The Rise of History’s Most Powerful Empire

In fact, the entire country of the Ming Dynasty was doomed to change hands since the moment Zhong Yu planned to counterattack in an all-round way.

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

Just like now, Da Ming Wangwang still has millions of troops, and most of them are elites who have experienced wars and seen blood, and their military strength is strong.

But what about the fact? The Ming Dynasty was like a dilapidated house, and now it is trying to repair it everywhere, repairing and repairing, but there are still leaks everywhere, there is no big benefit at all, it just delays the collapse of the house a little bit.

Daming Kong has an army of one million, but in fact, the food and grass for the 100,000 army to go out for a year is not enough, and the food and salaries of the army are often in short supply. The soldiers are often bullied by the officials and treated like slaves. .

As for the internal administration of the Ming Dynasty, except for the crisis of extinction in the first year or two, it became a little clearer and the officials restrained.

In the past two years, as the Ming Dynasty continued to win victories against the rebels and regained lost territories, those officials had long since slacked off, and the originally slightly restrained corruption became more rampant, even tampering with the soldiers' salaries.

Especially because of the increase in the area of ​​the Ming Dynasty, a large number of official positions were vacated. In order to compete for the official positions, these officials form parties and factions with each other, and fight for these interests.

All in all, today's Ming Dynasty is in chaos internally, and has no energy to deal with external troubles at all.

Now Zhong Yu Qingguo has one and a half million soldiers, and the army is united as one, united inside and outside the court, and because of the support of the outside world, the food and grass are extremely sufficient, enough to fight a war with a million people for more than ten years And without food.

With such advantages, how difficult is it to deal with an extremely dilapidated Ming Dynasty?

The only worry was whether Zhong Yu could break through to the eighth rank first before the eighth rank Taizu of the Ming Dynasty made his move.

In March of the 8th year of the Emperor Yuan Dynasty.

Emperor Zhong Yu of the Imperial Kingdom led his troops in Zhengzhou City, the capital, to swear an oath to crusade against the lawless Ming Dynasty. Millions of troops marched out of the territory of the Imperial Kingdom, and swept towards the dilapidated Ming Dynasty.

Millions of troops rushed out, and the mere 300,000 Ming troops who stayed on the eastern border to defend the Yue Kingdom were naturally no match, and they were all defeated within a month. Then the remaining two provinces in the east were captured by Yuguo, and the forces of Ming Dynasty completely withdrew from the eastern region.

After the news reached the capital of the Ming Dynasty, the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty was furious and ordered the defenders everywhere to strictly guard the territory, and once again prepared to form a large army to fight against the rebellion.

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

However, the emperor's request was not agreed to by Emperor Taizu, but he was severely reprimanded.

Ever since Emperor Taizu conquered the Great Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty has gradually declined. Up to now, the descendants of the later generations are unfilial, and there have been four generations of fatuous lords in succession, indulged in pleasure, and forcibly turned the originally powerful Ming Dynasty into this rotten state.

Emperor Taizu had long been resentful, but due to the restriction of the law of heaven, it was inconvenient to come forward to blame and change the imperial program.

Now this incompetent descendant actually wants Taizu of the Ming Dynasty to wipe out the rebellion himself, which really completely aroused the anger of Emperor Taizu.

So Emperor Taizu refused.

In the eyes of the Emperor Taizu, a mere rebel, the strongest being no more than the seventh rank, would have any real impact on the dynasty that owns himself, the eighth rank of immortal.

The stronger the rebellious power is now, the younger generations and descendants should work hard to improve their employment, rectify the administration of officials, and find reasons from themselves. It's not like the extravagance in the court now, where the emperor is immersed in enjoyment and doesn't care about the government at all.

After being rejected, the Ming Emperor was helpless, without the support of Taizu, although he didn't have any worries about his own throne, as long as Taizu didn't die, no one could take it away.

However, if he lost too much territory under his control, the tax the emperor could receive would also be reduced in disguise, and the luxury life he could enjoy would not be able to maintain the previous scale.

For the sake of his own happy life in the future, Emperor Ming had to issue an order to recruit troops.

At the same time, officials from all over the country are required to donate food and salaries to form a large army.

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

However, the emperor's order must not be violated. As long as the flag of the Ming Dynasty has not fallen, these officials will not dare to refuse the order of the Emperor Ming, and the money and food that should be given will still be given.

But their own money can't just be given to the emperor for nothing, it needs to be taken back from other places, so they thought of the people everywhere.

Almost immediately following the emperor's donation order, officials from all over the country made their own decisions, and tax revenues with clever names also increased, covering almost all aspects of ordinary people's lives.

To what extent? In a typical local county, there are hundreds of taxes that a family needs to pay, all of which are listed out.

Is it the land of the king in the whole world, and the land of the land is the king's minister.

Now that the whole world is the emperor, then the water you drink as a pariah is the water of the emperor, and you have to pay a tax for drinking water. There is a rice tax for harvesting rice, and a latrine tax for the last latrine. Anyway, no matter what, ordinary people have to pay for everything they do.

All of a sudden, it was thorough, and the common people were forced to have no way out. Large-scale refugees fled, and countless bandits spread all over Dalian in an instant, making the security problem of Daming even more serious.

And because of the frequent capriciousness of the Ming Emperor, the government orders he promulgated changed day and night, which had 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 Ming Dynasty to recruit troops again yesterday, and they used them to fight against the Ming Dynasty's crusade, there would definitely be no such thing as before.

Not only the people at the bottom, but even the wealthy class in the middle of society, those who are actually in charge of the localities composed of small businessmen and landlords, their interests have also been seriously damaged in these several changes in government orders, especially now that parents and officials everywhere When searching for people's fat and people's anointing, they, who are wealthy as locals, are treated as pieces of fat.

The only ones who really benefited from this turmoil were the big landlords, businessmen and nobles.

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