Please call me Your Majesty!

Chapter 84 Since the Three Dynasties, only Emperor Shengwu has surpassed all other emperors! (Second update)

Chu Shizhao certainly knew the value of marrying Li Fengning.

But Chu Shizhao couldn't do that.

Because of the weight and strength of the Li Group in the north, Li Fengning can only be the legal wife, only Chu Shizhao's principal wife.

There was no concept of having a concubine in the Zhou Dynasty.

There are only wives and concubines.

Even though there were co-wives in the Ming and Qing dynasties, their actual status was only slightly higher than that of a concubine, but still far lower than that of the principal wife.

In ancient times, the wife could theoretically have "equal status" with her husband, while concubines were regarded as slaves.

So if Chu Shizhao wanted to marry Li Fengning, the first thing he had to do was to divorce Yin Meiyu so that he could make room for Li Fengning as the main wife.

The purpose of doing this is just to get the full support of the Li family.

Then Chu Shizhao would rather not do it.

It's not that Chu Shizhao has no feelings for Li Fengning, but that he simply doesn't need to do so. Given Jinyang's current situation, even if Li Jin does not choose to join Chu Shizhao, he will still have to fight against Wang Huai and Yan Ming.

By this point in the fight, there was already a clear conflict of interest between the two sides.

It doesn't mean that Wang Huai and Yan Ming must get along with each other. The reason why these two people support each other now is simply because they are in a relationship of mutual dependence and are forced to be together.

When Chu Shizhao marched north, after defeating Wang Huai, wouldn't he go on to defeat Yan Ming?

The pattern of great unification means that no matter who it is, as long as they stand in Chu Shizhao's way, they will be beaten.

Unless Chu Shizhao can stay in a corner and stop fighting here, then forget it.

But, this is absolutely impossible!

If an ambitious emperor is not striving to unify the world but is content with the status quo, then he is not a qualified monarch!

Among the Tang emperor, Song emperor, Qin emperor and Han emperor Wu, Chu Shizhao felt that the person who was least worthy of being listed alongside these people was the Song emperor, Zhao Kuangyin.

The Song Dynasty was never a unified dynasty, but rather a separatist dynasty.

Going further, if Chu Shizhao had not launched the Northern Expedition, the north would have been a melee among Wang Huai, Yan Ming, and Li Jin.

Whether it is for self-protection, or to enhance one's overall strength, or even considering the expansion of control, for the sake of the interests of the territory and the entire team, when there is no room for expansion, they will choose to attack the other party until one of the two parties is completely destroyed.

The alliance between Wang Huai and Yan Ming was only broken because the balance was broken by Chu Shizhao alone, with two weak ones fighting against one strong one.

In this situation, Li Jin chose to help Chu Shizhao, which enabled Chu Shizhao to go from being a strong player to an extremely strong player. This token of allegiance was enough for Li Jin to establish a solid foundation with Chu Shizhao.

From a political perspective, Li Jin has already benefited the most, and Li Fengning marrying Chu Shizhao as his legal wife will further strengthen the ties between the Li family and Chu Shizhao, but will not affect the overall situation.

The biggest difference is that if Li Fengning married Chu Shizhao, Li Jin could risk her life and property to fight for her. If she didn't marry Chu Shizhao, Li Jin would just contribute, but she would never be passive and lazy.

If the Li family were to engage in passive resistance, they would suffer no good consequences. Jinyang was the frontline battlefield, and they would be the ones who suffered the most losses.

It seems that Li Jin is here as a foreign aid.

In fact, strictly speaking, Chu Shizhao is also Li Jin's foreign aid.

They are in a strong alliance relationship, but Li Jin can provide great help to Chu Shizhao in unifying the world.

Therefore, Chu Shizhao's divorce and marriage to Li Fengning was an extremely utilitarian move. In the eyes of others, Chu Shizhao was so desperate to gain the world that he even threw away his dignity and was so anxious to conquer the world.

It's unnecessary to ruin your reputation.

Of course, Liu Xiu was forced to do such things, but the situations of Chu Shizhao and Liu Xiu cannot be compared.

Yin Meiyu saved Chu Shizhao from the fire.

Moreover, Yin Meiyu accompanied him throughout the whole process, from his rise to the unification of the south. If you insist, Yin Meiyu was Chu Shizhao's earliest number one employee. This is real affection!

What reason does Chu Shizhao have to abandon it?
What's more, as an emperor, Chu Shizhao took you, Li Fengning, as his concubine. Are you dissatisfied with anything?

In this simulation, the position of the legal wife is unshakable, but Chu Shizhao will not be willing to give up Li Fengning.

