"Right Minister, the Southern Korean naval army has reached the sea outside the mouth of the Yellow River and blocked the waterway in and out, so that the Goryeo naval army cannot enter the Huai River." The Mongolian army, Shandong and Hebei, the Mongolian army, all Wanhu Baershu, hurriedly broke into the back hall of the Shuaifu and told Boyan.

"Oh, although the naval army of the Southern Dynasty and our dynasty have not reached an agreement, they also do not interfere with the river water, and the ordinary warships are no more than the mouth of the Yangtze River, why is this?" Bo Yan, who was sitting at the desk to deal with official business, raised his head and said in surprise.

Boyan was ordered to negotiate peace with the Southern Dynasty last year, and sighed that there was no result for a year, and he knew that it was not that the Southern Dynasty was not sincere, but that his own price was too high. But it also bought time for Zhenjin to stabilize the government, and now the Hou Party has been completely defeated, the Empress Dowager Chabi has been claustrophobic in the harem, and Sang Geye has been stripped of most of his power, and he is basically idle at home.

But now the economic crisis of the imperial court is getting more and more serious, and the loss of Jiangnan is equivalent to losing the money bag, the first emperor Kublai Khan is a famous big spender, and real gold in order to win people's hearts, naturally have to take out real money and silver to reward lavishly. The war in the northwest has not been extinguished, and countless money and food have been consumed, but the imperial court has only maintained the status quo by all means, and it is unable to help the west, and the rewards for the kings over the years have to be reduced, which has caused the dissatisfaction of the kings.

The way to solve the financial crisis is to increase taxes and recapture Jiangnan. However, the Hanchens, who were growing in power in the court, thought that the taxes were already very heavy, and if they were to levy them, they would cause the people's resentment to boil, and under their constant persuasion, the real gold that was bent on adopting the Han method was shaken. The only way left was to recapture Jiangnan, so Hu Boyan presided over the attack on Jiangnan for the second time.

According to the system, the imperial court has a Privy Council and a Privy Council, the basic principle of which is "in case of police, the Privy Council will be placed, and the matter will be abolished, and the capital will be moved to the province of Fusi". The so-called police mainly refers to military affairs. No matter where in the country, whenever there is a war, the Privy Council is mostly set up in the local area, and the Privy Council is also set up because of the "military prosperity", but it is mainly distributed in the hinterland area and Lingbei Province. These areas were already heavily garrisoned, and the Privy Council was established to further strengthen military control over the area.

However, with the return of the Southern Dynasties to Jiangnan, the strategic focus shifted to the Jiangbei Province of Henan, and Boyan served as the right minister and the provincial privy envoy to fully preside over the war. Geographically, Henan and Jiangbei provinces basically confronted the northern part of the Song Dynasty across the river, and after he was instructed, he began to plan, while holding down the Song army with peace negotiations and making it relax its vigilance, while rebuilding the naval army with heavy losses.

At the same time as the loss of Jiangnan, the shipbuilding capacity of the Mengyuan was greatly weakened, so Boyan asked the edict to build 500 warships from Goryeo, and at the same time recruited those who were good at water in Shandong and Hebei to train the navy, which was not only convenient for secrecy, but also prevented from being detected by the Southern Dynasties, and could achieve the effect of surprise attacks. And he also moved the two provincial capitals to the south, Wanhu Mansion, not only to prepare for war, but also to prevent the Song army from crossing the river.

In Boyan's view, the Yangtze River defense line of the Great Song Dynasty is now like a long snake. Therefore, he planned to assemble in Yangzhou through the canal by the newly formed naval army and the Huihui naval army to take the lead in crossing the south and directly take Lin'an in the Southern Dynasty; At the same time, Wanhu Mansion, the capital of Huaibei, Henan, went south from Xiangfan and attacked Ezhou. Later, the forces of the two Wanhu Mansions were concentrated to launch an attack in Jiangzhou, just like cracking the long snake formation, holding down the head and tail, so that their heads and tails could not care about each other, and then blocking the waist and cutting off, breaking the entire large array.

"Prime Minister of the Goryeo, the Goryeo Navy is short of food and salary, and they have grabbed a merchant ship along the way, and they are encountering the Southern Korean Navy Army!" Ba'er Shu replied.

"Bastard, they robbed a merchant ship, will the Song army send warships to chase after them?" Boyan was furious when he heard this, and patted the case.

"Right Minister, these Koreans are poor and crazy, they just entered the sea and they were clamoring for food and wages, it turns out that they came empty-shipped, and they didn't carry baggage!" Ba'er Shu said with a playful smile.

