Please call me Your Majesty!

Chapter 165 For Huan Yi, this is nothing more than a simulator for vying for favor!
It can be said that this time Chu Shizhao took the longest time to unify the country.

But it is also the one with the highest gold content.

In this simulation, Chu Shizhao did not have any battles worth mentioning. In the simulation events, many places could only be recorded as what kind of war occurred in a certain place in a certain year and month.

There is no description or elaboration of the various shocking wars that occurred previously.

This is not because Chu Shizhao did not fight well enough, but rather that a good warrior does not have great achievements. Each of these battles seems unimportant, but in fact they are all very important.

The main difference is that the reason why those classic battles are classics is that Chu Shizhao was able to seize opportunities by taking advantage of various opportunities despite being at a numerical disadvantage.

But this time, Chu Shizhao had no chance to seize on the front battlefield.

The opponent did not give any major loopholes.

It can even be said that every opportunity Chu Shizhao seized was a forced situation for the Mongolian royal court, a special situation outside the other party's ruling area.

If someone else came, it would be almost impossible to win.

Chu Shizhao made the most accurate judgment at every step, which is why he achieved such outstanding military achievements.

During the Datong Incident, Chu Shizhao did not stand by and watch, but took advantage of the opportunity that the Mongolian royal court was temporarily unable to stop Dajing from crossing the river, sneaked across the river, and formed a pincer attack with the generals of the Great Zhou who had also rebelled against Datong. The two cooperated with each other, allowing the troops of the Dajing Dynasty to have a foothold in the north.

This is something the Southern Ming court did not do.

At the critical juncture when the Qing Dynasty entered the Central Plains, the local resistance to the Jurchens was extremely fierce, and rebellions continued in various parts of the north. However, under such circumstances, the Southern Ming Dynasty watched these opportunities slip away and continued to engage in party struggles and internal strife, causing the best opportunity to recover the country to pass by.

Chu Shizhao was not as hesitant as Nan Ming, nor did he sit idly by and watch the fire.

Going to the theater?

When all the patriotic generals of the Great Zhou Dynasty are dead, when you cross the river again, you will have to face a Mongolian royal court without any worries.

Chu Shizhao attacked at a time when the Mongols were caught in a dilemma.

Theoretically, the Mongolian royal court had no room for error in this matter. They had suppressed the rebellion very quickly, but they could not withstand Chu Shizhao's swift and decisive measures.

The tactics that Chu Shizhao adopted next blocked the Mongols' flat-out tactics.

Chu Shizhao knew very well how the Mongols rose during the establishment of the Yuan Dynasty.

They made their fortunes through wars by constantly conquering other countries, seizing their technology, population, and culture, and then, after integration, using these newly incorporated groups to form new legions to conquer other countries.

Chu Shizhao blocked the Mongolian royal court's offensive route towards the Central Plains.

As the cavalry force had not yet taken shape, Chu Shizhao was not in a hurry to attack, because Chu Shizhao was well aware of the Mongols' lack of siege methods.

The Southern Song Dynasty resisted the Mongols for 46 years, and it was clear that the Mongolian army was lacking in siege methods.

Until you have the ability, don't fight recklessly.

Thunderbolts strengthened Chu Shizhao's defensive strength and limited the combat effectiveness of the Mongolian cavalry.

Since you are good at field combat, Chu Shizhao will not fight you in field combat, but will fight a protracted war and a tug-of-war with you.

As long as Mongolia cannot trigger the snowball effect, cannot achieve a smooth advance, and cannot obtain all kinds of siege technology from the Dajing Dynasty, the Mongolian royal court will not be able to become the Yuan Dynasty in history and advance all the way.

After all, in this era, there is no such thing as a tonic pill called Jin Guo.

What the Mongols devoured was just a rotten country, the Great Zhou Dynasty that had been destroyed countless times by local warlords.

The improvement of the Dajing Dynasty in all aspects began after Chu Shizhao established the capital. Before Chu Shizhao established Dajing, the Dazhou Dynasty did not have such a thing as the thunderous bomb.

After a long period of accumulation, Chu Shizhao finally laid the foundation for his own cavalry and gradually gained the ability to counterattack the enemy.

