Zhao Hao obviously knew that he should be like a great man in his previous life, and he should unite all the forces that could be united in the embattled situation and kill the main enemy first. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info but the current situation makes him very embarrassed, he is like a 'bald head' wearing the hat of the Führer, then it has become the only two masters of the country, and there is no other situation in the sky, even if he can't go to conquer it, he will never provide assistance to him, otherwise he will be regarded as the head of a country.

In fact, Zhao Yu regards Chen Hangyan as an equal sovereign country in his heart, and it is not impossible to unite with him to resist the Yuan, after all, the territory occupied by others was lost by yourself, not taken from you, and it is his ability to grab it. And you still have a shy face to tell people, that the land is mine, so give it back to me! Then you are not a fool and you will be taken as crazy.

Of course, the best way is to appease him, so that he accepts his edict and becomes a vassal of the Great Song Dynasty. However, Zhao Yu felt that it was unlikely that he would succeed, unless he faced a huge moment of crisis, and he would have to return to the imperial court and find a place to live. However, with his previous record of being the king and making trouble, it would be good to be able to save his life, but it was almost impossible to get a good errand in the court, so it was very possible to run away in anger.

Zhao Hao's thought is also well-founded: one Chen Hangyan has no good impression of the Song Dynasty, nor is he a great Song Shunmin, since he was fifteen years old, he has been going out of the Fujian and Jiangxi Mountains with his father every year to sell salt for a living. When he was seventeen years old, his father fled because he led the people to resist food and killed the officials. From then on, the two brothers and sisters could only rely on each other for their lives, living under the exploitation of high rents and heavy taxes in the Song Dynasty; Second, Chen Hangyan twice led the righteous and brave king, but in the end he was regarded as an outcast by the imperial court, and he threw it away when he ran out, and he didn't even give a statement, who is not angry!

Therefore, Zhao Yu thought that cooperation without trust was very weak, and when he went to seek cooperation in the heyday of others, he could only sign an unequal treaty, and even lost Huashan to Chen Tuan Ancestor like Taizu, making the country have an extra enclave. When I think about it, I feel sorry for it, but I can't regret it, and in the end I become a fame for others, but I am used as a laughing stock. In addition, Zhao Yu has always hoped to establish a base in the occupied area, on the one hand, he can contain the enemy army and attract their attention; The two laid the foundation for the decisive battle in the future. It is said that Chen Hangyan has soldiers, territory, and a mass base is an excellent choice.

But the heavens did not fulfill people's wishes, Chen Hangyan had to start a new stove, so that he couldn't eat a piece of fat meat, and he was in a hurry not to say anything, so he could only sulk. What worries Zhao Yu the most is that once he accepts the Yuan court's recruitment under the encirclement and suppression, he will not only not be able to get help, but will have one more enemy, and he will have to meet with his sword soldiers, and after the fight, he will not only consume huge material resources and manpower, but also take over the mortal enemy with the She people in Fujian, which will cause many difficulties to future actions.

When Zhao Hao couldn't make up his mind, Zheng Huchen proposed to use the spies lurking in Chen Hangyan's army, or use the action team of the Secretariat to assassinate him, so that the trouble would be solved cleanly. And Zhao Yu felt that it was completely unnecessary, at least not now, because although he didn't know what the ending of Chen Hangyan in history was, he knew that it was difficult to become a climate at all.

Of course, this is not Zhao Yu's intuition, but the peasant uprisings in Chinese history started from Chen Sheng and Wu Guang in the Qin Dynasty to the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom at the end of the Qing Dynasty. It is inevitable that the peasants will not be able to become leaders. In ancient times, peasants had been working in the fields for many years, and they were uneducated, unable to recognize the causes of their own misfortune and incapable of proposing a proper political program. The peasants, who had a single life experience, did not have the corresponding organizational skills to lead an insurrectionary army.

In addition, we have the impression that the purpose of the "peasant uprising" is definitely to seek benefits for the peasants and to "equalize the land and free grain." But in fact, most people start with personal prosperity in all they want. When Chen Sheng and Wu Guang mobilized soldiers to rebel in Daze Township, they said, "The prince and the prince will have a kind of Xiangning?" This shows that their promise to encourage the rebellion was not to divide the land, but to gain fame and wealth. Far from rebelling against the landlord class, the soldiers were willing to follow the banner of "Gongzi Fusu and Xiang Yan" played by Chen Sheng and Wu Guang.

