Zhao Bing knew that war was the most expensive game. Now Kublai Khan, who owned the Central Plains and Jiangnan, had to live by robbery. He was in a corner and wanted to restore the country and consumed astronomical numbers. Of course, he also wanted to continue to make more money. He had only known that he had to make money by sea trade, but he did not know that the profit was unimaginable. This year, he repeatedly robbed the merchants of the Ordo in the Mongolian Yuan, and a large number of inland merchant ships came to Qiongzhou to trade. He finally knew that an ordinary porcelain bowl was sold from the Song Dynasty to Central Asia, and the price of Europe and Africa was equal to gold.

With such a huge profit from maritime trade, people can sacrifice it. The location of Qiongzhou is shaking the sea routes to the South and the West. Their blockade caused the Otu merchants to suffer heavy losses. Not only did they have a waste of time, but they also spent money. These people were tools for Mongolian princes and nobles to make money. If they could not make money, they would become abandoned children. Therefore, this route was related to their wealth and life. Therefore, the merchants who had cut off their wealth wanted to lobby Kublai Khan to conquer Qiongzhou, but the Khan did not dare to be interested in it, but turned to Japan.

If it is hard, there is only softness. There is no secret that everyone is old Chinese doctors. The Otu merchants naturally understand that the private salt that is flooded in the south of the Yangtze River comes from Qiongzhou, and the urgently needed food, livestock, copper and iron and other things needed in Qiongzhou are smuggling from inland. In the past, they looked down on these small businesses and did not interfere, but now they cannot. If their necks are stuck, they have to use this as bargaining chips.

Since everyone is the same routine, it is not difficult for the Otu merchants to establish a relationship with Qiongzhou. They proposed to pay tariffs that were twice as high as possible, hoping to exchange for the sea route through Qiongzhou. Zhao Bingye has already known that these Otu merchants have the ability to be well-informed. These people are like the modern big chaebols. They not only have billions of dollars in their families, but also can control national policies through their own funding agents, and even launch wars to eliminate obstacles and make a fortune.

Therefore, Zhao Bing knew that he would attack the state and plunder the palace, killing the generals, and killing the generals might not cause Kublai Khan to attack Qiong. However, cutting off the financial path of these people might make them angry and angry. They would be irritated and talked about all parties, and they would really lose their precious opportunity for development. However, thinking that they could make a profit of tens of thousands of chunks of cargo, they would only give some money and want to make a big deal.

Of course, Zhao Bing could not do such bargaining matters in person, nor could it be done in the official name, so he asked the Affairs Bureau to be responsible for contacting the matter, and Zhuang Shilin was the one behind the scenes. After all, the best person to deal with merchants is still the merchant. His bottom line is that the merchants of Otuo must take 30% of the value of the shipment as the purchase money, or exchange items of equal value in exchange for them, and he could promise to let them go.

Bargaining requires high and low buying. Zhuang Shilin's offer should not be less than 50%, but the representative of the Otu merchant insisted on paying only the multiple of the current Qiongzhou tariffs and refused to increase the price. The gap between the two sides was too large and naturally could not reach an agreement. This made Zhao Bing feel very strange. How could a beggar eater have such a tough confidence? After some inquiries, he realized that Huantu won a big victory in Annan, and Chen Chao asked for surrender, and they were about to return. So they understood that these guys were preparing to lobby Huantuo to attack Qiong and completely pulled out the nail.

After Zhao Bing found out the whole story, he asked Zhuang Shilin to stop contacting the representatives of the Otuo merchants, and secretly felt that he could quarrel with them again this time. Huantuo, who had high hopes, accepted Chen Chao's request for surrender, but these people still don't know what happened next?

After receiving the order from King Zhennan, Sodu, Yaoqi, Liu Gui and others gathered their troops and left the Buddha's oath camp, and moved northward. The Yuan Dynasty's war against Cham City ended in vain. The army of the Sodu team entered Annan through Uri in the north of Cham City, crossed Buzhengzhou and other places, and attacked invincible all the way, defeating the Jiaozhi army blocking along the way, and soon joined Tuohuan. Tuohuan ordered the Sodu army to be stationed in Tianchang, which was more than 200 miles away from the camp.

Seeing that the Yuan army was chasing, the two emperors of Chen Jiasheng and Ren used their tricks of hiding their heads and hiding their heads. On the one hand, they asked King Chen's imperial boat to sail to Yushan in the north, trying to lure the chasing Yuan army into the opposite direction; on the other hand, they sent Chen Yang, the Marquis of Zhongxian and the Doctor Ruan Rui to the King of Zhennan to ask for peace. Although the means of sending envoys to slow down the army was not new, Chen Shengzong was still willing to spend some money this time. He sent his close attendant Tao Jian to give his youngest sister, Princess Anzi, to King of Zhennan Tuohuan.

