Chapter 178 The Son of the Great Khan
Some people, especially the officers on the ship, don’t know their own ideas well. It doesn’t matter. If you have any questions, ask them. You can tell them, it doesn’t matter whether they agree or not. There is always a process of communication. One?? Reading books??·1.k?a?n?s?h?u?·It’s very good like Kong Pei. He can firmly execute his orders with his own questions. This alone proves that he is a mature person, not only a person, but also a talent. Such people will be valued by themselves in the future, and he likes such people with personal thoughts and global ideas.
"You have been in Mongolia. In fact, some places they are more like Jinhewan, such as expansion and aggressiveness. They say that peers are enemies, and this sentence is correct at all. Good places are invaded. What should we do? However, there is a big difference between them and Jinhewan in the exhibition. Jinhewan only uses slaves to solve the problem of insufficient productivity. Once productivity increases to a certain level, slavery will be abolished. But Mongolia does not. It is a country based on slavery. Only by constantly fighting and constantly plundering the wealth of other countries can it survive. Once the expansion foot stops
If you step, it will soon weaken and perish. The reason is very simple. It will not create wealth. Have you ever seen a person relying on robbery for the rest of his life and finally robbing a big family? That is irrelevant. He can raise money by robbing first, then buy it seriously, and eventually become a family heirloom. But if he robs for a lifetime, or even two lifetimes, he can still pass it on well. I have never seen him." Anyway, he is idle and has some time before dinner, so Hong Tao simply talks to Kong Pei. This person is silent and doesn't like to communicate very much. Now it's just an opportunity to make him understand his thoughts better.
"I have never seen it..." Kong Pei didn't like to talk, which did not mean that his mind didn't like to turn. After hearing Hong Tao's opinion, he nodded and agreed.
"But the country of Song Dynasty is different. Its imperial court is much gentler than Mongolia in internal rule. If it hadn't been fighting for years, it would have done better. Unfortunately, God did not give it this time. What do the people want? Isn't it just to eat and drink without worrying about family prosperity? If you bring your family back from overseas now, you can choose Mongolia or Song Dynasty to settle down. Where do you choose?" Just explanation is not enough. Hong Tao also needs to interact with Kong Pei, so it is more specific to understand.
"Of course I want to choose the Song Dynasty, but I am not optimistic that it can block Mongolia's going south, so I'm very likely to choose Mongolia." Kong Pei thought about it carefully, and then answered Hong Tao's question after putting himself in his shoes and measuring the pros and cons.
"Well. If I asked me to choose, I would probably choose this way. Anyway, it will be Mongolian sooner or later, so why bother again? But if I say that the Song Dynasty can be kept, would you still choose to live in Mongolia?" Hong Tao tilted his head and thought about it. Kong Pei's answer was really right. If he was not a time traveler, he would really not dare to choose the Southern Song Dynasty. He had been feeling comfortable for more than ten or decades and had to be a slave to the destruction of the country, why bother! So he added another prerequisite.
"Then I will choose the Song Dynasty. Zhenzhou is very good. It has few people and many lands, and it is close to the sea. I also go to kill whales like a teacher. A boat is enough to support me and my whole family, hehe." Kong Pei smiled happily once, probably in his mind that he was imagining the scene of him becoming Hong Tao and taking his family to the sea to catch whales. Now all the people in Jinhewan agree with the idea that the best animals in the world are not cats and dogs, cattle and sheep, but whales! As long as you can catch whales, good days will come.
"So, for ourselves, or for future generations, Mongolia is a locust-like country. Yikans·1?k?an?s?h?u????We must stop it. If the Mongolian cavalry rushed to Guangzhou, they would soon learn to build ships and then use the power of tens of millions of people across the country to deal with us. In that case, Jinhewan would be done. Not only would they have to fight with the Mongolian navy every day, but they would not have a chance to breathe. Because 80% of the goods came from the Song Dynasty. Without enough goods and a large number of maritime merchants, Jinhewan would be a small city-state at most, and it would be no different from those small cities on Jawa Island. They could only rely on farming to develop slowly and have no future."
