Chapter 251: This pit is big
"What? You sold the technology of shipbuilding to the Mongols! If you can't raise a familiar thing, I'll strangle you! As soon as Cixi said this, the temperature in the room dropped by ten degrees in an instant, and even Hong Tao could feel the cold gaze shooting out of everyone's eyes. Wen Lao Er was the first to sprawl up, and threw his shoes at Cixi from two people, and then people also pounced, really trying to play with Cixi. And Huang Tao and Li Niang beside Cixi were even worse, they caught Cixi and didn't let him hide. It seems that Cixi is really not popular in the eyes of Jinhewan people, no one can move him if he doesn't make mistakes, as long as someone takes the lead, it is estimated that everyone will have to shout and beat.
"I ...... I...... I...... Uh...... "Cixi was pressed on a chair by three people, his small body is hopeless to play with force, don't look at Wen Lao's second age, but he has cultivated a pair of big hands like pincers all year round shipbuilding, and he can't shake Cixi's neck no matter how he twists." Cixi's face was red, but she still didn't betray Hong Tao, and she didn't even look at the initiator across the table.
"Let go! …… I said let go! You will all be high-ranking officials of the Jinhe Empire in the future, although we don't have to stand and talk about things in the same way as the Great Song Dynasty, but who has ever heard of a group of ministers fighting in front of the emperor? Wimber, if you don't agree with me being the emperor, you can just say that you don't have to change the way to give me a horse! Hong Tao originally wanted to rush over to help Cixi break the siege, but as soon as he remembered that he was the emperor, it didn't seem appropriate to rush to the table and take the lead in the group fight. Majesty has to start from oneself and cultivate it slowly, starting today. Pull your face at the moment, try not to make your facial expression too rich and look serious.
"I ...... He betrayed our drawings, he was a spy for the Mongols! "Wen Lao Er really scared Hong Tao, the emperor, if you are angry, you have to kill your head! Although it is unlikely that Hong Tao will cut off other people's heads. But it's scary to think about.
"What are you probing, can you tell it yourself? This is what I asked him to do, and everyone will be officials in the future, so why do officials use it? It's to help other people run the country, and mind you, it's to run the country. It's not for personal vendettas. Everyone must and can only sit here for official business, and it is better not to mix personal feelings. Cixi has done a lot of thankless things for Jinhewan over the years, and it is understandable that everyone doesn't like him, but he can't buckle any hat on his head regardless of public or private. If you don't have him to do these things, you have to do them, and which of you wants to do this errand? As long as someone signs up, I will immediately remove Cixi from her position, is there any? Cixi's performance once again made Hong Tao feel gratified, this guy is really loyal. It is better to be wronged and beaten than to confess, and this behavior must be recognized. The reward is to help him rehabilitate him, to help him tell others what he can't say.
"I'm not targeting him...... Who is so **** and doesn't agree...... "None of the people present dared to raise their hands and say that they were capable, only Wen Lao Er was not convinced, and he was still muttering quietly with his neck stalked.
"Winber, listen to me explain the matter and get angry, those drawings are deliberately sold by me to Cixi to outsiders, and they must be leaked to the Mongols, this is a trap. You want to. We only have such a few people, and the army of the Great Song Dynasty will not let me command. We still have to help the Great Song Dynasty resist the Mongol army, if the Mongol army attacks from the land again and again, even if our ships can go upriver along the river, it will not help much, and there is a danger of being blocked by others and suffocating upstream. This tactic can only be used once or twice, and people are not fools if they use it in the long run. As long as you are prepared, no one will be able to get out of the channel with a few large ships full of stones, right? Seeing that everyone was silent, Hong Tao began to reason with the facts. Give a general introduction to his plan, and also relieve Cixi of some pressure.
"There is indeed this risk, in the more than a year that Your Majesty has been away, I have taken the fleet to Xiangyang to escort a total of five times, and each time I went, the Mongols were observing on the north bank of the river, and they must be trying to find a way to deal with our ships. The reason why there is no longer a large-scale offensive is that we have not yet found a way to deal with our warships. With our warships here, they will not be able to use troops on the rivers east of Xiangyang, and they will be in danger of being cut off from logistics at any time. Just attacking Sichuan and Shaanxi in one direction, the army of the Great Song Dynasty is not muddy, I am afraid it will be difficult to defeat it. If they really organize some ships in advance, as Your Majesty said, and load them with big stones to sink into the main channel in the season when the river is not very full, then our warships will really not be able to get out. The draft of our sea ships is too deep, and then these warships will be dangerous, and there is a limit to the number of ****** and shells that the artillery can fight, and once the Mongol army attacks regardless of casualties, these guns will be scrapped in half a day at most. A cannon without shells is not as good as a broadsword, and when the time comes, I will have to blow up the ship and go ashore as an infantryman, and it is a question of whether I can come back with the crew. In addition, if these ships and cannons are picked up by the Mongol army or the Great Song army, they will be more effective than any drawings, I believe that they will soon be able to imitate them, and then we will be even more troublesome! Kong Pei listened to Hong Tao's assumptions and immediately expressed the same concern, he was a front-line commander, and his words were more authoritative than Hong Tao.
