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Chapter 154 The Great Jing Dynasty discovered gunpowder! I, Chu Shizhao, will make you sing and dance!
Failure is rebellion.

Success is revolution.

Before Zhu Yuanzhang became rich and successful, he was a beggar and a monk, but he was an illiterate monk.

If he succeeds, he will be the one.

If Chu Shizhao could not succeed, he would be the remnant of the Great Zhou Dynasty and he would still be unpopular.

Chu Shizhao was able to achieve success and rule the world. He was the founder of the Dajing Dynasty, the new dynasty and the new era.

Essentially, whether he restores his original name or not, there will be more or less positive and negative impacts, but whether it can be successful in the end depends on himself.

The difficulty for Chu Shizhao now lies in the fact that after losing the north, the output of war horses is very low, just like the Southern Song Dynasty. It is extremely difficult to fight back to the north because the military strength does not allow it.

On the other side, Wang Ningjun thought that the leader of the rebel army might be Chu Shizhao, but she was still shocked when the answer was revealed.

This kind of thing is just incredible.

He is a royal relative, naturally superior in status and identity. How did Chu Shizhao accept that he and ordinary people would overthrow the dynasty that should have belonged to him?
After the royal family of the Great Zhou Dynasty was wiped out, Chu Shizhao was the only legal heir. He was the only royal family member who could legally inherit the Great Zhou Dynasty.

He did not choose to continue the dynasty, but instead led the rebel army to overthrow his own ancestral business?
At that time, Wang Ningjun was not 100% sure that this person was Chu Shizhao, because Wang Ningjun could never have imagined that the person who dealt the final blow to the Great Zhou Dynasty could be the last surviving royal family of the Great Zhou Dynasty.

What was even more unexpected was that after Chu Shizhao had dealt the final blow to the Great Zhou Dynasty, he should have lived in anonymity for the rest of his life, but Chu Shizhao did not continue to live under a pseudonym.

In other words, not only did Chu Shizhao fail to gain any benefit from this identity, but he revealed his identity at a very bad time.

This only shows that Chu Shizhao doesn't care about his identity or his background at all.

He is just doing what he wants to do and doing what he wants to do. It doesn't matter who he is or what his identity is.

What is important is whether it can provide the people with a stable and prosperous life.

Moreover, although there was a short period of chaos after his identity was exposed, Chu Shizhao immediately stabilized the situation by relying on his many years of prestige and governing style.

This is prestige, this is credibility.

Being able to make the rebel army that overthrew the Great Zhou Dynasty believe in Chu Shizhao, the 'Son of the New Dynasty' who was once a member of the Great Zhou royal family, is not a kind of personal charm?

In addition, Wang Ningjun also discovered that Chu Shizhao had a characteristic in employing people, that is, he dared to employ anyone and was not afraid of the other party's ability and ambition.

It is this characteristic that has attracted many talented people around Chu Shizhao, and these talented people are willing to work hard for him.

Dou Li was born into an insurgent family, and like Wang Ningjun's father, he was a knight-errant who had committed a crime. Logically, he was a fugitive.

People like this who are rebellious and have a criminal record.

Would anyone else dare to use it?
But Chu Shizhao dared to use it!
This person cannot be understood with ordinary people's thinking. His behavior is logically contrary to logic, because everything he does is not in line with his personal interests. His starting points are all very strange, but the final outcome is to lead to one end, which is to allow the people to have a place to make a living and survive.

The reason why Wang Ningjun did not reject living in the era of Chu Shizhao's rule was that she was even willing to accept it.

That’s because Wang Ningjun had experienced an era when others ruled.

Li Jin unified the world, the Huns unified the world, Wang Shouyi unified the world, and some descendants of the Zhou royal family also unified the world.

But after they unified the world, did the lives of the people really improve?
not necessarily!

Even Wang Ningjun's father, Wang Shouyi, who should have been closest to the people in terms of position and identity, still felt a sense of alienation from the grassroots after becoming the emperor.

This kind of barrier cannot be broken by anything.

Because he became the Son of Heaven, the Son of Heaven above all others, he had an additional sacredness and an authority that could not be violated. He could not get too close to the people. Over time, his thinking would become different from that of ordinary people.

The world unified by Chu Shizhao was the best era for the people.

He suppressed the powerful and the wealthy, and oppressed the aristocratic families. Although these people did not gain any benefits under Chu Shizhao's rule, they were still able to survive. However, the status of the people, who originally had no living space and could only be constantly exploited by the rulers, was gradually improving.

The more simulations he performed, the more Wang Ningjun could appreciate the unique charm of Chu Shizhao. The more he experienced, the more he could feel the charm of Chu Shizhao.

The fact that so many people are willing to die for their friends and fight for Chu Shizhao's ideals is deeply related to Chu Shizhao himself.

However, what Wang Ningjun regrets is that the people in the simulation may not be very clear about Chu Shizhao's value.

