When Ye Hua heard that Li Hongji paid the soldiers' salaries with a lot of money, he knew that the foundation of the Southern Tang Dynasty had disappeared.

Any excessive issuance of currency will cause serious consequences. Going forward, Emperor Wu of Han issued white deer skin coins, and the world complained; Zhuge Liang issued 100 coins in Taiping, and the people of Xichuan were fond of food, but they could not eat; Song Renzong issued iron coins, and Kaifeng prices doubled. In the Yuan Dynasty, Baochao collapsed, rebels rose everywhere, and similar situations were also found in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, and more typical legal coins and gold round coupons... In short, countless lessons were learned.

In fact, Li Hongji was not unexpected by this. He issued a special decree, requiring that the Southern Tang Dynasty could only be used as five major coins at most, and also stipulated that only cities were allowed to use, and that military pay must be used with sufficient copper coins... Despite these regulations, Li Hongji ignored it.

When the currency depreciates wildly, those big families can maintain their value by relying on the land, gold, silver, real estate, shops, etc. in their hands, and all the money issued indiscriminately will be added to ordinary people.

Just imagine, if a civil servant who receives his salary is used as a five-month money, why should he give soldiers a worthy copper coins?

Everyone was quarreling and even fighting, causing many civil servants to strike and ask for leave, and generals took their people to grab the warehouse... Things got bigger and bigger, and Li Hongji had no choice but to take compromise measures. His imperial guards had to give enough coins, and as for the guards in other places, they were given as five major money.

But when the hole is opened, who can still stop it?

When the five big money becomes the top ten, when the ten big money becomes the top hundred, the original military rations are all converted into money, allowing people from all over the country to buy military rations nearby.

The original military ration was secretly brought to the black market by officials at all levels, and they made huge profits.

The soldiers took it as a hundred dollars, and they couldn't buy military rations, so they wouldn't go hungry, so they had to rob and steal... Originally, Li Hongji was in Jinling, with hundreds of thousands of people, and the people below did not dare to do anything, but after he went to Yangzhou to supervise the war, the entire Southern Tang Dynasty, especially the Jiangnan area, was filled with chaos everywhere.

Miners and people are in trouble, soldiers are causing trouble, civil and military conflicts, guards are robbing warehouses, attacking official offices... These things are common.

And what's even more terrible is that Li Hongji also introduced newspapers.

He wanted to use newspapers to attack and slander the Zhou Dynasty and maintain the morale of the people, but his ideas were completely lost.

Faced with the chaotic situation, many literati stood up and pointed their finger at Li Hongji. The people became increasingly distrustful of the articles in the newspaper.

On the contrary, in many newspapers, "pages" appear.

For example, the front-page articles criticized the Dazhou for harming scholars, imposed harsh governments, and imposed intensive taxes. In the pages, it introduced the Dazhou to promote the integrated gentry and sacrificing land taxes, and cancel local checkpoints to encourage the circulation of goods. Some people took the risk of writing what they saw in their own eyes and sending them back to Jiangnan.

For example, the prices in the Great Zhou Dynasty were stable, the people were rich and healthy, the streets were clean and tidy, and there was no beggar. The rural people were wealthy and simple, and every household had food reserves...

The two completely different views are fiercely colliding, and more and more business people are placing their hopes on Da Zhou.

This emotion came so quickly, especially after Changzhou surrendered, Jiangnan was even more shocked. The Great Zhou army could attack Jinling at any time.

At this moment, news came from another important town that Shezhou was besieged by miners, and tens of thousands of miners cut off all roads outside Shezhou and cut off contact.

The people in the city were panic and their morale was low.

Suddenly, some people said that Li Hongji had been defeated in Yangzhou, and His Majesty was shot to death by the Great Zhou Dynasty. A battalion of men in the city opened the city overnight and wanted to defect to the miners.

The guard general Du Yuhou Liu Cheng knew in advance and led his men to encircle and annihilate the fleeing horses.

Although she was temporarily protected, Liu Cheng was exhausted physically and mentally, and knew it was difficult to maintain it. He took the initiative to announce that he surrendered to the Great Zhou, erected the banner of the Great Zhou, and left the city to make peace with the miners and rebels.

The loss of Shezhou is even more dynamic than Xuanzhou!

Because this is a major transportation route connecting the south, Shezhou was lost, and the north and south of the Southern Tang Dynasty were actually cut off in half.

Immediately afterwards, in Xinzhou, Fuzhou, and even further away Jianzhou, Yong'an Army, Tingzhou, Qianzhou... These places either took the banner of the Great Zhou Dynasty, announced their surrender, either protected themselves in the city, or were captured by miners. In short, they all broke away from the control of the Southern Tang Dynasty.

"Mr. Marquis, I ask for an order and go to Jianzhou and other places."

Pan Chengyou took the initiative to ask for orders. The places like Jianzhou were originally within the scope of the Fujian Kingdom, and Pan Chengyou still had some reputation. He could just recruit these people.

Ye Hua smiled and said, "Mr. Pan is willing to work hard for the country, so he naturally cannot ask for it. I can give out one million coins now. What does Mr. Pan think?"