"This is already known, isn't it already replenished in Mingzhou, how can you still provoke the merchant ships of the Southern Dynasty!" Boyan frowned. At that time, the Goryeo Navy asked to dock at the port of Myeongju to replenish fresh water, and he felt that there was nothing wrong with it, so he agreed. Unexpectedly, after landing, the Goryeo navy refused to leave again due to lack of food, and stayed in Mingzhou. At this time, it was the time to employ people, and he could only ask the Wanhu Mansion in Shandong and Hebei to replenish them with food on the spot, so he went on the road after being stranded for more than ten days.

"I think the Koreans are insatiable, and their mouths are slippery, so they go to rob merchant ships again!" Ba'er Shu pouted.

"Did you withhold the wages and pay and not make up for the shortage?" Boyan found that a trace of panic flashed in Ba'ershu's eyes, and he was immediately captured, and he asked sharply.

"Right Phase...... The right minister also knows that since the Southern Dynasty captured Jiangnan, all the armies relied on Tuntian to supplement the shortage, and the imperial court did not have a grain of grain to allocate it, and the life of each 10,000 households was also very difficult! Seeing that his little tricks were broken by the right minister, Ba'er Shu explained embarrassedly.

"At this time, the use of troops is to overcome Jiangnan and solve the shortage of food and salary. The Goryeo navy came across the sea, isn't it precisely for this, if there is no them, how can they cross the river! Boyan listened to his explanation, and his anger decreased, but he still reprimanded. That said, but he couldn't solve it right now.

The current dilemma is actually related to the current military system, and Boyan also participated in the design, so he naturally knows the pros and cons. At the beginning of the Mongolian army, the whole people were soldiers, and they were soldiers on their horses and people when they dismounted. The men went out to the army, and their families and child servants were engaged in production in the rear or with the army, and operated herds and other industries to supply the front. After the Jin and Song dynasties were destroyed, after the remaining Tanma Red Army had a fixed station, their families successively moved from the grassland pastoral areas to the Central Plains agricultural areas, and gradually separated from the Mongolian headquarters, forming a military household system.

Compared with the conscription system, the implementation of the military household system makes it difficult for soldiers to flee, which can ensure that the Yuan Dynasty army has a stable source of soldiers; At the same time, since a large part of military spending is provided by military households, it is possible for the government to maintain a large army without being overburdened. In addition to the implementation of the military household system, in some areas there is also a recruitment of soldiers, recruiting some dead soldiers who are willing to join the army, and most of these people are organized into artillery armies, crossbow armies, sailor armies, and artisan armies.

Unlike the Han army and the new annexed army, the Tanmachi military household was self-prepared; The soldiers of the Han army were given winter and summer clothes by the government, equipped with weapons, and each person was given five buckets of rice and one pound of salt per month; The equipment of the new sergeants was all provided by the government, and each person was given six buckets of rice and one pound of salt per month, and his family was given four buckets of rice and one pound of salt. The deficiencies of the Han sergeant's clothing, as well as other equipment and expenses, were borne by the military households.

There are generally several ways: or the military household directly sends the required expenses to the army, which is called sealing money, also called packaging money; or the army to which the army is located shall pay the military expenses in advance, and the officials shall be repaid by the Oulu; or before the Orune convergence of the number of sufficient, the solution of the book of the province of acceptance, by the capital, the number of provincial advisories, in the province to see in the money in the scattered military use; What is more common is that 10,000 households and 1,000 households will send people to Oulu, where the sergeant is located, and cooperate with the 1,000 households and 100 households sent to collect from the regular and poster military households.

However, the annual expenses of the soldiers on the expedition are considerable. The annual cost of a soldier is equivalent to a thousand or a thousand yuan, which is equivalent to the value of fifty to one hundred stone meters. Bearing such expenses is difficult for many military households. Due to the heavy burden on military households, and the exploitation and oppression of non-commissioned officers by military officers was very cruel, military households became worse and the officers became richer. Poor military families are still forced to go out of the army, serving and working hard for a long time, those who are close are six or seven thousand miles, and those who are far away are thousands of miles away. For this reason, many military households often have to pawn their land, and some even become beggars.

"Right Minister, that's true, but you also have to be considerate of the young general's distress!" Ba'er Shupi said with a smile on his face.

"In the past, whenever I went to war, I could still have some rewards and some looting. But after pacifying the Southern Dynasty, the imperial court ordered all armies to pacify one side and implement military tuns, and the subordinate armies worked hard to reclaim wasteland, and just raised the land and had some harvests. However, the imperial court wanted to increase taxes and collect all the surplus grain, but at the time of spring ploughing, the fields were not cultivated, and the output must be reduced. But they still have to prepare their own food, clothing, and weapons, and pay taxes after the autumn, and I am afraid that the rest will not survive the winter. There are still tens of thousands of mouths waiting to eat under the young general, how can you deal with it if you don't make some plans early! ”

"The prime minister will ask the court for tax exemption, and you only need to win this battle, the grain in the south of the Yangtze River, countless gold and silver are all in the bag, and you are worried about the winter, and you can't eat!" Boyan could only draw a cake for them first, and now he reached out everywhere to ask for money, and the court was about to be unable to open the pot, so what to subsidize them. But he also knows that what he said is true, and if he wins this battle, everything is easy to say; But if it is defeated, although there is less to eat, but the two main tax places on Huaixi and Huaidong are also not collected, then the famine is just around the corner.

