Zhao Bing clearly knew that he should be like a great man in his previous life, and should unite all forces that can be united and kill the most important enemy first. But the current situation makes him very embarrassed. He is like a "bald man" and he will become the situation of no two masters and no two days. Even if he cannot go to fight for the expedition, he will never provide assistance to him, otherwise he will be regarded as the lord of a country.

In fact, Zhao Bing regards Chen Jiyan as an equal sovereign state in his heart, and it is not impossible to unite him to resist the Yuan Dynasty. After all, the territory occupied by others was lost by you, not taken from you, and it is his ability to snatch it away. And you still tell others with a shameless face that the territory is mine, so give it back to me! Then if you are not a fool, you will be regarded as a madman.

Of course, the best way is to recruit appeasements and let him accept his imperial decree and become a subordinate of the Song Dynasty. However, Zhao Bing felt that the possibility of success was not high, unless he was facing a huge crisis, he had to surrender to the court and find a place to settle down. However, with his past record of being king and making independence, it would be good to save his life, and it was almost impossible to do a good job in the court, so it was extremely possible to run away in anger.

Zhao Bing thought this way, and it is also reasonable for him to think so: First, Chen Diaoyan had no good feelings for the Song court, and was not a Shunmin of the Song Dynasty. Since he was fifteen, he has been away from the mountainous areas of Fujian and Jiangxi every year to sell salt. At the age of seventeen, his father fled out because he led the crowd to fight against food and killed the yamen runners. From then on, the brother and sister could only rely on each other and survived the exploitation of high rents and heavy taxes in the Song court. Second, Chen Diaoyan had led the righteousness twice to serve the king, but in the end they were regarded as abandoned by the court, and they threw it away after they were used up, and they didn't even give a statement. Who wouldn't be angry!

Therefore, Zhao Bing thought that cooperation without trust was very weak, and when he was seeking cooperation at the height of his heyday, he could only sign an unequal treaty, and even lost Huashan to Chen Tuan like Taizu, causing more enclaves in the country. He felt disgusted when he thought of it, but he could not regret it. In the end, he became famous, but he was regarded as a laughing stock. In addition, Zhao Bing always hoped to establish a base in the occupied areas, which on the one hand can restrain the enemy and attract their attention; on the other hand, lay the foundation for a decisive battle in the future. In theory, Chen had a soldier, territory, and mass base, which was an excellent choice.

But things didn't go as they wished, Chen Diaoyan insisted on starting a new stove, so that he could not eat a piece of fat. He was anxious and angry, but he could only sulk. What made Zhao Bing most worried was that once he accepted the invitation from the Yuan court under the encirclement and suppression, he would not only not be able to get help, but would have another enemy and would have to meet him. After the fight, he would not only consume huge material and manpower, but also take on a mortal hatred with the She people in Fujian, which would cause many difficulties in his future actions.

When Zhao Bing was thinking about it, Zheng Huchen proposed to assassinate the spy lurking in Chen Diaoyan's army or use the operation team of the Bureau of Affairs to solve the problem cleanly. Zhao Bing felt that it was completely unnecessary, at least not necessary now, because although he did not know what the ending of Chen Diaoyan in history, he knew that it was difficult to become a climate.

Of course, this is not Zhao Bing's intuition, but the peasant uprising in Chinese history started from Chen Sheng and Wu Guang in the Qin Dynasty to the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom in the late Qing Dynasty. The uprisings that broke out were probably uncountable, but there were few successful examples, and the probability of becoming emperors was extremely low. It was inevitable that farmers could not become leaders. In ancient times, farmers were farming in the fields for many years without culture, and could not realize the causes of their own misfortunes, nor could they have the ability to propose appropriate political programs. Farmers with a single life experience did not have the corresponding organizational ability to lead an uprising army.

In our impression, the purpose of the "peasant uprising" is to seek benefits for the peasants and to "equal land and free grain". But in fact, most people seek personal wealth at the beginning of the uprising. When Chen Sheng and Wu Guang mobilized the garrison soldiers to rebel in Daze Township, they said, "Are there any kings, princes, generals and ministers?" This shows that their promise to incite the postmen to rebel was not to divide the land, but to be fame and wealth. The garrison soldiers not only did not mean to resist the landlord class, but were willing to follow Chen Sheng and Wu Guang's banner of "Prince Fusu and Xiang Yan".

