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

Chapter 549 My son is willing to guard the Far East for his father and consolidate the country forever.

The Four Kingdoms Military Chess was of course invented by Zhao Yurui. It is almost unknown on the market, but it is very popular among the children of high-ranking civil and military officials in the Song Dynasty.

Zhao Yurui slightly changed the military chess. The military flag remained unchanged, the commander was changed to the capital control system, the army commander was changed to the control system, the division commander was changed to the commander, and some military positions of the Song Dynasty were correspondingly changed.

There are also two ways to play military chess, one is the five-player game with a referee, and the other is the open game game without a referee.

There are four of them now, and there is no judgment, so they naturally play Ming chess.

The four of them played a game and did not stop playing for half an hour. At this time, someone came down from above and each brought a cup of tea. They were also teenagers in their twenties.

One is named Shi Zhongguo, and his father, Shi Gou'er, was one of the first slave boys to seek refuge with Zhao Yurui.

Shi Gouer is the intelligence chief, and his immediate boss is Quan Yong, so Shi Zhongguo has a very close relationship with Quan Ying. Shi Zhongguo is currently in the military academy, and is one of the first batch of trainees of the Song Military Academy, and has not yet graduated.

Zhao Yurui had been preparing for the military academy for several years, and it was only last year that the school was completely built and the teachers were in place. Many senior generals who were old were sent to serve at the military academy. Shi Zhongguo was among the first batch of cadets at the military academy and had not yet graduated.

The other one is Yang Xiaolin, who, like Shi Zhongguo, is one of the first batch of cadets at the military academy. His father is Yang Yuehu, a former Imperial City Secretary and a military attaché who defected to Zhao Yurui earlier. He is currently a teacher at the military academy.

Unexpectedly, Zhao Yu smiled and said: "You guys are so damn good at letting me go, thinking I don't know, hahaha."

At this time, Zhao Yu thought that he had either hit the bomb with his division commander, or hit the opponent's division commander.

But the referee happened to be Shi Zhongguo at this time. After looking at their chess pieces, he calmly took away their chess pieces.

"Hahaha, it's fun, it's fun, it's fun, I really want to play another game." Zhao Fu was overjoyed after winning and clapped his hands on the table excitedly. Everyone also agreed, saying that the second prince had a better move and was very powerful.

This is the case with Dark Chess. It is difficult for others to tell whether Shi Zhongguo helped Zhao Yu.

"There is a simple one." Xie Tang stood up again, took a cloth map from the shelf at the back, and laid it flat on the table.

In later generations, these young men in their early twenties can still be considered young boys, but in the Song Dynasty, they were quite mature and could make suggestions for Zhao Yu and won Zhao Yu's trust.

"But the establishment of the Delhi Sultanate -" Shi Zhongguo had learned this in class at the Military Academy. He couldn't remember it for a moment, so he looked at Yang Xiaolin.

Because before, Zhao Fu used his commander (military commander) to kill a commander (division commander) in Quanying, and he blew him up.

It is difficult to determine the specific population. Zhao Yurui has sent a large number of intelligence department personnel to various parts of the Delhi Sultanate to do business in recent years. However, there is a population of tens of millions. After all, the population of India alone will be larger than that of China in later generations. There are more, Lao Ba also has hundreds of millions.

But Quanying knew that either Zhao Yu was the bomb, or Shi Zhongguo deliberately helped Zhao Yu.

Zhao Yurui outsourced, trained troops secretly, and then turned the tables in one fell swoop to seize power. This is also a secret that everyone knows among the current high-ranking disciples of the Song Dynasty, especially the fathers of these young men in front of them, who were basically involved back then.

Their largest large-scale handicraft workshop has 17,000 workers, and one workshop only uses cotton weaving with 4,000 people.

Yang Xiaolin said: "The second year of Kaixi (1206)"

Zhao Yu continued his fierce attack without changing his expression.

Zhao Yu usually acted like a good boy in front of Zhao Yu Rui. Only in this dark basement would he use foul language and make everyone happy.

Zhao and Rui concluded that the other party now had a population of tens of millions, mainly based on their capital Delhi.

"Today, my father summoned me and prepared to outsource me. He gave me three directions -"

Everyone immediately went up to watch.

"Yes, it has been forty years since Ning Zong founded the country in the second year of Kaixi. It has a vast territory and a population estimated to be tens of millions or even hundreds of millions, which is not much less than our Song Dynasty."

After these two people arrived, Zhao Yu and the others played another game of four-nation military chess, with the two of them acting as referees.

"Put the chess away." Xie Tang signaled at this time to put the chess away and stop playing. They were Zhao Yu's best friends. Of course they had something to discuss when they got together today.

Zhao Yu spoke slowly, and everyone listened attentively.

"Your eldest brother (criticizing Zhao Qi) has been outsourcing for several years. I heard that Hanzhou is flourishing. He has just conquered Srivijaya and other countries, and is attacking the Xinhesali Dynasty. If nothing happens, our territory of the Song Dynasty It will be expanded a lot," Yang Xiaolin said.