Because Wang Ningjun's perspective is at the highest overall perspective, it gives her a high degree of recognition and allows her to analyze Chu Shizhao's value from different levels.

The people are different.

They can only judge the ability of the ruler based on how good their lives are and what outsiders say.

As long as they are instigated by someone who is a little more educated and powerful than them, they may do something that they will regret.

The will of the people is indeed the foundation of a king’s rule, but it is also the most mysterious and changeable special product.

It has to do with human nature.

When your life gradually gets better, you will only want to live a better life. When you live a better life, you also want to move to a better step. But when you can't get up, you will attribute the problem to outsiders.

The biggest problem of people is that they never look for problems in themselves.

Instead of promoting yourself, you should denigrate others.

When life was so hard, Chu Shizhao was able to provide food for the people. So Chu Shizhao was a god and a wise ruler.

When people's lives gradually got better and various entertainments became more available, but economic development stagnated and could not be further improved, those people who already had enough food would feel that Chu Shizhao was not capable enough and could not bring them a better life. But they never thought that without Chu Shizhao, they could not even have a hot meal.

The reason why Wang Ningjun thought so deeply was because in this simulation, Chu Shizhao's military strength improvement was far from as strong as before.

Therefore, we need to consider what would happen to Chu Shizhao after the war between the Five Barbarians and the Seven Kingdoms and Chu Shizhao, as well as the possibilities after the defeat.

If the people stabbed Chu Shizhao in the back because of his failure, then Wang Ningjun would think that these people deserved whatever happened afterwards.

Those who just surrendered their cities and wanted to seek refuge with foreign races because they thought life was getting hard, suffered the same fate.

Are they not getting enough to eat?

They just don't have the status they had before, where they could not only have enough food to eat but also bully the people and make more money.

Since he couldn't get this status from Chu Shizhao, he asked others for it back, thinking that he could enjoy power and authority by being a dog of foreigners.

I didn't expect that people really treat you like a dog.

Isn't this just cheap!
Wang Ningjun suddenly came to her senses. Shouldn't Chu Shizhao be her 'enemy'? Why is it that at this moment, she has been giving Chu Shizhao ideas? As both were members of the rebel army, their relationship was that of competitors, but Wang Ningjun actually admired Chu Shizhao.

The more similar the things you do, the more you know how difficult certain things are to do. But Chu Shizhao can do it. This is an extraordinary ability.

[In May of the second year of Shengwu, Chu Shizhao began to promote culture, and for a time, the Gongyang School of Confucianism and the Legalist thought began to spread gradually.]

Chu Shizhao embarked on a new operation.

The promotion of these two relatively radical cultural ideas was intended to avoid the anti-war sentiment from top to bottom that occurred during the Southern Song Dynasty.

Once Chu Shizhao develops a war-avoiding and war-weary mood, he can only defend and cannot take the initiative to attack.

The reason why the Southern Song Dynasty repeatedly failed in its northern expeditions was not only due to the incompetence of the monarch, but also because the rulers were not firm enough in their attitude towards the northern expedition and the lack of support from the people.

After all, the Northern Expedition requires a large amount of financial expenditure, and these expenses will eventually be passed on to ordinary people, thereby increasing taxes and burdens. The people are afraid of increased taxes and are not very enthusiastic about the Northern Expedition. In addition, during the Southern Song Dynasty, life was relatively prosperous and people had money, so they actually didn't want to fight.

War is no joke, it can really kill people.

You can survive, why fight!

The Southern Song Dynasty was able to launch the Northern Expedition, apart from the instigation of the pro-war factions, because the Northern Expedition was theoretically politically correct in the Southern Song Dynasty. Even if the emperor did not want to fight, he could not show it openly. The Jingkang Shame was right in front of him. Could you just say forget it, let's not fight anymore, let's not welcome back the two emperors, and let's not take back the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun that our ancestors had been talking about for generations?

This is called unfilial!

So nominally, the emperor of the Southern Song Dynasty had to march north at the will of the people, but during the expedition, the emperor did not want too many accidents to happen, and did not want to lose his power, so he often did things that hindered his progress. I don't know if they did it on purpose, or if they just didn't have the ability to do it.

But deeper down, this dynasty itself didn't really want to fight, and it fought too many times and often lost, so the people hated the Northern Expedition even more.

In order to avoid the emergence of war-weariness, Chu Shizhao had to promote ideology.

Emperor Wu of Han spent a lot of manpower, material resources and financial resources on the expedition against the Huns, and there was a lot of opposition from the people. However, Emperor Wu of Han was a powerful man. He should be the first emperor to discover the importance of public opinion.

And he was the first emperor to officially use public opinion to get things done.

He abolished all schools of thought and respected Confucianism alone, which was the most violent Gongyang School, and the Gongyang School advocated the concept of great unification and great revenge.

Let’s do our best!

What I advocate is revenge!

The Han Dynasty was attacked by the Huns for so many years. How did Emperor Wu of Han, Liu Che, stir up the people's anger against the Huns? He constantly promoted the Confucian Gongyang School and instilled the idea of ​​revenge.