They are all wives.

Regardless of size.

It's just a first come, first served basis.

[In September of the second year of Shengwu, Jinyang changed its flag and supported the emperor Chu Shizhao of the Later Zhou regime. Not long after, there was a heavy snowfall, the valleys were full, and many people in Hebei froze to death. Huan Sheng of Liangzhou sent an envoy to lobby for a marriage for his sister Huan Yi. If Chu Shizhao was willing to accept Huan Yi as a concubine, everyone in Liangzhou would be willing to submit to the court.]

[In October of the second year of Shengwu, Chu Shizhao treated Huan Sheng as a distinguished guest and agreed to Huan Sheng's request. Huan Jie, the governor of Liangzhou, led the Liangzhou army to respond to Chu Shizhao's orders. From then on, Chu Shizhao used the power of Huan Jie and Huan Sheng to pacify Guanzhong.]

【In view of the great famine in Guanzhong, Chu Shizhao ordered Huan Sheng to govern Chang'an, and at the same time sent Li Jin, Huan Jie and others to march east to attack Wang Huai. Soon, Chu Shizhao, with the help of the Liangzhou Army and Jinyang Army, pacified Wang Huai, who was in control of Fanyang, and Yan Ming, who was in control of Qingzhou. 】【The battle between Chu Shizhao and Wang Huai was extremely fierce. Wang Huai, who had ruled for several years, had taken deep roots in the local area. "The ditches in the city were full, and corpses were everywhere for eighty or ninety miles." During this period, Chu Shizhao also personally led the army to the front line and won a great victory in the Battle of Taocheng. 】

[From October of the second year of Shengwu to July of the fifth year of Shengwu, after nearly three years of expeditions to the east and west, Chu Shizhao had basically controlled the vast Central Plains except Longyou and Bashu, and basically unified the east of China.]

[It formed a tripartite situation with Liang Shang in Longyou in the northwest and Chu Xuanhong, the emperor of Zhou Shu in Bashu in the southwest. ]

[In September of the sixth year of Shengwu, Chu Shizhao returned to Chang'an, dressed in order, and paid homage to his father, Emperor Yongjin. He also sent Wen Yu to persuade his uncle Chu Xuanhong to surrender, but was rejected. He then dispatched Duan Qi and Huangfu Jian to attack Shu from Longxi.]

[Liang Shang and Chu Xuanhong of Longyou in the northwest reached a consensus and swore an oath of blood to resist Chu Shizhao's attack. They blocked the city and blocked the road to stop Chu Shizhao's Liangzhou army from attacking. In October, Duan Qi decisively followed the Weibei Plain and tried to cross the Longshan Mountains to attack Liang Shang's general Cao Chui, but was defeated because he was not familiar with the terrain.]

[Cao Chui didn't want to miss the opportunity, so he followed and pursued Duan Qi all the way. After Duan Qi lost nearly 10,000 soldiers, Chu Shizhao's general Lan Shu led the elite cavalry to cover the rear, which allowed Duan Qi's troops to withdraw.]

[The heavy casualties made Duan Qi depressed and he became bedridden. Later, Chu Shizhao ordered Dou Li and Yang Fang from the Jingzhou front to launch a feint attack from another front. Liang Shang was attacked from both sides and was eventually defeated.]

[After Liang Shang's death, the southwest gate was wide open, and Chu Xuanhong immediately concentrated his elite troops to counterattack, but failed to succeed for several months. However, Liang Shang's general Cao Chui led his troops and took the Longxi map to join Chu Xuanhong, causing Longxi, which Chu Shizhao had conquered with great difficulty, to be lost again.]

[In August of the seventh year of Shengwu, Huangfu Jian once again captured the first city of Gaoping, Cao Chui surrendered, and Longxi was thus pacified.]

[In March of the eighth year of Shengwu, after Chu Shizhao pacified Long, he launched an offensive from the south and north against the emperor's uncle Chu Xuanhong who was entrenched in Shu. Li Jin joined Yang Fang at Jingmen and went west along the Yangtze River into Shu. Huangfu Jian and Huan Jie led the troops to attack Hechi from the southwest of Longxi and enter Shu.]

[Yang Fang won a great victory on the southern front, went up the river to the west, captured Jingmen, killed the father and son of Zhang Mu, the general of Zhou Shu, and the deputy general of Jingmen, Cai Jing, retreated to Jiangzhou. Li Jin went straight into Jiangguan from the Three Gorges. As a result, the counties along the way had heard of Chu Shizhao's reputation for a long time, and surrendered one by one. The army marched straight to Jiangzhou.]

