Now in the prefectures and counties of Shandong, Zhao Tai occupies the five prefectures of Yanzhou, Pizhou, Tengzhou, Yizhou, and Haizhou in the south. Wuxian drove away the Yan family of the Han family in eastern Shandong and controlled Dongping Prefecture and Jeju, as well as Shan Dan in Henan. Prefecture and half of Cao Prefecture.
The remaining ten states and two prefectures in Shandong were all controlled by Li Fen.
Although the combat power of Li Fen's soldiers was average, he controlled the largest territory and the largest population. He was also the only one among the three towns with a financial surplus.
Of course, Li Fen had a surplus, mainly because of the soldiers he raised, which was different from Zhao Tai.
Zhao Tai only had more than 30,000 troops, but they were all elite soldiers. The armor rate of the army was as high as 70%, with more than 20,000 armored soldiers and thousands of elite cavalry.
Li Fen claimed to have an army of 80,000, but less than 20% of the soldiers were in armor. The number of armored soldiers was not as high as that of Zhao Tai, and most of the soldiers were not paid and only had two full meals.
Therefore, Li Fen's cost of raising troops was far lower than that of Zhao Tai.
Now Li Fen has a large territory and many troops, and Zhao Tai has no friendship with him. If he wants to make Li Fen surrender, even if he surrenders in name like Wuxian, it will be difficult.
Facing the threat from Mongolia, Li Fen needs Zhao Tai, and Zhao Tai also needs Li Fen, but the relationship between the two parties is not subordinate, making both of them insecure.
Therefore, it is very necessary for both parties to marry and be bound through this relationship.
On the side of the Zhongyi Army, Wang Wentong and others agreed that Zhao Tai and Li Fen should marry.
At present, the Southern Song Dynasty has stopped aiding Zhao Tai, and the vassal town's finances are tight. If he marries Li Fen, if the vassal government's finances cannot be transferred, he can borrow some money from Li Fen.
Seeing that Wang Wentong was very concerned about the marriage, Zhao Tai thought it was a good thing, so he nodded.
Anyway, he didn't suffer any loss in this matter, so he smiled and said, "I'll ask you to take care of everything about the wedding. I'll just listen to your arrangements."
Wang Wentong said: "I will prepare gifts for the king, choose an auspicious day, and arrange for the wedding."
Zhao Tai stroked his beard and suddenly asked: "Sir, Li Fen doesn't want to imitate Sun Quan and put me under house arrest in Jinan, and then control the entire Shandong, right?"
Wang Wentong said: "Please ask your Majesty to tell you about this. I will arrange it properly by then. Even if Li Fen has this idea, he can only enlarge the king's return in the end."
When Zhao Tai heard what he said, he felt relieved and said with a smile, "Then just follow the military advisor."
After talking about the marriage, Wang Wentong thought of Zhao Tai's purpose of going to Haizhou and asked: "Your Majesty, how is the situation over there in Haizhou?"
Zhao Tai's face darkened when he mentioned this trip to Haizhou.
Zhao Tai expected that the Southern Song Dynasty would stop aid, but he did not expect it to stop so quickly.
As a result, Zhao Tai may not have enough time to wait for Haizhou's special economic zone to develop.
After all, it takes a certain amount of time to attract investment, invest in building workshops, and develop overseas trade.
The sudden suspension of aid from the Southern Song Dynasty gave Zhao Tai no chance to develop the economy and change the tax structure.
At present, Zhao Tai relies too much on Song Yuan. Most of the army's equipment, food, and military pay are provided by the Song Dynasty. If it were not for the millions of Song Yuan available every year, Zhao Tai would not be able to recruit more than 30,000 people in such a short period of time. The army also arranged hundreds of thousands of people to farm in Shandong.
Zhao Tai said in a deep voice: "The situation is not optimistic. Our idea is right, but it will take time to implement it in Haizhou! I estimate that it will take at least three or four years to enable commercial taxation to support the operation of the vassal government."
"So long?" Wang Wentong couldn't help but frowned, "Your Majesty, the rewards for the soldiers this time are all land instead of money, food and cloth, but even so, the vassal treasury can only last to the bottom. Now that the Southern Song Dynasty has stopped aid, we have no land tax. If we have to collect it, but the growth of commercial taxes is slow, we will be left with nothing!"
Having said this, Wang Wentong said anxiously: "Your Majesty, can you speed up the development of Haizhou and shorten the time to one or two years?"
Zhao Tai shook his head, "If we want to speed up development, we need investment, but where do we have spare money now? I have asked Hu Zhen to go to Jiangnan and try to attract some Southern Song businessmen to invest. It just takes time!"
Now Zhao Tai is poor, and the people under Zhao Tai's rule are also poor. If he wants to speed up development, he has to spend money to invest and recruit craftsmen to build workshops. But Zhao Tai can't make money now. He has several workshops and the money he earns , they were immediately exchanged for grain and shipped back to be used as military rations.
Zhao Tai thought about encouraging people and letting wealthy people invest in industry and commerce.
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However, there were no rich people under Zhao Tai's rule. Those who followed him were all the poor who were waiting for Zhao Tai to allocate land for farming.