He was well aware of the current situation, and in the guards with military cantonments, the soldiers were divided into two parts, the regular army and the cantonment army, which were organized and managed separately. The land was mainly vacant land that had been abandoned by the war, and was given cattle, farm tools, and seeds by the imperial court, or money for the construction of tuntian. However, the land of the military cantonment was still owned by the state, and the cantonment army had to pay grain as rent and tax according to the regulations.

The regular army is engaged in drills and is responsible for defense; The tunjun specialized in farming and providing food for the army. Some of the soldiers in Tuntian settled on the spot, or the whole household entered the tuntian; Some are single and rotate regularly. The ratio of the tun army to the regular army is generally per 10,000 people, and there are 2,000 tuntian troops in it, and later on, the tuntian army even accounts for half, and the local governments of 10,000 households also allocate a part of the military tuntian, and set up a thousand households to manage, or set up a tun to be managed by 100 households, in order to obtain more income.

The large-scale military cantonments throughout the country have played a positive role in restoring and developing agricultural production, especially in the development of border areas, and in solving the problem of supplying a huge army. However, because the military officials brutally oppressed and exploited the cantonment army in order to collect money from it, and this phenomenon became more and more serious, so that the oppressed conscripts and military families were often forced to flee, and some became monks to avoid military service.

Boyan naturally also knew that there were thousands of households like Ba'ershu, and they had already regarded these garrisons and land as their own private property, and they made huge profits from them every year. Now they are reluctant to let them give up the meat in their mouths, and asking them to replenish the Goryeo army by themselves is like taking food from the mouth of a tiger and cutting the meat on their bodies, naturally they can give less if they can, and if they can't give it, they won't give it. But the imperial court was reluctant to pay money, and gave some waste paper-like treasure money, so that he could not speak straight, and did not dare to reprimand more, so as not to provoke a mutiny.

Now that the Goryeo navy could not get supplies, they went to find a way on their own, relying on their own advantages, plundering merchant ships, and relying on their ability to be self-sufficient. If it was a weekday, it would be fine, but what annoyed Boyan was that they couldn't tell the difference. According to his plan, after these Goryeo naval forces arrived in Mingzhou, they would carry the newly trained 50,000 naval troops into the mouth of the Huai River, and then join the Hui naval army and go south along the canal to capture Zhenjiang, and then continue south along the canal, drive directly to Hangzhou, and seize Jiangdong.

But now the Goryeo navy is blocked in the sea, not to mention, even the sailors on board are drifting on the sea. But thinking about it the other way, the Koreans were also forced to be helpless. Only two expeditions to the east of Japan not only caused Goryeo to build thousands of warships and prepare food and wages, but also requisitioned a large number of troops to accompany the expedition, which has greatly damaged its national strength and boiled public resentment. This time, the requisition was carried out again, and Goryeo, which was already exhausted, could no longer raise food and wages, so they were allowed to come empty.

"Can you discuss with the naval forces of the South Korea and let them withdraw as soon as possible?" At this time, the deputy capital Wanhu Bald Ge interjected.

"How to discuss, they have come all the way, how can they easily retreat!" Ba'er Shu glanced at his deputy and said.

"General, didn't the Southern Army ask us to hand over the looted property and the pirates who killed people and goods, and they would retreat? Just take those Koreans to blame! Bald said with a smile.

"It's not that easy, they came under the banner of escorting merchant ships, even if we want to hand over the Koreans, but they are still at sea, should they turn themselves in? Besides, why they blocked the estuary, that is, they already regarded us as accomplices, whether to let you take the blame, or let Ben Shuai sacrifice his head! Ba'er Shu nodded at his words, and almost scolded him for being brainless.

"It's late, the Southern Korean naval army may have really come to escort merchant ships and exterminate the pirates at first, but when they found that so many warships were heading south and carrying so many soldiers, they already decided that they were preparing to go south to capture Jiangnan, and they were not willing to let them go." Boyan sighed.

"Right Minister, then the only way to return to the water army is to respond, fight a decisive battle with the enemy at sea, destroy it, and there will be less resistance when crossing the river." Ba'er said.

"Hehe, I'm afraid that we are not the opponent of the Southern Korean Navy at all, even if we send reinforcements, I am afraid that there will be no return!" Boyan said with a wry smile.

"Hey, the right prime minister, the two are both handsome, and there is an urgent report, saying that the southern army has crossed the river from many places to invade Jiangbei!" At this time, another soldier came in and said......