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Chapter 151: Living on the state salary, and being a minister of Zhou in death, how could a general of Zhou flee at the sight of the enemy? Chu Shizhao's uprising!

[In September of the third year of Jiade, Yang Fang summoned all the forces near Chang'an who were loyal to the old bureaucrats of the Great Zhou Dynasty and launched an offensive against Ma Su'an stationed in Chang'an.]

[At this time, someone secretly told Yang Fang that some people knew about your uprising to save the country, and in order to seek a better future, some people planned to go to Chang'an to inform on you.]

[This forced Yang Fang to gather his forces ahead of time and launch a war against Ma Suan ahead of time.]

[On September 8, the third year of Jiade, Yang Fang's troops captured Tongguan. As expected, someone secretly informed Ma Suan, causing Yang Fang's sudden uprising to attract Ma Suan's attention. Ma Suan quickly gathered troops to suppress Yang Fang's army.]

[Yang Fang confronted Ma Suan's troops and killed An Tu, a general under Ma Suan's command.]

[On September 12, the third year of Jiade, Ma Su'an attacked the camp at night, but Yang Fang had been prepared. He set up defenses, made his own army rout, and lured the enemy into a trap, thus defeating Ma Su'an's surprise attack. However, Yang Fang's troops were short of supplies, and even though they had won many battles, they still had difficulty in capturing the city.]

[Ma Su'an originally wanted to wipe out Yang Fang's troops in one fell swoop, but he eventually listened to the advice of his advisers. After judging that Yang Fang lacked siege equipment and strength, he decided to defend Chang'an and deplete the morale of Yang Fang's troops.]

[On September 17, the third year of Jiade, Yang Fang failed to capture the city of Chang'an. He sent a secret letter to the people with lofty ideals in the city, hoping that someone could help him recapture Chang'an.]

[Late at night on the 18th, someone really did secretly engage in a battle with the defenders on the city wall, open the city gate, and escort Yang Fang's troops into the city.]

【Yang Fang saw this and thought it was an unprecedented opportunity for war, so he led his army to attack Chang'an. However, he did not expect that the aristocratic families in the city had already been wiped out by Ma Su'an, and most of those left were weak and spineless. They were willing to become Ma Su'an's followers. After receiving this secret letter, Yang Fang's old friend was captured.】

【Ma Suan used this secret letter to trick Yang Fang into entering the city to fight. In Chang'an, Ma Suan surrounded and attacked Yang Fang. Yang Fang was defeated by Ma Suan at the East Gate. However, in the critical moment, Yang Fang once again dispatched those soldiers who could fight and retreated to the West City, trying to lead them to the Imperial City, but Ma Suan defeated it again.】

[Yang Fang, who was on horseback, looked ahead at the imperial city in flames. He was filled with grief and shouted three times, "Chang'an - Chang'an - Chang'an -"]

[Just when Yang Fang was completely hopeless, the people of Chang'an who had stayed indoors gritted their teeth and covered the retreat of Yang Fang's troops.]

[Some people have recognized that Yang Fang was the general who lifted the siege of Chang'an that year. He fought alongside Chu Shizhao and was a descendant of the founding heroes who was restored to the title of Marquis of Changping.]

[When Chu Shizhao was framed, they did not stand up, which led to the incompetent emperor, the empress dowager's disorderly government, and the aristocratic families causing chaos in the world. In the end, they regretted their decision.]

[Yang Fang led his troops to fight against the enemy. Looking at the city gate that was just around the corner, he knew that this was his last chance to fight his way out. However, facing the only chance to leave the city, he hesitated for a moment and fought back again.]

[Because Yang Fang clearly knew what the people of Chang'an were doing, Ma Su'an knew it all. Given his character, he would definitely settle accounts with the people who helped them leave Chang'an afterwards.]

[“The Great Zhou has fallen, the country no longer exists. I will be a minister of the Zhou Dynasty even if I live on the state salary. How can I flee at the sight of the enemy?”]

[Yang Fang fought back to Chang'an and fought to his death. He defeated Ma Su'an in Chang'an. He attacked with three battalions and all his soldiers were killed. Ma Su'an wanted to surrender Yang Fang and surrounded him without killing him.]

[Yang Fang drew the sword from his waist, his long hair fluttering and falling on both ends of his armor. As his hair and temples became tangled, he stabbed the sword into his abdomen.]

