Chapter 1248: It's Too late to repent

Boyan looked at Timur, and then looked at the people in the palace who secretly shook their heads, and they were also secretly thinking to themselves. Although he has been away from the court for a while, he is not ignorant of the affairs of the court. As early as when he left, he formulated a strategy of building a city and defending the river and making friends with the Song, but after Yuxi Timur succeeded him, he overthrew all of them. Not only did they stop building the city, but they also frequently set up troops to create friction and provoke the Southern Dynasties.

Yuxi Timur was so bold that Boyan knew that he must be in the direction of real gold. Because the Great Khan clearly asked him to preside over the peace discussion with Song as the right man of the Chinese book, in fact, he was very unwilling to lose Jiangnan in his heart, and hoped that he could recapture Jiangnan. But after a few battles, Boyan realized that if he wanted to win militarily, it was impossible in the short term, and he should think long-term.

For this reason, Boyan once had a long talk with Zhenjin, thinking that the little 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. And he has just inherited the throne, but the foundation is not stable, should first stabilize the internal affairs, subdue the kings, suppress the rebellion, not rush to use troops against the Southern Dynasty, but should avoid its edge, and reconcile with the Southern Dynasty. After the Khan's position is stable, the elite soldiers are trained, and the finances are improved, he will enter the south of the Yangtze River. But Zhenjin obviously didn't listen to it, but sent himself to Helin to use it as a 'town house stone'.

Boyan looked at Zhenjin again, at this time, Sang Ge, Timur and Yuechi Cha'er were talking about the necessity of peace, although their faces were tense, but it was difficult to hide the excitement on their faces. He couldn't help but shake his head secretly, he liked the cleverness and ability of real gold, otherwise he would not have stood by his side without hesitation in the opposition of the kings of the steppe, tried to eliminate controversy, subdued the kings, and supported him to ascend to the throne. However, he also found that he was still not mature enough compared with Kublai Khan, and there was a big difference between the father and son in terms of governing the country.

As a statesman, Kublai Khan focused on practicality, was cautious in Confucian governance, and his use of Confucian ministers was also limited. That is, he used it only when his ideas were in line with his policy, and he would not hesitate to discard them when he was useless to the current policy. Zhenjin received a Confucian education since he was a child and believed in the Confucian way of governing the country, and he believed that in order to govern the country, Confucianism was indispensable. Especially in terms of financial management, the views of father and son are even more incompatible.

Therefore, Boyan understands that Zhenjin will inevitably reuse Hanchen after succeeding to the throne, and there will inevitably be differences with his own strategy, so it is inevitable to be marginalized. In fact, with the support of a group of Hanchen, he immediately abandoned his own strategy of switching from offensive to defensive against the Song Dynasty, and transferred Yuxi Timur to preside over the military and political affairs of Henan and Shandong provinces to prepare for the attack on the Song Dynasty. In order to alleviate the financial difficulties, he used Sange to recover the taxes owed by the local government to the imperial court, reduced or even stopped the rewards to the kings of the steppe, but used the Han method to reduce taxes to buy the hearts of the people.

For what Zhenjin did, Boyan still understood. On the one hand, he had just succeeded to the throne, and the Mongols had the most important military merits, and Zhenjin had to show his martial arts with a military victory, so as to gain the support of the Mongol kings; On the other hand, Zhenjin wanted to reduce the expenses of the court and alleviate financial difficulties by reducing rewards; The three alleviated the contradictions between Mongolia and Han by reducing the taxes of the common people, so as to restore social stability, and then ensure that the imperial court had a stable fiscal and tax revenue.

In Boyan's view, these policies were too radical, and it is important to know that the foundation of the Mongol Yuan state was the Mongols, especially the Mongol nobles. Its new policy not only suppressed the Mongols politically and economically, but inevitably hurt the foundation of the ruling system and aroused the discontent of the Mongol aristocracy. The reduction of taxes on the common people caused the imperial court to further reduce its financial income after losing the financial resources of Jiangnan, and it could only force it to collect the local arrears of taxes, which aroused the opposition of the Mongols in the Central Plains.

In terms of the combat effectiveness of the army, Boyan has always led the troops and presided over the battle to destroy the Song Dynasty, so he has a say. In his opinion, when Kublai Khan was in power, the decline in the combat effectiveness of the Mongol soldiers and the northern Han army had already begun to appear. After Kublai Khan took advantage of the rebellion of Li Pu to relieve the fiefdom of the Han princes in the north, the princes of the Han army lost their interests and lost their motivation for the great expansion of the Yuan Dynasty, and the combat effectiveness of the princely army inevitably began to decline. The Mongol soldiers, on the other hand, were constantly losing their combat effectiveness because they had been in the Central Plains for a long time and were arrogant and lascivious.

But at this stage, Boyan thought that the degradation of the combat effectiveness of the Yuan army was not very obvious. In addition, Mongolia's national strength at this time was far superior to that of the Southern Song Dynasty, and it still succeeded in destroying the Song Dynasty by relying on its national strength. However, whether it was the crushing defeat of Champong, Annam and Japan, or the weakness shown in the face of the ravages of the kings of the Northwest Haidu and Duwa. Especially after the defeat of the remnant Song regime in Qiongzhou and Japan, the naval army was almost completely killed and wounded, and the generals and elites with combat experience suffered heavy casualties, which led to the further deterioration of the Yuan army's combat effectiveness.

