If Zhao Yu was close at this time, after listening to Yue Chi Cha'er's analysis, he would definitely regard him as a confidant. He thought that the reason why the Great Song Dynasty did not take advantage of the great victory of the water war on the occasion of the Northern Expedition was mainly due to the shortage of money and food, mainly because the Southern Dynasty strictly forbade the army to camp in the fields, and all expenses were allocated by the imperial court, while the Song army and the non-Mongolian army only needed to carry a few days of grain and grass in the war, and most of them were solved on the spot, which led to huge expenses for the Song army.

Yue Chi Cha'er estimated that even in peacetime, the Great Song Dynasty would need more than 300,000 guan a day to maintain the army, and a military expenditure of 10 million guan a year, and if it was to be at least doubled in wartime, it would need 20 million kan, and it would increase exponentially according to the scale and intensity of the battle. This is also the reason why the Great Song Dynasty did not launch large-scale wars after recovering Jiangnan, and he thought that in addition to stabilizing the situation in the Southern Dynasty, it was to recuperate and accumulate money and food.

"Do you think the Southern Dynasties will not be able to launch the Northern Expedition in the next few years?" It was the first time for Zhenjin to hear this, and he felt very novel and excited, so he leaned forward and asked.

"Great Khan, that's exactly what I said, so you don't have to rush to build the river defense like Boyan, but you have to plan it slowly, that is, to avoid stimulating the frequent use of troops in the Southern Dynasties, you can also take the opportunity to quietly and calmly gradually complete the river defense, so that you can also use the finance and taxation of the two Huai to complete the river defense project year by year, and relieve the financial pressure of the imperial court." Yue Chi Cha'er said.

"Well, that's a good point. In this way, the ministers of the court and the central government have no excuse to impeach Boyan and calm the turmoil! Zhenjin thought about it for a while, and grabbed another piece of meat while eating.

"I'm afraid it's hard to be like the Great Khan!" Yue Chi Cha'er shook his head and threw aside a bone that had been stripped of the flesh.

"Why is that?" The smile that Jin had just shown froze again, and he asked in surprise.

"The Great Khan, the Hanchen in the court and the old Mongol generals impeached Boyan together, it seems that it was because of the construction of city defenses, but in fact it was just an excuse, and it was their intention to drive Boyan out of the court." Yuechi Cha'er put the meat on the fire and grilled it.

"They want to expel Boyan from the court? He is proficient in Chinese law, and he supports the use of many Han ministers, and his military achievements are outstanding, and he is very prestigious among the Mongols and Semu, you say that both of them want to expel him from the imperial court, how is this possible! Zhenjin shook his head, not believing the authenticity.

"The Great Khan, in fact, is because of his tiring reputation. Although Boyan supported the Han Law, in the eyes of those Han Chen, he was still a man of lust, not with them, and was deeply favored by the Great Khan. On the other hand, the Mongol generals admired his military exploits, but they were very dissatisfied with his support for Han law, believing that he had betrayed tradition and suppressed the old sect, so they also wanted to expel him from the court. Yue Chi Cha'er smiled.

"I see, they have a poisonous mind. Boyan is now the pillar of the country, if they succeed, it will be equivalent to going to my right-hand man, and I have to be held hostage by them, and I can't go along with their wishes at the moment. Zhenjin took a sip of wine and put the bowl on the table and said angrily, looking at the sizzling meat roasted on the fire, feeling as if it was him.

"Great Khan, the current crowd is raging, and you can't force yourself to do it, so I'm afraid that it will make the two parties merge, and it will be even more difficult to deal with." Yue Chi Cha'er said.

"Depose Boyan, wouldn't that be according to their wishes, I will never do that." Zhenjin said categorically.

"Great Khan, I don't mean that either, but you can do it another way!" Yue Chi Cha'er said unhurriedly to the angry Great Khan, "At present, several princes of the Great Khan have become adults, and the Haidu in the northwest has been in turmoil recently, so the Great Khan can send a prince to raise the army and send an important minister to help!" ”

"......" Zhenjin didn't answer immediately when he heard this, but fell into deep thought. He knew that after the Ali Buge Rebellion was put down, Haidu had sprung up, and after openly raising the banner against the Yuan Dynasty a few years ago, he cooperated with the Mongol kings in the northwest who did not submit to Kublai Khan's power, and repeatedly invaded the northwest border area of the Yuan Dynasty, almost overthrowing the Yuan Dynasty's rule in the Turpan and Gaochang regions.

Haidu was the grandson of the second Great Khan of the Mongol Empire, Ogedei, but his father died young. His father's early death may have been a good thing for Haidu, as he was able to survive the purge of the princes of the Ögedai and Chagatai lineages after Möngke succeeded him as the Great Khan of the Mongols. He has been silently amassing strength in order to seek revenge. But it is very difficult to get back up without anyone taking care of you.

