The Rise of History’s Most Powerful Empire Chapter 477: Game

In fact, after the Ming Dynasty regained the six southern provinces, although its strength has been restored, at least its strategic depth has expanded by more than half. However, the overall strength has not increased much, but has declined.

These six southern provinces have just been captured by Zhong Yu not long. Although Zhong Yu’s capture process was relatively peaceful and there was no major war, the overall impact was still somewhat. The economy and people’s livelihood of the six provinces appeared. Some damage.

And when the Ming court sent a large army to regain the lost ground, the war was even more tragic. One wanted to get back the lost place, and the other wanted to delay the time. The two sides fought, but they didn’t keep their hands at all. How ruthless it came.

In this kind of process, it is common to forcibly transfer strong people to defend the city, or send cannon fodder to mine, or even directly and meaninglessly kill civilians to vent.

Under this situation, people everywhere can be described as miserable. Not only their lives are not guaranteed at any time, but they also face high taxes due to the war. They are forced to break their families and wealth, sell their children and sell their talents. Can survive.

And this situation lasted for three full years in the six southern provinces. Three years was very short, but that was for a dynasty or a cultivator. For ordinary people, three years is not short, equivalent to 1/20 of their lives.

Three years of military disasters, coupled with a period of natural disasters, caused epidemics because too many dead bodies were left untreated. Plagues were rampant everywhere, and the six southern provinces could be said to have completely become hells on earth.

When the power of the imperial country completely withdrew from the six southern provinces, and the Ming Dynasty regained its southern territory, this land was completely barren.

The six provinces originally had a combined population of more than 80 million, but now there are only 20 to 30 million. Except for some people killed and injured by the war, more of them are due to large-scale population deaths caused by famine and plague.

The fertile fields were abandoned everywhere, the towns were dilapidated, and the people had no surplus in their homes, looking for food in the wilderness, and everything they thought they could or could not eat was completely eaten.

The Ming Dynasty took over such a mess. For the sake of his court’s righteous status, he naturally couldn’t ignore it and had to find a way to deal with it.

So Daming’s original shortage of money and food was slowly transferred to the south, and the local officials would embezzle a sum of money and then distribute it to the hungry people, slowly guiding them to restore the production economy, little by little again. Build six southern provinces.

This is not a very light job. It is expected that people's livelihoods everywhere will be restored to the stability of the people, and there will be no large-scale exiles due to famine. It will take at least 34 years of hard work.

Under this circumstance, the Ming Dynasty's crusade army, which numbered as large as one million, was naturally difficult to maintain.

It's not that the Ming Dynasty couldn't build such a large army, but the money and food in the treasury really couldn't support the relief of the six southern provinces, and it had to maintain the army's crusade.

So the princes of the court thought and thought, after some discussion, with a stroke of a pen.

This one million army left 400,000 troops as the garrison in the six southern provinces. On the one hand, it suppressed the bandits that were scattered everywhere, and on the other hand, it was vigilant against the offensives of South Korea and Wei. Since then, it has taken root in the six southern provinces.

Although the remaining 600,000 troops are still large, the rear of the court can barely sustain the expedition of 600,000 troops.

The foundation of the Imperial Kingdom in the four eastern provinces is not comparable to that of the six southern provinces. Although it can't be said to be deep, it doesn't have the situation where all the soldiers have turned against each other.

Of the four eastern provinces, Dongjiang Province has the deepest roots, because they were originally abandoned by the court, and legally they are no longer the court’s land. As a rebel army, Zhong Yu rescued this land from the Huangshan Demon King, and saved the fate of these people being treated as food by those demons. He was born with such a halo.

So Dongjiang Province has the deepest foundation. The soldiers recruited from here have the least sense of belonging to the court, and even a trace of hatred.

As for the other three surrounding provinces, although they were not abandoned by the court, they were not affected by the Yaozu's cholera.

But they saw the experience in Dongjiang Province with their own eyes. Although they didn't say anything, they still felt a little bit of sadness in their hearts.

During the days when the Demon King of Huangshan was in trouble, the people in the surrounding provinces were very worried, for fear that when the Demon King of Huangshan would bring his troops to fight, the court would compromise if they failed and gave them to them. Huangshan Demon King as food.

Under this atmosphere of thought, when they heard the news that the Huangshan Demon King was beheaded by a rebel and all the demons had been expelled and annihilated, the excitement in their hearts could not be concealed on their faces.

So they are not at all repulsive to the rule of the imperial kingdom. Although they have a certain affection for the rule of the Ming Dynasty~IndoMTL.com~, they are basically in the same position.

Recruiting troops from these three provinces, although you can't expect their morale to be high, there will not be a situation where they will be defeated immediately after a fight, or even directly defied. I can barely believe it.

Relying on this not very deep foundation, Zhong Yu started a large-scale army expansion in the four eastern provinces when he attacked the six southern provinces during the Ming Dynasty.

The four eastern provinces are located in the hinterland of the Ming Dynasty, with fertile land and a large population, which gathered countless essences of the Ming Dynasty.

Recruit troops and buy horses here. Not only do you have to worry about money and food, but you can spend it at will. It is also because there are a large number of people, from which a better source of troops can be obtained.

In this kind of situation with rich people, 400,000 troops were raised immediately after the recruitment order was issued, and there were a steady stream of people coming to join the army. I am afraid that Zhong Yu will be able to summon by the beginning of the war. Millions of troops are not a problem.

With such a sufficient number of soldiers and horses, coupled with the loyalty of the soldiers and horses, it is absolutely wishful thinking that the Ming Dynasty wants to easily win the four eastern provinces.

The sweetness released before was enough, and it successfully caused the Ming Dynasty to relax its vigilance.

From now on, there is no strong person above the sixth rank, and it can be seen from the battlefield that the Ming Dynasty is also quite afraid of the sixth-level strong on the Yuguo side.

Obviously, the Ming Dynasty has been thoroughly immersed in this game of low-level soldiers deciding the ownership of the territory.

The Ming Dynasty, the strong from Tier 6 to Tier 7, is not the opponent of the imperial kingdom. Sending the Tier 8 powerhouse to take action violates the rules, which is very easy to cause hostility and sanctions from the Tier 8 masters of neighboring countries.

Like the current game where the bottom-level soldiers decide the victory or defeat, not only Zhong Yu's plan to delay time, but also the heart of the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty.