I am a ruler in troubled times

Five years later, Song Peiyu is still the minister of Honglu Temple.

The Song family already has Song Jinyu as the 'prime minister', and Song Er as the left servant of the Ministry of Rites, but in fact he is the real helm of the Ministry of Rites

There are still Song Jingming and other junior people who are going out to practice outside, waiting for a good time to return to the court.

If Song Peiyu re-enters the three provinces and six departments, it is inevitable that the Song family will be suspected of controlling the government.

It happened that Song Peiyu's longing for Jingzhou's Chu State's estuary to the sea, exchanges with the 36 countries in the Western Regions on the other side of the Western Regions trade road, and Shuangliang, Chen Guo... are all in the Honglu Temple, so it is more convenient to make them at the fastest speed. reaction.

In the past five years, both Emperor Yonghe and Song Jinyu hinted several times that Song Peiyu could move somewhere, but Song Peiyu politely refused.

On the contrary, Lu Jihe, who went to the Ministry of Finance to get seniority, succeeded in taking away the right servant of the household department, and then the left servant of the household department.

Now he can become the youngest minister in Zhao State only after six ministers are old, or he can be named Zuo Shilang like Song Er, but he actually masters one.

Others in Donggong Primary School have also been promoted gradually over the years.

In the end, Luo Yong went to the Jingwei Command and Envoy Division. There were more than [-] people, still fighting with Luo San every day, going to the Qinzheng Hall to find Emperor Yonghe to judge him.

Wei Zhiyuan was in Wucheng Bingma Division, where there were still many former troops of Wei Zhong, Song Peiyu always felt that Emperor Yonghe was playing a big game of chess, and Wei Zhiyuan was the most important chess piece.

After Pingzhang came back from Weijun, he served in the tenth command of the East Palace, and now he is serving as Hao Shi's lieutenant general.

Sheng Tairan and Ping Zhang came back from Wei County together, and after the rotation of the six departments, they offered to go to the strange goods city. It happened that Song Peiyu planned to build the strange goods city in other places, so he handed over this matter to Sheng Tairan.

Bo Yang had nothing to do in Xianyang, and he had already given up his thoughts of going back to the country of Yan, so he went with his friend Sheng Tairan to the newly built strange goods city at the southernmost tip of Wei County.

Before she got married, the eldest princess had an official title, Princess Yongyi.

Although Emperor Yonghe failed to win the courtiers to give her a fiefdom, he chose the richest county in Yong County and allocated all the county's taxes to the eldest princess as support.

As long as the eldest princess is still alive, the tax from that county will be sent to her princess mansion on time every year.

The eldest princess chose a son-in-law according to her own wishes, but shortly after giving birth to her daughter, she had a dispute with the son-in-law and wanted to make peace.

The son-in-law's family even secretly contacted the censor of Yushitai to impeach the eldest princess for not following the three obediences and four virtues, being arrogant towards the son-in-law, and showing no respect for the son-in-law's parents.

The son-in-law is still taking the initiative to play in the court, saying that Princess Yongyi is a daughter and not the daughter of Emperor Yonghe, and enjoying the title and treatment of a princess is already arrogating, and there should be no more fiefs to support her. With confidence, I asked Emperor Yonghe to take back the fiefdom and various preferential treatment given to Princess Yongyi.

Not surprisingly, the son-in-law did not see the sun in the second year.

However, in the second year, Princess Yongyi embraced her daughter who already had the title of princess, and married her second son-in-law in a grand manner.

Compared with Princess Yongyi, the life of the head of Huiyang County is much more dull.

The son-in-law and the eldest princess still love her after all, and they also gave her the freedom to choose her own husband.

After half a month of hesitation, she chose Mu He without hesitation.

After more than half a year of turmoil in the Princess's Mansion, the Huiyang county master finally got his wish.

Fortunately, this marriage, which no one was optimistic about, had a good result in the end.

Mu He made up a fifth-rank junior official in the Hongwen Museum, and devoted himself to sorting out ancient books and documents, and there are already works that have been widely circulated in Zhao Guo.

After marriage, the head of Huiyang County and Mu He played harmoniously, and soon gave birth to a daughter.

After having a daughter, not only the son-in-law's heart softened, but even the most angry eldest princess gradually softened. After hearing that the Huiyang County Lord was pregnant, she went to the palace to meet Emperor Yonghe in Qinzheng Palace.

The eldest princess had long planned to get the title of county lord for Huiyang County lord before she got married, so that she could get married in a glorious manner.But the husband-in-law chosen by Huiyang County Lord was so angry that he forgot about it.

