A lively drama ended, but it became a fact that Empress Dowager Xie and Emperor Deyou were given the title and expelled from the clan. In order to facilitate this, Zhao Bing and Empress Dowager Yang discussed it many times. The mother and her tears were left with a basin, but they still refused to nod. Later, he could only repeatedly guarantee that their clan would be restored after the restoration of the country and re-enacted it. This was the case with Empress Dowager Yang's consent, so that the plan could be implemented smoothly.

Although the plan to "move disasters eastward" has been successfully launched, Zhao Bing did not dare to guarantee that Kublai Khan could fall into the trap, so he did not dare to relax the combat preparations. It is gratifying that Qiongzhou has had good weather this year, and no major disasters have occurred. The rice has grown well in both seasons and has achieved good harvests. According to statistics, the average per mu production capacity has reached three stones, and it is estimated that all prefectures and counties and Xinken farms on the island can produce about 2.5 million stones of grain.

Zhao Bing calculated that apart from the farmers' own reserves, one million stones of surplus grain would flow into the market. What made him feel painful was that he had to spend money to purchase the surplus grain from the farmers' hands to ensure military supplies. In order to avoid low grain damage to farmers, he had to maintain a high purchase price, which alone costs 700,000 guan. In order to promote consumption and drive the economy, he changed the court's rules that half of the physical goods and half of the money, and all paid for money, so that some surplus grain flowing into the market could also be digested.

In addition, Zhao Bing ordered the first army of the baggage to repair the bridges and roads that were damaged in the rainy season so that the mobile access of each unit can be ensured; the second and third army of the baggage to strengthen the coastal defense facilities must be completed before the dry season arrives. At the same time, one-third of the warships and baggage ships are evacuated to the south of the island for the navy arranged along the straits, one-third of the warships and baggage ships are evacuated to the south of the island, one is used as a way to prevent the enemy from catching their own way; the other is to carry the troops in the south of the island to reinforce the north of the island when necessary.

Because Qiongzhou is too small, it also leads to no defense depth. Therefore, the success or failure of the battle depends on whether the beachhead position can be defended and defeated the enemy naval army. If the Mongolian army breaks through the beachhead position, the subsequent troops will go to the island in large numbers, it will be difficult to win, so Zhao Bing still focuses on the decisive battle at sea. He ordered the Privy Council to formulate a combat plan, strengthen offensive and defense, counter-shock and rapid maneuver training for each army, and organize the navy to conduct confrontation exercises with them in order to find out defense loopholes and test the combat capabilities of the guard forces.

Now that the food has been harvested, Zhao Bing ordered the Ministry of War, the Ministry of Revenue and various prefectures and counties to organize Ding Yong for military training, strengthen inspections of coastal blind spots, renovate city defense and equipment. He ordered the Ministry of Works to speed up the construction of weapons, armor and warships; the Imperial Supervision increased the production of gunpowder to ensure the production of flowering bullets and rockets for military use; the other departments should also formulate evacuation and evacuation plans, and once the war is unfavorable, they will lead the military and civilians to the sea to preserve their strength...

Now that all the departments of the court have been reorganized, and the chief officials in charge of the various departments are in charge, Zhao Bing no longer needs to worry about everything like before. He only needs to review and supervise the work plans of each department. Therefore, he can focus more on military aspects. In addition to inspecting the troops to strengthen combat readiness, intelligence work is still what Zhao Bing cares about the most.

Only with large investments can large outputs, especially in this ancient times when there are fewer channels for information and slow dissemination, if you want to obtain valuable information in a timely manner, you can only rely on a large amount of manpower to collect it. Now, after continuous construction, the intelligence agencies of Xingchao have been improved and are no longer limited to the Bureau of Affairs.

Now the Privy Council has established a spy department, which is specifically responsible for the reconnaissance of border affairs, which is managed by Du Yuhou Hou; the Secretariat Province has established a Jiyi Department, which is specialized in collecting political and economic affairs of surrounding countries and intelligence in various prefectures and counties in China. It also has the responsibility of prosecuting and eliminating traitors and sending spies abroad, which are directly managed by the left and right ministers. In addition, each army also has direct scouts, and their main task is to reconnaissance the enemy situation in front of the face, such as the leading generals, military strength, weapons and equipment, military deployment and marching routes, etc. They are under the dual management of the Pulse Bureau of the Privy Council and the military chiefs of various departments.

Of course, the most complete functions and the most staffing is the Imperial City Affairs Bureau directly under Zhao Bing. They have the support of the emperor, and are not subject to the limitations of the fiscal budget, have sufficient funds, and have the privilege of facing the saints directly, so they are still the intelligence source that Zhao Bing relies most on. After several years of development, they have a huge organization with more than 3,000 permanent personnel and no less than 10,000 spies on the periphery. Their tentacles have reached the north of the Yuan Dadu area, and set up intelligence stations on various prefectures and counties in Jiangnan, and branch stations have been set up in important prefectures and counties, and intelligence officer activities are also available in counties.

