Meanwhile.
Player Huang Taiji made his preparations nervously.
Half a year later, he had assembled 60,000 elite troops.
These 60,000 men were all veteran soldiers.
For the first time ever, he used near-modern ideas to arm these 60,000 men.
Every day, he told them all kinds of stories and drilled them for a full half year.
He explained everything thoroughly, from the lowest ranks to the highest.
He told them that if they did not destroy those monsters, their children and grandchildren would suffer from them, and there would be no more good days ahead.
Destroy them, and the world would be theirs.
He had originally planned to join forces with the Ming Dynasty Emperor against this monster.
But the spies he had planted within the Ming Dynasty informed him that the Ming Dynasty Emperor was bestowing grand titles upon the monster.
He immediately cursed, "That fool is not worth planning with. This monster will surely destroy the world."
After his anger subsided, he found it understandable.
Because in its final years, Great Ming had been just like this, unable to distinguish priorities.
Even though Jiangnan remained intact and still possessed vast tax revenues and grain supplies, they could not even establish a century-long Northern and Southern Dynasties.
It was because they still regarded the already-defeated Bandits as their greatest enemy.
They had yet to realize that Manchu Qing had become their foremost enemy, yet they still dreamed of suppressing the bandits after defeating the barbarians. How ridiculous.
Later, they even fought over the imperial line of succession.
The Donglin Party opposed Prince Fu, even though Prince Fu's branch was clearly the one closest to the imperial succession.
They simply could not distinguish what mattered most.
But to him now, this inability to distinguish priorities had brought severe consequences.
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