In the Southern Song Dynasty, I competed with Mongolia for the world

Chapter 296 The enemy of the enemy is the friend

Zhao Yurui heard the intention of Jin Qisun's visit and said helplessly: "The Mongolian kings Lao and Tuochala just left last month. Our country and Mongolia are preparing to form an alliance to fight against the Jin Kingdom."

After saying this, Zhao and Rui stood up and down, as if Jin Qisun was late.

After Jin Qisun came to the Song Dynasty, he also lived in Dutingyi, the embassy. Naturally, he had heard about the Mongol envoy who had just left last month.

When he heard that the Song Dynasty and the Mongols were forming an alliance, Jin Qisun panicked and said: "The Mongols are cruel and unbearable, and they are ambitious. The Song and Jin Dynasties should help each other and help each other. Your Majesty, please think twice."

It has to be said that even the Koreans know that uniting gold to fight against Mongolia is the right move.

Jin Qisun did not expect that Zhao and Rui would join forces.

"The Mongols are indeed cruel." Zhao Yurui gritted his teeth and said: "I am currently considering it, but I haven't decided yet. I need to discuss it with the ministers before making a decision."

Jin Qisun quickly persuaded them, saying desperately that the Mongols were not good enough and could not form an alliance.

When the Mongols destroy the Jin Dynasty, they will definitely attack you Song people.

Is this guy very discerning, Zhao Yurui thought at this time, even a Korean knows that they cannot join forces to destroy gold, but my good brother Lizong actually did the opposite.

"I will consider the Lianmeng matter carefully. How is your side? How can I help you?" Zhao Yurui said helplessly, we can't let us send troops, right?
"The intention of my court--" Jin Qisun said that the place where Pu Xianwannu lived was very cold, the materials were extremely scarce, the population was not large, and there was often a shortage of food, so he often came to Goryeo to ask for food, and Goryeo also If you can't defeat him, you will be given [-] shi of grain and [-] yuan per year.

So Goryeo was really in bad shape at this time, and couldn't even defeat the local forces.

As soon as Mongolia entered, he ran to Ganghwa Island.

Jin Qisun hoped that the Song Dynasty could provide food and soldiers to Pu Xianwannu, so that Pu Xianwannu could go to the front to fight Mongolia.

Because Mongolia recently attacked Puxianwannu, Puxianwannu forced Goryeo to pay for food every day.

Of course, it would be better if the Song Dynasty was willing to send troops, and the Korean people were willing to provide food, grass and supplies.

The Koreans are very thoughtful, why would they still play like this?

Seeing that Zhao and Rui were silent, Jin Qisun hurriedly said that they would not let the Song people go in vain, and they could extend the lease of Jeju Island for another ten years.

The agreement between the two parties on Jeju Island was to rent it, not to sell it, but Zhao Yurui had already bought it in his heart, and it was impossible to return it.

Zhao Yurui still looked embarrassed and muttered, "The Mongolian envoy has just left."

Jin Qisun had no choice but to grit his teeth and said that the rent could be reduced or exempted for the next year or so.

According to the contract, Zhao and Rui were required to give them copper coins, silk cloth, sugar and other items every year. Now Gao Li was willing to reduce the amount.

Zhao Yurui thought for a moment and shook his head decisively: "Puxianwannu will be killed by the Mongols sooner or later. We can't give it to him directly."

"Once the Mongols know that the supplies, food and stones were given by me, the Song Dynasty, they may come to attack us first."

"..." Jin Qisun.

"Let's do this. We will be responsible for transporting the supplies to Ganghwa Island, and you will give them to Pu Xianwannu, so that Pu Xianwannu will think that you are supporting him."

Jin Qisun was immediately overjoyed: "That's good." This way they can also get some benefits.

Zhao Yurui chuckled, feeling as if his conspiracy had succeeded.

