The news of Liang's victory on the south bank of Fenshui spread through the streets and alleys of Jinling City years ago.

Yang Zhitang, the king of Shou, who was reprimanded by the Empress Dowager Changxin for secretly communicating with the Eastern Liang and fighting against the Liang army, had to resign from the Privy Council due to the huge pressure of the government and the opposition, and has been recuperating in the house for several years.

Two years ago, the news of the Liang army's recovery of Xingyang reached Jinling, and there were voices in the court to re-employ Yang Zhitang.

However, the imperial court soldiers and horses concentrated their efforts in the past two years and successfully incorporated the Lingnan prefectures into the territory of Great Chu, and the Zuo Wuxiang army and Yongjia soldiers and horses also invaded Fujian last year, leaving Jianzhou and Fuzhou behind, so as far as the situation at this time is concerned, it is enough to prove that the decision to accept the tribute of the Liang State at that time was not wrong.

It's just that the relationship between Liang and Chu after that, how to maintain it, is a matter of discussion.

Of course, when the news of the Liang army's victory on the south bank of Fenshui reached Jinling, it did not cause much shock and panic in the hearts of the vast majority of Jianghuai subjects.

At least in terms of territory, the Liang army was far from regaining its prime, and the Great Chu, even if it lost Huaixi and Deng Jun, received adequate compensation from the south.

In the eyes of most of the generals in the DPRK, just to completely take Fujian, the territory of Great Chu will not only advance to the southeast coast and completely control the thousands of miles of land in the south of the Yangtze River, but also have 100,000 elites who can be transferred to the northern front to participate in the defense, and they do not feel that the Liang army can pose any threat to Great Chu at this time.

The result of the Battle of Yiguan may just make many people think that the Mongolian army is not enough.

However, Shen Yang, Yang En, Du Chongtao, Huang Hua and others were full of worry when they heard the news that Liang Jun had won the great victory of Yiguan.

The Chu army seems to have won great victories on the southern front and annexed a large number of territories over the years, but which war can match the danger of any battle on the northern front of the Liang army in the past few years?

Han Qian led the Liang army, from strategic defense to strategic counteroffensive at such a fast speed, and even won a key battle victory, how can it not be frightening, how can it not make people worry?

The peddler pawn can't see the difference here, how can the knowledge of Shen Yang, Yang En and others be lowered to the same level as the peddler pawn?

On the Shangyuan Festival in the seventh year of Taihe, many magnificent lanterns are hung in the Chu Palace, which is full of festive atmosphere.

Yang En walked into the main hall, the beast head furnace emitted an intoxicating incense lingering, bypassing a screen, more than a dozen palace maids and eunuchs quietly guarded in the corner of the main hall, behind the tall imperial case, a thin young man was frowning, reading the music in his hand.

At the time of the palace change, the immature boy who was like a frightened bird and only knew that he was hiding behind the Empress Dowager of Changxin Palace, who was already a fourteen-year-old boy at this time, had already begun to learn to read the recitals, and he could vaguely see the appearance of Emperor Yanyou between his eyebrows and eyes.

Seeing the young man so diligent, Yang En was also very pleased.

"The Marquis of Liyang has arrived,......" Zhang Ping leaned over and whispered to the overly focused teenager.

"Oh," the young man looked up, his childish face revealing a stubbornness common to young people, and said to the eunuchs on the left and right, "Give the Inner Mansion a seat." ”

Yang En, who has frosty temples, has also felt that his energy has been lacking in the past two years, but there is no successor in the court, and he is still in charge of the Inner Chamberlain as a minister of the clan.

After the palace change, Zhang Ping spent three years with Jiang Shu guarding the imperial tomb.

However, after Han Qianchan succeeded to the position of the lord of the Great Liang State, with the peace of Liang Chu and Li Zhihe and Chai Jiantou Liang, Lu Qingxia and Zhou Yuan were expelled from Liangzhou, and Wang Chan'er, Chen De, Xiangwang Yang Lin and others were sent to Jinling for trial, and many details of the palace change have also surfaced one after another.

After all, at the beginning of Lu Qingxia's palace change, Han Qian had already noticed the signs.

At that time, Han Qian thought that the power of Changxin Palace was beneficial to him, so he used the hidden stakes he had deployed in the inner court and the outer court over the years to do everything possible to promote the final succession of the eldest prince.

In this process, Zhang Ping, Jiang Shu, and even the Empress Dowager of Changxin Palace at that time, or even the abolished Empress Li Yao, were just chess pieces on Han Qian's chessboard.

