Hundreds of miles south of Zhenzhou, Weizhou (now Handan City, Hebei Province), the capital of Weibo Town, is located in Yuancheng (now Daming, Hebei Province), the hinterland of Weibo Town.

There were flags standing in front of the yamen and fires shining. Le Yanzhen, the current Weibo Jiedushi, also looked at the row of generals escorted to the snow in the corridor with murderous aura, and shouted in a cold voice from his teeth:

"You lose the city and the land, and you will be defeated when you touch the enemy. You still have the face to come back! You have cut me off to serve as a warning to you..."

With his order, these generals who begged for mercy or turned to scold were also squeezing again; then they cut their heads toward their necks, and red flowers of different shapes splashed out on the snow. Because, just a few days ago, the Tianping Army from the opposite bank of the Yellow River, led by the Jiedushi Cao Xiang, suddenly crossed the frozen ice surface of the Yellow River and rushed into Weizhou in one fell swoop.

Since the former Jiedushi Han Jian was defeated in Henan, he lost a large area of ​​land seized from Xuanwu, Yicheng and Tianping towns; under the three-way attack of Heyang, Dongdu and Tianping remnants, the only 60,000 Wei Bo's children who came out were Le Yanzhen, who saw that the situation was not good.

The more than 10,000 people led were able to escape unscathed.

Therefore, Han Jian and his relatives who remained for the sake of this crushing defeat certainly paid the price of death; but among the three towns of Heshuo, which had always been rebellious and self-contained, the six states of Weibo, which had the largest population and the richest resources, also suffered heavy weakening and losses. As many generals and soldiers in Dingcheng, almost every family wore mourning and every household hung banners.

Therefore, during this period, Le Yanzhen, who was independent of the imperial court, could only make a fortune on the one hand, and make peace with Heyang, which was pressing step by step in Hebei; on the other hand, he tried his best to gather wealth and integrate the internal affairs, eliminate dissidents and arrange close confidants to consolidate his own power. Only then did he slowly recover from the great damage of defeat in Henan.

But what I didn't expect was that Wei Bo Town had not completely licked the wound and returned to Yunzhou. Instead, the Wei army conquered the city and attacked the city, leaving only a remnant of the Tianping Army, which was naturally lonely and extremely weak. He dared to cross the border in this snowy winter day. He did not expect that the generals he sent to set up camps along the Yellow River to prepare for police were so useless, negligent and slack.

For a time, Linhuang, Dunqiu, Changle, Chaocheng, and Shenxian, south of Dingcheng, were successively trapped by Tianping's surprise soldiers. For a while, they were shocked to hear about the fleeing people and defeated soldiers, but there were unknown how many enemy troops were. This forced Le Yanzhen to a dangerous situation.

As the leader of many general families in Weibo Town, if he cannot lead his troops to fight against the invaders and show his ability to defend the countryside and respond to the means, his subordinates who are always called "Chang'an Emperor, Weiboya Soldier" will also try every means to replace a more capable and means candidate to lead everyone.

However, after the oath, his son Le Congxun shrank and said with a bitter face:

"Master-in-chief, do you really have to go out? Can't you delegate others?"

"As General Wei Bo, I am the enemy of the balance, and I am sure that I can still use others to make a move!"

Le Yanzhen said a little disappointed:

"As my child, Wei Bo, you can't be brave enough to be in front of the formation and make plans, but you can't even have the courage to face the enemy!"

"What's more, I don't have any backup plans and countermeasures. In the past two years, Mr. Cao has been in Tianping Town, so how can he live a peaceful life!!!"

——I am the dividing line—

In Jiangling City, which is approaching the New Year, everything continues in the aftermath. After the Taiping Army regime established its year number, it will naturally issue a batch of new coins to commemorate it. However, at this time, Zhou Huaian received a bad news that was not big or small; the copper material for minting seemed to be insufficient. Or it was an unexpected sign of a cash shortage in Guangzhou.

You should know that under the rule of the Taiping Army, it has been a long time since the Taiping Army minted and issued corresponding coins, and at the same time, it has been recycling and destroying various old coins. Among them, the largest is the traditional bronze footprint, the two types of copper coins, namely, the fifth and the tenth and tenths of white copper; the second is the small silver (treasure coins) cast in silver mixed copper.

As for other things, as if it is a hundred-civilian big silver (treasure money), two hundred-civilian small gold (treasure money), half-civilian (treasure money), and as if it is a scattered (five hundred-civilian) big gold (treasure money); the corresponding circulation and use efficiency are far less than the former with concentrated small-value face value. In most cases, it is used as a large-value portable commercial equivalent, and the transaction is directly completed in the store and cashier in the warehousing, rather than entering the consumer market for circulation.

But no matter what, compared with the ancient production method and time-consuming and labor-intensive efficiency losses of the traditional money supervision, the Taiping Army Casting and Sealing Bureau, which adopts hydraulic copper plate rolling and imprinting technology, is undoubtedly enough to defeat the material cost and production losses of the alloy. Therefore, it is possible to face the poor money that is constantly replaced and recovered in the market and maintain a relatively healthy and continuous issuance volume.

However, although the Taiping Army included most of the copper minerals south of the Yangtze River and had inputs from overseas regions such as India, Champa, and Buddha, there were more places to use copper in all aspects. Putting aside the production projects in the industrial production system that must use copper compounds as catalysts; just the production of cannons was imported in public and the use of billet cast iron cannon barrels replaced the original copper-tied iron cannon, but copper was still needed in some key parts and small parts of the gun.