Years passed, and the eldest princess saw that Mu He was indeed different from Mu Wan, but rather like his elder brother Mu Qing, willing to do things in a down-to-earth manner.

After Huiyang county lord and Mu He got married, anyone could see that they were getting more and more comfortable physically and mentally. Even the inferiority complex that was occasionally seen between the brows before had completely disappeared, and they became more calm. It can be seen that life after marriage is smooth sailing.

Moreover, the head of Huiyang County and Mu He have no elders, they only live next to Mu Qing to take care of each other, and they can return to the eldest princess's mansion for half a month a month, how can the eldest princess and the son-in-law be secretly happy.

As time passed, the eldest princess no longer cared about Huiyang county head's choice, and completely recognized Mu and the son-in-law.

Ever since the East Palace Qinsi Academy started, Princess Yongyi and Princess Huiyang had heard a lot about it, and they suddenly came up with the idea to open a girls' school in Xianyang that only recruits female students.

For this reason, they not only attended the courses of Qinsi Academy in person, but also participated in the fifth enrollment process of Qinsi Academy.

Now I am struggling with whether to recruit girls from poor families only, or to recruit girls from noble families and girls from poor families, separate noble girls and girls from poor families in different courtyards, or simply set up two schools in different locations.

Yesterday, there was a banquet at the princess's mansion, and Chong Yi listened to Princess Yongyi and Princess Huiyang talking about the school, so he mentioned a word to Song Peiyu.

Song Peiyu did not expect that Princess Yongyi and Princess Huiyang would be so interested in the school.

When these two first started running the women's school, Song Peiyu thought they were just a 3-minute hot spot, and when she learned how much energy it took to prepare the school, she would put it aside.

Considering all aspects, Song Peiyu certainly hopes that Princess Yongyi and Princess Huiyang can continue to run the women's school.

Even if only the noble daughters of aristocratic families are recruited, it is a process from scratch.

Song Peiyu thought for a while, and planned to send some old people who were diligent in the school to Princess Yongyi and Princess Huiyang, and specially selected those who had been recruited by the school more than once.

With Soong Peiyu sitting in Honglu Temple, Honglu Temple has unknowingly changed from a well-known old-age yamen to a good place for aristocratic children to go to court.

Because the prince often haunts Honglu Temple, no matter how big or small the official position in Honglu Temple is, the degree of sought-after even exceeded six departments at one time.

Chong Yi has long been in Song Peiyu's office, and has his own desk and chair. In addition to piled up on the table, there are a few books on the basics of martial arts.

Emperor Yonghe threatened to send the five small county kings of Suwang's mansion to the East Palace for support, and asked Chongyi to spend half an hour the next day teaching the small county kings how to practice martial arts.

When the little county kings were brought up to one year old, they were moved from Su Wang's mansion to the imperial palace, and the maids and eunuchs waited on them, ate and lived together.

Emperor Yonghe and King Su would visit them almost every day. Whenever the kings of the small counties said they missed their mother, Emperor Yonghe would send someone to invite the eldest princess and Princess Su into the palace.

As time goes by, although the kings of the small counties knew that their biological mothers were other people and they were all in Su Wang's mansion, they got closer to the eldest princess and Su Wang.

When the little county kings were three years old, Emperor Yonghe asked someone to enlighten them.

Now that he is four years old, it is a good time to practice martial arts, and Emperor Yonghe has set his sights on Chong Yi early on.

In fact, when the little county kings were enlightened at the age of three, Emperor Yonghe had already suggested Soong Peiyu.

At that time, there was another large-scale war between Xiliang and Dangxiang, and riots broke out in Dongliang. Song Peiyu, as the secretary of Honghe Temple, was too busy to touch the ground. Honglu Temple really couldn't do without Song Peiyu. Emperor Yonghe regretted it Give up.

Instead, one person was selected from each of the Song family, the Lu family and the other three families, a total of five people, as the first teachers of the small county kings.

Chongyi was unwilling to let the little county kings live in his East Palace, so he could only agree to Emperor Yonghe to teach the little county kings how to practice martial arts.

After Song Peiyu found out about this, she immediately asked people to find a lot of books on the basics of martial arts, so that Chong Yi could thoroughly understand these basics of martial arts before formally teaching the small county kings how to practice martial arts.

He was really worried that if Chong Yi didn't understand the limit of normal people first, would the little county kings come to the martial field vertically and horizontally on the first day.

