Zhao Hao's gaze retracted from the map and sighed, and returned his attention to the official document of the case, he took the top scroll and flipped through it, this is a summary of recent information sent by the Bureau, and the title page is a picture, with a portrait of the enemy chief Kublai Khan Xiangxing for eight years. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 info He picked it up and looked at it carefully, but frowned, feeling that it had changed a lot.

"Sister Su, go and bring the portrait in the first compartment!" Zhao Yu looked at the portrait and said without raising his head.

"Official!" Su Lan quickly found the scroll on the pavilion shelf and presented it to the little emperor.

"Hmm!" Zhao Yu nodded, laid out the portraits in the scroll on the bookcase, and put the newly received ones at the end and said, "Sister Su, what is the difference between these portraits?" ”

"Official, the slave thinks he's sick!" Su Lan sat down next to the little emperor, looked at them one by one and said, "Official, you see that this one is from eight years ago, this person is of medium stature, not tall or short, his limbs are well-proportioned, and he is very strong. Although he gained some weight in the next few years, he was still normal, but since three years ago, he seems to have aged very quickly, and his body is getting fatter and fatter, and his spirit seems to be very sluggish. But in the last one, he suddenly lost weight again, his beard was completely gone, his eyes were dull, obviously he was seriously ill, and he seemed to be ......"

"It seems that his life is not long in coming!" Zhao Yu saw that he wanted to speak and stopped, and chuckled.

The picture of "Official, Slave and Maid ......" is very exquisite, it can be said that the eyebrows are full of eyebrows, but looking at his outfit and hairstyle, he is a Mongolian, but Su Lan doesn't know who this person is, so he doesn't dare to comment on it.

"This thief is the enemy chief Kublai Khan!" Zhao Yu pointed to the portrait on the bookcase and said with a smile. In ancient China, the emperor was not visible to everyone, and his appearance was also kept secret, and it was a great crime of disrespect to talk about the dragon's face. Even the portrait is shelved, unlike the monarchs of the West, who are afraid that others will not know what they look like, and they have to make statues of their own figures, and their heads are printed on coins, so few people know whether the Chinese emperors are ugly or handsome.

"Oh, why is that?" Su Lan didn't expect the truth to be like this, and said in surprise.

"It's not easy to be an emperor, he died of his wife, and he lost battles in a row, so he was naturally in a bad mood, and he had bad habits, so his body naturally collapsed!" Zhao Hao sighed and said.

"Official, but the changes in the past two years seem to be too fast......" Su Lan listened and looked at the portraits on the case and said incomprehensibly, but she suddenly thought that the little emperor had collected so many portraits of enemy chieftains, and his usual behavior made people suspect that he had done something from it.

"Hehe, if you do too many bad things, you will be punished!" Zhao Yu rolled his eyes and said with a smile.

He knew that Kublai Khan's life had been very difficult for the past two years, and that the death of his most beloved wife, Chabi, had plunged Kublai Khan into loneliness and pain. Chabi's son, Jinjin, has long been made the crown prince. Chabi was also the only woman among Kublai Khan's wives who had a tablet in the temple. At the beginning of Kublai Khan's reign, Chabi was an indispensable assistant. It may be a pure coincidence, but it is undeniable that after her death, Kublai Khan suffered a series of drastic changes for himself and for the whole of China.

Chabi may not have been able to prevent these catastrophes, but she may have been able to exert her influence to curb some of Kublai Khan's bizarre decisions at the time. Personal misfortune coupled with the failure of domestic and foreign decision-making made Kublai Khan feel heavy pressure, and also made him turn more and more to the extreme desire for luxury, seeking comfort and satisfaction, and the court banquets became more and more luxurious, and the banquet dishes were mainly meat-based Mongolian cuisine, which was naturally more refined.

In order to make Kublai Khan feel comfortable, the daily meals were also elaborate and quite extravagant. Boiled lamb and roasted whole lamb are two must-try dishes, along with other fatty foods as a complement to the meat. A typical meal may include roast lamb, eggs, saffron lettuce, pancakes, sugar tea, mare's milk wine, and a beer made from millet.

Mongolians never cared about overeating, especially in formal settings, so overeating became a habit rather than the exception. The Mongol Khan had always been an alcoholic, and Kublai Khan also developed this vice, drinking myths and wine. Modern people know such eating habits, in addition to obesity, there are also complications such as 'three highs' and gout, and it is also the same within two years, Kublai Khan is no longer fat, and began to suffer from gout and other diseases.

