Starting from Comprehensive Martial Arts: Bu Dao Lu

Chapter 296 Situation

For these two wars in Wuying's tenth year, the imperial center knew very well that the leader behind them was the Han Empire.Without the instigation of the Han Empire, how could the island countries in the East China Sea provoke the Ming Empire?

However, regardless of whether the East China Sea Allied Forces were instigated by the Han Empire or not, the feud between the East China Sea and the Empire was finally settled.

Wuying was in early 11th year.

The second son of Emperor Hongwu, the great ancestor of the Ming Dynasty, King Zhu Xi of Qin, was promoted to a land immortal through his cultivation.

King Qin's breakthrough in cultivation increased the number of land gods in the royal family of the Ming Empire to four, and the number of land gods belonging to the empire reached eight.The country and the country of the Ming Empire became increasingly stable.

Originally, according to King Qin's background, it would take several years to break through the land gods.But earlier, Zhu Qi took advantage of the opportunity to study the bodies of Li Jiancheng and Li Longji to give everyone a small start, saving the King of Qin several years of work.

The promotion of King Qin stimulated many royal families!Among them, the kings of Jin, Yan, and Zhou Zhou even started the retreat mode.

Emperor Xiaokang was promoted to a land god, and King Qin was also promoted to a land god. Are their promotions still far away?No matter who it is, when they see hundreds or thousands of years of life beckoning to them, they will choose to retreat like the three kings.

March of Wuying's 11th year.

The empire mainly focused on the navy and formed a large army to conquer the island countries in the East China Sea.

The Imperial Navy was established in the southeastern region in the second year of Wuying's reign.

When the Tang Empire collapsed, only part of the Tang Empire's navy went north to join the Han Empire; part of it fled to the East China Sea, and most of the elite Navy of the Datang Empire were absorbed by the empire.

Therefore, although the navy of the Ming Empire was not established for a long time, its strength was not weak.

What's more, in recent years, with the support of the empire's powerful national power, the navy has built many new large warships.

April.

The Han Empire saw that the Ming Empire was conquering the East China Sea and started another war in the Eastern Region.

However, the empire had already made a decision. Before the four official roads were opened, the fierce battle with the Han Empire in the Eastern Region would focus on defense.

Although the Han Empire had a strong military, it did not achieve great results in the face of the Ming Empire's army, which was backed by a fortified city and equally powerful.Moreover, the cavalry of the Ming Empire came and went like the wind, which was really terrifying and caused great trouble to the attacking Han Empire.

In the 11th year of Wuying's reign, although the Ming Empire went to war in the Eastern Region and the East China Sea at the same time, the impact of these two wars on the empire was not great.

From the perspective of the Imperial Center, these are just two local wars.

In the Eastern Region, the war between the Empire and the Han Empire showed a stable trend as a whole.

In the East China Sea, the Imperial Navy's success stories spread frequently.In one year, the Imperial Navy destroyed eight island nations.Using these eight island countries as a springboard, half of the East China Sea is within the attack range of the Imperial Navy.

Wuying is 12 years old.

The Han Empire sent envoys to the Ming Empire to discuss peace and prepare for a truce.As a condition for the armistice, the Ming Empire asked the Han Empire for the royal family of the Tang Dynasty who had fled north. The Han Empire refused, and the war in the Eastern Region resumed.

Regarding the war in the Eastern Region, the empire is unwilling to stop.

With the national power of the Ming Empire, the money and food from the Southeast Region alone were enough to support the war between the East Region and the East China Sea.Therefore, the war did not have much impact on the empire.

The impact on the Han Empire was considerable.The territory of the Han Empire was divided according to the standards of the Ming Empire, with only the Northeastern Region and half of the Eastern Region.

Among them, the Eastern Region has been mired in war for a long time, and the money and grain it produces is simply not enough to sustain the war effort.

Therefore, the money and food in the northeastern region of the Han Empire should not only support the war in the eastern region, but also be used to maintain the navy in the East China Sea and the army in the north.To the north of the Han Empire were the terrifying Qin Empire and the Xiongnu Empire.Hoarding heavy troops in the north has been the national policy of the Han Empire since its founding.