The basement was quiet for a moment, and finally it was Quan Ying who spoke first: "Outsourcing is a good thing. My uncle (referring to Emperor Zhao Yurui) also started outsourcing his business back then."

Later, Zhao Yu's biggest chess piece was equivalent to the captain of the regiment. There was a division commander-level chess player in Quanying's hands and he deliberately avoided it. Everyone thought that Zhao Fu had a commander-level chess piece in his hands. In the last game, it was naturally Zhao Yu's chess piece. He Xie Tang won.

Zhao Yu's face straightened up at this time, and he finally started talking about business.

This chess game started unfavorably for Zhao Yu. As soon as he came up, he used his commander (equivalent to a commander) to rush forward to capture the piece. Unexpectedly, Meng Zhile's commander on the opposite side was followed by a bomb. Meng Zhile thought about it, boom, and used the bomb to kill Zhao Yu. Your entire government was blown up.

After finishing speaking, Zhao Fu said, "Look, everyone, where should I go?"
Everyone looked at each other and glanced at each other a few times.

Delhi, the capital of the Delhi Sultanate, has many royal handicraft factories, which are equivalent to Zhao Yurui's state-owned enterprises in the Song Dynasty. How big are they?
Some are larger than Zhao and Rui's Lin'an.

The silk weaving and blanket workshops of Firoz Tughluq's era were able to complete orders of 60 and 20 silver tanks respectively every year.

"Nite mother, you're playing chess, right?" Quan Ying laughed and scolded Shi Zhongguo in her heart, but remained calm on the surface.

The people around him were all only around twenty years old, which was very rare during the reigns of other emperors of the Song Dynasty, and probably also rare in other dynasties.

The Delhi Sultanate at this time included parts of India, Bangladesh, Pakistan and other countries in later generations, and even a small amount of Persian territory. It was an extremely huge empire with very strong strength.

But Zhao Fu didn't have much contact with the ministers in the DPRK on weekdays, and he kept a low profile. With these few friends, he often played chess, and others couldn't say anything.

But this kind of chess is also difficult to judge, because any subsequent chess that Zhao Yu loses may be the same, or there may be bombs.

Shi Zhongguo looked at the map and pointed: "If you become the king of Yue, the fiefdom will be adjacent to the king of Han. The Sukhothai Dynasty is not bad. It was founded less than ten years ago, so it should be easy to conquer."

After a while, a commander named Zhao Fu (equivalent to a division commander) took the initiative to bump into the commander of the British army (equivalent to an army commander). It stands to reason that the commander Zhao Fu would be finished.

Everyone laughed, and they all denied it and said they wouldn't give in.

"Is there a map here?" Shi Zhongguo, another military academy student, suddenly asked.

Yang Xiaolin and Shi Zhongguo were military school students. The school often used the various battles of the Song Dynasty as lessons. They could also hear the battles ahead and knew that the Song Dynasty had now taken over the Malay Peninsula and Sumatra Island, and its troops were heading to Java. The island went.

These are quite large in scale, and neither Zhao nor Rui Dasong has so many state-owned enterprise employees.

It can be seen that the Delhi Sultanate definitely had a large population and strong strength at this time.

In fact, the Delhi Sultanate existed much longer than the Southern Song Dynasty from its founding in 1206 to its destruction in 1526, and it was founded for more than years.

Therefore, Shi Zhongguo believed that if he chose to be the king of Yue and conquered Sukhothai and the Delhi Sultanate, the latter would be more difficult. "But Liaodong and the north are more bitter and cold." Xie Tang frowned.

The other two places, one in Liaodong and the other in the north, are still relatively bitter and cold in Xie Tang's opinion.

"Isn't Liaodong fighting against Korea and Japan? It would be good to have a fiefdom there in the future." Quan Ying said: "I think it is better to go to Liaodong."

"What if we send a letter to the Far East?" Yang Xiaolin asked.

The emperor only talked about attacking Korea and Japan, and the palace was not necessarily located in these two places.

For example, Zhao Qi is currently visiting the Heshali Dynasty (Yinni), but his palace is built in Hanzhou (Feilubin), which is quite far away.

Several people talked to each other one by one. At the end of the sentence, everyone suddenly reached an agreement. Don't think about where you will be sealed, but think about where Emperor Zhao Yurui wants Zhao Yu to go.

For example, Zhao Yu said: "Based on my understanding of my father, if I conquer Korea and Japan, my palace will probably be in the Far East."

"Ah" everyone around exclaimed.

"The Far East is bitterly cold and sparsely populated, but it has a vast territory. My father immigrate there every year. He must want to occupy and control it for a long time. He will definitely let me build the palace in the Far East and then immigrate from Korea and Japan."

Yang Xiaolin hesitated to speak. Judging from the studies at the military academy, the Far East was also pretty good. Apart from being a bit colder, it also had abundant resources, but he still did not dare to say it.

In the end, it was Xie Tang who said the key words: "So the second prince, think about it carefully, it's not where you want to go, but where the officials want you to go?"

Zhao Yu fell into a brief silence.

