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In the spring and February of the fifth year of Xiangxing, Kublai Khan led 270,000 Han troops and 50,000 Mongolian troops. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info plus the 180,000 people who were responsible for transporting materials from Zhongshu Province, totaling more than 500,000 soldiers and civilians, are known as "millions of heroes" to the outside world.

With his absolute superiority and more than 200 powerful heavy artillery, Kublai Khan only took more than half a month to drive the Zhang brothers back to Taihang Mountain. Just when the heroes and powerful people in Hebei Province were celebrating against the "rogue bandits" and forming villages to protect themselves, Kublai Khan's troops turned around, and instead of going into the mountains to continue to pursue and suppress the bandits, he razed more than a dozen of the largest fortresses in Hejian, Anping, Xianzhou, and other places to the ground on the charge of "colluding with bandits." Subsequently, he used a scimitar to question the reason for Hebei Haoqiang's delay in the payment of imperial taxes. Originally, the heroes who were holding the left and right between the Taihang bandits and the imperial court looked at each other, and under the coercion of the army, they pleaded guilty and made up for the previous arrears of taxes for various reasons with five times the amount of taxes.

The Yuan army had sufficient military pay and quickly moved south. In mid-March, Kublai Khan broke the rebellious Bald Army in the Nanpi area. Tian Minghao, who had just established himself as the king of Qi for less than a month and a half, was defeated and captured, and Kublai Khan ordered him to be executed. The people of Dongguang, Nanpi, and Jiangling were slaughtered by the Yuan army for the crime of rebellion, and all their property was confiscated into the army.

At the same time, Prince Zhenjin is a high-profile anti-corruption campaign in the capital. More than 20 Mongolian, Semu and Han ministers were thrown into prison. In the homes of these ministers, the property, real estate, and land deeds copied out were equivalent to more than 8 million taels of silver, which roughly offset the annual income of the Great Yuan Dynasty. Among them, Hanchen Lu Shirong made the greatest contribution, and his family wealth was converted into more than 2.3 million silver.

Lu Shirong went to Kublai Khan to cry out for injustice, but Kublai Khan ignored it. Hanchen Ye Li, who recommended Lu Shirong's meritorious service, was in a panic all day, and he told him to be old, but Kublai Khan allowed him to do nothing.

After the first blow was successful, Zhenjin followed Yue Chicher's suggestion and allowed other officials suspected of corruption to donate money to redeem themselves. In the blink of an eye, more than 3 million taels of silver were recovered for the treasury.

More than 300,000 taels of real gold were used to help the poor people who were forcibly relocated to live outside the capital last winter, and the rest of the dirty goods were cashed out and invested in the minting of new coins as the principal. There is hard currency in the treasury, and the boiling prices in the capital are gradually stabilizing. The people who received the government's relief instinctively forgot whose "initiative" caused them to lose their homes last year, and praised the kindness of the crown prince Zhenjin.

In April, Kublai Khan was stationed in the Daimyo's mansion. Lin Jingshun, the self-proclaimed king of Zhao, bound himself to surrender, and Kublai Khan pardoned his sins. He was allowed to serve more than 1,000 households, and ordered him to bring his cronies with the army to "beg for thieves". The people of the three counties under the reign of the former Zhao king were pardoned and allowed to keep the land they had received during the period of the thieves.

When the news came out, the father of Weizhou cut off the head of Zhang Meng, the leader of the People's Army, and dedicated it to His Majesty.

The situation continued to deteriorate at an unpredictable pace in the Metropolitan Governor's Office. When the prices of the capital stabilized and the news of the new currency bank was sent back to Wen Tianxiang's desk, everyone in the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion knew that the protracted economic war against the yuan had failed.

Kublai Khan's father and son had never read the books of the South, and they did not understand what economics was. But they possessed the sharpest ruling instincts of the steppe peoples, and against the aggressive economic warfare of the south, Kublai Khan and his son adopted the survival style of an animal called a jackal in the wilderness, sacrificing their own kind to preserve the overall situation.

The jackal is a social animal that lives in the wilderness, and unlike other animals, in a year of shortage of food, they do not give priority to the old and weak in the population, but eat the old and newborn as food, and maintain the population by this means.

Kublai Khan's father and son were clearly smarter than jackals, and the Mongols relied on looting to keep their treasury balanced. When there was nothing to rob the world, they divided the people into four classes, relying on the shameless deprivation of the Han and Nan people to keep the country running. When the expropriation of the Han and Nan could not satisfy the wealth needs of the functioning of the state, they did not hesitate to brand another group of their subjects as an alternative.

Kublai Khan declared the area of the uprising an enemy country, in order to allow the Yuan army to seize it justifiably. There is no need for mercy on the part of the men to rob the enemy's country, and the officers and men of the three armed forces will not have the mental burden of slaughtering their own compatriots. In the same way, Prince Zhenjin's expulsion of the poor from the capital last year and the so-called "anti-corruption" this year are just to make some people targets that can be looted.

"Ziju, you go back and inform the customs, from today onwards, except for military supplies such as weapons, sulfur, saltpeter and steel, other goods are allowed to be exported to the north!" Wen Tianxiang sighed and commanded in a low voice.

Throughout the ages, the looting of compatriots has always been less risky than the looting of enemies. Since Kublai Khan's father and son were able to come up with such a way to deal with the economic warfare of the Metropolitan Governorate, it would not be more rewarding to continue the material embargo on the north. The Northern Yuan court could brand some of its subjects as an alternative at any time, and as long as there were sacrifices for them to plunder internally, the Yuan court would not collapse because of economic collapse.