Haidu could only barely gather an army of thousands from the scattered Ogedai tribes, and struggled to survive between the Kipchak Khanate established by the Jochi princes and the Mongol court controlled by the Möngke princes. It was not until the battle for the throne between Ali Buge and Kublai Khan broke out within the Meng Ge clan that Haidu had room to develop and grow. The Mongol prince, who had been enduring for a long time, seized the opportunity to support Ali Buge, who opposed Kublai Khan, and established the Ögedai Khanate in one fell swoop.

The Ögedai Khanate of Haidu was mainly distributed between the Kipchak Khanate, the Ilkhanate and the Yuan Dynasty in the west. His rebellion prevented the emissaries of the imperial court from successfully conveying the will of the Great Khan, which made the Mongol Khanate, which had been established after three generations of conquest, appear somewhat nominal. Kublai Khan spent a lot of effort to eliminate this stubborn enemy stuck in the main arteries of East and Central Asia, but the Mongol Empire, which was gradually entering a period of transition, showed a lot of discomfort in the face of its former comrades.

The Yuan Dynasty did not attach importance to the rise of the Ögedai Khanate. During the time of Kublai Khan, he successively sent Prime Minister Boyan, Taishi Yusu Timur and other famous ministers out of the northwest of the town. With superior forces, he constantly counterattacked the attacks of the Haidu faction. However, until the death of Kublai Khan, the two armies were still repeatedly tugging at each other on the front line of the southern Tianshan Road and the Ögedei Khanate, and they could not completely wipe it out.

It seems that the Ögedai Khanate of Haidu cannot be compared with the Southern Song Dynasty in terms of population, number of troops or economic scale, but it dares to repeatedly attack the border prefectures and counties of the Yuan Dynasty in ten years, mainly for two reasons:

Haidu himself is shrewd and capable, and is good at combining vertical and horizontal. He called on all the kings of the Mongol Khan of Ögedai to take the oath that "as long as he comes out of the descendants of Ögedai Hehan, even if it is a piece of meat, we will still accept him as Khan". It was soon supported by many Mongol nobles who were dissatisfied with the rule of the Yuan dynasty and the Ilkhanate. Haidu also interfered in the affairs of the Chagatai Khanate, established a relatively stable alliance with two generations of Chagatai Khanate, and controlled the core areas of Central Asia.

On the surface, the Kipchak Khanate respected the edict of the Yuan Dynasty, but in fact secretly assisted Haidu to strengthen the Yuan Dynasty and the Ilkhanate, and created favorable conditions for its further expansion into the territory of the Ilkhanate. And after the defeat of Aruku, who was supported by Kublai Khan within the Chagatai Khanate, in the war, the Chagatai Khan, who was supported by Haidu, reigned for a long time. As a result, among the four khanates, only the Ilkhanate of the Möngke clan was left to assist the Yuan Dynasty in the war, resulting in a long and fruitless war.

Since the establishment of the Tokyo Province in Liaoyang to govern the Liaodong region, Naiyan, who guards Liaodong, feels that his position is threatened and is uneasy. He is the great-great-grandson of Genghis Khan's youngest brother Tiemu Ge Chijin, so this year he united with the queen of Hesar, Wang Shiduer, and the descendant of Hechiwen, Shengnahar, to raise troops to rebel, and colluded with the kings of Haidu and the northwest to form a strong threat to the northwest, but it was also necessary to send generals to quell the rebellion.

"Great Khan, the rebellion in Haidu has been in the past, and the army is used almost every year, and it costs a lot of money and food, and if you pacify Haidu, you can save a huge amount of military expenses, and you can transfer the northern army south to capture the Southern Dynasty." Seeing that the Great Khan had been silent for a long time, Yuechi Cha'er continued.

"Well, it's a win-win-win What you mean is to transfer Boyan to the northwest to preside over the suppression of the rebellion, so that you can avoid the court dispute and not hurt Boyan. Zhenjin understood the benefits after a little thought, and nodded.

He once raised the army in the northwest, and of course knew that the army with the weakest combat effectiveness of the Mengyuan was the Han army originally deployed in the south of the Yangtze River, followed by the garrisons of the Central Plains, Sichuan, Shu and Yunnan, and then the guards and the armies in the northwest. However, in his opinion, the northwestern armies were stronger than the guards stationed in the two capitals, and it would be easy to transfer them south to attack the Song Dynasty.

"Exactly, Boyan Ke still holds the title of Shangshu Youcheng, and also assists the prince, his position will only be more stable, and he can appease the northwest armies, and he is still the arm of the Great Khan." Yuechi Cha'er turned the meat on the grill over and said.

"Which prince do you think is better to send to the northwest?" Hearing his words, Zhenjin took a sip of wine and asked again.

"Of course it's King Jin, he once served as the commander in Mobei, he is familiar with military affairs and military conditions, and he can get started quickly." Yue Chi Cha'er said.

"Was this your idea, or did someone else ask you to lobby me?" Zhenjin's face changed when he heard this, and he said solemnly.