Temujin's westward expedition dispersed their strength in the north of the Central Plains, and Chu Shizhao seized this opportunity.

All these actions seemed to be giving the Mongolian royal court too great an opportunity, but in fact the Mongolian royal court was still a feudal military power, and they needed a large number of wars to make up for the lack of their main strength.

As an imperial court, the Mongolian royal court was weak in all aspects of development, and only had military strength. Such a country with serious lack of productivity would definitely not be a match for Chu Shizhao if it continued to develop. Even taxation had to rely on the tax farming system to reduce complicated steps. Knowing that the opponent's strength was increasing step by step while its own strength was constantly weakening, Temujin's only option was to conquer the other countries in the west and replenish armaments.

War is a continuation of politics.

It was obvious that the Mongol Yuan Dynasty's foothold was unstable. Except for its slightly superior military strength, it was completely left behind by Chu Shizhao in other aspects and was eventually exhausted.

But even so, Chu Shizhao still needed long-term operations to win with great difficulty, which was enough to show how difficult the situation was.

Of course Li Fengning couldn't see the endless changes in it, but she could see Temujin's hard power.

Temujin, who was driven away by Chu Shizhao, conquered so many countries in the Western Regions. Isn't this a proof of his strength?
[In July of the 16th year of Shengwu, the former ministers of the Great Zhou Dynasty asked Chu Shizhao for instructions, hoping to restore the Great Zhou and change the country's name again.]

[Chu Shizhao flatly rejected the requests of these former ministers.]

[From what Chu Shizhao saw, the Great Zhou Dynasty had been destroyed seven years before the establishment of the Great Jing Dynasty. More importantly, many of Chu Shizhao's political views were completely opposite to the Great Zhou Dynasty's governing ideas.]

[Especially during the last years of the Great Zhou Dynasty, Chu Shizhao devoted himself to the country, but was falsely accused of treason, which he absolutely could not accept.]

【“Since the country has been destroyed, why should we restore the Zhou rituals?”】

[“I rose up from the people, and established the Jing Dynasty because of the people. If I were to restore the Zhou Dynasty, where would I put the people?”]

[“It is hard to forget the days when we were in trouble and had difficulty in our journey, and the people who shed tears and relied on us.”]

[“Jing is not my country or my achievement. It is the country of all people in the world and the achievement of all people in the world. To abolish the country and rebuild the Great Zhou based on the achievement of one person is to disregard the achievements of all people.”]

[In August of the sixteenth year of Shengwu, Chu Shizhao set up a monument to the people outside Chang'an, on which were engraved the names of those who had sacrificed their lives in the war.]

[In the same month, Chu Shizhao returned to Yingtian Prefecture. He regarded Chang'an as the second capital, and Yingtian Prefecture was the real capital of Dajing. ]

[In September of the sixteenth year of Shengwu, Chu Shizhao was well aware of the affairs of the world. They rose suddenly and fell suddenly. Therefore, he did not take pleasure in his own achievements, but devoted himself to making the people prosperous.]

【Knowing that "the prosperity of a country brings suffering to the people, and the decline of a country brings suffering to the people", Chu Shizhao appointed officials headed by Wen Yu and Huan Sheng and launched the Shengwu New Deal. 】

【Try your best to rectify the administration of officials to ease the ruling crisis.】

【Since the founding of Dajing, the country has been in a state of war for many years. The national system is very harsh and strict. Officials from all over the country govern the country by pursuing political achievements through the performance evaluation system. Their governance is harsh and the people under their rule are under great pressure.】

[Many officials, in order to achieve political achievements, did not hesitate to fabricate false cases, which gave Chu Shizhao a headache.]

The original intention of any policy is good, but changes will occur after being used for a long time.

The starting point of the performance evaluation system is to make officials work diligently and avoid the emergence of officials who are too relaxed and do not do their jobs.

However, if officials are too focused on performance and use the last-place elimination system, they will be forced to do things. Some places clearly have no cases, but no cases means no political achievements. According to the performance evaluation system, an official with no political achievements cannot be promoted and can only stay. Officials who are eager to make progress and want to have a place in the new country will try their best to create achievements.

