Zhao Yu stationed in Qiantang, here not only rich materials, and convenient water and land transportation, information transmission is also much faster, the war reports from all over the country through the bureau set up in various places to alternately transmit pigeons, concentrated in Shaoxing station, after sorting out at most ten days can be sent to Zhao Hao's desk, so that he can grasp the overall situation.

Now, after Zhao Mengjin and Liu Zhu's troops captured Jiangyin and Runzhou, they each left a brigade of soldiers to garrison, and the water and land troops advanced to Jiankang, and are now going up the river to prepare to capture Dangtu and Wuhu. Zhao Yu is not worried about this, after all, most of the enemy troops in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces have been annihilated, and the rest of the heads and brains are surrounded in Lin'an City.

The other main force led by Jiang Cheng and Han Zhen also fought very smoothly in the Huguang area, and in addition to the strong combat effectiveness of the forbidden army, it was also blamed on the Yuan court for destroying the Great Wall. After Zhao Yu gained a foothold in Qiongzhou, the armies of Huguang Province were their main opponents, and they had the most dealings with Zuocheng Ali Hague of Huguang Province, but in recent years, they have also gone back to the top.

Ali Hague is a vulture, born in an ordinary civilian family, in the early years of the family was poor, once when working in the field, Ali Hague once threw down the rake and sighed: "The big husband should be a meritorious court, how can he be a fine civil man!" "He is an aspiring young man. Later, because of the recommendation of others, Ali Hague came to serve by Kublai Khan's side, and gradually gained a high status with his own wisdom and ability. At the beginning of Boyan's southern expedition, Ali Hague was the third person in charge of the army in addition to Boyan and Ashu.

Such a well-known character, not to mention the loss of soldiers in the attack on Qiong. The successive defeats of Annam and Zhancheng and Japan greatly damaged the troops of Huguang Province, and he took the initiative to carry the black pot for the protection of the southern king of Zhennan, although he was only reprimanded by Kublai Khan, but he and Tuhuan had obviously fallen out of favor in front of Kublai Khan.

There are often more people in the world who are icing on the cake and fewer people who send carbon in the snow. Ali Hague's fall from grace was seen by many, and some people began to grab his pigtails. In the 19th year of the Yuan Dynasty, Nantai Imperial Doctor Xiangwei impeached Ali Hague and made 1,800 households of the people as slaves, and Ali Hague argued that it was the income of expropriation. Thinking about such a thing in the past, it was not a problem, but now it has been turned out, and when I was angry, I played a self-talk and asked for a pensioner, but I was impeached by the imperial history for boasting about it.

Kublai Khan also felt that Ali Hague was a little disobedient, and did not listen to his self-defense, and ordered the prime minister to check the more than 32,000 prisoners captured by Ali Hague and Huguang Province and Hudu Timur, and ordered them to be removed from slavery and become a citizen. This is not counting, and ordered Zhongshu Province Pingzhang to be ordered to hook Huguang Province Qiangu, but Ali Hague asked to hook and ask Shumu to hook each other for bribery.

Kublai Khan was annoyed when he heard this, I wanted to check on you, but you asked for mutual checks, obviously disobeying discipline, so he once again ordered to hook the examination according to the words and deeds of Shumu. If Shumu realized that his struggle with Ali Hague was a life-and-death struggle, he could still be soft-hearted, not only found out that he possessed a large amount of land in the south of the Yangtze River, but also reported that after taking Huguang, he dismissed the Song and Xia taxes, and changed the Kemen stall according to the original regulations, with two dollars per household, and more than 50,000 ingots more than the summer tax, resulting in a heavier consequence that the taxes in Huguang were heavier than those in Jiangsu and Zhejiang.

Hearing that Ali Hague was so unscrupulous in accumulating wealth, Kublai Khan was furious and ordered to confiscate his family assets, nationalize the land, and send thousands of the fugitives he had sheltered to Tuntian. Ali Hague was in a hurry, and died of illness within a few days of serious illness, so Huguang Province became a situation of lack of soldiers and major generals, and it was impossible to resist the attack of the Song army.

After conquering Xiangzhou, Jiang Zhen's troops went to Liuzhou, and then joined forces with Han Zhen in Jingzhou to defeat the 40,000 households that the enemy Huguang Province came to intercept, and killed more than 30,000 enemy troops. After that, the Yuan army was no longer able to resist, and the Song army either fled from the state and county through which it passed, or surrendered the city, and the rest of the month had been connected to Quanzhou and Yongzhou, and captured Hengyang, and after five days of truce, two battles in Changsha and Yiyang. At present, the army has arrived at Dongting Lake in Hengyang, is collecting boats, raising supplies, and is preparing to go to Jiangling, but they are also plagued by a shortage of ammunition, please replenish it.

