Chapter 521: Heart-to-Heart
Jia Rudao's undisguised answer made Yuan Fu stunned.
Originally, he was just guessing, and he just said it casually, but he didn't expect that it would be the truth.
Looking at Jia Rudao's smiling appearance, Yuan Fu felt a chill in his heart for no reason.
On backing, in Lin'an City, there is the emperor's favor, although there are many enemies, but Jia Rudao also has many courtiers to help, as long as he doesn't really do anything angry and angry, no one can do anything to him. In terms of prosperity, although Guangdong is not bad, it is too far behind Lin'an City.
And as the saying goes, the building near the water gets the moon first, and how many officials in the Great Song Dynasty have been camping all their lives and sharpened their heads to drill into Lin'an City, because it is close to the Son of Heaven. Maybe when you will get the favor of the Son of Heaven, you will rise to the top. But the one in front of him is good, and he even wants to leave Lin'an City at the cost of self-defilement.
Sitting in Guangdong, it seems that except for a little freedom, no one can stare at it every day, and in Yuan Fu's opinion, there is no benefit at all.
But Jia Rudao is already a second-class member of the dynasty, what is the purpose of coming to Guangdong to be this pacification envoy?
Thinking shallowly, I can't figure it out, thinking too deeply, Yuan Fu doesn't dare.
"You...... What exactly do you want to do? β
Yuan Fu asked in a deep voice.
"Hehe, it's not as serious as the boss thinks, before answering this question, I want to ask the boss a question. If my Great Song Dynasty fights with Mongolia, who does the boss think will win? β
Jia Rudao shook his head with a smile, signaling that Yuan Fu didn't need to be so serious.
"If my Da Song only defends and doesn't attack, maybe there will be a tie."
This question is too simple, and everyone in the court and the central government knows the answer.
"If the Boss knows that the Mongols are now fighting against my Great Song Dynasty with less than one-fifth of all the Mongols' military strength, then can the Boss still have such confidence?"
Jia Rudao said with a smile.
"Less than one-fifth of all the Mongols' military might? This...... How can it be? β
Yuan Fu lost his voice.
"There is absolutely no possibility, if the Mongols have such military strength, only half of the Mongols' military strength will be enough for me to lose the Great Song Dynasty."
In the end, Yuan Fu seemed to be trying to convince himself, and added again.
"Hehe, in fact, the boss doesn't know that when the Mongols continued to invade my Great Song Dynasty and hit the grass valley, most of the Mongolian Great Khan's Wokotai was put on attacking westward, that is, Dashi, Europa and other places that few people in my Great Song Dynasty have visited, in the west, the Mongolian army attacked cities and plundered land, invincible."
"The West? The Mongol army is attacking Dashi, Europa? Why has I never heard such news? How did Shi Xian find out? β
"There is a good port in Guangdong, and countless foreign merchants have come across the sea to trade with me in the Great Song Dynasty, and they have brought enough news. And I can tell the boss with certainty that the news is true. β
Jia Yidao naturally couldn't say that this was something he already knew, so he could only push the source of the news to those maritime merchants, so that the credibility was higher.
"Such important news must be reported to the emperor as soon as possible so that the emperor knows."
Yuan Fu didn't think much about it, after all, what Jia Rudao said was also the truth. Guangdong, as the earliest maritime trade port of the Great Song Dynasty, it seems normal for Jia Rudao to get these news.
"Don't worry, boss, I have already reported these news to the emperor, and the emperor also knows about it. It is precisely because of this that I went south to Guangdong. β
"Shi Xian said that he knew the news first, and then he had the matter of Shi Xian going south to Guangdong? However, wasn't Shi Xian still in Lin'an at that time? How will you know this news? β
Yuan Fu was a little surprised and puzzled.
"The boss must also know that I am very familiar with some of the giant businessmen in Lin'an, and they have gotten some news before, but they didn't take it to heart, and occasionally told me as a joke, and then I sent someone to Guangdong to inquire carefully."
Jia Rudao was also speechless about Yuan Fu's crooked building kung fu, aren't these the key points, the point is that the Mongols didn't focus on the Great Song Dynasty at all.
Hearing Jia Rudao's explanation, Yuan Fu was a little suspicious.
Now Jia Nidao sits on the land of thousands of miles in Guangdong, and is considered the largest feudal official of the Great Song Dynasty, if you count the Fujian Road that let Jia Nidao temporarily take care of it because Wu Liang died on the belly of a woman, then it can be said that nearly a quarter of the territory of the Great Song Dynasty is under the rule of Jia Nidao, if Jia Bidao has other thoughts, it is the real disaster of the Great Song Dynasty.
"I'm still young, and I don't want to stay in Lin'an City and fight with a group of old people who are about to enter the earth every day for that pitiful power. After all, there will be a war between Mongolia and the Great Song Dynasty that will determine the fortunes of the country. When the Mongols wipe out all the countries in the West, they will free up their hands to pay our Great Song.
It is also possible that the Mongols will not wait until all those countries in the West are destroyed to use troops against our Great Song Dynasty, which no one knows, after all, we are not the Great Khan of Mongolia. But no matter which one it is, it won't give me much time for Da Song. Whether it is a short year or two, or three or five years, or more than ten years, Mongolia and our Great Song Dynasty will have a battle of national fortunes.
If the Mongols raise the whole country's troops to invade our Great Song Dynasty, what chance does the boss think my Great Song Dynasty can win? Staying in Lin'an City, you can indeed enjoy a few years or even more than ten years of comfort, but what if it is when my Great Song Kingdom is destroyed? The truth of cold lips and teeth, I don't need to say it, the boss should know better than Shi Xian.
I don't want to be a slave to the country, and I don't want to grovel to the enemy and serve the Mongols, since I don't want to, then for a few years of comfort but lose the comfort of decades after menstruation, this account will be calculated. That's the main reason why I took the initiative to come to Guangdong. I don't want to die, and I don't want to be able to watch my Great Song Dynasty die in Lin'an City, but I can't do anything.
In the land of several roads, under my rule, accumulate more strength for the imperial court, maybe in the future battle of national fortune, you will have a better chance of winning. That's all, not for anything else, let alone the master's clever words to bewitch the emperor, for his own selfish interests, and even have a heart of disobedience. β
Jia Rudao looked at Yuan Fu calmly, and said with a straight face.
He knew that in order for Yuan Fu to help each other in a down-to-earth manner, he had to explain some things clearly in order to really get Yuan Fu's help.
Yuan Fu pursed his lips, put down Tao Wan in his hand tremblingly, and bowed to Jia Rudao: "Shixian is ambitious, the old man is ashamed." β
Compared with what Jia Yidao thought, Yuan Fu felt that he and others had the name of Confucianism, and they were full of family and country affairs but never really put them into use, how unbearable and naΓ―ve they were.
Yuan Fu's confession, Jia Nidao knew, not only thought that he did everything possible to go to Guangzhou to think that he had a heart of disobedience, but also because of the shame of embarrassing Jia Nidao many times in Lin'an City before.