This resulted in the feudal town having no money for investment, so Zhao Taicai was eager to attract investment and use the financial resources of Southern Song merchants to develop the economy under his rule.
After hearing Zhao Tai's words, Wang Wentong frowned and stroked his beard, and suddenly squinted his eyes and said: "Your Majesty, what we are short of now is time. I don't think we can completely rely on the merchants of the Southern Song Dynasty. We still have to find a way ourselves!"
Zhao Tai looked at him, "What can the military advisor do?"
"A man will not be rich without windfall, and a horse will not be fat without night grass." Wang Wentong said solemnly.
Zhao Tai was thoughtful after listening to his words. According to his own understanding, a country needs start-up capital and primitive accumulation to develop its industry and economy.
Generally speaking, there are two ways of primitive accumulation. One is to endure hardships and save slowly, and the other is to quickly complete primitive accumulation and start industrialization by plundering others.
Hundreds of years later, the rise of the West was achieved by completing primitive accumulation through colonization and plunder, and then embarked on industrialization and became a great power.
In the subsequent history, most of the countries in the world that achieved industrialization and economic development achieved their own development by plundering others. Only a very small number of countries achieved industrialization on their own.
Zhao Tai looked at Wang Wentong and heard what he meant, which was that the vassal government had no money and could use the windfall to tide over the current difficulties. He could use the windfall to invest and accelerate the economic development of Haizhou.
Since it is a windfall, it cannot be obtained through legitimate means. Zhao Tai couldn't help but said: "To the north are Li Fen and Wuxian, to the south and west are the Southern Song Dynasty, and to the east is the sea. Where does the windfall come from?"
If Zhao Tai has a powerful navy, Zhao Tai can learn from the Great Empire, drive strong ships and cannons, go overseas to plunder, visit Goryeo and the Japanese country, and get some money and food back.
But now that Zhao Tai does not have a navy, he cannot copy the methods of the Great Poppy Empire.
Wang Wentong understood what Zhao Tai meant, that is, the feudal town was surrounded by friendly troops and there was nowhere to rob.
Wuxian, Li Fen, and the Southern Song Dynasty are all those whom Zhao Tai needs to unite with. It would be unwise to attack any one of them.
Wang Wentong reminded him, "Has your Majesty forgotten Xuzhou?"
"Xuzhou?" Zhao Tai raised his eyebrows and stood up.
Wang Wentong said: "Wanyan Heda went to Kaifeng and left Pu Chaguan Nu to recruit troops in Xuzhou. Now that the Jin Kingdom is destroyed, Pu Chaguan Nu and a group of Jin Kingdom remnants are stationed in Xuzhou. I think Xuzhou is important and the king can send troops to seize it. Of."
Zhao Tai walked around the hall with his hands behind his back, thinking about Wang Wentong's plan. After a while, Zhao Tai stopped and asked in a deep voice: "Isn't it inappropriate to go and attack Xuzhou alone just after the Jin Kingdom was destroyed?"
Wang Wentong said, "Are you worried that the Jurchens in the army and the newly elected Jin ministers will have objections?"
After the fall of the Jin Kingdom, as Zhao Tai expected, the remnants of the Jin Kingdom in various places began to look for a way out after learning that Kaifeng had been captured by the Mongols. Many people chose to join Zhao Tai.
Except for a few people, in fact, the first choice of most people who came to seek refuge was not Zhao Tai, but the Southern Song Dynasty.
After all, Zhao Tai was just a warlord with a small territory and was still on the front line of the war. He could easily be destroyed by Mongolia, and the Southern Song Dynasty was the only regime in the world that could still confront Mongolia.
Therefore, most of them wanted to defect to the Southern Song Dynasty at first, but Song Dynasty officials were very cold towards them.
Culture and education flourished in the Southern Song Dynasty, and there were many scholars in the country. There were also a large number of officials who had passed the exams but could not wait to fill their vacancies. It could be said that there were more official positions than more officials, so how could the northerners come to seize their positions and squeeze out their resources.
The Mongolian army mainly besieged Kaifeng and attacked. Many prefectures and counties in Henan only sent troops to loot, but did not send troops to occupy them. They were still controlled by officials granted by the Jin Kingdom.
After the fall of the Jin Kingdom, they first wanted to seek refuge in the Southern Song Dynasty, but received a cold reception, and then turned around to look for a force to which they could seek refuge.
Some of these people took refuge in Mongolia, while others noticed Zhao Tai and came to Shandong to join Zhao Tai.
Now that there are many Jin Kingdom survivors under Zhao Tai's command, Zhao Tai has some scruples when making decisions.
After all, he showed to the outside world that he had always been loyal to the Kingdom of Jin, and now
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As soon as the Jin Kingdom was destroyed, attacking Xuzhou, which also belonged to the Jin Kingdom, would damage Zhao Tai's previous personality.
Wang Wentong smiled and said: "Your Majesty, don't worry! Now that the Kingdom of Jin is perishing, your Majesty can, in the name of loyalty to the king, give an order to Pu Chaoguan Nu to come to Pizhou to discuss matters. The official slave had a rift with the king before, and I was sure that he would not come. At that time, the king will use the excuse of being an official slave, disobeying orders, relying on his own troops, and not saving Kaifeng, and send troops to attack it."