[After Yang Fang died, Ma Su'an angrily mutilated his body and refused to allow him to be buried in peace. Most of the ministers who were forced to surrender were moved.]

[Fu Rong, the imperial physician, resolutely assassinated Ma Su'an, who had taken over the palace and was recuperating from his injuries. After the assassination attempt failed, he shouted: "Yang Fang is worthy of being General Zhou. Even if I die, I will still be a minister of the Great Zhou."]

[On September 20th, the third year of Jiade, Ma Su'an allowed his soldiers to plunder and kill the people of Chang'an in revenge for their previous assistance to Yang Fang. After the three massacres in Chang'an, the population of Chang'an dropped sharply.]

Chu Shizhao looked at the screen with a sad face.

This simulation was the one in which Chu Shizhao's direct line suffered the heaviest casualties.

In order to protect Chu Shizhao from escaping the coup d'état for the fight for imperial power, Dou Li covered his retreat in the imperial city, but unfortunately he was killed.

This is the loyalty of a knight-errant.

In the chaos, Chu Shizhao and Yang Fang were separated. He thought that something had happened to Yang Fang or that he had defected to someone else. However, he did not expect that Yang Fang had been accumulating strength outside Chang'an. Now the country was in danger, and he wanted to turn the tide and support the Zhou Dynasty with his own strength.

Yang Fang had made wrong judgments and lost battles, but he had never been cowardly. He fought countless battles under Chu Shizhao's command.

Dou Li died in battle, and Yang Fang died in battle.

In an instant, two of Chu Shizhao's generals were killed. Not to mention that Dou Li was in a state of growth, Yang Fang, with the help of the training card, had actually optimized his abilities and evolved comprehensively.

But even in this situation, the Five Barbarians' Invasion of China did not affect the overall situation.

At this moment, not to mention Chu Shizhao, he felt the situation was out of control.

Yin Meiyu, who had already fled to her hometown in Nanyang, was also looking at the simulated screen and fell into panic.

When Chu Shixu of the Eastern Palace launched a coup, Yin Meiyu and Chu Shizhao were also separated.

Under that circumstance, Yin Meiyu had no way of finding Chu Shizhao, so she disguised herself, smeared black mud on her face, took away some small amounts of silver and a dagger for self-defense, and fled the palace.

Relying on the experience accumulated from many simulations and deductions, Yin Meiyu returned to her hometown in Xinye, Nanyang.

However, just after returning to Nanyang, the governor here, after the fall of the Great Zhou Dynasty, took power for himself and ordered the powerful families under him to do his orders.

Ever since Yin Meiyu's grandfather Yin Shangxian was convicted by Emperor Yongjin, the Yin family's status in Xinye, Nanyang has plummeted.

The advantage was that Emperor Yongjin had no habit of implicating others, or he had no intention of really settling accounts with Yin Shangxian. Even though the Yin family had lost their status in the political arena, it was still a huge clan force.

This time, Yin Meiyu returned to her hometown to seek refuge with her own clan.

However, Yin's life was not easy either. Yin Shangxian was the minister who proposed to abolish the Jiedushi, so the Jiedushi of Nanyang naturally did not like Yin very much.

Emperor Yongjin convicted Yin Shangxian and his son and imprisoned them, and Yin Meiyu's greatest asset was gone.

She fled to her hometown in Nanyang, and only her fourth aunt Yin Hongli was willing to take her in.

However, Yin Meiyu did not have any extra thoughts. For her, life was lived one day at a time.

It’s enough to have a home.

Now Yin Meiyu had only one thought, and that was to find Chu Shizhao. Although Yin Meiyu had heard a lot of news, including that there was a war in Liangzhou and that after Chu Shizhao defected to Huan Jie, Huan Jie was defeated by a warlord named Han Zui who took away Liangzhou, but Yin Meiyu still felt that with Chu Shizhao's ability, it was impossible for him to disappear like this.

However, seeing that the Jinyang Li family was defeated, the Liangzhou Huan family fell, and even the general Yang Fang under Chu Shizhao was killed in the battle, Yin Meiyu finally felt the oppression of being on the verge of collapse.

As Yin Meiyu was the one who was farthest away from the battlefield, no matter how slow she was, she knew how terrible and destructive the negative effects of the Five Barbarians' Invasion of China were.

The person who faced the Five Barbarians' Invasion most directly was actually Li Fengning in Jinyang.