Huang Chao and Wang Xianzhi in the late Tang Dynasty were both big salt merchants who became rich by smuggling and selling salt. Their rebellion was obviously not forced by life, nor did they mean to help the peasants rebel against the landlords. Wang Xianzhi and Huang Chao had repeatedly asked the Tang Dynasty government to surrender on the way to rebellion, and Huang Chao had written to request that he be appointed as the envoy of the Guangzhou Festival, but the Tang court only agreed to give him a four-grade petty official, and the result was of course unable to negotiate.

Although these "uprising" leaders often used the banner of "equal wealth and poverty" to win people's hearts and minds, their own goal could not be simpler, that is, to overthrow the old dynasty and establish a new regime with their own group as the core. The heroes are competing for the Central Plains, not for the interests of farmers. Chen Hangyan also did not jump out of this strange circle, just laid down a few states and counties, gathered some people and was eager to change the yuan to become the king, but instead of laying a solid foundation and making long-term plans.

In addition, there is the so-called foundation, and under the subdivision is the economy and human resources. In ancient China, common people's rebellions were often triggered by accidents, disasters and famines accounted for a large proportion, while the vast disasters in China's territory could often only occur in a corner of the country. And famine has its natural limits, and after a year or two, the situation changes. Agitated by the turmoil of the time and place, if we want to take advantage of the opportunity to expand and prolong, it is inevitable to adopt a mobile policy of terror.

When the "rebel army" arrives in a place to replenish its troops, it will naturally find a way to get the locals to join the army and rebel. Coercing the good people, leaving them homeless and propertyless, and only following the forces of chaos, this is the so-called 'rogue gangsters'. In this kind of chaos, the larger the area of harassment and the more intense the abuse, the more coercion. And they did not produce, and in order to settle the military pay, they could only rely on constant plunder, like locusts to eat up this crop, and then flew to another crop, so that it spread rapidly, causing great damage to the area through which they passed.

This method of replenishing troops was prevalent in the army, and a similar practice existed in the Northern Expedition, and Zhao Yu did not believe that Wen Tianxiang's instigation would follow him to Qiongzhou. It's just that what they do is more subtle, not as naked and bloody as the rogue, and they still have a righteous name in hand, and the most important thing is that they do not use these coerced people to continue plundering, but to properly resettle them for production and wealth creation, and to educate and reorganize them to establish a base area.

Although Meng Yuan is currently in decline, it has not weakened to the point where even a group of rabble is unable to suppress it, but it is not regarded as the main opponent in terms of cost and situation. And now that the Northern Expeditionary Army has retreated to Qiongzhou, the pressure on them has been greatly reduced, and they can free up their hands to deal with it, and no one will agree to the emergence of an independent kingdom on their own territory.

In addition, although the rebel army led by Chen Hangyan controlled an area of hundreds of miles, it was located in a mountainous area, which was conducive to defense, and it also had the fatal defect of insufficient resources and difficulty in supply, and the main reason why he led his troops to repeatedly invade Zhangzhou was also to obtain supplies. Once the Yuan army was severely blocked, it would be difficult for it to make use of the road to supplement by plunder, but the more than 100,000 people it had gathered would have to eat and drink every day, and if it was difficult to satisfy, it would give rise to dissent, and this loose alliance would collapse......

"Director Zheng, is this Huang Hua doing business with the procurement office?" Zhao Hao turned around twice and asked.

"Your Majesty is right, its team is based on the salt man as the main force, before the transportation of official salt for a living, of course, people in this line will inevitably carry private salt, and then the world is in turmoil, they turned into private salt dealers, controlling the private salt trade around Jianning Mansion, the current Qiongzhou sea salt marketing southeast and Guangzhou, of course they will also profit from it!" Zheng Huchen replied.

"So, their military pay must have come from the sale of illicit salt?" Zhao Yu nodded and asked again.

"It is precisely because of the conflict with the Tartar Inspection Department that Huang Hua's department has no choice but to gather all kinds of smuggling salt dealers in the face of requisition and suppression, and its power is now expanding, not only Jianning Mansion, but also Tingzhou, Zhangzhou, Nanjian Prefecture and Chaozhou The illegal salt trade is under its control, and it continues to infiltrate the surrounding areas, from which it has made a lot of profits." Zheng Huchen said.

"Oh, this guy made a lot of money from us, right?" Zhao Yu was a little surprised and smiled.

"Of course, at least seventy percent of the illicit salt they traffick comes from our Qiongzhou, and the other is some salt farms controlled by them, but it is becoming more and more difficult under the attack of the Tartars, and they mainly have to rely on trafficking from Qiongzhou!" Zheng Huchen replied.

"In this way, it is still our big customer!" Zhao Hao touched his chin and smiled.

