Hundreds of miles away in the bloody south of Zhenzhou, in the hinterland of Weibo Town, Weizhou (now Handan City, Hebei Province), is in Yuancheng (now Hebei Province), the capital of Weibo Town.
The school field before the festival is full of flags and the fire is shining. And the current Wei Bo Jiedu Envoy Le Yanzhen, also looking murderously at a row of generals escorted to the porch in the snow, shouted with a kind of Sen cold voice through his teeth:
"Lost the city and the ground, you will be ruined when you hit the enemy, and you still have the face to come back! They have all been chopped off for me to impersonate you..."
Following his order, these generals who begged for mercy or turned to curse were also re-guzzled; then they severed their heads against their necks, and sprayed flowers of different shapes on the snow. The red color is coming. Because, just a few days ago, the Tianping Army from the other side of the Yellow River, led by Cao Xiang after the Jiedu envoy, suddenly crossed the frozen surface of the Yellow River into Weizhou in one fell swoop.
Since his predecessor Jiedu defeated Han Jian in Henan, he lost a large area of land taken from the towns of Xuanwu, Yicheng, and Tianping. Under the combined attack of Heyang, Dongdu, and the remnant of Tianping, the sixty thousand Weibo who went out. The only one of my children is Le Yanzhen, who is in a bad situation.
, The more than 10,000 people led by him were able to retreat.
Therefore, Han Jian and his relatives who stayed in Lisuo certainly paid the price of death for this fiasco; but among the three towns of Heshuo that have always been rebellious and self-contained, the most populous The six prefectures of Weibo, which are rich in land and resources, have also suffered painful weakening and loss. As many generals and soldiers live in the settlement, almost every family wears filial piety and hangs flags from households.
Therefore, during this period of time, Le Yanzhen, who is on the self-supporting Jing Festival, can only make money with thick coins on the one hand, and seek peace with Heyang, who is pressing harder in Hebei; on the other hand, he strives to gather wealth and integrate internally to eliminate dissidents. Planting cronies to consolidate their position. Only then did he slowly turn around from the severe injury of Henan's defeat in the army.
But what I did not expect is that now Wei Bo Town has not completely licked the wound and rehabilitated it. On the contrary, it was attacked by the Wei army all the way to Yunzhou, leaving only the remnant of the extremely weak Tianping Army, which was supposed to be a lonely city; Dare to cross the border in this snowy winter. It never occurred to him that the generals who were dispatched to set up guards along the banks of the Yellow River would be so unhelpful, negligent, and lax.
For a time, Linhuang, Dunqiu, Changle, Chaocheng, and the counties of Xinxian south of Dingcheng were successively trapped by Tianping Qibing. All the time, they were shocked by the fleeing civilians and defeated soldiers, but the number of enemy troops was I don't know how many. This forced Le Yanzhen into a dangerous situation.
As the leader of many generals in Weibo Town, if he can't lead troops to fight the invaders, but shows his ability to guard the country and the means of coping, then the subordinates are known as "the emperor of Chang'an, the soldier of Weibo". We will also find ways to replace someone with more ability and means to lead everyone.
However, after the oath teacher, his son Le Congxun shrank and moved forward with a bitter face:
"Father, do you really want to play? Can't you appoint others?"
"As the commander-in-chief of Wei Bo, the enemies of the scale have all reached the point of my heart, so can I still use others!"
However, Le Yanzhen hates that iron cannot become steel:
"As a child of my Wei Bo, I can't have the courage in front of the battle, and make a strategy, but I can't even have the courage to face the enemy..."
"What's more, I'm not without back-ups and countermeasures. In the past two years, someone Cao Cao has lived in Tianping Town. How can he live in peace!!!"
—I am the dividing line —
And in the city of Jiangling, which is approaching the New Year, everything continues in the aftermath. After the establishment of the reign of the Taiping Army regime, it is natural to issue a batch of new coins as a commemoration. However, at this time, Zhou Huai'an received a bad news that was not big or small; the copper material for making money seemed to be insufficient. Or it can be said that there have been signs of a money shortage to varying degrees in Canton.