After Zhenjin sat on the throne, although he worked very hard, he also felt the taste of dominating the world above 10,000 people, and naturally he didn't want to lose it. But because he has been in poor health, some people have repeatedly persuaded him to establish a prince early, openly and secretly. Of course, he understood the meaning, because he was worried that his sudden death one day would lead to a battle for the throne.

However, Zhenjin, who eats the marrow and knows the taste, is very disgusted by this, and also understands why someone let his father Zen position back then, why he was so angry. He thought that the reason why he made himself a prince early may have the intention of letting him take the throne. Today, Yue Chi Cha'er mentioned this matter again, and he couldn't help but be vigilant, he was tricked by others to lobby him, thinking about the people around him who had this heart, what a terrible thing it was.

Jinjin had three sons. The eldest son, Gan Mala, as the eldest grandson, was raised by Kublai Khan's empress Chabi since he was a child, and was crowned the king of Jin, and it seems that he is inclined to cultivate this grandson as a successor. He is naturally the best heir to the throne, and conforms to Confucian ethics, so he is naturally respected by a group of Hanchen, and he also campaigns for him, hoping to make him the prince.

The second son, Arama Ba Ra, was born in the palace of King Yan when Zhenjin was the king of Yan, and was also deeply favored by Kublai Khan, and gave his maid Guo Shi when he was a little older, and later married the daughter of Hun Du Timur, the grandson of King Lu according to Chen, Hongji Ra Aji, as the concubine. However, he was sick from an early age and was born with a disability - a mute, which naturally expelled him from the sweat position, and Kublai Khan's affection for him was more out of pity.

The third son, Timur, was indeed deeply loved by the queen Kuokuo, and he did not have much affection for the eldest son, and according to the Mongolian tradition - the youngest son Shouzao, of course, she preferred to be the prince, which also won the support of the Mongol king and vassals. Therefore, although the storage position has not been determined at the moment, the battle has been secretly launched, making real gold extremely sensitive to related things.

"Great Khan...... I'm not entrusted by anyone, but I'm just telling the truth! The Great Khan suddenly changed his face, startling Yue Chi Cha'er, and realizing that his words had touched the emperor's scales, and quickly knelt down and saluted.

"Get up, the meat is going to be roasted!" Zhenjin frowned and looked at Yue Chi Cha'er, who was kneeling on the ground for a while, and saw that his sweat continued to flow down his cheeks and fell on the leather floor, but he didn't dare to raise his hand to wipe it, as if he was very afraid, he raised his hand slightly and said.

"Xie Da Khan, I really said it unintentionally, and it was just a suggestion, I really have no selfish intentions, everything still needs to be decided by the Great Khan!" Yuechi Cha'er has been driving with the king since he was a child, of course he knows the truth that a companion is like a tiger, don't look at the usual times you can hook up with the Great Khan, call yourself a brother, and even sleep together. But if one sentence is wrong, the wealth in front of him will come to naught in a blink of an eye, and even lose trust at this point, and it will be difficult to turn over. He prostrated again, not daring to get up.

"Well, I don't blame you, I'm just worried that you're being instigated by others and not knowing it!" Zhenjin saw that his face was still frightened, and there was a trilling voice in his words, obviously he was not scared, so he also believed eight points, and even satisfied his little self-esteem, nodded and smiled.

"Yes, yes!" Only then did Yue Chi Cha'er get up, came to the grill, picked up two pieces of good meat, put them on Da Khan's plate, and poured wine. The remaining pieces of slightly toasted ones were not thrown away, but put them on their plates.

"Do you think that Boyan will be transferred to the north to quell the chaos, so who will be in command of the two provinces in Jiangbei?" He was very satisfied with Yue Chi Cha'er's courtesy, but the small episode in the middle made the two of them a little embarrassed, and he raised his glass to invite him to drink together to ease the atmosphere before asking again.

"If the Great Khan does not give up, I want to go to the Lianghuai Unified Army to fight against the Southern Dynasty!" Yue Chi Cha'er hesitated, got up and knelt down again.

"You're going to command the troops of the two provinces?" Zhenjin was a little surprised.

"Yes, Great Khan. I have entered the cowardly Xue since I joined the ranks, although I have led the army for many years, I have no inch, and I really can't raise my head among my colleagues! Yue Chi Cha'er said. In fact, this is also a piece of his heart, the Mongols have the most important military merits, and although he is in a high position, he is not as glorious as An Tong, Boyan, Yuxi Timur and others in the family of the lords, but asks to fight.

"Hehe, you personally wear the bow and arrow, guard the palace tent day and night, and protect the peace of the palace, the credit is great, why do you need to go into battle to kill the enemy!" Zhenjin also quickly understood his thoughts, knowing that his ancestors were all fierce generals on the battlefield, and he earned today's merits by relying on a knife and a gun, and as a family of military generals, he also wanted to make military achievements and stabilize his position in the court, but he still comforted......