Chapter 405: Later Jin prepares to establish a country, Goguryeo is ungrateful
"After the New Year, it would be safer for me to go to Qilu with Wan'er."
After everyone discussed it, Li Dingguo finally made the final decision and said, "Next, we will capture the entire Shandong region and cut off the Grand Canal. We cannot afford any mistakes."
"Our struggle with the Ming Dynasty is an internal struggle among the Han people. The war in the entire Jiangbei region should not be dragged on for too long. The sooner it ends, the better, so as to preserve the vitality of our Chinese people as much as possible and prevent the Tartars from taking advantage of us."
Li Dingguo has a clear understanding of this.
Since our strength is sufficient, it would be extremely unwise to engage in a tug-of-war with the Ming court, which would result in heavy losses for both sides.
Last year’s strategic layout has been completed, and this year we must quickly reap the fruits of victory.
"The commander-in-chief is right. This is how it should be."
Cao Yongxiang immediately agreed and said, "This year's attack on Qin will be more than enough with our Five Divine Beasts Corps and the Royal Guard Corps."
"The Taotie Corps and the Pixiu Corps led by General Cao Bianjiao and You Shilu do not need to participate. They can continue to attack everywhere on the northern grasslands with all their strength and try to wipe out the Tatar tribes near our border areas, so as to eliminate the worries of our Fuxing Army and expand our territory at the same time."
After breaking through to the sixth level, Cao Yongxiang's state of mind began to change. He seemed calm and confident, as well as full of energy.
In the plan that has just been agreed upon, the military has decided to expand each main combat corps to a size of 300,000 people as quickly as possible this year.
By fighting one battle after another with the enemy and building up a strong army as quickly as possible, we will be able to deal with the main force attacks of the Later Jin Tartars and the Mongolian Tartars by the end of this year.
Everyone guessed that it was an elite Tartar army of about five million people, the ultimate test for the Fuxing Army.
This is a decisive battle in which we can only win and not lose. No one, whether it is the Fuxing Army or the Tatars, can afford the consequences of failure.
No matter which side wins, it will completely lay the foundation for the future pattern of the East, and the loser will not have a chance to turn the tables.
The winner will pursue the loser relentlessly and will not give the enemy even the slightest chance to rise again.
"Then it's settled."
Li Dingguo nodded and agreed to everyone's proposal.
After everyone finalized their work arrangements for the new year, they dispersed.
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Liaodong, Shengjing City.
The imperial city, which took tens of thousands of Han craftsmen eleven years to carefully renovate, was now brightly lit.
In fact, this imperial city, which covers an area of more than ten miles in radius, was built eleven years ago by order of Nurhaci.
It was the third year after Emperor Tianqi ascended the throne, and the Later Jin clan had just risen.
In the second year after the construction of the imperial city began, after the tragic death of Nurhaci, Huang Taiji ordered another large-scale expansion.
This is enough to show Huang Taiji's ambition, which was revealed ten years ago, and he was full of confidence.
He had long believed that he would ascend the throne and had been working towards this goal.
Inside the Da Zheng Hall, Huang Taiji sat high up, looking down at the civil and military officials on his left and right with a sharp gaze.
Because of the huge threat posed by the Fuxing Army, Huang Taiji advanced the date of his ascension to the throne, originally scheduled for autumn, to February 2 of this year.
In three days, Huang Taiji will ascend the throne and establish the Qing Dynasty.
"Reporting to the Khan, all preparations for the founding ceremony have been completed. The only thing missing is the artifact to suppress the national destiny."
Fan Wencheng, the chief person in charge of the founding ceremony, stepped out to report.
Although his expression remained unchanged, he was actually very depressed.
He knew that the matter of the national treasure was a concern for Huang Taiji. If he spoke it out in public at this time, it would certainly not be well received and would easily arouse the anger of all the high-ranking generals of the Later Jin Dynasty present.
But isn’t there a solution?
If he didn't tell the truth, at the founding ceremony three days later, without the national treasure to carry the true dragon's luck, it would be even more difficult for him, Fan Wencheng, to do his job, and there was even a possibility that he would be used to vent anger.
"A sacred weapon to protect the country?"
Huang Taiji frowned when he heard this, and a look of annoyance flashed across his eyes. He said calmly, "Then I will use my life artifact, the Xuanyuan Water Control Flag, to temporarily carry the true dragon's luck."
“Although this cannot bring out the magic of national destiny, it won’t be a big problem in the short term.”
"When our founding war begins at the end of the year, the army will march west again and destroy Li Dingguo in one fell swoop. Why should we worry about not having a true national treasure to carry the country's destiny?"
