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Chapter 35 There’s something wrong with you… (please follow up)
into the night.

Ding Xiu lay on the bed and subconsciously called up the character interface.

Name: Ding Xiu

Life: 9/9
Potential development degree: 9.1%
Current plane: Xiuchundao world
World Progress: 10%
Compared with before, the potential development degree has inexplicably increased by 0.1%, and the world progress has increased by 5%.

This progress was actually lower than Ding Xiu's expectations, and it also strengthened his determination to rebel.

According to the current progress, I am afraid that even if he becomes the commander of the Jin Yiwei, it will be useless and he will not be able to make progress at all.

Then, if you don’t do one thing and don’t stop doing the other, you will completely subvert the world.

If nothing unexpected happens, King Li Chuang will break through the capital in a dozen years, Emperor Chongzhen will hang himself on Meishan Mountain, the Qing army will enter the pass, the country will change hands, and the Ming Dynasty will officially declare its demise.

On the surface, the Ming Dynasty died at the hands of Emperor Chongzhen, but in fact it was because the Ming Dynasty was deeply ill, terminally ill, and exhausted.

Of course, Emperor Chongzhen also had a great responsibility.He is not a faint king, but he also wants to work hard to revive the Ming Dynasty.

Unfortunately, his personality is headstrong, arbitrary, unable to assess the situation, and he has no grasp of the world's situation.

As soon as he came to the throne, he vigorously rectified the eunuch party, which eventually led to the dominance of the civil servant group represented by the Donglin Party, which accelerated the collapse of the Ming Dynasty.

So Ding Xiu's idea was that since he couldn't save it, he might as well change the situation.

Having traveled to this world somehow, whether it was for the sake of improving world progress or for his personal psychology, Ding Xiu was unwilling to watch history repeat itself and give this great country to the Braided Chao.

Rebellion seems to be a very dangerous thing.

But in Ding Xiu's opinion, a group of mud-legged men who had no formal training at all and could not even distinguish the military orders could break through the capital. It is conceivable how corrupt the Ming Dynasty was.

It's just a paper tiger.

But he has many advantages.

The reason why Ding Xiu wants to hold on to Ding Baiying is firstly the relationship between master and disciple, and secondly, Ding Baiying is a descendant of the Qi family sword, and his father was once a general in the Qi family army and has a high prestige.

The Qi Family Army was seemingly wiped out, but it left behind many orphans. There were many descendants of the Qi Family Army like Ding Baiying among the border troops along the coast in the southeast and south of the Yangtze River.

In addition, there are some scattered among militia groups, military households, field soldiers... and so on.

These orphans of the Qi family army are a ready-made force. If they raise their arms and call for help, the people along the coast who have suffered from officials and Japanese pirates will definitely respond to their calls.

Of course, Ding Xiu's advantages go far beyond these. After all, he is a time traveler and has ideas far beyond the current world.

He is not an expert in making steel, but at least he knows some basic principles. Then he can find a group of skilled craftsmen to try and make high-strength alloys for forging weapons.

Also, the Qi Jiajun of that year fully inherited the Ming Dynasty’s firearms technology and carried it forward.

Such as the Tiger Crouching Cannon.

The Tiger Crouching Cannon can be called the "ancestor" of light mortars. The gun body is only two feet long and weighs more than 30 kilograms. It can be easily carried by one person.

Although its power is far less powerful than the Hongyi cannon, it is lighter and more maneuverable, and its lethality at close range is still exaggerated.

Back then, the Qi Army used the Crouching Tiger Cannon to show off their skills, beating the Japanese pirates to a pulp and making them frightened.

Such a lightweight artillery would be a waste if not used against cavalry.

In addition to the above, there is another extremely important factor that makes Ding Xiu full of confidence.

Why were the Jurchens able to march straight in and capture the Ming Dynasty?

It is no exaggeration to say that before entering the customs, the Jurchens did not even understand textiles and metal smelting, and they lived a completely wandering and relatively primitive predatory life.

They don't understand etiquette, integrity, kindness, benevolence, justice and morality at all.

They only believe in one word: grab!

Seizing territory, seizing money, seizing food, seizing women, seizing slaves, seizing sheep...

Without sufficient supplies, why launch a large-scale war?
Let’s start with the world-famous Shanxi merchants.It has to be said that Shanxi merchants made great contributions to promoting the Ming Dynasty's economy.

However, there is also a small group of people who blindly make money without conscience.

At that time, the Ming Dynasty and the Hou Jin Dynasty were already on a par with each other. Not to mention the humiliation of Jingkang brought by the Jin people to the Song Dynasty, the current Hou Jin Dynasty was equally ambitious and massacred many Ming soldiers and civilians.

The laws of the Ming Dynasty strictly prohibited the trade of grain, ironware, salt, gunpowder and other contraband items with Houjin.

After all, these are strategic materials. What is the difference between trading strategic materials with the other party and handing the other party a knife?
As a result, some black businessmen continued to smuggle strategic materials into Houjin in order to make huge profits, regardless of court laws and conscience.

When Hou Jin was short of money, he even generously lent a huge amount of money to Huang Taiji, just because Huang Taiji promised to give them high interest.

Later, when the Qing army entered the customs, the regent Dorgun held a banquet in the Forbidden City, summoned the "outstanding representatives" of these black merchants, and named them imperial merchants.

These are the eight famous imperial merchants of the Braid Dynasty: "Fan, Wang, Jin, Wang, Liang, Tian, ​​Zhai, and Huang".

The reason why they became prosperous was entirely based on betraying the interests of Ming Dynasty.

Of course, they knew it well, and for fear of being reviled by the people in the world, they declined Duolgun's offer of official titles and honors, and only accepted the canonization of Huangshang.

Ding Xiu joined Jinyiwei partly because he wanted to use his identity as Jinyiwei to deal with these unscrupulous black businessmen.

By the way, you can also get a lot of funds for the rebellion.

On the other side, Ding Baiying tossed and turned, sleepless for a long time.

First, what Ding Xiu said about rebellion made her feel uneasy.

Although she secretly assisted King Xin with her senior brother, the essence of which was similar to rebellion, but in general it was still a battle of royal blood.

However, the concept of rebellion that Ding Xiu refers to is completely different. It is a complete change of dynasty and a change of ownership.

Secondly, she thought about it carefully and found that since Ding Xiu rescued her, something was wrong with her. She had a sneaky look in her eyes and wanted to massage her at every turn...

Isn’t this kid interested in me?

No, no, no, how could I have such ridiculous thoughts?Don't think, don't think, don't think... Ding Baiying kept hypnotizing herself, her heart was like a pool of wrinkled spring water.

The next morning.

Ding Baiying yawned and walked out of the room.

"Eh? Master, why...didn't you sleep well last night? Why do you still have dark circles under your eyes?"

"Nonsense!" Ding Baiying glared at Ding Xiu, then hurriedly turned around and returned to the room.

After eating breakfast, Ding Xiu just came to the Yamen in a hurry.

As soon as they arrived, a guard in uniform came forward and said, "Master General Banner, Master Shen is looking for you."

"understood."

Ding Xiu responded and then went to find Shen Lian.

"Brother Shen, is there anything important?"

Shen Lian nodded, walked to the door, looked at it, and then closed the door.

"Brother Ding, I finally found an important clue..."

Upon hearing this, Ding Xiu couldn't help but feel happy and asked in a low voice: "What clue?"

"About General Li Yongfang..."

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