Tuo Lei laughed: "Father, you don't know how ridiculous those Song people are."
"Tell me about it, I'm listening."
"Actually, it was not me, nor my friends around me, who first thought of the mediating strategy, but the people of Song Dynasty."
The so-called back-up tactics refer to avoiding the enemy's front and using long-distance, large-depth detours to directly attack the enemy's weak areas. Over the years, as the scale of wars launched by the Mongols has become larger and larger, the scope of use of the back-up tactics has gradually increased.
It is not uncommon for battles to turn into battles, with detours spanning thousands of miles.
The reason why the back-up tactic is popular is that it fits the customs and habits of the Mongolians. Every Mongolian born in the grasslands has faced the endless wilderness and just wants to run as hard as possible. The Mongolians judge distance and space.
, naturally different from any other nation.
At least, it's different from the Song people who were crawling in the soil and farming, right?
Genghis Khan became interested. He was twisting the riding whip with one hand. Because his hand was so strong, it was like an iron plier, and he could wrap the flexible and elastic octagonal whip around his palm several times. At this time, he suddenly opened his mouth.
The entire whip made a snapping sound, twisting and loosening like a python.
"Did the people of Song Dynasty think of it first? Do people of Song Dynasty also understand this?"
"It's not that the Song people understand the tactics of our Mongols, but there is a group of people among the Song people who hate the Zhou Kingdom to an unbearable level. But this group of people themselves are timid and weak, so they can only
The hope of destroying the Zhou Kingdom rests on us coming from afar."
"...I heard that the Zhou State was vigorously developing sea trade and was having a fierce war with the Song people. The soldiers of the Zhou State could even go south by boat and go to the southern coast of the Song State to kill people and establish their authority. This shows that the relationship between the two families is very close.
.By the way, Tuo Lei, this is what you told me. You also said that it was what you saw with your own eyes!"
Having said this, Genghis Khan raised his voice slightly, which made people feel extremely frightened.
Tuo Lei quickly bowed his head: "Father Khan, there are all kinds of people in the Song Dynasty, with all kinds of scheming. Their situation is very similar to the internal chaos in Khwarezm and other countries. In fact, because of this,
The prosperity of maritime trade between the Zhou and Song Dynasties forced out a large number of people who hated Zhou."
"Keep talking."
"The Song Dynasty has a vast territory and rich people. It is one of the few big countries in the world. But they have always had a problem since the founding of the country, that is, they have no horses."
Genghis Khan laughed: "Without horses, how can we still fight?"
"What Father Khan said is that because of the lack of horses, the Song Dynasty often suffered losses in foreign wars. Fortunately, the country had a lot of natural resources, so hundreds of years ago he set up official posts in Sichuan and said, 'The tea and horse affairs are promoted in a big way'.
Tea and other commodities, which are specialties of the Southern Dynasties, were exchanged for horses from the Tubo tribes and the Xia Kingdom. Sichuan produced 30 million kilograms of tea every year, many of which were used in exchange for horses. The Song people collected taxes from tea gardens as high as 20,000 kilograms per year.
More than one and a half million pounds, most of which were used to exchange for horses."
Genghis Khan originally didn't understand or bother to understand money matters. However, he destroyed countless countries in the Western Regions and got a lot of experience with money and wealth, and because he had recently used many Huihui people to do Bichachi, it was inevitable to hear them mention it.
Some. Because the coins minted by the Song Dynasty were widely used in the Western Regions, Genghis Khan was also familiar with them.
But Tuo Lei opened his mouth and asked for tens of millions of tea and millions of money. The figures were so huge that Genghis Khan felt a little dizzy. After a while, he suppressed the fire of greed surging in his heart and asked in a deep voice.
: "Wait a minute, how much tea did you say? How much tax?"
"Thirty million catties of tea, two and a half million pounds of tax money."
Genghis Khan stared and asked: "How many horses can the Song people exchange for so much tea and money? Where can the Tubo and Xia people get so many horses to exchange for them?"
"Father Khan, everyone in the Song Dynasty greatly promoted the tea horses and the profiteers attached to the tea horses. The war horses they exchanged every year were only five thousand. The price of a horse they reported to the Song Dynasty court was sometimes
Two hundred guan, sometimes three hundred guan, sometimes as high as 500 guan. In any case, this group of people can consume all the Song Dynasty's tea tax. Anyway, the only thing that is donated to the court every year is 5,000 horses.
