Nowadays, there are not enough resources on the grassland, so Guiyou and Mengge are competing for pastures, cattle and sheep.
Now the conflict between the two families has become difficult to reconcile, and a civil war may break out at any time, and it is inevitable.
Because this is caused by scarce resources, large population, and economic collapse.
Relying on his status as the Great Khan, Guyu asked Meng Ge for cattle and sheep. Meng Ge already had the intention of starting a war with Guyu.
However, Guyu was the Great Khan of Mongolia, and the forces supporting him were very strong, so Meng Ge needed foreign aid.
Kublai Khan waited at the mouth of the Liaohe River for more than ten days.
He was hunting nearby that day, and several cavalrymen galloped over to find him.
"Your Majesty, a fleet has been spotted at sea." The leading cavalryman reported.
Kublai Khan regained his energy and immediately pulled the reins of his horse, "Go back to camp!"
A group of people ran to the shore and saw a fleet of boats appearing in the distance.
This made Kublai Khan overjoyed, "Song's fleet has arrived."
After Kublai Khan led his troops to the mouth of the Liaohe River, he ordered his subordinates to build a simple dock to facilitate the Southern Song Dynasty fleet to dock.
Not long after, the Song Dynasty fleet first put down a small boat and came to pay a visit, and then sent a signal to let the fleet dock.
Today is no better than in the past.
Kublai Khan straightened his clothes, led a group of Mongolians to stand on the dock, and personally welcomed Jia Sidao ashore.
Mongolia is now short of supplies. For Kublai Khan in the Southern Song Dynasty, he was the God of Wealth and must be treated with courtesy.
The ship docked, lowered the anchor, fixed it with ropes to the wooden piles of the pier, and then lowered the wooden bridge.
Jia Sidao stepped off the boat, and Kublai Khan hurriedly greeted him. He laughed like a friend he hadn't seen for many days and said, "My lord, I have been waiting for you for a long time."
There was no unfamiliarity on Jia Sidao's face, and he smiled and said, "It's a long journey on the sea, and I've kept the prince waiting for a long time."
Kublai Khan waved his hand, indicating that Jia Sidao had a distinguished status and should wait as long as he wanted. Then he turned slightly sideways, stretched out his hand and said, "I have prepared a banquet. Let's go to the camp to talk!"
Jia Sidao said with a smile: "The guest does as he pleases, I follow the prince's arrangements!"
When Qi State attacked Guanzhong, the Southern Song Dynasty realized that it wanted to reinforce Mongolia, but Batu was defeated so quickly that Qi State took over Guanzhong before the Southern Song Dynasty had time to come up with a plan.
After seeing Qi unify the north, the Southern Song Dynasty prepared for war while contacting Mongolia.
Originally, the Southern Song Dynasty wanted to contact the Mongolian Khan Guiyou, but before the envoy reached Helin, he was intercepted by Meng Ge.
The Southern Song Dynasty did not understand the situation in Mongolia. The envoy was detained for several months before he realized that the various Mongolian ministries were at war with each other.
After Kublai Khan learned that the Southern Song envoy was going to visit Guyu, he went to Meng Ge to discuss it. He believed that Guyu could not be supported by the Southern Song Dynasty, so he took the initiative to talk to the Southern Song envoy and asked the Southern Song Dynasty to support Meng Ge.
After the Southern Song envoy returned to Lin'an, he informed Zhao Yun of the situation in Mongolia, and Zhao Yun found Jia Sidao for discussion.
The monarchs and ministers of the Southern Song Dynasty analyzed for a while and found that they wanted to contact Guiyou, but Guiyu was in Helin. The Southern Song Dynasty wanted to send supplies but could not transport them, so they had no choice but to contact Meng Ge.
This time Jia Sidao personally led the fleet to discuss supporting Meng Ge, purchasing horses, and forming an anti-Qi alliance.
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Yecheng, royal palace.
Since the unification of the north, Qi State has begun to recuperate and accumulate national strength.
In the past year and a half, since there has been no war in the world, the country of Qi can be said to be in peace and prosperity.
Zhao Tai has always been in charge of the military and left government affairs to the cabinet. Now that he is not fighting, his life is finally free.
In the back garden of the palace, Zhao Tai and the princess were playing with the child, and the baby's cheerful laughter came from the pavilion.