[After that, Chu Shizhao took advantage of the battle lines, supplies, and large number of troops, and constantly used the tactic of attacking the enemy when they were tired. He used the powerful logistical supply force to repeatedly consume the power of Yizhou and fought with the Shu army between Chengdu and Guangdu.]

【A large number of Chu Xuanhong's manpower were annihilated.】

[Under Guo You's strategy, Lan Shu used a surprise attack method, publicly repairing the main road, and secretly sending a small army to attack Chengdu. Chu Xuanhong had to lead the Chengdu defenders to surrender. ]

[He knew Chu Shizhao's reputation and righteousness, so Chu Xuanhong hesitated to surrender, wanting to see if he had a chance to turn defeat into victory. As a result, he was suppressed almost throughout the entire battle. The whole process of resisting stubbornly made people despair. ]

[As for why he surrendered only at the end, it was because Chu Xuanhong, as the uncle of the royal family, knew that Chu Shizhao would spare his life, so he resisted until now, and only surrendered when there was no chance anymore.]

【Guo You had no good feelings towards Chu Xuanhong, and he also knew that he was hypocritical and disgusting, so he kept paralyzing Chu Xuanhong, first by trying to please him, then by exaggerating Chu Xuanhong's status, which made Chu Xuanhong quite disrespectful to those generals. He was clearly a person begging for surrender, but he would order Chu Shizhao's generals to kneel down to him as the emperor's uncle.】

[When the time was right, Guo You sowed discord between Lan Shu and Chu Xuanhong. ]

[On March 9, the eighth year of Shengwu, Chu Xuanhong did not respect a brave general like Lan Shu at the banquet. Instead, he cursed him for winning by a dangerous sneak attack, saying that he was just a bandit who took advantage of the opportunity to turn things around.]

[Shu was furious and killed him.]

[After Chu Shizhao found out, he immediately blocked all the news and announced to the public that his uncle had unfortunately fallen into the water and died on his way back to his residence after getting drunk.]

[This made Chu Shizhao's generals love His Majesty even more. ]

[From the first year of Shengwu to the eighth year of Shengwu, Chu Shizhao took eight years to finally pacify the world after he ascended the throne. By recruiting local tyrants and brave generals, and relying on his own reputation and reputation for benevolence, he unified the Central Plains, which had been divided and ravaged by war since the end of Kaiyang.]

[However, the world was conquered by wars and also lost because of wars. The people suffered heavy casualties, with countless people dying in battles, from diseases, starvation, and freezing. By the time Chu Shizhao unified the world again, nine out of ten households were empty, leaving only one-third of the population during the Yongjin Emperor's time.]

[However, fortunately for all the people of the world, the one standing before everyone is a wise and benevolent ruler who said, "Since the Three Dynasties, only Emperor Shengwu has surpassed all the other kings." ! ! ! ]

A brand new picture appeared in front of everyone.

[Chu Shizhao was wearing a black-patterned gilded dragon robe, a supreme crown on his head, and a sword of the emperor on his waist. Under the gaze of the civil and military officials, he walked step by step to the Chang'an Palace, before the throne that symbolized the Mandate of Heaven.]

[Under the eyes of everyone, Chu Shizhao performed the Fengshan ceremony, worshipped his ancestors, and swore that the world would be unified.]

[“I know that it is easy to conquer the world, but difficult to rule it.”]

[“Can you help me stabilize the country and offer sacrifices to the spirits of our ancestors?”]

【As Chu Shizhao finished speaking. 】

[The ministers prostrated themselves.]

[“Long live the emperor——”]

On the screen, Chu Shizhao's operating interface has undergone new changes.

And the other side.

Huan Yi's beautiful eyes almost glowed with a different kind of brilliance.

Fuck you.

I am the real palace!
I must seize the opportunity and become the queen before these slutty bitches seduce her husband!
What is the Mandate of Heaven? What is the sign of the sun and the moon? What is the saying that since the Three Dynasties, only Emperor Shengwu has been the best among all the emperors?
Doesn’t such an evaluation make one’s blood boil?
Logically speaking, Chu Shizhao's current situation is not a restoration of the country in the traditional sense. He is the founding emperor!
This court is completely different from the Great Zhou Dynasty of Emperor Yongjin.

The Great Zhou Dynasty had been destroyed long ago. The Great Zhou Dynasty established by Chu Shizhao was, strictly speaking, just another country that inherited the name "Zhou".

Zhao brother! So handsome!

He is indeed my husband!
Take a shower, there is another update before 12 o'clock.

(End of this chapter)