At this time, Guanzhong was in ruins. It was not as fertile as the land and water during the Han and Tang Dynasties. It could not support too many people and could no longer be used as a king. Even if there was enough money and food in Shuzhong, it was limited by transportation, which would not help the development of Guanzhong.
Not as big as imagined.
But one advantage of Guanzhong is that it was the horse breeding land of the Yuan Dynasty. After the Mongolian Yuan Dynasty occupied Guanzhong, they converted many fields into pastures and raised many military horses.
By occupying this place, Xu Yin gained 100,000 troops and horses for free. In addition, the local Han people were good at raising horses and were good at riding horses. The cavalry force was sufficient, which gave him extraordinary military strength.
At this time, to the east, the power of the Mongolian and Yuan united landowners was still unusually strong.
Although King Ruyang was defeated for a while in the Central Plains, his own strength was further expanded by the support of many lustful businessmen and Han landlords.
The Yuan Dynasty was facing a crisis, but it did not dare to punish him more severely and delegated power even more. This greatly increased the strength of King Ruyang and prepared his troops to launch a counterattack against Liu Futong in Bianliang and Shandong at any time.
After Liu Futong occupied Bianliang, he was located in a plain and was at a strategic disadvantage. After several low-intensity battles, he was repaired by King Ruyang for a while.
Seeing that Liu Futong did not ask for help, Xu Yin felt at ease and quietly accumulated strength.
Therefore, he led the army to the west, trained troops in actual combat, controlled the important areas of Hehuang, and subdued the Tibetan and Hui ethnic groups for his own use.
Internally, it developed the economy and promoted civil servants from the old Yuan Dynasty bureaucracy.
This is also a helpless matter. He has many generals under his command, but if he wants to successfully manage the lands in Guanzhong, Hanzhong and Shuzhong and encourage farming and weaving, he must use these civil servants.
Just like Li Shanchang, Liu Bowen and others under Zhu Yuanzhang, all of them were Yuan court bureaucrats.
They have rich experience in governance. As long as they are properly identified and controlled, and used properly, these civil servants can actually be of great use.
In the next three years, Xu Yin selected the most suitable ones to use according to the system of later generations. In terms of military, in addition to cavalry, he trained infantry, which was mainly firearms in modern times. It focused on firepower projection and coordination between infantry and cavalry.
Politically, land acres were re-determined, military merit was divided into fields, and a number of new interest groups dominated by meritorious groups were created to counter the old-style scholar-bureaucrat organizations that they had previously relied on.
In terms of education, starting from the army, simplified Chinese characters were promoted and a large number of people were literate, and then disabled veterans were appointed as local officials.
In this way, we can unite politics, strengthen centralization, effectively control local governments, and further promote land reform.
At the same time, he used his rich martial arts secrets to establish the Jin Yiwei. At first, he only worked with the Tomb Sect to investigate the enemy's situation and joined various forces as spies. At the same time, he protected important generals and ministers of his own side from being assassinated by Yuan Ting's masters.
However, Xu Yin is also secretly training them to become his own special agent organization, and they will naturally take on more important tasks in the future.
In recent years, there have been fierce battles in the Central Plains. Liu Futong was finally defeated in a battle involving 400,000 troops and fled south.
Xu Yin immediately divided his troops into two groups. One went north to capture the strategic location of Taiyuan, completely eliminating all worries in Guanzhong.
As soon as he marched eastward, he sent troops to Luoyang and directly attacked the headquarters of King Ruyang.
Under the powerful offensive of artillery and matchlock guns, there was almost no strong city that could stop it.
Only then did Yuan Ting realize that compared to Liu Futong, Xu Yin, who had fought his way out of Guanzhong, was a wild beast!
After Xu Yin captured the Central Plains, as the leader of the Ming Cult and the leader of the Guanzhong Army, he quickly won over the people of the Central Plains and recruited a large number of Liu Futong's Hundred Battles Rebels.
With the force of almost sweeping away thousands of armies, within one year, they conquered the land north of the Yellow River, drove Emperor Yuan north to the grasslands, and brought the Sixteenth Prefecture of Yanyun back into the Hanjia River and Mountains.
Then he did not rush south to pacify the major forces in the south, nor did he accept the rebels from various places in the south who also revolted in the name of Mingjiao.
It is easy to absorb them, but in the future, there will inevitably be many factions in your own power, which will be difficult to digest.
