Chapter 1248 It's too late to regret

Boyan looked at Tiemur, and then looked at the people in the hall who were shaking his head secretly, and thought to himself secretly. Although he had been away from the court for a while, he was not confused about the affairs in the court. As early as when he left, he formulated a strategy of building a city to defend the river and having a good relationship with Song, but after Yuxi Timur took over, he overturned all of this. Not only did he stop building a city, he also frequently sent troops to create friction and provoked the Southern Dynasty. After being counterattacked by the Song army, he still did not know how to restrain himself and remained the same.

Yuxi Timuer was so bold that Boyan knew that he must be instructed by real gold. Because the Khan clearly asked him to preside over the discussion with Song He as the right chief of the Secretariat, but in fact he was very unwilling to lose Jiangnan and hoped that he could regain Jiangnan. But after several battles, Boyan realized that it would be impossible to win military affairs in the short term and should be discussed in the long term.

For this reason, Boyan once had a long talk with Zhen Jin, thinking that the young emperor of the Southern Dynasty had just recovered Jiangnan, and his troops were in full swing, and he was ambitious to recover the Central Plains. He had just inherited the Khan throne, but his foundation was not stable. He should first stabilize his internal affairs, conquer the kings, and suppress the rebellion. He was not eager to use troops against the Southern Dynasty, but should avoid his edge and repair it with the Southern Dynasty. After the Khan throne was stable, his elite troops were trained, and his finances were improved, then he entered Jiangnan. However, Zhen Jin obviously did not listen, but sent himself to Helin and used it as a "house-controlling stone".

Boyan looked at Zhen Jin again. At this time, Sang Ge, Tiemur and Yue Chi Chaer were talking about the necessity of peace talks. Although he was tense, he could not hide the excitement on his face. He couldn't help but shake his head secretly. He liked Zhen Jin's intelligence and ability, otherwise he would not stand on his side without hesitation in the opposition of the kings on the grassland, and tried to slap disputes, suppress the kings, and support him to ascend to the throne of Khan. However, he also found that he was still not mature enough compared to Kublai Khan, and there were even big differences between father and son in terms of governing the country.

As a politician, Kublai Khan focused on practicality, was cautious in Confucian rule, and had limited use of Confucian ministers. That is, he used it only when the Confucian ministers’ opinions were in line with their policies. Once Confucian ministers were useless to the current policies, he would abandon them without hesitation. Zhen Jin was educated in Confucianism since he was a child and believed in the way of governing the country. He believed that to govern the country, Confucian rule was not allowed. Especially in terms of financial management, the views of father and son were even more incompatible.

Therefore, Boyan understood that after Zhen Jin ascended the throne, he would inevitably use Han ministers, and there would inevitably be differences with his strategy, so it would be inevitable to be marginalized. In fact, this is true. With the support of a group of Han ministers, he immediately rejected the strategy of attacking Song from attack to defense, and transferred Yuxi Timuer to preside over military and political affairs in Henan and Shandong Province to prepare for attacking Song. In order to alleviate financial difficulties, he used Sang Ge to recover taxes owed to the court in the local government, reduced or even stopped issuing rewards to the kings of the grassland, but adopted the Han law to reduce taxes to win the hearts of the people.

Boyan still understands what Zhen Jin does. One is that he has just succeeded to the throne, and the Mongols value military merits the most. Zhen Jin must demonstrate his martial arts with a military victory, so as to gain the support of the Mongolian kings; the other is that Zhen Jin wants to reduce the expenses of the court and alleviate financial difficulties by reducing rewards; the third is that the conflicts between the Mongolian and Han people are alleviated by reducing taxes by the people, so as to restore social stability and thus ensure that the court has stable fiscal and tax revenue.

These policies were too radical in Boyan's view. You should know that the foundation of the Mongolian Yuan Dynasty was the Mongols, especially the Mongolian nobles. His new policy not only suppressed the Mongols politically and economically, but would inevitably hurt the basis of the control and arouse dissatisfaction among the Mongolian nobles. The reduction of taxes in the people caused the court to further reduce its financial income after losing Jiangnan's wealth, which could only force them to collect tax arrears from local governments, which aroused opposition from the Mongols in the Central Plains.

In terms of the combat effectiveness of the army, Boyan always led the troops and presided over the battle to destroy the Song Dynasty, which had a say for him. In his opinion, when Kublai Khan was in power, the decline in combat effectiveness of the Mongolian soldiers and the northern Han army had begun to appear. After Kublai Khan used the Li Yan Rebellion to remove the fief of the Han Shihou in the Northern Han army, the Han army's Marquis lost their interests and lost their momentum in the expansion of the Yuan Dynasty. The combat effectiveness of the Marquis inevitably began to decline. However, the Mongolian soldiers had been in the Central Plains for a long time and were arrogant and extravagant.

However, at this stage, Boyan thought that the deterioration of the combat effectiveness of the Yuan army was not very obvious. In addition, Mongolia's national strength was far superior to the Southern Song Dynasty at this time, and relying on national strength to crush the Song Dynasty, it still successfully destroyed the Song Dynasty. However, whether it was the conquest of Champa, the disastrous defeat of Annan and Japan, or the weakness in the face of the rampant kings such as Northwest Haidu and Duwa. Especially after the failure of the conquest of the remnant Song regime in Qiongzhou and Japan, the navy almost suffered all casualties, and the generals and elites with combat experience suffered heavy casualties, which further intensified the deterioration of the combat effectiveness of the Yuan army.

