Chapter Eighty-Seven: The Northern Traitor Ahma

The Great Song government seemed to have found a way to change the fortunes of the country, and the news soon spread to the north through merchants. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

When some people were busy with this matter, the Dayuan government's Aping Zhang Kehema also attached great importance to this matter.

In this time and space, there is Jia Pingzhang Jia Nidao in the south, and Apingzhang Ahmada in the north.

History is really fair, two regions have one so-called "adulterous minister", and it is difficult to see such a lively scene in China's history.

Of course, at the beginning, Jia Yidao was indeed suspected of taking the lead by virtue of nepotism, and he started faster than Ahma.

Apingzhang Ahmad is still accumulating performance.

Like many members of the bandit syndicate, his early life is unknown, except that he was a dowry slave to Empress Chabi's father, Chen Nayan.

In 1262, Kublai Khan appointed him to be in charge of the left and right parts of the Zhongshu and the transfer envoy of Zhuludu, and specially appointed him to handle financial and tax matters.

Ahad immediately played Kublai Khan's order to plan in separate sections, and announced the edict to the various transportation divisions, that is, to change the bandit method of casually asking for taxes in the past to follow the regulations, which is conducive to the transformation of the bandit group organization to become a formal government, and there is no concept of legitimacy at this time.

Politics comes out from under the steel knife.

In the early days of the Kublai Khan bandit group, the officials at all levels in the group did not have any money, which was tantamount to openly allowing them to extort the people and enrich them with corruption.

This has seriously affected the normal ruling order required by the bandit groups and is a major problem that needs to be solved urgently.

In 1263, the bandit group officially established a government, and also gave the era name Zhiyuan.

Ahmad immediately made regulations to reduce the number of prefectures and counties and to stipulate the number of officials, to give them the rank of official position to be paid and to grant public land, and to calculate the month and day to evaluate the merits and disadvantages.

However, at that time, everyone was having fun, no one cared about such a thing, and Kublai Khan didn't care.

So it didn't work.

It wasn't until later that when Ahma served as the envoy of the state and the state envoy, he officially stipulated the salaries and occupations of the officials of the capital, the prefecture, the prefecture, the county, and the division.

This is simple, directly moving the set of the Great Song Dynasty government, and the Great Yuan government has never resisted the advanced cultural system.

Apingzhang Ahma was heartbroken by the regularization and sustainability of the bandit group's economic operations.

Apingzhang Ahma implemented a national monopoly on salt sales, banned salt smuggling, and set up patrol teams.

In order to expand the source of taxation, Apingzhang Ahmad also made the monks, Taoists, and military craftsmen who were exempted from taxation in the past as tax targets, thus increasing the state's fiscal revenue.

Cracking down on tax evasion by the "House of Power" is another powerful measure for Ahma's financial management.

Many Mongol aristocrats engaged in trade with the wealthy merchants, but they relied on their power and refused to pay taxes when they did business, which was a blatant violation of the law.

If Apingzhang Ahmada wants to manage his finances, he will inevitably fight against them, which will violate their interests, which will naturally arouse their opposition, which will lay the groundwork for his future misfortune.

At that time, Henan Junzhou, Xuzhou and other states had iron-making equipment, he asked Kublai Khan to grant a plaque to revitalize the interests of smelting.

Ahma used the 3,000 households without household registration to strengthen the iron-making industry, and handed over 100,000 and 37,000 catties of iron every year, and used these iron to forge 200,000 pieces of agricultural tools, which were exchanged for grain and handed over to the public a total of 40,000 stones.

Ahmad set up a leveling warehouse on each road, and 12,000 ingots of banknotes were used as banknotes. and bought and sold gold and silver to maintain price balance and ensure the credit of paper money.

In the early days, the banknote law was implemented very strictly, and salt, tea and other taxes were all in paper money, which ensured the strong material foundation of paper money.

At the same time, he vigorously promoted the household registration system to fix the people in their places of origin, so as to ensure the stability of tax sources.

At the same time, the "hook examination" system of taxation was implemented, which was a means of financial auditing, and the imperial court sent personnel to various places to settle money valleys and other items, so as to prevent the concealment of the powerful and the corruption of officials.

For example, there are those who pass off ripe fields as wasteland to avoid paying taxes, those who conceal their household registration to avoid misfortune, and those where rich people buy poor people's land but still have the poor people pay taxes, all of them will be corrected.

What Apingzhang Ahmad did laid a solid material foundation for the successful destruction of the Southern Song Dynasty and the completion of Mongol colonial rule.

