Please call me Your Majesty!

Chapter 86 This is the [Emperor Growth Plan], not the [General Growth Plan]!
In fact.

Chu Shizhao was almost unable to handle it.

His energy bar was plummeting every round because Chu Shizhao had to deal with hundreds of matters of varying sizes.

There were incidents of refugees, famines, rebellions by powerful local tyrants, and even secret news of his own subordinates forming cliques for personal gain.

And Chu Shizhao's simulation this time is a situation that is almost impossible to replicate.

It's not anything else, just meeting all the requirements is difficult.

It was not inevitable that Ma Su'an would capture Chang'an, it was not inevitable that the royal family would be exterminated, and even Chu Shizhao's victory in the Battle of Poyang was not an inevitable event.

These are all random events that eventually come together.

In particular, Chu Shizhao has tried his best to avoid being alienated by power, but this situation still occurs unquestionably.

He now deeply understood why the emperors of those feudal dynasties cared nothing about the lives and deaths of their subjects.

Because just like the interface that Chu Shizhao is operating now, the emperors of these feudal dynasties only look at memorials one after another, telling him how many people died in which place this year, how much tax was collected in which place, how much deficit there was, and what so-and-so did privately.

There are some things that you don’t know how cruel they are unless you see them with your own eyes, so in the eyes of these emperors, the dead people were just a string of numbers.

This is the alienation of the emperor by power.

They no longer treat living people as human beings, but as pigs that can provide taxes to the country.

So, that's why Chu Shizhao tries to maintain his humanity as much as possible.

When Guo You died in the line of duty, Chu Shizhao's interface had two options, one was [The emperor does not show his joy or anger on his face.], and the other was [Release your true nature and show your true feelings.]

Chu Shizhao chose the latter.

cry.

Never embarrassed, and never cowardly.

Li Shimin cried, and Liu Xiu also cried. An emperor who was unwilling to show his true feelings showed that he had truly regarded himself as the Son of Heaven. The life and death of others had nothing to do with him. Anyone could die, and anyone could be a tool.

What Chu Shizhao fears the most is that he has lost his feelings about the life and death of anyone. It doesn't matter who lives or dies. As long as it doesn't hinder his rule and his empire, he can accept all changes.

In other words, the so-called emperors in ancient times were the fourth disaster. They believed that whatever they did was right, and the so-called common people were their toys.

Chu Shizhao tried his best to avoid falling into this state.

[In September of the 13th year of Shengwu, Chu Shizhao opened the way for people to express their opinions and criticisms of current affairs, and established an inspection system to supervise local officials.]

[He also abolished the lengthy and complicated system of the Wude Division and established the Jinyiwei. ]

【The members of the Wude Division were incorporated into the Jinyiwei, with Dou Li as the first commander of the Jinyiwei.】

[The Records of Taizu of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty recorded that: "In September of the 13th year of Shengwu, the Central Government's Imperial Guard and the Wude Division were established. Initially, it was set up as the Jinyi Division, which was a rank of the seventh grade and was in charge of the school lieutenants. It was directly under the Central Government's Military Governor's Office. Later, it was changed to the Jinyiwei Commandery Division, which was a rank of the third grade. Similar to the original position of the Wude Division of the previous generation, it was set up as the Northern Pacification Division, and soldiers with clean backgrounds, outstanding military exploits, and good scouts and reconnaissance were recruited.]

[The Northern Pacification Office can "exclusively manage the imperial prison" and own the imperial prison. It can arrest, interrogate, execute and execute people on its own without going through the Dali Temple's inspection. Chu Shizhao will then make the final decision on the case himself.]

On the screen, Chu Shizhao’s interface has an additional function called [Northern Pacification Office].

Chu Shizhao did not particularly need such an intelligence organization, but the Great Zhou Dynasty already had such an intelligence organization called "Wu De Si", but it was of no use at all. Guo Qian, who was the commander of the left division of Wu De Si at the time, got this position by relying on his relationship with Emperor Yongjin.

However, Guo Qian’s ability was limited, which meant that the intelligence organization function of the previous Great Zhou Dynasty was completely dark.

Chu Shizhao now has the conditions and ability to re-plan and build such an institution, but he cannot just leave it alone and let the intelligence function of the Great Zhou Dynasty become paralyzed.

The purpose of Chu Shizhao in establishing the [Northern Pacification Office] and [Empress Uniform Guard] was not to monitor the officials, but actually to keep watch in various places and guard against possible dangers.

At that time, Chu Shizhao prepared hundreds of elite soldiers for Guo You to participate in large and small battles. This scale should have been enough to protect Guo You, so there should be no danger. However, according to the simulated message notification, Chu Shizhao was told that Guo You was killed by bandits.

Which bandit group could have such combat power and scale?

I can fuck you.

They are either powerful or wealthy families pretending to be so in order to prevent Chu Shizhao from continuing to implement the land policy.

The [Wu De Si] was transformed into the [Bei Zhen Fu Si], and the [Wu De Wei] was transformed into the [Jin Yi Wei].

Chu Shizhao didn't want to miss this chance to truly become an emperor. After all, this was the [Emperor Growth Plan], not the [General Growth Plan]. Chu Shizhao undoubtedly wanted to make good use of this opportunity to test the country he had built. What kind of ceiling could he reach if he really gave it his all?