You should know that under the rule of the Taiping Army, it has been for many years to mint and issue corresponding coins, and at the same time recover and destroy all kinds of old money. Among them, the largest number of castings and circulations are the traditional bronze coins, Dangwu, and white copper Dangshi. The second is the silver mixed copper with Dang 20 and Dang 50 coins (treasure money). .
As for the other big silver coins (treasure coins), small gold coins (bao coins) for 200 characters, Zhongjin (bao coins) for semi-continuous (500 characters), and big gold for Dangguanyu (thousands of characters). (Treasure money); the corresponding circulation and use efficiency is far inferior to the former with small denominations. More often, it is regarded as a large portable commercial equivalent, which is directly deposited in the counter to complete the transaction in public, rather than entering the consumer market for circulation.
But in any case, compared with the ancient production method and the time-consuming and labor-consuming efficiency loss of the traditional money supervisor’s open furnace and pouring clay molds; the Taiping Army Casting and Printing Bureau, which has adopted hydraulic copper plate rolling and embossing technology, is undoubtedly in the alloy The material cost and production loss are enough to be far away. Therefore, in order to face the continuous replacement and recovery of bad money in the market, we can always maintain a relatively healthy steady flow of issuance.
However, although the Taiping Army included most of the copper deposits in the south of the Dajiang River, and imported from overseas such as Tianzhu, Champa, and Buddha, there are more places where copper is used in all aspects. Throw away those production projects in the industrial production system that must use copper compounds as catalysts; the public input of artillery production and the use of steel billet cast iron barrels replaced the original copper-tired iron-bore guns, but in some key parts of the guns. And for small parts, copper is still needed.
Although the domestic market circulation demand has been temporarily suppressed by the increasing circulation volume year by year; however, it is unable to hold the overseas forces to see this kind of "Tang Qian" with Taiping characters and patterns, the texture is hard, beautiful, smooth and wear-resistant. And began to secretly buy it in large quantities. That’s right, I’m talking about those merchants from Waguk and Silla;
Compared with the chaotic currency, the Taiping Army issued gold, silver, treasure and other foreign countries, such as Nanhuang, Nanhai, Tianzhu, and Dashi, where the Taiping Army issued gold, silver and treasure. The merchants of these two countries showed more Luthor. . Since the resumption of trade in the sea lanes, it has been almost privately like ants moving, treating Taiping New Money as some kind of precious cargo in ballast and transporting it back to the entire ship.
Because the coin casting technology of these two countries is known for being filthy. So that later generations have followed the Ming and Qing Dynasties, they still have to rely on the Central Plains coins imported from the mainland to make up for the domestic circulation gap. So this is not an accident, but a long-term problem that the Central Plains regime will inevitably face when it becomes larger.
As a result, Zhou Huaian had to convene a meeting to step up economic restraints and prevention and control measures, and at the same time further increase investment in the planning of navigating Silla and Waguo's minerals by sea. Silla, located on the peninsula, let alone the fact that the Waguo Archipelago, as a geologically active zone where continental plates collide, is the most indispensable for the rich ore veins brought out by various address movements.
Except for a few large gold and silver deposits near the sea, it has been confirmed that they need to be directly mined and smelted after occupation; other inland associated copper mines can be obtained through inshore trade with the Japanese country. Although the Silla Kingdom has many mountains and few land, it has always been known as barren and cold, but the mountains are also rich in minerals, but they lack the means of exploration and mining.
Just look at the slightly wealthy people in Silla who like to make a set of copper tableware. The domestic production of copper is even more applied than ironware. But the biggest problem at the moment is that whether it is Silla or Wa, the corresponding mining and smelting base is really too backward.