In the late Tang Dynasty, Huang Chao and Wang Xianzhi were both big salt merchants and became rich because of smuggling and selling salt. They rebelled were obviously not forced by life, nor did they intend to help the peasants resist the landlords. Wang Xianzhi and Huang Chao had repeatedly asked the Tang government to surrender during the rebellion. Huang Chao once wrote a letter to request that he be appointed as the governor of Guangzhou, but the Tang court only agreed to give him a fourth-rank official, but of course it was impossible to negotiate.

Although these "uprising" leaders often used the banner of "equalizing the rich and poor" to attract people's hearts after becoming famous, their goal was to overthrow the old dynasty and establish a new regime with their own group as the core. The heroes were competing for the Central Plains, not the interests of the peasants. Chen Diaoyan also did not break out of this vicious circle. He had just captured several prefectures and counties, and gathered some people and was eager to change the era and become king, but it was not to lay a solid foundation and make long-term plans.

In addition, it is the so-called foundation, and the subdivision is economic and human resources. In ancient China, people's rebellions were often caused by occasional events, and disasters and famines accounted for a large proportion, while the vast disasters in China's territory often only occur in a corner. Moreover, famine has its own natural restrictions, and the situation will change after one or two years. The chaos is agitated due to the changes in time and place. If you want to take the opportunity to expand and extend it, you will inevitably adopt a mobile terrorist policy.

The "rebel army" wants to replenish troops when they go to a place, so they will naturally find ways to make the locals rebel. They will threaten the good people, leaving them homeless and proprietorous, and can only follow the forces of the turmoil. This is the so-called "bandits". The larger the harassment area and the more severe the harsh murder, the more they will be covered. Moreover, they do not work for production, and in order to solve the problem, they can only rely on continuous plunder in order to solve the problem of military pay. They eat all the crops like locusts, and fly to another crop field, which will spread rapidly, causing great harm to the passing area.

This way of replenishing troops was prevalent in the army, and similar practices existed in the Northern Expedition. Zhao Bing did not believe that only by Wen Tianxiang's incitement would tens of thousands of people follow him to Qiongzhou. However, they were more implicit, not as naked and bloody as bandits, and there was a name of righteousness in hand. The most important thing was that they used these people they brought in to do not use to continue looting, but to properly place them for production and creation of wealth, and educate and reorganize them to establish bases.

Chen's rebel army was inherently deficient. Although the Mongol Yuan was on a downward path, it was not weak enough to even a group of mobs to suppress it. It was just because of the cost and situation that it did not regard it as its main opponent. Now the Northern Expedition Army has retreated to Qiongzhou, which greatly reduced their pressure and could free up their hands to deal with it. No one would agree to an independent kingdom appear on his territory.

In addition, although the rebel army led by Chen Dianyan controlled a region of hundreds of miles, it was located in a mountainous area, which was conducive to defense, and also had the fatal flaw of not abundant resources and difficulty in replenishing supplies. The main reason he led his troops to repeatedly invade Zhangzhou was to obtain supplies. Once the Yuan army was strictly blocked, the road to obtaining supplements by looting would be difficult to operate, but the more than 100,000 people he gathered had to eat and drink every day. If it was difficult to satisfy, it would have a strange intention and this loose alliance would collapse...

"Master Zheng, is this Huang Hua having business dealings with the procurement office?" Zhao Bing asked after turning around twice.

"Your Majesty is right. His team is mainly salt husband. He used to transport official salt to make a living. Of course, people in this industry will inevitably carry private salt. Later, the world is in chaos, and they turned into private salt dealers, controlling the private salt transactions around Jianning Mansion. At present, Qiongzhou Haiyan is sold in Southeast and Guangdong and Guangxi, and of course they will also make profits!" Zheng Huchen replied.

"In this way, their military pay must have come from selling private salt?" Zhao Bing nodded and asked again.

"It is precisely because Huang Hua's troops had a conflict with the Tartars' Inspection Department and had to face the expedition and suppression, they gathered all kinds of private salt dealers to incite. At present, their power is constantly expanding. Not only Jianning Prefecture, but also Tingzhou, Zhangzhou, Nanjianzhou and Chaozhou are under its control, but they are also constantly infiltrating into the surrounding areas and making a lot of profits from it." Zheng Huchen said.

"Oh, this guy has also earned a lot from us, right?" Zhao Bing was a little surprised and smiled.

"Of course, at least 70% of the private salt they trafficked comes from our Qiongzhou, and there are some salt fields they control. However, under the attack of the Tartars, they have to rely on trafficking from Qiongzhou!" Zheng Huchen replied.

