In desperation, someone proposed to take the sea - this is the only remaining life-saving grass. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info But before China's grain transportation from the south to the north, the emperors of successive dynasties did not dare to fight the idea of shipping. That mysterious sea, every whirlpool, every wave, is a trap that eats people. Rocky reefs, a hostile climate, and a lack of seaworthy ships and sailors made piracy even more popular. Kublai Khan decided to take a risk and ordered Luo Bi, Zhu Qing, and Zhang Xuan to open up a sea route at all costs, and the latter two were pirates that no one dared to mess with on the rivers and lakes!

Zhu Qing is a native of Yaosha in Chongming, originally a slave of the Yang family, because he could not bear the abuse, killed his master and avoided the sea, ganged up with Zhang Xuan to sell illicit salt, and later became a pirate together. They dominate the sea and are familiar with the sea lanes. Therefore, I am familiar with the gateway of the islands of the North and South Hokkaido. Later, he was recruited by the Song court. After the death of the Song Dynasty, Zhu descended to the Yuan. In the thirteenth year of the Yuan Dynasty, by the order of Boyan of the Yuan Dynasty, the Southern Song Dynasty library books were transported to Dadu. In the sixteenth year of the Yuan Dynasty, Zhang Hong, the marshal of Zhu Suidu, was promoted to the general of Wuluo. In the nineteenth year of the Yuan Dynasty, when the imperial court was seeking a transportation route for the transfer of grain from the south to the north, Zhu Qing and Zhang Xuan suggested shipping by sea, which was adopted.

After receiving the order, the three men immediately built flat-bottomed sea boats in Shanghai, which was in view of the characteristics of the Yellow Sea coast, which was characterized by many sandy beaches and shallow beaches, and then recruited a group of Caoding Caofu, and Kublai Khan distributed rations according to one household of five per person in order to encourage the fleet. The "pirates" began an unprecedented adventure in China's maritime transportation. With such a huge fleet, it has to cross the East China Sea, the Yellow Sea, and the Bohai Sea, and the long-distance and unfamiliar sea journey, even Zhu and Zhang feel that it is more than lucky.

The shipping fleet carried nearly 50,000 stone of grain from Liujiagang in Pingjiang into the sea, passed through Huanglian Shatou in Haimen County, arrived at Xihaizhou and Lijiaozhou, and arrived at Dashan Mountain more than a month later, with a total distance of more than 13,000 miles. Then, from Chengshan to the west along the inland sea, and finally berthed in Haijin Town, a year later this batch of grain arrived in Dadu. The bumpy sea transportation has opened a new but dangerous door for the transportation of grain from the south to the north.

Since then, they have explored two new routes, and the efficiency of shipping has greatly increased. If it goes well, you can reach Dadu from Zhejiang in ten days at the earliest, but this route Zhao Yu knows that it is still in use in modern times. The amount of grain transported by sea has also risen in a stepwise manner, and now it has reached one million stones, and the loss of grain on the way has also dropped significantly. At this time, sea transportation has become an economic lifeline related to the survival of the Yuan capital, and Luo Bi was appointed as the general of Huaiyuan, in charge of the army and ten thousand households, and in charge of the transportation of grain by seaway.

Kublai Khan also skillfully played a pro-people card with grain from entering Beijing, and he used a large amount of grain to help the poor in order to bridge the gap between the Mongolian and Han ethnic groups. Moreover, shipping not only revitalized the predicament of Kublai Khan's administration, but also made China's long coastline, which has been silent and backward, suddenly become active, and Caoyun also rapidly improved its shipbuilding capacity and technical level.

The dense inland river system of Liujiagang connects the grain producing areas in the south of the Yangtze River, and connects to the sea mouth, with its superior geographical location to become the starting port of Cao Yun, and the grain ships from all over the south of the Yangtze River sail into here from all directions, and load them into the sea ships here, opening the journey of the northern transportation capital. For a time, Liujiagang, which has been unknown since ancient times, has gathered the time, place, and people, and has become the largest grain and rice distribution center in the south of the Yangtze River, and has shown the prototype of "the first warehouse in the world" in history.

So Zhao Yu felt that the old man's eyes were really poisonous, and he found out the key point at once. Cutting off the passage of the Yuan Dynasty's sea transportation is equivalent to stucking their necks, if there is no large amount of grain from the south to the north, it will seriously weaken its military capabilities, and will also shake the foundation of their rule, so Liujiagang will be the place where the Yuan army must be saved.

On the other hand, Zhao Yu also realized his misjudgment, at first he only regarded the enemy Longwan Navy as a great enemy, but he forgot that those Cao soldiers are also a sea force that cannot be ignored, they are proficient in manipulating boats and making tides, and Zhu Qing and Zhang Xuan are pirates, and their subordinates are also organized according to the navy, and they can fight with knives and guns, and their combat effectiveness cannot be ignored.