The two armies of Huai'en and Weisheng led by Wen Tianxiang conquered Tingzhou and Shao Wujun after taking Jian'an Mansion, and then turned south to attack. They have a lot of soldiers and horses along the way, and they are the backbone of the previous forbidden army, but because they are still equipped with cold weapons, their combat effectiveness is inferior to that of the new forbidden army. However, Wen Tianxiang is a native of Jiangxi, and opened a mansion here to resist the Yuan, so its prestige is very high, it can be said that it is a hundred responses, the old troops and villagers have responded to the army, the strength has soared, and there is less ammunition to supplement the shortcomings, and now it is also approaching the ultimate strategic goal of Ezhou, but Zhao Yu thought that it was not easy to capture Ezhou with their strength.

After conquering Zhangzhou and Xinghua, they were unable to attack such important towns as Quanzhou and Fuzhou, so they could only clean up the surrounding prefectures and counties, cut off the connection between the two prefectures, contain their forces, and open up the road with Jiangsu and Zhejiang. Zhao Yu was basically satisfied with the performance of the two armies, so as not to worry about the rear road, and after recovering Lin'an, he could free up his hands to clear the enemy strongholds along the coast......

Zhao Yu is most worried about the frontal enemy, only by occupying the important town on the south bank of the Yangtze River as soon as possible, can he establish a complete defense system, and the moat can be called the moat. Therefore, he ordered all armies to develop southward, focusing on the annihilation of the enemy's vital forces, and accomplishing the strategic objectives as soon as possible, instead of occupying land and establishing political power, so that his goal of separating Jiangdong and recovering Jiangnan could be realized.

In addition, what made Zhao Yu concerned was that the Mongolian kings had arrived in Shangdu one after another and were ready to participate in the Kuritai Conference, but now they can still maintain the apparent calm and have not started a fight. In fact, he can understand the helplessness of real gold very much, obviously he has been made the crown prince, and due to the unprecedented tension in the struggle for the throne within the Mongolian golden family, Kublai Khan, who successfully won the throne, never held the Kuritai Congress after succeeding to the throne, but imitated the hereditary system of the emperor in the Central Plains as orthodoxy, so that this tradition gradually faded out of history.

However, due to the death of Kublai Khan, Zhenjin did not really grasp power, but he knew that the early khans were elected or approved by the conference, but it was precisely because of Kublai Khan's disgust with his excessive bias towards the Central Plains that the Great Mongol Empire tended to be divided, so that although the four khanates were nominally vassals of the Yuan Dynasty, they had basically separated from the Central Plains regime. In order to avoid further division, he knew that it would be unfavorable to him, but he had to restart the Kuritai Congress and restore the system.

According to the spies' report, Zhao Yu learned that Zhenjin had communicated with several brothers, but the result was unknown. However, he also knew about the 'turmoil' in Jiangnan, but at the critical moment of the current struggle for the throne, he was unskilled and did not dare to mobilize troops without authorization, so as to prevent greater trouble. On the other hand, Empress Nanbi, who was in charge of the country, was busy wooing the old Mongolian ministers and squeezing out the Hanchens in the court, wanting to be a spoiler, so that Zhenjin could not succeed to the throne smoothly, and set up people who obeyed her to take the throne, so that she could continue to supervise the country and hold power.

So now the formation of Mongolia is a three-legged thing, on one side is the real gold who is eager to inherit the throne, on the other side is the ambitious Empress Nanbi, and a group of brothers who are eyeing each other. Of course, their struggle is something that Zhao Hao is happy to see, and the longer it lasts, the better, so that he will have more time to consolidate his gains and stabilize the place.

But Zhao Hao saw some clues from the intelligence from all sides, at the moment Jiangdong was lost, and if Jiangnan was lost, then Dehuan would lose its base, and real gold was equivalent to losing the wealth of Jiangnan, and there was one less powerful arm. Therefore, he was anxious and also had to reveal his position of supporting Zhenjin's inheritance of the throne on various occasions, and took the initiative to contact the kings and run for him.

Another figure that Zhao Hao didn't expect was Boyan. He once served as the Zhongshu Right Cheng of the Yuan Dynasty in charge of government affairs, and later led the army to destroy the Song Dynasty and pacify the south of the Yangtze River, making great contributions and being deeply trusted by Kublai Khan. As soon as the war in the south of the Yangtze River ended, King Xi Liji and others rebelled against Namuhan, the king of Beiping, and from Ali Mari to the east of Helin, he was ordered to lead his division to the north, defeated the rebels in the Han River, and was ordered to guard the northwest. In the past, King Ajiji was out of order, and Kublai Khan ordered the general army of the Boyan Dynasty to be in the northwest, so it can be said that he has the right to have soldiers.

According to Zhao Hao, the relationship between Boyan and Zhenjin is not ordinary, when Zhenjin was established as the crown prince, he presided over the government, supported it according to Kublai Khan's will, and later accompanied him to raise the army in Mobei, so the relationship between the two is not ordinary. And although he did not clearly express his support for Zhenjin to inherit the throne at this moment, he asked the kings to Li Chen Khan to die, and he should be buried as soon as possible, and let Prime Minister An Tong come to preside over the ceremony as soon as possible.