Theoretically speaking, Huang Taiji's actions were inappropriate.
After all, innate artifacts are different from destiny artifacts, and there is a huge difference between the two.
Only by using the divine artifact of luck to carry the luck of the true dragon can the magic of national luck be brought into play and the loss of clan luck and national luck be suppressed.
However, using an innate divine artifact, even an innate top-grade divine artifact, cannot achieve this. It can only allow it to carry the country's destiny, but it is completely unable to suppress the continuous loss of national destiny and ethnic destiny.
In ancient myths and legends, the great sage Tongtian of the Jiejiao sect was defeated because he did not have a true magic weapon to suppress the fortune of the sect.
A mortal dynasty with good fortune, even if it does not need an innate fortune artifact to carry the true dragon fortune, it must still have an acquired fortune artifact.
Originally, the imperial seal that Huang Taiji obtained from Lin Danhan was a very good and top-grade acquired destiny artifact, which was enough to be used to suppress the national destiny after the founding of the Qing Dynasty.
Unfortunately, due to carelessness, it was snatched away from Huang Taiji by Li Dingguo, making Huang Taiji feel aggrieved and helpless. He can only use his own artifact, the Xuanyuan Water Controlling Flag, to temporarily replace the national artifact.
But even the Xuanyuan Water Controlling Flag, an innate top-grade artifact, cannot suppress the national destiny, let alone exert the various magical powers of the true dragon's destiny.
In this great world, all dynasties are dynasties of fortune, and they all need a fortune-telling artifact to suppress the national destiny.
Only in this way can one suppress the domestic territories and towns, resist natural disasters and man-made calamities, and even allow court officials to obtain the luck corresponding to their official positions, speed up their own cultivation, and monitor various situations in their jurisdictions.
The fortune of the Qiyun Dynasty has brought it many magical powers, which can only be experienced by being there and becoming a member of the dynasty.
This is also one of the main reasons why the country's fortune continued to slip away and natural and man-made disasters became increasingly severe after the Ming Dynasty's national treasure, the Haotian Tower, was stolen.
Otherwise, even though the Ming Dynasty was corrupt, those civil and military officials would not dare to act so recklessly and unscrupulously. The founding of the Qing Dynasty was the same as the Ming Dynasty. There was no real luck artifact to suppress the national destiny. No matter how you think about it, it was not a good time to establish a country.
But now Huang Taiji has great power, and although most of the people present have opinions, they dare not speak out.
The current Later Jin clan has experienced a series of misfortunes recently.
Perhaps it was because of destiny, but not long ago, with the help of Huang Taiji, Abahai successfully broke through to the early stage of level six, which greatly increased the power of the direct line controlled by Huang Taiji and suppressed all the dissatisfaction within the tribe.
Even Turg and Manggurtai could sense the stirring of their own Qi, and they might soon break through to the sixth level.
It has to be said that although the destiny was changing drastically, the Later Jin clan, which had gathered great fortune for an era, was ultimately favored by heaven.
If Li Dingguo knew about this, he would definitely become more vigilant again, and even sense some of the mysteries of the operation of the destiny of heaven and earth.
"This Huang Taiji actually has another divine weapon, and it is the Xuanyuan Water Control Flag from ancient mythology?"
Dorgon, who was the second from the lower left, was startled when he heard this. He secretly communicated with Dodo beside him using his telepathy and suddenly felt helpless.
He originally thought that Huang Taiji only had the imperial seal, an acquired artifact of the highest grade, that he had obtained from Ligdan Khan, but he did not expect that this fat man actually had an even more powerful innate artifact of the highest grade.
It has to be said that Huang Taiji had hidden it very well before, and only revealed his natal magic weapon now that he was about to establish his own country, in order to inspire and calm people's hearts.
"The Khan is wise!"...
Everyone at the scene was also surprised and delighted, and congratulated Huang Taiji in unison.
Those who were originally worried about the national treasure breathed a sigh of relief.
They were not ignorant people, they were at least strong men in the early stage of level five, with strong mental strength and great intelligence. It was impossible that they had not been to the library of the Houjin clan to read various books, so they naturally knew the conditions required to establish the Qiyun Dynasty.
It is feasible to use an innate top-grade artifact to temporarily carry the fortune of the clan and the country, and then find a real artifact of fortune as soon as possible to replace it.
Otherwise, even if the Later Jin clan had great fortune, they would not be able to withstand the continuous loss of national fortune in the long run.
This concerns the survival and development of the Later Jin clan and cannot be taken lightly.
