Tumeng: I am a national advisor in the Golden Family

"My dear friends, we are facing a national crisis now. Do you have any good ideas to help me?" Zhao Yun sat on his dragon chair and said with a sad face.

The early stages of this battle went very smoothly. Quan Zicai, Zhao Fan, Zhao Kui and others. They advanced with great success and captured Chengfu, Guide, Kaifeng and Henan Prefecture, and were about to regain the entire Central Plains region.

But sometimes, things are not what you expect. Shi Songzhi, the nephew of the powerful minister Shi Miyuan, is a guard general near Xiangyang.

Zhao Yun's original plan was to transport grain and grass from the land of Lianghuai and Xiangyang to replenish the soldiers on the front line.

However, Shi Songzhi used various reasons to avoid transporting grain. One moment he said that he was still collecting grain and grass, and the other moment he said that the Mongolian army had blocked the road and could not be transported.

As a result, the soldiers fighting on the front line had no way to replenish food and grass. The Southern Song Dynasty army, Xu Zimin and Yang Yi, who originally fought all the way to Luoyang Prefecture, were wiped out by the Tachaer tribe from the grassland. Ten thousand people were wiped out near Luoyang Prefecture. .

After Quan Zicai, Zhao Fan and others heard the news. After some discussion, we immediately planned to return south directly from Kaifeng Mansion.

But this news was not told to the ordinary soldiers of the Southern Song Dynasty. The soldiers of the Southern Song Dynasty originally thought that they were going to support Luoyang, so they all stepped out of Kaifeng Mansion with high spirits.

But they didn't expect to return the same way, which caused many Southern Song soldiers to think. They had been defeated, and the generals were trying to escape with their own men. As a result, their morale was suddenly extremely low, and they basically had no fighting spirit.

Due to internal disagreements, the Mongols opened another big bag and waited for them to get in, which resulted in the current situation.

"The officials cannot blame the soldiers fighting on the front line for this matter. They had already made great progress and conquered Kaifeng, Henan, and Luoyang all the way. But who would have thought that there was a shortage of food and grass. Shi Songzhi, the guard general of Xiangyang, was the culprit. , it should be beheaded." A minister of government and military affairs said.

There is no other way, because of the actions of the Southern Song Dynasty army. There was a careful plan to attack the Mongols and they were caught off guard. However, the military operation was successful, but the logistics and food supplies failed to keep up.

"Now is not the time to discuss who should be punished. How to bring these hundreds of thousands of troops back now?" Zhao Yun said with an ugly face.

Shi Songzhi was indeed responsible, but he could not be entirely blamed. The land of Xiangyang had already provided food and fodder for many attacks on Hanzhong Prefecture before, and now he was asked to provide part of the food and fodder for the Northern Expedition.

Naturally, he wanted to go to the people to collect food. But as soon as the grain was collected, tens of thousands of Mongolian cavalry blocked the road. He couldn't transport it even if he wanted to!
"For the current plan, we can only look for foreign aid." A minister said.

Hearing this, all the civil and military officials present rolled their eyes. Where can they find foreign aid at this juncture? Is it okay to have no foreign aid at all?

"Where do we have foreign aid? The Xixia and Jin kingdoms have been destroyed. Now only we, the Song Dynasty, can fight against the Mongols." A minister snorted coldly and said.

"Officials! Do you know the Red Coat Army? The Red Coat Army in Shandong is very strong! They are the only ones who can save the Northern Expeditionary Army now."

"Li Quan, the leader of the Red Coat Army, married Genghis Khan, the girl who dragged thunder since he surrendered to Mongolia.

However, the Mongols were too meddlesome and had been meddling in Shandong's internal affairs. They vaguely wanted to isolate the Red Coat Army, which also led to the dissatisfaction of the leader of the Red Coat Army.

Why don't the officials issue a decree? Let the red coat army surrender to the Song Dynasty and promise the throne. "

"How can a person with a foreign surname be crowned king? Since ancient times, only members of the royal family can be crowned kings, and at most they can be assigned as dukes." A minister immediately retorted.

