A little emperor thought that the peace talks were currently beneficial to his side, and there were great benefits, but he didn't say what the benefits were, Zheng Huchen knew the rules and naturally wouldn't ask more. But he knew that the little emperor had worked hard to lay this foundation, and he would definitely not give up with a few words from the Tartars, and he must have already calculated, all he had to do was to obey the orders and do his part well.

"Is there a result of what happened in the Northwest?" Zhao Hao smirked for a while and suddenly asked.

"Your Majesty, along with the war in Jiangnan, the main forces of the Secretariat were placed here, and they gradually recovered after the war, and their subordinates have only recently received news one after another, and I wanted to tell you in detail later, but Your Majesty expected it." Zheng Huchen smiled.

"I didn't expect it, but I guessed it." Zhao Yu shook his hand and said, "I think that the old lady in Nanbi is in a hurry to negotiate peace for a reason, thinking that only the northwest is decided, and during her imprisonment, she not only lost Jiangnan, but also cut off the supply to the northwest, the two sides have fallen out, she wants to leave a way back for herself." ”

"Then Your Majesty thinks Zhenjin will support Nanbi Peace Proposal?" Zheng Huchen nodded and asked.

"It's hard for me to judge, but he should be supportive of what Zhenjin usually does, and he has a gentle temperament and is not warlike since childhood; Moreover, in order to inherit the throne this time, Zhenjin has paid a lot of price, and he should focus on rectifying internal affairs at the moment; In addition, if he could extort money and food through peace talks, he should be happy to do so. Zhao Yu thought about it and analyzed.

"Your Majesty thinks the south is ...... That old lady will merge with real gold, wouldn't that be bad for my dynasty, and we should try to stop it! Zheng Huchen said.

"Well, it is indeed not good for our dynasty that the two of them will join forces, but I think that even if they unite, they will be separated from each other, and they will only join forces temporarily due to the forced situation, but it is ......" Zhao Hao nodded. He knew that Zhenjin represented the Confucian forces in the Central Plains, while Nanbi represented the conservative forces of Mongolia, and the policies implemented by the two sides were contrary, and it was impossible to pee into a pot. However, at present, in order to settle the kings of the sects, Zhenjin will naturally compromise with the old school. And if they are their biggest enemy at the moment, it is possible to unanimously attack themselves first.

"What worries Your Majesty?" Seeing that the little emperor's face suddenly showed a sad color, Zheng Huchen hurriedly asked.

"First show me the information you have learned about the Northwest!" Zhao Yu didn't say anything more, just urged him to take out the information.

"Yes, Your Majesty!" Zheng Huchen hurriedly handed over the documents that had been collected into a volume.

"Hmm!" Zhao Yu took it and waved his hand to let him take care of himself first, but Zheng Huchen dared to leave, but sat aside and asked.

Zhao Yu flipped through the scrolls, reading them word by word, trying to find the answer to the problem from a few words, and he also learned about the battle for the throne in the northwest. After the death of Kublai Khan, under the opposition of the Northwest Outer Sect King, Zhenjin could not successfully inherit the throne of Khan. However, after the kings of Kublai Khan's family arrived in Helin, the situation began to reverse, after all, they would not sit idly by and watch the foreign sect eyeing the Khan's throne, and they were all powerful kings with heavy troops, and the foreign sect forces retreated, but still demanded that the Kuritai Congress be held to elect the Great Khan from among their brothers.

After forcing the outsiders to retreat, Kublai Khan soon fell into civil strife again, after all, the position of Khan was too tempting, and the foreign forces took advantage of the situation to intervene again, instigating them to start fighting each other again. When they couldn't hold each other, they remembered that their father was still hanging aside and not buried, so Zhenjin proposed to bury his father first and then settle the matter between the brothers.

It seems that reading more is also beneficial, Zhenjin thought that the outer sects were all conservative forces, and he was at a disadvantage in the competition for the throne, so he used his status as the prince to gather important ministers from all over the country to come to the funeral, so as to recruit himself as a cronie to the capital. Among them, Zuo Xiang An Tong, Boyan and others, who supported the Han system, arrived one after another, and the situation changed again.