On the other hand, since Zhou Huai'an has already claimed the king's organizational system, he must at least make full use of this opportunity. Therefore, with the passage of time and the spread of news, more new decrees and subsequent supplementary provisions have also been promoted in succession. However, the content of it is always different; the most controversial and the one that evoked the strongest response among the people is the publication of the "Regular System for the Selection of Taiping Female Officials."
Because this is not simply a matter of selecting female officials for the inner pavilion and the later dynasty, but a relatively detailed definition of the women who are currently in the Taiping Metropolitan Government’s system and assume various positions and specific labor. And planning; and for this reason, its origin is divided into two different systems, the inner court and the outer court.
Let alone the system of female officials in the inner court that has had precedents in the past dynasties, it is more about the private affairs of the rulers. However, as far as the middle and lower levels of the foreign administration system are concerned, there are already female members and positions, but they have established a system of transfer, promotion and treatment standards and treatment for them compared with men.
Although the limitations of the entire era and the impact on traditional concepts have been considered; these promotion paths are also limited to those who have little difference in gender requirements, do not require heavy physical fitness and are more inclined to technical expertise, such as general affairs management, medicine, epidemic prevention, and health education documents. It is a relatively secondary and auxiliary department, such as weaving, printing and dyeing, and so on.
However, when the corresponding detailed rules came out, there was a great uproar, and even the upper level led by the Metropolitan Government was generally silent (because they have already had a consensus and psychological preparations, they would not rush to express their opinions compared to others), but in the middle level The evaluations and discussions with the lower levels are the result of one-sided two-level differentiation.
Those fierce opponents from the middle and lower levels are mostly traditional scholars who have inextricably linked relationships with the system. On the one hand, although I feel that the social status and traditional dignity inherited by the traditional patrilineal clan have been challenged, but more still feel that my promotion and official career have been competed and squeezed by these female officials. Therefore, taking the world of women left behind by Wu Zhou's usurpation of the country as an example, we must not set this precedent in the new dynasty.
There are not many supporters who have stood up publicly, mainly those who have been following the pace of the Taiping Army, led by Liu An and Wang Poxian, and merchant groups from Guangfu and Guannei backgrounds; they also put people in the bookstores of many restaurants and tea shops, and Street manuscripts listed legendary figures such as Fu Hao, and the princess Pingyang, who was named Niangziguan in the previous dynasty, as an example. It is advocating that this matter must be restored to the legacy of the three generations of ancient sage kings.
The response of the people at the bottom is different. Most people in ordinary villages still do what they should do, just as a strange joke. However, the people in those cities responded with practical actions. All kinds of teaching materials dedicated to women's school and enlightenment, as well as scholars who can serve as teachers, unexpectedly began to appear in Luoyang paper expensive style.
And the private households in the camps and villages in various places, although there are small areas of anxiety, confusion, confusion, uneasy, and worried people, but under the influence of long-term collective life and institutional cooperation, more people still show something. In this sense, "the general governor asked to do whatever he did", "the truth of his elders is certainly not wrong," "the Taiping Army does everything with far-reaching benefits" and the blind obedience and confidence.
After all, among them, they were also the first to realize and get used to the daily routines for women to work. Therefore, in a sense, Zhou Huaian does not need universal public opinion support in traditional society at all; as long as the vast number of villages, workshops, mines and their relatives and children, which are the basic plate of the Taiping Army, can be provided by the huge population A correspondingly sufficient proportion of women is sufficient as a source of training and supplementation for female employees and officials.
However, Zhou Huai'an just wanted to release this content, nothing more than to let people have a lasting hot topic, make a noise and debate, and cover up the social shocks and opposition trends that may be caused by other policy releases. . After all, people are the easiest to see the pros and cons of personally related eye money. Even if there are noises and criticisms, it is easy to be overwhelmed.
And in the midst of this tumultuous uproar, under the rule of the Taiping Army ushered in a meaningful New Year festival. (End of this chapter)