"In this way, it's still our big customer!" Zhao Bing touched his chin and smiled.

"Well, our private salt sold to Jiangxi and Zhejiang sometimes depends on its protection along the way, and naturally we have to pay them benefits!" Zheng Huchen was nervous when he saw His Majesty's action. I don't know who was in trouble again.

"This kid is really greedy for money. He needs protection fees when eating ours!" Zhao Bing frowned, but his hand did not leave his chin.

"What Your Majesty speculated is that Huang Hua is indeed very rich. Our caravan will give him 30% of the profit if he borrows the road, while his caravans will pay 80% of the profit!" Zheng Huchen said, but his heart was tight. The 'guy' in his majesty's words had become a 'boy', which means that His Majesty's favorability has been reduced again and again.

"Haha, there is something darker than me!" Zhao Bing sneered, "He joined forces with Chen Diaoyan to respond to the north and the south, and attack and defend each other. I am afraid the main reason is to use the way to traffic in private salt."

"Your Majesty analyzes this, and I think this is the case!" Zheng Huchen pointed to the map and said, "It is most convenient to sell private salt from Qiongzhou to Fujian to take a boat, and then traffic from land to the mainland. Zhangzhou and Quanzhou are important sea trade areas of the Tatars, and the smuggling boats are strictly inspected. Zhao'an is close to the coast and has convenient water and land transportation. It can be trafficked along the East River and the South River to Zhangzhou, and can also be trafficked through land to Guangdong South Road. However, Zhao'an is Chen'an's territory. If he wants to open up this trade route, he must form an alliance with Chen'an!"

"This thief is very good at making a plan. He can use this trade route for free, and others have to pay him money through the passage, which is equivalent to monopolizing all the private salt in Fujian!" Zhao Bing nodded after seeing it.

"Your Majesty, Huang Hua and his gang did make a fortune, but they all traded in cash, which is also considered one of our big players." Zheng Huchen became more and more frightened as he heard it. He had become a thief. His Majesty had a desire to kill, right? He quickly explained.

"Oh, where did he get the cash silver?" Zhao Bing knew that the Mongolian Yuan was getting tighter and tighter in precious metals such as gold and silver. The market was trading in paper money, but it was able to trade in cash silver, which made him very surprised.

"Your Majesty doesn't know that there are more than a dozen gold and silver mines in northern Fujian. There are many small private mining pits scattered there, so he naturally has the ability to trade with silver and money!" Zheng Huchen pointed at the map and pointed one by one.

"Well, so that's it!" Zhao Bing nodded with his eyes shiny, thinking that no wonder Wen Tianxiang wanted to open a mansion in Nanjianzhou back then. It turned out that there were so many gold and silver mines there to provide military pay. Thinking about it, he asked, "How many troops can we control Huang Hua?"

"Your Majesty, Huang Hua's rebel army usually divides salt trafficking areas, and once there is something to do, they will gather together to fight the enemy. There should be about a thousand salt traffickers that can be mobilized for the Affairs Bureau." Zheng Huchen finished his report, but asked again, "Does Your Majesty intend to incorporate Huang Hua's gang?"

"It's not an incorporation, it's a replacement. This person regards money as his life and can accept our help for money. Then there is a possibility of betraying me for money!" Zhao Bing said.

"Your Majesty, the strength we have is too weak, and the most powerful groups are all controlled by Huang Hua's confidants. His younger brother Huang Fu even led nearly 10,000 guards to occupy the main camp. Even if Huang Hua can be dealt with, he will not be able to take over all the troops!" Zheng Huchen said.

"Well, this is a problem, but we can slowly plan it, and we don't have to do it ourselves. We can choose others from them instead!" Zhao Bing said after thinking about it.

"Your Majesty is right. We control the price of salt and the supply of goods. We only need to do a little trick to make them fight in the internal struggle and then make profits from it. It only takes time to cultivate our people, but we are afraid that they will not last until they are wiped out by the Yuan Dynasty!" Zheng Huchen said with some concern.

"Can you choose a leader from them who is close to the court?" Zhao Bing thought about it, and he was anxious, afraid that Kublai Khan would not be able to wait. No one could stand the attack on the states and the palaces when they were fine, so he retreated and sought the next way.

"Your Majesty, there is really someone available, but..." Zheng Huchen thought about it, but hesitated.

"It's just something, tell me!" Zhao Bing urged.
Chapter completed!