In the thirtieth year of Shengwu, this was the thirtieth year of Chu Yun's ascension to the throne as emperor, and the army of more than one million people of the Ming Dynasty was mobilized again, and the two countries of Dayan and Dajin immediately felt the worry of the coming storm. Da Ming is too strong, these years Da Ming is in a war readiness race with Da Jin, while directly blocking all the channels between Da Ming and Da Yan, and imposing economic sanctions on Da Yan.

Where have the rulers of the two countries seen this method, at the beginning they didn't care, but then the war race and economic sanctions directly dragged down the economies of the two countries, and now the people's livelihood in the two countries is withering and turbulent, if they are not still in control of the army, it is estimated that civil strife can completely collapse the two countries.

They had already seen the viciousness of Daming's plan, but there was nothing they could do. Murong Ke, Huan Wen and others have studied for a long time and have no way to restore their national strength. Daming, that's not all, they also wantonly formed a new army, and in just two years, the Ming army expanded to 1.8 million people, a number that made the two countries desperate.

In order to resist the pressure of the Ming Dynasty, they began to expand their army despite the collapse of the domestic economy and quenching their thirst, and the army of the Great Yan reached an unprecedented number of more than one million, and the Great Jin followed suit, expanding the army to 700,000 people. You must know that when Qin Fujian fought the battle of Weishui in the past, the Beifu army of the Jin Dynasty was only 80,000 people, and now it has expanded to 700,000 people, which shows that the Eastern Jin Dynasty has fought for its life. Even some of the big families also know the truth that the skin does not have hair, and the private soldiers under their respective hands are handed over to the state free of charge.

However, the two countries simply cannot afford to raise such a large number of troops, and they can be said to be exhausted in their military force, so what should they do if they have no money or food? They can only loot the civilians in their own countries, and it is conceivable that the two countries have basically completely lost the support of the people at the bottom, and they only need to lightly open the fire of the two countries.

The Supervision Department and Jinyiwei are in charge of one country, and the two countries have not yet faced the invasion of the Ming Dynasty, and they have been in chaos, with uprisings and rebellions one after another, but because of the support of the ruling classes of the two countries and the control of the army, they have not completely lost control. But as time goes by, the regimes of the two countries, which dare not reduce the army and really can't afford to raise a large army, will exploit the people more fiercely, and even some small and medium-sized families, the Ming Dynasty does not need to do it, and the two countries will not be able to support it in the end. Da Ming is completely a conspiracy, but it makes it difficult for the two countries to fight at all.

The army of the Ming Dynasty simply adjusted the defense, and did not attack at all, but it directly caused the civil strife of the Great Jin and the Great Yan, and I have to say that sometimes the weak country is really powerless in the face of the strong country.

Daming didn't do anything at all, which made both countries breathe a sigh of relief, but also felt uncomfortable. They were all holding back their strength to prepare to deal with Da Ming, but Da Ming suddenly stopped, which really made them choke in their chests in one breath and almost suffocated to death. This kind of behavior of holding a knife around your neck and then retracting the knife is more uncomfortable than using it directly.

What's even more odious is that in order to deal with the Ming Dynasty, the two countries almost poured their strength into confrontation, not only collected a large number of troops and grain and grass, but also offended the people at the lower levels, if invaded by foreign enemies, the whole country can still be united, but suddenly there is no threat from foreign enemies, and all domestic contradictions will break out directly.

The uprising between Dayan and Dajin became more and more intense, Dajin was originally a family in power, and the usual bullying and oppression of ordinary people was heavy enough, but now they have to ride directly on their necks and, no matter how deferential people are, they can't stand it. The Great Jin Dynasty already had a tradition of local rebellion against the central government to launch unrest, and this time it was even more serious. Countless small and medium-sized families that were overly oppressed joined forces to launch a rebellion, and the scope of the spread was so wide that even Huan Wen and others did not expect that the turmoil in the south would make the Great Jin tired of coping. Although the Great Jin Dynasty gathered hundreds of thousands of troops unprecedentedly, but after extinguishing this place, it began there again, as if endless turmoil had almost exhausted all the grain and grass prepared by the Great Jin in order to deal with the Ming Dynasty.

Even the central army of the Great Jin Dynasty was unstable, after all, the vast majority of the people were from the bottom of the people, and their families did not have enough food and clothing, and they sold their sons and daughters, so how could they be in the mood to fight? Several times, they went to suppress the rebellion and directly defected and joined the rebellious army, and the situation in the Great Jin Dynasty deteriorated day by day, and the rulers of the Jin Dynasty were anxious.

