Now in the prefectures and counties of Shandong, Zhao Tai occupies the five states of Yanzhou, Pizhou, Tengzhou, Yizhou, and Haizhou in the south. Wuxian drove away the Yan family of the Han family in the eastern part of Shandong and controlled Dongping Prefecture, Jeju, and Dan in Henan.

Prefecture and half of Cao Prefecture.

The remaining ten states and two prefectures in Shandong were all controlled by Li Fen.

Although the combat effectiveness of Li Fen's soldiers was average, he controlled the largest territory and the largest population. He was also the only one among the three towns with a financial surplus.

Of course, Li Fen had a surplus, mainly because of the soldiers he raised, which was different from Zhao Tai.

Zhao Tai only had more than 30,000 troops, but they were all elite soldiers. The armor rate of the army was as high as 70%, with more than 20,000 armored soldiers and thousands of elite cavalry.

Li Fen claimed to have an army of 80,000, but less than 20% of his soldiers were in armor. The number of armored soldiers was not as high as that of Zhao Tai, and most of his soldiers were not paid and only had two full meals.

Therefore, Li Fen's cost of raising troops was far lower than that of Zhao Tai.

Now Li Fen has a large territory, many soldiers and horses, and Zhao Tai has no friendship with him. If he wants to make Li Fen surrender, even if he surrenders in name like Wuxian, it will be difficult.

Facing the threat from Mongolia, Li Fen needs Zhao Tai, and Zhao Tai also needs Li Fen, but the relationship between the two parties is not subordinate, making neither of them feel safe.

Therefore, it is very necessary for both parties to marry and be bound through this relationship.

On the side of the Zhongyi Army, Wang Wentong and others were in favor of the marriage between Zhao Tai and Li Fen.

At present, the Southern Song Dynasty has stopped aiding Zhao Tai, and the vassal town's finances are tight. By marrying Li Fen, if the vassal government's finances cannot be transferred, you can still borrow some money from Li Fen.

Seeing that Wang Wentong was very concerned about the marriage, Zhao Tai thought it was a good thing, so he nodded.

Anyway, he didn't suffer any loss in this matter, so he smiled and said: "Please ask your husband to take care of all the wedding matters, and I will listen to your arrangements."

Wang Wentong said: "I will prepare gifts for the king, choose an auspicious day, and arrange for the wedding."

Zhao Tai stroked his beard and suddenly asked: "Sir, does Li Fen want to imitate Sun Quan and put me under house arrest in Jinan and then control the entire Shandong?"

Wang Wentong said: "Please ask your Majesty to tell you about this. I will make arrangements by then. Even if Li Fen has this idea, he can only enlarge the king's return in the end."

When Zhao Tai heard what he said, he felt relieved and said with a smile: "Then just follow the military advisor."

After talking about the marriage, Wang Wentong thought of Zhao Tai's purpose of going to Haizhou and asked: "Your Majesty, how is the situation over there in Haizhou?"

When mentioning this trip to Haizhou, Zhao Tai's face darkened.

Zhao Tai expected that the Southern Song Dynasty would stop aid, but he did not expect it to stop so quickly.

As a result, Zhao Tai may not have enough time to wait for the development of Haizhou's special economic zone.

After all, attracting investment, investing in building workshops, and developing overseas trade all take a certain amount of time.

The sudden suspension of aid from the Southern Song Dynasty gave Zhao Tai no chance to develop the economy and change the tax structure.

At present, Zhao Tai relies too much on Song Yuan. Most of the army's equipment, food, and military pay are provided by the Song Dynasty. If it were not for the millions of Song Yuan available every year, Zhao Tai would not be able to recruit more than 30,000 people in such a short period of time.

The army and hundreds of thousands of civilians were stationed in Shandong.

Zhao Tai said in a deep voice: "The situation is not optimistic. Our idea is correct, but it will take time to implement it in Haizhou! I estimate that it will take at least three or four years to enable commercial taxation to support the operation of the vassal government."

"So long?" Wang Wentong couldn't help but frowned, "Your Majesty, the rewards for the soldiers this time are all land instead of money, food and cloth, but even so, the vassal treasury can only support the bottom. Now that the Southern Song Dynasty has stopped aid, we have no land tax.