"Then you can't teach the Mongols the skills of shipbuilding, if the Mongolian sailors also build big ships, aren't we more dangerous?" Li Niang is a new immigrant, and all new immigrants must first be a slave or coolie after arriving in Jinhewan, and only after observation can they be naturalized if they have a recommendation. So her impression of Cixi and Cixi's brother must be the worst, and it goes without saying how the Cixi brothers treated slaves.
"This is the crux of the matter, Minister Kong was right just now, we will suffer in the long run, the Mongol Empire is very good at learning, learning very fast, don't treat them as stupid. However, Minister Kong has one thing I have to correct, I am going to be the emperor, but this is for the development of the Jinhe Empire, in the future, everyone will still call me Mr. or Prime Minister, don't call me Your Majesty or anything, I am not very suitable for this title. Okay, let's get down to business, but now I'm going to give you two hypotheses. First, on land and the Mongol army was slowly depleted, as now, no one could help anyone; Second, to attract all the financial and material resources of the Mongol Empire to the sea, and let them fight a naval war with us, which one do you choose? When it comes to specific things, Hong Tao is relaxed, he likes to talk about things with everyone, and he doesn't like to engage in personal attacks.
"Yo Xi...... It's a good idea! On the sea, we can effectively consume the power of the Mongol Empire! It costs a lot of money to build a sea ship, and it costs a lot of money to fight a war. I have listened to my husband's class, and he said that fighting a war is to fight the economy, and it is to fight money! The army, the armor, the weapons, the food, the clothing, the shelter and the transportation all cost money, if the money is spent on the sea, there is not enough on the land, and the more ships they build, the weaker the army on the land becomes, sir, is that what you mean? Before Li Niang could figure out Hong Tao's choice question, a voice with a strong Japanese flavor sounded from the old man Bofu, and if you didn't look carefully, it was difficult to find that there was a person sitting between the old man and the Yellow Sea. He only showed a head on the edge of the table, with a round head and a round head, and his facial features were small everywhere, like a small bun.
"Da Lang is right, but remember, don't bring out the Japanese language in the future, if you want to fully integrate into the Golden River Empire, you must first correct the problem of speaking. Got the idea, right? I deliberately shifted the focus of the Mongol Empire from land to sea, and how? The first step has been done, and that is to show them the power of the battleship. At this time, they will think that if they also have a large number of warships, will they not have to make great efforts to slowly invade the south from the land? Using large ships to transport troops, landing directly from the coastline, and avoiding those areas in the Yangtze River basin where the water network is all over the place, you can directly attack Mingzhou, Wenzhou, Quanzhou, Guangzhou, and even take Lin'an in one fell swoop. If the Great Song Dynasty loses these prosperous cities, it will be a matter of time before they are destroyed, and it will be enough to choke with our help. This little bun who spoke was Bofu's deputy, the new deputy minister of finance. He is a Japanese immigrant, originally called Shirakawa Saburo, and when he became naturalized, he was renamed by Hong Tao, because he was too short, only about one meter five, Hong Tao gave him the surname Wu, the name Dalang! If people know who Wu Dalang is, and guarantee to be the first to rebel, what kind of leader is this Nima, it's too bad!
"No, since the Mongols have already started building ships, why give them back the drawings? If their ships are so powerful, and there are so many, wouldn't Da Song be even more dangerous? "The deputies have all spoken, and as a proper minister, the old man Bo Fu can't say a word, he still has doubts.
"Can anyone help me answer Minister Park's question?" Hong Tao must be polite to Bo Fu, the old man, he is still in charge of the money bag, and the title of Minister Bo is thrown over, and the old man's waist is a little straighter.
“…… Do you want them to build bigger, more wood-intensive Salmon and then sink them all in a naval battle? …… Brother Bo, you, the emperor's son-in-law, have calculated people to the bones, and this is going to dig up other people's ancestral graves! Fortunately, this kind of idea is not used on our own people, and I break out in a cold sweat when I think about it. I wronged Cixi in this matter, Cixi, the old man can't compensate you, or you can pinch me once, I will never fight back! "The bell must be tied to the bell, and it was Wen Lao Er who first raised this question, and now he is the first to understand Hong Tao's intentions. (To be continued.) )