To be the king of Yue? With the eldest brother Han Wang Zhao Qi? Obviously it is too obvious, and the Delhi Sultanate is not easy to fight, and the eldest brother can also fight.

My father probably doesn’t want me to be too close to my eldest brother, and the same goes for Russia and the Principality of Kiev in the north.

And the north side is too easy. Obviously, we need to find a place that is neither too difficult nor too easy, and don’t compare with the big brother.

"Far East?" Zhao Yu said with a bitter face: "Am I going to the Far East?"

Everyone looked at each other again.

After a moment, Quan Ying suddenly said: "Actually, the Far East and Liaodong are much closer to the capital than Hanzhou?"

Brush, everyone’s eyes lit up.

Among the three kings given by Zhao Yurui, be it the King of Tai or the King of Yue, they are all separated from the capital by hundreds of thousands of miles.

If he were the King of Yan, he would be in Liaodong or the Far East, which would obviously be closer than the first two.

The next day, Zhao Yu came to the palace again and met his father Zhao Yurui.

"How are you doing? Have you decided where to go?" Zhao Yurui asked cheerfully.

"Reporting to my father, I have been thinking about it all night last night." Zhao Yu said with a serious face: "Our Song Dynasty now covers thousands of miles and has a population of hundreds of trillions. It can be said that it has been the leading prosperous dynasty for thousands of years."

Zhao Fu came up and flattered his father first, which made Zhao and Rui happy.

"However, the Far East is unbearably cold and sparsely populated, yet it is vast and rich in resources. Such a place must always be in the hands of our Song Dynasty. I am willing to guard the Far East for my father and consolidate the country forever."

"Okay." Zhao Yurui stood up. In his heart, he hoped that Zhao Yu would choose King Yan to control the Far East.

The Song Dynasty has established large-scale towns in the Far East in recent years and strengthened immigration. However, due to the bitter cold in the place, there are still too few people willing to go, and it is difficult to force immigrants in the country.

Think about the Far East in later generations. Sometimes you would only see a village or town for tens or hundreds of miles, and there would not be many people for thousands of miles.

Therefore, Zhao Yurui hoped that after Zhao Fu conquered Goryeo and Japan, he would immigrate the Goryeo and Japanese people to the Far East to strengthen the population base there.

Even if Zhao Fu made the right choice, Zhao Yurui was very happy and told him some precautions.

In the early days, he was based in Haisanwei City, and the Yan Palace was also located in Haisanwei to facilitate the coordination of the war against Japan and Goryeo. However, the real Yan Palace will be built in Amul Prefecture starting from this year.

Where is this place? It is about 1,800 miles northeast of Lake Baikal and about 2,000 miles away from the Yakut area in the north.

Zhao Fu followed his father and looked at the map. Apparently he was calm on the surface, but he was secretly complaining in his heart. This place was nearly four thousand miles away from Hai Sanwei and penetrated deep into the belly of the Far East. It was really built to control the Far East.

"It used to be thousands of miles uninhabited. I, the Song Dynasty, have been immigrating one after another for more than ten years. I had several fortresses built a few years ago."

"Starting from this year, thousands of civilians will be recruited to connect the forts and build Far East City, which will later be the capital of Far East Province and the seat of Prince Yan's palace."

"It will take at least five to ten years to build the city. I will give you five to ten years to pacify Goryeo and Japan and immigrate to these places at the same time."

"Thirty years later, I want the population of the Far East to exceed five million."

It is unknown whether the total population of the Far East in later generations was five million, but Zhao Yurui planned to use immigration in thirty years to bring the local population to more than five million, among which there must be at least 500,000 real Han people.

"I accept the order." Zhao Fu did not hesitate. No matter what goal Zhao Yurui gave him, he had to agree first.

Then Zhao Yurui said some precautions. From now on, we must prepare to attack Goryeo and Japan, but there is no rush in this matter, take your time and fight one by one.

"In the art of war, there is a saying of making friends at a distance and attacking at close range. Let's attack Goryeo first, and then destroy Japan."

But Zhao Yu's main task is the same as Zhao Qi, which is not to lead troops to fight.

The eldest son of the emperor, Zhao Qi, was only the local Tibetan king in Hanzhou, responsible for coordinating and handling some military and civilian affairs. The real command of the war was the local generals such as Liu Zheng.

This time too, Zhao Yurui sent Yu Jie to Hai Sanwei to take full responsibility for the war against Japan and Goryeo. The specific time and how to fight were all decided by Yu Jie.

Zhao Fu was responsible for the deployment of resources and logistics, studying and observing wars, management of occupied areas, and immigration to the Far East.

"When your eldest brother left Hanzhou, I gave him two battalions of royal guards, and you did the same."

Zhao Yurui fully learned from the experience of the Ming Dynasty. Lao Zhu gave his sons three guards, each guarding tens of thousands of people, and also had command rights, allowing his sons to lead the troops to fight.

Zhao Yurui gave each of his sons two battalions. One battalion made by Song Dynasty only had more than 500 people, and two battalions had just over a thousand people.

These thousand people are mainly the palace guards to protect Zhao Yu's personal safety.

(End of this chapter)