An Tong is a native of the Mongolian Zarayier tribe and the third grandson of Mu Huali. Zu Polu, father Baturu; Mother Hongjira, the sister of Empress Chabi. He was not only the queen of the minister, but also had a relationship with Kublai Khan, and at the beginning of the Central Dynasty, he served as the third cowardly Xue of the Muhua Li family, when he was only thirteen years old. Because he often discussed state affairs with adults, his mother had praised him in front of Kublai Khan when he entered the palace to see the queen, although he was young and had the talent to assist the country, Kublai Khan was very happy after answering correctly, and in the second year of the Yuan Dynasty, he issued an edict to An Tong, who was only seventeen years old, and Shi Tianze at that time had been the right minister since the second year of Zhongtong,

Later, because Kublai Khan relied on Ahma, who was good at "financial management", An Tong and Ahma's struggle failed and was transferred out of phase. After he reached the northwest, he sent troops to attack the king of Wokotai, the great name of Wang Hehu, and because of the unfair distribution, the kings were dissatisfied. In the thirteenth year of the Yuan Dynasty, he launched a rebellion from Wokotaizi Xiliji on the border of Namhan, 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 Tuolei family, treated An Tong quite favorably, and granted him an official position, which was not repatriated until the twentieth year of the Yuan Dynasty.

Twenty-one years, after An Tong returned to the court, he and Lihuo Sun served as the right minister. After he was reunited, he was still close to the Confucian scholars, and invited the old ministers Xu Shilong and Li Chang to be used, and was reprimanded for using Lu Shirong. However, with his background and the experience of serving as prime minister twice, he enjoys a high prestige in the Yuan court and the foreign sect, and is in charge of the guards and pro-army, and the weight is not light, and at the same time, he also knows that Queen Nanbi does not like the Han system, so he stands on the side of Zhenjin.

Needless to say, his ancestors fought with Temujin, and by chance, he was appreciated by Kublai Khan and kept as a courtier, and his ability to seek state affairs has never been comparable to him. Kublai Khan recognized his virtuous ability more and more, so he asked the sister of An Tong, the right prime minister of the Imperial Edict, to give him his wife, and said: "Be the wife of Boyan, and do not tarnish your surname." ”

After that, Boyan led the troops to pacify the south of the Yangtze River, and soon rebelled against Namuhan, the king of Beiping, and invaded Helin from Ali Mari, and was ordered to lead the division to the north, and defeated the rebels in the cold river of Hu'er. After that, he assisted Zhenjin to raise the army and was ordered to guard the northwest. Because Boyan is good at fighting, he skips people, rewards and punishments are fair, and the army is very strict, and he has a prestige among the armies in the northwest. And he has a deep relationship with Zhenjin, and he is an in-law with An Tong, so he has become his right-hand man.

With the help of the two generals, Zhenjin was like a tiger with wings, and under their planning, he first stabilized the wavering King of Zhennan, promised to pardon the crime of losing Jiangnan, and pulled him to Zhenjin's side; and by promising to give priority to increasing the supply of Anxi military rations, he persuaded Busy Brother to support real gold; In the end, on the condition that the Timurid family was the hereditary king of Yunnan, he obtained the approval of the Hugechi lineage.

For Namuhan, who has always been unconvinced, they ignore it, and they can't afford to make trouble with only one person. And those foreign kings can't make trouble under both soft and hard. With such an obvious political blow, it is impossible for the strong Namuhan not to be disgusted, because his vested interests have been damaged, and of course the small actions behind it will also have turbulent undercurrents. Now that he has been deprived of everything, and he has to fight for power with his family, there is no need to mention the resentment in his heart, and of course he is also deliberately engaging in confrontation.

In such a political environment, Namuhan, who is still trapped in the beast, of course has a rebellion, and finally has a public showdown and takes risks. After the funeral, after he led the army to attack the Zhenjin camp and failed, he led his cowardly Xue and his cronies to flee to the Liaodong fiefdom, rebelled from the Yuan court, established himself as the king, and embarked on the road of confrontation.

In this way, Zhenjin's path to the throne of Khan was cleared, and he was elected by the kings as the new generation of Mongol Great Khan at the Kuritai Congress. But the price they paid was not small, and now the Song court took advantage of their civil strife to regain Jiangnan, forced the king of Bei'an, Namhan, to rebel attacks, and faced rebel attacks from the northeast and northwest. After this power struggle, Zhenjin's condition worsened, and he was no longer able to ride a horse, so he had to stay until the spring warmed up before embarking on the road back south......

"Did Zhenjin and the kings just leave Helin?" After Zhao Yu finished reading it, he raised his head and asked Zheng Huchen.

"Your Majesty, according to the custom of the Great Khan of the Tartars to summon the kings, it should be after the Great Khan leaves first, and the kings will leave one after another!" Zheng Huchen replied.

"Well, Zhenjin left Helin in early February, so the other kings are also on the way." Zhao Yu took the map casually and unfolded it on the long table.

"Your Majesty, I want to start on the way back from real gold." Zheng Huchen hurriedly took the paperweight to help His Majesty press it and asked.

"It's not real gold that threatens us the most now, and he's going to have a fight when he returns. Where do you think the biggest threat to us is right now! Zhao Yu shook his head and said.