The emperor is dead, and the funeral presided over by the prime minister should be divided, but Zhao Hao sniffed out something unusual. An Tong is also not simple, he is a native of the Mongolian Zara Yier tribe and the fourth grandson of Mu Huali. Zu Polu, father Baturu; Mother Hongjira, the sister of Empress Chabi. He is not only the queen of the minister, but also has a relationship with the ancestor of the Jiaofang, and at the beginning of the Zhongtong Dynasty, he served as the hereditary third cowardly Xue Xue Chang of the Mu Huali family, when he was only thirteen years old. When his mother entered the palace to see the empress, she praised him in front of Kublai Khan, although he was young, he had the talent to assist the country, because he often discussed state affairs with adults. In the second year of the Yuan Dynasty, An Tong became the right prime minister of Zhongshu at the age of eighteen.

After An Tong paid homage to the prime minister, he adhered to Kublai Khan's intention to invite Zhenjin to lead the Chinese book to save trouble and participate in the government. He also summoned Xu Heng to join the court, advocating the implementation of the Confucian policy of governing the country and pursuing the policy of adopting Han law. But later, An Tong's struggle with Ahmad failed, and he was transferred out of phase, and Kublai Khan sent him to the northwest frontier to serve in the province of Zhongshu and the Privy Council, and assisted the prince Namuhan, the king of Beiping, to guard the border.

After An Tong arrived in the northwest, he sent troops to crusade against Wang Hehu, the king of Wokotai, and because of the unfair distribution and support, the kings were dissatisfied. In the thirteenth year of the Yuan Dynasty, Xianzong's son Xiliji, who was on the border of Namhan, launched a rebellion, kidnapped Namuhan and An Tong, and sent An Tong to Haidu for detention. Haidu took a wait-and-see attitude towards the internal strife of the Tulei family, treated An Tong quite favorably, and granted him an official position, until the twentieth year of the Yuan Dynasty, and returned to the Yuan court in the twenty-first year. An Tong returned to the dynasty and met again.

After An Tong was reinstated, he was still close to the Confucian scholars, and invited the old ministers Xu Shilong and Li Chang to be employed. When Song Confucianism Ye Li returned to the rich Chunjiang, Nantai Imperial Historian Xiangwei was ordered to ask for the bereavement of the person, in his name, the ancestor was overjoyed, that is, to give Zhejiang West Taoist Confucianism to promote, Ye Li did not want to accept, An Tong sent a special letter to implore, and began to take office. At this time, there was a turmoil in the history of Nantai Imperial Chapter, the ancestor was very angry, although An Tong admitted his guilt, but the suspicion between the monarch and the minister had been born. He went to the summer capital to escape the summer and was left in Dadu, and was now placed by the Empress Dowager Nanbi and placed under house arrest in the city.

On the surface, the two are both important ministers of the imperial court, and it is logical for Boyan to have this proposal. But Zhao Yu just felt that there must be a deep meaning in it, and they were not as simple as being ministers in the same palace, An Tong's sister was still Boyan's wife, and they were in-laws. From a political point of view, they all advocate the practice of Han law and the rule of Confucianism, which is consistent with the concept of real gold; From the perspective of personal intimacy, Boyan recommended Zhenjin as the crown prince, and An Tong went further, not only allowing him to participate in state affairs, but even causing a Zen turmoil.

The two can be said to be old ministers of the Yuan court, with very high prestige, and have the ability to control the government and influence the attitude of the kings, while the Empress Dowager Nanbi is just a clown in their eyes. Zhao Yu knew that if the two joined forces to promote Zhenjin to the throne, they would have at least a fifty percent chance of winning, and with the support of the two kings, Zhenjin's succession would be almost a foregone conclusion. Therefore, he realized that there was not much time left for him, and once Zhenjin succeeded to the throne, he would definitely mobilize troops to conquer Jiangnan, which was not only a political need, but also a financial emergency......

After analyzing the current situation, Zhao Yu has a headache, he estimates that Zhenjin has eighty percent hope of succeeding to the throne, and it will take about three or four months to complete the major events of burying Kublai Khan, removing opposition forces, stabilizing the government, and transferring troops to attack Jiangnan. And he also has to complete the capture of Lin'an City, establish the Yangtze River defense line, clear the remnants of the Yuan court in Jiangnan, consolidate the power and reorganize the army, build a new political system and many other matters, which may not be enough time.

However, Zhao Yu knew very well that since the moment he decided to launch the battle for the restoration of the country, there was no turning back, and it was impossible to return to Qiongzhou to live a free life, and what he was facing was by no means the encirclement and suppression of the troops of the Yuan Dynasty and a province, and it was as simple as governing a corner of the land. In the future, he will have to confront the army of the Yuan court, govern thousands of miles of rivers and mountains, and manage tens of millions of people, and the difficulty will be geometric growth.

But since I have chosen this difficult road, I must go on without hesitation, no matter how many difficulties there are ahead, I must go through it hard, and I have to survive how many bad things I encounter, so as to change this aggrieved history......