How could the Han Empire maintain its strength with one and a half territories against the national power of the Ming Empire's seven and a half territories?

In recent years, although the Han Empire has maintained its offensive in the Eastern Region, in fact, the Han Empire has long been unable to make ends meet.

It was precisely because of this understanding that the Ming Empire was unwilling to call a truce.The next target of the Ming Empire is the Han Empire. Now it is fighting fiercely with the Han Empire. Even if it cannot bring down the Han Empire, it can also greatly weaken the national power of the Han Empire.Therefore, the center of the Ming Empire was unwilling to cease the war.

In the 12th year of Wuying's reign, peace negotiations between the two countries went on one round after another.However, not much progress was ever made.

In the Imperial Capital of the Ming Dynasty, the imperial and Han missions were negotiating; in the Eastern Region, the two countries were fighting lively.

The current battlefield in the Eastern Region has become a place for military training for the Ming Empire.

Graduates of the Imperial Army Academy and the Cavalry Academy roared to the battlefield, ready to perform meritorious deeds.Facing the continuous flow of new troops, the Han Empire army had already stopped its offensive and was exhausted from dealing with it.

These little tigers who graduated from the Ming Empire Military Academy fully demonstrated to the Han Empire what it means that newborn calves are not afraid of tigers.

A newly graduated cavalry officer dared to lead 300 cavalrymen hundreds of miles into the Han Empire to attack cities.

Throughout the Eastern Region, although there were not many battles involving tens of thousands of people, fierce battles involving hundreds or even thousands of people could be seen everywhere.

Although the scale of the Eastern Region War was not large, its intensity and danger were extremely high.Because of this, the Han Empire approached the Ming Empire to negotiate peace.Because the losses of the Han Empire were too great.

The Commander-in-Chief of the Fifth Army is extremely satisfied with the situation in the Eastern Region. The high-intensity and low-intensity war has trained a large number of outstanding generals for the military.

Negotiate peace, the military will never agree to negotiate for peace!
Wuying is 13 years old.

In order to cease the war, the Han Empire had to send the Tang royal family gifts out of the country.

For the sake of stability in the Southeast and Eastern Regions, the Ming Empire agreed to a temporary truce with the Han Empire.

When the news of the armistice came, the Han Empire finally breathed a sigh of relief.

The pressure on the Han Empire has been too great in recent years, its finances have long been unable to make ends meet, and the treasury has long been empty.

The Li family of the Tang Dynasty had great prestige in the Eastern and Southeastern regions.After all, although the Tang Empire fell, it was because the Ming Empire was too powerful, and the Li family had no moral misconduct.

Therefore, the Ming Empire must keep the Tang royal family in its hands;
Because the Li family of the Tang Dynasty was outside, which was a threat to the stable rule of the eastern and southeastern regions of the empire.

For the Tang royal family, the Ming Empire did not raise its butcher's knife high.In addition to the empire's desire to win people's hearts, Wu Zetian came from the Tang Dynasty royal family after all.

The loyalty of a land god is worthy of the empire laying down its butcher knife.

Although the empire did not raise a butcher's knife against the Tang royal family, it would not let the Tang royal family pose a threat to the empire.Therefore, in the Central Region, the empire divided a land for the Li family of Tang Dynasty to live.

Compared to the Zhao family of the Song Dynasty, the empire had almost no preferential treatment for the Li family of the Tang Dynasty.Although the Zhao family was destroyed, it still had two counties and fiefdoms, and there was no shortage of glory and wealth.

The Li family was imprisoned by the empire and had to farm and work by themselves even to eat.In addition, the empire also issued an edict that the descendants of the Li family were not allowed to leave this place for a hundred years.

Regarding the Ming Empire's treatment of the Li family, Wu Zetian did not express any sympathy.

Although she was not as smart as her mother Wu Zhao, she could still see clearly that the Ming Empire had obviously shown mercy for his sake by letting the Li family go.Otherwise, the Li family who fled north to the Han Empire would probably be wiped out.

(End of this chapter)