They had to go and pay attention to the real gatekeepers, after all, this group of talents was the richest, and as long as they gave their men and food, the rebellion could easily be quelled. Don't think this is a joke, the strength of the gate valve of the Eastern Jin Dynasty is unimaginable at this time, many of them control a county or even several counties, and tens of thousands of people and hundreds of thousands of people in the county are all their domestic slaves, what kind of concept is this? Each of their families can make up tens of thousands of completely loyal troops, and the food of each family is enough for tens of thousands of people and hundreds of thousands of people to eat for several years.

But it's a pity that Huan Wen and the others miscalculated this time, although the rulers of each family have promised to do well, but it is related to the interests of their own family, whether there is a threat from the Ming Dynasty, it is impossible for them to damage the interests of their family in order to support the country. They live by guarding their own territory, and they don't care if your court dies. Therefore, Huan Wen and others could only watch the country become more and more erosive and had no choice, and finally the rulers of the Jin Dynasty, who could not bear it, sacrificed a big killing weapon.

Later that year, Zhao was destroyed by the Ming Dynasty, and as many as tens of thousands of Qian people became mercenaries of the Great Jin, and they were also the most effective troops under Huan Wen. They only recognize money and not people, Huan Wen supports them, and they give Huan Wen their lives. Huan Wen finally got angry when he saw that all the gate valves were sweeping the snow in front of the door, and sent out as many as 30,000 mercenaries.

This group of people is known for their barbarism, they are famous for killing people for pleasure, and in the later Zhao period, they also had Shi Le and Shi Hong under their control, and even so, they had more than a million lives on their hands. What's more, now they are just working hard for Huan Wen for money, and they are still facing the cowardly southerners they think, and now they have been ordered by Huan Wen to suppress all rebellions, and they are completely out of control when they get Shang Fang's sword, and this group of devils is released even if Huan Wen can't control it. They killed all the Han people they could see, whether they were really rioters or gate valves, they burned, killed and looted all kinds of evil, and soon killed red-eyed. The entire prosperous Jiangdong of the Great Jin Dynasty was first slaughtered, and then spread to the rest of the country.

They didn't listen to Huan Wen's orders, because the things they had robbed were even richer, and they also saw that Da Jin was actually weak. No one expected that the Hou Jing Rebellion would break out decades in advance. Huan Wen was in a hurry, and he hurriedly sent the Central Jin Army to exterminate them, but the 100,000 army was defeated by 30,000 mercenaries.

At this time, the Ziqian people have no scruples, and there is no rooster crow for thousands of miles in the entire south of the Yangtze River, and as many as hundreds of thousands of Han people have become ghosts under their swords. This incident was that Da Ming was shocked, and Da Ming sent people to write letters to Huan Wen many times, hoping to allow the Ming army to enter Da Jin to help Da Jin tide over the difficulties. But how dare Huan Wen agree, he pulled down his old face and begged Wang Xie Yuan Xiao and other top gate valves, and in the end they decided to cooperate to eliminate this group of hungry wolves.

Huan Wen, who received the support of these gate valves, immediately mobilized as many as 200,000 troops to encircle and suppress these tens of thousands of Qiang demons, and the two sides fought dozens of battles large and small, and they actually reached a stalemate. Although Da Ming didn't expect his plan to kill so many people, the effect was surprisingly good. At this time, if the Ming Dynasty attacks the Great Jin, the Great Jin is estimated to really be destroyed.

Dayan's life is also not good, Dayan does not have as many gates as Dajin, and domestic politics are stable, but they can't stand the fact that they have many ethnic groups in the country. Although Dayan is the Xianbei tribe in power, but the domestic Han people, Xiongnu, Qianghu, Qian, Diren, Wuhuan, Dayue clan and as many as dozens of Zahu, they are united under the leadership of Dayan, because Dayan has continuously expanded its territory in the past few years, so life is quite good.

But in the past few years, the economic blockade of the Ming Dynasty, their quality of life has fallen off a cliff, many tribes will starve to death in winter, and Dayan has continued to send their prime men to join the army, and they have begun to pay heavy taxes.

Of course, the already fierce tribes of various ethnic groups did not do it, and they tried to peacefully resist the exploitation of the Great Yan without violence at first. Dayan's prestige over the years has not come in vain, Xianbei Iron Rider is everyone's demon, otherwise how could they become obedient people so honestly?

