Chapter 51: The Factors That Determine Li Pu's Fate

The system of third-class people established by the Great Khan Kublai Khan was soon turned into an official document through Confucianism and sent to the Han land. This content was sent to Li Pu, the governor of Shandong, and Li Pu's expression became extremely ugly.

After the fall of the Jin Kingdom, Yandi and Shandong were ruled by many Han military princes. To put it more bluntly, these people are warlords. Shandong Li Pu's strength is one of the best among the warlords, so he can't accept the third-class system at all. Although Li Pu married the sister of the queen of Chijin, Ta Cha'er, but the passage of this system means that Li Pu is also a third-class person.

Thinking of this, the anger in Li Pu's heart was even stronger. As long as Li Pu's actual interests were not infringed upon, the supreme ruler of the Han land was Mongolia or the Great Song Dynasty, and it made no difference to Li Pu at all. Similarly, regardless of whether the supreme ruler of the Han land was the Mongols or the Great Song Dynasty, as long as Li Pu's actual interests were infringed, he would not be arrested.

With a clear idea in mind, Li Pu asked his subordinates to write letters to the other Han army princes, telling them about the harm of the third-class class system to the Han army princes. You don't need Li Pu to do these things personally, just explain them to Confucianism. Li Pu called his cronies and dictated the letter to the Great Song Dynasty. If you want to deal with the Mongols, you must cooperate with the Great Song. Li Pu will not be unaware of even the most basic strategic considerations.

After writing this letter, Li Pu ordered his cronies to write a letter to Zhao Jiaren. After fighting so many battles with the official army of the Great Song Dynasty, Li Pu was very clear about the strength of the Great Song army, so Zhao Jiaren's army left a deep impression on Li Pu. Regardless of Zhao Jiaren's powerful navy, when he was in Haizhou, Zhao Jiaren's army equipped with artillery showed amazing strength. Now Cho Jia-in controls Jeju Island, which is very close to Shandong. To fight the Mongols, Li Pu had to have more weapons.

The letter was first delivered to Rentong Express' stronghold in Haizhou, and then sent to the south as fast as possible. At the beginning of August of the second year of Jiading, the letter was finally delivered to Zhao Jiaren. Zhao Jiaren didn't read the letter at this time, he was very dissatisfied with the reward from the official family. The number of fine candles as a tribute finally came to an annual tribute of 12,000. The officials also generously gave the reward.

According to the price of the copper coin of the candle, the official family gave the Zhao family the same amount of money.

This kind of expropriation and tyranny made the attitude of the Zhao clan members very ambiguous. The copper coins of the Great Song Dynasty have always been 770 Wen. The price of the banknote is always 120 Wen, which means that the copper coin can be exchanged for about seven banknotes. Now our Song Dynasty officials have always paid a thousand copper coins to ask for tribute from the Zhao family, although the tribute is theoretically free of charge to the official family's filial piety, but there has been no such operation for many years.

Because of the new technology, candles are a lucrative industry. However, Zhao Jiaren calculated the account, and according to the proportion given by the official family, the tribute candle actually had to lose money. For Zhao Jiaren, he has failed investments, but he has never made money-losing transactions.

Now that the attitude of the Zhao clan has been determined, none of them will interfere in this matter again. Since the candle loses money, let Zhao Jiaren, the culprit, bear the tribute. Of course, when the clans handed over the money to Zhao Jiaren, they said extremely beautifully, "All the rewards of the official family are given to Jiaren." ”

Who the hell wants to do something to himself? Zhao Jiaren thought very puzzled. The intelligence is insufficient, and he simply can't come up with enough information to judge.

In order to divert his attention, Zhao Jiaren began to deal with other things. After opening Li Pu's letter, Zhao Jiaren fell into deep thought after reading it. Originally, Zhao Jiaren thought that the third-class system was a system that was determined when the Mongols eliminated the Jin State, but now he knows that the original system has the great merit of the Confucian scholars.

After reading the letter several times, Zhao Jiaren felt that if Li Pu hadn't told nonsense, his understanding should be correct. Looking at Li Pu's request again, Zhao Jiaren couldn't help but be happy. The governor of Shandong, who intended to rebel, had a very good idea, that is, to purchase a large number of weapons and equipment, attack the city in Shandong, and then divide Shandong. Zhao Jiaren was very puzzled, in history, the secession of Shandong has never been able to hold on for a long time, and that place is not suitable for playing secession at all. Is it because there is too little reading that the ignorant are fearless?

Of course, if Zhao Jiaren helps, Li Pu may not be able to achieve secession in the short term. If it had been before, Zhao Jiaren would have such a wish. However, today's Zhao Jiaren found that he didn't want to help Li Pu at all in his heart. Helping Li Pu to seize Shandong meant that the strategic situation of the Great Song Dynasty had changed greatly. The benefits were the official family of the Great Song Dynasty and the Prime Minister of the Great Song Dynasty.

There was an incident of paying tribute to Shibi and candles, and Zhao Jiaren was very disappointed in the official family and Jia Yidao. With this kind of emotion, Zhao Jiaren really doesn't want to put in so much effort for Da Song. What's more, when Jia Xianggong was in power, what would happen if Zhao Jiaren made another contribution?

But Li Pu can't help but help. The governor of Shandong offered to exchange 100,000 catties of alkali blocks for cannonballs and gunpowder from Zhao Jiaren. Zhao Jiaren didn't remember that there was still a person like Li Pu in Shandong when Mongolia went south, which means that Li Pu's judgment was a complete failure. Now Zhao Jiaren has not cultivated a trading route for the Northwest alkali block, which means that after Li Pu is destroyed, Zhao Jiaren will not be able to get soda ash. Even if it is just such a reason, Zhao Jiaren has to seize the time to accumulate soda ash reserves.

In August, when the rainy season was over, Zhao Jiaren sent Hu Yuelian to Japan to negotiate with the Japanese side about paying tribute. Shells and gunpowder escorted to Li Pu along the way. The ruling class of both the Great Song Dynasty and the Wa Kingdom were very knowledgeable, and they were all very interested in candles.

Pigs are very susceptible to disease, and the survival rate of pigs on Jeju Island has increased greatly by heating and sterilizing the feed by geothermal heat. Even so, it is now only a few tens of thousands of pigs. Lard has a wide range of uses, and it is impossible to make candles all of them, and a pig can produce up to ten candles. Seeing that there is a vast market, but it is impossible to see and eat, this depression is indescribable.

Zhao Jiaren wrote a letter to Xu Yuanzhi, the governor of Guangzhou, urging him to ask him about the coal mine. Everything has to be adapted to local conditions, and the biggest problem with raising pigs is that piglets have no fat and can only eat meat. Large pigs have a lot of fat, but the feeding cycle of large pigs is long, and the probability of disease and death is greatly increased. The use of geothermal heat to heat the feed can indeed save costs and increase fat production. The cost of raising pigs in areas without this resource has increased dramatically. To solve this contradiction, the only way to solve this contradiction is to use coal with high combustion value as fuel.

There are no coal mines along the coast of Fujian, and the only one who can help Zhao Jiaren is Guangdong, an area with developed waterways. I prayed in my heart that Xu Yuanzhi would become smart and capable. Zhao Jiaren sent the letter.

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