A few days after the convoy departed from Zhiguzhai entered Dadu, the fragrance of curry rice wafted out from the kitchens of many families, such as the current Mongolian ruling Lian Xixian family.

The iron pot produced by Song State is heated, soybean oil from "imported to Japan" is poured in the diced onion. After boiling the onion, add the cut vegetable grains and stir-fry it. After stir-frying, the mutton used as the main dish and the curry powder imported from Song State are cooked together. After the steaming mutton curry is released, the next dish begins to be cooked.

opposite Lian Xixian sat the right prime minister Shi Tianze, and soon several dishes were placed in front of the two. Before moving the chopsticks, Lian Xixian smiled bitterly: "Prime Minister Shi, look at this table, except for mutton, pork, and vegetables, you can't find a few things produced in my Great Mongolia."

The sweet-spiced beef jerky is said to be 'made in Japan'. The transparent glass comes from the Southern Song Dynasty. The brown sugar cane wine with an attractive aroma inside the transparent glass also comes from the Southern Song Dynasty. Shi Tianze couldn't help but smile and said, "Fortunately, this table is still produced in our Yandi."

After hearing this, Lian Xixian could not find any other way of expression besides a wry smile. He picked up the wine glass and said, "To Prime Minister Shi!"

Zhao Jiaren's rum is made of molasses separated by sucrose. It has a sweet and refreshing taste, and a sweet taste that lingers between the lips and teeth. This wine is very popular among Mongolian nobles, and Dahan Kublai Khan is a fan of this wine.

Putting down the glass of wine, Lian Xixian smiled and said, "Prime Minister Shi, you strongly recommend Liu Zheng as the deputy commander of the navy this time. Maybe you think this cannot continue."

Shi Tianze didn't say anything. He picked up a piece of curry mutton and ate it. Then he smiled and said, "Your Majesty is the decision of whether to use Liu Zheng. Your Majesty was very unhappy when he saw the list this time. Those southern barbarians were very hateful. They didn't want that kind of strong calves. If they were replaced by Mongolian calves, they would have to pay 14,000 calves. This time, if you buy 120 pounds of cannons, you have to pay 14,000 calves. The left prime minister Boyan said it well. If you have the strength to collect 14,000 calves, it would be better to pull 14,000 people to go south."

After hearing this view of resolving the trade deficit by force, Lian Xixian focused on the topic and said repeatedly: "It should be like this, it should be like this! It turned out that I thought the Song State had nothing great. Now, seeing that they have thousands of good things in the South China Sea. Two pounds of white sugar cost one pound of silver to buy. Where can I have so much silver in my Great Mongolia?"

In addition to rum made from molasses, sugar cane made from white sugar also has very good sales in Mongolia-controlled areas. However, the price is so high that Lian Xixian feels unbearable.

Shi Tianze didn't say anything, he picked up a piece of beef jerky and put it in his mouth. The beef jerky is sweet and salty, and it has a layer of turmeric on it, which is very delicious. It is not prohibited to slaughter beef in the Mongolian controlled area, and the price of beef is not high. However, the price of sugar products and turmeric in the Mongolian controlled area is extremely high, so the price of buying beef jerky is lower than that of homemade in Mongolia.

In the Mongolian court, Shi Tianze was already considered a prime minister. His solution to this problem was the same as other Mongolian officials who claimed to have no prime minister. If they tend to be peaceful, they would forbidden to do business with Zhao Jiaren. If they did not want to ban business with Zhao Jiaren, they would go south to destroy Song State and take everything that Song State had for themselves. After tasting delicious food, Shi Tianze made up his decision again.

At this time, Liu Zheng, recommended by Shi Tianze, was in Bianliang. Henan was not shrouded in plum rain, but it was raining in June. Generally speaking, the army did not go out of work on rainy days. There were many huge thatched pavilions in Liu Zheng's camp, that is, some wooden stakes were buried on the ground and thatched roofs were laid on it. Each thatched pavilion was slightly larger than an inland military ship imitated by Zhao Jiaren. At this time, the soldiers sat in various positions of the drawn military ships and conducted simulation training with the officer's order.

There were naturally Mongolian military supervisors in Liu Zheng's army. The military supervisor Anqima stood under a shed. Although it was covered by thatched huts, the wind blew raindrops into the thatched huts. This felt like the splashes coming towards the water training. A large part of the Mongolian life was war, so Anqima admired the training methods of Liu Zheng, the rebel general of the Song Dynasty. This not only allowed the army to continue training on rainy days, but also used rainy days to imitate water training.

