Jiangxi Road, Shezhou Zhicheng that has changed hands again, has been planted with a plain flying cloud flag representing the other parts of the Great Cloud Sect.

Stepping on the ruins and corpses scattered all over the ground, in the curling fireworks embers and the sound of remnants of the fight, Kim Qiudeok, who still plays the role of a military advisor and preacher, also ushered in a new day again.

And these few noises and movements are the last echoes of the desperate struggle of the few remaining stubborn houses in the city, in the desperate situation of countless mobs besieging and the disparity in power.

Ironically, these are also the culprits and one of the driving forces behind the fall of Shezhou Prefecture a few years ago.

After the fall and re-recovery of the people of the money rebellion, the local arrears and deficits over the years, together with the officials sent by the Great Liang of the National Dynasty, were also swept away, and they were restored to the joint rule of the "simple people" of the villagers, and the "borderless land" that they possessed and encircled, and the tenants under the shadow of them, were thus multiplied several times.

And as a price, it was just that the local rebels and Tutuan who had changed their banners and lines again, cut down hundreds of thousands of heads of unknown origin, and used them as gifts and merits for the restoration of the state city;

Therefore, no matter how many new officials were sent by the imperial court, no matter what kind of high-ranking and powerful figures they were, they all fell into the sand or accepted the reality in the face of the means of the wealthy families in these places, as well as their vassal forces and agents.

And since then, whether it is a group of displaced people crossing the border, or a large group of bandits, they have also been easily resolved by these wealthy families who control the local situation. Until they encountered these Great Cloud Sect troops who were on the verge of a predicament, but had no reason and no means of negotiation to speak of.

Now, it is finally their turn to be the local clans who have always been hiding behind the scenes, manipulating local public opinion and the situation, and have begun to pay the ultimate price for the chaos and turmoil they initially provoked.

However, Jin Qiude is not satisfied with the gains and losses in front of him, and for him, the little results here are just a springboard and the beginning of his comeback.

Since receiving the news that his sister, who had been allied with for the end of the Northern Dynasty, was likely to die together, his ambition and vision seemed to have lost the last bit of restraint, and suddenly became suddenly open and uncontrollable.

Although he once took refuge in the main altar of the Great Cloud Sect, and because he was proficient in the doctrine in a short period of time, he was easily appreciated and trusted by several ministers in front of the palace because of his frequent innovations and appropriate suggestions; However, after seeing these high-level leaders of the Great Cloud Sect and entering the land of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, all kinds of extravagant comparisons and the encroachment of power and profit, and other unbearable performances, he still resolutely took the resources and turned to the familiar old acquaintances.

Since following Fa Dali was sent to this corner of Jiangxi Province in disguise, he has spent a lot of thought and effort to gather strength and plunder in all directions, and only then has he swept and won most of the territory of Shezhou's "one government and six counties" from a corner of Wuli County, including Wuyuan, Beiye, Jixi, Guide, and Qimen counties;

It was also able to use both soft and hard tactics and divide and attack in close proximity and close attack, and under the means of fire and embezzlement of several men and horses with similar banners such as Xuanzhou and Chizhou near the upper reaches of the Xin'an River, and regained the weather and scale of more than 10,000 horses and horses, and at least 3,000 brave and brave men.

Then, he sent people to secretly kill several people, and the general altar sent to divide power and mix sand with the inspection and hall envoys, so that they were not in a hurry in the countless hungry people waiting to be killed outside the state city, and echoed with the congregations in the state city, and picked the fruit of the state governance city that was gradually ripening and falling.

Since then, the entire upper reaches of the Xin'an River have no local forces and officials and troops that can confront it; Recently, however, the scale of the surrounding opponents and the number of active attacks seem to be decreasing.

Therefore, after taking Shecheng and personally packing and sending away a large amount of gold and silver, he was also waiting for news, a news channel that took a lot of effort and spent a lot of money to pave out from within the official army.

In this way, thanks to Jiangning's financial constraints and fierce internal party disputes, some people will dare to violate the world's condemnation, and take out the news related to the pre-military deployment and sell it to these traitors at a high price, in essence, to do the self-respecting deed.

It's a pity that the people in the Great Cloud Sect General Altar who were carried away by the good situation in front of them didn't care about these subsections at all, so they were able to cheapen their marginalized people.

And with the tens of thousands of households in the state city that fell under control, he can easily pull out at least tens of thousands of young people as precursors and cannon fodder, so that after several raids and plundering, the number of soldiers in his hands can at least double.

Moreover, unlike those who gathered under his subordinates because they succumbed to obscenity and common needs when Yunmeng Daze, this is his direct subordinates who have been instilled and brainwashed by his self-compiled and self-reformed doctrines, plus preferential treatment and supplies.

Two days later, he finally got the feedback he wanted from Chun'an County, which is adjacent to Lin'an County in the lower reaches of the Xin'an River, and then he praised him in front of his partner and chief leader, Master Da Luo.

"God help me."

"This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity."

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My trip to Huainan continues, and since there is good news, there is naturally also correspondingly not so good news.

