Meng Kehan laughed a few times: "If you haven't been there, don't talk nonsense." Today I am glad to forgive you without sin. My Mongol cavalry is now dominating China, and I can't spare my hands to attack the Japanese slave kingdom, so you go back and tell the king of Goryeo that I have disappointed him. ”

"Great Khan, the minister returned empty-handed, only afraid of ......" the Goryeo envoy swallowed.

"I have made it very clear, the Japanese slave country is poor and the people are poor, and there are no special products, so what if I beat it down?" Möngke Khan took a large sip of goat's milk.

The speaker has no intention, but the listener has a heart.

However, Möngke's younger brother Kublai Khan was so attracted to it that he said to the envoy: "The Mongols are invincible in the world, and the sea can also be our bag." Japan is on the sea, and we have never had the experience of fighting across the sea, so it is not possible to send troops recklessly. As for the matter of gold, it will be clear if one person is sent to Japan to inquire about it. ”

Möngke said: "There is nothing wrong with the knights of the steppe who aspire to be sailors of the sea. However, no one in our Golden Family is familiar with the art of the sea, and there is no suitable candidate for the time being. ”

Kublai Khan said, "Yes." ”

Meng Ge was surprised: "Who? ”

Kublai Khan smiled: "Far away in the sky, close in front of you." Meng Ge looked around, but still didn't know who it was.

Kublai Khan said: "Didn't our uncle grow up in Jiangnan? What's more, he has a talent for languages, and he can learn Japanese in a month at most. ”

Meng Ge stopped again and again: "No, my uncle is in his fifties, can he endure this hardship?" ”

Kublai Khan smiled: "You see, my uncle is not a few years older than the two of us. You see he has black hair, and he looks no more than 40 years old, very young! ”

Yang Guangye didn't speak, because the attack on Japan was a matter for Meng Ge and his brothers. Kublai Khan's words were all said for this part, Yang Guangye stood up and walked in front of Meng Ge: "Great Khan, let me go to Japan for a trip, I know myself and my opponent will not be defeated in a hundred battles." ”

Meng Ge was about to send Yang Guangye away, but he didn't say anything about his father's death on the surface, he still suspected that his uncle had poisoned the cup, but he was just suffering from no evidence: "Okay, then it's hard for you, uncle!" Do you need manpower? ”

Yang Guangye said: "Aligaduo (Aligaduo), no need, the large number of people will attract the attention of the Kamakura shogunate in Japan." ”

Meng Ke asked the Goryeo envoy: "What was the first sentence of our aunt just now, it is Korean?" ”

The messenger said, "Hui Great Khan means thank you in Japanese." ”

Meng Ge said: "I can't see it, uncle, I've only been messing around with the Goryeo envoy for a few days, and I'll be able to order Japanese." ”

The envoy said: "General Mu Huayang is indeed a genius, and he has learned almost all the daily spoken Japanese, and he can speak Japanese fluently with me. ”

Kublai Khan said, "Then there will be an envoy to stay in the desert for a little longer, but how can we reach the Japanese archipelago?" ”

Yang Guangye said: "This is not simple, when the Japanese invaded the coast of Goryeo, I killed a Japanese Japanese and soon got into it?" ”

Meng Ge said: "Uncle Gaojian, I will leave the matter of going to Japan to collect intelligence, and I will personally escort you to Goryeo in a few days." ”......

A month later, Yang Guangye and the envoy of Goryeo left Horin and headed for the Korean Peninsula. In Seoul, Yang Kwang-yeol received a warm reception from the King of Goryeo. Yang Guangye smoothly penetrated the interior of the Japanese pirates, shuttling back and forth between the Sea of Japan and the Japanese archipelago.

Soon a few years passed, and Yang Guangye was very familiar with some small coastal islands such as Tsushima Island, Iki Island, and Eagle Island, and several slightly larger islands such as Honshu Island, Shikoku Island, Kyushu Island, and Hokkaido Island also went there, and Japan's mountains, rivers, minerals, and folk customs were all clear. Although he is 50 years old, he has an amazing memory, and he has a complete map of the military deployment and coastal islands and reefs in various parts of Japan.

