Please call me Your Majesty!

Chapter 169: The value of Chu Shizhao and the tolerance brought by public security!
In the card pool of the Great Zhou Dynasty, the quality of the cards is uneven.

From what Chu Shizhao had seen and heard, Huan Sheng was not actually a very powerful character. After all, in Chu Shizhao's opinion, the group of counselors in the Cao Wei Group alone could beat up the counselors in the Great Zhou Dynasty card pool.

However, ability is often not the most important factor.

Loyalty is more important than ability at important moments.

Moreover, talent is not achieved overnight. Even a true genius needs to go through countless trials and tribulations to achieve what he has today.

Huan Sheng came up and reported the situation in the entire southeast direction.

First, he told Chu Shizhao the whole process of the uprising in detail, and said that Zhang Zhengjun was the main leader of the White Sleeves Army.

Huan Sheng followed a very standardized process to quell the rebellion, including the procedures for mobilizing troops, investigating the reasons for the rebellion of this group of insurgents, their main members, including the areas and number of rebels. Huan Sheng investigated all of these clearly.

A purple minister card should have the quality of a purple minister card.

The biggest difference between simulation and reality is that the information in the simulation is a large amount of fragmented information, which is the information gathered from countless intelligence organizations and countless people under Chu Shizhao.

In reality, if you want to integrate such detailed information, it depends entirely on the ability of the person in charge.

The White Sleeves Army, headed by Zhang Zhengjun, had six generals under his command. Their names were Zhang Ziyi, Zhu Jing, Gao Jiu, Lu Hetai, Gu Xuan, and Wang Lu.

The name used by Song Xun for his uprising in Kuaiji County was different from that of the White Sleeves Army. In name, he was responding to the White Sleeves Army, but in fact, he was not the same kind of rebel army as the White Sleeves Army.

It was equivalent to setting up an insurgent army under the name of the White Sleeves Army, which was completely under his command.

The main reason for the White Sleeves Army's uprising this time was said to be dissatisfaction with the court's policy of replacing rice with mulberry.

But this was just the fuse. If the rice crop was not replaced by mulberry, and there was still the Single Whip Law, these rebel armies would rebel against any policy issued by the imperial court.

Because even if there were no policies, the lives of the people in the Great Zhou Dynasty had already reached the point of desperation.

Whether the policies work or not, they can no longer ease the increasingly radical contradictions.

If the economy of the Great Zhou Dynasty was good, it would be fine. Everyone would have food to eat, and even if they were poor, they could still live.

The problem was that the economy of the Zhou Dynasty was not good. The land belonged to the landlords, who worked hard every day but still had no food to eat.

Chu Shizhao did come here to suppress the rebel army, but the old saying still applies: suppressing the rebel army cannot solve the fundamental problem.

The contradiction still exists.

"Your Highness, in my opinion, we should send troops to suppress the rebellion immediately." Huan Sheng saw Chu Shizhao in place in the mansion and felt that he had a backbone. He thought about it and proposed the only effective method now.

Huan Sheng's previous method of cutting off food supply was actually the best method. The problem was that the Song Xun uprising made more and more people see the opportunity to revolt, which led to the uprising spreading all over the south in a short period of time. The idea of ​​taking it step by step was completely ruined here.

Chu Shizhao had gone through countless simulations, and because he was decisive and extremely ruthless in the simulations, he became more sympathetic to the people at the bottom.

After all, Chu Shizhao was truly supported by these working people, and he knew exactly what these people wanted. But now, Chu Shizhao was asked to raise the butcher knife, which was something he was unwilling to do.

"But they were once the people of the Great Zhou." Chu Shizhao took a deep breath.

"But it's not like that now. They have picked up weapons, and they are soldiers, they are rioters." Huan Sheng didn't know why the Prince of Jin, who was always brave and decisive, had such an inappropriate sentimentality at this critical moment.

"Every sword they swing now is destroying the country and kingdom of the Great Zhou!"

If you asked Chu Shizhao to fight the Huns, the Mongols, and the bureaucrats and landlords, then Chu Shizhao would certainly not hesitate.

These people are different from ordinary people.

As the strong ones, they bully the weak, and the ordinary people, as the weaker party, have to resist. Chu Shizhao, as a strong one, follows in bullying the weaker ones, which is a violation of his beliefs.

"Your Highness, Prince Jin, I know what you are hesitating about." Huan Sheng said earnestly, "But these people who were once citizens of the Great Zhou are also destroying other people's homes."

"Does Your Highness think that these farmers have fled to other places and will pity the people who were once farmers like them?"

"Your Highness, it is ridiculous for you to judge others by the name of a saint."

"Human nature is evil. As long as the things they steal are not theirs, they will not feel that they have done anything wrong."

"If the peasants from these places come to Qingzhou, Your Highness doesn't think they will not steal the food of the people of Qingzhou, right?"

"Yes, they have suffered and worked hard. They were victims in the past, but they cannot abuse others just because they have been victims, and then show off by pretending that 'I had no choice'."

"People change." Huan Sheng said seriously, "Your Highness, what we should solve is to prevent future people from suffering the same hardships, rather than reflecting on what has already happened."

"From the moment they started the uprising and rebelled against the imperial court, they were a mob and a riotous army. They would do anything to survive."

"What you are doing now is protecting other people from being harmed by these mobs. Isn't this a just act?"

After Huan Sheng's talk, Chu Shizhao finally resolved a lot of the grudges in his heart.

