Governor please stay

Cui Jiong sighed and said: "Although Jiankang is good, it is not home after all. My father died in Luoyang. I haven't paid homage to him for many years, and I don't even know where his grave is. It is unfilial.

If I can break into Luoyang City in the future, I will have an explanation to my family, and it is not a waste of time. "

Cui Jiong was always joking and joking, as if he didn't care about anything. Liu Yishou really didn't expect him to be so eager to return to his hometown in the north.

I'm afraid that most of the old brothers under my command think so, but many of them don't say much on weekdays.

"This day is not far away, I promise you, very soon, the Northern Expedition will be brewed after Ping Chenba is destroyed. This time, Ping Gaohuan will not give up halfway to destroy Wei State."

Liu Yishou made a solemn promise to Cui Jiong.

Detailed Explanation of Molten Copper Buddha Casting Copper Coins

my country has been a copper-deficient country since ancient times until modern times. The silver standard in the Ming and Qing Dynasties was also a last resort. Copper is really not enough. This is determined by our country's natural conditions and cannot be solved by manpower.

Therefore, before the silver standard, it is an indisputable fact that feudal countries lacked currency.Making copper coins with copper metal is tantamount to directly creating "wealth". This absurd law was established in a certain period of time in ancient China.

Even this kind of "wealth" was very high-quality at the time, and there was no fear of depreciation at all.

Making copper coins is tantamount to creating "money" out of thin air to loot physical wealth at the social level (such as food, cloth, labor, etc.). There is no need to doubt this. The essence of what any ruler does is the same.

Making money is tantamount to robbery.The only difference lies in who's wealth is being robbed with these copper coins.

In the eyes of most rulers, the weight of copper is just the cost of casting money, and it does not mean anything in itself.The vast majority of these people know nothing about economics, and what they do is to search for folks in different ways.

Especially in the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the life cycle of the country was short, and they were all willing to die, and there were many tricks in this regard.

For example, Nanchen's Taihuo six baht.

For the Northern Expedition, Emperor Chen Xuan minted new money to search for folk wealth.Yet the new money, despite its fine mint, was not popular at the time.

Why is this so?

Because the size of this kind of coin is similar to that of the old five baht, and the court stipulated that one new coin should be worth ten old five baht coins!

This kind of depreciation of the stupid currency, and it is enforced by the government, is a cruel exploitation of the people, and they treat others as fools, which arouses strong dissatisfaction among the people, and they boycott this kind of money, and still use the old five baht money many.

The old five baht coin was cast by Emperor Chen Wen in order to stabilize the people's livelihood. At that time, it played an extremely important role in stabilizing the economy in the south of the Yangtze River, and it was the most widely circulated money in the Southern Dynasties.

Because the word "six" on the new money text looks like a person with his hips on his hips, the folk song "Six baht coins for too much money, akimbo and crying for the emperor" spread among the people.

These copper coins of all kinds are routines from the source of the coin. The copper coins become thinner and smaller, and more and more other metals are doped.There is even Xiao Yan's coquettish operation, directly changing copper to iron, and using iron coins instead of copper coins to circulate.

The old feudal rich already vaguely knew the concept that currency is not equal to the use value of currency itself, but they dismissed the "standard system" in it, either they didn't know much about it, or they didn't care at all.

The role played by copper coins is more of a means for the government to loot the people, but cloth and silk products are the main carrier of private transactions.

After reading the above discussion, you will understand that casting money in the feudal era = equal to robbery, and other functions are secondary.Those who disagree with this point can ignore the following.

Therefore, it can be seen from the above discussion that Xiao Yan, who was short of money and randomly made iron coins, was on the first floor, and Chai Rong, who dared to be the first in the world, melted copper Buddhas and cast copper coins for military supplies. On the second floor, he melted copper Buddhas and cast copper coins. Liu Dudu, who has become a performance art, is at least on the third floor.

Let me talk about Xiao Yan first, and I don’t care about anything. Look at the records in "Sui Shu Shihuo Zhi": "Iron is cheap and easy to get, and it is all privately cast. After Datong, the iron money where it is located is like hills and mountains. Those who use the money on the car, don’t count it but only talk about it.”

Iron money flooded the market, causing a precipitation period for copper coins and an increase in currency value.

Since there were open-pit iron mines in ancient times, many of which were not recorded by the government, private stealing of iron mines became a common practice, causing prices to rise sharply.The purchasing power of iron money plummeted.