As the court moved to Qiong, Zhao Bing also took the opportunity to install some affairs bureau personnel into various institutions of the court, so that they had a public identity and made it more convenient to collect intelligence. For example, the spies in the five departments who were responsible for monitoring the court's politicians and collecting civil and economic information were mostly doctors, chief officials of various departments, judges of prefectures and counties, military officers, county magistrates, and chief clerks. They seemed inconspicuous, but they were indispensable, and could directly contact core affairs and secrets.

The operation team, as the only armed force of the Affairs Bureau, has also grown. Now there are more than 500 members, divided into a brigade and dozens of squads. Except for the brigade stationed in the headquarters, the rest are distributed in various regions in Jiangnan. They only obey the orders of the headquarters. Each intelligence station has no right to command, but each station has the obligation to cooperate with their actions. They eliminate rape and kill the enemy and become an elite force to deter the enemy, and undertake the task of escorting caravans to and from both sides of the Taiwan Strait.

The existence of the three intelligence teams is not subordinate to each other, and the sources of intelligence are different, so loopholes will inevitably arise. In order to prevent omissions and delay the opportunity to fight, Zhao Bing asked the Secretariat and the Privy Council to submit the collected intelligence to the Military Affairs Office every five days. The daily routine notice of the Bureau of Affairs has long been a prescribed rule, so that each other can be verified and supplemented. He quickly couldn't bear it, and the information he had summarized was more and more, so he had no time to interpret and study it one by one.

This situation forced Zhao Bing to organize a team to organize and process the intelligence of various departments, filter out some valuable and duplicate things, and then re-summarize them and make a briefing to his desk. After reviewing them, he fed some of the information back to the Secretariat, the Secretariat and the Privy Council respectively. In this way, he became an intelligence distribution center, completing the summary and interpretation of the information.

However, Zhao Bing relies most on the Bureau of Affairs, because he was the earliest, had the most sound institutions, and collected the most complete categories of intelligence. Of course, all this was based on his trust and support, but there were also hidden worries, especially as the increase in economic activities involved in the Bureau of Affairs, he obtained huge amounts of black money, the Bureau of Affairs' strength and power were also rapidly expanding.

Zhao Bing was very clear that absolute power would inevitably lead to **, especially a privileged unit like the Bureau of Affairs, which would cause great trouble and losses to himself once it lost control. To solve this problem, in addition to strict discipline, it also required to strengthen supervision. He finally understood the reason why the Ming Dynasty had to set up the Jinyiwei, and the East Factory and the West Factory again, but this would undoubtedly aggravate the competition for power and the bloated organization.

Zhao Bing did not want to follow the old path of the Ming emperor, so he could only carry out institutional reforms. Therefore, he strictly ordered the Bureau of Affairs not to participate in the affairs of the administrative department. It had the responsibility of collecting intelligence and providing clues, but had no right to make decisions, so as to avoid them colluding with officials at all levels. In addition, it was to strictly control the economic activities of the Bureau of Affairs and set up a procurement office to gradually separate it from the business department, and all income must be reviewed by the General Department before it could be included in the public, so as to prevent the Bureau of Affairs from becoming an organization specializing in profit-making...

"Your Majesty, good news!" After October, while Qiongzhou was preparing for war, various intelligence agencies also stepped up their activities to detect the enemy's movements. On that day, Zheng Huchen entered the palace to meet, and as soon as he met, he smiled and opened his eyes.

"Oh, what news makes you happy that the old trees are blooming!" Zhao Bing is now used to Zheng Huchen's smile that is even ugly than crying, and asked.

"Your Majesty, Kublai Khan was extremely furious after learning that his envoy was detained by Annan and had decided to use troops to Annan and Chameng!" Zheng Huchen said.

"This is indeed good news!" Zhao Bing smiled.

He didn't know if his arrival had changed the trajectory of history. While sending envoys to surrender himself, Kublai Khan also accelerated his pressure on the southwest foreign countries. He ordered the Annan envoy to detain the Annan envoys and issued an edict, which roughly means: King Chen Huang, Annan, since you said you didn't come to Dadu to pay your respects, and you would naturally not be able to take charge of your duties, so you can rest assured! I sent your uncle Chen Yiai, who was a charity in Dadu, to be the king and govern Annan.

