The Rise of History’s Most Powerful Empire - Chapter 485

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Zhong Yu’s army came out in full force, and the Emperor Daming was anxiously searching for money and food, and wanted to form a new army to suppress the rebellion again.

It is a pity that although he took out part of his own small treasury, and then strictly ordered the officials and landlords to donate money and food, the income was not much after all.

And because the emperor lost most of the people’s hearts, there were too few people willing to join the army. Although it was enough to form an army, the quality of the soldiers was far less than the previous batches.

In the end, after so much tossing, the Daming Emperor only recruited a few 200,000 new troops. It was barely enough to guard the surrounding area of the imperial capital and used it to crusade the rebels. It was a complete joke.

After the recruiting of the new army was completed, it turned out that such a small number of soldiers and horses were obtained. The emperor’s plan undoubtedly became a joke.

In desperation, the current old emperor of the Ming Dynasty could only order 200,000 new troops to defend the imperial capital and separate some troops and horses to suppress the central provinces around the imperial capital.

As for the safety and belonging of other southern provinces, the old emperor could only express his helplessness.

In the old emperor’s mind, the six southern provinces didn’t contribute much money to him after taking it back, and the grain would ask his court to post a lot of money for disaster relief.

Over the past few years, the imperial court has invested in an unknown amount of grain and salaries in the south, but in the end what they got was less than just in case.

In the hearts of the princes who are now high above the court, the six southern provinces have changed from a prosperous land to a barren land, and become a tasteless existence. Keeping it is equivalent to leaving a burden.

It is not a bad choice to be able to take advantage of this opportunity now to get rid of this burden.

Today’s officials of the Ming Dynasty are not the enterprising mentality of the early days of the founding of the country. They have long been corrupted by the luxurious life. In their eyes, the place where they can make money is important.

A site that cannot make money, no matter how much it gets, it is still waste.

Therefore, under the passive resistance policy of the imperial court, the 400,000 defenders in the six southern provinces, under the condition of long-term lack of military pay, could not stop the morale of the Great Yu from fighting the army.

Under the personal leadership of Zhong Yu, the army of millions is like a tiger out of its cage, and it is extremely reckless to declare its majestic power to everyone.

The army quickly invaded the six southern provinces, once again announcing the arrival of their last master to the people here.

This time, the people of the six southern provinces actually welcomed the arrival of the Imperial Army.

Because they found that although they expelled the Yuguo forces last time, the Ming Dynasty government that followed did not bring them any good times. Instead, they intensified their efforts to scavenge the people’s fat and the people’s ointment. Compared with the political Qingming before Yuguo, it was simply The gap between heaven and earth.

There are also local garrisoned troops that disturb the people, looting property is considered light, harming local women, and wanton killing innocent people is more common.

People everywhere have nowhere to appeal their grievances, and they have long been waiting for the Yuguo army to fight back.

Zhong Yu was not too happy about these welcomes, because he understood that the reason why these people welcomed him was just to miss his previous benefits.

As long as there is one person who can treat these ordinary people better, then they will immediately abandon themselves, just like abandoning the Ming Dynasty now.

Besides, the betrayal of the millions of troops in the six southern provinces before has taught Zhong Yu a good lesson and thoroughly recognized the fact that these people are not credible.

This time, the six southern provinces were recaptured. Because of previous experience, it did not take too long, and the entire regime change was completed in about three months.

After winning the six southern provinces, Zhong Yu did not go further to crusade other sites, but sent more garrisoned troops in various parts of the six provinces to clean up local bandits well, and at the same time to sweep away the remaining forces of the Ming Dynasty.

None of these are important, what is important is that Zhong Yu intends to start liquidating those who dared to betray him before.

Therefore, in order to avoid unnecessary turmoil, it is necessary to increase the local garrison.

This time, the cleaning was carried out for two months. The main targets were the local landlords and nobles, as well as some remnants of the Ming Dynasty army. Many of these people had betrayed Zhong Yu before.

When the cleaning was completed, Zhong Yu began to aim at the Ming Dynasty again.

In addition to the garrison used to guard the 12 provinces, Zhong Yu mobilized a large army of about 800,000 to attack the west, which had not been touched by Zhong Yu before the Ming Dynasty.

There are five provinces in the west of Daming, which are mainly used to defend the states of Ba and Qi in the west.

Since these three countries have formed a strategic alliance, although each country is not very powerful and weaker than Daming, the combination has become a behemoth, and no one wants to provoke it.

Daming is one of them who does not want to provoke.

But others don’t want to recruit, but these three countries want to provoke others, especially Qi, which has the most borders with Daming, and sends some small troops to attack Daming almost every year.

Within ten years, there must be a war with a scale of more than 100,000.

In addition to the frequent wars that led to the fact that the population of the five provinces is not very large, and the living and economic difficulties are poor, it has also trained a frontier army that can conquer and fight well.

The number of this frontier army is not large, UU reading www.uukanshu.

There are only 300,000 com, because the Ming Dynasty did not have so much money to support.

It is also a defensive measure to limit the expansion of the frontier army.

Especially in recent years, due to the continuous emergence of internal and external troubles in the Ming Dynasty, the frontier troops in the five western provinces are often in short supply, and they are often stopped for five or six months after a month. As a result, many frontier troops can’t even eat. Full, not to mention morale.

Usually people in the western region were angry at the discrimination against people in other regions of the Ming Dynasty, and they hated the titles of barbarians, thieves and army, bandits and so on that were imposed on them by those people.

Now that they have cut off their own rations, the dissatisfaction in the hearts of these frontier soldiers has finally reached an extreme.

So when Zhong Yu’s army came to the west, the entire 300,000 frontier troops killed the imperial guards sent to monitor him and surrendered to Yuguo.

Zhong Yu, who received the news, was overjoyed, and hurriedly ordered the mobilization of rations and distribution to the 300,000 frontier troops who had been short of military spending for a long time, intending to use the money to buy these troops.

The Qi Kingdom in the east is also a great frontier trouble for Zhong Yu, who has taken over the west. The 300,000 frontier troops who have dealt with Qi Kingdom for a long time are very good guards.

With these troops, Zhong Yu left another 200,000 to strengthen the defense of the western region, and at the same time as surveillance, it was enough to ensure that the five western provinces were firmly in Zhong Yu’s hands.

After winning the west, Zhong Yu finally completed his strategic plan for the Ming Dynasty.

After the continuous weakening of Zhong Yu’s strength, Daming’s strength was only left with four central provinces and two northern provinces, and its strength was far from being called an empire.

Next, Zhong Yu set his sights on other countries, intending to plunder from other empires enough land to call himself an emperor, so as to break through the boundaries of the eighth-order.

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