But the strange thing is that his ending is worse than Jia Pingzhang Jia Nidao.

Those who mix in the bandit group organization and do serious things generally do not have any good results.

The rumors in Lin'an City that the crystal ball magic circle will change the fortunes of the Great Song Dynasty have been widely spread.

In the end, it reached the ears of Ah Pingzhang Ahma, and he was also a little worried.

This is a big thing and endangers the safety of the Dayuan government!

What will we do if you change the fortunes of the country?!

Apingzhang Ahe immediately played the Great Khan Kublai Khan, claiming that we should be vigilant that the Great Song Dynasty government is developing weapons of mass destruction, and we must be vigilant------ which is what it means.

The Tatars are also a people who worship stone formations.

It is estimated that it was originally used to guide the way and identify the direction, and then gradually evolved into a symbol of worshipping the mountain god and the road god and praying for a good harvest and the happiness and safety of the family.

When the Great Khan Kublai Khan heard the whole story, he immediately believed it.

Great Khan Kublai Khan said loudly: "Everything in the blue sky belongs to the eagle, and all the treasures on the earth belong to the hero." I'm the hero, and those crystal balls should belong to me!

Eagles have sharp talons, we have sharp steel knives------"

Apingzhang Ahmad blinked his blue eyes and said respectfully: "Kublai Khan, the great Khan who is admired by all the people in the world who is omnipotent, no matter how brave the beast is, there will be a time to rest, I calculated it, and I will wait for another three years to attack the Song Dynasty in the south!" ”

A Pingzhang Ahma casually reported a string of data.

When Kublai Khan heard this, he was speechless, and the so-called treasury became like this, and the open land was like a steppe.

He led the army last year and had just defeated Abuligo, the rightful successor of the Great Khan, with the support of most of the Mongol orthodoxy such as King Asutai, and it was a battle of life and death!

After he finally defeated his brother Abuligo, the rightful successor of the Great Khan, after four years, the Kipchak Khanate, the Chagatai Khanate, the Ögedai Khanate, and the already independent Golden Horde refused to recognize him, and he was supported only by a distant Ilkhanate.

This Ilkhanate must be introduced.

As early as 1252, the Great Khan Möngke sent his mother and brother Hulagu to divide the town of Persia, and led the army to invade the country that had not yet surrendered, and subordinated the barbarian army to Hulagu along with the Mongol army that had gone out to conquer Kashmi and other places, and ordered the kings to send two-tenths of their retinues from their armies.

In 1256, the Hulagu army defeated the "Murayi Kingdom" in the mountain city of Mazandaran Province, which was entrenched in Mashatar, that is, the world of the world, which was a country that worshiped assassination and belonged to the forces of the Ismain sect of Islam.

In 1258, he captured Baghdad and killed the last caliph to destroy the black-clothed eaters, that is, the Abbasids of the Arab Empire.

In 1259, he divided his army into three routes and invaded Syria.

In the spring of the following year, Hulegu learned that the Great Khan Möngke had died in Sichuan, so he left the vanguard cowardly and continued the expedition, and led the rest of his army back to Persia.

In September, the cowardly army of Buhua was defeated at Ayinzarut, and the army of the Sultan of Egypt was defeated, and all the cities in Syria occupied by the Mongols were lost.

After returning to Persia, Hulegu learned that Kublai Khan had authorized himself to become the Great Khan, and had a dispute with his younger brother, Ali Buge, the legitimate successor of the Great Khan, so he did not return east to Mongolia.

When he saw that Kublai Khan had gained the upper hand, he sent envoys to both sides of the contest to express his support for Kublai Khan as Great Khan and accuse Ali Buge.

Great Khan Kublai Khan sent an edict to transfer the Persian territory west of the Amu Darya River to the border with Egypt, as well as the Mongol and Arab soldiers and civilians there, under the rule of Hulegu.

As a result, the region of Persia, which had been under the direct jurisdiction of the Great Khan's government, effectively became the domain of Hulegu, thus establishing another dynasty.

Its territory stretches from the Amu Darya and Indus rivers in the east, most of Asia Minor in the west, the Persian Gulf in the south, and the Caucasus Mountains in the north.

Hulagu took Mirah, that is, the Iranian province of East Azerbaijan in the world, as his capital, set up a prime minister to take charge of the affairs of the whole country, appointed provincial governors, and ordered his eldest son, Abhaha, to lead the eastern Khorasan and other provinces of the Khanate.