At this time, a person, led by a female officer, hurriedly came to the garden.
Zhao Tai listened to the female officer's low-pitched report, handed his son to the princess, and then stood up and left the pavilion.
Yang You immediately came up to greet you, saluted and reported, "Your Majesty! The Jinyi Guards are urgently reporting."
Zhao Tai waved his hand to excuse him, "What's the matter?"
"It's about the Southern Song Dynasty." Yang You said.
When Zhao Tai heard that it was information from the Southern Song Dynasty, he immediately paid attention to it, "Let's go to the study and talk!"
Zhao Tai led Yang You to the study, waved his hand to reject the palace maid who poured tea, and after taking a sip of tea, he asked: "Tell me about it! What are the moves in the Southern Song Dynasty?"
Although Zhao Tai suppressed the voices of destroying the Song Dynasty and urging him to proclaim himself emperor, and showed a posture of being satisfied with the status quo, the Southern Song Dynasty was fooled many times and did not believe that Zhao Tai would give up unifying the world.
In the past year and a half, Qi State was recuperating and accumulating strength. The Southern Song Dynasty was not idle either and began to massively expand its military and prepare for war.
During this period of time, Zhao Tai received a lot of news about the Southern Song Dynasty. For example, Jia Sidao allocated 2 million yuan to the Mongolian Communist Party to turn Xiangyang and Fancheng into fortresses, and stored a large amount of money, food and military supplies in the two cities.
For another example, the Southern Song Dynasty, which was originally deceived by the Qi State into manufacturing bronze cannons, finally came to its senses and began to study iron cannons with lower casting costs.
These pieces of news reached Zhao Tai's ears one by one, and Zhao Tai paid great attention to them.
After all, he has not given up on destroying the Song Dynasty. Now he is recuperating and recuperating, just to accumulate strength for the destruction of the Song Dynasty.
Yang You saluted and said: "Reporting to your Majesty, the Jinyi Guards have found out that the Southern Song Dynasty is in contact with Mongolia, and they should re-alliance!"
Zhao Tai frowned slightly, Qi expected that the Southern Song Dynasty would form an alliance with Mongolia again.
After all, when the Qi State destroyed the Song Dynasty, Mongolia was the only one in the world who could help the Southern Song Dynasty.
Anyone can think of this, and it is not considered important information.
Yang You seemed to have seen through Zhao Tai's doubts and continued: "Your Majesty, Jinyiwei sent information from Lin'an not long ago, saying that the Southern Song Dynasty might transport grain to Mongolia from the sea in exchange for Mongolian war horses. After learning the news, I ordered Attention from Shandong. Recently, I received reports that a fishing boat encountered a fleet far away in the waters near Shandong. I asked the shipping departments of Haizhou, Dengzhou and other places. There has been no fleet going to sea recently. It is estimated that it was the Southern Song Dynasty transporting grain to Mongolia. ship!"
Zhao Tai frowned. Over the past year or so, Qi's blockade of Mongolia has begun to bear fruit, and Mongolia has not received food from Qi.
According to reports from Qi State, after Mongolia failed to plunder Qi State last year, many tribal conflicts broke out within Mongolia.
In addition, last winter, it was said that thousands of Mongolians froze to death and starved to death because they were unable to secure food and supplies.
Now that Zhao Tai's blockade has taken effect, sending ships to transport grain to Mongolia from the sea at this time in the Southern Song Dynasty is undoubtedly causing trouble for Qi.
If the Mongols were allowed to obtain grain while the Southern Song Dynasty was allowed to obtain horses, it would undoubtedly be detrimental to Qi.
The sea is not as good as the land. By holding a few passes on the land, Mongolia can be blocked.
With thousands of miles of waves on the sea, Qi's navy could not block the sea and prevent Song and Meng's horse grain trade.
Zhao Tai frowned and thought for a while, then asked: "Who did the grain of the Southern Song Dynasty trade with?"
Now that Mongolia is divided and not a whole, Zhao Tai wants to know who gets food and who will increase his strength.
[In view of the general environment,
Yang You said: "It should be Brother Meng!"
Zhao Tai raised the corner of his mouth, "If it's Brother Meng, maybe it's not a bad thing!"