"Your Majesty...... From the perspective of our subordinates, the biggest threat to us is the old land of Sichuan and Dali! Zheng Huchen looked at the map and said in a deep silence.

"Well, you're right." Zhao Yu nodded and said, "Compared with the two places, I thought that the old land of Dali was the greatest threat to us, and the Tartars were unable to break through the defense line of the two Huai, so they first took Dali to outflank me, thus forming a situation of encirclement." Now that we have regained Jiangnan, we still pose a threat to our western flank, and the pressure on the Western Front Corps is extremely great. ”

"After we pacified Jiangnan, the Tibetan tribes in Dali rebelled one after another, and Your Majesty was worried that Timur would quickly suppress the Tibetan tribes after returning to Yunnan, which would still pose a threat to our dynasty." Zheng Huchen replied.

"Yes, we must not let it return to Yunnan!" Zhao Yu slapped the case a few times.

"The subordinates are determined to do this well and kill him!" Zheng Huchen said......

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Zhao Yu and Zheng Huchen discussed until late at night, and Zheng Huchen quietly left before dawn to return to the capital. And he took a short nap before dawn, and after a few exercises with the guards, he returned to the study to deal with official documents after breakfast. The top one was still sent by the Ministry of War, and he didn't know how to write it after reading it, and it was not easy to solve the matter. After recovering Jiangnan, in order to deal with the elongated front and suppress all over the country, Zhao Hao ordered a large-scale expansion of the army, and the forbidden army alone quickly swelled to 300,000. The rapid growth of the army will inevitably bring many corresponding problems.

First of all, even if there is a shortage of weapons, according to the statistics of the Ministry of War, although the army has been expanded to 500,000 this time, the whole army now has a total of 250,000 muskets, and the stock is less than 60,000. There are more than 1,000 artillery pieces of various types, but they cannot meet the needs, especially the most lacking naval army. At the same time, in the war to pacify the south of the Yangtze River, the loss of weapons was also very serious, and the baggage department reported that there were nearly 10,000 muskets that needed to be repaired, and although the ordnance superintendent had moved to the capital and restored part of its production capacity, it was still not enough to make up for the shortage.

At present, the recruits are undergoing basic training, and the contradictions are not yet prominent, and the upcoming training of armed weapons will lead to the dilemma that the recruits have no guns to use, and it will also seriously affect the combat effectiveness after being recruited, so it needs to be solved urgently. Now the only solution is to expand the scale of production, and this also involves the expansion of supporting workshops such as gunpowder, ironmaking, bullets, and shells, but it cannot be solved in a short time.

The second major problem brought about by the rapid expansion of troops is the deterioration of the quality of the troops. The reason for this is that the expansion has brought about a shortage of officers, and experienced soldiers, especially those who have come out of the training camps of the new army, have been promoted, resulting in a serious weakening of the strength of non-commissioned officers as the backbone of the operation, and the combat capability of the troops has declined. On the other hand, after the expansion, the number of recruits is still being trained, but the shortage is serious, and it is difficult for them to undertake combat missions.

The third major problem is the shortage of funds, even if it is calculated according to the annual need of 100 per soldier, at least 50 million yuan of military expenditure will be required every year. This is not counting the cost of rebuilding the camp, building new ships, preparing weapons, and being fitted. At present, the aftermath work also requires a lot of funds, such as compensation for the dead, placement of the disabled, rewards for meritorious service, and retirement pensions for retired soldiers who have served for seven years.

Now that the imperial court has returned to Jiangnan, the increase in officials, the construction of the city, and the pacification of the people require a lot of money. At present, we can still cope with the past by fighting local tyrants and war captures, but this year, we have to raise food and raise funds to deal with the war that may break out at any time without increasing taxes. From the above three major issues, it is not difficult to see that the restoration of the Central Plains is not such a simple matter as raising one's arms and responding to all calls. In order to balance the interests of the country and the interests of the people, there must be extremely complex joints that need to be opened.

Zhao Yu knew that since he had sat on the throne of the emperor, he could not avoid all kinds of problems, nor could he escape the responsibility of being a king, and he had to fight his way out like a war and change the current national policy. And this difficulty is not small, but it is by no means that everyone thinks that the emperor "exports into an edict", and what the emperor says is the law, but in fact it is not like that.

Of course, there was no democratically elected legislature such as parliament in ancient China, but the Song people had established a relatively complete set of "legislative democracy" mechanisms. Legislation is not made by the emperor or behind closed doors, but must be fully debated by "everyone" and those who are good are followed. The Song people believed that the situation should be put in place first, and then everyone was allowed to make suggestions, and the deletion had to be discussed by everyone. Although there were no legislators at that time, if a piece of legislation received a lot of criticism, it could prompt the imperial court to re-amend the law......