At that moment, he promised Jin Qisun that as long as Pu Xian Wan Nu could withstand it, he would provide Pu Xian Wan Nu with 15 stones of grain, [-] kilograms of iron, [-] pieces of leather armor, and [-] ox-horn bows and sheep horn bows every year. This kind of bow was mostly used by the Tubo and early Mongols, and its range is relatively short)
At this time, after six or seven years of operation and development, Jeju Island has become the largest factory base in the Song Dynasty.

Zhao Yurui built three large docks on the east, west, and north sides of the island, and four shipyards in the southeast, northwest, and northwest directions.

At this time, Zhao Yurui asked Goryeo to send a large number of craftsmen to help build ships in the north, and said that if necessary, the Song army would dispatch naval forces when necessary to help Goryeo resist the invasion of Mongolia and Dongxia.

Jin Qisun said, whatever ship you want, our country can help you build it.

Zhao Yurui said no, just give me the craftsman and build it on my site in Jeju Island.

Why has to be this way?Because Zhao Yurui did not trust the officials in Goryeo.

The Korean shipbuilding craftsmen were actually good and there were many. After the Mongols conquered Korea, they built large warships in Korea and Jeju Island in preparation for the conquest of Japan. However, due to supervision issues, the quality of the ships built by the Koreans was not high. As a result, they collapsed when encountering typhoons at sea. It will be broken, which also caused the failure of Mongolia's conquest of Japan.

Now Zhao and Rui would not dare to build ships in Goryeo. Instead, they would recruit shipbuilders from Goryeo. If they build good ships in the future, they could keep them and not return them to Goryeo.

Jin Qisun thought for a while and said that as long as Song Ting and His Majesty the Emperor have a written guarantee that they will send troops to help in the future, this can be done.

So the two sides reached a new agreement. Goryeo sent wood and craftsmen to Jeju Island to help the Song Dynasty build warships. If the Mongols and Dongxia invaded Goryeo territory again, the Song people were obliged to send troops to help. Of course, Goryeo had to provide it unconditionally. The people of Song Dynasty made a large list of grain, grass and necessary supplies.

After the agreement was written, Jin Qisun had to take it back to the country and show it to the king and powerful ministers before making a decision, but he was still very satisfied with it.

At this time, the contractual spirit of the Song people has not collapsed as much as it did later. At least they are well-known in the surrounding countries. Everyone agrees that the Song people are a country with court etiquette, keep their word, and have the style of a heavenly dynasty. Everyone is also imitating the Song people. Confucian etiquette and principles.

Anyway, Jin Qisun returned to Goryeo happily.

Then the Japanese envoy and Liu Cheng met the emperor.

Liu Chengdang and Zhao Yurui were the first to set up a bank, and then defrauded tens of millions of dollars in Dinghai, and also took the blame for the emperor Zhao Yurui.

Later, Liu Cheng changed his name to Qi Cheng and became the county magistrate of Jidong County, which was established on the east side of Jeju Island.

His son Liu Xin has successively served as county magistrate and prefect in Jeju, and is currently serving as deputy envoy in Zhejiang. He has been promoted all the way up.

The Liu family was promoted from the original Shang Guan to a high-ranking official in the Song Dynasty.Liu became Zhao Yurui's scapegoat and had been running other bank affairs in the past few years. He was Zhao Yurui's deeply trusted confidant.

When Zhao Yurui was the king of Wei, he relied on Liu Cheng to open up the situation in Japan, thus obtaining a large amount of sulfur, saltpeter and raw copper in Japan.

In recent years, the trade between Japan and the Song Dynasty has also made history. Under the full promotion of Zhao and Rui, the relationship between the two countries is quite good. The number of ships traded in one year is more than that of the past 20 years combined.

A large amount of copper coins from the Song Dynasty continued to flow to Japan, and Japanese raw copper, gold, silver and other items also flowed to the Song Dynasty.

As mentioned before, Japan did not mint coins at this time because the quality was too low, so it exclusively used copper coins from the Song Dynasty.

Therefore, Japan is almost the same as a vassal state of the Song Dynasty, and all the money traded in the market is Song money.

