My clone is on the other side of the starry sky

Chapter 352 Victory or Loss

A small thing?

Duguhao returned to his palace and looked at the deserted palace, with a sneer appearing on his lips. Daozhen obviously did not understand the power of business war, or in other words, for a person like him, there is no need for these flies and dogs among ants. To care.

But Duguhao knew that when Kyushu was still called Daqian, several business wars determined the final ownership of Kyushu. The Dao League failed to reverse its decline and was eventually replaced by Ming Dynasty.

With what happened recently, Dugu Hao was sure that Lu Bu wanted to imitate the Emperor of Ming Dynasty. Originally, he wanted to use this matter to save some interests, but now it seems that he has overthought it, and Daozhen doesn't care at all.

That's right, how could a high-ranking world leader care about the ant's arrogance? All he wants is the luck contributed by the ants.

However, the luck of the ants is just between flies and dogs. In the era when Daozong was active, there was probably no business war, right?

Duguhao didn't force anything anymore. From the day he handed over the Mountain and River Seal, he already knew his future.

In the next three months, under the leadership of Daoxing, Daxing once again pushed back the Han army step by step, and the lost city was recovered again. Everything went as smoothly as Daozhen expected. From a master level, the Han Dynasty was at an absolute disadvantage.

At the main camp of the Han army, Ma Wenxiao bowed to Lu Bu: "Your Majesty, I am incompetent."

"Victory or defeat is a matter of military strategism. It is theoretically possible to split the Taoist alliance, but in practice it is difficult." Lu Bu didn't care much about this. The Taoist alliance didn't take action against Ma Wenxiao, obviously because he wanted to use Ma Wenxiao to tell Lu Bu that the other party had seen through it. own strategy.

Ma Wenxiao nodded. He only understood this during the lobbying process. The interest demands of the Dao League were somewhat different from those of the dynasty, and this was also the key to the failure of his strategy.

"When I was preparing to launch an army, I was already making preparations, but I never found anyone suitable to carry it out. This tens of thousands of soldiers have helped me solve this problem." Lu Bu thought: "Now the time and place are right. He Jie has arrived, and the Dao Alliance seems to have no intention of dealing with this matter now. They are busy with the victories on the frontal battlefield, and they just need one person to deal with this matter. I love you, if you are willing to go."

Ma Wenxiao put away the jade slip, bowed and said, "I will live up to your majesty's trust."

Daozhen understood: "Wait until people rush to follow suit, then sell this thing."

"Uncle Hui Shi, according to our investigation, about five months ago, after receiving compensation from the court, some of the families of the soldiers who were turned into puppets used their property to buy low and sell high."

"The minister obeys the order!"

It stands to reason that the Taoist League has been winning, and the Han army has been retreating steadily. This fortune should be constantly rising, how could it stop growing?

"Why?" Daozhen frowned. He was sure that the policy he promulgated should be fine.

"But in the past few months, you have traveled among various parties and know the current situation best. Now there is a plan to be launched. It is up to you to execute it." Lu Bu handed a jade slip to Ma Wenxiao and said with a smile. .

Ma Wenxiao bowed and took the jade slip. His spiritual mind penetrated into the jade slip and quickly understood its contents. After a moment, Ma Wenxiao looked at Lu Bu in astonishment: "Your Majesty, when did this... begin to be laid out?"

"Filling grain?" Daozhen asked. Food is fundamental. In order to appease the people, even if the war is now tense, he did not ask the court to increase taxes. Instead, he used Taoist alliance masters to use treasure bags to transport grain and grass to reduce the cost of marching. At the same time, he also To further enhance the reputation of the Taoist League, if anyone makes a fuss about food, it would be a dereliction of duty on the part of the imperial court.

In the following period, Lu Bu began to personally go to the front line to command operations. In the eyes of the Taoist Alliance, this undoubtedly meant that Lu Bu had run out of skills and his offensive became more ferocious.

In Xindu, Daozhen felt more and more luck gathering in him and looked towards the battlefield in the distance. It is indeed surprising that Lu Bu could persist until now after the Dao League officially entered the arena, but that's all. To deal with Daming, more helpers are needed.

"Is it related to this matter?" Daozhen asked with a frown. This is a very common thing, but since his subordinates said so, there must be something wrong.

……

What happened?

Daozhen frowned and quickly ordered someone to check.

"Well, then I'll leave this matter to Aiqing. I will try my best to attract the attention of the Dao Alliance." Lu Bu nodded.

"No." The real person shook his head: "There is no fixed thing. Today it is a piece of silk and satin, and tomorrow it may be some kind of utensil. But the method is the same as harvesting grain. First, buy it in large quantities on the market to create scarcity, such as an ordinary tea bowl. Originally it was only two coins, but they charged three coins, and then as there were fewer and fewer tea bowls on the market, the price they charged became higher and higher, and in the end it might be as high as a hundred coins."

In this way, more than a month later, Daozhen suddenly found that his luck began to stop increasing.

"Uncle Master, I don't know why, there have been complaints among the people recently." Three days later, a Dao Meng master came to Dao Zhen and bowed.

"Well, at first, they were just buying low and selling high, but when they got more money, they started hoarding."