"I am not doing this to help the Song Dynasty court, but to help ourselves, or to create a better living environment for our children. Jinhewan is like a fish in the sea. Only by sticking it to the dragon shark and whales can we grow up better. The Song Dynasty cannot be called a dragon shark. It is too weak, but it is a big whale. Our current task is to protect this whale and not let it be bitten to death by the Mongolian dragon shark and eat it. We only need to hold back the Mongolian invasion of the south. I believe that we will win in the end. Do you know why?" Hong Tao explained the reasons he could think of in the most popular language. It is best not to use terms such as ideology, capitalism, and productivity exhibition, because people in this era do not understand it, even Wen Nan sounds very difficult.
"Because the sir said just now that when the locust plague is over, the locusts will starve themselves to death... We just need to endure the locust plague." Kong Pei understood Hong Tao's thoughts and said the key points in one sentence.
"That's right, but we can't stand it alone. We have to help the Song Dynasty together. Not only do we have to help the Song Dynasty militarily, but we also have to transfusion blood for it economically. What I just said is just the truth. It sounds easy, but it is actually much more difficult to do. For example, the Song Dynasty may be unhappy with our help one day. This is a thankless job. But for our descendants, we must finish this job. Let's encourage each other!" This is the first time Hong Tao thought that Kong Pei was a character. His understanding ability was even better than Carl, Metini, and Luo Youde. In addition, his calm personality would be a good helper in the future. He stretched out his right hand and invited Kong Pei to make an oath together.
"Since following Mr. Pei has understood a lot of truths that he didn't understand before. Now, thinking about it, if I hadn't been on that ship, I might have become a wronged soul under the cannon. This is my life! Pei will leave it to Mr. Pei in this life. Just as Mr. said, all the bad things will be done by us, leaving the children with a clean world." Kong Pei did not immediately reach out to high-high with Hong Tao, but stood up and sighed, then he held both hands together with Hong Tao and used all his strength. Unfortunately, he was not as energetic as Hong Tao, and he was quickly grinned.
Kong Pei's fleet did not stay in Yingzhou City for much. Xiangyang City was his destination. Yingzhou City was just a helper. As the commander of a fleet, he strictly implemented Hong Tao's orders, giving Wen Nan only an hour to communicate with the officials of Yingzhou City, and then boarded the ship with the reluctant Southern Song generals. These soldiers and generals were not willing to go to Xiangyang, and they were more willing to take these prisoners back to Ezhou to report merits and receive rewards. If Wen Nan was the commander of this fleet, these soldiers and gangsters would really be mutiny on the spot and did not obey Wen Nan's command. However, when they were serious and aimed the cannon directly at their faces, none of them dared to blow up the thorns. They all got on the ship obediently.
Yingzhou is only more than 100 kilometers away from Xiangyang waterway. At dawn the next day, Kong Pei's fleet turned over the bend on the Han River and appeared in the east of Xiangyang City. Xiangyang City in the Song Dynasty was not very large, with a radius of only more than one kilometer, but the city wall was tall and thick, even taller than the Lin'an City Wall. The moat was even more spectacular, with a width of 100 meters. The defending party could use the strong magnificent sides of the moat from the city wall. If the siege army did not have long-range siege weapons, it would be even more difficult to cross this moat. Unless the defending army could use all the arrows, there was basically no hope.
Although Zhao Fan was stupid in dealing with the Northern Army, he was a general of the Southern Song Dynasty after all, and he was not good at fighting at all. He was just a lack of flexibility and was a person who was in accordance with the rules of the ancestors. He set up several large flags on the city head and bonfires on the city wall. He used flags during the day and fires at night to mobilize the Southern Song naval ships on the river for mobile defense. As long as the Mongolian army had plans to cross the river, hundreds of ships would flock to the river and shuttle back and forth on the river to intercept the simple rafts of the Mongolian army. Although most of these ships were temporary civilian ships, they were still much better than the rafts of the Mongolian army. In addition, the Mongolian army was not good at water warfare, so it has been more than half a month. Not to mention entering Xiangyang City, they didn't even find the edge of the moat.
Kuochu was also a general, and he was highly appreciated by his father, Ogedei Khan. There were even rumors that the Khan intended to make him the heir. This time, his brother Kuorui led the Western Route Army to fight vigorously in the junction of Sichuan and Shaanxi. His middle Route Army made quite smooth progress in the early stage, but he encountered such a hard nail as Xiangyang City, which made him unable to move forward. However, he was not very anxious. As long as his general Tasi tribe could go around behind Xiangyang City and cut it off from other cities, the city would sooner or later belong to him. He believed in this. He did not know how many times his father and grandfather had fought against this kind of battle, and there were very few exceptions.
Chapter completed!