Emperor Chen, Chen Renzong and his son abandoned the capital and fled south in a panic. In addition, the Chen Dynasty's official army was defeated continuously, so the morale of the army was unstable, and the kings, princes, generals and ministers wanted to advance and retreat. Chen Yiji, King of the Chen Dynasty, Chen Nong, Hou Fang Zhao, Chen Xiu, Hou Wenshao, Fan Judi, Li Yan, Zheng Long and others all surrendered to the Yuan Dynasty. Tuohuan was very happy. For the Mongolian prince, this was the only unexpected joy in the Wushu War he commanded.

Tuohuan had a beauty, but he was a little confused. Since Chen Riying had even given away his sister, why couldn't he come to perform the ceremony of kneeling and worshiping? However, Huantuo didn't let Huantuo figure it out that the rainy season in Annan was coming, and the epidemic was prevalent in the Yuan army, and it gradually fell into disagreement. Tuohuan had to order the withdrawal of his troops. And Annan's ruler and ministers who had no intention of surrender took the opportunity to launch a counterattack.

The Yuan army was conquering Wumaer, the political affairs officer of Jiaozhi Province, and Fan Ji led the navy to retreat along the Baiteng River. Unexpectedly, Chen Xingdao was prepared and buried hundreds of wooden stakes at the mouth of the Baiteng River. Because the tides rose sharply, the Yuan army did not find that the water had been tampered by the Annan people. As a result, it was blocked tightly at the seakou and could not move, becoming a living target for the Annan Navy. Four hundred warships were wiped out, and Fan Ji was captured on the spot. Wumaer, who escaped by luck last time, had no good luck this time and was also captured by Annan. Annan soldiers who hated the Mongols hung him upside down in the sea and drowned alive.

The Yuan army led by Tuohuan himself had no good results. He retreated to the mountains near Dongguan with fear and was surrounded by Chen Riying and Prince Chen Riying. The Annan army was at a high point and thousands of arrows were fired at once. The right prime minister of the Yuan army, Abachi, was penetrated by arrows. Li Heng desperately cut off the rear and covered the King of Zhennan Tuohuan across the bridge. There were countless arrows in the Yuan army. Tuohuan finally retreated to Guangxi.

Tuohuan relied on his personal army to protect him and fled from a small road in a hurry. Even so, Li Heng was poisoned and fled back with injuries. Later, he died of serious injuries. However, he was still poisoned by Annan's soldiers on his feet. He finally fled back to Simingzhou, Guangxi. The subordinates led by him lost six or seven out of ten, which was worse than the last time they lost. In the 200-mile distance, Tuohuan forgot to notify Sudu. Someone came to report to him that Tuohuan had withdrawn his troops and returned north. Sudu didn't believe it, so he hurried to the camp to inspect. Sure enough, he saw an empty city, so a lonely army in Sudu was abandoned in the jungle in the south.

Suodu hurriedly led his army to retreat to the coast of Hue, intending to withdraw from the sea, but was blocked by the Annan army at the entrance of the sea. The Yuan army was fighting and retreating. When he retreated to Ganmanjiang, Chen Xingdao's army suddenly appeared and surrounded the Yuan army. Even though the Mongolian soldiers were invincible, they could not escape the end of annihilation of the entire army this time. The main general Suodu was killed and most of the tens of thousands of soldiers were killed and captured, or drowned in the river. Therefore, the Otu merchants were counting on Huantu to support them, which was impossible.

In a few days, the news of Huantuo's defeat and fleeing spread all over the place. Kublai Khan was furious when he heard about Huantuo's defeat and directly demoted him to Yangzhou, and was not allowed to go to Beijing to meet for the rest of his life. Zhao Bing thought that the Otuo merchants must have bowed their heads, but they did not expect that their backs were straighter and claimed that they would not give a penny to Qiongzhou.

Zhao Bing was a little confused. Why did these guys get excited if Huantuo defeated? Soon, news came from his caravan, saying that it was circulating everywhere because the Song army assisted the Annan army in the Baiteng River to ambush the Yuan army, which made Kublai Khan angry and wanted to cancel the plan to attack Japan, and instead destroyed the remaining Song survivors in Qiongzhou. Now he is gathering troops in Quanzhou and will launch troops to attack Qiong after the rainy season.

This news really scared Zhao Bing. Could it be that he had changed such a big historical event? But after thinking about it carefully, he even won the Battle of Yashan. The surviving lingering has indeed changed history. Otherwise, everyone would have fed the fish long ago and would not have the chance to be scared here. But he didn't understand. He was obviously watching the tiger fight, and he didn't give Annan a grain of food, and would not send troops to the war.

