Simulates history, but Chongzhen is the Divine Emperor at the beginning

Chapter 296 The Mongol Embroidered Uniform Guard!
As the saying goes, "You may plant flowers with care, but they may not bloom; you may plant willows without intention, and they may thrive..." Just when you were still diligently training these fallen members of the Wanyan royal family, hoping to transform their arrogant attitude into the elite guards you needed, an unexpected incident occurred...

One day, a Mongolian slave you had just rescued nervously approached you and cautiously told you that he seemed to have mastered the tyrannical power you had requested...

【You: Huh?】

[Your first reaction is disbelief! After all, based on the information you currently possess, only the Wanyan royal family should be able to withstand this extraordinary divine power without losing their minds; others would lose their sanity at the slightest touch… Therefore, theoretically speaking, this Mongol slave could not possibly have cultivated the power of the Void-Breaking Divine Force!]

Furthermore, you clearly remember that you didn't bestow any divine power seeds upon these Mongols... Without even the seeds, how did he cultivate them?

However, as the Mongol slave cautiously revealed the golden light in his palm and recounted the whole story, your doubts gradually subsided, and your carefully laid plans began to crumble...

[First, there's the issue of the source of his divine power: it doesn't come directly from you, but from the Wanyan clan members who are currently receiving your ideological training!]

The reason was that although these Wanyan disciples didn't really agree with your class revenge ideology, you had given them a death order: failure to complete the task would mean death... Therefore, they had no choice but to grit their teeth and spin the top, causing the unfortunate Mongol nobles to scream in agony...

However, this forced spinning of the top was completely incompatible with the mechanism of generating tyrannical divine power. They spun it left and right, sweating profusely, but still achieved nothing.

Based on this, people can't help but question you: Can this method really work? Could it be that General Zhou's theory is flawed...?

Driven by this skeptical mindset, some members of the Wanyan clan secretly conducted experiments: they allocated a small portion of their divine power seed and secretly recruited several Mongol slaves as test subjects, wanting to test whether this logic of revenge was truly effective...

[And the result was that this test actually worked: the Mongol slaves who were tested, having just received divine power and hearing that they could take revenge on their masters, became instantly excited. They didn't even bother with their brass belts and leather straps, grabbing their own horsewhips and starting to lash the Mongol masters who had oppressed them for so long!]

Ultimately, because the divine power did indeed increase, the Wanyan clan's "scientists" were finally able to continue drawing blood from the Mongol nobles, hoping to complete the general's mission as soon as possible... But to their surprise, this small experiment was about to cause a huge upheaval in your hands, completely shaking your established plans...

"Could it be that Mongols could also serve as Imperial Guards?"

Upon hearing this unexpected news, you couldn't help but scratch your head, then suddenly it dawned on you!

[That's right! The Mongols weren't Jin people; they weren't corrupted by the Jin emperor's chaos, and therefore remained mortals from the beginning... And it was precisely because they were mortals that they neither incited any mutations in the Jin people nor were they subjected to Wanyan Wuzhu's mental control.]

During the more than one hundred years of the Mongol-Jin Wars, the Mongols and the Jin Dynasty fought each other to a standstill. If it weren't for Wanyan Wuzhu forcibly consolidating the Jin Dynasty's manpower and resources and committing them to the battlefield, the Mongols might have completely crushed the Jin Dynasty in an easy mode...

From these points, it's clear that if you wanted to build a Jinyiwei (Imperial Guard), the Mongols were undoubtedly a better source of soldiers than the picky and demanding descendants of the Wanyan clan!

[If you can conquer Mongolia and subdue all the Mongolian herders, you will gain hundreds of thousands of reserve soldiers for the Imperial Guards, and then unleash your tyrannical power across the grasslands...]

At that time, this place will no longer be just the Jin and Song dynasties, two "divine emperor kingdoms" ruling across the river, a kind of replica of the Northern and Southern Dynasties. Instead, it will directly upgrade to a replica of the "Three Kingdoms," with the Mongol, Jin, and Song empires competing on the same stage, and the three divine emperors sitting on equal footing!

[And with the hundreds of thousands of mighty cavalrymen given to you by the Mongols, you could easily breach the Great Wall, annihilate a million Jin soldiers, and eventually conquer the Central Plains, establishing a new "Great Yuan Empire"...]

Thinking about it this way, you suddenly feel a surge of excitement: If you could really subdue the Mongols and bring them under your control, why bother training the Wanyan clan? Compared to the Mongol cavalry supported by their tyrannical divine power, the stubborn and unruly Wanyan clan is utterly weak...