During his years as a pirate in Japan, Yang Guangye discovered that the earliest samurai in Japan were descendants of Mohist disciples who were hunted down by Qin Shi Huang. They took root in Japan, and the ideas of Mohism gradually spread among the common people, and the ideas of Mozi were carried forward.

They despised the sluggish life of the Heian Dynasty aristocracy, and advocated the core ideas of "loyalty, righteousness, honesty, bravery, and perseverance", combined with Confucianism, Zen Buddhism, and Shinto, to form "Bushido". Therefore, Bushido is not an original Japanese import, which was drifted across the ocean from China.

During an operation to rob Jeju Island in Goryeo, Yang Guangye pretended to have a stomachache and stayed on the ship, and after the Japanese invaders poured out, he secretly left the Japanese group and lurked in the capital of Goryeo. With the help of the king's envoy who secretly visited Horim that year, he left Goryeo and returned to China.

Yang Guangye rode along the Great Wall, writing while walking, and walked for three months before returning to Helin, and when he arrived home, a copy of "The Minutes of the Raiders of the Japanese Slave Kingdom" had been out of draft......

As early as the eighth year of Chunyou (1248), the Mongol general Vuldy led his army out of the Song border in Sichuan, trying to find a way south from the Qiang tribe to attack Dali. Once the Dali Kingdom in Yunnan was destroyed, the Southern Song Dynasty's southwestern front would inevitably be threatened. So the Song general Yu Yu led the Song army out of the country to intercept the Mongol army, and Yang Wen, the leader of Banzhou, also sent 5,000 soldiers to accompany him.

In the Great Snow Mountain, the Song army and the Mongol army had a fierce confrontation. In the rugged mountainous terrain, the Banzhou soldiers were the kings, the Mongols could not survive a round under them, they won three battles and three victories, the Mongol general Bald was captured in the Dadu River, and Yang Wen was promoted to the general of the left guard because of his merits. Due to the repeated victories of the Banzhou army, the Southern Song Dynasty attached great importance to them, and they also became the main force in the fight against the Mongols.

In the twelfth year of Chunyou (1252 AD), that is, the second year of the succession of Möngke Khan, the Mongol army leaped thousands of miles into Dali and surrendered it. The situation on the southwestern border of the Southern Song Dynasty deteriorated dramatically, and Banzhou, which originally did not border Mongolia, became the front line against Mongolia.

In the same year, the Mongolian general Huo Luchi led the army to besiege Jiading (Leshan, Sichuan), Yang Wen sent the general manager Tian Wan to lead 5,000 troops, and went to it in the middle of the road, and Ji Jiajiang at night, Tunwan Mountain, shot the enemy with a strong crossbow, the Mongolian army was not supported, relieved the siege of Jiading, and was awarded the post of a military doctor.

In the second year of Emperor Lizong of the Song Dynasty (1255 AD), the Mongol army really set out from the old Dali Kingdom to attack Xuanhua, Sichuan, Yang Wen sent his younger brother to ride 5,000 to the enemy, nine battles and nine victories, and captured the enemy general Ali and others.

In the sixth year of Baoyou (1258 AD), Yang Wen sent troops to support Diaoyu City (Hejiang, Sichuan) and relieve the siege of Diaoyu City.

In 1259, when Meng Ke was attacking the Diaoyu Mountains in Sichuan, he was hit by artillery fire from the defenders of the Southern Song Dynasty and died soon after. Before his death, he left his last words, telling his younger brother Kublai Khan to suspend the attack on the Southern Song Dynasty, and to return to his Mongolian homeland as soon as possible to seize the throne. Ali Buge (the seventh son of Tuolei), who was stationed in the base camp, was ready to move, and with the support of the conservative nobles, ascended to the throne of the Mongol Khan.

