Please call me Your Majesty!

Chapter 55 But they all call me His Royal Highness Prince Jin!
[In July of the third year of Zhenping, Chu Shizhao returned to the court. With him came a Xiongnu prince. Chu Shizhao gave him a name, so the Xiongnu prince was called Jiang Ping.]

【Chu Shizhao defeated the Xiongnu royal court in one fell swoop and offered sacrifices to heaven on behalf of the emperors of the Zhou Dynasty on Mount Langjuxu, shocking the world.】

[Wang Shouyi, who had originally planned to launch another northern expedition, sighed sadly after hearing the news, "It seems that the northern expedition plan is dead."]

【In Wang Shouyi's opinion, if one lives in a corner, he will not be able to be a king. The ambition of a hero is to unify the world.】

【The Zhou Dynasty has fallen into decline and lost the trust of the people. Now is the time to change the world.】

[But who could have thought that in such a situation, there would still be heroes emerging. ]

[Originally, Wang Shouyi had the best opportunity. He had already prepared himself and was ready to start the war immediately. As long as the Xiongnu could delay the war long enough, the timing of his starting the war would be better.]

[But now the Xiongnu have fled far away, the royal court has been destroyed, and Chu Shizhao is feared in the desert. If he wants to raise an army to attack the Central Plains, it will be too difficult for him to unify the world.]

[In the same month, officials of the Southern Song court indeed advised that Chu Shizhao was too powerful to be attacked, so Wang Shouyi had no choice but to give up the matter.]

[After this battle, Chu Shizhao completely established his position in the north. The nomadic peoples lost their aggression against the northern border areas, and Chu Shizhao strengthened local control.]

[At the same time, Chu Shizhao required each tribe to send their leaders to meet him every year, and he also arranged his trusted men to guard important positions.]

After Chu Shizhao returned to the army, his younger brother, the young emperor Chu Shiju, in recognition of Chu Shizhao's contribution, increased his fief by 6,000 households, and conferred the title of "General of Heavenly Abode", ranking him above all the princes of the royal family, and Chu Shizhao's son could inherit his title.

【Huan Sheng saw the situation and immediately mobilized his colleagues to persuade Chu Shizhao to ascend the throne and become emperor.】

[Many people wrote to the emperor that Chu Shiju's throne was not legitimate, and was privately established by traitors. The eldest son Chu Shixu, the second son Chu Shiren, and the third son Chu Shiyu all died for some reason. The fourth son Chu Shizhao is also of royal blood and has made great contributions. Now is the time to put things right.]

[If Chu Shiju continues to be the emperor, it means that the actions of the former traitors are correct.]

[Only by letting you, the great general, inherit the throne, can we truly establish a new Great Zhou.]

Huan Yi thought that his elder brother had a very low standard.

But she never thought that her elder brother could be so low-brow!

Because the traitor that Huan Sheng scolded was Huan Yi's second brother Huan Jie, who was the one who deposed and enthroned the emperor, which allowed Chu Shiju to become the emperor.

No wonder colleagues were mobilized to persuade him.

It is extremely shameless to persuade others personally.

Chu Shizhao was very moved, and immediately rejected the petition from his ministers. At present, the south has not been settled, and the country has not been recovered, but he must not set a precedent by rushing to seek the position of the common leader of the world just because of his achievements. 】

[In later history books, it will also be recorded that Chu Shizhao went to attack the Xiongnu in order to gain the position of the common ruler of the world.]

【He is not a gentleman.】

Chu Shizhao was enjoying himself by gaining merit, and during this simulation, his younger brother Chu Shiju did not stab him in the back.

There is no need for him to take the child's place.

Because Chu Shizhao had the memory of simulation and deduction, he was really an emperor.

Therefore, it doesn’t really matter whether he is the emperor or not.

Just an empty name.

Besides, he could also take a look at Chu Shiju's nature. If he behaved himself and didn't do anything to betray his brother, Chu Shizhao would not have become emperor by stepping on Chu Shiju's head.

But in fact, Chu Shizhao was thinking very clearly in his mind.

He does not deserve the position of the common ruler of the world now, and it will belong to Chu Shizhao's son in the future, because the world was pacified by Chu Shizhao alone, and the court was also maintained by Chu Shizhao. Too many generals followed Chu Shizhao.

In order to ensure that their own interests are not harmed and that their descendants can enjoy wealth and glory without being liquidated, the civil officials and generals under Chu Shizhao would actually choose to support Chu Jiyue's succession to the throne.

