The Rise of History’s Most Powerful Empire

Time flies, in the blink of an eye, three years have passed since Zhong Yu unified the domestic forces, completely brought all sectarian forces under his command, and completed the real monarchy centralization.

In the past three years, many things have happened in various parts of the world, but on the whole they are relatively stable, and there have been no events that shocked the countries.

However, the whole world is still too far away for Zhong Yu, what he cares about is only the Ming Dynasty and the situation of the surrounding countries of the Ming Dynasty.

After three years of recuperation, the originally fatuous Emperor Ming worked hard to rectify some corrupt officials in the country. Although the problem was not fundamentally solved, it also made these corrupt officials look better when they were corrupt. so ruthless.

And because he was facing the crisis of subjugation, the Emperor Ming became ruthless and drew a large sum of money and food from his small private treasury to train an army of 300,000 people.

This army is well-equipped, well-trained, and relatively strong. They have all reached the peak of the third-order cultivation base, and even 50,000 people are already at the fourth-order.

The incredible power of the equipment fully reflects the foundation of the Ming Dynasty as an empire.

You must know that Zhong Yu plundered the heavens and the world, searched an unknown amount of resources, and managed to form an army of 15,000 mystic masters.

Even after suppressing the sect, collecting the capable disciples of the sect, and absorbing a group of wandering strong men, only a world army of 40,000 people was organized.

These are the teams that Zhong Yu reluctantly pulled out at the expense of his speed of attacking the heavens and worlds, and at the risk of being attacked by sects around the empire.

It can be seen that the Ming Dynasty, a mere doomed empire, did not even have half of the territory before the war, and was able to easily pull out a new world army of 50,000 people, and its strength reached the level that Zhong Yu painstakingly built.

And even this is not the full strength of the Ming Dynasty. In addition to the 300,000 new troops, the Ming Dynasty also has an old army with a size of 1.2 million, and there are quite a few fourth-tier troops.

A total of about 100,000 or so.

From this, we can see the gap between Yuguo, a new country on this continent, and the old empires in this world.

This is just a Ming Dynasty that is on its way to the end. If it is replaced by other empires such as Jin, Han, and Wei who have not experienced internal strife, encountered external disasters, and their strength has been greatly damaged, their strength may be even more terrifying.

After three years of bureaucratic rectification, the voice of the people in the Ming Dynasty has recovered a lot, and the lives of the common people have become better. They are no longer as complaining as before, and uprisings may arise at any time.

And because of the emperor's ruthlessness, he donated his own internal treasury. In addition, the princes, nobles, and local gentry officials who have just been closely related to the Ming Dynasty have donated funds and donated money to the Ming Dynasty treasury, which has been completely exhausted. There is a reserve of money and food.

Coupled with the completion of the training of 300,000 new troops, it gave the emperor and his ministers a great sense of security and confidence.

Therefore, he felt that his strength had almost recovered, and the Emperor Ming, who had a certain amount of spare power to restore the lost territory, made up his mind to go to war.

And the target of the war is not the Jin Empire, which is close at hand, nor the imperial kingdom established by Zhong Yu, the rebel who the Ming Dynasty considered to be a soft persimmon.

Except for the proximity of the Great Jin Dynasty in the north, the 500,000 frontier troops in the remaining two provinces are not moving, and the 300,000 frontier troops in the west need to defend against the enemy's country and cannot move lightly.

The remaining 400,000 old troops, excluding 100,000 forbidden troops, will stay in the imperial capital, and 100,000 troops will stay in the place to maintain basic law and order. The remaining 200,000 troops were all drawn out, and after a little training, they formed a 500,000-strong Southern Expedition Army with the 300,000 new troops. The target is Jiangdu City, which is located in the six southern provinces and is the imperial capital of the imperial kingdom.

When the news of the Ming Dynasty's southern expedition and rebellion came, the entire original area of ​​the Ming Dynasty was shaken, and they discussed the pros and cons of the two armies, the outcome, and how the war would affect the people everywhere.

What the local wealthy families are concerned about is whether they choose to seek refuge or wait and see after the army of the Ming Dynasty comes over.

As for helping Yuguo resist the Ming Dynasty's attack, that is just a joke, even Zhong Yu dare not think so.

Zhong Yu ruled this land for only 45 years, which was very short. Compared with the Ming Dynasty's rule of thousands of years, its influence on the local area can be ignored.

What's more, everyone can see clearly that the Ming Dynasty has an absolutely overwhelming advantage over this newly established imperial country.

Not only does it have quantitative and qualitative advantages in the bottom-level army, but it also does not fall behind in high-level combat power.

The most important thing is that the Ming Dynasty has an eighth-level master sitting in the command, but the Yu Kingdom on the opposite side does not.

This is the most critical.

Unless Yu Guo also has an eighth rank, it would be nothing but nonsense to say more. As long as the eighth-level powerhouse of the Ming Dynasty makes a move, all the resistance of Yuguo will be useless. This is because absolute quality overwhelms quantity.

All of a sudden, all the forces in the imperial kingdom moved frequently, and started to connect with each other, trying to find a way out for themselves.

However, they still dare not make big moves. After all, with the deterrence of Zhong Yu's extermination of those sects before, these forces still dare not act rashly. I'm afraid that before the Ming Dynasty came, they would be wiped out by Zhong Yu as an internal hidden danger, and it would be too late to cry at that time.

In fact, regarding the invasion of the Ming Dynasty, or the suppression of the rebellion, Yuguo had already expected it. When things really happened now, although there was some fear, there was no panic on the whole.

Just think about it. For today's Ming Dynasty, whether it is the north, the Great Jin with further strength because it annexed the five provinces of the Ming Dynasty, or the other surrounding empires that have not lost their strength and guaranteed the basic strength of the dynasty.

Under the condition that the powerhouses of the eighth rank agreed with each other not to intervene in the military politics of other countries at will, the military power of each country alone cannot be moved by the dilapidated Ming Empire.

So after much deliberation, whether it is for the sake of its own interests or to maintain the orthodoxy of the dynasty, the Ming Dynasty will inevitably take action against the weak and rebel Yuguo.

However, no matter how powerful Da Ming is, as Zhong Yu, who has an extraordinary background and is extremely confident, it is impossible to catch him without a fight and let Da Ming slaughter him.

In order to deal with the attacking army of the Ming Dynasty, it finally began to mobilize the domestic army and actively prepare for the battle.

And constantly ordered officials from all over the territory to guard the generals, must maintain local stability during wartime, ensure that the local people can live normally, and prevent those powerful sects from causing trouble, and secretly colluding with Ming Dynasty.