So Xu Yin made his capital Yanjing and changed its name to Shuntian Prefecture.
Let’s take another example from the Li hexagram in the Book of Changes: The sun and the moon are as beautiful as the sky, the grains and grass are as beautiful as the earth, and the Ming Dynasty is as beautiful as the righteousness, and it turns into the world.
Therefore, the country was named Ming.
On the Double Ninth Festival in September, he officially ascended the throne as emperor in Shuntian Mansion, and appointed Yang Ruoxi, a girl in yellow, as his queen.
He cultivated for another three years. During these three years, Yang Xiao and others, led by Yang Xiao, repeatedly advocated the establishment of Mingjiao as the state religion.
Xu Yin's attitude was ambiguous, but on the other hand he vigorously attacked the Maitreya Sect and the White Lotus Sect, which were derived from the Ming Sect.
Most of the rebel organizations in the south have the White Lotus Sect as their core, so this attitude is self-evident.
A year later, Xu Yin reopened the imperial examination, took Confucianism as the norm, and improved the civil service system.
Yang Xiao, Yin Tianzheng and other old members of the Mingjiao had already seen that Xu Yin had no desire to commit suicide. At the same time, almost no one in the group of heroes was a member of the Mingjiao, so they sincerely resigned, and Xu Yin repeatedly tried to persuade him to stay.
In the fifth year, Xu Yin suddenly designated the White Lotus Maitreya Sect as a cult and stipulated that all religions other than the three religions were illegal! This naturally included the Ming Sect!
The world was in an uproar, and many generals in the army who came from Mingjiao had doubts, and some even defected and went to the south.
Xu Yin had been prepared for all kinds of chaos, and the outcome of political turmoil was often doomed when it started.
In recent years, he has worked hard to eliminate illiteracy, promote groups of meritorious officials, and complete the system of civilian governance. This is to gradually eliminate the influence of the Huidao sect among the forces.
China has been prosperous for thousands of years, and he does not want to turn the traditional Confucian political system into a political system full of cancer, which will lead to endless troubles.
Therefore, when political purges occur, the people, the court, and the military seem to be in chaos but are actually stable.
The Jin Yiwei and the Forbidden Army directly under Xu Yin were dispatched to immediately quell the riot and capture the defecting generals.
The killings were so overwhelming that within three months, five mass graves in the suburbs of Beijing were filled.
After the suppression at the bottom level, it was the turn of the top level, and old Mingjiao members were arrested for various crimes.
Yang Xiao and others tried their best to resist, but Xu Yin's opponent, a Jin Yiwei who had mastered the secrets of martial arts in the world, easily captured all these former masters.
Xu Yin was about to put him to death, but the queen urged him to do so. Xu Yin finally just abolished the martial arts of these people and exiled them to the northwest and Liaodong.
After all the internal troubles had been dealt with, Xu Yin immediately raised his troops to go south to dominate the world, with overwhelming power!
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As emperor and king, dreams are like smoke. Xu Yin has been in power for more than 40 years and has created a prosperous world.
In this prosperous age, there are naturally a lot of bones.
He relied on killing to conquer a country, and he also relied on killing to rule a country, but he knew that his descendants would never be as easy to kill as himself.
Because killing requires strength, as the founder of the country, his martial arts, military and political skills are far superior to those of his contemporaries, so of course he has the strength to kill.
After killing someone, he can turn the impact of the killing into fuel for governing the country. Killing one person can save ten people, and killing ten people can save a thousand people. Therefore, he can kill and dares to kill.
However, his descendants cannot rule the country through killing like him, and their strength, prestige and knowledge are far behind.
So Xu Yin abdicated the throne at the age of seventy-eight and gave way to the crown prince.
The prince ascended the throne at the age of forty-three. He was young and powerful, and had a deep foundation. Coupled with the perfect system of the country, he only needed to govern the country with benevolence, and he could pass on this prosperous legacy to three generations. Not to mention, the Age of Discovery was in the hands of Xu Yin.
turned on.
As long as the prince continues to use the wealth of the world to nourish the glorious Ming Dynasty, the next generation will still belong to the Chinese civilization.
After he abdicated, he did not live in the palace. Instead, he and the Queen Mother formed a fleet of 20,000 people and began to pursue the dream of his youth.
Go north to conquer Japan, go to the Bering Strait and then go east. It is a new continent, a land given by God!