There may be some people, especially these officers on the ship, who don't know much about their own ideas, it doesn't matter, just ask if you have questions, you can tell them, it doesn't matter if you agree or not, there is always a process of communication. It is very good to be like Kong Pei, he can resolutely carry out his orders with his own doubts, and this alone proves that he is a mature person, not only a person, but also a talent. Such a person will definitely be reused by himself in the future, and he likes this kind of person who has personal thoughts and a sense of the overall situation.

"You've been in Mongolia, and there are places where they are more like Golden River, like expansive and aggressive. It is said that peers are enemies, this sentence is not wrong at all, good places have allowed them to invade, what should we do? However, they are very different from Jinhewan in terms of development, Jinhewan only uses slaves to solve the problem of insufficient productivity, and once the productivity is increased to a certain level, slavery will be abolished. But Mongolia will not, it is a country built on slavery, and it can only survive by constantly fighting wars and plundering the wealth of other countries. Once it stops expanding, it itself will quickly weaken and perish, for the simple reason that it will not create wealth. Have you ever seen a person who has relied on robbery all his life and finally robbed a large family? That doesn't make sense at all. He can first raise money by robbery, and then go to serious business, and eventually become an heirloom, but I have never seen it after robbing for a lifetime, or even two lifetimes, and it can be passed on well. "Anyway, it's okay to be idle, there is still some time before dinner, Hong Tao simply chatted with Kong Pei, this person is usually silent and doesn't like to communicate. Now is the right time for him to understand his mind better.

"I haven't seen ...... either" Kong Pei doesn't like to talk. It doesn't mean that his mind doesn't like to spin. After listening to Hong Tao's opinion, he also nodded and agreed.

"But the Great Song Dynasty is a different country, its court is much gentler than Mongolia in terms of internal rule, if it were not for the continuous war, it would have done better, but it is a pity that God did not give it this time. What are the common people trying to do? Isn't it just a picture of eating and drinking without worrying and a prosperous family? If you are returning from overseas with your family, you can choose Mongolia or the Great Song Dynasty to settle down. Which one do you choose? "It's not enough to explain, Hong Tao also has to interact with Kong Pei, so that it is more specific to understand.

"Of course I want to choose the Great Song Dynasty, but I don't think it can stop Mongolia from moving south, so I will probably choose Mongolia." Kong Pei thought about it carefully, and after weighing the pros and cons in his shoes, he answered Hong Tao's question.

"Well, let me choose I'll probably choose it this way, anyway, sooner or later it's a place in Mongolia, so why bother tossing it again. But if I say, Da Song can be saved. Would you still choose to live in Mongolia? Hong Tao tilted his head and thought about it, Kong Pei was really right. If you weren't a traverser, you really wouldn't dare to choose the Southern Song Dynasty. Just comfortable for more than ten years or decades, you have to be a slave to the country, why bother! So he added another prerequisite.

"Then I will choose the Great Song Dynasty, Zhenzhou is very good, there are few people, and there are many people, and it is still next to the sea, I will also follow Mr. to hunt whales, a boat is enough to feed my family, hehehe." Kong Pei smiled happily once, probably imagining in his mind the scene of him turning into Hong Tao and taking his family to the sea to hunt whales. Now the people of Jinhewan agree with the idea that the best animals in the world are not cats and dogs, not cattle and sheep, but whales! As long as you can catch whales, good days will come.

"So, for our own sake, or for future generations, Mongolia is a locust-like country, we have to stop it. If the Mongol cavalry had rushed to Canton, they would soon have learned to build ships and then use the strength of tens of thousands of men throughout the country against us. In that case, Jinhewan would be finished, not only would they have to fight with the Mongolian sailors every day, but they would not get a chance to breathe, because 80% of the goods would come from the Great Song Dynasty. Without enough goods and a large number of maritime merchants, Jinhewan is at best a small city-state, no different from those small cities on Jawa Island, and can only rely on farming to develop slowly, and has no future. ”

"I'm not doing this to help the Song Dynasty, but to help ourselves, or to create a better living environment for our children. Jinhe Bay is like a bonifish in the sea, only by sticking to the body of the shark and whale can it grow up better. Da Song can't be called a shark, it's too weak, but it's a big whale. Our current task is to protect this whale from being bitten and eaten by the Mongolian shark. As long as we hold back the Mongol invasion of the south, I believe that we will win in the end, do you know why? Hong Tao said all the reasons he could think of in the most popular language, and it was best not to use terms such as ideology, capitalism, and the development of productive forces, because people in this era could not understand it, and even Wen Nan sounded very difficult.

"Because Sir just said that when the plague of locusts is over, the locusts will starve themselves to death...... All we have to do is endure the plague of locusts. Kong Pei understood Hong Tao's thoughts, and said the key in one sentence.