Zhao Bing also knew that these Otu merchants wandered among dignitaries and nobles, and could bring closer relationships and obtain rumor, so that they could learn about political and economic information to avoid risks. Their calmness made him doubt this possibility. As far as he knew, Kublai Khan spent a lot of money on this attack on Japan, dispatching more than 4,000 warships alone and mobilizing nearly 200,000 troops. Compared with any battle he had experienced before, they were at the BOSS level. If they really turned to Qiongzhou and launched landing operations at the same time in many places, they could really kick their nests.

"Check, check, check!" With an attitude of not believing in him rather than believing in him, Zhao Bing immediately ordered the mobilization of all the bright and dark forces from the Bureau of Affairs and the Privy Council Jiyi Department to investigate the matter. Who made him take the blame? Where did Kublai Khan point?

Under the crazy supervision of the little emperor, all the intelligence agencies in Qiongzhou devoted themselves to their work, and even the fishing boats of the Han tribe expanded their fishing range and monitored the surrounding seas. The situations found everywhere quickly gathered on Zhao Bing's table. First of all, the Song army participated in the Baitengjiang ambush, but those people were the people who were exiled to Chameng. They were wearing Song army uniforms, and of course they were regarded as being in the same gang as Qiongzhou. Zhao Bing had previously staged a scene of the Three Kingdoms Alliance in anti-Yuan, so he was not a complaint. Who told him to be the emperor? Naturally, he had to be responsible for what his people did!

As for the enemy troops who were expeditioning Japan to attack Qiongzhou, it was untrue. Such a large-scale expedition preparation was naturally not confidential. Even the Japanese detected the movements of the Yuan Empire and made sufficient war preparations for the upcoming second "Mongolia attack". Zhao Bing recalled history. At this time, Japan's political situation was stable. Hojo Toshizo's control over the Kamakura Shogunate and the Japanese vassals was far better than before. Therefore, the Japanese could use more manpower and material resources to fight the invasion.

Zhao Bing estimated that the shogunate recruited civil servants in Kyushu to the beaches where the Yuan army was most likely to land in the area around the Hakata Bay area. The stone walls built to block the Mongolian cavalry were probably completed; Hojo Somori and Hojo Somama led elite samurai to the coastal areas of Honshu and Kyushu respectively to set up defenses. At the same time, the Kyushu vassals should start mobilizing militias, and samurai from other parts of Japan were also on the way to participate in the war.

After many days of monitoring the Yuan army recruited and attacking Japan, all gathered in Dinghai, and there was no intention to go south to Qiongzhou, and the Goryeo army was even less visible. Zhao Bing was a little calm, but he knew that the soldiers were not tired of deception and still dared not relax. He ordered all spies to closely monitor the entry and exit of ships in various ports in the southeast to prevent the reappearance of Ali Hague's plan to secretly travel to Chen Cang. At the same time, he ordered the navy to send a surveillance fleet to the Dinghai Sea to detect their movements, and ordered all the navy troops to be prepared to intercept them, otherwise he would have to wait for death when the enemy arrived at his doorstep.

The large-scale surveillance operation lasted until July. It was found that the Yuan army was divided into two groups to advance towards Japan. One by Hong Tuqiu, Xindu and Jin Fangqing, led 40,000 Mongolian, Goryeo and Han troops, and 17,000 helmsman sailors, and 900 warships left the port from Hepu, Goryeo. The other by Alahan and Fan Wenhu, led 100,000 new surrendered troops in Jiangnan and 3,500 warships set out on the decree harbor to attack Japan. There was a great momentum that it would not stop until it was defeated, and it would not give up until it avenged its previous revenge.

It was not until mid-August that the Qiongzhou surveillance fleet returned. They watched the two armies return to Yu Yiqi and encountered a storm on the way. After hearing their rewards, Zhao Bing was completely relieved. These grandchildren could never come back as long as they went. And this cannot be blamed for not reminding Kublai Khan, but for being too stupid. They still do not understand the impact of climate on war, especially the changes in the sea climate were enough to completely destroy an army.

China's marine climate is actually regular. July and August are the time for frequent typhoons every year, and it is not suitable for long-distance voyages. At this time, Kublai Khan sent troops to cross-sea expeditions smoothly and shortened the time of sea navigation, but ignored the storm. The super typhoon encountered by Qiongzhou surveillance fleet when returning to sail was probably the most famous "kamikaze" in Japan's history. It saved Japan at the last moment and made countless angry young people in later generations resentful. It failed to let the Tartars slaughter the devils as soon as possible, leaving behind future troubles for the Chinese nation.
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