Although the domestic market circulation demand has been temporarily suppressed by the increasing circulation volume year by year, it cannot withstand the many benefits of "Tang Qian" with the words and patterns of Taiping, which are hard, exquisite, smooth and wear-resistant, and begin to secretly buy them in large quantities. That's right, they are talking about those merchants from Japan and Silla;

Compared with the currency value and currency, the gold, silver and treasure money in the Taiping Army issued the Taiping Army was particularly popular and popular and traders from other countries such as Nanhuang, Nanhai, Tianzhu, and Dashi have shown that Luther is much more. Since the resumption of shipping trade, they have almost moved privately, using Taiping New Money as some kind of precious cargo and transported the entire ship back.

Because the coin minting technology of these two countries is known for being soaked and ruined. So later generations have been following the Ming and Qing Dynasties, and 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 must face after it becomes bigger.

This forced Zhou Huaian to convene a meeting to strengthen economic constraints and prevention and control measures, and also further promote the planning of minerals in Silla and Japan through sea routes. Not to mention Silla on the peninsula, you should know that as a geological active zone for mainland plate collisions, the Japanese archipelago is the most abundant mineral veins that bring out the ground during various address movements.

Among them, except for a few large gold and silver deposits near the seaside, it has been confirmed that they need to be occupied and directly mined and smelted; other inland-related copper mineral outputs can be obtained through land-bound trade with Japan. Although Silla has many mountains and few lands, it has always been known as barren and bitter and cold, the mountainous areas are also rich in minerals, but they lack exploration and mining methods.

Just looking at the slightly more wealthy families in Silla like to make a set of copper tableware, they know that their output and application of copper in China is even more than iron tools. The biggest problem at the moment is that whether it is Silla or Japan, the corresponding mining and smelting base is really too backward.

On the other hand, since Zhou Huaian has already claimed to be the king, he must at least make full use of this opportunity. Therefore, as time goes by and the spread of news, more new policies and subsequent supplementary clauses have been successively implemented. However, the contents are all different; the most controversial and the most responsive response among the people is the release of the "Taiping Female Official Selection System".

Because this is not simply the issue of selecting female officials for Neiting and Hou Dynasties, but a relatively detailed definition and planning for women who are currently under the Taiping Grand Governor's Office system; and in this way, their origins are divided into two different systems, namely the inner court and the outer dynasty.

The female official system of the inner court, which has been precedent in history, will not be mentioned for now, but involves more private affairs of the rulers. However, for the middle and lower levels of the administrative system of the outer dynasty, female members and positions have already existed, it has established a system of transfers to the middle and upper levels of the same men, and the standards and treatment for them.

Although the limitations of the entire era and the impact on traditional concepts have been taken into account, these promotion methods are also limited to those departments with little difference in gender requirements, no need for heavy physical fitness, and prefer technical expertise, such as general management of medical, epidemic prevention, health education documents, documents, documents, and weaving, printing and dyeing, etc.

However, the corresponding details still caused an uproar, and even formed a general dissatisfaction among the upper class headed by the Grand Governor's Office (because they had already had consensus and psychological preparation, and they would not rush to jump out to express their opinions compared to others). However, the evaluations and discussions in the middle and lower levels showed a one-sided two-level differentiation result.

Those fierce opponents from the middle and lower classes are mostly traditional scholars who have a close relationship with the system. On the one hand, they feel that the social status and traditional dignity inherited by the traditional patriarchal clans have been challenged, but they feel that their career promotion has been competition and squeezed by these female officials. Therefore, taking the women's world left by Wu Zhou usurping the country as an example, we must not set this precedent in the new dynasty.

There are not many supporters who have been following the pace of the Taiping Army, mainly those businessmen groups with backgrounds in the Guanfu and Guannei, led by Liu An and Wang Poxian; they also made people list legendary figures such as Fu Hao in the bookstores of many restaurants and tea shops, and on the street texts. When they went to Princess Pingyang, who was named Niangziguan in the previous dynasty, as an example, to advocate that this matter should be restored to the legacy of the three dynasties of the ancient sage kings.

The reaction among the people at the bottom was a different story. Most people in ordinary villages still did whatever they should do, just as a joke of strange stories. However, the people in those cities responded with practical actions, and various textbooks that specialize in opening schools and enlightenment for women, as well as scholars who can be taught as teachers, actually began to show the popularity of paper-priced Luoyang.

Although the households in the camp and villages in various places were panic, confused, confused, resentful, and worried, under the influence of long-term collective life and institutional cooperation, more people still showed the blind obedience and confidence in a sense that "the Grand Governor will do whatever he asks him to do", "the reasoning of his elders will definitely not be wrong", "Whatever the Taiping Army does is far-reachingly beneficial","

After all, they were the first to realize and get used to the daily life of letting women come out to work. Therefore, in a sense, Zhou Huaian did not need the support of general public opinion in traditional society at all; as long as these Guangtunzhuang, workshops, mines and their relatives and children, which are the basic foundation of the Taiping Army, can provide a corresponding sufficient proportion of women in the huge population base, as a female staff and female officials, the training and supplementary sources of female officials will be enough.

However, Zhou Huaian insisted on giving out this content, which was nothing more than giving people a lasting hot topic, quarrel and debate, and cover up the social shocks and opposition trends that may be caused by the release of other policies. After all, people are the most likely to see the pros and cons of the relevant personal money. Even if there is any noise and criticism, it is easy to be overwhelmed.

And in this turbulent and hustle and bustle, the Taiping Army ushered in a unique New Year festival.
Chapter completed!