If You Won't Build the Economy, How Can You March North?

He wakes up as Zhuge Liang at the scene where Liu Bei entrusts his son to him in Baidi City.

Faced with a disastrous start, a dying Liu Bei, and the future “hopeless” Adou, Lin Shu smiles.

War? That’s the last resort.

As a PhD with expertise in financial history, he plans to use a little dimensional superiority:

Peg the hundred-value coins to Shu brocade and establish an ancient version of the Bretton Woods system!

Turn currency into a weapon and wage a bloodless financial war against Wei and Wu!

Use modern economics to rewrite the rules of the Three Kingdoms game!

While Cao Pi is still congratulating himself over his five armies,

Chancellor Zhuge’s economic warfare has already emptied Wei’s treasury, with wealthy merchants scrambling to trade real gold and silver for the “paper” he prints.

Political maneuvering? Not needed.

I’ll let the data speak and use economic principles to crush everything.

This time, I’ll use financial leverage to move an entire age.

Bring back Luo Xian, forgotten by history, and revise the plan to seize the Ziwu Valley.

When Liu Shan ascends the throne again in Chang’an, and the bells of camels ring once more along the Western Regions trade routes,

all under heaven will understand: what makes this chancellor terrifying is not just his extraordinary foresight. He knows how to use economics to rewrite the formula for victory and defeat.

This time, he’ll use financial leverage to move an entire age.