On the other hand, most of the auxiliary ministers in the court, as the older generation of generals who were used to fighting, mostly reached high positions with the merits of their ancestors. Most of them had never experienced wars and had no combat experience. For them, Genghis Khan, Ogedei, Mongolia, Kublai Khan and other ancestors took their own arrows and stones, and took the feat of detours of thousands of miles to turn into their myths.

This phenomenon is even more serious in the army. Some of the former elite troops were full of stingy and greasy children. When they grew up to be a senior military officer, they were able to use bows and arrows and archery skillfully. They had to go through long and arduous training to develop a strong body and superb skills. These playboys who were used to living a superior life obviously did not want to live such a difficult life.

The decline in the quality of the officers also affected the combat effectiveness of the army. They often had no ability to hold bows and could not ride and shoot, and had lost the ability of their ancestors. Even the most elite Qiexue army in the past degenerated into a senior attendant of the Khan, forcing the court to rely on the guards, mainly the Han people, to guard the Khan tent and defend the capital.

In addition, in order to save financial expenses, the court used the military household system to maintain the army, but was not at ease to let a large number of Han people join the army. However, under the exploitation of Mongolian nobles, the Mongolians who were obliged to serve military service also had to bear a huge burden, but no longer had a war of conquest, which made them unable to obtain the benefits of war. In order to raise their own equipment, many Mongolians had to sell their children and daughters, and even act as slaves to make up for the money to join the army. In this case, the combat effectiveness of the Mongolian army can be imagined.

It is also difficult for the Han and Southern people in the army to maintain combat effectiveness. They are not the Mongolian legitimate troops, so they are suspicious and suppressed by the Mongolian nobles. The proportion of the Han army is reduced in the army, allowing the Han army to serve as second-line troops, even auxiliary soldiers, cannon fodder, etc. What's more, they also need to be responsible for heavy labor work, which makes them have no time and energy to train, so their combat effectiveness has also declined rapidly. At the same time, after the rule is stable, in order to prevent the Han people from resisting, the Mongolians issued a ban on military order to prohibit the Han people from practicing martial arts and storing weapons to weaken the Han people's spirit of martial arts.

These measures accelerated the decline in the combat effectiveness of the army. It was not surprising that the Song army, which was well-equipped and well-trained, was even defeated. But the problem was that the officials in the court could clearly realize from top to bottom that there were not many problems. They were still immersed in the history of the Mongolian army sweeping the world, intoxicated in the flower world of the Central Plains and Jiangnan, and still believed that the newly emerging Southern Dynasties was just a disease of scabies. The loss of Jiangnan was only because of Kublai Khan's sudden death, which led to the unintentional response in the court, which made the Southern Dynasties take advantage of loopholes.

The problem is that not only the ministers in the court had this idea, but Zhen Jin also had this idea. In addition, he was eager to prove his ability, so it was not difficult to understand the use of troops in the Southern Dynasty. He first used Yuxi Timur to provoke the Southern Dynasty and then crossed the Yangtze River to invade the south, and as a result, more than 100,000 troops were destroyed. But this only made Zhen Jin panic for a while and did not learn a lesson. After sending his personal guards to reinforce the south and stabilize the front, he became interested in regaining the lost territory.

Boyan Fei looked down on real gold, but he thought that real gold was really no match for the little emperor of the Southern Dynasty. You should know that the little emperor of the Southern Dynasty began to take charge since he was six years old, leading troops to defeat Liu Shen, Li Heng, Zhang Hongfan, Sodu and Ali Hague. These people are all famous generals in the world, either losing their lives or losing a lot. They also used the small land of Qiongzhou as a base and slept with firewood and tasted gall to recover Jiangnan in one fell swoop for ten years.

The young emperor of the Southern Dynasty can be said to be a monster. Whether it is governing the country or leading troops to fight, it is definitely not comparable to the emperor taught by Zhenjin, a "nerd", and he put it in a pit after a little bit of effort. He used Zhenjin's "unwillingness" mind to dig another pit and buried 200,000 guards' personal troops.

From last winter to early summer this year, in just half a year, Lianghuai, Huaibei and Jingxiang areas lost thousands of miles of land, hundreds of thousands of households, and nearly 400,000 troops. At present, the guards, the main force of the Yuan army, were almost wiped out in Xuzhou and Fuli. In fact, the entire Central Plains region, the imperial court had almost no troops controlled by the imperial court, and they only rely on local garrison troops and garrison troops. Can the Zong Wang Army, who are far away in the grassland, listen to the command, but can they really resist the Southern Army like wolves and tigers? Boyan was not sure.

I think Zhen Jin has realized the current situation, but the initiative to seek peace with the Southern Dynasty is not in our own hands. It depends on whether the Southern Dynasty agrees or not. If he wants to agree to peace, he is afraid that it will not be possible without paying a heavy price. It is difficult for them to hold on to the great power of the Celestial Kingdom and seek peace with the attitude of giving...

My old man lost all his money, and when the enemy troops were at the city, I realized that I was afraid and regretted it, but it was too late!

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