Zhao Tai touched his short beard under his jaw and said, "This plan works!"
Wang Wentong smiled and said: "According to my understanding, after the Mongolian army came to Kaifeng last time, many Jin nobles in Kaifeng left Kaifeng and went to Xuzhou to cause trouble. Although the Jin Dynasty court treasury was empty, these nobles had more money in their hands. There is still quite a bit of money. If the king can find out, it will solve an urgent need."
After the Mongolian army broke through the Guanhe defense line, many nobles in the Jin Kingdom knew that Kaifeng could not hold on.
They are no better than ordinary Jurchens, they have money and land, so naturally they don’t want to, so they look for a way out.
After the second Mongolian withdrawal, some frightened Jurchen nobles gradually moved to the relatively safe Xuzhou.
Generally speaking, in the later period of the dynasty, the dynasty's finances will go bankrupt and the treasury will be destitute. When the nobles of the dynasty have accumulated a lot of wealth through hundreds of years, they are the richest.
If Zhao Tai wants to come, the Kingdom of Jin will not be an exception.
Throughout the ages, when a dynasty falls, these people will become emerging forces and the targets of massacre. Only by killing them can the redistribution of social resources be completed.
The Pu Chaguan slave had a problem with Zhao Tai, and Xuzhou's geographical location was important. After winning it, he could ensure the safety of his flanks. Zhao Tai thought for a while and then agreed to Wang Wentong's suggestion, "Okay, then Military Advisor Lao will write a letter to Pu Chaoguannu and ask him to come to Pizhou to pay homage to the lonely king!"
Wang Wentong immediately agreed and left to do the work. Zhao Tai walked to the map and squinted at Xuzhou, "Then let Xuzhou become a pot of gold accumulated by Lone King Capital!"
Pizhou is not far from Xuzhou. After Wang Wentong finished writing the letter and gave it to Zhao Tai to read, he immediately sent a horse to Xuzhou.
If the official slave of Pu Cha came over after receiving the letter, Zhao Tai would first put him under house arrest, relieve him of his military power, and then take control of Xuzhou.
At that time, Zhao Tai can slowly find reasons to take away the wealth of the Jin Kingdom survivors in Xuzhou City.
If Pu Chaguan's slave doesn't come, then the relationship is good and Zhao Tai will have reason to use force.
At that time, it is understandable that the sword will be silent and some nobles of the Jin Kingdom will be accidentally killed.
Three days later, Xuzhou.
After Wanyan Heda left Xuzhou, he died in Kaifeng during the third siege of Kaifeng.
Pu Chaguannu immediately annexed Heda's troops in Xuzhou and became the lord of Xuzhou.
When Kaifeng was besieged, Heda not only ordered Zhao Tai to rescue Kaifeng, but the official slaves also received orders to rescue Kaifeng. However, like other Jin officials across Henan, he did not send troops to rescue Kaifeng when the Mongolian troops besieged Kaifeng.
At this time, in the palace of the official slaves, the official slaves were having a feast.
Now that the Jin Dynasty court is gone, Xuzhou is the world of official slaves. While drinking, he enjoyed the singing and dancing with blurred eyes, and there was no sad look on his face.
In the audience, many Jin Kingdom nobles invited by the official slaves were not in such a good mood as him, and they all had sad faces.
The official slave drank a glass of wine and was already a little drunk. Looking at the lifeless expressions of everyone in the hall, he asked displeasedly: "Why don't you drink?"
Upon hearing this, many Jin Kingdom nobles quickly apologized, reluctantly picked up the wine glass, and took a sip with the official slave, "Drink now, drink now."
At this time, everyone couldn't help but become a little anxious when they saw that the official slave had been drinking all day long in recent days and had not discussed the way out with them at all.
One person put down his wine glass and bravely asked: "Xuanfu Xianggong, Kaifeng was conquered by the Mongols, and His Majesty died for his country. We are trapped in Xuzhou, what strategy does Xianggong have?"
The official slave frowned, put down the wine glass in disappointment, and said with a black face: "Of course I have a strategy, but I can't tell you yet. You can drink and party while you wait, don't ask so many questions!"
When everyone heard what he said, many people thought that he really had a solution and did not dare to say anything more.
The official slave does have a plan, which is to surrender to the Mongols. He is not a Jurchen, but a Khitan.
He had long heard that the Mongols gave preferential treatment to the Khitans who surrendered.
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Lu Chucai was a Khitan and had become the prime minister of the Mongol Empire, so he was made to think that if he surrendered, Mongolia would not treat him badly.
Therefore, he had already thought of a way out, which was to seize the money of the nobles of the Jin Kingdom in Xuzhou City, and then give them to Mongolia.
Originally, he was going to defect to Mongolia not long ago, but Zhao Tai and the Southern Song Dynasty suddenly sent troops and drove the Mongols away, which affected his plan.
However, he expected that Mongolia would move south again this winter, and it would not be too late for him to seek refuge by then.
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