After nearly two years, the chaos in Xiliang and Dongliang was almost settled.

Since Zhao Guo went through the Western Regions trade route, he sold glass, soap... silver mirrors and other items through the Western Regions trade route every year, and after earning a lot of gold, silver and precious stones from the Western Regions, Tuyuhun and Dangxiang entrenched near the Western Regions trade route also became active. stand up.

Long before the war between Dangxiang and Xiliang, Tuyuhun frequently provoked on the border of Zhao State, trying to steal the goods of Zhao State's caravan.

Facing his old opponent, how could Emperor Yonghe bear this anger.

Moreover, Emperor Yonghe deeply understood the virtues of his old opponent. If he retreated a little when the opponent was provocative, even if he showed a little weakness, these foreigners would swarm up like wolves smelling blood.

Only by hurting these foreigners, these foreigners will understand that Zhao Guo is an existence they can't afford, and they will go around Zhao Guo's caravan from then on.

Hearing that Emperor Yonghe dispatched troops and even recalled Murong Jing, who had been stationed at the border of Zhao Yan for many years, back to Xianyang, Chong Yi immediately rushed to Emperor Yonghe's Hall of Qinzheng.

He is willing to lead troops to defeat Tuyuhun, and if there is any change in Dangxiang, he will also clean up Dangxiang.

Emperor Yonghe smiled gratifiedly, and easily agreed to Chongyi's request, but proposed to keep Song Peiyu in Xianyang.

After confirming that Emperor Yonghe was determined to keep Song Peiyu in Xianyang, and there was no room for negotiation, Chong Yi immediately lost all interest in Tuyuhun and Dangxiang, and turned back to the East Palace.

In the end, it was Murong Jing who led the troops to the west.

20 years after General Jianwei of the Yan State led his troops to sweep Tuyuhun all the way to the Tuyuhun royal court, forcing the Tuyuhun royal family to abandon the royal court and flee westward.

General Murong of the Zhao State led one hundred thousand Zhao troops and shaved Tuyuhun's head again.

Although the current state of Zhao is not as good as the state of Yan, the grain, grass, military pay, and rewards for soldiers are all far better than the former state of Yan. The army of Zhao is even braver than the army of Yan 20 years ago.

The other half, Dangxiang, who was ready to move, didn't even find a chance to fish in troubled waters, so Tuyuhun abandoned the royal court again and fled all the way to the depths of the Western Regions.

After seeing the ending of Tuyuhun, how dare Dangxiang act rashly.

King Dangxiang even took the initiative to order the cavalry to reduce the scope of daily inspections, for fear that when Zhao Jun returned to Zhao, he would suddenly feel that Dangxiang was not pleasing to the eye, so he would shave their heads.

Most of the territory of Tuyuhun is a large barren grassland.

The people of Zhao State basically couldn't adapt to the life of living in tents and grazing animals for a living.

Because Tuyuhun didn't even have the most basic towns and county seats, it would not be possible to build a city in a short period of time, and it was even more difficult than building a strange goods city in the three-way zone.

After various considerations, Murongjing only brought back the cattle, sheep, gold and silver utensils and other things that Tuyuhun hadn't had time to take away, and did not stay in Tuyuhun's territory for long.

After Zhao Guo completely withdrew its troops, Dangxiang became active again, but he no longer dared to target Zhao Guo, who had just beaten Tuyuhun to the brim, but focused on his old opponent, Xiliang.

Dangxiang's attack on Xiliang was extremely fierce. During the war, apart from businessmen from Zhao, no businessmen from other countries were willing to step into Xiliang.

Even Dongliang, which is next to Xiliang, is secretly vigilant, making preparations that Xiliang will not be able to withstand the pressure of Dangxiang, and will deliberately open an opening to put Dangxiang in Dongliang.

Xiliang really couldn't stand the crazy Dangxiang, but he didn't deliberately put the Dangxiang in Dongliang to relieve the pressure as Dongliang thought, but sent a letter of credence to Zhao Guo, asking Zhao Guo for support.

As long as Zhao Guo can help Xiliang repel the party, King Liang is willing to cede the northern pass of Xiliang to Zhao Guo.

At the beginning, this letter of credence was first sent to Song Peiyu, and then Song Peiyu personally entered the palace to present the letter of credence to Emperor Yonghe.

The news of Zhao Guo is much better than that of Xiliang. Xiliang still doesn't know why Dang Xiang suddenly went crazy. plague.