"Sweat!"
At this time, Aobai, who had just broken through to the initial level of the sixth level, stood out from the crowd and reported to Huang Taiji, "The Black Dragon King has agreed to lead his tribe to come on the day of the founding of the country. After the ceremony of enthroning the national guardian beast, he will move into the Qianlong Pond and stay there to suppress the national destiny."
For this matter, Oboi made a special trip to Tianchi Lake in Changbai Mountain and returned in time early this morning.
"Great Khan, Wu Keshan has also agreed to represent the Khorchin tribe to attend the ceremony."
Yangguli also stepped out of the crowd and reported to Huang Taiji, "But Hassan and Hailanzhu went to Bui'erhai to hunt not long ago. We couldn't notify them, so they will miss our tribe's founding ceremony this time."
As Yangguli finished speaking, the faces of the people at the scene looked a little strange, but everyone remained silent.
Everyone knows that Hai Lanzhu, who is known as the most beautiful woman on the grassland, once swore to Changshengtian that she would marry the most powerful hero in the world in this life.
After Huang Taiji broke through to level six, he ambitiously invaded the Ming Dynasty, thinking that he would be able to return with a full load easily. However, he was repeatedly defeated by Li Dingguo's Fuxing Army and suffered heavy losses. Even Huang Taiji was defeated by Li Dingguo himself, and his artifact of destiny, the imperial seal, was taken away.
This greatly disappointed Hassan and Hailanzhu when they heard the news, and also made Huang Taiji basically lose his last chance to get Hailanzhu.
Huang Taiji, who was unwilling to give up, asked Yangguli to invite Hassan, Wu Keshan and Hailanzhu to attend the founding ceremony together. He might have wanted to use the power of the nine level six black dragons to intimidate Hailanzhu and Hassan and win the beauty as he wished.
Who would have thought that Hailanzhu had already anticipated this and found an excuse to avoid it in advance.
"Well, I see."
Huang Taiji was furious in his heart, but he remained calm on the surface and waved his hand to let Yangguli retreat.
But isn't this the bitter fruit of my own carelessness? It's too late to regret.
If the army had just ended its entry into the pass and he had paid enough attention to Li Dingguo, and had mobilized all the strength of the Later Jin clan, and had nine black dragons accompanying him, no matter how powerful Li Dingguo was, he would not be able to cause much trouble.
It was because he considered too much and made a mistake in his thinking that he missed a great opportunity to destroy Li Dingguo and the Fuxing Army, and instead his side ended up with almost complete annihilation!
After suffering such a terrible defeat at the hands of Li Dingguo, Huang Taiji would naturally no longer be the world's number one hero and warrior, and it was inevitable that he would not be liked by Hai Lanzhu.
"Great Khan, Goguryeo is very disrespectful to us and actually refused to send an envoy to attend our founding ceremony!"
At this time, Sunahai, a trusted general under Hauge, stepped forward and reported, "It's time to teach this shameless Goguryeo clan a lesson!"
Huang Taiji could not have imagined that the Goguryeo clan would be so arrogant and conceited that they simply disdained to participate in the founding ceremony of the Later Jin clan.
"That's unreasonable!"
Huang Taiji was already furious about Hai Lanzhu's affairs, and upon hearing this, he slammed the table in anger, "It just so happens that our Later Jin clan needs a large amount of money and supplies to make up for the losses in the last war. Since the Goguryeo clan is ungrateful, we will start with them after our Great Jin is established!"
"After returning from the expedition to the Goguryeo Peninsula, we will undoubtedly have sufficient money and food supplies. Whether we continue to recruit a group of Solon dead soldiers, or replenish money and food supplies so that we can march west again in winter and fight against the Renaissance Army for revenge, it will be a timely relief!"
He was disgusted by the arrogant Goguryeo people and made up his mind to teach them a lesson.
"Good! Great Khan is wise!"
"That's how it should be!"
"To deal with that mere Goguryeo, I, Manggurtai, will be the vanguard!"
"Just leave it to us two red flags. We will definitely plunder Goguryeo in one fell swoop!"
"No, no! It is still best for us two white flags to go. Our two white flags are now the most powerful and can fully take on the important task!"...
All the flag owners present were extremely excited and rushed to ask for orders.
Goguryeo is a piece of fat meat, having been passed down for more than ten thousand years. The noble families in the country possess huge amounts of money, grain and supplies. All of these flag owners want to make a fortune, so naturally they are clamoring not to be left behind.
The originally dull atmosphere suddenly became extremely lively.
(End of this chapter)