What’s worse is that some people create political achievements through fraud.

For example, during the autumn harvest every year, suppose the grain output in Yangzhou is 10,000 dan. However, in order to achieve additional political achievements, the local officials reported to the court that Yangzhou’s autumn harvest this year had increased significantly, with a total grain output of 100,000 dan.

The value has increased tenfold, so where will the food come from?
It is impossible for the officials to pay for it themselves. They will find various reasons to make the people under them pay grain.

It is obvious that Chu Shizhao did not collect so much extra grain, but the officials under him exaggerated the amount of grain collected for the sake of political achievements because of the performance evaluation system, thus deceiving the people and deceiving the emperor at the court.

However, there is an information gap between the local and central governments, and it is impossible for Chu Shizhao to know everything and really understand the local grain production.

Any king faced with such a situation of increased grain production would feel that local officials were doing a good job. He did not expect that these officials would gain performance by exploiting the people.

If you encounter a few unruly kings, like Jiajing, they don't even care how much the people under them are exploited. They only care about whether the collected grain can enter the national treasury.

Zhang Juzheng's performance evaluation system did produce a batch of officials who truly served the country in the early years, but in the later years it evolved into a group of politicians who completely ignored human rights and pursued political achievements.

The credit belongs to you, the pot belongs to the emperor, and the suffering is borne by the people.

[In October of the 16th year of Shengwu, Chu Shizhao went to various places incognito. Soon after, Chu Shizhao abolished the system of official examinations. In the same year, Chu Shizhao implemented the policy of changing the natives to officials and pacifying the barbarians in the south.]

[In November of the 16th year of Shengwu, Lan Shu, who was the general in Yunnan, was displeased because Nanyue often invaded the border, so he sent troops to attack Nanyue without receiving military orders.]

[In December of the 16th year of Shengwu, Lan Shu conquered Henei County and recovered Jiaozhi, reporting his achievements to the court.]

[Chu Shizhao was helpless about Lan Shu's self-willed behavior, but this time, Chu Shizhao did not reward Lan Shu. If every general in the Dajing Dynasty followed Lan Shu's way to gain military merit, then the generals in various parts of the Dajing Dynasty would learn from Lan Shu and start wars everywhere.]

[In the 17th year of Shengwu, the shipping industry of the Dajing Dynasty had made significant progress. Soon, the Dajing Dynasty discovered the Yi Island and opened up a sea route to Japan. ]

[In March of the seventeenth year of Shengwu, Chu Chengwei had lived in a time of war since childhood and was quite interested in marching and fighting. He often imagined himself fighting on the battlefield as a general, which made it difficult for Chu Chengwei to accept the teachings of the great scholar.]

[“How can a bunch of corrupt scholars who can only scratch the surface understand the ambitions of this East Palace!”]

[“My father brought order to the country in the midst of chaos and was as brave as ten thousand men. I should emulate him.”]

[In April of the seventeenth year of Shengwu, Chu Chengwei requested that his father, the Emperor, dispatch him to the north to fight against the fleeing Mongol Yuan Dynasty court in Mobei, so as to glorify the great Jingwu virtue.]

[In May of the seventeenth year of Shengwu, Chu Shizhao had no choice but to personally teach this unusual legitimate son.]

[In June of the seventeenth year of Shengwu, Chu Shizhao was very contemptuous of the emperor's tactics. To Chu Chengwei, he was more concerned about the principles that a person should know.]

[But this does not mean that Chu Shizhao wants to teach Chu Chengwei to be a nerd who only knows about benevolence, righteousness and morality. Instead, he wants to maintain his offensiveness while also having a heart of awe for the people.]

[This is the sincerity that a son of the rebel army should have. ]

[In July of the 17th year of Shengwu, due to Chu Shizhao's beneficial governance and active promotion of trade, coupled with the increasingly prosperous and peaceful situation, the economy of the Dajing Dynasty developed rapidly, and a paper currency based on credibility emerged among merchants. In order to make it official, Chu Shizhao cancelled these paper currencies and launched an official currency called "Jiaozi". ]

[In August of the seventeenth year of Shengwu, Chu Shizhao worked hard to govern the country. However, after years of fighting in the south and the north, he had already fallen ill but could not sleep day and night. He worked hard on government affairs and benefited the people's livelihood. He suddenly passed away in the middle of the night in early September.]