[In October of the 13th year of Shengwu, Imperial Noble Consort Huan Yi gave birth to your second son, Chu Jiyue.]

It is worth mentioning that communicating with his concubines can increase Chu Shizhao's happiness value.

Generally speaking, when encountering some events, Chu Shizhao's happiness value will decrease. The more bad things he encounters, the faster his happiness value will decrease. When the happiness value is very low, according to the prompts of the simulation information, Chu Shizhao's character may experience abnormal conditions, his physical condition will decline, and his health and energy values ​​will be reduced.

Communicating with concubines can increase your happiness, but your energy will still decrease.

So in order to maintain his high happiness level, Chu Shizhao would look for Huan Yi, Li Fengning and Yin Meiyu every night to increase his happiness level one by one.

They are all wives, so it’s normal to clock in every day.

Then, Chu Shizhao looked at the Great Zhou Dynasty, which had been recuperating but whose population was still declining, and immediately took action according to his own ideas.

The biggest difference between a founding emperor and an ordinary emperor is that he has a greater say.

In addition to Li Jin and Huan Sheng, two generals who had become Chu Shizhao's relatives, Chu Shizhao himself had a standing army of nearly 200,000.

Moreover, most of the troops in this army were reorganized from the rebel army, and they had no background or identity with aristocratic families or powerful people.

Chu Shizhao wanted to reform policies and implement changes, and no one could forcibly stop him.

He picked up the knife and started chopping.

[In November of the 13th year of Shengwu, since the late period of the Former Zhou Dynasty, the number of peasants reduced to slaves and prisoners has increased day by day, becoming an important issue in the increasingly acute contradictions of the ruling during the Yongjin period.]

[At the end of Kaiyang, many slaves and prisoners joined the uprising; at the same time, there were also many slaves and prisoners in the armies of some separatist forces, and there were also some farmers who lost their own land in the land annexation.]

【Chu Shizhao repeatedly ordered his ministers to check the household registration, and in November of the 13th year of Shengwu, he sent Wen Yu to conduct a large-scale inspection, with local officials checking the age and physical appearance of the people registered on the household register to prevent the gentry and powerful from concealing their household registration and keeping slaves and maids.】

【Since the reign of Emperor Yongjin, the concealment of household registration has become increasingly serious. The labor force that the state can directly control has decreased, while the population owned by local powerful landlords has continued to increase. Many places have the practice of donating land, and many people use this to hide their household registration and willingly become slaves of the gentry and powerful.】

[This severely weakened the central government.]

[For example, in the north, due to the rule that unmarried people only pay half of the rent, in some places the wife is not even registered in the household registration.]

[Some powerful families had dozens of households with tens of thousands of people, which caused a sharp drop in the country's tax revenue.]

[Of course, Chu Shizhao was not a harsh person. The content of the Great Search also included measures to appease the people. For example, he wanted to assess the three diseases of the people and give them tax exemptions or tax reductions according to the severity of the disease.]

[Emperor Shengwu Chu Shizhao also stipulated that if there was any false household registration, local officials would be sentenced to exile one after another. He also encouraged the people to report on each other and forced relatives more distant than cousins ​​to have their household registration and household registration separated.]

[In this way, Chu Shizhao's approach not only increased income, but also prevented local tyrants from colluding with bureaucrats and engaging in corruption. At the same time, freeing the previously dependent population from the hands of the tyrants was also conducive to increasing the country's labor force and mobilizing their enthusiasm for production.]

[After a few months of checking the household registration, more than 1.7 million people were newly registered.]

[In the fourteenth year of Shengwu, the eighth year after you pacified the world and restored it to its original state, your state income reached 1000 million shi, which is almost the same as the annual tax in the early Yongjin period.]

[Since the eighth year of Shengwu, the national population was on the verge of collapse, with only 4.2 million households and a population of more than 20 million people. By the fourteenth year of Shengwu, the national population had reached 5.4 million households, with an average annual population growth of about 200,000 households, and an annual population growth of nearly one million people. This shows Chu Shizhao's ability to govern the world.]

[In February of the fourteenth year of Shengwu, Chu Shizhao appointed the twelve-year-old Chu Jibang as the crown prince and betrothed Yang Fang's daughter Yang Yuan to Chu Jibang.]

[In March of the fourteenth year of Shengwu, a civil strife broke out among the Xiongnu people, which caused some Xiongnu people to move south, hoping to gain the favor of Chu Shizhao and help them regain the grassland. For this reason, they were willing to recognize Chu Shizhao as the common leader of the grassland and call him "Khan".]

[Chu Shizhao thought about it again and again and declined the offer. He didn't want to get involved in an unnecessary war for the sake of temporary fame. After all, no one knew what the situation on the grassland was like after so many years.]

[Rather than wasting our own military strength, it is better to sit back and watch the two tigers fight. ]

[In April of the fourteenth year of Shengwu, Concubine Li Fengning gave birth to your third son, Chu Jimin.]

The other side.

Li Fengning's fists were about to break.

She is not the first wife, and not even the second wife, but she is ranked third.

Li Fengning swallowed his anger and felt even worse as he watched Chu Shizhao's exemplary performance step by step.

(End of this chapter)