In the Southern Song Dynasty, I competed with Mongolia for the world

Chapter 148
Zhao and Rui need people, and the military leaders need iron money, food, and supplies. It was easy to trade, but the difficulty is that the forces of all parties are intertwined. If you have me among you, transportation is very difficult, and you can't believe it easily.

At that time, there were Li Quan, Zhang Lin, Shi Gui, Yan Shi, Peng Yibin, Wuxian and other major army leaders in Shandong and Hebei.

Li Quan currently occupies Qingzhou, and his wife Yang Miaozhen is based in Chuzhou (Huai'an). The two couples have a relatively large territory and are closest to the Southern Song Dynasty.

Zhang Lin was appointed as the appeasement envoy and general manager of Jingdong by the Song court. He originally occupied Qingzhou, but was defeated by Li Quan and retreated to Chizhou. The territory became smaller and smaller.

Shi Gui was originally a subordinate of Ji Xian of the Loyalty Army. After Ji Xian was trapped and killed by Jia She, Ji Xian's subordinates supported him as commander-in-chief, called him Taiwei, and occupied Xuyi, Sizhou, near Chuzhou.

Yan Shi was originally a member of a hundred households in the Jin Dynasty, and later returned to the Southern Song Dynasty to serve as the central government of Jinan. He had many subordinates, and his troops were divided into four groups. The east of Taihang Mountain was once occupied by him.

In the 13th year of Jiading (1220), the Mongolian general Mu Huali arrived in Jinan, Shi Gui and Yan Shi successively surrendered to Mu Huali.

Among them, Yan Shi led 30 households in Zhangde Mansion, Daming Mansion Second Mansion, Cizhou, Mingzhou, Enzhou, Bozhou, Huazhou, and Junzhou.

Then he led his army to conquer Caozhou (Heze, Shandong) Puzhou (Juancheng County, Shandong) and so on, and the soldiers also arrived in Shandong.

Gu Yibin was originally a subordinate of Liu Erzu, the leader of the Red Coat Army, and later surrendered to the Song Dynasty with Li Quan. Li Quan was defeated in Enzhou, and the Yangzhou Qiangyong Army formed by Li Quan was even more miserable. More than 13 horses were all captured by Peng Yibin.Peng Yibin not only defeated Li Quan's northward advance, but also added 1220 war horses. Suddenly, the army surged, and he sat on the top of the warlords in Hebei and Shandong since then.

Wuxian was originally from Hebei. Hebei was occupied by the Jin Kingdom when he was young. He was considered a Jin, but he was actually of Han blood.

After Yang Xiaodao introduced the leaders of the army, he said: "Li Quan and Yang Miaozhen are husband and wife with two ends of snakes and rats, facing Qin Muchu, and their character is not good."

"Shi Gui, Yan Shi, and Wuxian have already surrendered to Mongolia, Zhang Lin is swinging left and right, only Peng Yibin is still a hero."

"What do they say? How to contact and trade?" Zhao Yurui asked again.

Chen Xiaodao and Qin Yue looked at each other, and Qin Yue said, "Li Quan is more insidious."

One thing Li Quan did before was to lure businessmen traveling between the Jin and Song Dynasties to Shanyang (belonging to Huai'an), and then surround them with naval forces and take half of the goods on board. One of his elder brothers named Li Fu later stipulated that all merchants who went to the Song and Jin Dynasties for business All merchants must use Li Shizhou and carts, and then pay half of the tax.

Many merchants would travel to the Jin and Song Dynasties, and Li Fu asked them to use Li Quan's boats and cars, and then receive half of the tax.

"Li Quan mainly needs money, grain, iron, and sugar."

"Every adult's strong and folded iron material--"

"Let's trade in Sanyang, deliver goods with one hand, and hand over people with one hand."

Li Quan traded all the adults, women, old men, and young men, and discounted each person's price, and asked the trading point to be in Shanyang.

But what Qin Yue meant was that he didn't trust Li Quan. This person would rob him outright. Anyone who came to his territory would be robbed half of it by him.

