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Chapter 43: Be open-minded and know your destiny, be disciplined while marching, and you will be a talented person in this world!

Chu Shizhao can have such a thorough judgment of the current situation.

It also relies on the rich historical knowledge of thousands of years to be able to "strike at a lower dimension".

[Ant Bandits Uprising], Chu Shizhao can analyze it as - [Yellow Turban Uprising].

Boss Cao has already given the correct solution.

Boss Liu also explained what the royal family should do when a court has lost its credibility.

It is impossible to kill all the ant thieves because, essentially, these people are oppressed and cannot survive, so they rebel.

As long as the Great Zhou Dynasty is unable to provide food for the people, there will be an endless supply of ant thieves.

What is Chu Shizhao going to do?

First, make sure the people in the area you govern live a healthy life and have enough food to eat.

This is much more useful than issuing several edicts of repentance.

Take Chongzhen for example.

The common people listened to your several edicts of apology, and then saw that they would have to pay a lot more taxes this year. Do you think they would feel disgusted?

This is equivalent to the boss scolding himself a few times and then deducting one thousand yuan from the monthly salary of each of the most basic employees.

Bao is here to get scolded.

If the place you govern is peaceful and prosperous, it will naturally attract refugees. The local people will also praise your good governance, and your reputation will spread again through word of mouth.

Then can the ant thief who was originally a common people still be a thief?

[In December of the third year of Guangwei, Dou Li returned to Cangzhou after his defeat. Gao Jiu saw him coming in a panic and knew that he had suffered a great defeat. He really came up with the idea of ​​one person ruling Cangzhou.]

[Gao Jiu then spread the news that Dou Li was badly defeated by Jin Wang Chu Shizhao in the army, in order to shake Dou Li's prestige in the army.]

[Not long after, Gao Jiu came to visit him personally, saying that he had done meritorious service in governing Cangzhou, and was willing to recruit Dou Li as his general.]

[Dou Li was the first person to start the uprising in Cangzhou, and he was also the first commander to reach Cangzhou City. Now that the victory was won by Gao Jiu, he was indignant, but he knew that he was a defeated general, so he had nothing to say, so he had to serve Gao Jiu. However, due to Dou Li's outstanding military achievements, there were still nearly 7,000 Hebei soldiers under his command who were willing to follow him.]

[Although Gao Jiu got the position he wanted, Dou Li's followers had no intention of changing their mind, which still posed a great threat to him.]

[Under the persuasion of his advisor Zhou Yuan, Gao Jiu tried to break up Dou Li's troops and redistribute them in order to weaken Dou Li's position in the army.]

[In January of the fourth year of Guangwei, Dou Li did not accept Gao Jiu's idea of ​​disbanding his old troops, so Gao Jiu dispatched Dou Li's troops to fight against the first line of defense in the Fanyang area, trying to consume Dou Li's troops through war and thus preserve his own strength.]

[In February of the fourth year of Guangwei, Chu Shizhao wrote a letter. There was nothing else in the letter, just to express his condolences for Dou Li's recent situation and whether the lives of the people in Cangzhou had improved under their leadership.]

[Gao Jiu received the letter but could not figure out what it meant. In order to prevent Dou Li from discovering his behavior, he resealed the letter and sent it to where Dou Li was.]

[But he was already wary of Dou Li.]

[After receiving the letter, Dou Li fell into silence. Although the rebels had conquered Cang, they were not good at governing the local area. After they slaughtered the local noble families, they had been relying on their food and property to survive.]

[When these things are used up, I am afraid that the same mistakes will happen again soon, putting pressure on the people of Cangzhou. ]

[In March of the fourth year of Guangwei, Gao Jiu invited Dou Li to Cangzhou to discuss important matters. However, Dou Li's followers had already sensed the change in Gao Jiu's attitude and persuaded Dou Li not to take the risk.]

[Finally, Dou Li proposed an idea, asking Gao Jiu and him to lead their respective 200 people to meet outside the city.]

【Gao Jiu did not agree.】

[In April of the fourth year of Guangwei, Dou Li was in a heavy mood. He knew that he was in an extremely dangerous situation in Cangzhou. Gao Jiu did not trust him and wanted to send his brothers to the front battlefield to die. Not only was the logistics not guaranteed, but he was also very likely to be attacked from both sides.]

[Rather than dying in obscurity and being harmed by others, it is better to choose another way to survive and save yourself. ]

[Dou Li was not sure whether Chu Shizhao was trustworthy, but he was deeply touched by the fact that he was willing to release him and let him return to Cangzhou.]

[This behavior is far more upright than Gao Jiu's. ]

[In May of the fourth year of Guangwei, Dou Li personally led his people and their families, left Cangzhou in front of Gao Jiu, and headed for Qingzhou, expressing his willingness to submit to the King of Jin.]

[If they continue to stay in Cangzhou, the brothers who followed him will probably be sent to the battlefield by Gao Jiu to die. Even if Dou Li agreed to reorganize the organization, these people were Dou Li's men after all. Gao Jiu would keep his direct troops first no matter what. 】【At first, the Qingzhou government troops thought that Dou Li was going to attack Qingzhou again, but they didn't expect that the other party would surrender voluntarily. 】

[After Dou Li surrendered to Chu Shizhao, Gao Jiu immediately issued an order, cursing Dou Li as an unrighteous villain who betrayed his master and ignored the original intention of the rebel army.]