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"Only five thousand horses?"
Genghis Khan just wanted to laugh.
You must know that in the Mongolian army, an ordinary knight usually carries four to five horses when accompanying the army, which are used for daily riding, carrying supplies, fighting and milking. There are even more horses left in the tribe.
.If the number of horses controlled by the Mongols at this time were counted, it would probably be at least one million.
What does five thousand horses mean? Not to mention the Tubo people, even the exhausted Xia Kingdom, if you ask them to raise five thousand horses every year, it will be nothing!
He couldn't help but shook his head and said: "This business is easy to do. These people must have a comfortable life! If I were the emperor of the Song Dynasty, I would have killed them long ago!"
"Father, these people have the Song Dynasty on their backs. They have mountains and seas of wealth in their hands every year, and their lives are really comfortable. And for hundreds of years, they have long taken it as a matter of course. But these good days are over.
After the rise of the Great Zhou Dynasty, the trade with the Southern Dynasties was also dominated by horses. Every year, the Great Zhou Dynasty used sea ships to load horses from Hebei, Northeast and other places to the south. The number exceeded 10,000 horses, and the price of each horse was usually between 100 and 150 yuan.
About ten strings..."
Genghis Khan immediately said: "Since the Song Dynasty court has a new source of horses, it can no longer use this group of people from Sichuan."
"Not only did the Song Dynasty court have no use for these people, but they also took a fancy to their money. Since five years ago, the Song Dynasty court had been discussing that since Sichuan Bianzhou City Horses were no longer needed, Sichuan's people should be replaced
The tea tax is sent to the center. However, five thousand horses are easy to give, and in fact it does not cost much. But how can the tea tax of millions be paid? Once this money is handed over, the wealth of many families will fly away out of thin air.
?How many people were so angry that their eyes were red and their teeth were broken? So this matter was delayed until An Bing, a native of Sichuan, stepped down, and the Song Dynasty court sent many officials from Lin'an to directly manage Sichuan."
"The man named Dong Juyi just now must be one of them."
"Yes. Dong Juyi and others are all lackeys of Shi Miyuan, the powerful official of the Song Dynasty. After these people came to Sichuan, they have made no achievements at all. Their only purpose is to seize power and wealth for their master, so they will never
Let go of the tea tax. These people are vicious and often threaten to kill. They abolished many institutions of the Tea Horse Department early on and directly demoted a large number of officials. As a result, a large number of local officials lost their wealth and official positions.
All of them harbor overwhelming resentment, but are unable to confront the senior officials from the central government head-on."
Speaking of this, Tuo Lei chuckled repeatedly:
"So, at first they found me through my connections with Xia merchants. They wanted to pay the Mongols and let us go deep into Sichuan to start a riot and kill some court officials stationed in Sichuan. It would be better to disrupt eastern Sichuan.
In order to prevent the Song Dynasty court from easily intervening in Sichuan. Of course, the most important thing is that they asked me to do everything possible to blame the riots on the Zhou Kingdom, or to spread the war to the Zhou Kingdom, so as to force the imperial court and the Zhou Kingdom to become hostile again.
, so that the trade between the two countries was suspended. In this way, the Song Dynasty could only resume the tea and horse trade in the border states of Sichuan, and they could continue to make huge wealth and maintain the distribution of wealth for decades or hundreds of years."
Genghis Khan commented: "A group of people who look like pigs and dogs have a clear mind and know that the key lies in the trade between Zhou and Song... but they are too courageous."
"I was dissatisfied with my father. At first I just regarded it as a joke. But I never thought that not long after, Dong Juyi also came to me and asked me if I could borrow Mongolian soldiers and horses to suppress the mutiny in Pingchuan."
The smile on Tuo Lei's face could not be suppressed. He paused for a moment before continuing: "The officials in office in the Song Dynasty want us to send troops, and the local gangsters who have been dismissed from the Song Dynasty want us to send troops, but they don't know about us at all.
The Mongols are so powerful. I don’t know that once we send out troops, the world will be turned upside down!... Father Khan, I actually didn’t do anything, but a good opportunity came to my door. This is obviously the eternal god who wants to punish the sinners with our hands, so what can I do?