Pan Chengyou rubbed his hands and hesitated: "Isn't it a hundred dollars?"

Ye Hua laughed, "It's real money! It's just shipped from Japan."

Just as Ye Hua came down, an old man in a brocade robe said nothing, but his mouth was curled up, showing his complacentness. This man was the Grand Tutor Chai Shouli.

The imperial court was always short of money, and Chai Shouli was also worried. He found that Japan's mining technology was too backward, so he got a group of craftsmen from the Great Zhou Dynasty to help Japan mine gold and silver.

This time, he rushed to Jiangnan with a total of 580,000 taels of silver, not only to relieve his master's worries, but also to help his son clean up people's hearts.

At this moment, Chai Shouli straightened his waist straight, and his old face was red, which made him feel proud.

Look, 580,000 taels of white silver!

How many people can come up with this world?

I took it out without blinking!

For my son's country, I have done my best. See who else dares to criticize me? If you have the ability to stand up, believe it or not, I will slap you to death.

Pan Chengyou looked at the boxes of silver, his eyes were blurred.

Chai Shouli said in a muffled voice: "This is silver, there are 30,000 taels of gold, plus 200,000 tons of Jianlong Tongbao of the Great Zhou Dynasty. Can this money be enough for you to comfort the land of Fujian?"

"Enough is enough!"

Pan Chengyou hurriedly said, "The Grand Tutor is generous, I am very grateful."

Chai Shouli chuckled twice, "Okay, it's all for the service of the Great Zhou. Don't worry, Da Zhou has always been generous to his own people. I not only give money, but also give benefits. I am willing to purchase Fujian tea and porcelain. You go and tell the merchants in Zhangzhou and Quanzhou that as long as they are willing to cooperate, everyone will make a fortune together!"

"Why!"

Pan Chengyou happily agreed that with money and orders, he would be able to recruit Fujian and have a settlement.

He took Xu Wenzhen and Sun Decheng to leave Changzhou overnight, leaving only Zheng Yanhua, obeying Ye Hua's orders. In fact, among the four generals under Pan Chengyou, Ye Hua valued the most Lin Renzhao and Lin Huzi!

This guy was born in the Fujian Kingdom, but he was loyal to the Southern Tang Dynasty and was very brave.

In history, Chai Rong fought against the Southern Tang three times, and Lin Renzhao led his troops to rescue him. Because of his bravery in combat, he made many military achievements and quickly climbed up. Even Zhao Kuangyin and Zhang Yongde suffered losses in his hands, and hated him to the core.

It can be said that Lin Renzhao was the only highlight of the Southern Tang Dynasty's rebellion against the Central Plains.

In the original history, in order to get rid of this stumbling block, Zhao Kuangyin set up a plan of discord. Li Yu foolishly killed Lin Renzhao, destroyed the Great Wall, and soon the Southern Tang Dynasty perished, and Li Yu also got a cup of poisonous wine... Of course, the current history has completely changed.

If Li Yu had become the Emperor of Southern Tang again, he would definitely not have poisoned Lin Renzhao to death.

But although the situation has changed, Lin Renzhao is still very awesome!

The other three people took Pan Chengyou hostage and surrendered to the Great Zhou Dynasty. He actually led more than a thousand subordinates to break through the siege and headed straight for Jinling.

Ye Hua was very sorry that he failed to surrender Lin Renzhao, but his stubborn temper also came up. Aren’t you not surrendering to Dazhou? I will force you to surrender!

There were many generals in the Southern Tang Dynasty, but the only one worthy of cultivation was Lin Renzhao.

Ye Hua discovered that with Xuancheng, Shezhou, and the southern prefectures and counties leaving the Southern Tang Dynasty, he no longer had to worry about the attack on his flanks.

At present, the troops of the Southern Tang Dynasty have retreated to the front line of the Yangtze River.

Zheng Bin from Runzhou will still stick to his strength. It is difficult to conquer. Moreover, attacking Runzhou will attract 300,000 Li Hongji's army to help at any time, which is not good.

After Ye Hua weighed the pros and cons, he decided to use Zheng Yanhua as the vanguard. He and Han Xizai led 30,000 troops to command the army with Yang Ye and Fu Zhaoxin, and directly took Jinling, leaving Yang Chongxun to guard Changzhou. As for Wei Renpu, they were in charge of Suzhou and dispatched military supplies and food.

To be honest, there are still too few people who can use it at hand, but there is no way. How can I wait until I prepare everything before I put it in the pot!

"Brothers, enter Jinling City, I'll invite everyone to the Qinhuai River to have a drink!"

Ye Hua's words attracted everyone's laughter. Although they just surrendered, everyone liked Ye Hua very much. This champion Hou had no airs and was easy to get along with.

Mao San has a deep understanding of this. Ye Hua actually knew everything about him looking forward to marrying a wife. Moreover, as a veteran, Ye Hua also told him seriously not to look for those who are too beautiful, and not to look for those who are too capable. Just be honest and obedient and live a life.
Chapter completed!