On the other hand, most of the auxiliary ministers in the imperial court, with the death of the older generation of generals who can fight in battle, most of the new generation of important ministers have risen to high positions by virtue of the merits of their ancestors, most of them have not experienced war, and have no combat experience, for them, Genghis Khan, Ogedei, Mongolia, Kublai Khan and other ancestors and ancestors have become their myths.

This phenomenon is even worse in the military, where some of the former elite units and some of the former ace units are full of milky and undried ointment children. In the past, the first thing to grow up to be a high-ranking officer in the army was to be proficient in the use of bows and arrows and mounted archery, and it was necessary to go through long and arduous training to develop a strong physique and superb skills. And these gentlemen, who are accustomed to living a privileged life, obviously don't want to live such a hard life.

The decline in the quality of the officers also affected the combat effectiveness of the army, they were often powerless to hold bows, unable to ride and shoot, and had lost the ability of their ancestors to look after the house, and even the most elite cowardly Xue army in the past had degenerated into the senior attendants of the Great Khan, so that the imperial court had to rely on the Han as the main body of the guards to guard the Khan tent and defend Gyeonggi.

In addition, in order to save financial expenses, the imperial court used the military household system to maintain the army, but it was not worried about letting a large number of Han Chinese join the army. However, under the exploitation of the Mongol aristocracy, the low-level Mongols who were obliged to serve in the military also had to bear a great burden, but there were no more wars of conquest, so that they could not receive war dividends. In order to raise their own equipment, many Mongols had to sell their sons and daughters, or even pawn them as slaves, to make up for the entanglement of the army. Under such circumstances, the combat effectiveness of the Mongolian army can be imagined.

And it is also difficult for the Han and Nan people in the army to maintain combat effectiveness, they themselves are not the relatives of the Mongols, so they are suspicious and suppressed by the Mongolian nobles, and the proportion of the Han army in the army is reduced, and the Han army is used as the second-line troops and even auxiliaries, cannon fodder and other positions. What's more, they also need to be responsible for heavy labor work, so they have no time and energy to train, so their combat effectiveness is also rapidly reduced. At the same time, after the rule was consolidated, in order to prevent the Han people from resisting, the Mongols issued a ban on martial arts, prohibiting the Han people from practicing martial arts and storing weapons, so as to weaken the martial spirit of the Han people.

These measures accelerated the decline in the army's combat effectiveness, and it was not uncommon for the well-equipped and well-trained Song army to suffer defeat. However, the problem is that there are not many officials in the DPRK and China who can clearly understand the problem from top to bottom, they are still immersed in the history of the Mongol army sweeping the world, reveling in the flowery world of the Central Plains and Jiangnan, and still think that the newly rising Southern Dynasty is just a disease of scabies, and the loss of Jiangnan is only because of the sudden death of Kublai Khan, which caused the DPRK and China to have no intention of coping, so that the Southern Dynasty took advantage of the loophole.

The problem is that not only the ministers of the DPRK and the Central Committee have this kind of thinking, but also Zhenjin has this kind of thinking, and coupled with his eagerness to prove his ability, it is not difficult to understand the use of troops in the Southern Dynasty. He first provoked the Southern Dynasties with Yuxi Timur, and then crossed the Yangtze River to invade the south, resulting in the destruction of more than 100,000 troops. But this only made Zhenjin panic for a while, and did not accept the lesson, after sending the guards to the south for reinforcements and stabilizing the battle line, he had the idea of recovering the lost territory.

Boyan Fei looked down on Zhenjin, but he thought that Zhenjin was really no opponent compared to the little emperor of the Southern Dynasty. You must know that the little emperor of the Southern Dynasty has been in charge since he was six years old, and he led his troops to defeat Liu Shen, Li Heng, Zhang Hongfan, Instigation and Ali Hague and others, these people are all famous generals in the world, but they either lost their lives or were defeated. It also took the land of Qiongzhou as a base, and regained Jiangnan in one fell swoop for ten years.

The little emperor of the Southern Dynasty can be said to be a demonic character, whether it is governing the country or leading troops to fight, it is by no means comparable to the emperor taught by Zhenjin, a 'nerd', and he put it in the pit with a little thought. It was the people who took advantage of the 'unwillingness' of real gold to dig a pit and bury 200,000 guards.

From the winter of last year to the early summer of this year, in just half a year, the Lianghuai, Huaibei, and Jingxiang regions lost thousands of miles of land, with a population of hundreds of thousands of households, and nearly 400,000 troops. In fact, in the entire Central Plains, there are few armies that the imperial court can control, and all they rely on is the local garrison army and the Zhenfu army, and can the Zongwang army far away in the grassland listen to the tune, but can they really resist the wolf-like southern army? Boyan wasn't sure.

Thinking about it, Zhenjin has also realized the current situation, but to sue for peace with the Southern Dynasty, the initiative is not in his own hands, it depends on whether the Southern Dynasty agrees or not, whether he is happy or not; And if they want to agree to negotiate peace, they are afraid that it will not work without paying a heavy price, and it is difficult to sue for peace with the mentality of a great power in the Celestial Empire like they do...

The old book was lost, and when he saw the enemy soldiers approaching the city, he knew that he was scared and regretted it, but it was too late to regret it!

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