Inflation and economic chaos led to the bankruptcy of the small farmers' economy, a large number of farmers were displaced, and the society became extremely unstable.

If you don't understand economics, don't play with iron money!If you don't establish a standard system, it's no wonder that iron money doesn't depreciate!

To be honest, Hou Jing has a lot of people following him, and I am not surprised that Nanliang is so perverted.In the book, Dudu Liu abolished iron money, and the people must think him well, and they would not think he was a traitor.All your efforts to win the hearts of the people are not as beneficial as abolishing this iron money.

Let's talk about Chai Rong on the second floor.

You have to admit that Chai Rong, who was born as a businessman, does have a deep understanding of economics.He also realized that China has been short of copper since ancient times and is naturally deflationary. Casting copper coins, as long as they are genuine "good money", is beneficial to social development.

Casting exquisite copper coins and circulating in society can offset natural deflation and make society stable.The author has experienced the era of deflation. I can only say that deflation does not mean social development, let alone guarantee social stability.

"Money" is getting more and more valuable, which is by no means a good thing!With the development of the ancient textile industry, the purchasing power of cloth must be getting lower and lower, and the value of copper coins will naturally rise. This is an unavoidable fact.

The premise is that this kind of copper coin has collection value.Exquisitely minted copper coins are actually in circulation even after dynasties. This point has been explained in many documents, so I won’t talk about it here.

Chai Rongneng realized that using the "dead thing" copper Buddha to make a living thing "copper coin" that benefits the country and the people can raise military expenses for the war against the country without harming the people's livelihood.This is indeed the quality possessed by the first-class rulers in ancient China.

If you don't cast the bronze Buddha, you will have to loot the people, which is more important, Chai Rong knows it well, it is not accidental that he can build the foundation of the Northern Song Dynasty.

Chai Rong's game still uses copper coins as "money", while Liu Dudu's game has gone beyond the scope of currency, hypes copper coins as luxury goods, and uses public opinion to add a layer of mystery to these copper coins, making them natural. It has certain luxury attributes and collection value.

Liu Dudu, who cherishes the power of the people, never thought about letting the money circulate among the people.

On the first level, by robbing the bronze Buddhas in Buddhist temples, they attack Buddhism that affects the power of the country, but they don't force them into a corner to offend them to death.The loss of the bronze Buddha in the Buddhist temple is nothing more than a pain in the flesh. Both the temple and the land are there, and the foundation is there, so there is no need to confront the court.

On the second level, by hyping up the mysterious color of copper coins, the dog trustees of the imperial court repeatedly repurchased and increased the value of the coins, and tempted temples to "repurchase" copper coins. They exchanged food and cloth that could be eaten and worn for copper coins with only symbolic significance. .

Form an atmosphere of public opinion that "the temple that buys a lot of money for Buddha is the one that truly respects Buddha".

Some temples will definitely melt money again to cast Buddhas, and Liu Dudu still has his backs waiting for them.However, some temples estimate that they will only sell these copper coins to believers, and those who can afford these "Buddha coins" must be either rich or expensive.

In other words, it will not be circulated to poor people, and naturally it is not looting their wealth.Liu Dudu didn't feel sorry for those dignitaries who were bleeding profusely.

On the third level, the food and cloth harvested directly or indirectly from the temples and dignitaries were used to cover the military expenses of the imperial army going south to counter the rebellion.As long as there is enough food in the Changping warehouse, it will be possible to stop the big family members from taking advantage of the opportunity of Liu Dudu going south to hoard and drive up the price of food as an act of blackmailing for political benefits.

On the fourth floor, in order to make up for the shortfall, all kinds of Buddhist temples must act like monsters to make money, which paves the way for Dudu Liu to catch them all in one go.Before the Northern Expedition to Gaohuan, there must be a wave of extermination of Buddhism, otherwise the problem of underpopulation in the Southern Dynasties society would definitely not be cured.

Under the survival of the fittest, those who commit too many crimes will naturally not be able to survive. Wouldn't it be a good thing to use the land of these temples to reward the meritorious deeds and stimulate the army to fight the enemy bravely?

Liu Dudu has the vision of future generations, but he didn't use these to do his best and rob the hard-earned money of the common people.Instead, they are doing the thing of "make up for the deficiency and damage the excess", and try their best to make the life of the people easier.