[Dou Li thought that Chu Shizhao would dislike him in Qingzhou, but he did not expect that Chu Shizhao would still treat him with respect and did not distance himself from him because of Gao Jiu's words.]

[However, Dou Li felt that his behavior was extremely shameful. Although it was a choice made to protect himself, it was indeed unfair to Gao Jiu. Therefore, he asked for resignation from Jin Wang Chu Shizhao and wanted to return to Qingzhou to farm.]

[Chu Shizhao did not make things difficult for Dou Li. When Dou Li took the initiative to request to return to Qingzhou to farm, he agreed with Dou Li's idea.]

[Dou Li seems to be asking to return to Qingzhou, but it is better to say that Dou Li now knows that Chu Shizhao's next step is most likely to attack Cangzhou and quell the uprising in Cangzhou. It is already an unjust act for him to lead his people to surrender to Chu Shizhao. If he leads his people to attack Cangzhou again, that would be a real "villain's behavior."]

【However, Chu Shizhao not only did not force him to do so, but also did not send his troops to the front line.】

[They even incorporated the tribesmen who returned from Hebei into the local area, implemented the military farming system, and restored production to the previously confiscated land.]

[Let these soldiers and their families have a place to live and a place to stay in the local area. ]

[In June of the fourth year of Guangwei, Fanyang Jiedushi Ma Su'an attacked Cangzhou again on the pretext of suppressing a rebellion. However, Gao Jiu, the leader of the rebel army guarding Cangzhou, had already spent all the wealth left by the aristocratic families after six months of extravagant spending.]

[In order to defend Cangzhou, Gao Jiu had to focus on collecting wealth from the people of Cangzhou. ]

[In order to appease the local people, Gao Jiu and Dou Li had previously given the government's wealth to the people and released grain to the people. Now Gao Jiu wanted to take back the grain he had given away from the people.]

[Under the pressure from Gao Jiu's army, the entire Cangzhou had no choice but to supply food to Gao Jiu's troops.]

[In July of the fourth year of Guangwei, Gao Jiu fought and repelled Ma Su'an again. However, under such a pressing situation, the military discipline of Gao Jiu's troops had already broken down. In order to vent the pressure of life and death, many soldiers abused the local people to relieve their emotional collapse.]

[Gao Jiu, who was unable to control his troops for a long time, was counterattacked by the people. ]

[In August of the fourth year of Guangwei, Chu Shizhao decided to lead his army to attack Cangzhou. With the defense map provided by Dou Li's troops and the knowledge of Cangzhou's terrain, he achieved an unstoppable result.]

The four words "As powerful as a broken bamboo" appeared on Chu Shizhao's status bar.

[Unstoppable force]: You have achieved the right time, right place, and right people. (Your vision has been expanded, your local support has increased, and you have a full strategic advantage.)
[In September of the fourth year of Guangwei, Gao Jiu was trapped from both sides and it was difficult to defend himself. He finally decided to surrender the city and try to exchange his future like Dou Li.]

[After entering the city, Chu Shizhao ordered Gao Jiu to restrain the behavior of his men, not to enforce the orders, but to prevent them from causing further harm to the people.]

[However, Gao Jiu's troops, who had been in the war and unable to regulate themselves, had long been out of control. After the defeat, the military discipline became even more chaotic. Many deserters and defeated soldiers took the opportunity to plunder and abuse the city, releasing the evil in human nature.]

【Chu Shizhao absolutely could not tolerate such behavior and executed all the leading generals. Gao Jiu tried to win over the people again and wanted to plead for his subordinates.】

【So Chu Shizhao directly executed Gao Jiu, which caused the ant thieves in the city who had originally submitted to Chu Shizhao to rebel again.】

[However, Chu Shizhao had already made preparations before taking action. He had previously confiscated the weapons from the surrendered ant thieves and put them under strict discipline.]

[The ant thieves who are rebelling again now are actually mostly deserters and defeated soldiers. They are ruffians who want to take advantage of the situation by claiming to avenge Gao Jiu. ]

[The reason why Chu Shizhao was unwilling to show leniency was simple. He had just recovered Cangzhou and urgently needed to appease the people. If he tolerated these people and let them become accomplices to the evil, it would only make governance more difficult.]

[Furthermore, these uncontrollable ants are black sheep even if they are recruited into the army. In line with the idea of ​​eradicating all evil, they must die.]

[Since Gao Jiu wanted to surrender, he shouldn't have stretched his hands so far to win people's hearts and excuse these defeated soldiers and deserters.]

[This is the military, we need to follow orders, not to bother with the social etiquette of gangs.]

[An army that only has human relationships and worldly wisdom will not last long and will not be reliable.]

[The trouble with things in this world is that you are in me and I am in you. ]

[Today you can disobey the monarch's order because of human relations, and tomorrow you can refuse to go to war because of human relations. Therefore, you neglect the opportunity to fight and miss the best situation. 】

[Chu Shizhao doesn't want to see such a person appear in his army. ]

[In September of the fourth year of Guangwei, King Chu Shizhao of Jin recaptured Cangzhou and decisively appointed Dou Li, who had returned to farming in Qingzhou, as the governor of Cangzhou to govern the area.]

【At this point, Chu Shizhao’s power has spread across Hebei Province! ! ! ! ! 】

[The Book of Zhou, Biography of the Prince of Jin states: "The Prince of Jin, Shi Zhao, is an extraordinary person. He is open-minded and knows his destiny. He marches with integrity. Although he is young, he is a man of great talent."]

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