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Chapter 187 Speculation

After talking about the glass and the carriage, Wu Qian naturally brought the topic to the Mongolians.

This is the biggest driving force he wants to inspect Xiaolongwan to support Zhao Qi.

In order to show that he was serious and careful enough to Zhao Qi's last words, Wu Qian even asked someone to take out all the information provided by the cannibals collected from Fuzhou, Wenzhou last time.

Zhao Qi is still very interested in these materials. After all, this is not a search for historical data, but the latest Western news, that is, the pattern and trends of Central and Western Asia in the past one or two years, which is of great historical research value.

The information content is very messy, and the maps are all drawn so that they can't bear to bet. There is no so-called scale concept at all. Therefore, if it weren't for the place name called Ba Geda on the map of the big cannibal, Zhao Qi wouldn't have seen that this is a map of West Asia, and the name Ba Geda should be Baghda.

There are also some other strange names marked on the map, but the translations are all wrong. Zhao Qi doesn't know what these places mean, so he can't guess it, so he can only speculate based on some of his simple memories of West Asia.

When Zhao Qi looked through a bunch of information, he frowned, sometimes pinched his chin and thought, and sometimes used his fingers to make gestures on the paper. Wu Qian and others did not disturb him, but waited patiently while drinking tea.

Recently, the three of them gathered together to study these materials. In fact, they have already understood them all. They are basically sure that Zhao Qi's previous speculation that Mongolia might have captured the Great Food Kingdom was basically correct. However, these materials are very scattered and not very reliable. Many merchants from the Great Food Kingdom have fled to the Song Dynasty in the past two years, but not many people truly understand the trends of the Mongolians and the pattern of Central and Western Asia. There is no Internet or TV station in this era, so there are many real and false hearings in this information. Now they just want to see if Zhao Qi has more speculations on Mongolia's dynamics in the West.

More than ten minutes passed, and Zhao Qi also roughly read all the information maps.

"How, these are in line with the speculations of the Western trend by the nephew?" After Zhao Qi put down the last page of information, Wu Qian asked impatiently.

Zhao Qi bowed his hand slightly and shook his head and said, "These information is too scattered and the map is not complete, so it does not fully meet my speculation together. What's more, it is impossible to be sure how much real value is there in the mouth of Dashi merchants. It is really difficult to judge whether the true or false is mixed together. But the only thing that can be confirmed is that the Mongolians should have completely captured Dashi. I wonder if my statement is accepted by Duke Chongguo."

"Yes, these information is indeed scattered, and even the contents of different people are contradictory, but almost all the great cannibals say that the Mongolians are extremely fierce. After destroying the Huatshu Zimo, they have been conquering Western countries. The situation of the Great Food Kingdom has been worse than before in the past or two years. Under the oppression of the Mongolians, they have reached the end of their journey. Otherwise, these great cannibals would not have traveled thousands of miles to our Song Dynasty to avoid disaster. According to these great cannibals, the great food should have fallen into the hands of the Mongolians at the moment!" Wu Qian nodded in agreement.

"My friend, I still have a question. Without knowing the movements of the Mongols in the West, how did you judge that the Mongols had annexed the Great Eat Country? If you don't inquire about these news carefully, I'm afraid no one will care about it!" Wu Wenying looked at Zhao Qi with confusion on his face.

"There is nothing difficult in the world. I'm afraid that those who are interested have thought, Jueweng said that he had to ask carefully before he knew that in fact, there were not many news in the docks of the coastal prefectures, but no one was going to spend time collecting and sorting them out. There were countless merchants from Yanggong Town Haigang, and there were many Nanyang countries and big food from Wenzhou, Quanzhou, Fuzhou and Guangzhou, and Fuzhou. These news were naturally circulated. The boy had just had a few more thoughts and listened to a few words. What's more, the movements of the Mongolians have not been secret in recent decades. Since Temujin unified the Mongolian tribes, he has been sending troops to fight and plunder everywhere. In just a few decades,

Destroying the countries around the Western Regions and Western Xia, Western Liao, Jin and Dali and other countries around the Song Dynasty have formed a nomadic empire that is more powerful than the Huns during the Han Dynasty. Since ancient times, the nomadic people in the northwest have been the biggest enemies of our Central Plains dynasty. Not to mention the Khitan and Jurchens, the rise of Mongolia is definitely a powerful enemy that threatens the life and death of our Song Dynasty. Since the defeat of the Jin Dynasty, Duanping and entering Luo, the aggressive attitude of the Mongols, the boy knew that the Mongols would never tie the river with our Song Dynasty and govern friendly relations with them. Therefore, the boy naturally had more thoughts and often asked for some news about the trends of the Mongols..."

In order to make his speculation look more reasonable, Zhao Qi could only use the reason of a mixed harbor and a piece of paper to cover up his magical attributes of the prophet without hexagrams.