Tuyuhun had already fled to the depths of the Western Regions, and their cattle and sheep were brought back to the territory of Zhao by Murong Jing, and they were not infected with this plague.

However, Dangxiang suffered heavy losses in the plague, and almost all the cattle and sheep of the tribe were spared.

In order to survive this winter, Dang Xiang had no choice but to invade Zhao State or Liangzhou at all costs.

The end of Tuyuhun is just around the corner, Dang Xiang dared not attack Zhao Guo, who had just demonstrated his absolute strength, so he set his sights on his old opponent.

For Dang Xiang, no matter how terrible the loss of attacking Liangzhou was, they did not do anything but watch the dead cattle and sheep rot, waiting for the lack of clothing and food in winter to freeze to death and starve to death.

From the very beginning, there was no fairness in this battle.

Attacking Liangzhou was the only way for DANG Xiang to keep more people alive.

For Xiliang, it is people sitting at home, and the disaster comes from the sky.

Not only was Xiliang unprepared for war, but he was immediately frightened by Dang Xiang's unprecedented ferocity, lost the opportunity, and had to defend with difficulty in the future.

King Liang was able to make a decision in the shortest possible time, and he did not misfortune to divert water to the east, and put the party item in Dongliang, but exchanged the fortress between Xiliang and Zhao State for Zhao State's help.

Song Peiyu felt that through this incident, he could change his impression of King Liang.

After a few years, all the counties and towns in Xiliang without exception have Zhao Guo's grain stores.

Zhao Guo has long been unknowingly completely monopolizing Xiliang's grain business, just as Song Peiyu planned at the beginning.

Unless King Liang intervenes forcefully and intends to formally tear himself apart from Zhao Guo, Song Peiyu can control the grain prices in Xiliang as far away as Xianyang.

Song Peiyu didn't believe that Liang Wang didn't find this.

Even so, when a powerful enemy attacked, Liang Wang was still willing to take out the remaining chips in his hand and ask Zhao Guo for help.

Based on the prestige that Zhao Guo gained among the people of Xiliang after selling grain at a low price in Xiliang, after taking down the fortress between Zhao Guo and Xiliang, Zhao Guo can find a reason to send troops against Liang Wang at any time.

King Liang could not say that he had no backhand strength, but his chances of winning against Zhao Guo were less than [-]%.

King Liang's sincerity is sufficient, and Zhao Guo has long regarded Shuangliang as his back garden, so how could he allow others to covet it?

Emperor Yonghe immediately agreed to King Liang's request, and let Murong Jing, who had not yet returned to Xianyang, turn back the same way, first take over the northern pass of Xiliang, and then help Xiliang repel Dang Xiang.

However, Murong Jing had just arrived at the boundary of Xiliang, completed the handover with King Liang, completely took over the northern pass of Xiliang, and planted Zhao flags on the city wall.

Dangxiang stopped attacking and took the initiative to retreat twenty miles away to set up camp. He changed his previous attitude of not caring and just wanting to fight Xiliang to the death.

Murong Jing and Liang Wang soon knew the reason why Dang Xiang changed his attitude.

Xianyang sent someone to send a letter to King Dangxiang to sign a treaty of peaceful coexistence with Dangxiang.

Song Jingjue, who rushed from Xianyang to the northern pass of Xiliang, brought Murongjing and Liang Wang the personal letters of Emperor Yonghe and the treaty of peaceful coexistence drawn up by Xianyang.

Xianyang is willing to rent the land that originally belonged to Tuyuhun to Dangxiang, including the cattle and sheep collected from Tuyuhun, which can also be sold to Dangxiang, so that Dangxiang can survive the coming cold winter.

When Dangxiang raises the cattle and sheep, Zhao Guo is willing to exchange grains such as bean and millet or commonly used pills for live cattle and sheep.

Dangxiang wanted to pay for renting Tuyuhun land and buy cattle and sheep from Zhao, but he could not use gold, silver and precious stones.

Zhao Guo asked Dangxiang to sell a large number of horses, swords or bows and arrows to Zhao Guo.

Zhao Guo bought something worth "silver" from Dangxiang before selling it to Dangxiang.

To put it bluntly, only barter is accepted.

Liang Wang immediately saw the way from the peaceful coexistence treaty drawn up by Xianyang.

A party without a horse and a sword is no different from a beast without fur and claws.

After they get used to raising cattle and sheep according to Xianyang's requirements, they will exchange the cattle and sheep from Zhao for other supplies.

It won't be long before the old land of Tuyuhun where they are located will become Zhao's back garden.