The satisfaction of the military supervisor did not make Liu Zheng particularly happy. As a rebel general, he had a simple idea, that was to make great contributions and squeeze into the real ruling group of Mongolia. There was only one object that could make him earn military achievements, that was the Song Dynasty where Liu Zheng had served.

Every time Liu Zheng thought of Zhao Jiaren's military ship fighting in an orderly manner on the river, he felt extremely motivated. He racked his brains to build the Mongolian naval army because Liu Zheng knew that only by establishing a naval army that could defeat Zhao Jiaren's fleet could he achieve the goal of eliminating the Song Dynasty.

When it doesn't rain, there is training without rain. When it rains, there is training for rain. Days go by day, and the navy Liu Zhengwanhu has been in Bianliang for more than half a year. At the end of the fifth year of Jingding, Khan Kublai Khan suddenly led all his ministers to Bianliang for inspection. Liu Zheng cheered up and performed the troops he had trained for Kublai Khan and others. After the exercise, Kublai Khan only left one sentence "do it well" and left Bianliang. This unfathomable behavior made Liu Zheng feel a little nervous.

After leaving Bianliang, Kublai went to Jiaolai. Unlike Liu Zheng's inland waters, the Jiaolai navy was a navy. After the exercise, Kublai asked Jiaolai navy Wanhu Timur, "If you let your fleet compete with Zhao Jiaren's fleet, can you win?"

Mongolian nobles have their own style of Mongolian nobles. Timur? Buhua replied without hesitation: "I can't win!"

"Can you restrain Zhao Jiaren's navy?" Kublai Khan continued to put forward his own ideas.

"My military ship was once chasing Zhao Jiaren's ships on the sea. We have never been able to run so fast that we can't control it." Timur? He answered truthfully.

Kublai Khan was not angry after hearing this. If he had been angry if he had been in the general's goal in Dapu City, Genghis Khan would have been angry to death long ago. Knowing exactly the abilities of his subordinates and arranging wars based on their abilities is the reason why Mongolia can win many battles.

On the way back to the capital, Kublai Khan and the left prime minister Boyan discussed the attack on Song Dynasty. Boyan was very calm. Even though he was very enthusiastic about the attack on Song Dynasty, he did not see him at all. "Khan, the navy army has barely been available, and this attack on Song Dynasty has already had a 70% chance of winning. However, our army's routes were the same as Zhao Jiaren expected, which made me feel a little uneasy."

At Bo Yan's cautious speech, Kublai Khan smiled and said, "Do you think there shouldn't be anyone in the Song State who can fight well?"

Boyan replied calmly: "The State of Song must have talents, but Zhao Jiaren is a general."

This statement is accurate, and Kublai Khan immediately understood what Boyan was worried about. However, Kublai Khan had some enthusiasm instead. He said enthusiastically: "When I met Jia Sidao last time I attacked Song, I already thought this person was amazing. Then Zhao Jiaren was just Jia Sidao's subordinate. Could it be that this time I attacked Song, would I have to face more powerful people?"

Although Boyan did not participate in the last battle against Song, he knew that Zhao Jiaren was the general who led the navy to cut off the Yangtze River. In other words, Zhao Jiaren was not only a general, but also a general. However, the Khan had a passion, and Boyan was unwilling to pour cold water. "Khan, this time the attack on Song Dynasty, Liu Zheng and the surrendered generals of the Song State were available. However, there were only a few hundred military ships installed by them, which was far from enough. I think it would take a larger number of general ships to two thousand."

After hearing this, Kublai Khan put away his smile, "It's easy to get two thousand military ships, but it's not easy to get two thousand artillery pieces."

Boyan replied: "Not two thousand gates, one thousand gates are enough. The ones we bought from Zhao Jiaren in the past two years, and selected the ones that we can use from our own cannons, there are about six hundred gates. This year, we can build about three hundred gates. It is enough to buy two hundred gates from Zhao Jiaren. The reason for using so many is to capture Xiangyang and Fancheng in one fell swoop. As long as the Song State has no money to equip so many military ships, our army can enter the Yangtze River..."

Along the way, he told Kublai Khan his strategy of attacking the Song Dynasty. When he returned to Dadu, Boyan first went to the military weapon factory for inspection. He immediately asked Kublai Khan to inspect the latest equipment. He originally planned to watch it for one day, but Kublai Khan watched it for three days in a row before returning to the palace with unfulfilled satisfaction.

The first thing he did after he came back was that Kublai Khan removed his position as the left prime minister of Boyan and appointed Boyan as the Grand Marshal of the Southern Expedition and general in charge of the Southern Expedition. Boyan immediately ordered the start of preparations for the war. The first order was to import a batch of artillery from Zhao Jiaren.

