Zhao Tai believes that the Southern Song Dynasty's support for Meng Ge and Qi Guo are both an opportunity and a crisis.
According to Zhao Tai's understanding of Mongolia, he is very dissatisfied with Guyu, the current Mongolian Khan.
On the one hand, during the period when Guiyou was the great khan in history, he made little achievements, but after his death, the khan position that originally belonged to the Wo Kuotai family was immediately seized by Meng Ge. Hundreds of clans in the Wo Kuotai family were all taken over by Meng Ge. Bloodbath.
On the other hand, after Wokuotai's death, Zhao Tai fought against Guyu and took Hedong, the Central Plains, and Guanzhong from him to complete the unification of the north.
Because of these two aspects, Zhao Tai looked down on his current opponent, thinking that his level was average and not as good as the hero.
Therefore, the Southern Song Dynasty supported Meng Ge. Zhao Tai was very worried that Meng Ge would suddenly win and then quickly purge Guiyou's faction and take control of Mongolia.
At this time, everyone listened to Zhao Tai's words and put away their contempt and arrogance.
Wang Bin asked: "Your Majesty, how should we seize the opportunity and eliminate the crisis?"
Zhao Tai thought for a while, walked to the map, pointed at the Southern Song Dynasty and said: "Our opportunity is to take advantage of the civil strife in Mongolia and seize the opportunity to destroy the Song Dynasty! However, in the past two years, the Southern Song Dynasty also knew that after unifying the north, the next goal would be Unify the world. Therefore, I am recuperating and accumulating strength, and they are not idle either. They have been preparing for war recently!"
Zhao Tai paused and continued pointing at the map, "Hanzhong, Xiangyang, Jinling, and the Southern Song Dynasty all stationed heavy troops to strengthen the city defenses. In addition, the Southern Song Dynasty has built a lot of artillery in the past two years, and its military strength has been improved."
After hearing this, everyone couldn't help but nodded and gradually calmed down.
After all, the Southern Song Dynasty was a large country with a territory comparable to that of Qi, a population more than twice that of Qi, and an economy far exceeding that of Qi.
Although the Song army's combat power was not strong, the Southern Song Dynasty's strong economic strength and developed handicrafts could make up for the lack of military power to a certain extent.
At present, Qi State needs to recuperate, but the Southern Song Dynasty has sufficient money and food. If you have money, you will have soldiers, and if you have food, you will not panic.
Now, in addition to money and food, the Southern Song Dynasty also had advantages in smelting. The annual copper and iron output was at least three to four times that of Qi.
Copper and iron are not ordinary commodities. Their large output indicates that the Southern Song Dynasty can produce more weapons, armor, and artillery than Qi in the same period of time.
And this is also a kind of combat power.
Wang Bin already understood, "Your Majesty is worried that before we destroy the Song Dynasty, Brother Meng will complete the unification of Mongolia first, and then attack our army with the Song army, causing our Qi army to lose ground!"
"That's right!" Zhao Tai nodded, "That's what it means to be alone. Therefore, if we want to seize this opportunity, we must ensure that Mongolia falls into long-term civil strife instead of a coup!"
If Mongolia is in civil strife for a long time, even if Qi's attack on Song Dynasty is frustrated, it will have enough time to adjust its posture and launch another attack.
If what happened in Mongolia was a coup, and Meng Ge killed Guyu and his supporters overnight, then Qi would have no choice but to give up attacking Song Dynasty for the time being.
The ministers present are all smart people.
After they understood Zhao Tai's worries, they immediately had an idea.
Zhang Judao: "Your Majesty, if the Southern Song Dynasty supports Brother Meng, then we will support Guyu. In this way, Mongolia can maintain a balance so that no one can do anything to anyone!"
Wang Wen was in charge of the Ministry of Household Affairs. Knowing the situation of the treasury, he immediately shook his head, "No! Da Qi has only been recuperating for less than two years. The money and food accumulated in the treasury is for the crusade against the Southern Song Dynasty. How can it be used to fund Guiyou!"