At the same time, there are thousands of cao ships stationed in Liujiagang, which can also be used as warships, and the enemy can also use the cao boats to carry out rapid maneuvers and increase reinforcements. Therefore, this force cannot be ignored, and it is necessary to defeat them at the beginning of the campaign, and when they are the first to take the lead, they can also obtain baggage replenishment, reduce the pressure on logistics, and support the army to fight for a long time. However, the number of troops used in the two-front operation will increase, and in particular, the pressure on the naval forces will increase by a large margin.

"Your Majesty is worried about the lack of troops?" Seeing that the little emperor was in deep thought, Ying Jieyan realized that he had encountered a problem, and stroked his beard and asked.

"What Mr. said is that the use of troops in the two-front battle has exceeded my concept, and if the military strength of Qiongzhou is dumped, there is a risk of cutting off the foundation if it is attacked by the enemy!" Zhao Yu said, "And to solve the predicament of Qiongzhou, we can only mobilize the armies of Fujian, Jiangxi, Fujian, Guangzhou, Zhangxia, Liangzhejiang and other places to act at the same time, attract enemy troops from all over the country, and make the enemy unable to use troops in Qiongzhou, but is this a bit of a fuss?" ”

"Your Majesty's words are wrong, they have been dormant in various places for several years, controlling a large area, and they can take the opportunity to recover the prefecture and county, so that all places are connected!" Ying Jie said sternly. He knew that the little emperor had been worried that revealing his strength too early would trigger a large-scale purge of the Yuan army, so he did not launch it for a long time, and it was still difficult to make up his mind at the moment.

"It should be said by the governor that if the enemy chief Kublai Khan dies, the kings of all places will go to the funeral and elect a new king of Khan, and when the army is empty, it is an opportunity to use troops everywhere." Lu Xiufu also nodded.

"Well, Lu Xiang's words are reasonable!" Zhao Yu nodded......

According to Mongolian custom, the establishment of the new Great Khan must be approved by the Kuritai Assembly, which is a gathering of clansmen, in order to become the legitimate Great Khan. Although Kublai Khan's edict used Genghis Khan's posthumous teachings as the basis for the canonization of the crown prince, this method of establishing a prince did not conform to Mongolian customs. The kings of the outer sect were dissatisfied with Kublai Khan's succession to the throne, and there were the disintegration of the four khanates, and then there was the struggle for the throne of his brother Ali Buge and the rebellion of the kings of the Ogedai line. After the highest khan was transferred to the Tuolei line, the eldest son Meng Ge, who inherited the khan's throne, died violently, and Kublai Khan and Ali Buge competed for the khan position.

As a young son, Ali Buge had become the de facto ruler of the Mongol Khanate itself. He was ready to convene Kuriltai to ensure that he was elevated as Great Khan. Kublai Zekhan, on the other hand, acted first, led his army north, and proclaimed himself Great Khan in Kaiping. Ali Buge was called the Great Khan in Horin. One country does not tolerate two masters, so Kublai Khan and Ali Buge brothers went on a killing spree. After years of fierce fighting, Ali Buge was defeated and surrendered to Kublai Khan. In order to win the hearts of the people, Kublai Khan did not kill him, but imprisoned him as a prisoner until death.

In addition, as the actual founder of the Ögedai Khanate, Haidu, Genghis Khan once said that as long as Ögedei has a descendant who eats milk, he will have priority over others, so he constantly opposed Kublai Khan and actively sought to establish himself as the Great Khan. He was a clever and cunning man, and gradually gathered his people, using Haiabli as a base, and became the leader of the kings of the Okotai line.

In the sixth year of the Yuan Dynasty, Haidu convened a meeting with the queen of Chagatai and the queen of Jochi on the banks of the Tarasu River, and all the people pushed Haidu as the leader of the alliance to unanimously oppose Kublai Khan and Ilkhan Abha, and vowed to maintain nomadic life and Mongolian customs. From then on, the Chagatai Khanate and the Ögedai Khanate were separated from the direct control of the Great Mongol Emperor, and Haidu coveted the position of the Great Khan, helped Ali Buge to rebel in the front, and united the khanates to fight against Kublai Khan by force, and the two sides continued to fight wars. Although the Yuan army always had the upper hand, it was unable to completely defeat Haidu.

Traditionally, Mongol khans had four plucked ears, and Kublai Khan was no exception. His first wife, Thegulon, died before he became the Great Khan. Chabi and Nanbi belong to the second ear. Chabi's son Zhenjin was chosen as Kublai Khan's heir, and the other son, Duo'er, died only young. The other two sons, Shogora and Namkhan, were not chosen as heirs.

But Kublai Khan had enough trust in them. Busy Gera was made the king of Anxi and guarded the land of Tang Wu; Namuhan is the king of Bei'an, guarding the land of the original Jurchens. In addition, his fifth son, Hu Gechi, was named the king of Yunnan and guarded the southwest; Oduchi was the king of Xiping, and took the land of Western Xia as his territory; There is also the king of Zhennan, Tuhuan, who failed in the crusade against Annan, and was relegated to the land of Ezhou to guard the south of the Yangtze River. They all have heavy armies, potential contenders for the throne of Khan.