Chen Xiaodao also said: "There are many strong men over there who serve as sergeants. I'm afraid Li Quan doesn't have many strong men to trade? It's a trick."

Zhao Yurui scolded after hearing this: "Don't these people know that there is a difference between a full meal and a full meal?"

If you grab half of it, who will come later?
However, the Jin-Song trade was very profitable, so many merchants were willing to take this route even if they had to hand over half of the goods.

Zhao Yurui thought for a while: "Don't go back to Li Quan for now, delay it for a while." He wanted to teach Li Quan a lesson and let Li Quan deliver the goods to his door.

"promise."

"Where are the others?" Zhao Yurui asked again.

Zhang Lin retreated to Chizhou (today's Anhui), and to the east there was still the land of the Song Dynasty, and it was very convenient to get there by water. However, Zhang Lin's land is not large and the population is not large, so the transaction volume is estimated not to be large.

This guy only needs iron and grain, and he negotiated a replacement price with Chen Xiaodao and the others, which is cheaper than Li Quan's asking price.

Both Chen Xiaodao and Qin Yue were secretly inciting him to snatch people from Li Quan's territory.

As long as you learn from the nomads, grab a fortune and leave, Li Quan can't do anything to him.

Peng Yibin's current base is in Enzhou (Xingtai, Hebei), and Linqing, Shandong is also under his control.

Peng Yibin lacks everything, but whether it is Song Ting or Zhao Yurui, it is difficult to support him now.

Because it's not easy to transport it there, don't think about it by land, because the Song and Jin battles are all in the middle, not to mention the Jin country and the major soldiers, the Song army can snatch it along the way, so it is difficult to carry the goods.

There are two ways to go by water, one is to take the Qinghe River, from the north of Jinan and the north of Dongpingfu to Linqing.

This waterway all passes through Li Quan's territory, which is very inconvenient.

Li Quan was a man who plucked the wild goose's hair, and if he took a boatload of supplies, it was estimated that half of the boatload would be taken away, and it was obviously going to Peng Yibin's territory, which was even more difficult.

Another way is to bypass Qinghe controlled by Li Quan, enter Fuhe near Cangzhou from Bohai Bay, and then follow Fuhe all the way to Dezhou and then to Linqing.

This road has two threats. One is to pass through Li Quan's control area, but because it is in the Bohai Sea and does not enter the river, it is better to hide. But after avoiding Li Quan, Dezhou is now Mongolian territory and belongs to Wuxian.

Wuxian is the deputy marshal of the army and horse capital on the West Hebei Road of Mongolia. The main force is stationed in Zhending. His younger brother Wuzhen is stationed in Jizhou and controls Dezhou in the west.

When Chen Xiaodao and Qin Yue came to the door, they only saw Wu Zhen. Wu Zhen said that the ship passed through Dezhou, and he wanted half of the goods.

These two brothers used to be Han Chinese, and then they were demoted to gold, and then to Mongolia, and they went from side to side. They are also people who cannot be easily trusted.

Judging from this situation, if you want to trade with Peng Yibin, supporting Peng Yibin is almost as difficult as reaching the sky.

But the two had met Peng Yibin. Peng Yibin was the leader of the local army among all the people who really had a Han country in his heart and devoted himself to the Northern Expedition to recover Hebei and Shandong.

In the original history, Peng Yibin also wrote to the court of the Southern Song Dynasty many times, but the Southern Song Dynasty was afraid that he would become big in the north and wanted to sit on the mountain and watch the tigers fight.

Although Zhao Yurui didn't know Peng Yibin, Chen Xiaodao and Qin Yue had met each other.

The two agreed that among the military leaders they saw, only Peng Yibin truly maintained the heart of the Han people and was determined to restore the Central Plains.

After Zhao and Rui heard about it, they basically knew who could trade and who should trade carefully.

"From now on, one of you will take turns going." Zhao Yurui said in a deep voice.

Chen Xiaodao and Qin Yue listened carefully.

