"What Master Yao said hit the nail on the head." Kublai Khan's young face was full of heroism, and the wind and frost on the grassland made him resolute, and he had a little more calmness that young people rarely had: "Mongolia has many capable people, but most of them are brave and fierce warriors, and there are very few wise and intelligent wise men. ”

Yao Shu looked at him and laughed: "I am very relieved that the prince can think like this, just by virtue of this, the prince is much stronger than many Mongolian nobles." ”

"This is also what Master Yao has taught well." Kublai Khan also laughed and arched his hand towards Yao Shu: "If it weren't for Master Yao's teachings, Kublai Khan would definitely be a vulgar boy now, he only knows how to fight and put horses in a day, where does he know so much." ”

"Learning is endless, Confucian Sinology is broad and profound, I am just a small number, there are countless people who are more knowledgeable than me, when the time is ripe, I will find some Han Confucianism, for the prince to solve doubts, teach knowledge." Yao Shu returned the salute with the etiquette of his subordinates, and said: "I hope that the prince can learn from the past and the present, and once he will be successful, he will be able to dominate Shenzhou in the future." ”

"I borrowed Yao Shiji's words." Kublai Khan picked up the wine glass, touched it with Yao Shu, and slowly took a sip of the wine: "We came here, climbed the mountains and waded through the water, and worked tirelessly, what we did was to plan for the future. ”

"Compared with the country in the west, the Song Kingdom does not know how prosperous it is!" Yao Shu took the cup and took a sip slowly: "My family's ancestral home is Liaodong, and I originally wanted to do something in Jinguo, but by chance, I was recommended by Yang Weizhong, and the Great Khan of Mengwo and Kuotai appreciated, and came to the Great Mongolia, and I was fortunate to meet the prince's favor, so I settled down. When I was young, I traveled to the south many times, and saw the prosperity and prosperity there, it was really a bumper harvest of grains, a splendid flower, a city with a population of millions, a street with thousands of shops, abundant materials, worry-free food and clothing, and the life of ordinary people was better than that of the big families in the bitter cold land of Liaodong. ”

"With such wealth, it's no wonder that the Song State can support the annual tribute to the Xia State and the Jin State." Kublai Khan said from the bottom of his heart.

Yao Shu smiled slightly, and said: "The prince has never been there, the city in the south of the Yangtze River is tall and majestic, more than three zhang long, and you can see it from a distance of more than ten miles." Near the city, the blue brick pavement, walking on it without a sense of bumps, the roadside is fertile for thousands of miles, every autumn harvest season, the green waves ripple, the rice harvest, the grain is piled up in the official warehouse, and it can not be eaten in several lifetimes; In the workshop craftsmen, there are countless spinning machines, and the woven cloth is splendid and beautiful, and it is beautiful and comfortable to wear; The tax department of the government does nothing else, just sit on the side of the road and have business travelers consciously pay taxes, and the copper coins are placed in the treasury, and they are rusty but cannot be spent, which shows the wealth of the southern country. ”

"It's a waste for no one to occupy such a country, to take its wealth and leap into the world, and to be governed by a group of literati." Kublai Khan slapped the table.

"The prince is right, the Song country is rich in the world, but the armament is lax, the generals have no status, I have been in contact with the officialdom of the Song State, a local prefect over there, you can control one side and drink around, there is no dignity. The promotion of military generals is decided by civil officials, imagine the path of civil and military affairs, which civil official will promote a military general to a position more important than civil ministers? Moreover, in terms of positions, the southern country does not rely on the size of military merits, but on whether it is close to the officials, if it is close, even if it is a rice bucket, it can also be a high position; If you don't get close, even if you conquer the world, you don't want to go further. ”

Yao Shu lifted the wine jug and filled the wine glass for Kublai Khan: "The officialdom is rotten, and the country is lifeless; If a military general has no status, the army has no combat effectiveness. Therefore, no matter how rich the country is, no matter how rich the people are, but they do not attach importance to armaments, it is like walking at night in brocade clothes, attracting robbers to peep! ”

"What Master Yao said, everything is reasonable!" Kublai Khan nodded: "After the Great Khan succeeded to the throne, he followed the will of Taizu Genghis Khan, and focused on the western expedition, and paid less attention to the south, in fact, for my great Mongolia, the country of the west, none of them is as important as the south, as long as the south is pacified, and its money and population are enough to strengthen my Mongolia a hundred times, and then the time comes, and then the leaping horse to the west, to the east, to the south and to the north, it is a matter of course, go up the mountain into the sea, conquer the universe, and get it at your fingertips!" ”

"The world is big, but the prince has a big heart." Yao Shu complimented: "Everything comes first, if you can do it step by step, you can get twice the result with half the effort!" ”

"Hahaha, Master Yao has won the award, if there is no guidance from Master Yao, I can't think of a strategy to use Dali to bypass the Song defense line and attack Jiangnan in a roundabout way." Kublai Khan said: "Master Yao is my Kublai Khan's good teacher." ”

"This method is just a copy of following Genghis Khan's false path to the Song Kingdom to destroy the Jin Kingdom, and Yao does not dare to take credit." Yao Shu hurriedly said: "This can bypass the heavily fortified Jianghuai and Bashu defense lines of the Song State and attack their weak underbelly; Second, it is possible to encircle the Song State from the overall situation, encircle it from the north, northwest, and southwest directions, and start a war on three sides, so that the Song State is exhausted. However, in order to implement this strategy, it must be approved by the Great Khan of Ögedei. ”

"The Great Khan's eyes are staring at the west, and for a while, he probably won't have the idea of attacking Song with all his might." Kublai Khan thought for a while and said, "The eldest son's expedition to the west is a major event, and the south will have to wait for a while before he has time to pay attention to it." ”

"It doesn't matter, the Song Kingdom in the south of the Yangtze River is all there, it doesn't hurt to be early or late." Yao Shu said: "The prince doesn't have to be anxious. We have planned ahead and are ready, and this part of the credit will be exclusive to the prince. ”

Kublai Khan looked at him and smiled, and he felt that although he was lying in the hidden mansion at the moment, he thought that when the Mongols invaded the Song Kingdom in the future, there would definitely be a chance for Kublai Khan to show his strength, and his frustrated heart was somewhat excited.

Kublai Khan is the son of Tuo Lei, and Tuo Lei is the most powerful of the sons of Temujin, the most powerful one, the position of the Great Khan, should be inherited by him, but Temujin likes the third son Wo Kotai, when he was dying, he gathered everyone and designated Wo Kotai to succeed him, Tuo Lei watched the emperor fall, and died of inexplicable illness in the war with the Jin State, since then the Tuo Lei family was squeezed out of the core of Mongolian power, and his sons, Meng Ge, Kublai Khan, Ali Buge and others were suspicious of Wo Kotai, and had been supported by idleness, I can't touch the military power, and I live a very aggrieved life.

But Kublai Khan was not convinced, and always wanted to do something to come out and let Wokotai see, he was capable, so he had this trip to Dali under Yao Shu's suggestion, the purpose was to explore the way to Dali in the future.

Having said this, Kublai Khan remembered something again, and asked Yao Shu in a low voice with a mysterious expression: "By the way, Master Yao, I heard that when Shimen Fan attacked the Dragon Shouguan, he used the ghost pawn Yin soldiers, can this thing be done really?" ”

(End of chapter)