Gorten Wanhu is not a person who is not responsible, not to mention that his subordinates were beheaded by 2,000 people, and they can't hide it. As a result, Kublai Khan received a detailed report on the small battle in Haizhou before Zhao Jiaren.

With the gradual establishment of the Han system, all the pieces had to be sent to the Zhongshu Province first, and then the Zhongshu Province handed over the major events to Kublai Khan. The faces of the ruling people who knew about this were very ugly. The image of the Mongolian army being invincible and invincible was established with the achievements of destroying the country and killing dozens of people, but the Mongolian army has been defeated twice in the hands of Zhao Jiaren in the past few years.

To the surprise of the rulers, Kublai Khan was not angry after reading it. He just sighed, and ordered: "Let Gorten collect his troops." ”

The right prime minister, Shi Tianze, was stunned for a moment, and he hurriedly stepped forward and said, "Great Khan, just collecting troops like this, wouldn't it make Zhao Jiaren get carried away." What if he doesn't give up on his pursuit? ”

"Chase? Hehe! Kublai Khan laughed, "It was because Gorten underestimated the Song army that he fought relatively close to the Song army. If the battlefield is twenty miles away from the Song army, I am afraid that the Song army will not dare to come to the battle. ”

Shi Tianze also fought in the war, and when he heard Kublai Khan say this, he also felt that what Kublai Khan said was reasonable. What kind of elite division, Gorten didn't want to think about it, if the Song State really had such an elite division, they would have counterattacked Shandong a long time ago. According to Gorten's description, the Song army relied entirely on its proximity to the city and its abundance of firearms, so it had the courage to come out and fight.

Seeing that the right prime minister returned to the train, the general Ulan Hada asked: "Great Khan, Marshal Boyan asked us to build the Hui cannon with all our might, but now, the artillery is really not to be underestimated." ”

Kublai Khan nodded slightly, he had seen how fierce Zhao Jiaren's military ships were on the Yangtze River. Looking at it now, Zhao Jiaren's artillery is as fierce as it is on land. After thinking for a while, Kublai Khan sighed: "I thought that the encirclement point that Boyan talked about was very good, but in a few years, I was afraid that Zhao Jiaren would become bigger." From this point of view, it was necessary to win quickly. ”

As soon as these words came out, Hao Jing and the others couldn't help but have their eyes shining. A quick victory means reducing the consumption of war, which means that peace will come as soon as possible, and peace can give the Wenchen faction a greater say, which is a great joy for the Confucian ministers. Hao Jing hurriedly stepped forward and said: "If Your Majesty is worried about Zhao Jiaren, after the attack on Xiangyang, you might as well send troops to Jiangbei first, if the Song State sends someone to sue for peace, we will not agree for the time being, and designate the Song State to send Zhao Jiaren to negotiate peace." If Zhao Jiaren was loyal to the Song Kingdom, he would probably come. At that time, the Great Khan would just hold him up. ”

Kublai Khan couldn't help but laugh out loud when he heard this, "Haha. I didn't expect Mr. Hao to come up with such a plan. ”

Hao Jing smiled indifferently and replied calmly: "If Zhao Jiaren is in power in the Song State, I am afraid that the war will drag on for a long time. For every day the war drags on, how many people have to die in vain? Compared with the lives of thousands of people in the world, Zhao Jiaren is just a life. ”

Hearing such a righteous and bright theory, Kublai Khan was amused to laugh. Many other officials also laughed with some ill-willed intentions. After Kublai Khan finished laughing, he asked Hao Jing, "What if Zhao Jiaren refuses to be a loyal minister?" ”

Hao Jing replied calmly: "If he refuses to be a loyal minister, he will inevitably have a grudge against the Lin'an court." As long as he doesn't save the Lin'an court, what is the Great Khan to fear. If the skin does not have hair, it will be attached, once the Song Kingdom is destroyed, what can Zhao Jiaren do. ”

Kublai Khan didn't laugh this time. Hao Jing's words explain a Confucian logic, which is not ridiculous at all.