However, when the whole thing is spread out, it cannot be said that Emperor Yanyou died, Han Qian was the culprit, let alone Zhang Ping, Jiang Shu, and even the Empress Dowager of Changxin Palace colluded with Han Qian.

Not only Yang En, but even Shen Yang, Du Chongtao, Yang Zhitang, Huang Hua and others also believe that although Zhang Ping and Jiang Shu are friendly with Han Qian and have signed a contract with Han Qian in many things and concepts, they are still loyal to Emperor Yanyou and Chu Ting.

Han Qian was already the lord of Liang at this time, and Jiang Shu and Zhang Ping were still Chu Chen.

Jiang Shu was very old, and finally at the request of Shen Yang and Yang En, the Empress Dowager Changxin personally came forward two years ago and asked Zhang Ping to return to the Chu Palace to serve as a permanent attendant in the Chongwen Palace.

"Runzhou Assassin Shi Zhang Xian's advance notes that the people of the state like to use Taihe Tongbao, and Shen Xiang proposed that the prefectures and counties should strictly prohibit it," the young man said, "I was also a little puzzled at the beginning, thinking that it is very convenient for the people, why is it forbidden?" Zhang Ping said that Liang Guo raised Taihe Tongbao, and only half of the money made by Da Chu was made of copper, which means that every time the people of Chu used a Taihe Tongbao, they actually took away four or five coins for Liang Guo, and I only knew a little about the subtlety of coinage. Looking for you, I want to know if the Taifu Division can mint the same money for the state and county? ”

"Taifu Bureau cast

Taihe Tongbao is not a big problem with the same money, but the level of casting is not as good as that of Liang Guo, so that although the copper material is saved, the labor is expensive, and the cost of a copper dollar is also used up eight or nine dollars, which is not much different from maintaining the old coin," Yang En replied, "and when it comes to the currency system, the most critical problem is that the local private casting is difficult to prohibit and the bad money is rampant, and the private coinage is crude and unbearable, so that the state and county like to use Taihe Tongbao." If Da Chu can strictly prohibit private minting, and there is no shortage of money and copper minted by the officials of the Taifu Bureau, it is impossible for the people to abandon their roots and chase the ......."

Although the new emperor had not yet reached the age of pro-government, Yang En and Zhang Ping both tried their best to teach what they knew and applied to the world.

The matter of Taihe Tongbao, the princes of the political hall have had a headache for the past two years, and Shen Yang has been asking the state and county to strictly prohibit it, but the actual effect can only be said to treat the symptoms but not the root cause.

There are too many trade points between Liang and Chu, and it is difficult to prohibit business travelers from carrying Liang copper yuan to and fro, and private minting is rampant in Chu Territory, and private money cannot be banned, so how can Liang State Copper Yuan be prohibited from circulating in Chu Territory?

And when it comes to banning smuggling and minting private money, it is not an easy thing.

In the final analysis, the local forces are too strong, and behind the scenes of local private casting, they are inseparable from the figure of the township tyrants.

A large number of privately minted inferior money filled the prefecture and county, and the bad money depreciated too much in the market, which eventually led to the convenience of Taihe Tongbao in the territory of Great Chu.

There is another reason, the Taifu Bureau only mints 1 million yuan every year, which is not enough for the people - there is even a considerable part of the money that is put into the prefecture and county, and it is directly taken away by the local township tycoons, mixed with tin and iron to cast into bad money for profit, and the increasingly prosperous commerce and trade objectively need a large amount of private money as a supplement.

It's not that the Taifu Bureau doesn't want to mint more money, but the cost of copper mining, iron smelting, and casting is extremely high, and it is unprofitable to cast it with the old method, and the upper and lower levels have no intention of losing this matter.

Of course, the Liang State flowed a large amount of Taihe Tongbao into the Chu Realm through various trade points, and the profits were not as exaggerated as Zhang Ping said.

According to the reports from various places, the Taihe Tongbao that originally flowed into the Chu realm cost about 1,600 to 1,800 Taihe Tongbao, which was equivalent to one tael of gold, which was slightly higher than the market price of copper in the Chu realm.

Of course, this is more likely to be intentional by the Liang Guozuo Inner History Office.

It's just that what is the intention behind Han Qian and Liang Guozuo's internal history office, and what is the connection between the currency system practiced by Liang State and the pricing of commercial goods in Liang State, as well as the so-called gold and silver standard system of Liang Guoguan Qian Si, Yang En has not yet figured out a taste.

When Taihe Tongbao and Chuting Taifu Bureau coins and many private coins were mixed in Zhuzhou County, Taihe Tongbao was exquisitely minted and of stable quality, and was quickly welcomed by the people of Yanjiangzhou County, compared with the rapid rise in the market price of copper and gold, and is currently almost maintained at the level of 1,300 Taihe Tongbao exchanged for one tael of gold.