Not to mention a duke, he was only a marquis with the highest score during the war. Moreover, after being made a marquis, he would be subject to various suspicions by the emperor. This marquis was not reliable.

Not to mention the prince above the prince.

"That's wrong. Officials are at one time and another. Now we are facing a national crisis and the Mongolian army is fully invading. Some rules can really be changed."

"Yes, officials! Use special methods at special times. At this time, the world is in chaos. If you can make a king, you can definitely separate Mongolia and the Red Coat Army, and let Mongolia divide its troops to deal with the Red Coat Army. At that time, our Northern Expeditionary Army can also take the opportunity to return south."

"Genghis Khan, a steppe barbarian, can make a man king, why can't your majesty?"

After hearing the speeches of the officials of the Southern Song Dynasty, Zhao Yun was obviously moved. Now is indeed a time of national crisis. Is the situation not much worse than the Jingkang Disgrace?

If one operation goes wrong and the Mongolian army goes down the Yangtze River and directly attacks Lin'an Mansion, then he might become the new second emperor.

Now that a throne is divided, if it can support an enemy of Mongolia, it will be very beneficial to itself.

"In this case, it is my decree that if the Red Coat Army is willing to surrender to the Song Dynasty, we will make him the King of Qi and command the land of fish and rice in Qi. All the Mongolian lands captured in the future will be divided into his possessions," Zhao Yun said.

Since you want to make the other party king, then simply be bold and write a big blank check to the other party. How much land you can seize will be yours in the future.

As long as you nominally surrender to the Song Dynasty, you can even imitate Mongolia and collect some symbolic taxes from it. When Mongolia, the grassland regime, is completely exhausted, you can then find a way to conquer your homeland.

"This plan is feasible for the officials! They can even issue a notice, just like the order to kill Hu, promising to the northern Han people that as long as they capture the Mongolian lands, I, the Song Dynasty, can be granted the title of marquis.

If a land can be captured, then it can be divided into princes, so that the heroes of the north can stand side by side and compete for hegemony. "Another minister said.

Nowadays, no one in the court of the Southern Song Dynasty says that there are no heroes in the north. After all, if there are no heroes in the north, who has beaten the shit out of them in these years?
Most of the soldiers in the Southern Song Dynasty army are now Han Chinese from the north! Since the Mongols could win over the Han heroes in the north by conferring marquises and titles, why couldn't they do the same in the Song Dynasty?

"Officials, if this plan is carried out, it is very likely that the Three Kingdoms will be in chaos, and the heroes will be divided!" said an old minister with white hair, about sixty or seventy years old.

"The Three Kingdoms were in turmoil at the end of the Han Dynasty, when the heroes were really divided and the emperor's reputation was completely ruined.

But at least our south is still in the hands of the officials, and it is still in the hands of our Song Dynasty.

The land sealed off is only the land in the north. Even if the Sichuan and Shu generals under the King of Guanzhong are willing to surrender, we can still ennoble them. "

How can we control so much now, and the situation is completely different, okay! It is a time when national calamity is approaching, so it is natural to take dangerous measures.

"In this case, then secretly send a group of envoys to make contact with the Jin generals who have surrendered to Mongolia, the Han princes in Hebei, and even some powerful generals in Guanzhong to see if anyone is willing to surrender. From the Song Dynasty."

After some careful deliberations, a group of nearly a hundred envoys secretly set out from Lin'an Mansion. Heading towards the Red Coat Army in Shandong.

At the same time, a large number of Southern Song envoys dressed as ordinary businessmen also sneaked into Hebei and Guanzhong.

Among the Mongolian military camps on the front line, the Han princes, Tachar, the general of the Mongolian grassland, and some Guanzhong generals all gathered in the camp outside Kaifeng City.

After the generals from the three parties were polite to each other, they began to discuss the battle plan and how to capture Kaifeng Mansion.

The Han princes in Hebei and most of the generals in Guanzhong proposed a direct siege, and the encirclement was three to one missing, leaving a glimmer of hope for the Southern Song army, but it was a dead end.

If the Southern Song Dynasty army rushed out of the city and tried to break out of the encirclement, they would fall into their encirclement. If they did not leave the city, they would be trapped to death due to the lack of food and grass.

