Jin Se

Chapter 44: war

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In the twenty-ninth year of Daqian, the first emperor died, and the new emperor ascended the throne.

According to later historical records, this year was the beginning of twelve years of chaos.

Since the twenty years of Daqian, there have been constant turmoil in various places, and there have been many rioters, echoing from all directions, as if it has become a fashion. Anyone who has not rebelled a few times is simply a bit shameful.

As well as natural disasters and man-made disasters, the imperial court is busy tearing down the east wall to make up for the west wall. Every day, it seems to be exhausted, guarding this precarious country and society.

In the twenty-ninth year of Daqian, fourteen prefectures in Zhouyue and Guangdong were repeatedly warred. Rebels from Penglai, Dongyue and other places formed a rebel army and took advantage of the fire to loot. He invited the letter of credence and announced it to the world, and it was blatantly against it.

The army of the new emperor made a crusade, but halfway through the imperial army, they caught up with the biggest earthquake in this continent.

Before the rebel army could find the rebels, thousands of people were killed by the collapsed mountains. The earthquake spread to five or six prefectures including Penglai, Dongyue, Qinhe, Huaixi, and Wuchu. Dazhou Mountain was lowered by a hundred feet due to ground fissures, and half of the west mountain wall collapsed.

The poor newly appointed monarch of the "Eastern Yue Shang Kingdom" was inspecting his new palace at that time, and was almost crushed to death by the palace that collapsed under the half-repaired palace. First, he took his harem beauties to pack up their belongings and fled. The imperial court suppressed the rebel army and lost thousands of people and all their belongings in this way.

This farce is just the beginning.

Everyone didn't know that the violent earthquake was the result of the destruction of the three Pope's secret treaties.

At the same time, the rebel army in Zhouyue Fourteen Prefectures lost to the North Korean bandit suppressing army. At this time, the leading gangsters took the opportunity to bring the army into the original "East Yue Shangguo" area, and settled down to occupy the magpie's nest with peace of mind.

The "Civil and Military Officials" of the East Vietnam State whose official uniforms have not yet been warmed up are based on the idea that "if you have milk, you are a mother", they don't care about anything, and join forces with the original rogue army from the fourteen states of Zhouyue and Guangdong. One.

It turned out that the number one leader of the bandit army "Black Qilin" was dressed in red and green, with unpicked vegetable leaves between his teeth, so he sat on the dragon chair like a monkey and became the second leader of the Eastern Vietnam Kingdom. Ren emperor.

Since then, the emperor of the country has changed seven or eight terms, which lasted a total of one and a half years. Therefore, the people of later generations also called this magical "Eastern Yue Shang Kingdom" the "Walking Horse Lantern Kingdom".

Although the founding emperor of Dongyue Shangguo was a rather legendary 250th, but I don’t know what kind of shit luck, the chosen place is quite good, the place south of Penglai and most of Shangdongyue should be plain, If you want corn, there is corn, surrounded by countless hills and naturally formed forests, there are countless rare foods in the mountains, it is a fertile land.

The use of soldiers here is even more novel. These local emperors usually wear gold and silver, and when the bandit suppression army comes, it is unambiguous. Hiding in a cave in the mountains for a few days, he should go out to the palace to escape the summer heat like the emperor in the capital of Pingyang.

When the bandit suppression army swept up and settled in the city, this group of self-proclaimed "princes and generals" harassed them from time to time, burning, killing, looting and doing everything, holding the title of prime minister and also doing business with bandits, they ran away after the robbery and were caught He surrendered and ran out in a few days to continue the robbery.

Regardless of the army's baggage or ordinary people, it is very unbearable to disturb.

However, their luck is also good. The bandit suppression army usually stays here for less than a year and a half, and then there are accidents in other places, so these bandit suppression troops, who seem to be a universal brick that has been greased, have to be replaced. Other establishments, go to other places to suppress new bandits.

Once their east wall was demolished to repair the west wall, those civil and military officials of the "Shangguo" who were bandits in the mountains and forests would turn around and sneak in, just like a piece of dog skin plaster, skinless and faceless, and they couldn't get rid of it no matter what.

When one "emperor" died, tens of thousands of "emperors" rose up one after another. In order to prevent power struggles, they also thought of a way. Kowtowed by handprints and offered incense as an oath, the team is very orderly, and it is a miracle that no one has been crowded in the team for several years.

In the second year, the new emperor changed his year name to the first year of Puqing. In this year alone, the "Nation of Revolving Horses and Lanterns" caused chaos several times, and easily emptied the treasury. At this time, the three popes were repairing the secret treaty study Classic, overwhelmed, the whole continent is in chaos.

Taxes in various places are becoming more and more heavy, and the people are miserable. It seems to be a vicious circle. If there is a dead end, they will rebel and drag the already crumbling country into a deeper abyss.

The new emperor issued an edict of sinning himself, and then the court was furious, angered Yan Zhen and other important officials, and reprimanded Yan Zhen as the leader of the group of officials with thunderous means, for doing nothing, leaving his corpse as a vegetarian meal to bring disaster to the country and the people, and sent him to prison.

Yan Zhen knelt down on the ground, shouted long live three times calmly, and went to prison amidst the howls of countless veterans hitting the pillars.

The new emperor played with the art of balance. On the one hand, he reprimanded Yan Zhen, but on the other hand, he entrusted Zou Yanlai, who was also from Tantric Buddhism, with a heavy responsibility.

Then the new emperor himself did something even more disastrous to the country and the people.

He reprimanded Yan Zhen for raising taxes to harm the people, and raising taxes made the tyranny fiercer than a tiger. However, the court wants to fight wars, to provide disaster relief everywhere, to spend, and to ask for money. The new emperor implemented a benevolent government and could not collect taxes, so he had no choice but to simplify everything since he took the throne, reducing the number of people in the palace and the daily expenses of each palace.