Caring for the common people, cherishing the livelihood of the people, these words are not just chanting slogans casually, but he is very serious in practicing them.

Chapter 592 Anxiety Syndrome

People count as tigers, and tigers count as people.While Liu Yishou was working hard to prepare for the southern expedition, Chen Baxian was not idle.

Although Li Qianshi beat Chen Baxian under Xiao Bo's support, he didn't have much talent in running an army. The last time he won, it was because Xiao Bo took out Chen Baxian's hometown Panyu City, and Li Qianshi bullied Chen Baxian's army Just thinking about it.

If you face the enemy head-on, none of the ten Li Qianshi is an opponent of Chen Baxian.

The autumn harvest has just started this year, and the fields are full of farmers harvesting rice.

Li Qianshi thought that Chen Baxian's vitality was seriously injured last time, and now that the autumn harvest is busy, the opponent must not be able to organize troops to fight.So according to the old style of last time, we led troops to raid Xinning County (Xinxing, Guangdong).

However, what he didn't expect was that Chen Baxian had already ambushed in a place called Longtan (near Chunwan Town, Northeast of Yangchun, Guangdong Province) on the only way.

There is not only a large lake here, but also mountains and rocks on the shore, and the terrain is extremely complicated.Not to mention mental calculations without intention, even if the two armies are facing each other head-on, if they are not familiar with the terrain, the army that is not prepared in advance will definitely lose!

Li Qianshi led his troops to the northeast along the shore of Huze, and soon he was ambushed. An ambush came out on the hill on the right bank. As soon as he made contact, Li Qianshi found himself being crushed and beaten.

In the chaos, there seemed to be enemy ambushes in the front, back, left, and right sides, and he didn't even have a chance to fight back. Except for his cronies, the other soldiers had lost their organizational system, and no one could be found!

And the stone forest on the northeast side of the water lake seems to be the only way out!Li Qianshi fled to Shilin with his cronies, and left the other soldiers to escape from the battlefield in embarrassment!

Then there is no more.

In the stone forest, Chen Baxian brought his two nephews, Chen Qian and Chen Xu, followed by three hundred elite soldiers.He looked at the enemy soldiers kneeling on the ground, and Li Qianshi, who had been hit by more than a dozen arrows and was already dead, he sighed helplessly.

"You and I are going to be encircled and suppressed by the imperial court. Why bother to plot against each other before the enemy army arrives?"

Chen Ba first looked at Li Qianshi's body, and asked helplessly.

There are a bunch of "pig teammates" around the horse, and Chen Ba doesn't know who to go to after scolding his mother.What Xiao Bo, what Li Qianshi, what are they!

The only reliable Mrs. Xian didn't get involved in these things at all, she clearly didn't think highly of herself.

Don't look at Mr. Chen Ba's calm and self-confident appearance before losing, but he is actually panicking inside!

As the leader of the anti-flag in the Guangzhou area, others don't know how much pressure he is under, but he is very clear in his heart!

Chen Baxian dreamed more than once that Liu Yishou led soldiers and horses to attack Guangzhou, sent people to rush into his bedroom, and cut off his head!

The Jiankang court is no longer the waste that Xiao Yan could not do well at that time!Now under the integration of Liu Yishou, the Jiankang Center has achieved unprecedented unity in the integration of resources from various places.

It can even be said that the Southern Dynasties have never reached such a height in a hundred years!

Chen Ba first heard that the prefects and county magistrates of the counties and counties north of Shaoguan all went to Jiankang to report on their duties, accepted the so-called "Jingcha", and then came back intact.

The reason why the imperial court is so confident is because Liu Yishou is confident, and there is no need to play tricky tricks.The more confident the Jiankang center is, the less likely it will be for the states and counties near Guangzhou to be drawn over by Chen Baxian.

In fact, this is indeed the case. The counties and counties north of Shaoguan, after receiving Chen Baxian's persuading letter, all handed it over to the imperial court and directly sent it to Liu Yishou.

To put it bluntly, the situation is stronger than the people, and it is clear at a glance who is stronger and who is weaker on both sides.Now that Liang Guo is becoming more stable in all aspects of politics and military affairs, and even the number of refugees is decreasing every year, who is willing to bet on Chen Baxian?

Chen Baxian's two nephews, Chen Qian and Chen Xu, were not very clear about these things, but Chen Baxian could feel a biting chill.

"Chop off Li Qianshi's head and send the head to Jiankang, and say that I, Chen, helped the court put down the rebellion."