The Huns bullied the people, should we take revenge?

Must report!
Must fight!
Have backbone!

The most terrifying thing about Emperor Wu of Han, Liu Che, is that he is a political machine who appears to be loyal and righteous on the surface, but is actually a very cold-blooded political machine at heart, and he knows how to manipulate people's hearts very well.

He knows how to make people empathize with his emotions.

His birth even seemed to exist for the purpose of fulfilling some historical mission.

It is impossible to deny the great achievements made by Liu Che, nor is it possible to deny Liu Che's abilities, but the Witchcraft and Poisoning Incident fully exposed Liu Che's inherent cruelty.

Chu Shizhao valued the Legalists and promoted the ideas of Gongyang School.

I just don’t want to follow the same path as the Southern Song Dynasty.

If this were to happen, the people below would undoubtedly be driven to become very radical, but Chu Shizhao had no choice.

There is the ability to fight, the ability to resist, and there is still a glimmer of hope.

If you don't dare to fight, or even don't want to fight, and just want to passively defend, then you will have to live in a corner all your life.

As a king, if you cannot conquer the world and unify the country, then you are not qualified and can only be said to be a fake dynasty.

[In June of the second year of Shengwu, the Mongols defeated Liangzhou, which was occupied by the Qiang people. The originally divided north gradually showed a trend of unification.]

[In July of the second year of Shengwu, the Mongols decided to march south to Dajing, and Chu Shizhao also swore to march north in Nanjing.]

[In August of the second year of Shengwu, under the influence of Gongyang Theory and Legalist philosophy, your people began to advocate the concept of Great Revenge, and the people were martial. When recruiting local warriors, their basic training value increased by 20 points, and their aggressiveness became stronger. At the same time, they would help others when they encountered injustice. Once your national system is unfair, the probability of rebellion and uprising is higher.]

[In September of the second year of Shengwu, Chu Shizhao's Qihuo Army, which had fought for many years, once again set out on the road to the north.]

[In October of the second year of Shengwu, the Qihuo Army and the Mongol Yuan Army met head-on. Both sides were newly-arrived armies of the new dynasty, with high morale and amazing combat power.]

[However, the Mongol cavalry was more mobile. During the war, the Qihuo Army was in a passive defensive state. But relying on military discipline and formations, the Qihuo Army could barely ensure that the front line was not broken up. However, it was too difficult to actively launch an attack.]

[After both sides suffered losses, the Qihuo Army stayed on the spot, and Han Gu, who issued this military order, explained the reason to Chu Shizhao, saying that the Northern Expedition was not going smoothly. If they blindly advanced, they would probably find it difficult to defeat the enemy. The best way now was to defend and counterattack, waiting for the Mongols to become too aggressive and actively attack into their encirclement, and then use military tactics to annihilate the enemy.]

[In November of the second year of Shengwu, Chu Shizhao decided to form his own cavalry. At the same time, among the fireworks of the Dajing Dynasty, Chu Shizhao accidentally discovered a new product - gunpowder.]

[In December of the second year of Shengwu, Chu Shizhao began to order craftsmen to focus on researching gunpowder, trying to improve the lethality of this new product.]

Chu Shizhao was so surprised when he saw the information about the discovery of gunpowder.

Later it was discovered that firecrackers existed during the Zhou Dynasty. If there were firecrackers, we could find gunpowder, and if we found gunpowder, we could continue to advance technology.

You have to know that gunpowder had already existed in the Tang Dynasty, but until the end of the Tang Dynasty, no genius discovered that gunpowder could be used in warfare.

The Song Dynasty was the first dynasty to develop gunpowder and explore the combat effectiveness of firearms, which later evolved in the hands of the Mongols.

That’s right, during the Mongolian rule, their manual productivity and technology were never low.

It was not until the Ming Dynasty that the development of gunpowder reached its peak. The Shenjinying was an army centered around firearms, which made the Mongols cry out in despair.

Only during the Qing Dynasty, they threw away their firearms and picked up bows and arrows. They were like intellectuals who degenerated into beasts. They could obviously use chopsticks to eat, but they insisted on using their hands.

Something that doesn't know how to use tools.

When Chu Shizhao saw that the Dajing Dynasty had found gunpowder, he immediately started a R&D department to develop it vigorously.

Once firearms are developed, the Northern Expedition will be just around the corner.

The opportunity to attack is right in front of you!
In the absence of cavalry, gunpowder actually greatly improved the combat effectiveness of Chu Shizhao's army.

Most importantly, when it comes to tactics related to firearms, Chu Shizhao is countless times ahead of others.

Originally he thought that since he had no cavalry, he would most likely be confined to a remote corner for the rest of his life. But now that he had found gunpowder, Chu Shizhao found that he seemed to be able to turn things around!
I, Chu Shizhao, will make you little brats sing and dance!
(End of this chapter)