In early June, the rainy season in Kanto begins. The sky has always been gray, and the sky and the earth are full of rain, raindrops, and rain curtains. The rain stopped, and the air was full of wind containing moisture.

The Hokkaido Army ended in a terrible battle in the Gunma region, and tens of thousands of dead must be buried in a hurry or the plague will occur. Later generations have many literary and artistic descriptions of this ending," ...... In the face of such heavy casualties, the heavens could not help but weep day and night......"

It's not just the heavens that are weeping, there are people in the villages of the Kanto Plain who are crying. Brutal news of the Battle of Gunma first reached here, with three of the seven divisions of the Meiji Army completely annihilated, and the remaining four heavily damaged. Among them, there are two divisions and regiments that are mainly based on the military resources of the East Plains. When the news spread that the Hokkaido Army would not take prisoners, everyone felt that their children would not be spared. In addition to their grief, the parents were skeptical about how long the Meiji government would be able to exist. Losing a child is a loss of the future, and if the Meiji government could no longer survive, the meager pension would be lost. This last hope will also be dashed, and the suffering of the people of the East will be indescribable.

In Tokyo, the sky was overcast, and the faces of all the ministers were gloomy. Ten divisions were either destroyed or lost their combat effectiveness. The opponent has a firm grip on the mountainous area and will launch a new attack as soon as the rain stops. The grudge between the two sides has lasted for 30 years, and it is impossible for either of them to have any tolerance for the vanquished.

It has already been suggested that the emperor leave Tokyo for Kyoto for the time being. Emperor Meiji was quite firm, and he angrily rebuked those who made such suggestions: "I am the emperor of Japan, and there is no reason why the emperor was forced to flee!" If you want to go, go on your own. I just want to stay in Tokyo, and I'm going to see if those traitors really dare to be disrespectful to me! ”

The ministers didn't dare to touch this mold, but everyone couldn't help but slander in their hearts. Since the establishment of the shogunate system, it is not uncommon in history for the emperor to be rotated by the strong, and it is not uncommon in history for the emperor to be hungry and unable to eat. Listening to Meiji's meaning, it seems that the emperor was born to be revered by all the people of Japan. This is obviously not in line with historical facts!

War Minister Yama Prefecture Aritomo frowned in his office, and at the moment the Meiji army was exhausted, and there was no progress in emergency recruitment in various places. Only a few local troops remained west of Lake Biwa, and the main force of the Meiji Army was only 60,000 men in Tokyo. The rainy season is very unfavorable for recruitment, and the newly recruited army is even more unable to train. Shan Shan Youpeng didn't care about the dead people, what he cared about was that a group of people who had just touched the gun went to the battlefield, except for increasing the enemy's results and consuming the precious weapons and equipment on his side, there was no other use at all.

Is there no other way than to flee to Kyoto and take advantage of Lake Biwa's location to defend it?

Just when there were friends in Shanxian County racking their brains but there was nothing to do, the attendant came in to report. "The traitor sent someone!"

When the news of Hokkaido's hope reached Beijing, Wei Ze, who was inspecting the north, only said, "I know." He felt that the chances of success of the talks were not high, and that the Meiji government was far from exhausted, and that the peace talks were a bit wishful thinking.

However, on June 22, when a major battle between the Hokkaido Navy and the Meiji Navy near Tokyo Bay reached Beijing, and the news of the total destruction of the Meiji Navy reached Beijing, Weizer felt that there had been significant progress in the peace talks.

Weizer soon discovered that his own judgment had gone awry, and after the Meiji navy was almost completely destroyed, the Meiji government made a decisive decision. The entire Meiji government ran away with the remaining troops, and they fled all the way to Kyoto. There is also merit to this kind of decisiveness, and Hokkaido is also difficult to ride. Their original plan was to take a casual glance at Wei Ze, and at that time, the idea of the Hokkaido Army was still to rely on the extreme distrust of the people in Northeast Japan to fight guerrilla warfare with the Meiji government in the Tohoku region. Now that the basis of this plan no longer exists, if the Hokkaido Army does not occupy half of Japan, the fierce voices within cannot be settled.

Of course, Weser thought for a long time before he realized what he was doing wrong. The seeming supremacy of the Japanese emperor was finally strengthened during World War II, and before that, there was a Mao tradition of respect for the emperor. The Hokkaido army may not kill the emperor, but forcing the Meiji family to abdicate and set up another puppet emperor is a very easy and acceptable choice for the Japanese.

Having identified his mistake, Weeser decided to put the Japanese problem aside. Since he already has a preconceived misunderstanding, it is inevitable that his subsequent judgments will continue to be wrong. Rather than making mistakes again and again, it is better to wait and see what happens.

Things at home are already complicated, and things abroad are also interesting. For example, Goryeo finally issued its own banknotes, and just like traditional banknotes, there was always a very optimistic outlook at first. Due to the issuance of banknotes, Goryeo first solved the problem of unpaid troops.