Moreover, the successive rulers of Dayan are also mainly Huairou, and they do not overly oppress them, and they also like to listen to their opinions. Many of these tribes held high-ranking officials in the Great Yan Imperial Court, and their influence should not be underestimated.

But this time, the mobilization of the Ming Dynasty's million-strong army made the fragile sense of security of the people of Dayan completely disappear, and they were willing to do anything in order not to lose the country. Dayan rudely refused the demands of these tribes, and directly dispatched a large army to exterminate a few early birds. The tribes that bullied the weak and feared the hard could only give in, but the oppression of Dayan became more and more ruthless, and it was difficult for the tribes to maintain even the most basic survival, and as more and more men were taken away, more and more taxes were pressed on their heads. Finally, the rebellion inevitably broke out.

At first, several small tribes resisted taxes by force, and then developed to the entire Liaoxi, you must know that there is still the Liao State of Yuwen Xianbei in Liaoxi, they secretly supported the rebellious tribes, coupled with the provocation of Jinyiwei, the rebellion soon formed a scale of tens of thousands of people.

At this moment, the rulers of the Great Yan Kingdom were dumbfounded, and they didn't expect that this group of guys, who were usually docile, would resist, so Murong Jun, the king of Yan in a rage, rejected Murong Ke's suggestion to pacify him, and directly mobilized the army to suppress it by force.

Because Murong Ke opposed sending troops, Murong Jun did not use Murong Ke's generals who could fight well, but let the general Lu Hu lead the troops, this Lu Hu had a similar experience with Lu Bu with the same surname as him, he was originally the general of Hou Zhao, and later the Ming attacked Hou Zhao, he surrendered to the Ming Dynasty, but the Ming army system was strict, and Lu Hu, who wanted to be a soil emperor, couldn't stand the rules of the Ming Dynasty at all, and he didn't want to lose the control of tens of thousands of people. So he surrendered to the Eastern Jin Dynasty, but the Eastern Jin Dynasty was far away from the emperor Tiangao, and the Ming Dynasty was extremely strong, and the Eastern Jin Dynasty could not save him at all. So he took his men to take refuge in Dayan. Dayan named him the assassin of Guangzhou, that is, he was idle, after all, Guangzhou was the territory of the Great Jin Dynasty. But he did not deprive his army and put his army in western Liaoxi to defend the Liao State. After all, there is a lot of tribal strength in the Great Yan Kingdom.

Of course, this Lu Hu did not want to see himself lose power, because he was stationed in western Liao, bordering Liao, so he often invaded Liao, and the strength of the Yuwen clan of Liao was far inferior to that of Dayan, and Daming adopted a laissez-faire attitude, ignoring the conflict between Yan and Liao, so Lu Hu achieved a lot of results.

And he will also be a man, and he will hand over a part of every harvest, so he left an impression on Emperor Murong Jun, although Murong Jun trusts Murong Ke, but he doesn't want his family to be dominant, so he supports a lot of descendant forces, and this Lu Hu is one of them. This time, Murong Ke did not send troops, so Murong Jun remembered that this location was near the rebel area, and it was Lu Hu, who was his descendant.

When Lu Hu learned that he had been appointed as a rebellious general, and that in addition to the 20,000 men and horses in his headquarters, there were 40,000 troops, a total of 60,000 troops, and he really felt happy to descend from heaven. This Lu Hu is an ambitious person, otherwise he would not have always chosen to be a warlord in history, and finally rebelled and was killed. But his reputation made all rulers feel uneasy, so whoever he took refuge in was suppressed.

Lu Hu has never given up the ambition in his heart, he has taken Chu Yun as his goal, and he feels that what Chu Yun can do, he can also do. Therefore, when this opportunity came to him, his first thought was not how to suppress the rebellion, but how to use this rebellion to strengthen himself. In the early stage, you can raise more self-respect, ask more people for food and grass, and later even turn those rebels into soldiers under your own command for your own use. When the time comes, he will arrange the western part of Liaoxi, and then unite the Liao State and the Ming Dynasty to fight against the Great Yan State and become the lord of a country.

If Murong Jun knew that this so-called lineage was such an idea, I don't know if he would be angry. Anyway, Lu Hu set off ambitiously with 60,000 counterinsurgency troops.

Good news! Good news! Good news!

