Zhao Tai believed that the Southern Song Dynasty's support for Meng Ge and Qi Guo was both an opportunity and a crisis.

According to Zhao Tai's understanding of Mongolia, he is very unfavorable to the current Mongolian Khan Guyuk.

On the one hand, during the period when Guiyou was the great khan in history, he made little achievements, but after his death, the khan position that originally belonged to the Ogedai family was immediately seized by Meng Ge. Hundreds of members of the Ogedai family were all taken over by Meng Ge.

Bloodbath.

On the other hand, after Wokuotai's death, Zhao Tai fought against Guyu and took Hedong, the Central Plains, and Guanzhong from him to complete the unification of the north.

Because of these two aspects, Zhao Tai looked down upon his current opponent, thinking that his level was average and not as good as the hero.

Therefore, the Southern Song Dynasty supported Meng Ge. Zhao Tai was very worried that Meng Ge would suddenly win and then quickly purge Guiyou's faction and take control of Mongolia.

At this time, everyone listened to Zhao Tai's words and put away their contempt and arrogance.

Wang Bin asked: "Your Majesty, how should we seize the opportunity and eliminate the crisis?"

Zhao Tai thought for a while, walked to the map, pointed at the Southern Song Dynasty and said: "Our opportunity is to take advantage of the civil strife in Mongolia and seize the opportunity to destroy the Song Dynasty! However, the Southern Song Dynasty also knew in the past two years that after the Gu unified the north, the next goal was

Unify the world. Therefore, I am recuperating and accumulating strength, and they are not idle either. They have been preparing for war recently!"

Zhao Tai paused and continued pointing at the map, "Hanzhong, Xiangyang, Jinling, and the Southern Song Dynasty all stationed heavy troops to strengthen the city defenses. In addition, the Southern Song Dynasty has built a lot of artillery in the past two years, and its military strength has been improved."

After hearing this, everyone couldn't help but nodded and gradually calmed down.

After all, the Southern Song Dynasty was a large country with a territory comparable to that of Qi, a population more than twice that of Qi, and an economy far exceeding that of Qi.

Although the Song army's combat power was not strong, the Southern Song Dynasty had strong economic strength and developed handicraft industry, which could make up for the lack of military power to a certain extent.

At present, Qi State needs to recuperate, but the Southern Song Dynasty has sufficient money and food. If you have money, you will have soldiers, and if you have food, you will not panic.

Now, in addition to money and food, the Southern Song Dynasty also had an advantage in smelting. The annual copper and iron output was at least three to four times that of Qi.

Copper and iron are not ordinary commodities. Their large output indicates that the Southern Song Dynasty was able to produce more weapons, armor, and artillery than the Qi State in the same period of time.

And this is also a kind of fighting strength.

Wang Bin already understood, "Your Majesty is worried that before we destroy the Song Dynasty, Brother Meng will complete the unification of Mongolia first, and then attack our army with the Song army, causing our Qi army to lose ground!"

"That's right!" Zhao Tai nodded, "That's what it means. Therefore, if we want to seize this opportunity, we must ensure that Mongolia falls into long-term civil strife instead of a coup!"

If Mongolia is in civil strife for a long time, even if Qi's attack on Song Dynasty is frustrated, it will have enough time to adjust its posture and launch another attack.

If what happened in Mongolia was a coup, and Meng Ge killed Guyu and his supporters overnight, then Qi would have no choice but to give up attacking Song Dynasty for the time being.

The ministers present are all smart people.

After they understood Zhao Tai's worries, they immediately had an idea.

Zhang Judao: "Your Majesty, if the Southern Song Dynasty supports Brother Meng, then we will support Guyu. In this way, Mongolia can maintain a balance, so that no one can do anything to anyone!"

Wang Wen was in charge of the Ministry of Household Affairs. Knowing the situation of the treasury, he immediately shook his head, "No! Da Qi has only been recuperating for less than two years. The money and food accumulated in the treasury is for the crusade against the Southern Song Dynasty. How can it be used to fund Guiyou!"

