Zhao Bing's eyes retracted from the map and sighed again, and focused on the official documents on the case table. He had taken the top document and flipped through it. This was a summary of recent intelligence sent by the Bureau of Affairs, but the title page was a picture with the portrait of the enemy chief Kublai Khan Xiangxing for eight years behind him. He picked it up and looked at it carefully, but frowned, feeling that the change was very big.

"Sister Su, go and take the portrait in the head!" Zhao Bing said without raising his head.

"Official family!" Su Lan soon found the document placed on the pavilion rack and presented it to the little emperor.

"Yeah!" Zhao Bing nodded, placed the portraits in the document on the desk, and placed the newly received one at the end and said, "Sister Su, see how these portraits are different?"

"Official family, I think he is sick!" Su Lan sat down next to the little emperor, looked one by one and said, "Official family, this picture is from eight years ago. This person is of medium size, neither tall nor short, with well-proportioned muscles and very strong. Although he gained weight in the next few years, he was still normal. Three years ago, he seemed to have aging very quickly, his body became more and more obese, and his spirit seemed to be very depressed. But in the last picture, he suddenly lost weight, his hair and beard, and his eyes were dull. Obviously, he was seriously ill, as if..."

"It seems that my life is not long!" Zhao Bing chuckled when he saw that he wanted to speak.

"Official family, slave..." The pictures are very exquisite, and they can be said to be full of beards. Judging from their outfit and hairstyle, they are a Mongolian person, but Su Lan doesn't know who this person is, so she dare not comment.

"This thief is the enemy chief Kublai Khan!" Zhao Bing pointed to the portrait on the desk and said with a smile. In ancient China, not everyone could see the emperor, and his appearance was also confidential. In addition, it was a crime of disrespect for the long face. Even the portrait was left high. Unlike the Western monarch, I am afraid that others would not know what they looked like, and they would also have to make a statue of their figure and print their heads on coins. Therefore, the emperors of all dynasties in China looked ugly and handsome.

"Oh, why is this happening?" Su Lan said in surprise without expecting the truth.

"It's not easy to be an emperor. He died of his wife and suffered defeats. He naturally felt bad. In addition, he had bad habits, so his body naturally collapsed!" Zhao Bing sighed and said.

"Official family, but the changes in the past two years seem to be too fast..." Su Lan looked at the portrait on the case and said inexplicably, but she suddenly realized that the little emperor had collected so many portraits of enemy chiefs, and his daily actions made people doubt that he had tampered with it.

"Haha, if you do too many bad things, you can get rid of it!" Zhao Bing's eyes turned and smiled awkwardly.

He knew that Kublai Khan had lived a very unhappy life in the past two years. The death of his most beloved wife, Chabi, caused Kublai Khan to be lonely and painful. Zhen Jin, the son of Chabi, had long been made the crown prince. Chabi was the only woman among Kublai Khan's wife who had a tablet in the Taimiao. In the early days of Kublai Khan's reign, Chabi was an indispensable assistant. Perhaps it was a pure coincidence, but it is undeniable that after her death, Kublai Khan personally and even the entire China suffered a series of fierce changes.

Chabi may not prevent these disasters from happening, but she may be able to exert her influence and curb some of the strange decisions made by Kublai Khan at that time. His personal misfortune and the failure of domestic and foreign decisions made Kublai Khan feel heavy pressure, and he turned to extravagant desires, seeking comfort and satisfaction. The palace banquets became more and more luxurious, and the banquet dishes were Mongolian dishes mainly made of meat, so they were naturally more refined.

In order to make Kublai Khan feel comfortable, daily meals are also carefully prepared and quite luxurious. Boiled lamb and roasted whole lamb are two must-have dishes, plus other fatty foods as a supplement to meat. A typical meal may include roasted lamb, eggs, saffron mix, baked pancakes, sugar tea, Humy (horse milk wine), and a beer made of millet.