After some discussion, the Mongol court adjusted the entire strategy according to the latest situation. The feint troops that were originally going to go to Haizhou switched to defending Haizhou, and the Sichuan side undertook the main feint. At the same time, he ordered Boyan to speed up his attack and take Xiangyang as soon as possible.

A few days later than the Mongol court, Zhao Jiaren also got a detailed report on the Battle of Haizhou. Zhao Jiaren spoke highly of the process of the Battle of Haizhou, the biggest difference between the modern army and the Song Dynasty army is discipline and organization, and the ability to fight with one enemy and ten individuals is not the most critical factor.

The cadres were also very happy. After the Battle of Ezhou, everyone was very confident in defeating the Mongol army in water battles and artillery battles. There were some worries about fighting the Mongol army on land. In this battle, 2,000 Mongol troops were beheaded, and only 12 dead and 38 wounded on their own side. The vast majority of the dead were killed by the Mongols due to their lack of experience when they dealt the final blow to the wounded Mongols. In the report submitted by Song Jie, he said that he must pay more attention to this in the future, and will never give the Mongolian army the slightest chance.

"Isn't the amount of gunpowder a little too much?" Xu Yuanzhi raised a question from a very special angle.

"Well, more live firing in the future." Zhao Jiaren agreed with Xu Yuanzhi's view.

When Xu Yuanzhi heard this, he felt that his idea had been misused by Zhao Jiaren. He hurriedly explained: "Zhao Zhizhou, 32,000 catties of gunpowder were used up in this battle. ”

32,000 catties of gunpowder required 30,000 copper coins, which was a very large expense even for Zhao Jiaren. However, Zhao Jiaren is not a person who only looks at the results, he replied: "At our current level, because we have not accumulated enough data, it is impossible to accurately determine how much gunpowder needs to be used to destroy an enemy. If you want to have an accurate judgment, then you need to train more and fight more battles. Only when the data has accumulated enough can we make relatively reliable estimates. ”

Xu Yuanzhi was a little stunned when he was on the board, he didn't expect Zhao Jiaren's thinking to be so strange. Zhao Jiaren didn't wonder why it took fifteen catties of gunpowder to kill a Mongolian soldier. Just when Xu Yuanzhi was about to give up this problem, he heard Zhao Jiaren say: "Killing a Mongolian soldier requires fifteen catties of gunpowder that we have not encountered before. ”

At this time, Xu Yuanzhi felt that Zhao Jiaren was still a person who could speak, at least on such a question, Zhao Jiaren did not have only strange ideas.

And Zhao Jiaren continued: "We have to put this battle under a system, and this battle is the first batch of data for the entire system. So I'm against looking at this battle in terms of what I think is a strange statistic. This is unscientific, and it is disrespectful to the commanders and fighters who fought bravely. ”

Hearing this, Xu Yuanzhi initially felt that he couldn't understand Zhao Jiaren's words. However, he saw Yuan Hongjie holding a notebook and swiping down the words he cared about. And the meeting recorder is like the wind, and the record is fast.

"Life is precious. Those who can go into battle and fight are in the prime of life, and if one person dies, a family loses a very valuable labor force. The parents gave birth to the child in ten months and raised him to the prime of life, and the money spent was more than fifteen. Zhao Jiaren couldn't help but feel a little compassionate when he said this.