Naturally, there was no shortage of famous doctors around the emperor, from Southeast Asian medicines and doctors to Goryeo shamans, who used all kinds of methods to treat his illness, but everything was used, but none of them solved the problem, and Kublai Khan's habit of overeating and drinking remained the same. However, last year, strangely enough, his beard and hair began to fall out, and this year he has lost weight. This abnormal thing puzzled everyone, but Zhao Hao wondered why he hadn't died......

As early as when the situation eased, but in fact, Zhao Yu knew very well that there was still a big gap if he wanted to restore the country. History has proved that confrontation with nomads is the fate of the farming peoples of the mainland. In terms of strength, of course, nomads are inferior to farming peoples, but if you want to talk about fighting, it is not necessarily. Nomads live in no fixed place, live in pursuit of water and grass, have extremely high mobility, and the difference between carnivorous and herbivorous people, physical strength and flexibility are slightly better than those of agricultural people. As long as they have the right weapons, nomads have a natural advantage when it comes to fighting.

Jiang Baili, a modern military strategist, once said that 'all nations with the same tools of life and war have an advantage in war', and this conclusion was obtained from the nomads. Therefore, the peasants can only rely on the superiority of manpower and material resources to passively defend against the nomads, so as to barely obtain the balance of confrontation. In the pre-Qin period, the advantage of the peasants in weapons was relatively obvious, and once this advantage weakened, they had to build the Great Wall. In addition to the Great Wall, there are various walls and walled walls to resist the invasion of mobile and nimble nomads.

During the Western Han Dynasty, the confrontation between the Huns and the Han people, the Han people still had a little advantage in weapons, but in terms of horses, they were much worse. Basically, we can only rely on building the Great Wall, building border strongholds, strengthening the troops of border counties, and cooperating with a little diplomatic means to defend against the Xiongnu. Fortunately, even in the era of the Xiongnu's most powerful Maodundan, most of the invasions occurred when there was a disaster in the grasslands, and they had to rely on looting agricultural areas to make a living. And they did not have the ambition to invade the Central Plains on a large scale and replace the Han at that time.

However, farmers have poor mobility, and if they want to take the initiative, they will be eaten by people if they are small; The scale is large, move once, and the momentum is huge. The soldiers and horses did not move the grain and grass first, and the logistics supply alone cost a huge amount, and the 100,000 cavalry moved, and the horses carrying the grain and grass behind would definitely exceed 100,000. With such an operation, it is really hard to say whether it can catch the enemy, and it is actually a good strategy to pursue the main force of the Huns all over the world. The feasible strategy is to take the initiative to attack, strike at its helpers, turn the enemy into a friend, and narrow the enemy's range of activities.

And now that the Xing Dynasty can survive under the iron hooves of the nomads, it is still necessary to ask for this strait, and now Zhao Yu understands that in addition to his slight advantage in weapons, there is a huge gap between the population and resources and Meng Yuan. At present, although there are several base areas, they are all chosen in mountainous areas and places with dense water networks, so as to weaken the enemy's advantage. Similarly, these places are not rich in products and lack of resources, so they can only barely support them, and their development still needs subsidies from the DPRK.

Therefore, it is very difficult to cross the strait and return to the mainland in the face of a weak cavalry army, and Zhao Yu is now vigorously reorganizing the new army and replacing it with firearms, and is also thinking about how to capture and eat the enemy army from a strategic and tactical point of view. And he felt that these were not enough, and he could use some shady tricks appropriately, such as killing Kublai Khan......

Zhao Hao didn't like personality cults in the past, and he didn't like others to worship him. But when he became emperor, he found that leaders are indispensable, and looking at the history of Chinese civilization for thousands of years, the history of China is the history of leaders. That is, purely heroic history. When we say that the people create history, we are actually saying that the representatives of the people, the heroes, create history.

Throughout history, heroes and heroes are easy to emerge on the world stage, and there have been as many heroes and heroes as stars in the sky on the vast land of China, but there are actually very few leaders who can be called leaders who really influence the course of history. Each leader embodies his national ideals and dreams, making a large number of people willing to follow his leadership. And the merits and achievements of great leaders have brought benefits to future generations far beyond their achievements themselves. On the battlefield, these leaders can inspire their armies to overcome their fears and accomplish the impossible.