"Your proposal is too slow. I have a strategy that can take down all the Song armies in Kaifeng Mansion within a few days." Tachar said as the Mongolian grassland came.

If a siege is carried out, it is not known how long the siege will last. It is said that the people of Kaifeng Prefecture were moved away.

Many family properties were left behind in the city, and the Southern Song Dynasty troops went from house to house looking for food, so they probably could survive for a while.

"I wonder what the general has to say?" Tao Jie asked. Among the generals in Guanzhong this time, he served as a military advisor and came to the Mongolian camp together with some Han generals who had surrendered to Zhang Yong.

"The Yellow River is flooding this year. As long as we dig out the river channel, we can release the water from the Yellow River to flood Kaifeng Mansion. At that time, we can drown the hundreds of thousands of Song troops in the city. We can kill them all without spending a single soldier. Kill him." Tachaer said. The Mongols used this trick during their first Western Expedition to dig out rivers, flood the city of Khwarezm, and successfully capture the city.

Now they are on the edge of the Yellow River. As long as the Yellow River channel is dug, Kaifeng Mansion can be flooded.

"General Tachaer, this must not be done. The water will flood Kaifeng Mansion. It will not only flood Kaifeng Mansion, but also the entire Central Plains of Henan.

Even Luoyang, Hezhong, Henan, Guide, etc. will be affected by the disaster. Although the Southern Song army can be annihilated, the local people will also suffer heavy losses. "A Guanzhong general immediately refused.

What a joke, most of the people in the Central Plains were ordered to rule by the King of Guanzhong, and they have been in charge of Guanzhong all these years.

After several years of development, the tax revenue has finally been stabilized and it can provide a large amount of money and food to Mongolia every year. It will be flooded at your request, and millions of people will be affected!
You have wiped out the Song army, but the millions of Central Plains people will be homeless by then. Where will they go? What about life? Their farmland will also be flooded by you, and their houses will be flooded by you.

"The order given to me by the Great Khan is to defeat the Southern Song army as soon as possible, and to annihilate the hundreds of thousands of Song troops. To avenge Prince Kuo Chu, the fastest way is to dig the Yellow River channel and flood Kaifeng Mansion." Tacha The son spoke.

Anyway, the people who suffered the disaster were not the Mongolian people, but the people in the Central Plains region. Moreover, the Mongolians had done their best to the people of the Central Plains.

If it weren't for the dissuasion of the Guanzhong King, all the people in the Central Plains might have been slaughtered by them.

"This strategy is not possible. General Tachar should rely on our plan and continue to besiege the Southern Song army!

Surround all the gates on three sides, leaving only one way out, and set up an ambush circle on this way out. Shi Tianze, a Han waiter standing nearby, said.

After hearing this, all the Han people present roared and agreed in unison, firmly disagreeing with digging the Yellow River channel, flooding Kaifeng Prefecture, and harming the entire Central Plains region.

The situation was immediately divided into three factions. The Mongolian generals from the grassland proposed flooding Kaifeng Mansion, but the Han princes from Hebei and Guanzhong generals were present.

Even some Jin generals in the Central Plains who had surrendered before rejected the plan to dig up the Yellow River channel.

"Hmph! I will personally write a letter to tell Ogedai Khan about this." Tachar snorted coldly and said.

"General, please don't act on your own initiative. The people here are also Mongolian people now." Shi Tianze said.

During the more than three years of the Mongolian Western Expedition, the Mongolian Khan Ogedai was advised by Yelu Chucai.

These Han princes in Hebei were partially weakened, not only in terms of military strength, but also in terms of land.

Some taxes have also been increased. The originally agreed upon 1/10 tax has now been increased.

They even installed many Mongolian generals and entered their territory to serve as Qianhu. These people were not serving as Mongolian Qianhu, but as Han Qianhu.

This attitude is already obvious, and they want to suppress the forces of the Han people in Hebei.

Now, this is no longer a matter for the Hebei Group, since Torre's death.

Do the Han people in Hebei also urgently need a backer? Many Han people in Hebei have chosen Kublai Khan, the son of Tuo Lei.