"Well, I'll go!" Du Gui's naked eye bubble suddenly widened, and he replied with a somewhat surprised expression. Since handing over his customs duties to Chen Gang, he has always felt embarrassed. Therefore, the attitude in the deliberations is not as positive as before, and even the things that involve their own interests are not involved as much as possible. For the matter of the trade embargo imposed by the customs on the north, the merchants of Fujian, Guangdong and Liangzhejiang did not ask him to dredge up, and Du Gui, who has always regarded himself as the protector of the interests of merchants, is unusual, and rarely intercedes with everyone in front of Wen Tianxiang.

"Think about it again, is there any other way to make Kublai Khan not have enough supplies to go south?" Wen Tianxiang stared at the map and asked in a low voice. Du Fatzi's ability to comprehend the economy is second to none among the officials of the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion, and in most cases, he is not as good as he has the memory of later generations. The Broken Army was already struggling to deal with Boyan on the Jiangnan West Road, and if he could drag Kublai Khan to the north for a little longer, Wen Tianxiang would rather pay any price.

"Cheng, the prime minister asked, ask me?" Du Gui couldn't react for a while, and his words stuttered a little. Since the Quanzhou incident, there have been some mustards between him and the other staff members of the Dadu Governor's Office. I also feel that the relationship with Wen Tianxiang is not as close as it used to be, and I am being snubbed every day. At this moment, when I heard that the Prime Minister was asking me for advice, I was so excited that I couldn't be more excited.

Wen Tianxiang turned his head and gave Du Gui a tolerant smile: "Of course it's you, is there someone here who can do business better than you!" ”

"Alas, alas, I want to think, I want to think!" Du Gui felt that he was dreaming, and secretly pinched himself. The severe pain made him wake up immediately, frowned for a while, and whispered, "Only, I can only buy it." What he collects from the people, we will secretly buy at a high price! But since Kublai Khan also robbed his own subjects, no matter how high the price was, it might not be useful. In fact, it is better to buy materials than to buy people, if we pay to arm those grass kings in Lianghuai........."

Du Gui came up with a huge support plan. In the past winter, many princes rose in various parts of the two Huai, plundering under the banners of Han, Tang, Zhou, and Chu. These bandits didn't buy the Dadu Governor's Mansion, and Zeng Qin sent several waves of envoys from Liangzhejiang, but they were all driven back by the princes. But if these uncontrollable forces are armed with heavy money, it may be possible to delay Kublai Khan's southward march in a short time.

"I'm afraid that in the end, we will raise tigers for trouble!" Staff officer Song Qingxun strongly opposed Du Gui's proposal. In his opinion, those grass-headed princes have no national concept at all, and after being armed, they may confront Kublai Khan, or they may become Kublai Khan's right-hand man to deal with the captive army.

"Kublai Khan is smarter than we think!" Just when everyone was arguing, Chen Zijing put another report from the northern fine work that came back at the risk of death. In that espionage, Kublai Khan fully showed his magnanimous side. A few bandits entrenched in the vicinity of Gunzhou and Kaifeng, who had just proclaimed the throne last winter and hastily renounced the "throne" this spring, were forced to surrender their sincerity to Kublai Khan because of the strength of their troops, and Kublai Khan promised to ignore their rebellion. The premise is that these "princes" accept the recruitment of the imperial court, bring their own grain, grass, and equipment to cooperate with the official army to go to Dengzhou to "suppress bandits".

"In that case, let them go!" Wen Tianxiang shook his head, somewhat helpless in his words. For the grass-headed "prince" in the north, he didn't have any high expectations. Unlike Chen Hangyan and Zhang Yixing now, these people did not raise troops against the Yuan at all to resist tyranny and slavery, but saw the victory of the captive army, thinking that the Northern Yuan was exhausted, so they wanted to take advantage of the chaos. These speculators, like some peasant armies at the end of the Yuan Dynasty in Wen Zhong's memory, did not have any national concept in their hearts, nor did they have any limits to being a human being, and when the Mongols had the upper hand, they accepted Zhao'an, and when the anti-Yuan forces gained the upper hand, they re-launched an "uprising", and they did not care at all about their influence on the overall situation and the evaluation of the world.

Due to the arrival of Wen Zhong's memories in the present world, the Broken Army withstood the destruction brought about by the explosion of Mongol power. The speculators of "Chao Qin and Twilight Chu" also started their performances decades earlier than in history.

However, Kublai Khan recruited them to help exterminate Chen Hangyan, which on the surface seemed to drive the tiger and devour the wolf, but the actual effect was not as optimistic as he imagined. Once the main force of the Yuan army is frustrated, these people will not hesitate when they turn against each other.

"I propose to transfer the newly formed four musket battalions from the sea to Dengzhou to support General Chen!" Staff officer Zhao Xing pointed to the first-line suggestions in Jiaozhou. On the map, the advance of the Yuan army, which was rapidly moving south, was already approaching Jinan, and at the current rate of advance, Kublai Khan would be able to come to the eastern Shandong Road in person and fight a decisive battle with the advance division of the Northern Expedition in less than a month.

When Chen Hangyan went north, he only brought 7,000 soldiers and horses, counting the sailors who temporarily docked in Jiaozhou Bay and some of the remnants of the Red Jacket Army that were incorporated by Chen Hangyan, the total strength of the Broken Army in Shandong did not exceed 20,000. And the Yuan army in front of Chen Hangyan has now exceeded 100,000.

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