The Rise of History’s Most Powerful Empire Chapter 480: Layout complete

Zhong Yu's army came out, and the Emperor Ming was anxiously searching for money and grain, and wanted to form a new army to suppress the rebellion once again.

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

Because the emperor lost most of the popular support, too few people were willing to join the army. Although the formation of an army is sufficient, the quality of the soldiers is far lower than the previous batches.

In the end, after all this tossing, Emperor Ming had only recruited a few new troops of 200,000. It was barely possible to guard the surrounding areas of the imperial capital, and it was a complete joke to use it to defeat rebellion.

After the recruitment of the new army was completed, only to get such a small amount of soldiers and horses, the emperor's plan was undoubtedly 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 divide some troops and horses to suppress the central provinces surrounding the imperial capital. As for the safety and belonging of other southern provinces, the old emperor could only express his helplessness.

In the mind of the old emperor, the six southern provinces did not contribute much money to him after they were recovered. Instead, the court asked him to donate a lot of money for disaster relief.

In the past few years, the imperial court has invested in the southern part of the food and salaries, but the final result is not just in case.

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

It’s not a bad choice to take this opportunity to get rid of this burden.

Today's Ming Dynasty officials have long been not enterprising in the early days of the founding of the country. They have long been corrupted by their luxurious life. In their eyes, it is important that they can make money. If you can't get money, no matter how much you get, it's still a waste.

Therefore, under the imperial court’s passive resistance policy, the 400,000 defenders in the six southern provinces and regions, in the long-term lack of military pay, could not stop the morale of the imperial army from fighting against the army at all.

Under the personal leadership of Zhong Yu, millions of troops are like tigers coming out of the cage, declaring their majestic power to everyone very wantonly.

The army quickly invaded the six southern provinces, and once again announced 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 discovered that although they expelled Yuguo's power last time, the Ming Dynasty government that came immediately after did not bring them any good days. Instead, they searched for the people and the people more vigorously, compared to the political Qingming before the Jade Kingdom. , It is simply the gap between heaven and earth.

There are also local garrisons harassing the people everywhere, looting property is considered minor, harming local women, and wantonly killing innocents is more common. People everywhere have nowhere to redress their grievances, and they have long been expecting the imperial army to fight back.

Zhong Yu didn't feel too happy about these welcomes, because he understood that the reason these people welcomed him was just to miss his previous benefits. As long as there is one person who can give these ordinary people better treatment, then they will immediately abandon themselves, just like now abandoning the Ming Dynasty.

Furthermore, the betrayal of millions of troops in the six southern provinces before, but taught Zhong Yu a good lesson, and thoroughly recognized the untrustworthy facts of these people.

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

After taking the six southern provinces, Zhong Yu did not go further to crusade against other sites. Instead, he sent more garrisons throughout the six provinces to clean up local bandits and remove the remaining forces from the Ming Dynasty. Give it away.

None of this is important. What is important is that Zhong Yu intends to start liquidating those who dared to betray him before.

So in order to avoid unnecessary unrest, an increase in the local garrison is necessary.

This time, the cleaning lasted for two months. The main targets were the local big landlords and nobles, as well as some remaining Ming dynasty troops, many of whom had betrayed Zhong Yu before.

When the cleaning was completed, Zhong Yu only started to target the Ming Dynasty again.

Excluding the garrison used to guard the 12 provinces, Zhong Yu mobilized an army of about 800,000, and attacked the west that 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 kingdoms of Sichuan and Qi in the west.

Since the three countries have formed a strategic alliance, although each country is not very powerful and a little weaker than Ming, they have become a behemoth when they are combined, and no one wants to provoke them.

Da Ming is one of them who doesn't want to provoke.

But others don’t want to recruit, but these three countries want to provoke others, especially Qi, which borders Daming the most. Almost every year, some small troops are sent to harass Daming. Within ten years, there must be a scale of 10 Ten thousand or more wars.

Frequent wars have not only resulted in small populations in the five provinces and poor living and economic difficulties, but also trained a frontier army capable of conscripts.

There are not many people in this frontier army~IndoMTL.com~ only 300,000, because the Ming Dynasty did not have that much money to support. It is also a defensive measure taken to limit the size of the frontier army.

Especially in recent years, because of the continuous emergence of internal and external troubles in the Ming Dynasty, the border army food and salaries in the five western provinces are often in short supply, and the payment is often stopped for five or six months after one month. Not having enough to eat, let alone morale.

People in the western region are often angry at the discrimination against people in other parts of the Ming Dynasty. They hate the titles such as barbarians, bandits, bandits, etc., imposed on them.

Now that he has cut his salary again, the dissatisfaction in the hearts of these frontier soldiers has finally reached the extreme.

So when Zhong Yu's army came to the west, a whole 300,000 frontier troops killed the imperial supervising army sent to monitor him, surrendering to Yuguo.

When he received the news, Zhong Yu was overjoyed and hurriedly ordered the mobilization of food and payment to distribute to the 300,000 frontier troops who had been short of military expenditure for a long time, intending to use the money and food to buy these troops.

The Qi State in the east is also a great side trouble for Zhong Yu who has taken over the west. The 300,000 border troops who have been in contact with Qi State for a long time are just a good guard.

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

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

Daming's strength has been continuously weakened by Zhong Yu, leaving only the four provinces in the middle and two provinces in the north. The strength is far from being able to be called an empire.

Next, Zhong Yu turned his gaze to other countries, intending to plunder from the hands of other empires enough land to claim himself as an emperor, thereby breaking through the boundary of Tier 8.