, he was winning people's hearts, and when Lu Su wanted to write eight letters to Zhou Yu in one day to urge him to provide supplies and fleets, Zhou Yu was almost forced to crazy in this month.

A month ago, Zhou Yu was a handsome middle-aged man with a graceful and elegant charming middle-aged man. Now, his hair is almost bald by him.

Compared to the military, the economic failure made Zhou Yu even more at a loss because of the limitations of the times. Although the economic development speed can be said to be very fast, whether it is the Han Dynasty or the Eastern Wu, the speed of economic development can be said to be very fast.

In fact, most bureaucratic groups are all economic laymen.

At least no one has seen what an economic crisis is.

For example, the Eastern Wu has always been an economy with a high degree of dependence on foreign countries, and the imperial court's ability to control the private economy is far less than that of the Han Dynasty. Even if some knowledgeable people have far-sighted ideas about something in advance, they are only limited to hoarding materials and establishing institutions like Changping Store.

After all, no one in this world has experienced an economic crisis, and no one knows what a rapid development of social and economic crisis represents.

As the Han army attacked Shu, Guan Yu entered the public security, but there was no need to fight at all. Changsha County's economy was already severely damaged.

The so-called Changsha County and even the entire Jingnan County, the core area is the later Hunan Province, which is basically a pure inland area, with relatively barren resources and not very convenient water transportation.

Although reclaiming wasteland and building water conservancy has always been the basic national policy of the Eastern Wu over the past fifteen years, whether from a political or economic perspective, we must give priority to the development of Yangzhou, which has led to the overall development level of Changsha County still at a relatively low level.

The overall development level is low, and there is no strong industry. The government has a relatively low control over the economy and adapts to local conditions. Fortunately, the distance here is really close to Nanjun, so it naturally develops into a smuggling-based incoming material processing industry group.

After all, Nanjun is the border between the three families of Han, Shu and Wu, and has a shared sector. Because of the tacit understanding between Liu Xie and Sun Ce, the Han Dynasty has always turned a blind eye to the so-called smuggling, which is actually no different from general cross-border trade.

Because Changsha has limited development, the labor cost is naturally relatively low. Using raw materials from Shu Kingdom to produce products and selling them to Nanjun to make money from the Han Dynasty has always been the economic development model of Changsha.

Many small and medium-sized iron smelting enterprises have been built here, but they all use coke and iron ore from Shu Kingdom, and there are almost very few iron ore locally.

In addition, tea is also a very important economic product of the four counties in Jingnan, but it is mainly sold to Nanjun.

This has led to the fact that the important areas of Changsha County and even the entire four counties in Jiangnan are all located in the north of the county, basically arranged along the river channel. Of course, there is no problem with the Taiping period. However, now the war between the two sides has allowed Guan Yu to directly hit several important industrial areas on the other side with only crossbows and new catapults.

More importantly, both sides of the raw materials and sales have been completely reduced due to this war, so there is no need to think about starting work. Seeing Zhou Yu personally come to Changsha to take charge, as the war progresses worsens, there are already signs of forced recruitment. In this war, most of the business owners simply throw away their business and mess, and run away to the south with their family and family property.

Only tens of thousands of workers and slaves were left to Zhou Yu.

Zhou Yu still has no money in his hands.

Then, due to the collapse of the pillar industries, the entire Changsha County collapsed in all industries at a speed visible to the naked eye, and the number of unemployed workers rapidly expanded by hundreds of thousands, but even if they wanted these people to return to their hometowns to farm, they could not be able to do it in a short while.

So Zhou Yu naturally thought of a way to solve the problem of using labor for relief, that is, to organize hundreds of thousands of unemployed people, men and women, build more than a dozen super-large factories, so that they can be responsible for the production of weapons, especially large-scale crossbows, crossbows, catapults, and Guan Yu fire at each other.

At the beginning, it was quite smooth, but the problem came soon, because military merit construction is a purely consumed industry for the overall society. Until we win, it was a bottomless pit that could not see any profit at all.

Therefore, these hundreds of thousands of workers who have been integrated into work by labor-for-relief have become social groups with a scale of tens of thousands of people and a strict and orderly organizational structure.

What a fuck is that it’s just a soldier when you pick up weapons, it’s just that you’re not elite enough and some mobs. In fact, most of the non-professional army in the Eastern Wu are at this level.

After just over ten days, Zhou Yu had no money to pay them a salary.

Not to mention that most of these people have been affected by the economic crisis and have been living a very difficult life.

Although Zhou Yu didn't know what workers were, it did not prevent him from knowing clearly that these workers are very dangerous now. However, drinking poison to quench thirst, cutting flesh and replenishing sores, he knew that even if these people were released, they wouldn't be able to find a job anymore. Moreover, he really couldn't afford to fight with Guan Yu now.

And the most important thing is that Zhou Yu's own connection with Yangzhou has now been broken. It is difficult for warships in Yangzhou to pass through Guan Yu's vitality coverage net. It is impossible to stop the ship at will if it is heard, so that Guan Yu is the target. Guan Yu's current firepower density is so crazy that he keeps going day and night.

In addition, I don’t know if I was stimulated by Guan Yu this month. Zhao Yun actually led his Hefei Corps south and drank horses in Jiangbei. Now, even the Eastern Wu side was wondering whether the Han army was out of control or was going to launch a national war.

At the same time, Guan Yu, who held the power to dispatch troops in Qingzhou, transferred the Qingzhou Corps to Zhao Yun for use, so that Zhao Yun's troops could increase to 200,000 in one breath, forcing the Eastern Wu direction to refocus Zhao Yun, his old opponent, and even began to think about their countermeasure plan once the Han Dynasty launched the national war.

In other words, in the eyes of Dongwu, Zhou Yu is no longer the main battlefield, and the importance of Yangzhou is far beyond the level of the four counties in Jingnan.

What can Zhou Yu do? He is also very desperate! He drank poison to quench his thirst, but he knew that there were great hidden dangers in doing so and had to bite the bullet and continuously strengthen the management and monitoring of these workers, but instead, the situation of these workers is increasingly similar to that of slaves.
Chapter completed!