Please call me Your Majesty!

Chapter 18: General Tianfu, controls all the troops in the world!
The biggest benefit Chu Shizhao gained this time was the huge support from Li Jin's Jinyang Army.

This is undoubtedly a decision that changes the situation.

Even Chu Shizhao himself did not expect that he would have such an opportunity after leaving the capital. At one point, Chu Shizhao even thought that the Great Zhou Dynasty would not be able to escape the fate of being crushed to death.

However, the situation was reversed. The military group that was supposed to establish its own regime in the north and become a threat to the Chang'an court stood firmly on the side of Chu Shizhao this time.

This is the charm of history.

If a person has enough strength and status at an important juncture, then the two paths he chooses will lead to different outcomes depending on the choices he makes.

What Li Jin brought was not only the Jinyang Army, a military force. In addition to a gold-quality general card, he also brought three general cards with equally outstanding abilities.

They are Li Fengning, Li Shengming and Li Shengquan.

Chu Shizhao's wife is a genuine gold minister card of the same level as Li Jin, while Chu Shizhao's two brothers-in-law, Li Shengming is a purple general card, and Li Shengquan is a slightly inferior blue general card.

Two golds, one purple and one basket.

Li Jin also possesses the strategic-level legion combat capability and can command large-scale battles involving hundreds of thousands of soldiers.

The dowry brought by marrying a wife cannot be estimated by its apparent value.

However, in the previous simulations, Li Jin did not actually get any very good results.

During the first simulation, Chu Shizhao remembered that time when the Huns successfully marched southward. In order to buy enough time for the people of Chang'an to escape, he led a small number of central troops to hold on for more than twenty days, but failed to hold on and collapsed.

After the Huns established a stable base in Chang'an, they immediately expanded to other areas in the north.

Li Jin had a base in the north and sufficient foundation. He fought against the Huns for about six years, but eventually died of overwork and illness. After Li Jin's death, Li Shengming inherited the legacy of the Jinyang Li family, but was then destroyed by the Huns within a year.

During the second simulation, for some unknown reason, the Jinyang Army where Li Jin was located suddenly strengthened its defenses against the Huns. After the uprising gained momentum, it continued to fight against other northern vassal states and at one point unified most of the north. However, in the end, due to serious internal friction between Li Jin's two sons, Li Shengming and Li Shengquan, in the process of fighting for the family business.

After Li Jin passed away, the Jinyang Li family collapsed again.

This time, Chu Shizhao and Li Jin can be said to be highly integrated, and the two sides directly created the best situation since the simulation.

Moreover, Chu Shizhao now completely trusts his father-in-law.

Because he and Li Fengning have a prince, once Chu Shizhao's position becomes higher and higher, the position of his and Li Fengning's prince will not be low either. It is more accurate to say that Li Jin is working for his grandson rather than for Chu Shizhao, as they are all vested interests.

As for why Li Jin had no awareness of the monarchical form, it was because of the previous situation of unifying the north. It was not that Li Jin subjectively wanted to unify. He was completely forced by the situation. If he didn't do anything to others, others would do something to him. Li Jin had more of the mentality of a general of the Great Zhou Dynasty. After all, he had been a general of the Great Zhou Dynasty for more than ten years. It took him a while for him to change his mindset and realize that he had become a "prince".

In the first three simulations, it was only after the unification of the north that Li Jin gradually developed the demeanor of a "king", transforming from a general card to a monarch card.

However, in this simulation, Li Jin did not unify the north as a separate regime. He came to power by supporting King Jin and Chu Shizhao.

The entire north was not only conquered by Li Jin's Jinyang forces, but also by the Beiping forces controlled by Chu Shizhao himself and the Datong forces that he won over, which gradually devoured the entire north.

Li Jin has made contributions, but Chu Shizhao's contributions are greater than Li Jin's.

It was just that Li Jin provided Chu Shizhao with a starting point for primitive accumulation, which made Li Jin's importance under Chu Shizhao apparent. But if Chu Shizhao had not dared to risk his life and borrowed troops from the Datong Jiedushi to attack Fan Yang, there would have been no possibility for Chu Shizhao to integrate the north later.

In other words, the turning point of this simulation was that Chu Shizhao took over Fan Yang controlled by Ma Suan, and had the capital to sit at the negotiating table with the Li family. Otherwise, Chu Shizhao would really be a stinky son-in-law.

[In March of the fifth year of Kangxing, you led your troops into Chang'an and conquered the capital of the Great Zhou. The Prime Minister of the Great Zhou, Huan Sheng, took the newly crowned Chu Shiren and fled to Liangzhou.]