"That's right." The real person nodded and said: "Then the money obtained is used to disrupt the prices of other commodities in the same way. The money in the hands of the people is rapidly reduced by following the trend again and again."

Daozhen closed his eyes and thought. These things will lead to fewer coins on the market, but the supplies will still be among the people. This is just the case. Although it will unsettle the people's hearts, it will not make them unable to survive.

But this game is not something that can be set up by stragglers. Lu Bu?

Daozhen looked towards the south, shook his head and smiled. It seemed that he had not given up yet. He thought for a while and said: "Resolve this matter as soon as possible to stabilize people's hearts, but we cannot use force directly."

"Yes!"

If that's all it takes, it won't turn the tables.

After the real man left, Daozhen thought for a long time, shook his head, and first drove Lu Bu out of Daxing.

But what happened next was beyond Daozhen's imagination. The original group of people stopped, but the hype did not stop. On the contrary, more and more smart people participated in it, and Daxing's luck even began to appear. Slight churn.

The battle on the front line did not go as smoothly as Daozhen imagined. Lu Bu once again deployed a Feng Shui formation, blocking the way of the army, and entered a stalemate with the Dao Alliance.

Daozhen, who had been paying attention to Lu Bu's movements, knew that Lu Bu was preparing to make a comeback and wanted to ruin his luck through private business? Do you really think you can succeed like this?

However, the facts surprised Dao Zhen. On the day Lu Bu stabilized the situation, the entire Daxing's fortune suddenly began to plummet at an extremely fast speed.

Daozhen stopped asking anyone and directly used his magic power to see what happened.

At this moment, many cities in Daxing have been in chaos, and many people have lost their fortunes during this period. Some of these people who have lost their family property have chosen to commit suicide, but more of them have begun to go crazy. The evil of human nature has been wiped out in extreme despair. Completely aroused, cases of burning, killing and looting occurred almost every moment in various cities under Daxing's rule, and many city managers were even involved.

This is also related to the fact that after the Dao League came to power, both the actual power and the status of officials have declined. Their rights and status have been lost, but they can do more things than before. This has caused many officials to become the hardest hit area in the previous hype. In the end, they lost everything and many officials collapsed.

The collapse of officials has also paralyzed the governance of each city, with no one to maintain order and chaos. The people of the Taoist alliance in each city cannot kill everyone. In terms of managing the grassroots level, at least for now, these Taoist alliance members are still Not having enough experience also made things get out of hand.

Daozhen withdrew his spiritual thoughts and frowned slightly. He had never seen this before.

After thinking about it, Dao Zhen ordered people to find Dugu Hao.

"Daozong forgives me, but the situation is now irreversible." Duguhao looked at Daozhen, shook his head and sighed.

"Your Majesty, did you know this earlier?" Daozhen asked, looking at Duguhao.

"A few months ago, I told Daozong, but Daozong didn't pay attention to it at that time. I thought that Daozong had already made up his mind, so I didn't say more." There was a hint of sarcasm in Duguhao's words. .

"Bastard, since you know, why don't you deal with it? Aren't you in charge of this political matter?" A real person frowned and shouted.

"How to control it? The Taoist League is respected in the local area. Officials at all levels are doing the most tiring things, and they have to be scolded by the people. The officials have no dignity at all. Even if they want to control it, how should they control it? Will the people listen? "Dugu Hao laughed.

Daozhen waved his hand, indicating that there is no need to argue anymore. The fundamental problem in this matter is that the Dao League has taken power and abolished the original governance system, but has not yet formed a new governance system. In addition, although the disciples of the Dao League are high in cultivation, they are unable to deal with it. He has almost no experience in political affairs, and in this case, Lu Bu suddenly packaged things that an official may not encounter in his life and hit them on the heads of these Dao League disciples. How can the Dao League disciples who have just taken power take over?

This is not a martial arts contest, but to a certain extent, it is countless times more dangerous than a martial arts contest.

"Your Majesty, there is no need to be angry. This matter was caused by my carelessness, but I wonder if your Majesty has a way to break the situation?" Daozhen looked at Dugu Hao and asked with a smile.

Duguhao shook his head: "There is indeed a precedent for this matter. Decades ago, the founder of the Ming Dynasty used it. There was also a large-scale commercial war in Kyushu. If this matter had been dealt with a few months ago, there would still be a way to solve it. , but now... it’s too late, Daozong forgives me, there’s nothing I can do.”

Daozhen nodded silently when he heard the words, looking at the sky where the luck belonging to Daxing was rapidly disappearing.

"Uncle Master, what should we do now?" a real person asked quickly.

What to do?

Daozhen has no experience in dealing with this kind of thing, but there is no need to deal with it. This Daxing is just a chess game. To him, it is just a loss. Not only is he not angry, he is also a little happy. This Lu Bu He was more powerful than he thought. It was indeed right to choose him to deal with Ming Dynasty.

He turned his hand, and a mountain and river seal appeared in his hand. He handed it to Duguhao and said: "In this case, the Taoist Alliance is no longer qualified to control this mountain and river seal, so I will return it to your majesty."

Duguhao: "..."

(End of this chapter)