Zhao Yurui has a good relationship with Korea and Japan because he has no airs and is very humble in front of the two countries.

Whatever the other party needs, they will be strongly supported, and conversely, whatever they need, the two countries will also be strongly supported.

For example, in the later Ming Dynasty, Zhu Ming claimed to be the suzerain of Japan and Goryeo, and had exact requirements for the tribute paid to them every year.

During the reign of Emperor Zhu Di, he asked Korea to pay tribute every year as many taels of gold and as many young and beautiful girls.

There was very little gold in Goryeo, and there was not enough for the whole country. The Goryeo emperor could only collect gold ornaments and young and beautiful women from people's homes across the country. The people complained.

Some people may think this is quite satisfying. It suppresses neighboring countries and is very majestic. You can get whatever you want.

But Zhao Yurui didn't think so.

Before Mongolia is destroyed, all friends who can be united must unite, and all those who can be utilized must be utilized.

Therefore, he was quite polite to Japan and Korea. Whatever the two countries lacked, the Song Dynasty would support it.

The relationship between Japan and the Song Dynasty also reached its peak in the hands of Zhao Yurui.

In order to repay Zhao Song, Japan also strongly supported Zhao Yurui.

They specialized in vigorously developing copper mines in the country. After casting raw copper, they traded it to the Song people. As for the saltpeter, sulfur and other products they produced, they continued to support the Song court.

The so-called unity is strength. Zhao Yurui should be the best one among the countless time travelers who became emperors to the surrounding countries.

His efforts received support from various countries, and the national power of the Song Dynasty was in his hands, and it was also flourishing.

As there were fewer and fewer people outside Xuan De Hall, Jia Sidao stood outside and became more and more panicked.

Because he was about to see his brother-in-law and the Emperor of the Song Dynasty.

He had heard about the Emperor of the Song Dynasty countless times before he even met him.

There are storytellers in Taizhou teahouses talking about the emperor.

Jia Sidao also went to listen to it several times. He found that the storytellers seemed to be deliberately telling nonsense. Anyway, the news was true and false, and no one in the court ever took care of these storytellers.

Of course, the authenticity of the news is not important to ordinary people like Jia Sidao. Jia Sidao felt that under the emperor's propaganda, people all over the Song Dynasty had a deep memory of the emperor, and the people wanted to publicize the emperor. Everything can be talked about with pleasure.

This is definitely a good thing for the emperor who rules the world.

This brother-in-law is very powerful, Jia Sidao thought to himself.

"Jia Sidao." At this moment, Huang Shang screamed fiercely outside.

"Come on, come on." Jia Sidao ran over with a smile on his face. When he ran outside the palace door, he bent down to Huang Shang and smiled: "Thank you, Huang Duzhi. Thank you for your help. Huang Duzhi."

Huang Shang nodded to him, his expression still serious.

Although Jia Sidao was the younger brother of Concubine Jia, Huang Shang didn't take it to heart.

Everyone knows that the emperor hates the relationship between heirs in the harem.

The family members of almost all concubines of the emperors before Zhao Yurui were canonized and even reused.

But Zhao Yurui never paid attention to the relatives of the concubines, so this time they summoned Jia Sidao, which was an exception.

When Jia Sidao entered the palace, he saw a young man sitting majestically in front of the imperial cabinet.

"Jia Sidao, a common man, kowtows to your majesty. Long live your majesty." Jia Sidao knew what was going on and knelt down when he entered.

Because Zhao Yurui's expression was quite serious.

After Jia Sidao knelt down, Zhao Yurui did not respond.

The hall was quiet. Jia Sidao didn't dare to move. After waiting for a while, he boldly raised his head and looked at it with his peripheral vision.

Zhao Yurui was still looking down at something, and Hu Song was standing next to him.

Hu Song was also looking at Jia Sidao. The two looked at each other, and Jia Sidao quickly lowered his head in fear.

In front of Zhao Yurui was Jia Sidao's file, or in other words, he sent someone to investigate Jia Sidao.

(End of this chapter)