In order to compete for supremacy, Kublai Khan and Ali Buge waged a four-year war in which the brothers killed each other, which Genghis Khan last wanted. In the end, Kublai Khan defeated Ali Buge and seized the throne of Khan, which was the ancestor of the Yuan dynasty.

During the years when Kublai Khan returned to the steppes to fight for the throne, the Song army began to counterattack the Mongol army. During the reign of Emperor Lizong of the Song Dynasty (1260 AD), Yang Wen sent troops to cooperate with Liu Xiongfei and Xia Gui to recover Jiang'an Prefecture (now Jiang'an, Sichuan). Later, Yang Wen also continued to send troops to fight the Mongol army until his death in the first year of Song Duzong Xianchun (1265 AD).

The Banshu soldiers were simply the nemesis of the Mongol cavalry, almost invincible. If the Song Dynasty had more Banzhou soldiers, it would not have been defeated by the Mongols at all. Later, after the capture of Xiangyang, the Southern Song Dynasty perished, and Banzhou became the last Southern Song armed force to resist the Mongol Empire.

Yang Changmeng, the commander-in-chief of the Yuan army's artillery, rode into the Hailong Hoard in the Banzhou region alone, and tried to persuade the Yang family Tusi to return to the Yuan Dynasty as a descendant of the Yang generals in the south. The Yang family Tusi prevaricated Yang Changmeng on the grounds of "not doing anything to the two masters", did not welcome his arrival, and even wanted to detain Yang Changmeng as a hostage to fight against the Mongol army, and the meeting broke up unhappily

Before leaving, Yang Changmeng left a sentence: As long as my stone thrower and artillery enter Banzhou, no matter how powerful the Yang family's martial arts are, it will be in vain......

In the twelfth year of the Yuan Dynasty (1275), Kublai Khan issued an edict to appease Banzhou, and Yang Changmeng and his father Yang Guangye sent an envoy to Banzhou. Sensing that the tide had turned, the Tusi leader of the Yang family weighed it up and finally surrendered to the Yuan dynasty, but was still allowed to continue to rule Banju.

After recovering Banzhou, Yang Guangye took the opportunity to present the manuscript to Kublai Khan. Kublai Khan, who was busy with a lot of time, quickly finished reading the "Minutes of the Raids of the Japanese Slave Kingdom", had a detailed understanding of the situation in Japan, greatly appreciated his uncle Mu Huayang, and specially gave the old general who came back from Japan a banquet to celebrate his achievements, and rewarded a lot of money, and the ambitious Kublai Khan not only became the overlord of the land, but also the overlord of the sea.

Yang Guangye died of illness at the age of 84, on the eve of Kublai Khan's army to attack Japan. Originally, Kublai Khan planned to use Yang Guangye as the supreme commander of the Eastern Expedition to Japan, but he was very sad for this, and according to the etiquette of the Mongol kings, Yang Guangye was buried in the depths of the desert.

In that year, without Yang Guangye's direct command, the commander of the Yuan army attacking Japan made his own decisions, and did not follow Yang Guangye's strategy of taking the lead step by step, seizing the beachhead, giving full play to the superiority of artillery, and establishing military bases......

Under the leadership of Temujin and his descendants, the Mongol Empire swept across the Eurasian continent, shook in all directions, drank the Rhine River, and went as far west as the city of Gaul, establishing a Mongol empire across Asia and Europe. On February 4, 1276, Kublai Khan personally led a large army to attack Lin'an, and Emperor Gong of Song went out of the city to present the jade seal and surrender table, and the central power of the Southern Song Dynasty was destroyed.

Kublai Khan ended more than 500 years of division and secession in China for the past five dynasties, achieved unprecedented unification of the country, and his territory was wider than that of Genghis Khan. In the Yuan Dynasty, which Kublai Khan directly ruled under his direct jurisdiction, he implemented the provincial system, which laid the foundation for the division of provinces and regions in later generations.

Kublai Khan was a dreaming Great Khan, an adventurer who dared to challenge the unknown, who ended an old era and ushered in a new one.