Zhao Bing stayed in Qiantang. Not only was there abundant supplies, but it also had convenient water and land transportation, and information transmission was much faster. The war reports from various places were transmitted alternately through contact stations established by the Bureau of Affairs and were concentrated at Shaoxing Station. After sorting, they could be delivered to Zhao Bing's desk at most ten days, so that he could grasp the overall situation.

Now, after Zhao Mengjin and Liu Zhu's troops seized Jiangyin and Runzhou, they each left a brigade of troops to garrison. After the navy and land troops advanced and easily attacked Jiankang. They were now going up the river to prepare to capture Dangtu and Wuhu. Zhao Bing was not worried about this. After all, most of the enemy troops in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces were annihilated, and the remaining heads and minds were surrounded in Lin'an City. Now, after siege, they would not be able to pass a note and the remaining soldiers who lost their command were not worth worrying.

Another main force led by Jiang Jin and Han Zhen also fought very smoothly in the Huguang area. In addition to the strong combat effectiveness of the imperial guards, the Yuan court also blamed himself for destroying the Great Wall. After Zhao Bingzi gained his foothold in Qiongzhou, the enemy troops of Huguang Province were their main opponents, and they had the most dealing with the left prime minister of Huguang Province Ali Hague, but in recent years he has also left the word "memory".

Ali Hague was from Uyghur. He was born in an ordinary civilian family. His family was poor in his early years. Once when he was working in the fields, Ali Hague threw down a rake and sighed: "A real man should make meritorious service in the court, so how can he be meticulous in the civil affairs?" He was an ambitious young man. Later, because of other people's recommendations, Ali Hague came to Kublai Khan to serve him, and gradually gained a high status with his intelligence and talent. At the beginning of Boyan's army, Ali Hague was the third person in charge in the army except Boyan and A Shu.

Such a famous figure was not to mention the continuous defeat of the attack on Qiongzhong. The successive defeats of Annan, Chameng and Japan caused great losses to Huguang Province. He took the blame for the protection of the Nanwang of Zhen, Tuohuan. Although he was only scolded by Kublai Khan, he and Tuohuan had obviously lost favor in front of Kublai Khan.

There are often many people in the world who add icing on the cake, and few people send carbon in the snow. Ali Hague fell out of favor and was seen by many people, so some people began to capture his braids. In the 19th year of Zhiyuan, the Nantai Censor Xiangwei impeached Ali Hague to occupy 1,800 households of surrendered people as slaves. Ali Hague argued that it was the income from the expedition. Thinking about this little thing in the past, it was not a matter, but now it was turned out. When I was angry, I submitted a memorial to myself and asked for the elderly to be granted a supporter, but I was impeached by the censor for boasting.

Kublai Khan also felt that Ali Hague was a little dissatisfied and refused to defend himself. He issued an order to prove that he had taken more than 32,000 prisoners of Ali Hague and Huguang Province's participation in politics, Hudu Timur, and ordered them to remove slaves and serve as the people. This was not counting. He also ordered the Secretariat Ping Zhang to ask Shu Mu to collect money and valleys in Huguang according to the order, but Ali Hague asked to collect corruption and bribes with each other.

Kublai Khan was annoyed when he heard this. I wanted to investigate you, but you asked for investigation. He obviously did not accept discipline. So he issued another order to investigate the matter and acted according to Shu Mu's words and deeds. Shu Mu realized that his struggle with Ali Hague was a life-and-death battle, and he was still ruthless. Not only did he find out that he had a large amount of land in Jiangnan, he also reported that after taking Huguang, he dismissed the Song Xia tax and changed it to the Kemen stall according to the Central Plains. Each household had a total of 2 cents, which increased the amount of money from more than 50,000 yuan from Xia tax, resulting in the heavier tax on Huguang than Jiangsu and Zhejiang.

Hearing that Ali Hague was so unscrupulous in making money, Kublai Khan issued an order to confiscate his family's property, collect his land as state, and send thousands of people who have sheltered from the fugitives to the farm. Ali Hague was so angry that he died of illness a few days after he got seriously ill. In this way, Huguang Province became a situation of shortage of soldiers and major generals, and could not resist the attack of the Song army.

After conquering Xiangzhou, Jiang Zheng's troops went to Liuzhou, and then joined forces with Han Zhen to defeat the four thousand households that were blocked by the enemy Huguang Province and killed more than 30,000 enemies. After that, the Yuan army was unable to resist. The prefectures and counties passed by the Song army either fled to the sight of the wind or surrendered. In more than a month, they had already gone to Quanzhou and Yongzhou to capture Hengyang. After five days of quitting, they fought two battles in Changsha and took Yiyang. At present, the army had arrived in Dongting Lake, Hengyang, collecting ships and raising supplies, and were preparing to go to Jiangling, but they were also troubled by a shortage of ammunition. Please add.