In 1262, the Kipchak Khanate's Berko Khan sent troops to attack the Azerbaijani region under the control of Hülegü, and the two sides fought fiercely for more than two years.

Although Belge retreated, the two Mongol khanates often clashed over territorial disputes. Or for a while, the entire original Mongol Empire was in a melee.

Kublai Khan, the Great Khan, could not get material support from the Ilkhanate, but he could get some Huihui artisans who could make Huihui artillery for them.

And now they have just settled in Dadu, and most of them still live in tents.

Everything in the entire northern region has just been calmed down, and the common people have nothing in their hands, so it is useless to raise taxes or directly rob.

The Great Khan Kublai Khan could only sigh helplessly, and a feeling of sadness filled the entire golden tent.

Apingzhang Ahma blinked his blue eyes and said respectfully: "The incomparably heroic and wise Great Khan, we can use force for the time being, and we can use intimidation to get it."

At the very least, let them hand over a batch of crystal balls, destroy their hopes, and let them wear out all will to resist while they are drunk!

The roar of a lion is also a weapon. ”

Great Khan Kublai Khan nodded and said, "You can do such a thing------

Apingzhang Ahmad respectfully retreated the golden horde of the Great Khan.

At this time, he saw the huge white silk inserted on the ground outside the golden tent, and the nine streamers that were hung on the big iron ring, purely woven with white ponytail hair, were fluttering slightly under the blue sky, showing an indescribable domineering!

It will be a great empire, and he, Ahma, will be with this empire!

When he returned, he immediately set about to prepare.

The first is to send people to ask the Great Song Dynasty government for the crystal ball, and if they don't give it to ------, they will make threats, and if they don't give it again, even if they don't give it, they won't suffer anyway.

The second is that he has arranged manpower, and he is going to go to that overseas desert island to kill overseas merchants, and he can't let them succeed!

It's easier to destroy than to build.

In this time and space, the north and the south have not completely torn their faces, and they are still doing business.

The place where they are doing business now is in Fancheng.

At that time in 1336, Xiangyang City, together with a large number of materials and armaments in the city, also fell into the hands of the Tatars in internal strife and cannibalism, and was burned down after plundering, and all the residents of Xiangyang were forcibly relocated to the Luoyang area under Tatar rule, and Xiangyang City became a ruin.

Xiangyang also lost its Henan barrier and became a frontier front directly on the border with Tatar.

After that, except for a time occupied by the Tatars, Xiangyang was basically in a state of desolation, until 1251 in the era of Emperor Lizong of the Song Dynasty, when Li Zengbo sent Jinghu deputy capital commander Gao and shogunate Wang Deng to lead 21,000 Jinghu troops to recover the two destroyed empty cities of Xiang and Fan.

The two cities of Xiang and Fan confronted each other across the river, and the Song army was connected with wooden stakes in the middle of the river, connected with iron chains, and the pontoon bridge erected by wooden floating beams in the middle connected the two cities as a whole, so that they watched and helped each other, and each other was horns and lips and teeth depended on each other.

Xiangyang has the Da Hyeon Mountain Range in the south, the west is shaded by the Ten Thousand Mountains, the Han River becomes a natural barrier in the northeast and the southeast is guarded by the Lumen Mountain.

After several years of restoration of the two cities of Xiang and Fan, the families of the garrison moved to Xiangyang, and gradually regained their vitality through activities such as the Jun River, canal opening, tuntian, rent-free, and immigration.

Although it has not recovered to the strength of the former "A in the West".

However, it has also re-become a military town with "high cities and deep pools, soldiers are good and well-fed, divisions must be defeated, and the enemy is defeated".

Even if the south road is not passable, relying on the superior naval army, the water road can be kept smooth with Yingzhou, Jiangling, and Wuchang.

The Great Song government stockpiled armaments here for ten years.

In 1261, Kublai Khan listened to the advice of Liu Quan, a general of the naval army who betrayed the Great Song Dynasty, and went to Wuchang to bribe Lü Wende, the envoy of the Jinghu system relied on by the Southern Song Dynasty, with a jade belt, and asked to set up a border trade field between the two countries outside Fancheng.

The trade activities between the Great Song Dynasty and the Tatars here were quite prosperous for a while.

The Tatar merchants sold some Chinese herbs for livestock, and the merchants of the Great Song Dynasty sold some silk tea, in short, the trade was quite prosperous.

The two sides each collected the taxes of their respective merchants, and for a while there was nothing to do.

The Jinghu system made Lu Wende also be credited.