Chen Baxian said calmly, and ordered his soldiers to do it.

"Uncle, isn't this provoking Jiankang?"

Chen Qian asked in bewilderment.

"No, Uncle is demonstrating against Jiankang, telling them that our family is already the only one in Guangzhou."

Chen Xu said disapprovingly.

"Needless to say, I have my own measure."

Chen Ba waved his hand first, signaling to Chen Qian and the others that there is no need to continue talking.

Sending Li Qianshi's head over, is that a demonstration to the court?

How can it be!This is obviously giving in to the imperial court!

Chen Baxian believes that Liu Yishou must understand what he wants to express.

If the imperial court took advantage of Li Qianshi's position and appointed himself a governor of Guangzhou, supervising the military affairs of the three states of Guangzhou, Hengzhou, and Chengzhou, then the country could also maintain the unity on the surface.

Xiao Gang, it's time to hand it over!

No, no matter whether the imperial court agrees or not, Xiao Gang will hand it over. Now that the Xiao clan has no appeal, it is easy to give others a handle!

Chen Baxian already had the idea of ​​retreating in his heart, feeling that he could not defeat the imperial court's army going south to suppress the rebellion.He has a keen judgment on the current situation, and he doesn't think he can get cheap from a gradually recovering giant.

The only thing to do is to keep the green hills and not be afraid of running out of firewood.

Besides, Fangzhen in the Southern Dynasty sometimes submits and sometimes rebels, and sometimes listens to the tune and does not listen to the propaganda, it is not a day or two.When Xiao Yan was in the last years of the Southern Qi Dynasty, his status was the same as that of Chen Baxian today.

The Southern Qi court didn't do anything to him, on the contrary, he counterattacked with all his strength, turned back and became the emperor.

Chen Baxian felt that he was not a natural rebel, so he handed over Xiao Gang and Li Qianshi's head, and he just had to be soft.In the future, I will just be a governor of an outer town with peace of mind, and follow the orders of the imperial court to sit in Guangzhou, but I will not go to Jiankang, which is like a semi-independent state.

What's wrong with that?

If he could, why would he bite the bullet and make a move when he knew he couldn't defeat the Jiankang court's counter-insurgency army?

"Uncle? Uncle?"

Seeing that Chen Baxian was in a daze, Chen Qian tugged on his cuff and asked.

"It's okay, I was thinking just now that the imperial court's counter-insurgency army is here, we can also ambush them like today. The real enemy is only our own heart. As long as we are not afraid, there will always be a chance to defeat the opponent. "

Chen Baxian said confidently, but his two nephews felt that his uncle's smile seemed a bit forced.A lot of words, speaking out represents one's own attitude, it has nothing to do with the tone of voice.

The sneaky boyfriend repeatedly told his childhood sweetheart that he had been in love for many years that he only loved her and would never find other women. This in itself was a kind of guilty conscience.

If you are really not afraid, why bother with the imperial court's counter-insurgency army?

It's like whistling at night, if you're really not afraid, is that whistle meant for lonely ghosts on the side of the road?

Both Chen Qian and Chen Xu's expressions darkened, feeling the powerlessness of their uncle.

The center of the imperial court is too powerful, and the resources it possesses are incomparable to Chen Baxian!

"Forget it, let's go back, you organize the people to harvest the rice in the fields quickly, and don't get tired of doing things. I will take the soldiers here to clean the battlefield."

Chen Baxian said seriously to the two of them.

"Take orders, my nephew will go back now."

Chen Qian and Chen Xu led away. After they left, Chen Ba first looked at the corpses all over the ground in the stone forest, and let out a deep breath.

He ordered his soldiers to quickly clean up the battlefield, bury the corpses and then withdraw.

A waste like Li Qianshi has no ability to lead an army. Fighting such a weak chicken can naturally be like chopping melons and vegetables.But Liu Yishou's elite soldiers are not so easy to deal with!

The soldiers and horses under the command of Xiao Yi, King of Eastern Hunan, are also very powerful, but they are still only the enemy of the opponent, which already explains the problem.

Chen Baxian already has the intention to retire now, but he was pushed to the front, but he can't retreat if he wants to!

So many things have happened, and the petition has been issued. Could it be that if you give in to Liu Yishou, the other party can pretend that nothing happened?

It may not be impossible, but basically there is no need to count on it.

"Are you coming?"