After the two armies led by Wen Tianxiang captured Jian'an Prefecture, they captured Tingzhou and Shaowu's army turned to the south to attack. They had many troops along the way, and they were the backbone of the previous imperial guards, but because they were still equipped with cold weapons, their combat effectiveness was inferior to the new imperial guards. However, Wen Tianxiang was from Jiangxi and opened a prefecture to fight against the Yuan Dynasty, so his prestige was very high, which was just a response. The former old subordinates and rural men raised troops to respond, and their troops increased sharply, and they lacked the shortcomings of ammunition supplementation. Now they are approaching the ultimate strategic goal of Ezhou. However, Zhao Bing thought it would be not easy to conquer Ezhou with their strength.

The weakest at the moment are the Huaide army commanded by Wang Daofu and the Xiongsheng army of Chen Zeweng. After conquering Zhangzhou and Xinghua, they were unable to attack important towns such as Quanzhou and Fuzhou. They could only clean up the surrounding prefectures and counties, cut off the ties between the two prefectures, restrain their troops, and open up access to Jiangsu and Zhejiang. Zhao Bing was basically satisfied with the performance of the two armies, so as not to worry about the rear route. After regaining Lin'an, he could free up his hands to clear the enemy strongholds along the coast...

What Zhao Bing is most worried about is the frontal enemy. Only by occupying the important town on the south bank of the Yangtze River as soon as possible can he establish a complete defense system, and the natural chassis can be called the natural chassis. Therefore, he ordered the army to develop south regardless of the head and tail, focusing on annihilation of the enemy's living forces, and completing the strategic goal as soon as possible, rather than occupying land and establishing a regime, so that he can achieve his goal of seizing Jiangdong and recovering Jiangnan.

What Zhao Bing is also concerned about is that the Mongolian kings have arrived in Shangdu one after another and are preparing to attend the Hulitai Conference, but now they can maintain the surface calm and have not started fighting. In fact, he can very well feel the helplessness of the real gold. He has been clearly established as the crown prince, and due to the unprecedented tension in the struggle for throne within the Mongolian Golden Family, Kublai Khan, who successfully won the throne, never held the Hulitai Conference again after he ascended the throne. Instead, he imitated the emperor's hereditary system of the Central Plains as orthodox, allowing this tradition to fade out of history.

However, due to Kublai Khan's death, the real gold failed to truly grasp power. However, he knew that the early days of the Khans were elected or approved by the conference. However, it was precisely because of Kublai Khan's disgust with his excessive bias towards the Central Plains policy that the Great Mongol Empire tended to split, which made the four Khanates nominally a vassal state of the Yuan Dynasty, but they were basically separated from the Central Plains regime. In order to avoid further division, he knew it was not good for him, but he had to restart the Huli National Taiwan Congress and restore this system.

According to the spy's report, Zhao Bing learned that Zhen Jin had communicated with several brothers, but the result was unknown. However, he also knew about the "turmoil" in Jiangnan, but at the critical moment of the throne dispute, he was unable to mobilize troops without authorization to prevent greater disasters. On the other hand, Empress Nanbi, who was the governor of the country, was busy trying to win over old Mongolian ministers in most of the capital and excluded Han ministers in the court, wanting to be a disruptor, so that Zhen Jin could not succeed to the throne smoothly, and support those who obeyed him to the throne so that he could continue to govern the country and gain power.

So now the formation of a three-legged tripod in Mongolia is that one is eager to inherit the real gold of the Khan throne, the other is the ambitious Queen Nanbi, and a group of brothers who are eyeing each other. Their struggle is of course something Zhao Bing is happy to see, and the longer the better, so that he will have more time to consolidate the results and stabilize the place.

However, Zhao Bing saw some clues from the information sent by all parties. When Jiangdong is lost and Jiangnan is lost, Tuohuan will lose his base. True gold is equivalent to losing Jiangnan's wealth and a powerful arm help. So Tuohuan is also anxious. He intends to reveal his position on various occasions to support Zhenjin in inheriting the Khan throne, and actively contact the kings to run for him.

Another person who Zhao Bing was unexpected was Boyan. He was the right chief of the Yuan Dynasty, who was in charge of government affairs, and later led troops to destroy the Song Dynasty and pacify Jiangnan. He made great contributions and was deeply trusted by Kublai Khan. Just after the war in Jiangnan, the clan king Xiliji and others rebelled against the Beiping King Namuhan. They attacked Helin from Alimari in the east. They were ordered to lead their troops northwards and defeated the rebels in the Oorhan River and were ordered to guard the northwest. In the former period, the clan king Ageji lost his rule, and Kublai Khan ordered Boyan to act as the general army in the northwest. It can be said that he had power and soldiers.

As Zhao Bing knows, Boyan has a different relationship with Zhen Jin. He was the prince who was in charge of the government and supported him according to Kublai Khan's wishes. Later, he accompanied him to Fujun in Mobei, so the relationship between the two was not ordinary. Although he did not clearly express his support for Zhen Jin to inherit the Khan throne, he died of the kings Li Chen Da Khan, and should be buried as soon as possible, and given a posthumous title, so that Prime Minister An Tong could come to preside over the ceremony as soon as possible.