You suddenly have a brilliant idea: "How about... I skip training the Jin soldiers and just take the Mongol route instead?"

"No way!"

Upon hearing this, the Prime Minister, who had been sitting cross-legged under the old, crooked-necked tree, shook his head and said, "This is a dead end!"

Why? There are two reasons. First, you have no foothold in Mongolia, so even if you take control, it will be difficult to educate the still backward Mongolians into advanced Jinyiwei (Imperial Guards) in a short period of time.

"A true Jinyiwei (Imperial Guard) must possess both tyrannical divine power and a strong sense of class consciousness. If they only possess the former but lack the latter, they are nothing more than killing machines. The more powerful they are, the more they will endanger the peace of the world..."

Hearing this, your passion suddenly turned cold: Yes, how could one possibly promote advanced ideas alone without long-term education? If we were to follow the Mongolian route, it would take at least several generations of effort to spread the class ideology of the Embroidered Uniform Guard...

"Secondly, it's because even if you spread it out, it won't be of any use..."

The Prime Minister sighed and then said, "Didn't you already try that in your previous life? Pure, violent divine power might destroy the Jin Dynasty, but it could never harm the Jin Emperor, much less Zhao Gou in the south."

"Therefore, if you choose the Mongolian route, the outcome will certainly not be better than in your previous life; what cannot be resolved will still remain unresolved..."

After listening to the Prime Minister's detailed analysis, the passion that had just been ignited within you has completely cooled down...

This means that although you unexpectedly discovered the crucial information that Mongols could also serve as Imperial Guards, the Jin Dynasty route is still something you cannot abandon... Therefore, you begin to rethink your future strategic plans.

"Since the simple Mongol route is not feasible, the training program for the Wanyan clan cannot be abandoned... Therefore, I should employ both routes: persisting in training the Jurchen Wanyan clan while also recruiting Mongol herdsmen as Imperial Guards."

"However, neither the Mongols nor the Jurchens were suited to maintain rule in the Central Plains after acquiring tyrannical divine power, because the Han Chinese in the Central Plains would be stimulated to undergo mutations, leading to chaos throughout the land..."

"Therefore, while utilizing the combined violent armed forces of the Mongols and Jurchens, I must also vigorously promote class ideology among the Han Chinese and Jin soldiers in the Central Plains, establishing a political foundation capable of effectively ruling the Central Plains, so as to rebuild a new Central Plains regime after overthrowing the Jin dynasty!"

[Thus, your future strategy was set: use the powerful Jinyiwei (Imperial Guards) formed by the Jurchens and Mongols as "external force" to directly attack the Jin ruling group and its elite henchmen; and use the vast majority of Han Chinese as "internal force" to shake up the Jin's ruling order. With mutual support from both inside and outside, you would jointly overthrow and replace the corrupt Jin dynasty!]

However, this seemingly perfect plan still has a fatal flaw: the Jin Dynasty can be overthrown in this way, but the Jin Emperor can't be killed in the same way, can he? It's not that you don't want to, but this thing simply can't be killed...

Besides, even if you solve the Jin problem, isn't there still an "illegitimate regime" and "foreign force" in Jiangnan?

[What will you use to defeat the Jin emperor in the north and the divine Zhao Gou in the south? If you don't eliminate these two, are you going to continue ruling from the south, dividing the country along the Yangtze River?]

These seemingly unsolvable problems are really giving you a headache...

However, for now, we can only take it one step at a time. No matter how difficult it is to deal with the two emperors of Jin and Song, you must first deal with the Jin dynasty!

So you began your operation...

【…】

[In the 219th year of the Shaoxing reign of the Song Dynasty, you began to cultivate the descendants of the Wanyan clan while simultaneously training the slaves from the Mongol tribes. Upon arriving at each Mongol tribe, you would first rescue the slaves, then capture the arrogant and domineering nobles and use them as fodder for the others to whip, thus accumulating divine power.]

[As time went on, the liberated Mongol slaves formed an increasingly powerful force under your command. Even though they were all extremely loyal to you, their growth was still unsettling... And among these uneasy people, the most uneasy was Brother Wanyan!]

Seeing the Mongols growing stronger under your command, their divine power increasing rapidly, while the Wanyan clan members were slow to develop their own divine power, the anxious Wanyan elder could no longer sit still...

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(End of this chapter)