The Mongolians never cared about overeating, especially in formal occasions, so overeating became a habit rather than an exception. The Mongolian Khan has always been alcoholic, and Kublai Khan also developed this bad habit. He drank overeating myths and wine. Modern people know that such eating habits are not only obesity, but also complications such as "three highs" and gout. It is also true that in less than two years, Kublai Khan was fat and began to suffer from gout and other diseases.

The emperor naturally had no shortage of famous doctors around him. From Southeast Asian drugs and doctors to Goryeo wizards, he used various methods to treat his illness. However, he had used everything, but nothing had solved the problem. Kublai Khan's habit of eating and drinking remained the same. However, he started to wonder last year that his beard and hair began to fall off, and this year he lost weight. This abnormal thing puzzled everyone, but Zhao Bing was surprised why he was not dead yet...

As early as the situation eased, Zhao Bing knew that there was still a big gap if he wanted to restore the country. History proved that confronting nomads was the fate of the farming peoples on the mainland. In terms of strength, of course, nomads are not as good as farming peoples, but it is not certain to talk about fighting. Nomads have no place to live, and live by water and grass. They are extremely mobile. In addition, the difference between eating meat and eating grass, their physical strength and flexibility are slightly better than farmers. As long as they have suitable weapons, nomads have natural advantages in fighting.

Modern military strategist Jiang Baili once said, "Any nation with the same daily necessities as war equipment has advantages in war." This conclusion is obtained from nomads. Therefore, farmers can basically rely on the advantages of manpower and material resources to passively defend, so that they can barely obtain a balance of confrontation. In the pre-Qin period, farmers had obvious advantages in weapons. Once this advantage weakened, they had to build the Great Wall. In addition to the Great Wall, there are various city walls and village walls to resist the invasion of mobile and flexible nomads.

During the Western Han Dynasty, the confrontation between the Huns and Han people was somewhat advantageous in weapons, but they were far behind in terms of horses. Basically, they could only rely on building the Great Wall, building frontier strongholds, strengthening the troops of border counties, and cooperating with some diplomatic means to defend against the Huns. Fortunately, even in the Maodun Shanyu era, the invasion mostly occurred in the event of grassland disasters, and they had to rely on looting agricultural areas to make a living. At that time, they did not have the ambition to invade the Central Plains on a large scale and replace them with the Han.

However, farmers have poor mobility. If they want to take the initiative to attack, they will be eaten if the scale is small. If the scale is large, they will be very powerful. Before the troops move, they will be able to take food and grass first. The logistics supply alone will consume a huge amount. If 100,000 cavalry operations, the horses transporting food and grass must definitely exceed 100,000. It is hard to say whether such an action can catch the enemy. It is actually a bad strategy to pursue the main force of the Huns all over the world. It is a feasible strategy to take the initiative to attack, attack their helpers, turn the enemy into friends, and narrow the scope of the enemy's activities.

When the current dynasty can survive under the iron hoof of the nomadic people, we still have to ask this strait. Now Zhao Bing understands that in addition to having a slight advantage in weapons, there is a huge gap between the population and resources and the Mongols. Although there are several bases at present, they all choose to be in places with dense mountainous areas and water networks to weaken the enemy's advantages. Similarly, these places have insufficient resources and are scarce, so they can only barely support them. Development still requires subsidies for the dynasty.

Therefore, it is very difficult to cross the strait and return to the mainland when the cavalry is weak. In addition to vigorously reorganizing the new army and changing the firearms, Zhao Bing is also thinking from a strategic and tactical perspective on how to catch and eat the enemy. He thinks that relying solely on these is not enough, and he can use some secret tricks appropriately, such as killing Kublai Khan...

Zhao Bing used to not like personality worship, nor did others worship himself. But when he became emperor, he found that leaders were indispensable. Looking at the history of China's thousands of years of civilization, China's history is the history of leaders. That is to say, it is purely the history of heroes. When we say that the people create history, we are actually saying that the people's representatives - heroes - create history.