Perhaps because of the success of the renminbi, paper money circulated very smoothly within Goryeo, as the Cabinet Minister of Goryeo wrote, "...... Jun Shang (Dayuan Jun) is a holy judge, and he is popular. All the people and all industries are vying for this thing, the world is stable, and the livelihood is getting better. Goryeo's prosperity is just around the corner......"

After reading it, Wei Ze just sneered twice, and put the information aside.

"Why is Your Majesty laughing?" Qi Hongyi, who came to Beijing together, asked, staying in the Old Summer Palace, Qi Hongyi was very satisfied here. The northern climate has a style close to the south of the Yangtze River, and the Old Summer Palace is indeed good.

"I'm laughing at myself for being ignorant when I was younger. Reading does not seek to understand, listening to the wind is rain. I also like self-righteous sighs. How stupid you have to be. Wei Ze calmly made a low evaluation of his youthful years.

Self-criticism is one of Wei Ze's hobbies, and Qi Hongyi is no stranger to it. However, there is a lot of ridicule in this criticism, and Qi Hongyi, who came out with her husband after retirement, is interested. "But what?" She asked with interest.

Wei Ze handed Qi Hongyi the document about the issuance of the Goryeo currency, and then he continued to read the document himself.

After a while, Qi Hongyi raised his head, "Isn't this very good?" ”

Wei Ze replied without raising his head: "It's very good." If you live to be 200 years old, look at the history books about it at that time. It is estimated that many books will write like this, and after the issuance of paper money to promote the development of Korean finance, the value of paper money fell wildly because of the misdeeds of a certain group. As a result, the Goryeo economy suffered heavy losses. And then there's the boring content of the long denunciations of the bad guys......"

Speaking of which, in order to make his wife resonate, Wei Ze smiled: "This kind of criticism is the same as the description of Daji and Bao Xi in the historical text." ”

At the mention of the emperor's wife being used as a scapegoat, Qi Hongyi really felt unhappy. Still, she didn't understand why Weser was sneering at what seemed like a good thing. Qi Hongyi asked, "Let's hear it." ”

Wei Ze asked Qi Hongyi to sit beside him, and his fingers swiped over several relevant positions, "Have you seen the construction of the Central Bank of Goryeo?" Did Goryeo have a budget? Did Goryeo ever mention the gold, silver, and coinage that were originally circulating in the market? ”

Following Wei Ze's prompt and taking a closer look, Qi Hongyi found that there was really no such content. She frowned slightly and asked, "What does this mean?" ”

Wei Ze replied slowly: "This means that the process of bad money driving out good money is faster than I thought, and the gold and silver in the Goryeo market will soon be collected and no longer in circulation." Due to the shortage of currency in the circulation market, the people of Korea had to accept paper money as a trading currency. Not to mention Goryeo, let me ask you, how many years have you not seen our previous silver dollars circulating in the market? ”

Qi Hongyi also participated in the compilation of the "General History of China", and after thinking about it carefully, he also understood a little. Sure enough, gold and silver were not in circulation in the market for a long time. All that is in circulation is banknotes. The Koreans are also ridiculous, the people take out the worthless paper money first, and in their mouths it becomes the Korean people are happy to use the paper money. ”

"Koreans still think that paper money is money, and they don't understand that paper money is the general equivalent of state endorsement. With such misconceptions, they will inevitably issue paper money indiscriminately. As for the indiscriminate issuance of banknotes for disaster relief, or for construction. Or maybe it's a group that wants to take advantage of itself. I don't think it matters why they do this, the important thing is that they are doomed to cause big problems in the economy. Weeser coldly explained what was going to come.

Qi Hongyi was a little unaccustomed to it, and she asked, "There is always a difference between good intentions and bad intentions." ”

"Hmm!" Weeser nodded, "So I think I had to be as stupid as I was when I was younger." Because I don't have the ability to distinguish the essence of things, or I don't want to distinguish the essence of things because I am incompetent. The issuance of currency is a political act, and the private morality of an individual is an individual act. These two are not the same thing in the first place, so why force these two together? Not only is this meaningless, but it's also a very harmful action. ”

Qi Hongyi didn't like this attitude very much, and the instinct of women made her dislike this kind of male unrelenting. "A good person is a good person, and a bad person is naturally a bad person. Doesn't this look different in your eyes? ”

"A good person in life is not the same thing as a good person in politics, and a good person in politics and a good person in business are not the same thing. Uncle Ma once said that people are the sum of all social relations. When I was younger, I didn't understand much, but now I feel like I can understand it a little more. A person has many different identities in society, and each identity has its own laws of application. A good person in life who has brought the country and the people to a dead end politically is called the king of the dead country......"

"There are no good people in the king of the dead country!" Qi Hongyi retorted.

Weser sighed, some education could hardly be completed, such as making a woman with no political talent understand the nature of politics, and he said to himself: "So, I thought so when I was younger. Only now do I know how wrong I was. ”