The Rise of History’s Most Powerful Empire - Chapter 484

[Chapter 479 Unrest]

In fact, the entire country of the Ming Dynasty has been doomed to change hands since the moment Zhong Yu planned a full-scale counterattack.

After all these years of tossing and turning, the Ming Dynasty has long been strong in the outside world, and the country is weak.

Just like now, Daming sees there are millions of troops, and most of them are elites who have experienced war and seen blood, and their military strength is powerful.

But how is it actually?

The Ming Dynasty was like a dilapidated house. Now, I try to repair it everywhere, but it still leaks everywhere. There is no major benefit at all, but it only delays the collapse of the house a little bit.

Daming Kong has an army of one million, but in fact, the 100,000 army can’t get enough food and grass for a year’s expedition, and the army’s food and salaries are often in short supply. .

As for the internal governance of the Ming Dynasty, in the first two years, due to the crisis of demise, it became a little clearer and the officials restrained.

In the past two years, with the continuous victories of the Ming Dynasty against the rebels and the continuous recovery of lost territories, those officials have long since become slack.

Especially because of the increase in the size of the Ming Dynasty, a large number of official positions were vacated.

In order to compete for official positions, these officials formed parties and formed factions, fighting for these interests.

All in all, today’s Ming Dynasty is a mess inside, and there is no energy at all to deal with external troubles.

Now Zhong Yuqing has a total of 1.5 million soldiers, and the army is united as one, united inside and outside the court, and because of the support of the outside world, food and grass are extremely sufficient, enough to fight a war on a scale of one million people for more than ten years And keep feeding.

With so many advantages, how difficult is it to deal with an extremely tattered Ming Dynasty?

The only concern is whether Zhong Yu can break through the eighth-order first before the eighth-order Taizu of the Ming Dynasty makes his move.

Emperor Yuan 8 years in March.

Zhong Yu, the emperor of Yuguo, led his troops to take an oath in Zhengzhou City, the capital of the country, to fight against the immoral Ming Dynasty. Millions of troops marched out of the territory of Yuguo and swept away towards the broken Ming Dynasty.

Millions of troops rushed out, and the mere 300,000 Ming troops who stayed on the eastern border to defend the country of Vietnam were naturally no opponents, and they were all defeated within a month.

Afterwards, the remaining two provinces in the east were captured by Yuguo, and the forces of Daming completely withdrew from the eastern region.

After the news reached the capital of the Daming Emperor, the Daming Emperor was furious and ordered the defenders from all over the country to strictly guard the territory, and once again prepared to form a large army to fight against the rebels.

Moreover, Emperor Daming was no longer dissuaded by courtiers, so he went to meet Emperor Taizu in person, and asked Emperor Taizu to take action and help him suppress the rebellion.

However, the emperor’s request was not approved by Emperor Taizu, but he was severely reprimanded.

Since Emperor Taizu conquered the great Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty has gradually declined.

Now that the descendants have been unfilial, there have been four successive generations of ignorant masters, indulging in pleasure, and even abruptly turned the originally powerful Ming Dynasty into such a rotten appearance.

Emperor Taizu had long been resentful, but due to the restrictions of the heavens, it was inconvenient to come forward to blame and change the chao.

Now this incompetent descendant even wants the Great Ming Taizu to sweep away the rebellion himself, which really aroused the anger of the Taizu Emperor.

So Emperor Taizu refused.

In the eyes of Emperor Taizu, a mere rebellious, the strongest person is only seventh-order, how can it have any real impact on the dynasty that has his own eighth-order immortal.

Now that the strength of rebellion is stronger, one’s younger generation and descendants should be determined to work hard, rectify the administration of officials, and find the reason from themselves.

Instead of being extravagant like the current courtroom, the emperor is immersed in enjoyment and ignores the government at all.

After being rejected, the Ming emperor was helpless, without the support of Taizu, although he had no worries about his own throne, as long as Taizu hadn’t died, no one could take it away.

But if the territory under his control is lost too much, the taxes that the emperor can receive will also be reduced in disguise, and the luxury life that he can enjoy cannot maintain the scale of the past.

For the sake of his future happiness, Emperor Daming had to issue an order to recruit troops.

At the same time, officials from all over the country are required to be strong and powerful, and donate food and salaries to form an army.

When the emperor of the Ming Dynasty did this, officials from all over the country complained and felt that the emperor was stealing money from their pockets, and they were extremely dissatisfied.

However, the emperor’s order cannot be violated. As long as the banner of the Ming Dynasty has not fallen, these officials dare not openly refuse the order of the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, and the money that should be given should still be given.

But my money can’t be given to the emperor in vain,

It needs to be recovered from other places, so they think about the people everywhere.

Almost immediately following the emperor’s donation order, UU reading www.uukanshu.com officials from all over the country made their own decisions, and the tax revenue increased, covering almost all aspects of ordinary people’s life.

To what extent?

In a typical local county, there are hundreds of taxes that a family needs to pay, with zero and zero goals.

There is no king’s land under the whole world, and there is no king’s ministers on the coast of leading the land.

Since the whole world is the emperor, then you, a pariah, drink water with the emperor, and you have to pay a water tax.

If you harvest rice, you will have to pay a rice tax, and you will have to pay a mao pit tax when you go to a mao kennel.

Anyway, no matter what, the people have to pay for everything.

All of a sudden, it was completely thorough, forcing those ordinary people to have no way out. Large-scale refugees fled and countless bandits spread all over Dalian in an instant, which made the security problem in Daming even more serious.

And because of the fickleness of the Ming emperor several times, the decrees issued by the emperor have been changed, which has completely broken the hearts of the people at the bottom.

Up to now, if they came to the six southern provinces or other places in Daming to recruit troops yesterday, they would use it to fight against the crusade of the Ming Dynasty, and there would never be the same thing as before.

Not only the people at the bottom, but even the wealthy class in the middle class of society, those who actually control the place composed of small businessmen and small landlords, their interests have also been seriously damaged in these several changes of decrees, especially now that parents and officials are everywhere. When looting people’s fat and people’s ointment, as local wealth, they were regarded as pieces of fat.

Those who really benefited from this turmoil were only those big landlords, big businessmen and big nobles.

Because they are decision makers, they can arbitrarily use their power to benefit themselves, and no one who is not open-minded dares to trouble them.

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