As the saying goes, governing a big country is like cooking a small fresh, and the most important thing is the heat and proportion, as the ruler of one side is no exception, it is not okay to overdo it, and it is not good to be hot.

Nowadays, Huaizhen also has a relatively hidden universal problem - money shortage, that is, the growing productivity and resource output, and the currency circulating in the market, gradually disconnect and lag, resulting in deflationary expectations and potential worries.

Although it has not yet been revealed, once more and more places are lifted, the relatively strict and standardized details of life are lifted, and the daily normal flow of regular households and people and limited population flow will be introduced;

Originally, through the supply and marketing system and the rationing system, the output and resources that were only digested and adjusted internally, and the consumption power and demand market were released; It will converge into a huge undercurrent and colossal wave that cannot be ignored. After all, even with all kinds of vouchers and ration tickets as a support, human nature will try more options and possibilities when there is an opportunity.

Although it can be temporarily alleviated by privately issuing additional tokens and other physical ration coupons, most people are still more serious about gold and silver treasures and precious metal coins in this worldly environment.

Although Huaizhen did not experience the stage of bartering at the beginning, it has established a relatively mature price positioning; But if we really want to go back to that initial level, if not to collapse but only to have some turmoil; That also means that a considerable part of Huaizhen's construction achievements over the years, including economic activities and financial credit, will be wasted.

Nowadays, Huaizhen has the output of several large gold and silver mines from Jiaodong, Liaodong, Yizhou, etc., plus the accumulation of loot and harvest in the war zone over the years; For the time being, there will be no problems with the gold and silver reserves, which are the guarantee of large commercial activities and financial credit.

On the contrary, the market circulation of small amounts of white copper coins, brass coins and bronze coins needed for daily livelihood began to show some signs of shortage and depletion. After all, gold and silver alone cannot replace and satisfy the daily circulation needs of the majority of the population at the bottom of society.

For example, the scenes in those film and television themes that take out gold and silver, or large amounts of silver tickets to pay the bills, although they look beautiful, but they are only the products of the Ming and Qing dynasties, when the commodity economy has developed greatly and is rich, and accompanied by overall inflation.

Prior to this, at least the lack of copper was temporarily unsolvable, because this is also a long-standing problem that all dynasties have faced in Chinese history since ancient times, and the huge northern region did not produce much copper, and the source of imported copper materials was also quite limited.

Later generations were also gradually alleviated after the discovery of copper mines in Yunnan.

Therefore, the countermeasures of those feudal dynasties almost relied on their own large enough volume and economic scale, on the one hand, through limited policy intervention and guidance, limiting the scale of commodity circulation to suppress their influence; On the one hand, by sacrificing a considerable degree of national credit, it is forced to squeeze and collect the copper coins and bronze utensils privately collected by the people; In this way, he survived the difficulties and economic turmoil again and again, until he could no longer sustain it and ushered in a change of dynasty.

Nowadays, in addition to Nanping Mansion and Qianzhong Province (most of the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau), which are rich in copper ore, there are also copper ore imports from Tianzhu, Anxi and other regions and other regions, and even overseas continents, so as to maintain the basic circulation demand of a large volume.

But obviously, the basic market that Huaizhen has under my rule does not have enough capital and foundation to play this set of rough policies and financial tricks that want to be caught and indulged. The only thing that has a comparative advantage is that many new technologies and relatively advanced management systems have brought about primary industrial productivity and derivative production methods, and other resource reserves and manpower have been greatly liberated.

Therefore, the mystery creature can't help but come up with a suggestion and proposition, whether to take advantage of this welcome opportunity that has attracted most of the attention, take the risk of implementing a small credit currency represented by paper bills in advance, to overcome the difficulties of this money shortage, and complete the implicit soft landing of economic growth in this era.

But it wasn't until I re-embarked along the former Caoyun Canal and arrived in Jiangbei that I still couldn't make up my mind about it; Just met with Liu Yanqing, who was stationed there, and after negotiating more than some follow-up things, he continued to cross the river non-stop.

After crossing the Yangtze River, with the various blowing and playing music in the crowd and the archway made of colored silk, the silk flowers and lanterns on the hanging trees, obviously belonging to the atmosphere of the celebration, began to appear at the ferry headed by the quarry, and later on the way to the shore;

It's just that these people, who came to greet and see them off under the leadership of the magistrate, looked obviously malnourished and reluctant, and there was no lack of sad and worried expressions in all directions;

Then my spies and eyeliner brought a certain reasonable truth, that they had been recruited and lured to make a scene on the condition that they could be temporarily exempted from a day's conscription and provided with food.

In fact, the depression and decay in the cities and villages seen along the way are not something that can be concealed by these superficial and glamorous momentary means. It is said that before I came, even in the vicinity of Jiangning Mansion, there were already people starving to death, and there were bandits wandering around the road to rob homes and houses.

This time, it was because of the dignity of the national dynasty needed for the big wedding, so he was able to send troops to sweep and politics with great effort, and began to open a number of relief points in the city, which temporarily reversed the situation.

(End of chapter)