Zhao Tai also opposed supporting Guyu, "The first assistant is right! Now that we are recuperating, the national treasury does not have much money and food. If these money and food are used to support Guyu, even if Mongolia falls into long-term chaos, Gu will not have the money and food to conquer the Song Dynasty. In addition, Guiyu

You's forces are in Mobei, and supporting him requires too much manpower and material resources. Moreover, if they don't fight after supporting him alone, wouldn't they lose both his wife and their troops?"

Everyone was silent for a while after hearing this.

Wang Bin pondered for a while, then suddenly came out to salute, "Your Majesty, there is only one way. Didn't the Southern Song Dynasty support Brother Meng? We can leak this news to Guyou. This will not only remind Guyou to prevent him from being harmed, but also

It can make him restless and even take the lead in attacking Meng Ge. As the Mongolian Khan, Guyou will definitely not sit back and watch Meng Ge's power grow stronger day by day with the help of the Southern Song Dynasty. I thought that after he got the news, he would definitely fight with Meng Ge in advance.

Meng Ge starts the war."

Zhao Tai raised his brows and said with a smile: "This is a good idea! If the news is leaked to Guiyou, Guiyou will probably not sit back and wait for death. However, Guiyou has a lot of troubles. If he does not have the courage to go to war with Meng Ge,

You must give him courage alone!"

Mongolia retreated to the grassland for two years, but Guyu and Meng Ge did not fight. The main reason was actually Guyu's indecisiveness.

Meng Ge did not take action, mainly because after losing Hedong, Meng Ge suffered a lot. Most of the tribes on the grassland respected Youwei Khan. He was weaker than Guyu, so he did not dare to take action rashly.

As the Great Khan of Mongolia, Guyuk had little to lose in the Hedong battle and was stronger than Mengge, but he did not start the war because he was indecisive.

After Meng Ge abandoned Hedong, Guyu did not take action against Meng Ge. Instead, he allowed Meng Ge to gradually control Monan and most of Modong. He retreated to Helin, allowing Meng Ge to gradually grow in strength.

Now that Mongolia is blockaded by Qi, there is a shortage of supplies on the grasslands, and the living conditions in Mobei are worse than those in Monan.

There were already tribes in Mongolia who were fighting each other for pasture. Although Guyu realized that he and Meng Ge would have to fight, he was always hesitant to start a war because his strength could not crush Meng Ge.

Now after two years of delay, many Mongolian nobles who persuaded him to strike first saw that he did not listen. Seeing Meng Ge getting stronger and stronger, they gradually became disappointed with him and switched to Meng Ge, making Guyou even more hesitant to start a war.

Undecided.

Zhao Tai was quite aware of these situations, so he felt that even if Guyou knew that the Southern Song Dynasty was supporting Mongolia, he might still need to help Guyou before Guyou would dare to go to war.

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Northeast, Liaohe Plain.

After Mengge withdrew from Hedong, he was able to gradually regain his strength under Guyu's suppression and Qi's blockade. He did not boast about the lack of supplies, thanks to Kublai Khan's advice.

After the Mongols destroyed the Jin Dynasty, they were unable to control the entire Northeast. The remaining forces of the Jin Kingdom established many political regimes.

After Meng Ge retreated to the grassland, he actually faced the same situation as Batu, but he did not attack the Mongolian tribes like Batu, but instead targeted the Mongolian vassals.

The Eastern Liao Kingdom was a political power established by the Khitan people after the fall of the Jin Kingdom. They later surrendered to Mongolia and became a vassal state of Mongolia.

A year ago, Meng Ge's army was short of supplies, so Kublai Khan suggested that Meng Ge lead his troops into Dongliao, depose Yelu, the leader of Dongliao, collect slaves, kill a group of Dongliao nobles, and control Dongliao.

Although the Dongliao Kingdom is a small country, after Meng Ge swallowed it, an urgent need was solved.

Now that Meng Ge has received support from the Southern Song Dynasty, it can be said that he has temporarily got rid of the sense of crisis.

On the banks of the Liao River, inside the Mongolian army camp.
Chapter completed!