I thought that with my father Li Jin around, I would have opportunities to fight even when I encountered the most difficult situations. However, the facts proved that personal ability lost the initiative in the face of the general trend.

Although her father was a well-rounded golden general, the combat effectiveness and numbers of her soldiers could not keep up, and Li Jin also found it difficult to exert her own advantages.

With the enemy outnumbering us, the Jinyang Li family was trapped in a pincer attack, and the result was even worse than that of the Huan family. At least Huan Jie had not died in the battle, while Li Fengning's father Li Jin died on the battlefield. Li Fengning and his two younger brothers took the few remaining troops and fled south.

Datong was lost to the Huns, and the Huns and Ma Su'an broke through the defense line of Jinyang, and now Jinyang was also lost to the Huns.

Liangzhou was still in internal turmoil, with local warlords fighting for the ownership of the place. Chang'an and Fanyang were both in the hands of Ma Su'an. Looking at the Huns who were eyeing them covetously, it was obvious that their next opponent would be someone who would turn against Ma Su'an.

The situation in the entire north is in a state of disarray.

[In the fourth year of Jiade, Ma Su'an proclaimed himself emperor and named his country Yan, which officially declared the end of the Great Zhou Dynasty and the beginning of the Xin Dynasty era.]

【Ma Su'an changed the reign title to Yongkang.】

[Most of the military governors in the south did not recognize the new dynasty established by Ma Su'an. They continued to use the Jiade era name to express their disobedience to Ma Su'an's new dynasty.]

[In the fifth year of Jiade, Chu Shizhao went to join the White Sleeve Army in Haozhou.]

[This year, Chu Shizhao was twenty-six years old. ]

[After Chu Shizhao joined the White Sleeves Army, he fought bravely and was well versed in literature, so he was quickly given important positions in the White Sleeves Army in Haozhou.]

【Chu Shizhao changed his name to Chu Quanji and put forward many constructive suggestions in the White Sleeves Army. He put the people first and thought about how to improve the survival basis of the White Sleeves Army. After conquering the city and the stronghold, he stabilized the people's livelihood. Soon, Chu Shizhao's reputation spread among the White Sleeves Army.】

[The White Sleeves Army of Haozhou had a leader named Jiang Xing. He was born in a large local Jiang family in his early years, but he refused to obey the family's discipline and acted like a knight-errant. When he was middle-aged, he saw that the people were living in hardship and thought it was an opportunity to show his ambitions, so he gave away his savings of many years and raised an army under the name of White Sleeves.]

[He saw that Chu Shizhao was a talented person who could manage the White Sleeves Army in an orderly manner in a short period of time, convince people and win the love of the people, so he wanted to marry his daughter Jiang Youzhen to Chu Shizhao.]

【Chu Shizhao said that he already had a family, but was displaced in the chaotic times, and was unwilling to marry. This made Jiang Xing very regretful, but their relationship did not diminish, and Jiang Xing still valued Chu Shizhao. 】

[During a war, the soldiers of other White Sleeves Army leaders could not restrain their behavior. In the chaotic times, the ugliness of human nature was exposed. When attacking the city in the name of helping the people, some White Sleeves Army soldiers took down the city. Most of them behaved dissolutely, looting property everywhere, and robbing women from wealthy families to satisfy their selfish desires.]

Chu Shizhao dealt with these White Sleeves according to the law, killing them by military law and placing their heads at the city gates. This caused dissatisfaction among the other White Sleeves leaders, who found Jiang Xing and ordered him to hand over Chu Shizhao.

[Jiang Xing knew that Chu Shizhao had great talent and ambition, but he was alone and weak and could not protect Chu Shizhao, so he wrote a letter to persuade Chu Shizhao to leave early.]

[Chu Shizhao eventually realized that this White Sleeves Army was just a makeshift group, a group of thugs who used violence to satisfy their selfish desires and had no faith. After Jiang Xing informed him, he left in anger.]

【The departure of Chu Shizhao caused the leader of the White Sleeve Army to vent his anger on Jiang Xing.】

[Instigated by Deng Fu, another leader of the White Sleeve Army, they took advantage of the discussion to hold a banquet and captured Jiang Xing in the chaos, preparing to kill him.]

[Chu Shizhao had already stood up and left, but after hearing the news, he immediately found Jiang Xing's daughter Jiang Youzhen, hoping to call on Jiang Xing's followers to rescue him. Jiang Youzhen clearly knew that if she didn't save her father, she would probably have trouble protecting herself, so she immediately agreed to Chu Shizhao's request.]