"Well, the illicit salt we sell to Jiangxi and Zhejiang sometimes has to rely on their protection along the way, so naturally we have to pay them benefits!" Zheng Huchen was nervous when he saw His Majesty's action, so he didn't know who was unlucky.

"This kid is really greedy for money, and he needs protection money for eating our food!" Zhao Yu frowned, but his hand did not leave his chin.

"Your Majesty's speculation is that Huang Hua is indeed very fond of money, and our caravan will give him thirty percent of the profits when he borrows the road, and the caravan under his command will have to hand over as much as eighty percent of the profits!" Zheng Huchen said, but his heart was tight, the 'guy' in His Majesty's mouth has become a 'kid', which shows that His Majesty's favorability has dropped again and again.

"Hehe, there's something darker than me!" Zhao Hao sneered and said, "It unites with Chen Hangyan to echo the north and south, attacking and defending each other, but I am afraid that the main reason is to use the road to traffic illicit salt." ”

"Your Majesty analyzes it like this, and your subordinates think it should be like this!" Zheng Huchen pointed to the map and said, "It is most convenient to sell illicit salt from Qiongzhou to Fujian by boat, and then to the mainland by land, and Zhangzhou and Quanzhou are important places for Tatar maritime trade, and smuggling ships are very strictly inspected." Zhao'an is close to the coast and has convenient water and land transportation, so it can be trafficked to all parts of Zhangzhou along Dongxi, Nanxi and Xixi, and can be trafficked to Guangdong South Road by land. But Zhao'an is Chen Hangyan's territory, and if he wants to open up this trade route, he must form an alliance with Chen Hangyan! ”

"This thief has a good calculation, he can use this trade route for free, and others have to pay money for it, which is equivalent to monopolizing all the private salt in Fujian!" Zhao Yu nodded after looking at it.

"Your Majesty, Huang Hua and his gang did make a windfall, but they all traded in cash, and they are also a big family of ours." The more Zheng Huchen listened, the more frightened he became, he had become a thief, shouldn't His Majesty have murderous intentions? Hurriedly explained.

"Oh, where did he get the money?" Zhao Yu knew that Meng Yuan's control over precious metals such as gold and silver was getting tighter and tighter, and the market was all traded in paper money, but he could trade in cash, which made him very strange.

"Your Majesty doesn't know, there are more than a dozen large and small gold and silver mines in northern Fujian, and there are many small private mining pits scattered during them, so he naturally has the ability to trade with silver!" Zheng Huchen pointed to the map and pointed out one by one.

"Well, I see!" Zhao Hao's eyes lit up and nodded, no wonder Wen Tianxiang wanted to open a mansion in Nanjian Prefecture back then, it turned out that there were so many gold and silver mines there to provide military salaries, thinking about it and asking, "How many men and horses can we control Huanghua?" ”

"Your Majesty, the Huanghua Righteous Army is divided by the area where salt is sold on weekdays, and once there is something, they gather together to fight the enemy. There are about 1,000 large and small salt mongers that can be mobilized for the Bureau. Zheng Huchen finished replying, but asked again, "Does Your Majesty intend to incorporate Huang Hua and his gang?" ”

"It's not about co-opting, it's about replacing it. This person regards money as his life, and he can accept our recruitment for money, so there is a possibility of betraying me for money! Zhao Yu said.

"Your Majesty, the strength we have is too weak, and the most powerful groups of people are all controlled by Huang Hua's cronies, and his younger brother Huang Fu is leading nearly 10,000 guards to occupy the main village, even if Huang Hua can be disposed of, he can't take over all the people!" Zheng Huchen said.

"Well, that's a problem, but we can take it slowly, and we don't have to do it ourselves, we can choose someone else from them to take their place!" Zhao Yu thought for a while and said.

"Your Majesty is right, we control the price of salt and the supply of salt, and it only takes a little trick to make them fight among themselves, and then profit from it. It's just that it will take time to cultivate our people, and I'm afraid that they won't be able to hold out until they are exterminated by Meng Yuan! Zheng Huchen was a little worried.

"Can you choose a leader from among them who is close to the court?" Zhao Hao thought about it, he was in a hurry, but he was afraid that Kublai Khan would not be able to wait, and no one could stand this group of people attacking the state and plundering the mansion if they had nothing to do, so they retreated and asked for the second way.

"Your Majesty, there is really one available, it's just ......" Zheng Huchen thought about it, but said with some hesitation.

"It's just something, say it!" Zhao Yu urged.

"Mrs. Xu, it's a pity that she is a woman!" Zheng Huchen licked his lips and said......