Just as Liu Mengyan and his friends came to Qiongzhou, Kublai Khan still used Chai Chun as the commander-in-chief of Annan Xuanwei, and Buyan Temur led 1,000 troops to escort "King of Annan" Chen Yiai back to his position. Facts proved that it was too naive to let the tenacious Chen Dynasty submit with a thousand Yuan army and a puppet King Annan. Chai Chun and Chen Yiai and his party encountered heavy attacks as soon as they entered the Annan boundary. The Yuan army collapsed, Chai Chun was injured in chaos, and Chen Yiai disappeared.

Chai Chun was shocked and did not dare to move forward. He ordered people to go to Shenglong to question the crime and demanded that Chen Yiai be investigated. The Chen father and son did not dare to break up with the Yuan envoy and sent people to greet him, but insisted that they were attacked by bandits and had nothing to do with him. As for Chen Yiai and the others did not know where to go, they probably hid because they were afraid and did not dare to return to their country. They would also send troops to escort the angels, but Chai Chun refused to leave, but sent someone to report to Dadu.

"According to the spies under his subordinates, the soldiers of the Chen family who attacked the Yuan envoy were the soldiers of the Chen family. Chen Yiai had also been captured and sent to Shenglong to imprisonment. Chai Chun led the remaining soldiers to retreat to the border and standby!" Zheng Huchen continued.

"Kublai is really arrogant. He just wants to replace other people's emperor, but he doesn't know that there are many troublesome people in poor mountains and bad waters. No matter how cowardly Chen's family is, he will not be willing to throw away the throne at this time. It is inevitable that Chen Yiai will have been crushed and ashes at this time, and it has evaporated in the world!" Zhao Bing said with a smile.

"What Your Majesty said is exactly. After Chen Yiai was secretly escorted to Shenglong, he completely lost the news. It is estimated that as Your Majesty said, he had been executed privately." Zheng Huchen said.

"The news is sent back to Dadu. With Kublai Khan's personality, he will definitely not give up. He will definitely take revenge after receiving the news!" Zhao Bing chuckled.

He knew that the Mongols established the largest empire in history. In order to adapt to the rule of the vast field, the rulers carried out active reforms in post offices and greatly expanded the scope of post offices. After Kublai Khan unified the Central Plains, he established a strict "Station Chi" system on the vast territory, so that post office communications could effectively and effectively unify the post office and post office systems in Mongolian stations and Han areas. He established a horse delivery network with post offices as the main body and a step delivery network with emergency delivery as the main body, which used timely and quickly to communicate the connection between the central and local governments. It is said that the post office stations are scattered and can arrive every day. Even in Guangxi, Kublai Khan would know what happened here.

"Haha, the spies in Dadu reported that Kublai Khan was furious after receiving the news, but he considered that our dynasty occupied Qiongzhou and continued to harass the southeast, and some places responded one after another. Chameng also repeatedly refused to pay homage and sent the crown prince as a staunch. If war was started at the same time, it was difficult to deal with it, so he asked King Annan to go to Beijing to pay homage and offer tribute. At this time, the two traitors Liu Mengyan happened to return to Dadu, which changed his mind again and again!" Zheng Huchen said with a smile. His eyes were full of respect in his eyes. He was the main executor of this matter, so he naturally knew what His Majesty had planned, when Chai Chun arrived, how much time was spent on the road, etc., and then used this as a basis to adjust the arrangement here to ensure that Kublai Khan could obtain the information he wanted in a timely manner.

"Then did he decide to set foot in Champa and make Annan first?" Because history has been disrupted by his own existence, Zhao Bing was not sure whether Kublai Khan had also changed his mind, so he guessed.

"Your Majesty is really a magical master, you can guess it!" Zheng Huchen became immunized by the prediction ability of the young emperor, so he did not express great surprise, but just praised it.

"After hearing the rewards of Liu Mengyan and Wang Jiweng, Kublai Khan was not surprised by the failure to persuade him to surrender. Instead, he admired His Majesty's quick decision to draw a clear line with the Taihuang Empress and Emperor Deyou. However, he was very angry at our dynasty alliance with Chameng and Annan. He believed that the two countries were indomitable and rebellious, and they had to be punished. At the same time, the alliance between the three countries was broken, so he decided to mobilize the troops of the southeastern provinces to pacify the countries in the South China Sea."

"Now they divided their troops into two groups, one by Liu Shen, the left chief of Chameng Province, and the right chief of Chameng Province, led 5,000 troops, and hundreds of warships wanted to set out from Guangzhou and flew straight to Chameng Capital. The other by the name of the Chameng Province in Jinghu, the city issued a document to Annan, saying that the court wanted to dispatch troops to attack Chameng, and ordered them to open the way to prepare food, and sent the crown prince to welcome them, discussing military affairs together. Otherwise, the army would stop at Annan Kaifu!"
Chapter completed!