[Chu Shizhao led his troops to rescue Jiang Xing and killed two White Sleeve Army leaders in one battle. From then on, Jiang Xing valued Chu Shizhao even more.]

【However, Chu Shizhao was determined to leave. 】

[“Today I am lending you soldiers to help you, just to repay you for your kindness. Unfortunately, the White Sleeves are a mixed bag, and they have no intention of saving the world. They are just bandits, how can they be called a righteous army?”]

[“Jiang Shuai, I’m leaving.”]

[“You accomplish your great cause, and I will save my people.”]

[In the sixth year of Jiade, Chu Shizhao left the White Sleeves Army. Jiang Xing was very sorry, but he knew that he could not keep Chu Shizhao. He also knew that if Chu Shizhao stayed, it would shake his position in the White Sleeves Army, so he let Chu Shizhao leave.]

[Thanks to his reputation as a doctor in the south for many years, and because he dealt with the rebels who had irregular military discipline and saved the people who were forced to leave the White Sleeves Army, Chu Shizhao has become a little famous in the south. ]

[In May of the sixth year of Jiade, Chu Shizhao recruited soldiers and used the most common yellow scarf as a symbol of rebellion. He decided to rise up to save the people and try to give the people in the chaos a place to live and work in peace.]

[After hearing the news, the people who had received Chu Shizhao's kindness came to him one after another to join him, so Chu Shizhao quickly recruited thousands of soldiers.]

[Wherever Chu Shizhao went, he used his medical skills to save the poor people who had no way to survive. Every time he conquered a place, he not only let his army open the government's granary to satisfy their appetite, but also let the local people share the rice bran. ]

[This allowed Chu Shizhao to quickly gain the support of a large number of people.]

[Because in this era of strict hierarchy and clear class divisions, Chu Shizhao, who can read and write, can treat patients, has a little knowledge of military books, and can share happiness with ordinary people, is rare. ]

[The people nowadays have been exploited to the point where they have no way to survive, and even having food is a problem. The rebels can only ensure their own lives, and they only rob food for themselves. It is very rare to see someone like Chu Shizhao who not only distributes the granaries to his rebels but also to the local people.]

[This allowed Chu Shizhao to gain the support of many people every time he conquered a city. In just a few months, Chu Shizhao had gathered an army of 20,000.]

【And Chu Shizhao named this uprising army the 'Begging Army'. 】

[In a short period of time, Chu Shizhao's Beggars' Army had become powerful, and its momentum far exceeded that of the White Sleeves Army. Those who had received favors from the White Sleeves Army also began to switch to Chu Shizhao's Beggars' Army.]

Chu Shizhao, looking at the picture, felt that Zhang Jue, who failed in the Yellow Turban Rebellion, was truly an extraordinary man.

A man who came from a prominent family, who could read and practice medicine, was willing to lead the people who were treated like cattle and horses to overthrow the corrupt court of the Eastern Han Dynasty.

As a vested interest, helping the people is already a remarkable act, even if there may be some hypocrisy or showmanship in it.

You have to know that in the Eastern Han Dynasty, the monopoly of knowledge was extremely serious. Ordinary people had difficulty reading books, let alone learning to read. The so-called poor families were actually declining scholars with a heritage of knowledge, and they were not from bad backgrounds at all.

A poor family is also a family.

Ordinary people are not even considered as the poor people. They are cattle and horses in the eyes of those in power, and they are fish and meat that can be eaten at will and leeks that can be cut at will by those in power.

Zhang Jue was literate and knowledgeable in medicine. He also used his family's wealth to help the people. In that era, how could he not be called a "sage".

Even though the final outcome of the Yellow Turban Rebellion was not satisfactory, even though the opposing aristocratic families even erased Zhang Jue's background and tried their best to discredit what Zhang Jue had done.

None of this can conceal the justice of the peasant uprising, even though the peasant uprising eventually turned into a major riot due to the lack of proper guidance.

But these are all uprisings carried out by a group of ordinary people who want to have a hot meal and survive.

And now, Chu Shizhao is going to complete the unfinished tasks of the peasant uprising and reach the limits of what could not be achieved.

There is so much value in this sentence: "Only kings, princes, generals and ministers are born with a special kind of blood."

It is materialized at this moment.

(End of this chapter)