"Do you feel that Your Majesty has made many tricks recently? This is not Your Majesty's style." Ma Zhou sighed. The powerful intelligence ability benefiting from the shadows, what is happening in the Central Plains is quickly spread to Guangzhou.

Ma Zhou could not believe all the actions of the Central Plains court.

Did Li Shimin once be a very wise emperor? Fang Xuanling, Changsun Wuji and others in the court were also very powerful prime ministers. But now, many of the government orders issued by the court are always the same as those of the tyrant rulers.

"It is prohibited to use copper coins, collect copper coins from people's homes, purchase tickets are limited, and there are two taxes that do not collect money instead of money and physical goods. This is a regression no matter how you look at it."

Li Chao shook his head and said, "This is because they have never faced such a problem. It can even be said that they have never faced such a problem for thousands of years. In the past, they were all classical agricultural economy, which was easy to manage and relatively simple. But now, it is a relaxed commodity economy, with a huge scale, especially in circulating banknotes over the years."

The economy has developed to its current scale and has its own system. It has its own market rules, which are no longer controlled by the court as much as it wants. If it violates the laws of the market economy and is forced to control it, the outcome will be like the current one.

Now Zhongyuan is actually issuing a financial crisis, and its essence is that Li Chao hid a large amount of gold, silver and copper coins. This led to the bankruptcy of Baochao Credit, which in turn made all paper money go bankrupt with the credit.

The market was seriously insufficient, and it was deflation first. Then the court began to make wrong responses. They began to confiscate copper coins, forcibly let the market use paper money, and issued large quantities of gold coupons, but refused to collect gold coupons as tax money. As a result, inflation began again.

Prices are rising, but gold coupons continue to depreciate.

The money in the hands of the people almost turned into waste paper overnight, and the wealth of the people evaporated in large quantities.

In the era of commodity economy, this situation can be said to be fatal. It triggered a chain reaction. People have no money and cannot afford to buy things, and merchants cannot sell things. They followed the production and processing workshops, and did not subscribe. Then production or work was reduced or stopped, so many workers lost their jobs.

There is a big reason why the people of the Tang Dynasty have lived a better life in recent years. As soon as the court expanded to the outside world, the territory increased greatly, the people all received dividends, divided a lot of land, and became self-cultivated farmers. But having land alone is actually relatively stable and it is difficult to be rich. It is precisely because of the booming industry and commerce in recent years that the people have also participated. Young children entered factories to work, or worked in their spare time, and everyone's lives have improved, and the agricultural and sideline products they have raised have been sold.

And now, it's completely different.

The plague spread like a great depression.

Workers in the workshop began to return home, and farmers' by-products could not be sold. Especially in the towns, they used to rely on working in workshops or running shops, but now their lives have plummeted.

After all, why did this happen?

Where did those wealth go?

In fact, wealth is in the underground palaces buried by Li Chao. The real gold and silver and a large amount of copper coins originally belonged to the merchants and the people, but now it is equivalent to Li Chao's personal ones.

How many people in the court can understand such attack methods and such destructive power?

The court used various methods to make up for it and adjust it, but it was equivalent to strife with an angry bull, but it was quite good, and the result was more miserable.

Historically, paper money began to appear in the Song Dynasty, but the paper money in the Song, Yuan and Ming dynasties finally had problems, and later it depreciated seriously, and even one thousand cents to the next was not worth a cent.

The problem is that these imperial courts really lacked enough understanding of economic management and did not have the technology. The problems with paper banknotes in the Song, Yuan and Ming dynasties were mostly caused by insufficient reserves for issuance and excessive issuance.

What the Tang Dynasty is facing now is equivalent to Li Chao swallowing the reserve, which leads to no credit banknotes after the reserve.

This is an unsolvable situation. Unless the court can take out a lot of cash to save the market, printing money will definitely not work, and can only mint coins. However, the Tang Dynasty had insufficient copper production, so it was difficult to mint copper coins that were sufficiently circulated.

And doing both money and money is also the only way to do it at the moment.

"The people are suffering." Ma Zhou sighed.

"This is a prenatal pain."

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Hanjing.

The situation is still deteriorating. Even if the emperor decides to cast small iron coins for ten, he cannot cast a large amount of iron coins for a while.

On the one hand, there is continuous depreciation and no one wants to use treasure money, while on the other hand, there is a serious shortage of money, so the transaction can only be made of cotton, grain, and cloth.

"Su Dingfang rebelled!"

"Cheng Yaojin has also rebelled!"

"Even Qin Qiong is backward!"

"Luo Shixin, Shan Xiongxin, Niu Jinda, Zhang Tieqin, Cheng Chumo, and Yuchi Baolin all turned against each other!"

"There are still 30% of the nobles who make excuses not to enter Beijing."

Li Shimin's expression was ferocious.

During the rebellion of the Supreme Emperor, a large number of nobles and gentry followed suit. Unexpectedly, there are so many nobles who are in chaos now.

"Your Majesty, you can send someone to comfort me." Fang Xuanling said. "At present, as long as they do not attack the Central Plains, they can do not go to conquer for the time being, but only send troops to guard the border strictly."

"You told me not to attack the rebellion?" Li Shimin was furious.