This time it was Li Hongjun's turn to feel that he couldn't understand it, so he opened his mouth and asked: "Principal, these people are all soldiers, they haven't gone down to the fields to farm, how can they be regarded as strong laborers." ”

Zhao Jiaren explained this problem, "The defeat of Mongolia this time has caused a vacancy of 2,000 troops in the army. Because of the defeat, if you recruit more troops, you will definitely try to recruit more. How they will recruit troops, it must be from the civilian recruitment of men in the prime of life. The loss of 2,000 men now means that the Mongol-controlled areas will have to lose at least 2,000 or more strong laborers in a very short period of time. From the point of view of the strong labor force, the labor force in the Mongolian-controlled areas is bleeding. ”

Xu Yuanzhi understood this time, because Da Song also faced this problem. Under strong external pressure, it had to maintain a large army, had to pay high military spending, and the finances were hollowed out little by little. Finally seeing that Mongolia was also beginning to face such a predicament, a happy smile appeared on Xu Yuanzhi's face.

If the Zuo Prime Minister Jia Rudao Jia Xianggong, who was far away in Lin'an, learned that the Great Song Mintuan could slaughter the Mongol army in the plain field battle, he would also smile. However, the Mongols had no intention of publicizing the matter, and neither did Zhao Jiaren. This is just Zhao Jiaren's personal success, and it has nothing to do with Jia Yidao.

So Jia Xianggong had to face the dilemma of the Battle of Xiangyang. Not long ago, he learned the news that Xia Gui's attempt to break into Xiangyang City while the water was rising in autumn had failed. As with the previous aid operations, this defeat once again left the Song army with a loss of troops. In the face of great setbacks, Jia Rudao retreated in the paradise on the shore of the West Lake given to him by the former emperor Song Lizong, and closed his door to no one.

At this time, Jia Nidao was no longer the Jia Nidao who was looked up to by thousands of people at the end of the Battle of Ezhou, and seeing that Jia Nidao was unwilling to take responsibility at all, there was immediately a vote in the Lin'an court to write an impeachment note. In addition to Jia Nidao, Jia Nidao's henchmen have also been impeached. Including Zhao Jiaren, who lifted the cotton service, is also within the scope of impeachment.

However, except for Xiangyang, which was in a state of war, the days of Lin'an and even the entire Great Song Dynasty settled down. First of all, those who were tossed by the reform of the public field probably resigned themselves to their fate, and they didn't come back anyway, and they were just torturing themselves when they were angry. The second is that Zhao Jiaren, who was impeached by many people, provided copper money and grain to the imperial court every year, so that the reform of the public land had a guarantee, and the guarantee allowed Jia Xianggong to be calm, Jia Xianggong was calm, and a considerable number of public land officials were not so diligent and oppressive. So the folk are reluctant to mix like this.

No matter how exaggerated the impeachment note is, for example, someone writes that because of the existence of traitors like Jia Yidao, the stars in the sky are changed. But in reality, Da Song did not get better because of these people's wishes, nor did he get worse because of these people's wishes.

Of course, the world is not eternal, but constantly changing. For example, Suzhou's embroidery industry suddenly became popular, because of the pull of Suzhou, Hangzhou's embroidery industry also showed a boom. This also slightly increases Hangzhou's taxes.

There is also the relationship between Fuzhou Zhizhou and Fujian Road pacification envoy and promotion of cotton affairs, Zhao Jiarentuo, asking the official family of the Great Song Dynasty to give some 'Jianzhan'. The current Great Song Dynasty official family uses women to relieve them under heavy pressure, and they are not interested in things like Jianzhan. In view of the fact that Zhao Jiaren also sent a batch of tributes when he made the request, the official family let the following deal with the matter. Zhao Jiaren was not polite, after dotting, he alone took away more than 50 Jianzhan. This greed made the attendants in charge of the matter shake their heads.

The officials of the Great Song Dynasty have the best Jianzhan of the Great Song Dynasty in their hands. Facing the Kyushu mention of the Kamakura shogunate, Zhao Jiaren's envoy said happily: "This Jianzhan is called Ninety-Nine Eggplant. ”

Looking at the exquisite golden eggplant pattern covered with the inner wall of the Jianzhan in front of him, Kyushu nodded subconsciously, his eyes were completely attracted by this Jianzhan with an elegant shape and unique texture, and he couldn't move it at all.