"In my opinion, we should first surround these rebel troops led by the bandits, starve them for a few days, then store food outside the city and lure them out of the city to surrender." Chu Shizhao thought for a long time and made a plan.

Huan Sheng knew in his heart that Chu Shizhao still couldn't bear to use force against these people. With the elite Northern Army brought by Chu Shizhao, it would be easy to pacify these rebel troops.

This method of besieging the city without attacking and consuming the food and grass in the city was still Huan Sheng's previous strategy.

Since Chu Shizhao did not want to take action against these rioters, Huan Sheng, as his subject, did not have much to do.

Huan Sheng believed that Chu Shizhao would be so cruel as to take action only after seeing the ugliest faces of these rioters. Huan Sheng, who was born in Liangzhou, had seen too many rioters like this who killed their companions to protect their food.

Yingzhou City.

Zhang Zhengjun, who was wearing a white Taoist robe, looked at the rebel general beside him and asked in a low voice: "How much food is left in the army?"

Zhu Jing's face was gloomy, and he lowered his voice and said, "I'm afraid it will be less than three days."

"The government troops outside the city are surrounding us but not attacking us. They want to starve us to death." Zhang Zhengjun put his hands behind his back and said, "Tomorrow, I will lead the troops to break through."

"The army has no food and morale is low. I'm afraid it will be difficult to break out." Zhu Jing said with a grim expression.

When the uprising was just successful, Zhang Zhengjun led his rebel army to first open the granary in the city and then robbed the local gentry and powerful people.

The money and food were used for nourishment, and after a month of binge-like consumption, the food had long been eaten up.

Originally, Zhang Zhengjun wanted to curb the speed at which the rebels consumed food, but he was completely unable to control these starving rebels. What was worse was that it was very difficult for Zhang Zhengjun to occupy these places as bases and allow these rebels to resume production.

Many people thought that the food they had robbed from the landlords was enough for them to live on for a while. If they continued to farm, they would not have time to harvest the food before the government troops came to attack them. So they all pretended to wait for orders, but in fact, few people were really farming.

The poor morale that Zhu Jing mentioned did not mean that they did not have the courage to fight. It was that many people felt that the official army of the Great Zhou Dynasty would call for peace, and at that time they would just have to surrender and there was no need to fight to the death.

This is because I'm full and don't want to move.

"Do they think they can get away with killing people and rebelling?" Zhang Zhengjun has been educated and can read, so sometimes he really doesn't understand these people's thoughts.

"They heard that the one sent to quell the rebellion was Prince of Jin, Chu Shizhao." Zhu Jing said straightforwardly.

"The King of Jin has a memorial on public security that is well-known throughout the world. Everyone thinks that the King of Jin is fair and just, so they think there is nothing wrong with surrendering to him."

"Besides, the King of Jin just fought a bloody battle with the Xiongnu and defeated the King of Xiutu. With his abilities, it is difficult for us to fight him. There is no need to fight to the end. So..."

Zhu Jing didn't finish his words, but Zhang Zhengjun could tell that these rebels not only had no confidence in this battle, but they had no idea how to fight.

"Have they forgotten how they got through all these hard times?" Zhang Zhengjun found it hard to understand why these people's fighting spirit had suddenly fallen.

A tall man standing behind Zhu Jing shook his head slightly.

Just as his daughter Ningjun said, the uprising of the White Sleeves Army was like a mob and could not withstand a single blow.

After the beginning of the uprising, due to the dissatisfaction with the imperial court, the Taoist was unable to organize the entire rebel army to achieve their goals.

If His Royal Highness the Prince of Jin, who has come from afar, focuses on winning over the rebels, this rebel army will collapse in an instant.

And this is indeed too much of a burden for Zhang Zhengjun.

Although he had been educated and could read, he was just a Taoist. He took many things for granted and thought that those who followed him in the uprising should just follow him.

When you meet someone like Chu Shizhao who has already had prestige among the people, you immediately feel like you can’t compete with him.

The credibility of the Great Zhou Dynasty collapsed.

But Chu Shizhao's didn't collapse.

This is the tolerance that the public security advisory gives Chu Shizhao.

Because Chu Shizhao has said on behalf of the people everything they want to say and everything they want to criticize.

Wang Ruizhen's land case was also investigated by Chu Shizhao, which gave Chu Shizhao a strong grassroots base in the south.

If Zhang Zhengjun had not demonstrated superior leadership ability and had not thought about what to do next for the rebel army, he should have expected to encounter such a situation when a man of Chu Shizhao's reputation came to quell the rebellion.

Actually, this has nothing to do with Zhang Zhengjun.

This was also the first time he rebelled.

When he met Huan Sheng at the beginning, he could still deal with it, because the rebels did not know Huan Sheng, and Zhang Zhengjun did not know him either, so there would not be so many troublesome things when fighting.

It is impossible for the rebels to just stop fighting.

When meeting the King of Jin, he had both military merits and popular support. In this era where military merits were the measure of ability, Chu Shizhao's resume was enough to make many people instinctively fear him.

At first glance, it was Prince Jin who had arrived.

It is human nature to have resistance and not want to fight.

The main reason is that since the arrival of Prince Jin, Zhang Zhengjun, who was confident before, now has no confidence anymore.

what?
He beat the King of Jin?!
Doing it!

I originally thought that the Great Zhou Dynasty would at most send a powerful general.

Who could have expected that Emperor Yongjin would not play by the rules and directly use the most prominent figure in the Great Zhou Dynasty.

This put too much pressure on Zhang Zhengjun.

(End of this chapter)