In the past few days, Murong Jun felt that when he was in a good mood in the past few years, the generals he recommended kept winning, and in just a few days, he had already eliminated the "tens of thousands" of rebellions in three battles and three victories, and even his younger brother Murong Ke had nothing to say. Murong Jun suddenly felt that Lu Hu was his lucky star, but he didn't see that the good news came with a huge request for grain and grass, and Murong Jun, who was in a good mood, basically agreed without thinking too much.

A large number of grain and grass materials were delivered to Lu Hu, and he directly stopped the march, but began to recruit troops on the spot, and eradicated the dissidents in the 40,000 army of the imperial court one by one, and the 40,000 army was executed by Lu Hu as many as 5,000 people in just a few days. The remaining tens of thousands of troops were almost completely controlled by Lu Hu.

At the same time, Lü Hu began to contact the demoralized rebels who had been beaten by himself, and this group of rebels who wanted to have a full stomach heard that the imperial court intended to surrender, and they had a split. Within a few days, the rebels were in flames, and half of the rebels continued north, entering the primeval jungle to the north to continue the rebellion. And the rest of them surrendered to Lu Hu with their families.

Lu Hu selected 20,000 elites from it, and then continued to ask the imperial court for food, and exaggerated his victory, at this time Murong Jun was not a fool, he got almost all the facts from the mouth of Dayan's intelligence officers. Murong Jun knew that he was being treated as a monkey, and now Lu Hu had 80,000 troops, entrenched in the eastern part of Liaoxi County, and he actually showed a posture of not being able to lose his tail. This is really a legacy of tiger breeding.

At this time, Zhou Yan, the leader of Jinyiwei, came to Liaoxi County, he rarely showed up directly, and this time he came in person to show the importance he attached to this matter. Daming will soon dominate the world, this is the consensus of Daming, and they all have an optimistic view on this. It's good to have a unified world, but it's not a good thing for those who are ambitious and want to achieve greater status. Zhou Yan is such a person, but he knows that he can't compete with the general trend of history, and can only get greater credit and gain greater status for his family before the unification of the world.

He was the son of Zhou Bin, Chu Yun's most trusted army back then, and after Chu Yun came to power, he posthumously crowned Zhou Bin as the prince of the country, but Zhou Yan's elder brother inherited his father's position. Over the years, Zhou Yan has worked hard to make meritorious contributions, and finally won the high position of the head of the Supervision Department, and also entered the cabinet. But because of a mess, he was revoked by Chu Yun from the position of the head of the Supervision Department and the minister, and became the leader of Jinyiwei.

Although he relied on the back hand of the Supervision Department back then, he quickly led Jinyiwei to gain a firm foothold, and made a lot of contributions, suppressed the Supervision Department, and was named the founding township by Chu Yun, but Zhou Yan was not satisfied. Wang Jie, who was the first to follow Chu Yun's resurrection with Zhou Yan, was named the Duke of the Kingdom, and he did not demote to the knighthood for three generations, he was just a mere villager, and after his death, he was a pavilion waiter, and then declined step by step, which was not what he wanted.

Therefore, this time he has an ambition, he wants to occupy the first merit of the destruction of Dayan, and then make the duke. Chu Yun didn't know what Zhou Yan thought, of course, even if he knew, he was not the kind of cautious emperor who was jealous of the merits of his subordinates. If Zhou Yan can really destroy Dayan, there is no need to send troops, Chu Yun is absolutely in favor of both hands and feet.

In this way, after Zhou Yan met Lu Hu, the two quickly reached a consensus, with the full support of Jin Yiwei and the full support of the Liao State, Lu Hu directly seized several counties in the east of Liaoxi County and declared independence by claiming Lu Gong.

And after he got the materials fully funded by Jinyiwei, he frantically expanded his army, and those tribes who had no food to eat took refuge one after another, and in just a few months, he became a northern tyrant with an army of 200,000.

After Murong Jun angrily killed dozens of palace maids and eunuchs who were not open-eyed, he summoned Murong Ke, who was estranged during this time, to discuss the pacification of Lu Hu's rebellion, and after the two brothers discussed Dayan's current national strength, they found that they were temporarily unable to send troops, because the troops, grain and grass were placed at the border with Daming.

However, they soon found that it was impossible not to send troops, because Lü Hu directly mobilized the army to attack Liaodong County, the old nest of the Great Yan Kingdom, and the already empty Liaodong County was captured a quarter in a short time, and in desperation, Dayan dispatched 150,000 front-line troops to Liaodong to exterminate Lü Hu, and a civil war that affected the whole country of Dayan suddenly broke out.