[You stood on the high wall of Chang'an, and said with high spirits: "The spring breeze is blowing, and the horse's hooves are galloping. I can see all the flowers in Chang'an in one day."]

[In April of the fifth year of Kangxing, you personally burned the letters of conspiracy between the ministers of the Great Zhou and Huan Sheng in the court, as well as the evidence that these ministers were willing to befriend Huan Sheng.] [You chose to let these things go.]

[In May of the fifth year of Kangxing, Li Jin personally submitted a petition, saying that the country cannot be without a king for a day, and that since the king was taken away by Huan Sheng during the Northern Expedition, you should inherit the throne of the Great Zhou.]

[You waved your hand and chose to decline. ]

[You feel that you are not virtuous enough to take on the role of monarch, and you also think that you are not the legitimate heir to the throne, and that you are now only managing the country on behalf of your brother.]

[You chose to govern the current Great Zhou Dynasty as regent. ]

[In June of the fifth year of Kangxing, Li Jin made another memorial, saying that your achievements in suppressing the rebellion were enough to earn you a higher status, and that your current position as regent was not enough to demonstrate your authority.]

【Li Jin believed that a special position should be created, above all the ministers and below the emperor, with the power to establish a government and mint coins.】

[In July of the fifth year of Kangxing, with the support of the ministers, you established a position called Tianfu Shangjiang and appointed yourself to this position.]

[The General of Heavenly Palace can control the troops of the whole world, and you have established a government in Beiping and recruited your own subjects.]

[In August of the fifth year of Kangxing, some ministers who did not approve of you complained about you, and some ministers who were loyal to their duties asked you to resign. Most of them did not collude with Huan Sheng, but they were unwilling to watch you "plot power and usurp the throne."]

[You have no objection and let these ministers who do not support you leave. You also realize your biggest problem. You still need a higher reputation to intimidate the ministers.]

[In September of the fifth year of Kangxing, you dispatched Li Jin to lead an army of 70,000 to attack Song and Wu in the south to complete the unfinished work of the previous emperor.]

[In October of the fifth year of Kangxing, Li Jin immediately dispatched a large army to fight against the Song and Wu regions. Based on the national strength of the Great Zhou, he decided to win the battle slowly and take his time.]

[In December of the fifth year of Kangxing, Li Jin's southern expedition was slow and no victory was reported. The ministers impeached Li Jin for neglecting his duties and holding the troops to himself. You should keep them in the palace and not send them out.]

[In January of the sixth year of Kangxing, your second brother Chu Shiren died of depression in Liangzhou. After much hesitation, Huan Sheng apologized to you and wanted to return to the court.]

[Many ministers were reluctant to see Huansheng return, but you were the only one who accepted Huansheng's surrender despite all objections.]

[In your opinion, Huan Sheng's surrender at this time can only prove that he is indeed a smart man. ]

[At present, the main force led by Li Jin is attacking Song and Wu. Huan Sheng, who controls Liangzhou, has the ability to launch a surprise attack on Chang'an at any time. This is the value and capital of his surrender. When Li Jin conquers Song and Wu, Da Zhou will no longer need Huan Sheng's surrender. ]

[The most important thing is that you accept Huan Sheng's surrender, so that the four seas will be united. There are still many separatist forces in the whole Great Zhou.]

[In February of the sixth year of Kangxing, Huan Sheng rode alone to Chang'an. After entering Chang'an, he found that Chu Shizhao had no weapons and no intention of harming him. He said with great fear that he was under the order of the "false emperor" and thus did something contrary to the court.]

[In March of the sixth year of Kangxing, Fengyang garrison commander Chen Xizhi led his people to surrender to Li Jin's vanguard troops. After enduring tremendous pressure and unable to guarantee food supplies from Song and Wu, they chose to surrender.]

[In April of the sixth year of Kangxing, the Xiongnu suddenly swept a hundred thousand people southward and directly captured Daning Prefecture.]

[In May of the sixth year of Kangxing, Yang Zhuting fought to the death in a surprise attack. After delaying for a month, he was defeated and died in battle.]

[In June of the sixth year of Kangxing, Datong was captured by the Xiongnu.]

[The imperial court’s military strength is in a state of extreme shortage. ]

On the map, Datong's defenders of nearly 30,000 soldiers were completely wiped out under the leadership of Yang Zhuting.

The screen suddenly went black, causing Chu Shizhao's finally-felt joy to fade away again.

Because the Huns that appear in the north of the map are really good at fighting.

(End of this chapter)