"Your Majesty, take it step by step. As long as you can pacify Lingnan first, the rest of the land will naturally not be a problem."

Although Cheng Yaojin and others raised their flags to express their support for the prince, they also gathered troops in the territory and were still recruiting troops, but after all, they were only on the frontier of the Tang Dynasty and had not yet sent troops to the Central Plains.

"The imperial edict was drawn, and the titles were seized, Qin Qiong, Cheng Yaojin, Su Dingfang, Luo Shixin, Shan Xiongxin, Niu Jinda, Zhang Tieqin and others were awarded titles, regained the territory, and confiscated all the property of Zhu Ni!"

"Your Majesty, think twice." Fang Xuanling persuaded.

Originally, they were just expressing their support for the prince, but wouldn’t the emperor force them to send troops?

"I should have thought of this long ago that these people have formed a party long time ago, and they will definitely stand on Zhang Chao's side."

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"Have Zhang Chao's family not been found yet?"

Wang Chengen whispered in sweat, "I haven't found it yet. We estimate that Zhang Chao's family has not gone far, and is even in the Hanjing City. It's just that it is too deep to be found."

"Bad!" Li Shimin cursed. The emperor's temper has become worse and worse recently.

"The gold, silver and copper in the treasury of thousands of coins in the Liji Money House, which cost hundreds of millions of yuan, disappeared mysteriously, and no whereabouts have been found. Zhang Chao's wives, concubines, children, and dozens of living people disappeared in the capital under the eyes of the imperial guards. No trace has been found yet. Wang Chengen, what is the use of your six fans?"

"Zhang Chao has been planning in secret for many years, and even has so many soldiers in Nanyang, you still have no news. Wang Cheng'en, you disappointed me."

"I'm going to die!" Wang Cheng'en lies on the ground and dared not get up.

"I'll give you ten days. If you can't find any news, you'll be willing to give me a thank you!"

"I will receive the order!"

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Dongting Hunan, on the Xiangjiang River.

Tanzhou, Changsha.

Outside the city is a continuous camp, and soldiers are coming one after another.

When he set out from Hanjing, Li Ji brought 30,000 imperial guards and the remaining 70,000 troops were drawn from various channels including Hubei, Hunan, Jiangxi, Huainan, Hanzhong, etc.

The Dongting Lake Navy was also drawn.

A 100,000 army was invaded south, and there were many food and equipment needed. For this reason, Li Ji recruited civilians from various channels to transport food and equipment, recruited merchant ships and civilian ships, and recruited as many as 100,000 civilians.

The emperor urged him to march with one decree a day.

But the troops have only gathered more than 60,000, and more than 30,000 people have not arrived.

Only one-third of the recruited civilians, and most of the food and grass needed by the army were still on the way.

"Master, can't wait any longer."

The military supervisor Li Daen urged him that he was the military commander sent by the emperor, named Li Daen, and was also an old man around the emperor. Unlike ordinary eunuchs, this man had fought with Li Shimin before.

But now the emperor's will is there, and it will be difficult for him to deal with Li Ji if he doesn't send troops.

"The troops have not been in full, the food and grass have not been sufficient, and the civilians have not arrived yet." Li Ji said in a deep voice.

"But the date of dispatching troops set by Your Majesty has passed. If you wait any longer, Your Majesty will be furious and you and I can't stand it. You see, it's mid-April, but it will be May. Not only will the weather get hot, but the Xiangjiang River may rise and it will be difficult to transport food. While the weather is still cool and the Xiangjiang River is slow, it's time to march and advance."

Li Ji really wants to wait a little longer.

But now I can't hold on.

"Well, send troops tomorrow. The troops still on the road will be used as the rear army and let them hurry up."

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Guizhou.

Yuechengling, one of the five ridges, is located in the north of Guizhou. Yuechengling is a watershed, with Hunan Road to the north and Guangxi Road to the south.

The Xiangjiang River originated from Linyuan City, Guizhou. The Qin army divided into five groups, one of which crossed Yuechengling and fought in Guilin in the south. In order to transport military supplies, a section of transportation canal was dug in the south of Linyuan. This section of Lingqu started from Linyuan in the north and ended at Qincheng in the south.

In Qincheng, Guijiang, which originates from the southern foot of Yuechengling.

In Linyuan City, Zhang Zhongjian stood on the head of the reinforced city, looking at the busy fortification scene below, and was very satisfied.

Linyuan guards Xianggui Road and is the barrier of Guizhou.

To attack Guizhou, you must first capture Linyuan. Although Linyuan is not large, its location is dangerous. One man is at the pass, and tens of thousands of men cannot open it.

Looking at the cannons set up on the top of the city and the trenches and short earth walls outside the city, Zhang Zhongjian was confident that even if the war god Li Jili came to attack, he could withstand it.

He had 50,000 troops and was defended by danger, so Li Ji couldn't get it.

Under the city, the people of Guizhou are working hard to dig trenches and build mud walls. Everyone is very satisfied with their current life and knows that the Central Plains are now in dire straits.

"Everyone work harder, dig deeper the trench and build higher the walls. The Northern Army will not be able to attack by then, and our days will be saved!"
Chapter completed!