In a civilized society, these figures are able to condense a variety of different goals and opinions into a powerful, unified focus. The game between nations is, first and foremost, a game of wisdom, strategy and courage, talent and ability between the leaders of these countries and their teams, who determine the fate of the country and the nation, and if successful, can propel their societies to continue to advance towards the bright vision they desire.

History has repeatedly proved that the role of the leader is irreplaceable, Liu Bei in the Three Kingdoms period because of a leader like Zhuge Liang, to achieve the goal of "one of the three parts of the world", and it is precisely because Zhuge Liang died of premature illness in Wuzhangyuan, so that Shu lost the opportunity for unification. Temujin relied on his ability to gather a plate of scattered Mongols around him, leading them to conquer the world, sweeping half the world. Zhao Yu believed that Temujin would live another 50 years, and perhaps the world would have been the same.

And Kublai Khan was not simple, he completed the unification of China and brought the Mongols to the peak of glory. At the moment, he was like a needle of the sea god, and no one dared to challenge his authority and influence his decision. As long as he lives, Meng Yuan will not have a fatal civil strife, and he can maintain the efficient operation of the state apparatus and mobilize all forces to eliminate opposition. Therefore, Zhao Hao felt that Kublai Khan was his biggest enemy at present, and only by killing him could people feel at ease.

With this thought, Zhao Yu began to think about how to get rid of Kublai Khan, and he also thought of many ways to do so. He thought about sending a team of elites to assassinate him, but after some reconnaissance, he gave up, Kublai Khan lived in the deep palace in most of the capital, and the imperial city and the palace city were heavily defended, and there were personal guards to follow. Even if you go to Shangdu, although you change your tent, the big tent can be built into a tent city for dozens of miles, not to mention finding it, it is difficult to ensure that you don't get lost. And it is not easy to attack in the middle of the way, it is not himself, he uses 2,000 people to think that the scene is very big, but he goes out with tens of thousands of troops.

The hard one doesn't work, Zhao Yu wants to come to the soft one. He bribed the palace maids and chamberlains of the Inner Court of Mengyuan and poisoned Kublai Khan's food, but this plan did not succeed, thinking that he was very arrogant, eating and drinking water were not tasted by his cronies, and he was not allowed to eat, let alone Kublai Khan. So although he poisoned a few miscellaneous people, he failed to enter Kublai Khan's stomach and took a few of his own lives.

If a plan fails, Zhao Yu believes that everyone has weaknesses, and as long as they catch it, they can be put to death. So he ordered the assassination operation to be suspended, and instead asked people to collect information about Kublai Khan's personal hobbies, lifestyle habits, and physical condition, and at the same time think of other methods. He even pondered whether to take advantage of his lustful problem and implement the beauty scheme.

However, Zhao Yu also gave up after learning about the method of selecting a concubine for the Mongol Great Khan. In addition to the four empresses, Kublai Khan had many concubines, all of whom were chosen from a place called Ongut. The inhabitants of Ongut are known for their beautiful faces and fair complexion. Every two years or less the Great Khan sends people there, according to certain criteria, to select one hundred or more of the most beautiful young women. When they entered the palace, another group was appointed to inspect again, and about thirty or forty of them were selected to remain in his bedroom.

The selected concubines were taken care of by a number of older ladies whose main task was to determine whether they had hidden defects at night, whether they were quiet after sleep without snoring, and whether there were any bad smells all over their bodies. After such a rigorous examination, they were divided into five groups, each of which served for three days and nights in the inner chamber of the Great Khan, and did whatever he wanted them to do, and he did to control them as he wanted them.

At the end of their term, they are replaced by another group, and so on until all of them are finished, and then they serve from the first group of five. And while one group served in the inner room, the other group lived in the adjacent outer room. If the Great Khan needs a group of the inner chambers, he can send a group of the outer chambers to handle it, so that he can get what he needs.

What made Zhao even more frustrated was that the daughter of the inhabitants of Ongut was forced to marry by the Great Khan in this way, and not only did they not feel angry, but they would think that this was a favor and glory given to them by the Great Khan. All fathers who had beautiful daughters were very happy to see the Great Khan choose their daughters. They thought that their choice of the Great Khan as a concubine would be their best fate. If, on the other hand, a daughter behaves inappropriately or suffers misfortune and is not elected, the father blames her for the anger of her stars. It would be almost impossible to insert a female assassin in such a situation......