Zhang's promise was not to disguise his self-confidence of seven or eight, he was constantly expanding his logistics forces------ all in order to usher in the great battle in the spring of 1277.

He had planned to complete a joint attack on the Tatar bandits with the Great Song League in 1277 in an effort to eliminate them.

However, the various troubles of the old dog of Da Song Jia ruined this reasonable and perfect plan, and now, he has to revise the plan------ which can only be postponed for two years.

However, this is an era when military operations are measured in months, and two years is not a complete failure.

As a result, he had to make major adjustments.

As mentioned earlier, after the victory of the second anti-Tatar bandit siege, he resolutely did not let the captain of the Bao Wei brigade in Shandong send troops to pursue, never shed the blood of his own soldiers, asked them to build more fortresses, add more barbed wire, and easily do not send troops to meet ------ third war is the most important war!

He had to fight a battle that would inflict heavy losses on the Tatar bandits, and perhaps only then could he be completely drawn into the battlefield by the Great Song Dynasty!!

Therefore, he attaches great importance to the logistics of this military operation.

In fact, at the same time, he also used other means.

He had seen Jacob's article in the Italian city of Antona, in which Jacob complained in the Liuqiu Times that the Mamluk Empire in Egypt always increased transit taxes, and asked the owner of Zhang Island to take countermeasures.

Zhang ignored his request.

The reason for this is very simple, it is precisely because of some arrangements of the island lord Zhang that the Mamluk Empire constantly increased transit taxes.

Privately, the owner of the island continued to export arquebuses and cannons and a sufficient amount of black powder, which were all very expensive!

The only thing the Mamluk Empire could provide for itself was lead and lead cannonballs.

The usefulness of these arquebuses and artillery on the battlefield was so useful that the old man who was close to old time saw it once and decided to buy it.

This Baibers Sudan may be more famous among the Hui than Saladin.

As mentioned earlier, this person is also very good at diplomacy.

Soon after he became Sultan, he reconciled with the Byzantine emperor, conducted friendly trade with the Sicilian king Manfred and the French prince Charles, and signed trade treaties with the kings of Aragon and Seville in Spain, which not only isolated one of his enemies, the crusaders, but also strengthened his economic power, making the Cairo and Alexandria regions important nodes in the world trade area.

On the other hand, he also secretly allied himself with another Tatar branch of the Golden Horde against the Tatars of the Ilkhanate in Persia.

The Golden Horde replenished his Mamluk army, and from then on ships carrying slaves sailed through the Bosphorus and the Dardanelles to Egypt, and of course some to the island of Liuqiu.

This guy is also a capable organizer in economic and cultural construction

During his reign, he actively sponsored various public works, paved roads, built mosques, opened schools, established postal services, and dug rivers and canals to create fertile land.

The development of agriculture brought about the development of handicrafts, which in turn contributed to the prosperity of the entire market.

He was pleased to see that the maritime merchants who supported the Great Song Dynasty and Liuqiu Island traded with Cairo through the Red Sea, not only repaired the road from the Red Sea to Cairo, but also prepared to use the ancient canal to communicate the Mediterranean Sea with the Red Sea------ of course, he delayed the construction because the cost was too great.

Also last year, this guy borrowed arquebuses and artillery to defeat the Seljuk army and its Tatar allies of the Ilkhanate in Kadendosia, and captured the city of Caesar with almost minor losses!

At the same time, in order to ensure the security of Egypt in the west and south, he also sent troops to the Libyan and Nubian regions, and won victory after victory.

Since then, the Mamluk Empire has become another great power in the history of the Middle East.

But the arquebuses and cannons sold to him by Liuqiu Island were too expensive------ especially the black powder of Liuqiu!

He once had the craftsmen of Damascus imitate arquebuses and cannons, which was not difficult, but it did not seem to be as good as those produced on the island, and the key was that they could not make that kind of gunpowder.

He sent people to inquire, and it seems that only the Tatars and the Great Song and the people of Liuqiu Island in the far east would make it.

Successes often cost a lot of military money, and he had to raise taxes------ but after buying a large number of slaves from the people of Liuqiu Island, he would never slaughter hundreds of thousands of defenders and civilians at once after the capture of Anktiao Castle as he had done ten years ago.

How many weapons those people could get back if they could sell them to the people of Exile Island!

Wang Defa's family felt that this guy supported commerce, and asked Zhang Daozhu if he wanted to tell that guy that he would be poisoned by poisoned wine in 1277.

Zhang said: "That guy issued a ban on alcohol in 1271, but he also went to drink by himself, what do you say is about others?!"

I want others to do it, but I can't do it, who is to blame?!

Anyway, the people behind him also support commerce and trade------ who cares who should be Sudan!! ”

The secret arms sales have had some effect, and intelligence reports that the Mamluk Empire is quietly preparing logistics, stockpiling enough arquebuses and artillery and ammunition to make a move against the Ilkhanate.

They and the Ilkhanate were irreconcilable mortal enemies.

However, every time the intelligence is updated, it will take at least six months, and the owner of Zhang Island has to learn to wait patiently.

Zhang believed that his method would definitely be useful, and his friend Wang Defa's family would definitely support him.

Therefore, the taxes of the Mamluk Empire were more expensive, and the owner of Zhang said that there was no pressure, and he got far more from there anyway.

The other officials and merchants of the Great Song Dynasty were still the losses of the maritime merchants, and they paid indirect taxes, who let them always dump the same trade.

Wen Tianxiang, a liberal arts student, became the tutor of Zhang's main family, teaching four children brush calligraphy and poetry, while he himself practiced pen calligraphy on Liuqiu Island in private and looked at the books on Liuqiu Island.

He had already fitted his ivory-framed glasses, and he felt that his eyes were bright, and he could indeed see high.

The children only study with him for an hour and a half a day, and the rest of the time, he either walks around, or chats with him when he sees that Zhang Island Master is free, always trying to influence him with righteousness------ but later found that he may be more influenced by Zhang Island Master.

In fact, when he thinks about it, it is all common sense, and it is not difficult to understand.

Like what:

It will always be the first to have a home, and then to have a country, not the other way around.

If there is water in a small river, the big river will not dry up, not the other way around.

Only a free person and mind will have scientific and technological innovations, and no matter how much the Tatar robbers imitate, do not be afraid.

The Tatar robbers also printed paper money, but why is it becoming less and less valuable? Because they printed money and implemented the steel knife standard, which was different from the grain standard of the Great Song Dynasty and the gold and silver standard of Liuqiu Island.

Time passed day by day, and soon something made Wen Tianxiang happy, and the news of the third anti-Tatar bandit group siege had achieved a great victory!