If we have to collect it, but the growth of commercial taxes is slow, we will be left with nothing!"

Having said this, Wang Wentong said anxiously: "Your Majesty, can you speed up the development of Haizhou and shorten the time to one or two years?"

Zhao Tai shook his head, "If we want to speed up development, we need investment, but where do we have spare money now? I have asked Hu Zhen to go to Jiangnan and try to attract some Southern Song Dynasty businessmen to invest. It just takes time!"

Now Zhao Tai is poor, and the people under Zhao Tai are also poor. If he wants to speed up development, he has to spend money to invest and recruit craftsmen to build workshops. But Zhao Tai can't make money now. He has several workshops and the money he earns

, they were immediately exchanged for grain and shipped back to be used as military rations.

Zhao Tai thought about encouraging the people and letting wealthy people invest in industry and commerce.

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However, there were no rich people under Zhao Tai's rule. Those who followed him were the poor who were waiting for Zhao Tai to allocate land for farming.

This resulted in the feudal town having no money for investment, so Zhao Taicai was eager to attract investment and use the financial resources of Southern Song merchants to develop the economy under his rule.

After hearing Zhao Tai's words, Wang Wentong frowned and stroked his beard, and suddenly squinted his eyes and said: "Your Majesty, what we are short of now is time. I don't think we can completely rely on the merchants of the Southern Song Dynasty. We still have to find a way ourselves!"

Zhao Tai looked at him, "What can the military advisor do?"

"A man will not be rich without windfall, and a horse will not be fat without night grass." Wang Wentong said solemnly.

Zhao Tai was thoughtful after listening to his words. Based on his own understanding, a country needs start-up capital and primitive accumulation to develop its industry and economy.

Generally speaking, there are two ways of primitive accumulation. One is to endure hardships and save slowly, and the other is to quickly complete primitive accumulation and start industrialization by plundering others.

Hundreds of years later, the rise of the West was achieved by completing primitive accumulation through colonization and plunder, and then embarked on industrialization and became a great power.

In the subsequent history, most of the countries in the world that achieved industrialization and economic development achieved their own development by plundering others. Only a very small number of countries achieved industrialization on their own.

Zhao Tai looked at Wang Wentong and heard what he meant, which was that the vassal government had no money and could use the windfall to tide over the current difficulties. He could use the windfall to invest and accelerate the economic development of Haizhou.

Since it is a windfall, it cannot be obtained through legitimate means. Zhao Tai couldn't help but said: "To the north are Li Fen and Wuxian, to the south and west are the Southern Song Dynasty, and to the east is the sea. Where does the windfall come from?"

If Zhao Tai had a powerful navy, Zhao Tai could learn from the Great Empire, drive strong ships and powerful cannons, go overseas to plunder, visit Goryeo and the Japanese countries, and come back with some money and food.

But now that Zhao Tai does not have a navy, he cannot copy the methods of the Great Poppy Empire.

Wang Wentong understood what Zhao Tai meant, that is, the feudal town was surrounded by friendly troops, and there was nowhere to rob it.

Wuxian, Li Fen, and the Southern Song Dynasty are all those whom Zhao Tai needs to unite with. It would be unwise to attack any one of them.

Wang Wentong reminded him, "Has your Majesty forgotten Xuzhou?"

"Xuzhou?" Zhao Tai raised his eyebrows and stood up.

Wang Wentong said: "Wanyan Heda went to Kaifeng and left Pu Chaguan Nu to recruit troops in Xuzhou. Now that the Jin Kingdom is destroyed, Pu Chaguan Nu and a group of Jin Kingdom survivors are guarding Xuzhou. I think Xuzhou is important and the king can send troops to seize it.

Of."

Zhao Tai walked around the hall with his hands behind his hands, thinking about Wang Wentong's plan. After a while, Zhao Tai stopped and asked in a deep voice: "Isn't it inappropriate to go and attack Xuzhou alone just after the Jin Kingdom was destroyed?"

