In Luoyang, the central capital, in the imperial study of the imperial palace, the Empress Dowager Yin put down her pen, put together the batch of folds, leaned on the back of the chair, stroked her forehead with one hand, and felt a headache in the face of the piles of twists and turns.

"Queen Mother, are you tired?" Yu Long walked behind the Queen Mother and slowly pinched the Queen Mother's stiff shoulders with her bare hands.

"No problem." Waving her hand, she motioned for Yu Long to step aside, and the Queen Mother picked up a copy again.

Just as the Queen Mother was about to pick up the pen, a small eunuch outside the door hurriedly came to report and said, "Queen Mother, the Chinese scholar Cao Luorong has arrived outside the palace." ”

When the Queen Mother heard this, she smiled slightly, and finally had a hint of brilliance on her face, and said, "Xuan." ”

Cao Luorong was dressed in a white robe and wore a black coat, but she did not uncover the knot like Dong Ce, but tied the knot in a regular manner, which looked extremely dignified and beautiful, elegant and elegant, and there was also a dusty realm.

Without waiting for Cao Luorong to salute, the Queen Mother immediately said: "Excuse me, this time I am looking for you, the matter in Hangzhou has been stabilized, and the local scholars are all persuaded by your master, only Ning and Shanghai are still hidden dangers, the mourning family obviously believes in the national teacher, but it can't be without a little defense, the mourning family plans to go south and station on the northeast bank of the river, what do you think?" ”

"Feasible." Cao Luorong immediately nodded and said, "However, this battle cannot be started, and the army can only practice day and night on the north bank." ”

"Well, the mourning family also thinks the same, and they can't be made to think that the national teacher is talking on paper." Speaking of this, the Queen Mother changed her words and said: "The drama is good at acting, can you strengthen the singing?" ”

"In addition to the previous 1,000 people, 3,000 storytellers and 2,000 drama actors have been trained, and they are ready to go out of Zhongzhou and run around in eight ways to ensure that every urban and rural area can be promoted, but Hebei is not yet able to pass."

The Queen Mother first nodded, then shook her head and sighed: "This is indeed a headache, the mourning family underestimated the Taiping Dao, I didn't expect them to be able to hold on until now." ”

"To destroy the Taiping Dao, we must expose their ugly side, Luo Rong believes that if you want the people of Hebei to recognize the Taiping Dao, in addition to the singing of dramas, there is also a method, oral propaganda!"

"Oh, how?" This matter, the Queen Mother has not found someone to do it, but the effect is minimal, after all, Taiping Dao also has the essence of it!

"Money!" Cao Luorong said, seemingly reluctantly raised her anger and said: "New currency, the denomination should be small, preferably one hundred Wen, and a large number of them should be invested in Hebei, with seventy percent in exchange for copper coins, one month to release, one month to stop, it will not take a year to put and stop, Hebei can be broken without attacking!" ”

The Queen Mother frowned, thinking to herself what this had to do with verbal propaganda?

As if to understand the Empress Dowager's thoughts, Cao Luorong continued: "The verbal propaganda only tells the people that the new coins they exchanged for seventy percent of the copper coins are worth whole numbers south of the Yellow River, so how can Taiping Dao prevent the people from crossing the river to the south." ”

The Queen Mother is also a shrewd person, she understood the moment she heard this, she smiled slightly, and said: "Giving up the small for the big, unlike your style, is it the idea of the national teacher, right?" ”

"Yes." Cao Luorong did not deny it, and said bluntly: "The national teacher once said that new money will still be difficult to find in three years, and a large amount of investment in Hebei will not cause the expansion of new currency, and now it is true, each batch of money put into the market is exchanged in an instant, so that the speed of coinage supervision and financing has been far away from the speed of collecting money, and the old money has been piled up in the three warehouses, which shows how high the people's recognition of the new currency, and the gold and silver in the new currency improved by the Ministry of Industry and Shangshu make it more difficult for the face value to fall, but because the production is too small, now among the people, A new coin with gold and silver can be exchanged for more than ten or twenty dollars. ”

After speaking, Cao Luorong looked straight and arched his hand: "However, Luo Rong feels that it is not feasible, who will not mention the impact of the new currency for the time being, once the people of Hebei cross the river in large numbers, Taiping Dao will inevitably kill chickens and monkeys, and it is by no means just killing one or two thousand people to calm this mighty turmoil!" ”

The Queen Mother shook her head and sighed, "But if you continue to fight, the casualties will be even greater." ”

It is undeniable that Dong Ce's methods are vicious, and even the Queen Mother, the most poisonous woman, shuddered.

Throwing new dollars in the past is not to give cheap to the people, but to bring disaster to them!

People have greed, and at the same time, they also have selfishness, cross the river once, and come back seventy wen becomes one hundred, is there really no one to refuse such a good thing? No, Taipingdao will refuse!

They must not let the new coins with the Queen Mother's face go unobstructed under their noses, otherwise, what is it? The banner of their rebellion was to seek justice for the Huang family, and regarded the people who were suffering from drug addiction as a punishment for the anger of the queen mother.

But it is impossible for them to buy new coins, because it is too much of a loss, Hebei is still using copper coins, if they exchange copper coins for the people's new coins, it will be really a blood loss!

Of course, they can also buy it at 80% of the price, and take it at 10% of the price to buy supplies, so that they can make money, and make a big profit.

But what will the people think?

Whether you destroy it after the acquisition, or buy supplies, in the hearts of the people, they are at a loss!