Two hundred cannons are 176,000 kilograms of iron and 20,000 calves of cows. Due to the transaction problem, the cows in Shandong have been sold out and have to be replaced by Mongolian cattle. This requires 28,000 cows. This is not Zhao Jiaren's pretentiousness. The ox of Luxi is of the blood of a plowing ox. After a long period of domestication, he is gentle and able to plow the fields. Mongolian cattle are nomadic species, and it is not very suitable.

Zhao Jiaren finally agreed to Mongolia's request for such a large order. There is a very famous line that means 'A qualified international weapons merchant will inevitably sell weapons to forces fighting the motherland'. Although it is clear that the purpose of Mongolia buying a large number of artillery is of course to use these artillery to attack the Song Dynasty, Zhao Jiaren still does not feel the need to refuse.

What's more, Zhao Jiaren's attention was attracted by the vigorous public land reform at this time, and he had to spend a lot of energy to consider the matter of Jiaxing Prefecture.

First of all, the 30% of farmers who did not join the cotton planting ranks of Jiaxing Mansion all changed their views and cried and asked Zhao Jiaren to take them in. This is something that can be imagined. Jiaxing Mansion not only needs to manage public fields, but also grow cotton in 70% of the land, and the 30% of farmers who were unwilling to join became the target of local tax collectors.

Liu Zongyuan described it vividly in "The Snake Catcher": When a fierce official comes to my hometown, he shouts from the east and west, and breaks from the north and south; if he is upset and shocked, even if the chickens and dogs are not at peace. I rise up and look at the crotch and see the silk, but my snake still exists, so I slacken and lie down. Eat it carefully and offer it at times. When I retreat, I am willing to eat the soil to fill my teeth. There are two people who violate the death of one year, and the rest are bustling and happy. How can I be as good as my neighbors' Dandan? Even though I die now, it is better than the death of my neighbors.

In order to avoid paying taxes, it is not a problem to risk your life to catch snakes. What's more, growing cotton is not just a snake, but at most it is a bit harder to work. It's still far from death.

After controlling such a vast land, we naturally have to do our best to manage it. Zhao Jiaren wrote to his elder brother Zhao Jiaxin, who was a cotton staff member, and sent him a new plan.

After receiving the plan, Zhao Jiaxin immediately convened a meeting of cadres and quickly assigned the tasks. The first thing was to call the local figures, Yang Tiexin and Guo Xiaotian from Huating County attended the meeting.

"Everyone, we want to hire people to build shipyards and factories. All the villagers in each village can form their own teams." Sima Kao, who is in charge of this matter, talked about the need.

A shipyard has been built in Huating County, which specializes in producing and supplying ships to fight on the Yangtze River. During the construction of this project, people who are not slack farming came to work. When they heard that they were going to expand production, Yang Tiexin and Guo Xiaotian were naturally happy. Both of them are from Niujia Village, Huating County, and they like to practice martial arts and have some reputation in the local area. People who like martial arts don’t like to cultivate land very much. Organizing villagers to work on construction sites to earn money is very much in their appetite. This time, they have a new opportunity, so of course they don’t want to let it go.

"In addition, spring plowing is about to be soon. The plowing land needs cattle. We, Guanren Zhao, think that we should organize the large animals in each village to use. We also ask those people who are willing to raise cattle and plowing land to join after returning to the village."

This request made Yang Tiexin and Guo Xiaotian a little confused. They also had large animals at home, so they didn’t understand what it means to organize and use. After listening to the explanation, it turned out that the cattle were gathered together to plow the land, and those families who did not have cattle provided some subsidies.

After hearing this, Yang Tiexin and Guo Xiaotian felt it was quite reasonable. However, the two did not act as the first birds, and no one else spoke, and they did not speak. Then the venue fell into a silence that made Sima Kao feel embarrassed. It was obvious that compared with the previous project of organizing labor to participate in the construction of the factory, this action of making full use of the large animals was widely opposed.

When Zhao Jiaxin saw Sima Kao's face getting ugly, he quickly interrupted, "This matter can be discussed slowly, and the other thing is to promote good seeds. And we need to establish a school to teach everyone how to cultivate good seeds."

Many people in Huating County know that Zhao Jiaxin provides high soybean production, and no one who grows them is praised. Now, the official Zhao actually wants to teach his apprentice, and the venue becomes lively in an instant. Everyone asks how to become a disciple, what to teach, and how much tuition is.
Chapter completed!