"I can accompany you when you drink and chat, and forget about poetry, I'm a good mallet in this regard, and it's good to be able to understand it. When the war is over, I would like to ask you two to go around my country, and it would be better if the officials could go. When the time comes, let's drink wine, eat barbecue, smoke cigarettes in the treehouse in the tropical rainforest, and talk about national events and life insights, wouldn't it be even faster to live? ”

Hong Tao's words were not fooling, he really wanted to invite the officials of the Great Song Dynasty to Jinhe City to have a look. For those who run the country, they must have a broad vision, and if they only stay in one city and one place, they cannot understand the development of the world, and they will become frogs at the bottom of the well. If the Empress Dowager Cixi had gone around Europe and seen the world with her own eyes, she would definitely not use naval military funds to repair gardens, and she would not have let a small country take a stinky beating.

"I'm afraid the official family won't be able to go, that time I took the official family to see you on the boat, I have been impeached countless times by the officials, if I take the official family overseas, they will cramp and peel the old man." Zheng Qingzhi really made Hong Tao say that he was moved, he actually always wondered why Hong Tao rose so fast, just asking Wennan is not comprehensive, as the minister of a country, it is also a good thing to see how other countries operate, at least there is no loss.

"Your Majesty thinks the war will end soon? Since the Liao Dynasty, we have been exhausted from years of war, and if we can do it once and for all, we will have the grace of rebuilding for the people of the world, and I ask Your Majesty to make it clear. Wu Qian heard a different flavor from Hong Tao's words, and directly stood up and gave Hong Tao a salute, which was forcing Hong Tao to make his words clear, and he couldn't do it if he didn't say it.

"Lord Wu, please take a seat, we have to talk about this matter slowly. That's right. Minister Wen must have also talked to Zheng Xiang about what I mean. I do not advise the Great Song to develop a large-scale navy. I don't mean to be afraid of the Great Song Navy. It's not that I don't want to teach Da Song to build better warships, but there are other reasons. "Since Wu Qian asked this question, Hong Tao can explain his intentions to the two of them, allies, communication is very important.

Although the Southern Song Dynasty court didn't believe in itself, it had to keep telling them. In Hong Tao's eyes, the Southern Song Dynasty court was like a disobedient child, or his own child. Even if you are naughty and mischievous and no longer a thing, you have to educate slowly, and it is impossible to give up just like other people's children.

"There's only one reason, and that's money! The Great Song Dynasty had no money, and even if it did, it would not be enough to build the army and navy at the same time. Compared with the current situation, the Great Song Dynasty should still concentrate on building the army and improving the defense system, after all, the Great Song Dynasty is not like my country is an island, and there is basically no threat on land. Contrary. The vast majority of the threats of the Great Song Dynasty came from the northern continent, and the defense system was done well. After restoring the national strength, it is not too late to plan for the navy. At that time, my country can hold friendly negotiations with the Great Song Dynasty on maritime issues. Wouldn't it be better for both sides of us to draw a boundary on the sea, just like a national border on land, and each other's warships will not violate each other's territorial waters, but civilian ships and merchant ships can be unimpeded. ”

Hong Tao has never had the intention of strangling the Southern Song Dynasty on the sea, as long as the country can develop healthily, the Jinhe Empire can make huge concessions, not to mention the South China Sea, even if the whole of Southeast Asia is ceded is no problem. At that time, the Golden River Empire can move its capital, move to Callamba or even Cape Town, and go all out to pass through the Middle East and Europe, forming two regional powers, one east and one west, isn't it better? Of course, this is Hong Tao's idea alone, and it is very difficult to succeed, but it is not so difficult that he can't try.

"As for when the war will end? On the whole, there is never a time when this war will end. After defeating the Mongols, after more than ten years or decades, they may rise again. Even if they collapse, there will be other nationalities who will rise up, and as long as the state exists, border troubles cannot be completely avoided, so there can be no slack thinking. In peacetime, there are not many armed forces, but they must have strong combat effectiveness and a complete set of practical military systems. Once there is a border trouble, the army can be expanded at any time, and the combat effectiveness will not be reduced too much. ”

"It doesn't matter if we don't have horses, we can raise them, even if we don't, I have a way to make the infantry defeat the cavalry, but it all depends on whether the Great Song Dynasty can put aside some of the old ideas and make the army a real national army. It's a troublesome matter, and it can't be changed overnight, so I'm saying this to remind you of the two adults. If you want to defend the country, you must rely on your own strength, always pay attention to the development trend of neighboring countries, and once they have the harbingers of rising, you must find ways to contain them. Cultural and economic means can be used, but it is not an exaggeration to nip them in the bud by force. ”