"Let's figure out one thing first. Now the major military leaders are in urgent need of various supplies, and we are not in a hurry to ask for population."

Everyone nodded. Although they didn't understand why King Wei wanted to rob people, they also knew the truth. No matter what, they couldn't let others know that they were eager to get people.

"Don't worry about Li Quan, I want to force him to come to the door on his own initiative."

"Ignore Shi Gui and Yan Shi for now. The middle is all my Da Song and Li Quan's territory. It is too obvious and dangerous for us to transport supplies there."

Zhao Yurui finally decided to only trade with Zhang Lin at present, and find a way to trade with Peng Yibin.

Zhang Lin's transaction was convenient, but it was difficult for Peng Yibin, so he sent someone to tell Peng Yibin again, let Peng Yibin conquer Dezhou and control the water transport money from Dezhou and Linqing to Fuhe.

"After you go back, send someone to tell Peng Yibin that as long as he conquers Dezhou and defends Dezhou, we will give him [-] catties of iron material and [-] stone grain every year, and other transactions will be calculated separately."

The faces of Chen Xiaodao and others changed drastically, they did not expect King Wei to support Peng Yibin so much.

"What about the Martial Immortal?"

"Wu Xian doesn't care about him, since he has surrendered to Mongolia, don't care about him for the time being."

In fact, the relationship between Mongolia and Song Dynasty is good now, but everyone found that King Wei seemed to have a lot of opinions on Mongolia, and the military leaders who surrendered to Mongolia did not pay much attention.

"It's a good thing for Peng Yibin to focus on recovering the Central Plains, but he can't just go north with his head down."

"I'll write a letter, and you can bring it to Peng Yibin." Zhao Yurui decided to persuade Peng Yibin. Although he didn't know him or meet him, after hearing what happened to Peng Yibin, he still admired Peng Yibin in his heart.
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At the beginning of July, Zhao and Rui summoned Feng Deshan to the shipyard to ask about the situation of the navy.

As soon as Zhao and Rui arrived in Dinghai County in February, they recruited craftsmen for the shipyard. In April, they began to hire migrant workers to build the shipyard. The monthly money and grain flowed out. In late April, the shipyard began to build ships.

By the end of June, Qingyuanfu Shipyard had more than [-] craftsmen of various kinds, more than double the original number.

And still hiring.

It was only July, and the Qingyuanfu Shipyard had built three medium-sized multi-oared boats, two sea falcon warships, one car boat, and thirty lava fishing boats.

Among them, lava fishing boats are small and fast, and dozens of them can be built every day.

However, they mainly build multi-oared boats, vehicles and sea falcon warships. Limited by the purchase of timber and the number of docks, the temporary production speed of the Qingyuanfu Shipyard is not fast enough. When the successor docks are in place, the supply of timber is sufficient. According to the history of the Southern Song Dynasty in 1000 The shipyard with many people builds a record of more than 300 ships a year, and here can build at least seven or eight hundred ships a year.

But Zhao Yurui didn't just build in the official shipyard, he asked Qin Zhuo to buy a private shipyard in Dinghai when he first arrived in Dinghai, which was actually a partnership with the other party.

According to the regulations, it is not allowed to build warships here. Zhao Yurui built a flat-bottomed lake boat with multiple oars, and then pulled it to his navy wharf to be quietly transformed by craftsmen, and it became a simple warship.

By the beginning of July, Feng De Shanshui Army's right army had newly acquired ten medium-sized boats and twenty laval fishing boats, while Zhou Lai's left army on Jinyong Island also had three medium-sized boats and ten lacy fishing boats.

During this period, the sailors had enough to eat and drink every day. Except for those who took turns to go to sea to do business, they all trained at the seaside and suppressed smuggling. Both their mental outlook and combat power had risen to a higher level than before.

According to Zhao and Rui's requirements, Feng Deshan competed once a month, and selected the outstanding ones for both material and spiritual rewards. In June and July, several middle-level military officers were promoted, and the morale of the entire navy took on a new look.

(End of this chapter)