King Liang took a deep look at Song Jingjue, who was drinking tea, and thought of another Master Song who was at Honglu Temple in Xianyang.

Presumably, this Treaty of Peaceful Coexistence was also drafted by Mr. Song.

King Liang felt that King Dangxiang would definitely agree to this treaty of peaceful coexistence.

It's as if he knew the consequences of letting Zhao Guo open a grain trade in Xiliang back then, but he still took the initiative to open the gate of Liangzhou, allowing Zhao Guo's businessmen to enter Xiliang continuously.

Drinking poison to quench thirst is nothing more than that.

All Zhao Guo used was a conspiracy. The more they calmly analyzed the pros and cons, the more they had to step on Zhao Guo's conspiracy.

In turn, I would like to thank Zhao Guo for at least giving them a chance to choose.

Liang Wang thought melancholy, maybe this is the so-called demeanor of a strong country?

King Dangxiang's choice was not beyond what King Liang had expected.

Most of Dangxiang's horses and weapons flowed into Zhao State, in exchange for Zhao State allowing them to live on the land that originally belonged to Tuyuhun, and gave Dangxiang all the cattle and sheep that Tuyuhun had not had time to take away when he fled for his life.

In addition, Zhao Guo also hired Dangxiang strong men to build cement roads from Zhao Guo's frontier all the way to the hinterland of Dangxiang.

Before the cement road was formally built, Zhao Guo separated a large area of ​​land at a distance from Zhao Guo's frontier fortress, preparing to build a new strange goods city.

After hearing about the strange goods city, King Dangxiang, who had originally refused to help Zhao Guo build cement roads and asked Zhao Guo to build cement roads, must stay away from the place where Dangxiang lived, immediately changed his mind.King Dangxiang not only personally counted the strong men of the clan to cooperate with Zhao Guo in building the cement road, but also gave up the location of Tuyuhun King's Court, found a good location around the cement road, and prepared to lead the clan to settle near the novelty goods city.

He wants to follow the example of the Central Plains people and build a house that can withstand wind, rain and heavy snow, so that the tribe can settle down.

Zhao Guo has promised him that he will sell some common grain seeds to Dangxiang.

Liang Wang has been secretly paying attention to the movement of Dang Xiang, and soon discovered the phenomenon that Dang Xiang was being led by the nose by Zhao Guo.

What made King Liang feel most embarrassing was that when he brought himself into King Dangxiang, he found that he would make exactly the same choice as King Dangxiang.

With the opportunity to rely on Zhao Guoqi Goods City to settle down completely, who would want to wander around the grasslands with their clansmen for another year of hunger and fullness?

At this point, King Liang completely stopped looking for an opportunity to get the northern pass of Xiliang back from Zhao Guo, and secretly made up his mind that if Zhao Guo could win any place in Kyushu again, he would formally surrender to Zhao Guo.

King Liang's intention of surrender has been passed on to Zhao Guo through the way that he finally agreed to let Zhao Guo sell the Four Treasures of the Study in Xiliang.

Emperor Yonghe gave Liang Wang a set of pro-dynastic uniforms that were the same as the uniforms of the Su Dynasty, to test Liang Wang's intentions.

Liang Wang not only walked around wearing this set of pro-dynasty uniforms made by the Zhao State, but also personally wrote a letter to thank Emperor Yonghe for the clothes.

The conflict between Dangxiang and Xiliang was completely settled, and Song Peiyu finally had the energy to watch Dongliang's farce.

With Song Peiyu's unremitting efforts, Dongliang had already exchanged all the gold and silver stored in Zhao Guo's copper coins.

Finally, when Prince Rui was about to buy a batch of iron ore from Li Guo, he realized that there were only piles of copper coins left in his treasury.

However, Li Guo firmly disagreed with using copper coins to trade iron ore, and even wrote a letter to Dongliang, scolding Prince Rui for being unreasonable, don't even think about buying iron ore if you don't have money.

Li Guo thought that he was being teased by Prince Rui for no reason, so he never thought of covering up for Prince Rui.

"Eastern Liang King Rui had no money and ordered a large amount of iron ore in Li Guo, and when he paid the money, he actually asked Li Guo if he could trade with copper coins. '

This incident immediately spread throughout Kyushu, making 'Prince Rui stingy' the most widely circulated joke after 'Chen Guozhen and False Crown Prince'.

After Song Peiyu heard the news, he immediately ordered many workshops that made copper coins to be stopped.