Zhao Tai also opposed supporting Guyu, "The first assistant is right! Now that we are recuperating, the treasury does not have much money and food. If these money and food are used to support Guyu, even if Mongolia falls into long-term chaos, Gu will not have money or food to conquer the Song Dynasty. In addition, Guiyu You's forces are in Mobei, and the manpower and material resources required to support him are too great, and after supporting him alone, if they don't fight, won't they lose their wives and lose their troops?"
Everyone was silent for a while after hearing this.
Wang Bin pondered for a while, then suddenly came out to salute, "Your Majesty, there is only one way. Didn't the Southern Song Dynasty support Brother Meng? We can leak this news to Guyou. This will not only remind Guyou to prevent him from being blackmailed, but also It can make him restless and even take the lead in attacking Meng Ge. As the Great Khan of Mongolia, Guyou will definitely not sit back and watch Meng Ge's power grow stronger day by day with the help of the Southern Song Dynasty. I thought that after he got the news, he would definitely fight with Meng Ge in advance. Meng Ge starts the war.”
Zhao Tai raised his eyebrows and said with a smile: "This is a good idea! If the news is leaked to Guiyou, Guiyou will probably not sit back and wait for death. However, Guiyou has a lot to do. If he does not have the courage to go to war with Meng Ge, You must give him courage alone!"
Mongolia retreated to the grassland for two years, but Guyu and Meng Ge did not fight. The main reason was actually Guyu's indecisiveness.
Meng Ge did not take action, mainly because after losing Hedong, Meng Ge suffered a lot. Most of the tribes on the grassland respected Youwei Khan. He was weaker than Guyu, so he did not dare to take action rashly.
As the Mongol Khan, Guyuk had little to lose in the Hedong battle. He was stronger than Mengge, but he did not start the war because of his indecision.
After Meng Ge abandoned Hedong, Guyu did not take action against Meng Ge. Instead, he allowed Meng Ge to gradually control Monan and most of Modong. He retreated to Helin, allowing Meng Ge to gradually grow in strength.
Now that Mongolia is blockaded by Qi, supplies are in short supply on the grasslands, and the living conditions in Mobei are worse than those in Monan.
There were already tribes in Mongolia who were fighting each other for pasture. Although Guyu realized that he and Meng Ge would have to fight, he was always hesitant to start the war because he could not crush Meng Ge with his strength.
Now after two years of delay, many Mongolian nobles who persuaded him to strike first saw that he did not listen and saw Meng Ge getting stronger and stronger. They gradually became disappointed with him and switched to Meng Ge, which made Guyu even more hesitant to start a war. Undecided.
Zhao Tai was quite aware of these situations, so he felt that even if Guyu knew that the Southern Song Dynasty was supporting Mongolia, he might still need to help Guyu before he dared to go to war.
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Northeast, Liaohe Plain.
After Mengge withdrew from Hedong, he was able to gradually regain his strength under Guyu's suppression and Qi's blockade. He did not boast about the lack of supplies, thanks to Kublai Khan's advice.
After Mongolia destroyed the Jin Dynasty, it was unable to control the entire Northeast. The remaining forces of the Jin Kingdom established many political regimes.
After Meng Ge retreated to the grassland, he actually faced the same situation as Batu, but he did not attack the Mongolian tribes like Batu, but instead targeted the Mongolian vassals.
The Eastern Liao Kingdom was a political power established by the Khitan people after the fall of the Jin Kingdom. They later surrendered to Mongolia and became a vassal state of Mongolia.
A year ago, Meng Ge's army was short of supplies, so Kublai Khan suggested that Meng Ge lead his troops into Dongliao, deposed the leader of Dongliao Kingdom Yelu, collected slaves, killed a group of Dongliao nobles, and took control of Dongliao Kingdom.
Although the Dongliao Kingdom is a small country, after Meng Ge swallowed it, an urgent need was solved.
Now, Meng Ge has received support from the Southern Song Dynasty, and it can be said that he has temporarily got rid of the sense of crisis.
On the banks of the Liao River, inside the Mongolian army camp.
After his own crisis was resolved, Meng Ge wondered if it was time to make a big move.