"In the short term, the threat of the Mongol Empire will soon be eliminated. They spent a lot of national strength to build naval warships, and they were built on the basis of our ships, not to hide from the two, and in this regard, our country also deliberately helped the Mongol Empire, providing them with a lot of technology privately...... Master Wu don't worry, first listen to me and tell me why you did this. ”

Although Hong Tao looked down on these officials of the Southern Song Dynasty, he could not despise them. In addition to the fact that they are not very strong in force, they have indeed governed the country well, and if they hadn't caught up with the strong men of the Mongol Empire in this era, the Jin State would have been assimilated by them sooner or later. Therefore, on the one hand, Hong Tao continued to carry out his plan to force the Southern Song Dynasty court to carry out reforms from the bottom up, and on the other hand, he did not give up any opportunity to influence the officials of the Southern Song Dynasty.

"The cost of the ships of the Great Song Sailors is too low to drag down the finances of the Mongol Empire, and if they are not given a little sweetness, they will not develop the Sailors on a large scale according to my vision. This is also the reason why I don't want to see the Great Song Dynasty hurriedly develop a new type of water division. This military model, which I call the navy, is too costly for the country. I deliberately dragged the Mongol Empire into this shipbuilding contest in order to bring down their national economy. If you want to defeat a country, you can fight for your life with real knives and guns, or you can use economic means that cannot be seen or touched.

The latter is more complete and effective, as if it were not harming a person's body, but draining his blood. If a person lacks too much blood, he will die, and even if he can't die, he will lose his combat effectiveness. I think the two adults should understand this aspect more thoroughly than me, fighting a war costs money, people eat horses and chew money, swords, axes and armor are also money, and people's logistics are still money. The Great Song Dynasty was emptied of its treasury by years of war, and so did the Mongols. They used all the money in the treasury to build warships and artillery, and the army did not have enough military spending, and they did not launch a large-scale southern invasion in the past two years. ”

"Now I think the time is ripe for the Mongol Empire to wake up. They can't wait any longer, because the financial pressure needs the money and food of the Great Song to make up for it, whether they are ready or not, they have to come to attack the Great Song, which is also the season of our harvest. As long as the Mongol Empire's sailors were wiped out, it would not be able to wage war again for a few years, either on land or at sea, because they would have no money or food. Hong Tao told all his strategic layout in one breath, and even told them the principles, not afraid that they would understand, but afraid that they would not understand.

"Your Majesty has been laying out all this since two or three years ago, how do you know that the Mongols will inevitably be deceived? What if they don't build warships and continue to attack on land? Listening to Hong Tao's tirade, Zheng Qingzhi fell into deep thought, and even forgot to smoke the cigar in his hand, so he took it in his hand and let it smoke by itself. Wu Qian may have a quick brain, or he may have less ideas, but he has been following Hong Tao's words and immediately asked questions.

"It's just a game, it's up to them to get in or not the Mongols, I can't control it. There is no if, as long as I hurt them with my battleship, they will inevitably want to get this powerful weapon. I have said before that the top of the Mongol Empire is very studious, they always learn what works for them as quickly as possible, and this time is no exception, this is nature, it is difficult to change. In fact, not only the Mongol Empire is learning, but as far as I know, the Great Song Dynasty is also learning, right? For Wu Qian's question, Hong Tao answered with a smile, that smile was like a rat's head on the commander's flag, how to look at it and how it seemed to have a sense of loss.

"This ......" Wu Qian made Hong Tao stunned, and his face was very unnatural. As for stealing other people's things, they were spurned by the mainstream class of the Great Song Dynasty, but now they are doing it, so it is difficult to answer.

"It's okay, there's no shame in learning it, there's nothing to be ashamed of not being able to study, and there is no need to follow personal moral standards between countries. No matter how low the standard is, as long as it can make the country strong and the people live happily, it is a good court! But I have to remind you both that casting cannons is no less troublesome than building warships. The cannon is cast out of copper, and copper is all money, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is piled up with money. ”

"The copper production of the Great Song Dynasty is not abundant, and it is tight to maintain domestic needs, so it is okay to study new technologies a little, but it is not necessary to spend too much national resources to do it. This is a trap I put on the Mongol Empire, and I don't want to watch the Great Song get in with them. Or is it the same sentence, if the warships and bronze cannons of the Mongol Empire are sunk into the sea, the two adults can calculate for themselves, do they still have money and food in their hands to attack the Great Song Dynasty again? "Hong Tao didn't squeeze Wu Qian on the matter of secretly building cannons, at this time it is meaningless to take advantage of the tongue, the important thing is to let the two high-ranking officials of the Great Song Dynasty understand the pros and cons of this matter, and then go back to influence the Great Song Dynasty to make a correct judgment.

(To be continued.) )