The copper smelting workshops are not in a hurry to stop. The major copper mines in Zhao State have been in operation for so many years. In addition to producing a large amount of copper coins, which are continuously sent to Dongliang, they have also made some progress in other aspects.

For example, in the process of copper smelting, some craftsmen accidentally gilded copper.

The price difference between ordinary brass bracelets and gilded brass bracelets is at least double.

Moreover, gilt jewelry is not only very popular in Zhao State, but also very popular in other countries.

It is equivalent to finding another way out for Zhao Guo Copper Mine.

After discovering that it was far more cost-effective to use copper than iron in Zhao, Song Peiyu also transferred a lot of people from the bicycle factory to the copper smelting workshop, hoping to use copper as a material to refine bicycle parts.

Heaven pays off. After countless experiments, the chain is still made of iron to ensure better stability, and there are more and more places on the bicycle that can use copper parts.

Making a lot of copper coins and waiting for Dongliang to take the initiative to exchange them with gold and silver has long been not the only way out for the many copper mines in Zhao State.

Because Song Peiyu stopped the workshop for making copper coins in time, Zhao Guo successfully avoided the evil consequences caused by the lack of gold and silver in Dongliang.

Dongliang did not have such good luck.

There is no gold and silver in Prince Rui's private treasury, and there will be even less gold and silver circulating among the people.

Traveling merchants from all over the country rushed to Dongliang with a large amount of goods in high spirits, planning to sell the goods in Dongliang, and rush to the next place with full goods in Dongliang.

After arriving in Dongliang, the traveling merchants were caught off guard and found that the people of Dongliang couldn't produce gold and silver, and tried to trade with them with heavy copper coins.

After a little hesitation, the traveling merchants ran away, and directly took the goods that were originally intended to be sold in Dongliang to Xiliang or Zhao Guo.

In case after they sell the goods, they don't find something that satisfies them in Dongliang and they want to take it away, who knows if they can exchange the bulky copper coins for gold and silver that are easy to carry?

Merchants from other places gradually formed a tacit understanding, and they always bypassed Dongliang in unison.

Over time, prices in Dongliang began to increase at an abnormal rate, far surpassing Xiliang in a short period of time.

The copper coins that can be exchanged for one tael of silver have changed from the original [-] to [-], and the trend continues to increase.

In desperation, Prince Rui had no choice but to transport the copper coins accumulated in the warehouse to the surrounding Xiliang, Chu, Zhao and other places.

He exchanged one tael of silver for [-] copper coins, and he could only sell them at the ratio of [-] copper coins for one tael of silver before anyone would buy them.

Three days later, Qihuo City suddenly issued an announcement on the 'Standard Weight of Currency'.

At the same time, Qihuo City released a new currency.

They are gold bars weighing one tael, five taels, and ten taels respectively, and silver bricks weighing one tael, five taels, and ten taels respectively, including new copper coins with outer circles and inner squares, all of which have special signs that belong to Odd Goods City.

On the front of the gold bars, silver bricks, and copper coins are the Chinese character "Zhao" flying like a phoenix, while on the back there is a Suzaku spreading its wings. If you look closely, you can see kitten-like dumplings under the Suzaku's claws.

In the future, if someone trades with the Odd Goods City, the gold and silver they brought must be exchanged for the currency issued by the Odd Goods City before they can trade in the Odd Goods City.

The exchange ratios of various currencies and the currency of the Odds of Goods City are very different, and they are all enumerated and engraved on wooden boards, and placed outside the city gate exchange office.

To put it simply, the impurities in the gold, silver, and copper coins produced are also different because of the different smelting technologies in different countries.

It is also not ruled out that some countries will engage in unscrupulous actions similar to what Song Peiyu once did.

In order to sell more copper coins to Prince Rui, Song Peiyu deliberately asked the people in the copper coin workshop to add a large amount of tin to the copper coins, so as to increase the production speed of copper coins and reduce the cost.

In order to prevent himself from suffering this kind of loss, Song Peiyu deliberately released new currency in the odd goods city, and for the first time proposed the concept of currency purity.

Merchants complained about the "expensive" currency in Odds City compared to other places, but they all lined up honestly, waiting to exchange the currency they brought for Odds City's currency.

No way, who made them have to buy goods from Odd Cargo City, but Odd Cargo City didn't care whether they sold the goods to them or not.

Not to mention that after the release of the new currency, most of the goods in the Odd Goods City have been reduced in price. After a rough calculation, it can be found that the total amount of gold and silver they use to buy goods in the Odd Goods City has not increased.