Therefore, it is unnecessary for Chu Shizhao to seize the throne or not.

He took action to seize the throne himself, which meant he was just taking the blame for his subordinates. While they were enjoying the wealth and glory, Chu Shizhao was setting a precedent that "members of the royal family could seize the throne by force because of their great achievements."

He is not Zhu Qizhen who led the coup d'état.

He stole the throne from his younger brother, and then from his own son.

Moreover, Chu Shizhao went to fight the Huns not to gain merit and usurp the throne.

Sima Zhao destroyed Shu with the intention of covering up the regicide and preparing for the usurpation of the throne. Therefore, he is disliked no matter how you look at him.

Destroying Shu Han does not make people feel how powerful your Sima family is. It only makes people feel that your Sima family has an impatient desire to cover up its own shortcomings.

Chu Shizhao fought against the Huns, on the one hand for the people living on the border, and on the other hand for his past self. In his memory, he was venting his anger, and after the mission was accomplished, he used this achievement to become the Son of Heaven or the Emperor.

What the people living on the border think is what the history books record.

'King Shizhao of Jin destroyed the Xiongnu and became emperor?'

Putting this together, aren't you just disgusting yourself?

The last time Chu Shizhao declared himself emperor, it was entirely because the Zhou court treated him as a nobody. They took advantage of him when he was pacifying the south to stab him in the back and almost cost him his life.

Then Chu Shizhao would definitely have no psychological burden in counterattacking Chang'an.

So human choice is still very important.

[In August of the third year of Zhenping, after you returned from the grassland, you felt weak, so you returned to Lu County to reunite with your eldest son Chu Jiyue.]

【Chu Jiyue has been taught by Huan Yi since he was young, and has a general understanding of history. He is also proficient in all matters, big and small, and extremely intelligent.】

[And Huan Yi has been missing you for a long time. She probably hasn't seen you for two or three years, so this time you two met, you stopped for a very long time.]

[Huan Yi has supported you in many decisions, but this time, you didn't want to take advantage of such a good situation and advance your position when all the ministers were in awe of you. This was something she had never expected.]

[After hearing this, Chu Shizhao did not hold back and said frankly: "When I was twenty-one, I did have the ambition to advance to the throne and seize the throne."]

[“Who wouldn’t want to be the common ruler of the world?”]

[“When I was twenty-eight, I saw the suffering of the people of the world, and I wanted to become the emperor even more urgently.”]

[“So I tried my best to govern my own territory, tried my best to quell the rebellion, and tried my best to win the trust of the people.”]

[“But they all call me His Royal Highness Prince Jin.”]

[“Since then, I have been thinking that if a king is respected only because of his status, then he is not a qualified king.”]

[“Now, I have tried my best to rectify the world and conquer the Xiongnu, but my goal is just to obtain this status and become the so-called Son of Heaven. Am I qualified to be a holy ruler?”]

[“A true king is respected from the bottom of his heart, so the identity of the emperor has never been important to me.”]

[“The world has always belonged to everyone in the world. It is not the world of my family or surname, nor is it the world of me, Chu Shizhao, alone.”]

[“I know what you are thinking. Someone will work hard for Ji Yue to take over the throne.”]

[“But, I hope he can be a truly wise and respectable king, not just my son, Chu Shizhao.”]

[At this moment, Huan Yi suddenly understood something. ]

[Yes, since Chu Shizhao conquered the Xiongnu, the throne had actually fallen into Chu Jiyue's hands, because after the campaign to conquer the Xiongnu, all the meritorious officials who had made contributions would support him.]

Look at the content on the screen.

Huan Yi suddenly felt that he really deserved to die.

How could she ask such a stupid question!
Mainly because of the momentary hesitation shown by her extremely foolish elder brother Huan Sheng, Huan Yi was also anxious.

Now, Chu Shizhao must have lost his favor towards her.

No one would like a woman like her who has a head full of little thoughts.

But, on one side is her own child, and on the other side is her own husband.

No matter which side, Huan Yi didn't want any of them to suffer.

As a result, she accidentally asked such a stupid question.

Regret, regret, regret.

But on second thought, this is just a simulation, and the real Chu Shizhao has no idea what is happening here.

As long as Huan Yi doesn't make the same mistake in the simulation in real life, wouldn't that be fine?
(End of this chapter)