When the emperor died, the Prime Minister presided over the funeral, but Zhao Bing smelled something unusual. An Tong was also not simple. He was a member of the Zhala Yier tribe of Mongolia, the fourth generation grandson of Muhuali. Zubolu, his father Batulu; his mother Hongjila, was the sister of Empress Chabi. He was a descendant of the minister and had a relative of the Emperor Jiaofang. At the beginning of the Zhongtong period, he served as the third chief of the Muhuali family inherited from the Muhuali family, and was only thirteen years old. When his mother entered the palace to meet the queen, she praised him in front of Kublai Khan for his young and talented in assisting the country because he often discussed state affairs with his masters. In the second year of Zhiyuan, An Tong became the right prime minister of the Secretariat, and was only 18 years old.

After An Tong became the prime minister, he followed Kublai Khan's intention to ask the Jin-led Secretary of the Secretariat to participate in the affairs of the court. He also summoned Xu Heng to the court, advocated the implementation of Confucian rule of the country and adopted the policy of adopting the Han law. However, the struggle between An Tong and Ahma failed and was transferred from the prime minister. Kublai Khan sent him to the northwest border, to serve in the Secretariat and the Privy Council, and assisted the prince, King Namuhan, to guard the border.

After Antong arrived in the northwest, he sent troops to attack the king of Ogedei, Wang Hehu, who was dissatisfied with the kings due to unfair distribution of supplies. In the 13th year of Zhiyuan, Ziliji, the Xianzong of Xianzong who was guarding the border from Namuhan, launched a rebellion, kidnapped Namuhan and Antong, and sent Antong to Haidu to detain. Haidu adopted a wait-and-see attitude towards the internal struggle of the Tolei family, treated Antong quite favorably and granted him an official position. It was not until the 20th year of Zhiyuan that he returned to the Yuan court. Antong returned to the court and resigned.

After An Tong was re-elected, he was still close to Confucian scholars and asked for the appointment of the old ministers Xu Shilong and Li Chang. At that time, the Confucian Confucian Ye Li returned to Fuchunjiang. The Nantai Censor Xiangwei ordered the relic of the people who left the country. In his name, the Emperor Shizu was very happy and immediately gave the title of Confucian scholar in Zhejiang. Ye Li did not want to accept it. An Tong specially wrote a letter to ask for the position and started taking office. At this time, the storm of the Southern Tai Censor Zhang's abdication of the crown prince. The Emperor Shizu was very angry. Although An Tong took the blame for his own crime, a rift between the king and his ministers had already arisen. He went to the summer capital to escape the summer heat and was left in Dadu. He was now placed next to the Empress Dowager Nanbi and placed under house arrest in the city.

On the surface, the two were both important officials of the court, so it was natural for Boyan to make such a proposal. But Zhao Bing felt that it must have deep meaning, and they were not as simple as being ministers in the same palace. An Tong's sister was also Boyan's wife, and they had in-laws. From a political point of view, they both advocated the practice of Han law and governing the country with Confucianism, which was consistent with the concept of Zhen Jin; from a personal perspective, Boyan recommended Zhen Jin as the prince, and An Tong went further, not only allowing him to participate in state affairs, but even caused a storm of abdication.

The two were old ministers of the Yuan court, with high prestige, and the ability to control the government and influence the attitudes of the sect kings. In their eyes, Empress Dowager Nanbi was just a clown. Zhao Bing knew that if the two joined forces to recommend the real gold to the throne, they would have at least 50% chance of winning. With the support of the two sect kings, the real gold would be almost certain to succeed. Therefore, he realized that there was not much time left for him. Once the real gold succeeded, he would definitely mobilize troops to conquer Jiangnan. This was not only a political need, but also an urgent financial need. Without the support of Jiangnan's financial resources, he would be unable to maintain huge expenses...

After analyzing the current situation, Zhao Bing was a headache. He estimated that there was 80% hope for the real gold to succeed in the throne, and to complete the burial of Kublai Khan, apart from the opposition forces, stabilize the government, and mobilize troops to attack Jiangnan, it would take about three or four months no matter how fast it was. He also had to complete the capture of Lin'an City, establish the Yangtze River defense line, eliminate the remnants of the Yuan court in Jiangnan, consolidate the regime and reorganize the army, build a new political system and other matters. This time is probably far from enough.

However, Zhao Bing was very clear that from the moment he decided to launch the Battle of Restoration, there was no way back, and it was impossible to retreat to Qiongzhou to live a happy life. What he faced was not as simple as encirclement and suppression of troops from the Yuan court and governing a corner of the land. In the future, he would fight against the Yuan court's army, govern the country, and manage tens of millions of people. The difficulties would be in geometric growth.
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