In fact, in the past few years, not only the Ming Dynasty has been in turmoil, with constant internal and external troubles, but other surrounding dynasties have not fared much better. It can even be said that the entire world is vaguely turbulent.
Nowadays, the human race is weak and the demon race is on the rise. The human race's power has begun to slowly fade away. Although its power is still far greater than that of the demon race, the trend of internal turmoil can no longer be concealed.
The whole world has fallen into a world of great strife, just like the Jin Dynasty invaded the Ming Dynasty before. It was not that the Jin Dynasty was really that brave and good at fighting and liked to invade, but that the situation had to be like this.
In the north of the Jin Dynasty, a powerful imperial Han Dynasty has begun to rise. For decades, it has successively attacked cities and destroyed the country, defeating countless powerful enemies.
By now, the territory of the Han Dynasty has expanded several times. It has gathered hundreds of states (the same provinces as the Ming Dynasty) and has more than ten million soldiers. They are all brave and elite warriors. They are not the rotten local garrisons of the Ming Dynasty. Comparable.
In addition to the Han Dynasty in the north, the Great Qin in the northwest, the Tang Dynasty in the south, the Sui Dynasty in the southwest, and the Great Zhou Dynasty in the center, these five powerful empires have emerged and began to annihilate and annex the surrounding empires one after another.
After decades or hundreds of years of hard work, initial results have been achieved, and they have gradually become the five most powerful empires at the time, each possessing power several times greater than that of ordinary dynasties.
Due to the annexation of these decades or hundreds of years, the number of countries in this world has changed from more than a hundred countries at the beginning to more than 30 countries today, and the number has been greatly reduced.
This also means that the power of the human race has begun to slowly gather, and it also means that the scale of future wars will become larger and more tragic.
In the end, when the power of the human race reaches its peak, it will be the time to begin to decline, and the rate will be very fast.
Just like the Warring States Period, the Seven Heroes of the Warring States Period were eventually annexed by the Qin State, although the country's power was unified and formed an unprecedentedly powerful empire. But the glory of Qin did not last long before it collapsed in an instant, and internal chaos continued.
In the early days of the founding of the Han Dynasty, the strength of the Han Dynasty was barely 1/5 of that of the early Qin Dynasty, and it was even more weak in dealing with foreign enemies.
This is what is called prosperity and decline.
The same is true for the human race in the Liaozhai world today. Countries annexed each other and finally formed an unprecedented empire.
Then after the empire ruled for a short period of time, the glory completely dissipated, and the human race began to have large-scale internal strife. The remnants of the dynasties in various places began to rise and fight with each other.
In the end, the foundation and essence of the entire human race were exhausted, and the demon clan took this opportunity to rise. Just like the Huns did to the Han, they continued to plunder the human race, causing the human race to slowly and completely decline.
In the past few years, the Han Dynasty's invasion of Jin Dynasty has not stopped.
The Jin Dynasty originally had more than 30 states, but due to the erosion of the Han Dynasty, there were only 21 states left, and its strength was reduced by more than 1/3.
If this continues, the Jin Dynasty will only become weaker and weaker, and finally reach a critical point, and will be swallowed up by the Han Dynasty, becoming the country that was wiped out by the Han Dynasty before.
Under this situation, the entire Jin Dynasty could only find a way to break the situation.
Of course they would not dare to ask them to rectify the imperial court, train the army, and fight to the death with the Han Dynasty.
That would just be an egg against a stone, and even taking action together with the countries surrounding the Han Dynasty might not be very effective.
Just like the Warring States Period in Zhong Yu's original world history, the six Kanto Kingdoms had formed an alliance in the face of the aggressive Qin Empire. But in the end, due to various reasons, they all ended in failure or barely a tie, and none of them succeeded at all.
The same was true for the Jin Dynasty. He had participated in three alliances before, but all of them were cracked by the Han Dynasty. He even lost cities and territory one after another, making this place even weaker.
When the main problems could not be solved proactively, the Ming Dynasty could only find other ways and find solutions from other directions.
Since I can't defeat the Han Dynasty, and I am ceding a little territory to the Han Dynasty every year, it will definitely not work if I continue like this, and I will perish sooner or later.
Then I think differently and think bigger. I can’t defeat the Han Dynasty, but can’t I defeat the dynasties around me that are weaker than me
As soon as this idea came out, it immediately won the welcome of the Jin Dynasty, and they began to think of countless ways to achieve this goal and discuss its possibilities.
After thinking about it, I realized that at this time, there were many internal dangers, corrupt officials could be seen everywhere, I was extremely corrupt, and I didn't have much fighting power.
And most importantly, the weak measures taken by the Ming Dynasty in the face of the Demon King of Huangshan and the incompetence shown by the army completely made everyone in the Jing Dynasty determined.
Go find trouble with the Ming Dynasty.
It would be good to seize one or two pieces of territory, but even if it didn't work, the Ming Dynasty would have to cough up some money and food to subsidize the Jin Dynasty's finances that could not make ends meet due to high military expenditures for many years.
Then Da Jin took action.
The 300,000 elite Central Army of the Jin Dynasty went out to fight. As elites who often fought against the regular army of the Han Dynasty, these 300,000 troops had experienced hundreds of battles and experienced various experiences. Their strength was indescribable. They were not comparable to the weaklings of the Ming Dynasty. of.
Then this army succeeded and captured the two northern provinces of Ming Dynasty. Although reinforcements from the Ming Dynasty arrived later, the invincible army offensive was slightly hindered and became a bit difficult.
However, the Jin Dynasty, who was overwhelmed by the territory of these two provinces, soon decided to send more reinforcements. Hundreds of thousands of troops went south again, and once again defeated the reinforcements of the Ming Dynasty, and the territory of the three provinces was again Give up.
At this time, there was even a call from the top and bottom of the Jin Dynasty to completely send troops to attack the imperial capital of the Ming Dynasty, capture the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, and completely annex the Ming Dynasty.
If the Ming Dynasty can be completely annexed to the Jin Dynasty, then the strength of the Jin Dynasty will be completely restored, and it will even be much better than in its heyday.
You know, the Ming Dynasty has a territory of 28 provinces, seven more than the current Jin Dynasty, and its overall strength is much stronger than the Jin Dynasty. The reason why it is so weak now is that it is too corrupt internally, and the entire system has reached a certain point of rot before it loses one after another.
But no matter how much the Jin Dynasty thought about the Ming Dynasty. , as an empire, it still has some foundation. With the efforts of the whole court, the goal of the Jin Dynasty was ultimately unsuccessful.
Their footsteps were firmly controlled within the five northern provinces, and they could not even expand a single province. All their ambitions became delusions.
This was the case in the Jin Dynasty, and it was also the case in other small dynasties in other places, such as Korea and Wei, which bordered the Ming Dynasty to the south.
Today, South Korea and Wei are facing the invasion and encroachment of the southern overlord, the Tang Dynasty.
(End of chapter)