Although Zhao Qi's dry mouth explanation could not completely dispel the doubts of Wu Wenying and others, it was not completely nonsense. After all, Wu Qian did find out the Mongols' momentum in the West through the mouth of the cannibals. At the same time, the Song Dynasty court basically knew what the Mongols did in the East. After all, after the rise of the Mongols, the Western Liao, the Western Xia, the Jin, and the Dali, and last year Goryeo also surrendered to Mongolia, almost all of which happened under the eyes of the Song Dynasty.

As for the Great Song Dynasty, Huatshumo was not unfamiliar with the Song Dynasty. Since the Han Dynasty, the Central Plains have always had land trade deals with Central Asia and West Asia. The Anxi Empire, located in the middle of the Silk Road, was doing the plucking of feathers by geese. It was used to extract a large amount of taxes by controlling the transportation of silk to the West and became rich. Huatshumo inherited the bandit characteristics of Anxi's road blocking and robbing, and also liked to block commercial exchanges between the Central Plains and West Asia. Although he had not just passed by the Song Dynasty, he had just passed by the Liao and Jin countries, and of course he had not gotten good. He was beaten by the Liao Kingdom and cried and called him dad.

The trade between the Liao and Song dynasties was ordinary, especially after the Chanyuan Alliance, the two countries were even better. When their parents died, they had to send envoys to express their grief to each other. When the new emperor ascended the throne or married his wife, they also sent envoys to congratulate each other. Therefore, during this honeymoon period, high-end products such as silk and porcelain books from the Song Dynasty were continuously transported to Central Asia and West Asia. The flower thorns were robbed a lot. However, after the Western Xia was independent and the road to the West was cut off, the southern shipping flourished. At this point, the entire inland had no relationship with the Song Dynasty. Liao, Jin, Xixia, and Mongolia played military chess here, and were finally taken over by the Mongols.

After Zhao Qi finished speaking, there was a little silence in the living room. Wu Qian and Ye Mengding and the other two were zipping their beards and pondering, although their faces were different.

"There is nothing difficult in the world, I'm afraid of those who are interested..." Ye Mengding muttered Zhao Qi's words softly, looking a little dazed.

"My friend's sentence should have a source. My friend Chen Yuanliang, Jianzhou, once said in his "Shi Lin Guangji" written by him, "There is nothing difficult in the world and people's hearts are not strong. Although the latter sentence is different, the meaning is exactly the same, but my friend's words are more easy to understand. I just heard my friend's words, which made me feel ashamed. No matter whether the Mongolians are moving or the situation of Western food, these are not without them. We just did not search carefully, and we were ashamed, and I was so ashamed. I have lived for more than 60 years, and I finally woke up today. My friend, I have been worshipped by Wenying!"

Wu Wenying stood up with a look of shame and bowed to Zhao Qi to the ground.

"Jueweng is a famous scholar of the dynasty. How dare you accept such a great gift!" Zhao Qi quickly stood up and returned the gift.

The old and the young man bowed and politely to each other, and then sat down. Wu Qian grabbed his beard and breathed a sigh of relief, "What Brother Junte said is actually what I want to say. The Mongols did not hide what they did, but we have never really paid attention to their movements. I really didn't expect that the Mongols have now conquered the Great Food and countless countries tens of thousands of miles away, but the kings and people of the Song Dynasty are still unaware of the peace. This is the most terrifying thing!"

"What Mr. Wu said is very much. In fact, this, including us, is the case. If Zhao Dalang had not mentioned it, who would have cared about the movements tens of thousands of miles away!" Ye Mengding nodded and agreed, then looked at Zhao Qi and said, "Then in this case, the Mongolians will attack my Song Dynasty this year, and it was also your inference from the information from the business trips coming and going on the dock!"

"Yes, in fact, it is not only the information obtained from the business and travel mouth, but also the analysis of the Mongols' consistent characteristics and current world situation. Combined with all the factors, I judge that the Mongols will definitely invade my Song Dynasty this year!" Zhao Qi nodded slightly.

"Since that's the case, in my spare time, why don't Dalang tell you your analysis carefully? Let's take a closer look. The military has its own concerns with the imperial court, but the Mongolian invasion is also a matter of the common hatred of the enemy by our army and the people of the Song Dynasty. If we are mentally prepared, I would like to remind the officials to make plans and arrangements early when going to the court. Of course, Duke Chong can also write to the court at any time and ask the officials to deal with it early, so as not to prevent the situation of Sichuan's fall from becoming uncontrollable!" Ye Mengding suggested with his beard twisted.

"This statement from Xijian is exactly what I want. I also want to hear the opinions of my nephew!" Wu Qian nodded.

"Yes, my friend has both ideas and speculations, and I also want to listen carefully. The Mongolians are fierce and cruel. Since we know, we must not sit idly by and ask the court to make arrangements early!" Wu Wenying also nodded in agreement.

"Brother Zhao just talk about it, so that we can open our eyes!"

Since he arrived at Wu Qian's mansion, Chen Ji and Yao Ran, who were as respectful as primary school students from beginning to end, both looked at Zhao Qi with a gaze.
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