In addition, Mongolian customs are that young sons keep their jobs, and young sons are in a superior position in inheriting their father's property and status. Therefore, the crown prince of Zhenjin was controversial, at least among the Mongol nobility. Namhan, the king of Beiping, was young, and in the sixth year of the Yuan Dynasty, Kublai Khan sent him to attack Haidu, but he was defeated and captured. Ten years later, when he returned to Dadu, he was very dissatisfied with Kublai Khan's appointment as crown prince, and he asked Kublai Khan, who was furious and reprimanded him. This shows that although Zhenjin was named the crown prince, his status was not the same as that of the princes of the Central Plains Dynasty, and Zhenjin was also subject to many restrictions in his political career.

Therefore, Zhao Yu felt that what Lu Xiufu said was not unreasonable, even if Zhenjin was made the crown prince, there would be another fight at the Kuritai Conference, of course, the longer they made trouble, the more powerful they fought, and the more beneficial it would be to their counterattack. According to Mongolian practice, before the new khan was elected, the affairs of the Mongolian Khanate were in charge of the empress, and Empress Nanbi, who stayed in most of the capital, was lonely, lonely, and cold, eager to participate in the court politics, and he estimated that she would not let go of the opportunity, and would definitely intervene in due time.

Therefore, once Kublai Khan died, the Mengyuan regime under internal and external attacks would definitely fall into civil strife, and the participation of many parties would further complicate the situation, which could not be solved in a day or two. And since it is going to fight, it will definitely not go to the Kulitai Conference alone, and the various sect kings will definitely lead their own troops and horses, but these sect kings are leading the most elite army of Meng Yuan. Of course, Zhao Yu also hopes that Zhenjin will 'die' before he successfully inherits the throne, or after a short time, so that more people will be involved, and he will have a good show.

If the Mengyuan Khan is on the throne together, the armies subordinate to the various kings will go north on a large scale, and the Mengyuan armed forces left in the south of the Yangtze River will only have the cantonment garrisons of the Xuanwei Division of the provinces in addition to the Tanma Red Army in the Zhenshu Prefecture. In this way, Zhao Yu thought that the various local armed forces he had developed in the southeast inland area should also have the strength to fight and cooperate with the main force to occupy the southeast.

The local armed forces developed by Zhao Yu were originally nothing more than a group of salt lords and underworld heroes from the grassroots society, and through the integration of the bureau, these underworld brothers formed a loose alliance and scattered them throughout the southeast. Unlike the bandits, the salt lords have a maximum of a few hundred people and a few dozens, and unlike the bandits, they do not have a fixed cottage, only their own divided territory. Usually farming at home, gathering together for armed smuggling or robbery, the combat experience comes from the private fight for territory and the battle of the Yuan army's anti-smuggling team, and it is simply impossible to deal with the large number of enemy troops.

Anyone who has watched "Water Margin" knows that Liang Shanbo's strength was after Guan Sheng, Lin Chong and other officers joined. Under the leadership of these men with military qualities, the Liangshan army began to be able to confront and win head-on with the officers and soldiers of the imperial court, and the development process of the salt lord army was also the same. With Zhao Hao's effective control over the illegal salt channels, he gradually turned the alliance of the salt barons into an organized 'criminal gang'.

Then they used the dispatched officials and military backbones to turn them into combat-ready armed forces, and then through the battle to swallow up scattered bandits and grass bandits, and control some areas, the salt lords gained the leadership power of the local grassroots society. If a village joins their organization, the Zhuangzi does not have to worry about being attacked by bandits; On the contrary, if a village is left without their people, it will soon be robbed of everything by nearby armed forces.

The local organizations of the Yuan Dynasty set up township directors, li zheng, and capital dong in the township, li (fang, xiang), or township and li (yu, du) under the county. At the grassroots level, there are village communities and Lijia organizations. All 50 families are organized into a society, with Han landlords and village elders as presidents, responsible for ruling the grassroots and urging the payment of taxes. Above the president, there is also a Mongolian official to supervise; and sent the Mongol army or the Tanma Red Army to the society, and jointly organized the society with the people to carry out military control. Under the village community, there is Lijia, where 20 households are organized into a Jiajia, and Jiajia has a master, which is held by the Mongols and Semu people, who have supreme power, and food and clothing are provided by the villagers.

In this way, there were two forces in the local area, the Yuan court maintained local law and order through the state apparatus and collected taxes, and the grassroots Mongols were greedy and tyrannical, and the local tyrants and inferior gentry also took advantage of the opportunity to run rampant in the countryside. The people were oppressed, and they could not afford to wear official uniforms, so they had to turn to those salt barons, and they could often get a satisfactory solution.

In this way, the salt barons not only threatened the village with violence to provide material and manpower supplies, but they also established a basic order, and the common people would seek arbitration from them when they had disputes, and generally obtained a relatively satisfactory result. This is already an advanced stage in the development of the underworld society, and it has begun to provide judicial services to the people. However, conflicts with the government are also inevitable......