Throughout history, heroes can easily make their mark on the world stage. On the vast Chinese land, there were as many heroes as stars in the sky, but the few who really influenced the historical process could be regarded as leaders. Each leader embodies his national philosophy and dreams, making a large number of people willing to follow his leadership. The achievements and achievements of great leaders have far exceeded their achievements themselves. On the battlefield, these leaders can inspire their army to overcome fear and achieve impossible goals.

In a civilized society, these characters can gather various goals and opinions into a powerful and unified focus. The game between the state and the state is first of all the game between the leaders of these countries and their teams, wisdom, strategy, courage, talent and ability. They determine the fate of the country and the nation, and once successful, they can push their society to continue to move towards the bright future they expect.

History has repeatedly proved that the role of a leader is irreplaceable. Liu Bei during the Three Kingdoms achieved the goal of "one of the three parts of the world" because he obtained a leader like Zhuge Liang. It was precisely because Zhuge Liang died of illness in Wuzhangyuan that the Shu Kingdom lost the opportunity to be unified. Temujin relied on his own ability to gather a pile of loose Mongolians by his side, led them to fight the world, and swept half of the world. Zhao Bing believed that Temujin might have lived for fifty years or more, perhaps the world would be very harmonious.

Kublai Khan was not simple either. He completed the unification of China and brought the Mongols to the peak of glory. His current situation was like a magic needle in the sea. No one dared to challenge his authority and influence his decision. As long as he was alive, there would be no fatal civil strife, and he could maintain the efficient operation of the state machinery and mobilize all forces to eliminate opposition forces. Therefore, Zhao Bing felt that Kublai Khan was his biggest enemy at present, and only by killing him could people feel at ease.

With this thought, Zhao Bing began to think about how to get rid of Kublai Khan, and he also thought of many ways to do this. He thought of sending a team of elite soldiers to assassinate, but after some reconnaissance, he gave up. Kublai Khan lived in the deep palace, imperial city, and palace city in Dadu, with heavy troops defending him at all levels, and there were close guards around him. Even if he went to Shangdu, although he changed to a tent, the big tent could be built into a tent city worth dozens of miles. Not to mention finding him, it would be difficult to ensure that he would not get lost. And attacking in the middle was not easy. He was not himself, and using two thousand people, he felt that the scene was so big, but he needed tens of thousands of troops to follow him when he went out.

It was so hard that Zhao Bing wanted to be soft. He bought the palace maids and eunuchs from the Mongolian Court and poisoned Kublai Khan's food, but this plan failed. He wanted to be careless and had to taste it by his close friends, but he wouldn't give it to him, let alone Kublai Khan. So although he poisoned a few people who did odd jobs, he failed to get into Kublai Khan's stomach and even took his own lives.

One plan failed and another plan came about. Zhao Bing believed that people had weaknesses and could kill them as long as they were caught. So he ordered the assassination to be suspended, and instead asked people to collect information on Kublai Khan's personal hobbies, living habits and physical condition, while thinking about other ways. He even thought about whether to use his lustful habits to implement the beauty plan.

However, Zhao Bing gave up after learning about the method of selecting concubines by the Mongolian Khan. In addition to the four queens, Kublai Khan also had many concubines, all of whom were selected from a place called Wengute. The residents of Wengute were known for their beautiful appearance and smooth skin. The Han Dynasty sent people there every two years or less, and according to certain standards, they selected one hundred or more young women. After they entered the palace, another group of people were appointed to conduct another inspection, and selected about thirty or forty people to stay in his bedroom to listen.

The selected concubines were taken care of by some older palace maids. The main task of these palace maids was to determine whether they had secret shortcomings at night, whether they had quietness after sleeping without snoring, and whether they had bad smells everywhere. After such strict assessment, they were divided into five groups, each group served in the inner room of the Great Sweat for three days and nights, doing whatever they were asked to do, and controlling them as much as they wanted.

After the service period is over, they are replaced by another group, so they take turns until all the rotation is over, and then serve from the first group of five people. And when one group serves in the inner room, the other group lives in the adjacent outer room. If there is anything that needs to be done in the inner room, a group of the outer room can be sent to the outer room to handle so that they can get what they need.
Chapter completed!