But even so, every year there is a large amount of copper, gold and silver in the Chu realm, which flows to the Liang State.

This is a problem that has plagued Yang En and Shen Yang for a long time, but there is no way to solve it.

And this is only one of a series of problems, the flow of large commercial goods from the Liang State into Chu at extremely low prices is even more headache.

Iron ware alone, Taihe's five-year statistics of the trading volume of each trade point exceeded six million catties, counting the smuggling into the country, it should be more than 10 million catties, but the quality of Liang national iron is excellent, the price of iron tools of the same quality is four to fifty percent lower than that of the iron produced in Chu Realm, and it is difficult to limit it through normal means.

Not to mention the private smelter mines, the iron smelting institutes under the jurisdiction of the Taifu Bureau and the General Prison Prison, except for those used for casting armor, cannot sell iron materials to states and counties, and in recent years they have fallen into a dilemma of making ends meet.

At present, Liang State still pays a tribute of 1 million yuan to Great Chu every year, but because of the depression of the iron industry in Chu, the iron transfer and transshipment envoy Si alone lost more than 500,000 yuan in iron taxes.

Although after the Battle of Xingyang, he discussed with Shen Yang and others to restrict the entry of Liang merchants, but the local forces involved in the trade of Chuliang merchants in the counties along the Yangtze River in the Chu realm benefited a lot, and this matter dragged on for two years, and there were many disputes between the government and the opposition, and there was no progress in the slightest.

Although at this time, it seemed that Dachu had also won great victories in the south, attacked cities and plundered land, and the country was strong and prosperous for a while, but Yang En and Shen Yang knew in their hearts how different these results were from the great victories won by the Liang army in Yiguan.

At present, we can only see whether we can successfully capture Jianzhou and Fuzhou this year, and collect Fujian into the territory of Dachu.

Although the new emperor has not yet been pro-government, Yang En still explained the twists and turns to him in detail, hoping that after he is pro-government, he will know which ones are the real national and people-oriented.

"It is said that the Great Chu Haiyan River is clear, and the people are outstanding and spiritual, is it that a small copper is not as good as Puerliangdi?" The young man asked dissatisfied.

Yang En was speechless, so he could only excuse himself and said: "The old minister is incompetent......"

"Bin'er, what are you talking about with Master Hou, looking unhappy?" Qingyang walked into the hall and asked.

"The queen mother asked me to learn the chapters, and the child had a lot of incomprehensions, so she summoned the inner government and Zhang Ping to inquire," the young man said, "This Han Qian is really hateful, Mingli is a vassal to Da Chu, but in fact, he is attached to Da Chu to suck blood - when Huang Ji and Gu Zhilong conquer Fujian, Da Chu must teach Liang Guo a lesson." ”

Qingyang frowned slightly, and just said: "Bin'er should study diligently, but you must also be sympathetic to Hou Ye and Master Zhang who must be tired so late." To make one

A good king is not able to show compassion to his courtiers. If it's not too late to ask tomorrow, you should go and rest early. ”

"Shen Xiangyan said that the Liang army won a great victory in Guancheng, and it will soon be able to overcome Guanzhong, and it will be a strong enemy of Great Chu at that time. However, the situation of the Liang army has been completed, but the covenant cannot be abandoned lightly, and it needs to work together to avoid being coerced by the Liang army," the young man said quite insistently, "The child also feels that time is pressing, and there are too many places to learn......

"You can't become a fat man by eating in one bite, is it possible that if you delay today, Da Chu Jiangshan will die?" Qingyang frowned and asked with a little displeasure.

"Your Majesty wants to learn to govern the army and strengthen the foundation of the ancestors, and there is no need to be in a hurry, but you still have to rest well and have a strong physique." Yang En said.

"Alright, the boy is going to rest first." The young man put the music back on the imperial case, said goodbye to Qingyang, and walked to the back of the dormitory, accompanied by a dozen chamberlains and palace maids.

Qingyang picked up the piece and looked at it, and said, "Shen Xiang's wording is getting more and more severe, can the place really ban it?" ”

"Difficult." Yang En replied.