[When the news of Chu Shizhao's death spread throughout the world, the people of the world wailed as if they had lost their parents. This was because Chu Shizhao was kind, respectful, frugal, and naturally loyal, forgiving, and sincere. This is why thousands of people missed him so much and were reluctant to let him go.]

[When the Crown Prince Chu Chengwei of the Eastern Palace saw with his own eyes the people of Yingtian Prefecture wearing mourning clothes and wailing all over the city because of the death of their father, he was so shocked that he could not express it in words.]

[In addition to being overwhelmed with grief, Chu Chengwei also determined to become a sage king that all the people in the world would believe in. ]

[Since Chu Shizhao lived a simple life and was not interested in women, he only had one legitimate son, Chu Chengwei, which made it natural for Chu Chengwei to succeed to the throne.]

Due to the great pressure in Chu Shizhao's simulation this time, he did not consider expanding his harem. Moreover, he had been looking for the wife he had simulated previously and had not much interest in other people.

Unfortunately, among the many pieces of information, Li Fengning died in the war and his whereabouts are unknown. Huan Yi and Huan Jie were also missing after the Liangzhou Rebellion. Yin Meiyu, the only one whose whereabouts were known, had just been taken into the harem.

Coincidentally, Chu Shizhao thought of the Qin Emperor, Han Wu, Tang Emperor, Song Emperor and Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty.

Five great emperors could not even find a crown prince.

Fusu committed suicide because he believed in a will. Emperor Wu of Han killed Crown Prince Liu Ju by causing the witchcraft disaster. Li Shimin's son Li Chengqian learned from his father and also wanted to create path dependence. He attempted a rebellion in the Xuanwu Gate Incident. Emperor Taizu of Song was even more of a heavyweight who was succeeded by his own brother. Zhu Yuanzhang, the only one who could be the crown prince, lived longer than Zhu Biao, who died of illness.

None of the five people were able to collect a single prince fragment.

According to Chu Shizhao's previous simulations, he had a large harem and the factional fighting among his sons was extremely fierce. He and Li Fengning's son could be called the king of civil war.

Therefore, the issue of succession gave Chu Shizhao a headache.

Among these wives, Yin Meiyu is the least troublesome. She is not too obsessed with the throne, and the son she taught is very sensible and does not fight or compete with others.

What Chu Shizhao fears most now is the fight for the throne.

Because in reality, Chu Shizhao would not easily give up any of his wives, which would lead to the birth of the inheritance method of raising Gu, and a meat grinder battlefield where five dragons compete for the throne.

Therefore, Chu Shizhao’s attitude is that no matter whether it is simulation or reality, he will let his wife’s son succeed to the throne, and he does not want to continue raising Gu.

It is worth mentioning that in this simulation, after the elite troops of the Jinyang Li family were wiped out, Li Fengning felt that there was no meaning in the simulation and no chance of competing for hegemony, so he found an opportunity to jump off a cliff and end his life.

This approach is to avoid falling into the situation of the Five Barbarians' Invasion, and Li Fengning does not want to lose his innocence inexplicably in such a world.

Chu Shizhao is her original wife, so he will be her original wife for life. There is no possibility for anyone else.

Huan Yi's trend was similar to Li Fengning's, he also ended his life on his own, and Huan Yi only wanted to take down Chu Shizhao at this stage.

But who could have thought that Chu Shizhao could turn the tables in such a situation, making Huan Yi, who had committed suicide in vain, very angry. For her, vying for favor was the core of the simulation.

This girl named Jiang Youzhen became famous for no apparent reason, simply because she had no competitors.

If Huan Yi was by Chu Shizhao's side, she would let other women know what the dignity of a queen is and what means of vying for favor are.

Huan Yi was furious that such a naive person could win.

My man!
mine! ! !

No! ! ! ! ! !

She would severely restrict these questionable women from getting close to Chu Shizhao.

Including Li Fengning.

Get out of my way!

(End of this chapter)