Even if Odd Goods City raises the price of goods in a blatant manner, they have no other choice but to buy with their eyes closed.

Apart from these merchants, the one who was most affected by the release of the new currency in the City of Stranger Things was Prince Rui.

The money-losing business he just started was forced to stop.

Odd Cargo City's algorithm on currency concentration has been spread to various countries in the shortest possible time.

Everyone disliked that the copper content in Prince Rui's copper coins was too low and it was mixed with too many other things.

After the copper coins exchanged from Prince Rui are brought to the City of Odd Goods, even two copper coins may not be able to be exchanged for one copper coin from the City of Odd Goods. Return the copper coins that have been exchanged to Prince Rui.

Prince Rui's copper coins had only been exchanged for less than a tenth, so there was no way to continue.

He carefully recalled the process of hoarding these copper coins, and was surprised that there seemed to be an invisible hand pushing him forward all the time.

Once doubts arise in this regard, various details that were once neglected will gradually emerge in Prince Rui's mind.

Whenever he ran out of silver on hand and planned not to exchange copper coins for the time being, he would receive news at just the right time that someone was short of gold and exchanged silver for gold at a price higher than the world's.

He wanted to get rid of all the copper coins in his hand first, and then continue to exchange copper coins, he would encounter someone who exchanged silver for copper coins at a higher than normal transaction price.

The copper coins these people need are limited, and they are only willing to take a small amount of copper coins, and then promise for various reasons that they will receive more copper coins next month.

In order for his subordinates to keep the copper coins, these people are even willing to pay some deposits for it.

But these people never came to his men to collect copper coins.

They are all lying to him!

Prince Rui slammed his glass viciously, relying on the experience of being tricked countless times, he immediately identified Song Peiyu as the culprit behind the scenes, and the second suspect was Lu Jihe.

But today is different from the past, the entire Dongliang will look up to Zhao Guo.

Zhao Guo has firmly grasped the hearts of the foolish people in Dongliang through various four treasures of the study that are far below the market price, so that those foolish people in Dongliang will turn to Zhao Guo wholeheartedly.

Even if Prince Rui knew he was being tricked, he couldn't do anything to Song Peiyu who was far away in Zhao country.He didn't even dare to express his dissatisfaction, so he could only eat this boring loss with blood and tears.

After struggling for a few days, Prince Rui really had nowhere to go, and the price of goods in Dongliang became more and more outrageous.

In particular, the prices of other commodities have soared, but the pens, inks, papers and inkstones operated by Zhao Guoren have always maintained their original prices.

The comparison between the two made the people of Dongliang even more dissatisfied, and some people even went to the vicinity of Prince Rui's mansion in groups and shouted, 'The princes and generals have a kindness', making Prince Rui abdicate and let the virtuous.

Prince Rui was not in Dongliang, did not hear these words, and could only get angry when he heard the news.

Prince Rui's son was in Prince Rui's residence, and he heard these words clearly.

The young Prince Rui's son has not yet suffered a big loss at the hands of Zhao Guo, and he does not have the 'cultivation' of Prince Rui.

He only knew that if it wasn't for Prince Zhao, Prince Rui would not have broken his leg.

If it weren't for the exchange of so many copper coins from Zhao Guo, all of which were in his hands, Dongliang wouldn't suddenly have such a big mess.

If it wasn't for Zhao Guo selling the Four Treasures of the Study at a very low price in Dongliang, and teaching those foolish people how to read for free, and letting those foolish people exchange money by copying books in Zhao Guoshufang, so that more foolish people are keen to learn how to read and copy books .

Those ignorant people would never know the words 'the princes and generals have a kindness', and it is even more impossible to shout those words outside Prince Rui's mansion to incite people's hearts.

Prince Rui's son was so angry that he not only had people arrest the people outside Prince Rui's mansion and put them in jail, but also led people to rush into the bookstores and pen, ink, paper and inkstone shops opened by the people of Zhao Guoren, smashing everything visible to the naked eye to pieces.

When Prince Rui struggled in every possible way and finally made up his mind to go to Qihuo City, he learned that Qihuo City had listed Dongliang Prince Rui's Mansion as people who refused to come and go.

Prince Rui was so ashamed and annoyed that he was chased away by the garrison of Odd Goods City, and only after he returned to Dongliang did he realize what stupid thing his stupid son had done while he couldn't hold his breath.

The shop opened by Zhao Guoren in Dongliang was empty, and Zhao Guoren didn't even bother to clean up the goods that hadn't been smashed, so he rushed back to Zhao Guo overnight.