You said that if the people of Hebei don't know about the new currency, it's just that, but the new currency has already spread to Hebei since it came out, even if some people don't know, but once it's about money, no one cares, can you know if you ask a little bit?

What is wanted is to make the people dissatisfied, resentful of the Taiping Road, and at the same time, strengthen the influence of the Queen Mother, and gradually understand what kind of life the people south of the Yellow River live!

Is it really the Queen Mother and the Yin family usurping the throne? Or is the Queen Mother willing to risk disapproval for the country and the people, and for the country?

When inquiring about these, the people must suddenly find that no matter what it is, the important thing is that Taiping Dao does not seem to be what they imagined!

Therefore, Taiping Dao will only use all means to prevent the people of Hebei from communicating with the people of Henan, because once contacted, and it is a large number of continuous contact, the consequences can be imagined!

But people just live for survival, and if they want to survive well, they can't do without money, and the interests are in front of me, I just crossed the river to change something and buy more food to go home, which is also wrong?

In the eyes of Taiping Dao, this is wrong!

Therefore, they will continue to kill chickens and monkeys to prevent people from crossing the river.

But this is by no means a long-term solution, but if this is not the case, how can Ning Chao invest batches of new money in? Did they send someone to garrison the whole river? That's a fantasy.

For the sake of profit, in order to survive, people's hearts are easy to mobilize, unsatisfied with the status quo, want to live a better life of the people in the sea, since ancient times, there are salt dealers, selling salt is a crime, if you are caught, you can only admit it, but who has ever heard that spending money to buy things is also a crime?

How long has it been since the Taiping Dao rebellion, this is not a seven-nation struggle for hegemony, it is not a five-hundred-nation rebellion, there is no national righteousness, it is originally a country, a nation, why spend money to break the law?

"Alas, the mourning family is still soft-hearted!" The Queen Mother sighed leisurely, suddenly looked at Cao Luorong, and asked cautiously: "Can Master Cao go deep into the dangerous place like a national teacher and turn things around with his own strength?" ”

"It's over!" Cao Luorong sighed in her heart, she knew that when she told Dong Ce's plan, there would be no room for redemption!

Dong Ce told her about this poisonous plan last year, and her first feeling was that it was too ruthless, and it was too inhumane to the people of Hebei, but she didn't know how to solve such a dilemma.

She is still too young, although she can see things very thoroughly, but experience is destined to her limit!

Considering that now, she still has nothing to do, and the war is still going on, the dead and wounded have already exceeded 10,000, and the people involved don't know how many millions, if she had a better way, she would have said it a long time ago, and now the more she drags on, the more people will die!

This is the last test question that Dong Ce gave her before leaving, and she couldn't answer it!

But if she wants to learn from Dong Ce, like going to Yingzhou and Hangzhou, she can't do it at all from the hinterland to disintegrate the other party and turn things around.

"Shu Luorong is incompetent! Not as much as one ten-thousandth of Master! can make the arrogant Cao Luorong humbly admire, which shows that her heart does have a thorough feeling for Dong Ce.

She is not afraid of death, it doesn't hurt to go and try it, but she knows that this is not something that can be done by being reckless, if she agrees, the court will wait, should it be a year, or two years? And during this period, the war is likely to break out again, and who will be responsible for the dead? As a result, it wasn't the court that spent some money to comfort and comfort things!

But can she have a good conscience?

"By the way, there has been a mountain of twists and turns recently, and the mourning family can't approve it, I don't know what Bachelor Cao can do?" The Queen Mother asked suddenly.

Cao Luorong bowed down and said: "You can set up a cabinet first, and the officials can choose from the new science and technology scholars, so that they can divide the folds into urgent, and then classify them, write them in the catalog, fill in the key points, and then let the queen mother look at them, which can save reading time." ”

"Well, this is indeed a good way, but there are a lot of things about the state religion, how do the national teachers usually deal with it?" The Queen Mother is indeed very curious about this, as far as she knows, Dong Ce is busier than her!

"There is only one way for the national teacher, decentralize power!"

Cao Luorong was stunned by one sentence!

"Alas, the national teacher knows the way of employing people, and he can't mourn his family!" Why didn't the Queen Mother want to let go of power and reduce her pressure, but she let go of everything she could, and even Cao Luorong was forcibly detained by her who was not supposed to deal with state affairs, who else could she use? Dong Ce? She also wanted to, but for Dong Ce, for some reason, she just didn't want to be strong!

Cao Luorong said again: "It's not what the Queen Mother thinks, the national teacher delegates power quickly, and collects power faster, if it doesn't agree, he usually gives a chance, and if he misses it, he will take back the power, in addition, the national teacher holds a small meeting every day, and the disciples below report the process every day, during which he will continue to point out and correct, which looks a little like a court meeting, but in fact it is far different, because the national teacher knows everything well, and none of the disciples below can be perfunctory, let alone perfunctory!" ”

Cao Luorong's words were a little meaningful, and Yu Long's face beside the Queen Mother was not good-looking.

"The mourning family knows, Master Cao retreats." After letting Cao Luorong leave, the Queen Mother didn't look at Yu Long and said, "Do you know what is different between you and her?" ”

"Forgive Linglong for being stupid." Yu Long owes his body.

"Alas, both of you are contributing to the mourning family, but one is brain power and the other is physical strength, why don't you want to reuse you, but you refuse to learn, and your mind is used on intrigue, besides, if you really want to intrigue, Master Cao will definitely be a hundred times better than you, not to mention the national teacher!"

Yu Longfang's heart trembled, and he immediately kowtowed: "Linglong understands!" ”