Wang Wentong said, "Are you worried that the Jurchens in the army and the newly elected Jin ministers will have objections?"

After the fall of the Jin Kingdom, as Zhao Tai expected, the remnants of the Jin Kingdom in various places began to look for a way out after learning that Kaifeng had been captured by the Mongols. Many of them chose to join Zhao Tai.

Except for a few people, in fact, the first choice of most people who came to seek refuge was not Zhao Tai, but the Southern Song Dynasty.

After all, Zhao Tai was just a warlord with a small territory and was still on the front line of the war. He could easily be destroyed by Mongolia, and the Southern Song Dynasty was the only regime in the world that could still confront Mongolia.

Therefore, most of them wanted to join the Southern Song Dynasty at first, but Song Dynasty officials were very cold towards them.

Culture and education flourished in the Southern Song Dynasty. There were a lot of scholars in the country, and there were also a large number of officials who had passed the exams but could not wait to fill their vacancies. It could be said that there were more official positions than more officials, so how could the northerners come to seize their positions and squeeze out their resources.

The Mongolian army mainly besieged Kaifeng and attacked. Many states and counties in Henan only sent troops to loot, but did not send troops to occupy them. They were still controlled by officials granted by the Jin Kingdom.

After the fall of the Jin Kingdom, they first wanted to seek refuge in the Southern Song Dynasty, but received a cold reception, and then turned around to look for a force to which they could seek refuge.

Some of these people took refuge in Mongolia, while others noticed Zhao Tai and came to Shandong to join Zhao Tai.

Now Zhao Tai has many Jin Kingdom survivors under his command, so he has some scruples when asking Zhao Tai to make decisions.

After all, he showed to the outside world that he had always been loyal to the Kingdom of Jin, and now

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As soon as the Jin Kingdom was destroyed, attacking Xuzhou, which also belonged to the Jin Kingdom, would damage Zhao Tai's previous personality.

Wang Wentong smiled and said: "Your Majesty, don't worry! Now that the Kingdom of Jin is perishing, your Majesty can, in the name of loyalty to the king, give an order to Pu Chaoguan Nu to come to Pizhou to discuss matters. The official slave had a rift with the king before, and I was sure that he would not come.

At that time, the king will use the excuse that he is an official slave, does not listen to orders, supports his own troops, and does not save Kaifeng, and sends troops to attack it."

Zhao Tai touched his short beard under his jaw and said, "This plan works!"

Wang Wentong smiled and said: "According to my understanding, after the Mongolian army came to Kaifeng last time, there were many Jin nobles in Kaifeng, so they left Kaifeng and went to Xuzhou to cause trouble. Although the Jin Dynasty court treasury was empty, these nobles had a lot of money in their hands.

There is still quite a bit of money. If the king can find out, it will solve an urgent need."

After the Mongolian army broke through the Guanhe defense line, many nobles in the Jin Kingdom knew that Kaifeng could not be defended.

They were no more wealthy and landed than ordinary Jurchens, so naturally they looked for a way out.

After the second Mongolian withdrawal, some frightened Jurchen nobles gradually moved to the relatively safe Xuzhou.

Generally speaking, in the later period of the dynasty, the dynasty's finances will go bankrupt and the treasury will be destitute. When the nobles of the dynasty have accumulated a lot of wealth through hundreds of years, they are the richest.

If Zhao Tai wants to come, the Kingdom of Jin will not be an exception.

Throughout the ages, when a dynasty falls, these people will become emerging forces and the targets of massacre. Only by killing them can the redistribution of social resources be completed.

The Pu procurator slave had a problem with Zhao Tai, and Xuzhou’s geographical location was important. After taking it, he could ensure the safety of his flanks. Zhao Tai thought for a while and agreed to Wang Wentong’s suggestion, "Okay, then I will ask Lao Junshang to write a seal."

Write a letter to Pu Chaguannu and ask him to come to Pizhou to pay homage to the lonely king!"

Wang Wentong immediately agreed and left to do the work. Zhao Tai then walked to the map and squinted at Xuzhou, "Then let Xuzhou become a pot of gold accumulated by Lone King Capital!"
To be continued...