"That's right, but we can't just endure it, we have to help the Great Song Dynasty endure it together, not only to help the Great Song Dynasty militarily, but also to transfuse blood for it economically. What I just said is just the truth, it sounds easy, but it is actually much more difficult to do. For example, the Great Song Dynasty may not be happy with our help one day, this is a thankless job. But for the sake of our children and grandchildren, this work must be done by our generation, you and I encourage each other! "This is the first time that Hong Tao feels that Kong Pei is a character, his understanding ability is better than that of Carl, Martini, and Luo Youde, coupled with his calm personality, he will be a good helper for himself in the future. At that moment, he stretched out his right hand and invited Kong Pei to make an oath together.

"Since following him, Pei has learned a lot of things that he didn't understand before, and now that he thinks about it, if I hadn't been on that ship, maybe I would have become a ghost under the cannon. It's fate! Pei will be handed over to Mr. in this life, just like Mr. said, all the bad things are done by my generation, leaving the children with a clean world. Kong Pei didn't immediately reach out and high-five Hong Tao, but stood up and sighed, and then he and Hong Tao held their two hands together, and used all their strength. It's a pity that he really doesn't have the strength of Hong Tao, and he was quickly pinched and grinned.

Kong Pei's fleet did not stay in Yingzhou City for long, Xiangyang City was his destination, and Yingzhou City was just piggybacking on help. As the commander of a fleet, he strictly carried out Hong Tao's orders, only giving Wen Nan an hour to communicate with the officials guarding the city of Yingzhou, and then left with the reluctant Southern Song Dynasty soldiers. These soldiers are reluctant to go to Xiangyang, they are more willing to take these prisoners back to Ezhou to repay the merit and receive rewards, if Wen Nan is the commander of this fleet, these soldiers are really likely to mutiny on the spot and do not listen to Wen Nan's command. But in front of Kong Pei, who didn't smile and aimed the cannon directly at them, none of them dared to blow up the thorns, and they all obediently got on the boat.

Yingzhou was only a little more than 100 kilometers away from the Xiangyang waterway, and just after dawn the next day, Kong Pei's fleet turned the hairpin bend on the Han River and appeared in the east of Xiangyang. The city of Xiangyang in the Song Dynasty is not too big, the radius is only more than a kilometer, but the city wall is high and thick, even taller than the Lin'an city wall, and the moat is even more spectacular, the width is 100 meters away. The defending side could cover both sides of the moat from the walls with strong crossbows, and it would be much more difficult for the besieging army to cross the moat without long-range siege weapons. Unless the defenders can run out of arrows, there is little hope.

Although Zhao Fan is very stupid in dealing with the Northern Army, he is a general of the Southern Song Dynasty after all, and he is not at all unable to fight, but he lacks flexibility, and he is a person who implements the rules and regulations according to the rules and regulations of his ancestors. He set up several large flags on the city, and also arranged bonfires on the city walls, using flags during the day and fires at night to mobilize the Southern Song Dynasty naval ships on the river for mobile defense. As soon as the Mongol army was found to be planning to cross the river, hundreds of boats would swarm and shuttle back and forth on the river to intercept the improvised rafts made by the Mongol army. Don't look at most of these boats are temporary requisitioned civilian boats, but they are still much stronger than the rafts of the Mongolian army, plus the Mongolian army is not good at water warfare, so it has been more than half a month, let alone entering Xiangyang City, and I haven't even touched the edge of the moat.

Kuo De was also a son of a general, and was deeply appreciated by his father, the Great Khan of Ogedei, and it was even rumored that the Great Khan intended to make him his heir. In this southern invasion, his brother Kuo Rui led the Western Route Army to fight in full swing in the Sichuan-Shaanxi border area, and his progress in the early stage of the Middle Route Army was also quite smooth, but he encountered such a hard nail in Xiangyang City, which made him unable to advance. However, he is not in a hurry, as long as his general Tath can go around the back of Xiangyang City and cut off its connection with other cities, then this city will belong to him sooner or later. He was convinced of this, and his father and grandfather did not know how many times he had fought this kind of battle, with few exceptions.

At this time, he was standing in front of his handsome tent, looking at Xiangyang City across the river thoughtfully, probably thinking about how much food, weapons, armor, and yes, and people he could grab after entering the city. His father listened to the advice of Yelu Chucai, a minister of the Jin State, to turn these Han people into slaves who could farm, and then let them farm for generations to feed the Mongols, so he also had a task on this expedition, which was to catch more Han people back, which could be regarded as a great merit. How many people are there in Xiangyang City? Tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, hundreds of thousands? God knows! As a Mongolian nobleman, Kuo Chu wondered why there were so many Han Chinese. They are like weeds on the steppe, they can't be burned to the end, and if there were so many Mongols on the steppe, everyone would have starved to death. (To be continued.) )