However, Shi Tianze had different ideas. The Mongols were always outsiders.

But this King of Guanzhong was a real Han Chinese. Although he married a Mongolian princess and was very close to the kings of the Western Mongolia, he was still the prince of their Han people.

Now it is indeed time for these powerful Han people in Hebei to consider their retreat.

After the King of Guanzhong returns from the Western Expedition, he must find a way to meet him.

Then explore the other party's tone to see if the other party just wants to be an ordinary prince in a peaceful place, guarding Guanzhong and Sichuan and Sichuan to live a stable life.

Then he would join Kublai Khan to help the other party complete the great cause of unification, and even compete for the position of Mongolian Khan in the future.

If the king of Guanzhong has the ambition to conquer the mountains and rivers of the world, or even break with Mongolia, then he will assist him himself and bring the princes of the Han people in Hebei to assist him.

Speaking of which, King Guanzhong's participation in the Western Expedition this time was actually a helpless move. If he didn't go, his life might be in danger, and Wokuotai and the upper echelons of Mongolia would not believe him.

I hope that the King of Guanzhong can give himself a satisfactory answer by then. Do you want the world, or do you want to be an ordinary Prince Xiaoyao?
At the same time that the Southern Song Dynasty army was besieged, the envoys sent by Batu from Poland also came to the city of Xi'an in Guanzhong.

A few years ago, the King of Guanzhong renamed Jingzhao Mansion to Xi'an City as the capital of the Guanzhong area.

"Greetings to the eldest princess, paying homage to the princess." Batu's envoy knelt on the ground and paid homage to Tulan Lun and Princess Hulan.

"No need to be polite, you were sent by Batu, right? What's the purpose of coming here this time?" Tu Lanlun looked at the envoy in front of him and asked.

"Honored Princess, I am here to propose marriage to you on the order of Batu Khan. Batu Khan will marry his eldest daughter to your eldest son, and our two families will become one in-law." Batu's envoy said. said.

It turned out that he was proposing marriage to himself, and was marrying his daughter to his eldest son. The death of his brother has not yet been investigated clearly! You Batu actually came over to propose marriage at this time?
"This is a good thing! Batu wants to establish a khanate in the west and marry my grandson, which can consolidate the relationship between us. I agree with this." Princess Hulan, who was sitting aside, said.

"Mother and Concubine, I don't know what the master will say about this matter. Don't worry yet." Tu Lanlun said.

If her brother's death had not happened, then she would have agreed very readily, but it was hard to talk about it now.

"Reporting to the eldest princess and the concubine, Master Batu has already discussed this matter with King Guanzhong.

The King of Guanzhong said that Princess, you are the mother of the child, and I need to ask for your opinion. As long as you agree, the matter will be settled. "Batu's envoy said.

"You have come a long way, and you must be very tired. You should rest in my house for a while first! I will give you an answer in a few days." Tu Lanlun waved his hand and said.

Batu's envoy nodded, stood up and retreated respectfully.

"My dear daughter, why don't you agree? This matter will be beneficial to both of you!
Batu is the leader of Juchi's line, and he is also named the leader of the princes. We will not suffer any loss by marrying him, and it is his daughter who is marrying from afar. "After the messenger left, Princess Hulan asked.

"Mother, this matter still needs to be discussed! After all, our two families are too far apart, and the child is still young.

It’s not the time to decide on marrying a wife. After all, there are still so many kings of the East and West!

The girls from the Chagatai family are also pretty good, so there’s no need to choose the farthest Jochi lineage! Tu Lanlun said.

Mother, I can’t tell you that my brother’s death is related to Batu, right? Even Batu himself shielded the murderer.

"This child is fourteen years old this year. She is already able to marry on our grassland. If you agree to this, the messenger will come back and send the girl back. It will probably be two years later. By then, this child He is only sixteen years old, and his father just happened to be back." Princess Hulan said.

"Wait a little longer! There's no rush in this matter." Tu Lanlun shook his head and said.

What's going on with this girl? Why all of a sudden? Has the attitude toward Batu changed so much?
Is there something you are hiding from yourself? (End of chapter)