Legend has it that there is the Jade Crane Hall in the northwest corner of the palace, which is the residence of the new emperor's favorite concubine. One day, two pieces of glazed tiles fell due to a strong wind. , decided that she was a prodigal bitch, a vixen, and since then put her in the cold palace - it can be seen that poor and lowly couples suffer from everything.

However, it is not enough. Money is earned, not saved. Mainly in open source, cutting expenditure is only an expedient measure, at this time, it is a drop in the bucket.

So Emperor Puqing thought for three days and three nights, and then came up with a bad idea-minting coins.

According to common sense, gold and silver are needed to mint coins, but if there is gold and silver, it is estimated that the owner of the Yuhe shop will not have to go to the cold palace to mourn all day. Therefore, the thing used by Emperor Puqing to mint coins is a kind of cloth ticket. The cloth is stamped with a seal, and the edge is made into a specific shape with a special process. specific amount.

Emperor Puqing thought it was a good idea, and issued these cloth tickets triumphantly. However, he underestimated the extent of the court’s lack of money. One batch was not enough, and another batch was added. So everything is kept simple, all the seams and patterns are omitted, and it can be used only by stamping the four characters "Puqingtong Ticket" by the imperial court.

All of a sudden, pass tickets came overwhelmingly, and the numbers reported by officials at all levels were getting bigger and bigger. What's more, they just took a batch of straw paper rags and carried them back to Beijing, sat on the ground and cried for a while, and then they could write the amount on it at will. , Ask the imperial court to stamp and write.

Before Emperor Puqing could be complacent enough from his wonderful idea, there were long and short sentences with irregular rhythms among the people, singing: Pingyang can be made with a magic pen, and Puqing can be made with paper. Talented! In the past, the family was a mere four-wall man, but now Wan Jinruo waits for nothing. Panic! Pingyang paper is more expensive than expensive rice, and ten thousand taels of silver is worth half a bowl. how? I only say, prosperity and well-being, long live the emperor.

The talented Emperor Puqing did not expect that his pass had become a joke, and every household threw a bundle in the pigsty and sheep pen. Because it was popular for a while, even the circulation of gold and silver in the market was disrupted into chaos. The place simply bartered.

This attack was out of control, and only tormented Emperor Puqing. Zou Yanlai and others took the opportunity to jointly write a letter, requesting the imperial court to abolish the paper rolls of pass tickets and restore Yan Zhen.

All the ministers knelt down to reconsider, Emperor Puqing felt that he had become a loner, and the hatred and fear of Yan Zhen in his heart increased to a higher level, but he had no choice but to wave his hand in approval.

This chaos undoubtedly gave Gu Huaiyang and others a good opportunity to fish in troubled waters. Although he has been acting secretly, and even Shi Wuduan and others secretly united with the Sanbu monastic sects, gathered rivers and streams to form a river and sea, and used various schemes to destroy the seven secret formations, but he did not appear on the stage, even Occasionally, they even sent out troops, pretending to help the imperial court suppress the gangsters who took out the cottage. They wanted to wait until the current situation was more chaotic and the family was richer before taking any action.

As soon as the pass decree came out, Shi Wuduan calculated the ending of the joke. Although Haining County is located in a remote place, it was the first one to go to Beijing with a large amount of straw paper and rags to cry for poverty. , A large number of passes were traded, and after that, they were divided into various channels to exchange the large amount of passes collected for equivalent gold and silver without anyone noticing. So when the pass was worthless until it was abolished, people who cared about it were surprised to find that there was even less gold and silver on the market than before, and they didn't know where they all went.

The smoky atmosphere—other than the smoky atmosphere, there is no way to describe Puqing's dilapidated country.

After Yan Zhen's reinstatement, the first thing to do is to trace the whereabouts of gold and silver. At the same time, he secretly trusted the three popes and summoned the various sects to gather with Dazhou Mountain. The current situation is chaotic and imminent. It was already frightening.

Zou Yanlai and the others conspired to release the news of the Great Zhoushan League. As Bai Li had expected, Shi Wuduan and the others, who were still on the sidelines, were already planning to sharpen their swords and make a move because of Haining's sudden wealth and years of military training. At this moment, the Red Turban Army, who has been hiding its power and biding its time for many years, is like a beast with its mouth open, ready to bite its fangs at any time.

Shi Wuduan's first target was the Buzhoushan Huimeng.

At the end of the second year of Puqing, the leaders of the three popes gathered in Dazhou Mountain, and Shi secretly dispatched troops and generals for no reason, and set up traps.

Bai Li never showed up to meet the alliance. After he left the customs, he almost saw Zou Yanlai alone. He lived in seclusion in the Pingyang Imperial Capital, watching these people come on stage as if they were watching a scene, and now they are finally ready to do it.

From the beginning to the end, he never had the royal family or the court in his heart, he only pretended to be one person and one thing.

A person is the man who hurt him the most and made him love him so much and hate him so much.

One thing is to get rid of all the weaknesses in oneself, and become stronger and stronger no matter what.

There will be a day when there is nothing in the world that can restrain him, there will be a day when there is nothing in the world that can stop him.

In that small courtyard, being bound by blood and being slaughtered by others, one time is enough. For no reason, it has been many years, and now you and I are going to meet again.

This era has arrived, and everyone has entered the game.

However, no matter whether it is a hero or a beauty, even though they are all exquisite characters, they all depend on the current situation. If you can go a little farther, if the situation is wrong, you will just be annihilated in the surging tide.

Even though he is unwilling in every possible way, it is just one sentence in the final analysis-hate this life as a human being, the rivers and rivers will last forever, and there is nothing he can do.

Shi Po... how could it shock the sky