Qingyang didn't say anything, so she asked Yang En and Zhang Ping to retire, she sat down behind the imperial case, carefully looked at the ticket draft attached by Shen Yang after the recital, and only after a while did she ask Lei Cheng, who followed behind her like a shadow:

"Han Qian's battle has severely damaged the vitality of the Mongolian army, and he has captured Pujin and other places, and then I am afraid that it will be true as Shen Yang said, and he will soon send troops to recover Guanzhong, right? Bin'er is now a little impatient with the words of the mourning family, but she obeys Yang En's words, Yang En and Zhang Ping usually teach Bin'er, and the things they usually teach Bin'er are not crooked, right? ”

"Your Majesty is Chu Jun, Yang En, and Zhang Ping are Chu Chen, what you say and think about is very correct," Lei Cheng said, "The old slave's energy has been poor in the past two years, and I am afraid that it will be difficult to serve the Queen Mother's side ......"

What can he say?

When Emperor Yanyou was assassinated, the new emperor had already reached the age of remembering; As I get older, I must have my own thoughts about the old things of the past.

Even without mentioning the influence of Yang En, Shen Yang and others, the new emperor has the youthful nature of a newborn calf who is not afraid of tigers, and he is gradually dissatisfied with the appeasement and gentleness strategy adopted by Da Chu in the past few years, which is not an accident in Lei Cheng's opinion.

In the past few years, under the governance of Shen Yang and others, many measures have been taken to suppress the township tyrants, vigorously reward farming, build roads and water power, give the army and civilians a rest and recuperation, and the people have grown, and the national strength has also been considerably improved.

Although Zheng Hui, Huang Xi, Gu Zhilong and others recovered Lingnan and Fujian, they could not be compared with the several arduous and outstanding battles experienced by the soldiers and horses of the Great Liang in recent years, but the power of the young Zhuang faction in the imperial court was grown, and the voices of recovering Huaixi and Deng Jun gradually emerged.

At the beginning of the year, Shen Yang, Yang En, Du Chongtao, Zhou Bingwu and others, starting from the overall situation, were still worried that the land of Hehuai would fall into the hands of the Mongolian army, which would endanger Jianghuai, but the great victory of Yiguan even directly reversed the balance of power between Liang and Meng, and the Great Liang army recovered Guanzhong, and the attitude of Shen Yang, Yang En, Du Chongtao, Zhou Bingwu and others naturally reversed.

Liang Chu is not a country after all.

Whether it is Yang En, Zhang Ping, Shen Yang, Du Chongtao, Zhou Bingwu and others, as Chu ministers, once they merge with the voices of the young Zhuang faction in the DPRK and China, the relationship between Liang and Chu will inevitably face a severe test.

All this is not even something that the Empress Dowager Changxin can change.

At present, the most critical thing is to see whether the Chu army will recover Fujian first, or the Liang will recover Guanzhong first......

Liang first recovers Guanzhong, and after the west wing is worry-free, a large number of elite soldiers and horses will be freed up for defense in other directions, and the harmonious relationship between Liang and Chu should still be maintained, but if Gu Zhilong and Huang Xi first capture the entire territory of Fujian, and then the main force of the Liang army is still trapped in Guanzhong, it will be difficult to ensure that Shen Yang, Du Chongtao, Zhou Bingwu and others do not have the intention of attacking first.

Lei Cheng believed that the Empress Dowager Changxin had already considered all this, and it was time for him and Cai Chen to withdraw from the Empress Dowager Changxin.

"You and Cai Chen are going to be invited now, what's the matter, you conclude that Liang and Chu will definitely fight?" Qingyang stared at Lei Cheng distraughtly and asked.

"......," Lei Cheng said in a deep voice, "Your Majesty wants us to stay in Jinling for the elderly, and we will never make it difficult for the Queen Mother." ”

"The mourning family is not afraid, what are you afraid of? You are dead, and you will die in this palace," Qingyang said quietly, "In two or three years, Bin'er will be in power, and the military affairs of the court will be decided by Bin'er and the ministers, and when the time comes, the Liang State will be peaceful, or it will be killed all over the field, and the mourning family will be a woman's family, and there will be no right to ask if the palace is forbidden, and there is nothing to worry about......"

"Yes." Lei Cheng responded, thinking that even if the Empress Dowager Changxin fought the Shouwang Yang Zhitang, she would also severely suppress Shen Yang's arrogance, but the military and political affairs were still in charge of Shen Yang, Yang En, Du Chongtao, Zhou Bingwu, Zheng Yu, Zhang Chao and others, maybe they had already expected this moment, right?

"So, Han Qian is really going to send troops to take Guanzhong this year?" Qingyang breathed a sigh of relief, stared at Lei Cheng again and asked.

Lei Cheng did not nod in acknowledgement, nor did he shake his head in denial.

Qingyang waved her hand, asked Lei Cheng to retreat and rest first, she asked the palace maid to extinguish the lights and candles in the hall, open the temple door, and let the bright moonlight shine on the polished smooth stone ground......