"Forge an alliance!"

"Alliance? He is also a minister of His Royal Highness the Son of Heaven of the Great Song Dynasty, why do we need to form an alliance, it is originally a family! ”

Zhao Tianyou looked at Du Hu, and it was best for him to tell the truth.

Du Hu followed and said: "Lord Wang, General Zhao is not an official of the imperial court, this team was created by General Zhao himself, and it has nothing to do with the imperial court, and all the military salaries, grains and grass are raised by ourselves!" ”

"Ahh Could it be ......" Wang Daofu couldn't react for a while, looking left and right, the two people in front of him didn't look like the rebels who rose up.

Zhao Tianyou said: "No surprise, Lord Wang, I am not an official or a bandit, strictly speaking, I am just an ordinary person!" But our goal is the same, to resist the Yuan soldiers and protect the country of the Great Song Dynasty, I have a handwritten letter from Lord Wen here, please look at it. ”

As he spoke, he took out an envelope, which was written by Wen Tianxiang himself, in addition to catching up with Wang Daofu, it was to guarantee Zhao Tianyou, so that Wang Daofu could believe in Zhao Tianyou unconditionally.

Who is Wen Tianxiang? In the Great Song Dynasty, it can be said that anyone can not believe it, but Wen Tianxiang can not believe in him, he is loyal to the court, benevolent to the people, and magnanimous to his subordinates, and is a model of the Song Dynasty.

One of his letters of recommendation said that it is not difficult to find a state official of five or six grades, and he will be respected by his colleagues, and his career will be smooth and bright from then on, this is Wen Tianxiang's ability. But then again, how many people in the world can admire Wen Tianxiang who are willing to write a letter to guarantee him in person?

After Wang Daofu read the letter, he looked excited, stepped forward and grabbed Zhao Tianyou's hand and said: "General Zhao, you just say how to form an alliance, Wang will definitely cooperate, and Master Zhang will also have me to fight for it." Another day, a banquet will be held in Guangzhou City to entertain General Zhao, and it will be okay to meet with Lord Zhang and Ling Du and others? ”

"It's all up to Lord Wang's arrangement!"

Three days later, Zhang Zhensun personally held a feast in the palace to celebrate the concerted efforts of the Yuan soldiers to capture the city of Guangzhou, and thanked the squires and generals who had contributed to it. The main people present were the local tyrants and squires in Guangzhou, as well as the owners of commercial houses doing business near Guangzhou, and Zhao Tianyou and others were mixed in and entered a private room quietly.

With little effort, Zhang Zhensun held Zhao Tianyou in his hand and introduced Zhao Tianyou to the local squire and local tyrants with a smile on his face. This banquet later became a business exchange meeting, and several businesses engaged in metal ore business received Zhao Tianyou's order on the spot and delivered it to the Dapuhai Pier on Hong Kong Island, with the quantity not limited to the market price plus 30%.

Although the historical position of Guangzhou Port is important, after years of relocation, ninety percent of the import and export trade activities have been transferred to Quanzhou on the southeast coast, and the scale of business in Guangzhou is gradually declining. This is all the Pu family of Pu Shougeng, and the gathering effect of the big food merchants who live together to do business, they gather in Quanzhou, and the business is brought over to become bigger, and the status of the Pu family has also improved accordingly.

With the endorsement of Zhang Zhensun, a local official, some things that the government prohibits trading, as long as Zhao Tianyou has a demand, he can quickly get them. The silver in Zhao Tianyou's hand flowed out like flowing water, and the quartermaster in charge of the accounts had red eyes, which was not even a month, and a boatload of silver was about to run out.

"Fighting a war requires a lot of money, and the Lin'an treasury fell into the hands of the Yuan soldiers, which is really distressing, if you give us a point, the scale of this iron factory can be ten times larger." Zhao Tianyou glanced at the old Feng Tou beside him, the old man's mouth had been happy for a few days, and his speech began to leak a little.

"The old Feng family has been striking iron for several lifetimes, if it weren't for Zhao Jiaotou's on-demand, Xiao Lao'er would never have thought of these new methods in his life, even if he died here immediately, I would be content!"

The construction of Dapuhai is proceeding in an orderly manner, and the first iron plant has begun small-scale production, but in order to minimize environmental damage, all that has been delivered to the island is semi-finished pig iron and wrought iron. After scientifically adjusting the crucible process, the mature steel filling method has improved the efficiency and output to produce steel in the real sense, and today is the moment when the first furnace billet is launched.

Without the use of a forging method in which repeated heat and hammering can remove impurities, it only takes two skilled apprentices to create a high-quality sword, and the increase in efficiency is nothing short of a world of difference. Under the substantial improvement of the basic index of steel, the Miao knife that is directly formed and quenched by the three-fold method can be broken without damage to the edge of three ordinary sabers under the full force of chopping. For most soldiers, this is already the standard of peerless treasure knives, but here just two apprentices can make one in three hours, and it will be everyone's standard preparation in the future.

Being able to wear a sharp knife is the luxury of every soldier, and when fighting to the death on the battlefield, a good knife is an extra life for yourself, and it is the biggest key factor between life and death. However, this two-handed long-handled battlefield weapon is not something that all soldiers can use, and the five-foot-long Miao knife requires the cooperation of height and strength to exert its maximum power.

One of the basic conditions for the alliance with Zhang Zhensun is to provide him with high-quality single knives at cost price, and the quality standard is to cut against Mongolian scimitars.

Zhang Zhensun had already fought against the Yuan soldiers several times, and he was very aware of the military shortcomings of the Song soldiers, and the lack of quality of horses and individual weapons was his biggest headache. The barrel of the long spear of the Song army was made of wood, and the single knife was made of ordinary steel-filled method, and in the confrontation with the Mongolian scimitar on the horse, it was often at a disadvantage, and the single knife of the gun was often cut off by the scimitar.

Therefore, Zhao Tianyou's conditions for providing high-quality weapons immediately impressed him, and then he was responsible for transforming the city-guarding crossbow, equipped with a long-distance killing weapon thunderbolt, Zhang Zhensun almost recognized Zhao Tianyou as his eldest brother.

And Zhao Tianyou needed the relationship between the business and the conditions for recruiting apprentices and soldiers he agreed without thinking, and Hong Kong Island was directly assigned to Zhao Tianyou as a base, and in the future, the pearl diving industry in Dapuhai was also managed by Zhao Tianyou, and the silver of the income was directly offset as the money for the purchase of ordnance.

At this time, the war in Quanzhou had some twists and turns, Zhang Shijie could not attack Quanzhou for a long time after besieging Quanzhou, and once planned to set up a naval base on Ludao, where Feng Yuanshan was stationed, and establish a temporary capital in Xiamen. The main reason is that the port status of Quanzhou is reluctant, and the Pu family in the city has piled up mountains of silver, which is the foundation of the country. Lin'an's treasury is abundant, but when he fled, he was too hasty, and there was no way to take more, and if he missed Quanzhou, he would have to live a hard life in Guangdong.

What he didn't expect was that Zhu Qing had already vacated his hand from Lin'an, and the 100,000 army had already gathered in Wenzhou Port, ready to sail south at any time.