After the Dongliang people knew about this incident, they had even more dissatisfaction with Prince Rui's residence.

Many relatives of the common people had no news after being arrested by Prince Rui. They did not know whether they were alive or dead. They had long wanted to beg Prince Rui to release them.

Just taking advantage of the excitement caused by Prince Rui forcing Zhao Guoren away, they mingled with the crowd and went outside Prince Rui's residence to inquire about news.

The number of people surrounding Prince Rui's mansion this time was several times more than last time.

The chaos in Dongliang ended in a way that most people did not expect.

When Prince Rui and Prince Rui's son went out to appease the common people, Prince Rui's son said something wrong again out of excitement.

He intentionally told the people outside Prince Rui's mansion that all the people he had arrested before had already been executed by Ling Chi, and the foolish people who were still surrounding Prince Rui's mansion had to go home quickly if they wanted to survive, otherwise they would all be arrested by Ling Chi.

Poor Prince Rui knew something was wrong immediately, and wanted to stop Prince Rui's stupidity, but because of inconvenient legs, he couldn't catch up with Prince Rui.

Prince Rui's fingers slid against Prince Rui's arm, and he could only watch helplessly as Prince Rui pushed away the soldiers in front of him with anger on his face, trying to scare the people away, but was stabbed by the furious people. wear.

What happened after that was out of control.

No matter how many beatings Prince Rui suffered, no matter how good his 'self-cultivation' became, it was impossible for him to watch his own son being stabbed right through by ordinary people, and still be able to hold back his seizures.

"Kill him!" Prince Rui's voice was so sharp that it broke.

The common people who stabbed Prince Rui's son panicked more than anyone else in excitement, he couldn't even pull out the dagger that was stuck in Prince Rui's chest.

After hearing Prince Rui's voice, he recklessly waved his fists and smashed at the soldiers beside him, shouting, "Prince Rui's residence is going to kill people! Come on! Let's kill them first!"

The people in the back and the people in other positions didn't know exactly what happened, but they all heard the arrogant words of Prince Rui's son, and Prince Rui's sharp 'kill him'.

The people panicked and immediately believed the voice of 'Prince Rui's residence is going to kill' from the crowd.

Some people wanted to escape, some people were still hesitating, and some family members were arrested by Prince Rui's son, and those who were full of despair directly picked up the things at hand and threw them at the guards.

Prince Rui was crushed to death alive.

The guards were also from Dongliang, and they could even see familiar faces among the crowd, but most of them refused to point their swords at the common people.

Although they were willing to protect Prince Rui with all their might, they couldn't control themselves from moving under various punches and kicks, and they would even be dragged away by the common people.

Prince Rui lacked a calf but couldn't even escape.

After the news of Dongliang spread to Zhao Guo, even Song Peiyu, who had expected that there would be troubles in Dongliang sooner or later, was also taken aback.

He just wanted to use economic pressure to force Prince Rui to continue bowing to Zhao Guo and further increase Zhao Guo's control over Dongliang, but he never thought that Prince Rui and Prince Rui's son would die suddenly in this incident at the same time.

Prince Rui still has several sons, but they are all suppressed by Prince Rui's son, and they are all difficult to take on important responsibilities, not to mention organizing the overall situation to appease the common people, they even dare not leave the gate of Prince Rui's residence.

Soon there were counselors who gave advice to the princes of Prince Rui's residence, asking them to submit letters of surrender to Zhao Guo. If they could beat the others, they might be lucky enough to inherit Prince Rui's throne.

In just one day, Emperor Yonghe received three letters of surrender from different people.

Ever since Dongliang was renamed Zhaoguo Tong Commandery and all the people from the former Prince Rui's Mansion moved to Xianyang to settle down, the Liang King in Xiliang became more and more indifferent to the world, and even took the initiative to send a letter to Xianyang, expressly expressing Yonghe Emperor.

Everyone has something to say, don't do it directly, he thinks Xianyang is a good place, and wants to move the palace to Xianyang.

Emperor Yonghe was not in a hurry, since the word 'rebel' was pasted on him, he had never left a good reputation on his way to become emperor.

When Zhao Guo attacked Wei Guo, the surrounding countries also condemned Zhao Guo a lot.

Although most of them are "taking advantage of others' dangers" and saying that it doesn't hurt or itch, Emperor Yonghe really wanted to leave a good reputation in the process of including Shuangliang into the territory of Zhao State.

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