Please call me Your Majesty!

Chapter 88 Are you imitating Dugu Jialuo? !
【Chu Shizhao decided to dig the Grand Canal in order to strengthen transportation between the north and the south and consolidate central power. 】

[The construction period was initially set at fifteen years, and the entire project required the excavation of important river sections such as the Tongji Canal, Yongji Canal and Jiangnan River.]

[Chu Shizhao recruited about 600,000 civilians from all over the country to participate in the project of digging the Grand Canal, and asked Wen Yu to meet the living needs of these civilians as much as possible and give them normal wages. ]

【Wen Yu felt a great headache because of this.】

[However, this was Chu Shizhao's imperial decree, and Wen Yu had no choice but to obey Chu Shizhao's imperial decree and go to dig the Grand Canal.]

Chu Shizhao's ideas on handling these matters are still very idealistic.

Emperor Yang Guang of the Sui Dynasty spent six years mobilizing millions of civilians to carry out dredging and construction work. Although this project laid the foundation for the economic development of the Sui and Tang dynasties, it also led to the hardship of the people because of the labor and cost, and eventually became one of the reasons for the demise of the Sui Dynasty.

Chu Shizhao increased the duration of the project, planning to use fifteen years to ensure the livelihood of these common people, to both comfort their lives and provide wages, in order to see if the Grand Canal could be successfully dug.

By doing this, Chu Shizhao would be the one being taken advantage of.

The biggest difference between reality and games is that the real-time generation in games has all kinds of accurate numbers, but in reality it takes tens of thousands of officials and a lot of time to obtain them.

These officials, including the people, have limited abilities, limited loyalty, and limited work attitudes.

As long as every official and every citizen makes a tiny, insignificant, unintentional mistake, the entire project will have a lot of loopholes to exploit. Then the emperor will find that what he worked so hard to create is not at all what he imagined, and it may even be inconsistent with the actual object.

If things go well, the sense of relaxation can be as great as those so-called shoddy projects, featuring abstract art that cuts corners.

After all, counting population, land, losses in projects, people's emotions, and daily necessities all have costs. It also costs money for grassroots officials to run around to form linkages. If people are in a bad mood and rebel, it also costs money for officials to appease them.

So this is why Zhuge Liang's status remains unique after going through several dynasties.

You think that the reason why Zhuge Wuhou was praised was that he was a powerful official but was loyal to his duties throughout his life.

In fact, it was Zhuge Liang's ability in logistics that was at the top level among all the civil officials in history.

Many people treat reality as a game, believing that dealing with human relationships, resolving internal and external conflicts, and arranging logistics in an almost perfect manner are things that can be easily done.

In fact, you won’t know how difficult it is until you try it yourself.

It is difficult for an ordinary person to manage ten people, let alone one hundred thousand people, let alone one million people.

This is even more difficult than leading a large army into battle!

Because soldiers are trained, while ordinary people do not receive systematic training and are not robots. It is impossible for them to do something just because you ask them to do it.

Only by putting yourself in someone else's shoes can you understand how abnormal Zhuge Liang's talent is, which even made his opponent Sima Yi admire him deeply.

This man was able to conquer the entire northern part of Cao Wei with just a small place like Yizhou.

There was also the restless Nanzhong within Yizhou. Even in such a small place with fierce internal and external conflicts, Zhuge Liang was able to launch the Northern Expedition every year and once gained the upper hand on the situation.

What is a divine general? This is a divine general!

If you put anyone else in this position, they wouldn't be able to handle the situation and would have failed long ago.

Now Chu Shizhao doesn't have high requirements. His Shengwu Dynasty cannot produce a great general like Zhuge Liang. If his requirements are lower, and he can have a Zhang Juzheng or Li Shanchang, Chu Shizhao can accept it. The problem is that Shengwu Dynasty does not even have a goalkeeper-level general like Wang Anshi.

His biggest problem now is that his generals are much stronger than his civil officials.

Chu Shizhao could only consume more economy and spend greater costs to [build the Grand Canal]. He was afraid that if the cost he paid was too low, he would become like Li Longji, who had a glorious first half of his life, but became like Yang Guang II in the second half, completely ruined.

At this time, Chu Shizhao suddenly understood Emperor Yongjin.

There are some things that, if you do them well, will not benefit you, and if you do them poorly, you will be doomed. On the contrary, doing nothing can help you protect yourself, because the problems will be passed on to future generations to rot away, while your own reputation will not be ruined.

This also made Chu Shizhao realize how difficult it was for Zhang Juzheng, the Regent Emperor of the Ming Dynasty. Although Zhang had some bad personal qualities, everyone knew that the Ming Dynasty was doomed, yet Zhang Juzheng still dared to help and even raised it up.

If this isn’t level, then what is?
If Chu Shizhao were given a Zhang Juzheng, he would be willing to back him up. Which emperor wouldn't like such a man with excellent ability to get things done and work hard?
Thinking of this, Chu Shizhao looked at Wen Yu's panel, wondering whether his 'Old Wen' could accomplish it.

As it turns out, Wen Yu's talent panel is not as high as Chu Shizhao's own.

However, Chu Shizhao's talent panel is a bit vague.

The talent and knowledge value also contains many different attributes that influence the score, and one of them is called - knowledge.

Chu Shizhao's insight is 100 points.

No, the amount of information that any modern person consumes every day is enormous. No matter which modern person goes back to the feudal society, he will be overwhelmed by the knowledge he has gained.

For example, the ministers could not understand many of the things Chu Shizhao wanted to do, but Chu Shizhao was well versed in thousands of years of Chinese history. With so many emperors serving as lessons for Chu Shizhao, how could he not know which things were of high value and which were of low value?
However, it was also [Enlightenment in Longchang] that gave Chu Shizhao a huge increase in early attributes. In this simulation, Chu Shizhao's growth rate was very fast, which was largely due to [Enlightenment in Longchang].

If Chu Shizhao personally supervises the construction of the Grand Canal, perhaps the efficiency can be improved.

However, we cannot let Chu Shizhao do everything, otherwise what is the point of keeping these ministers?

What's more, if Chu Shizhao unfortunately passed away one day, his son would be a dead end in the second generation as he had to deal with all the good-for-nothings and brave generals in the court.

If you don’t have the ability, just practice. Practice as hard as you can until you can master it.

[In July of the fourteenth year of Shengwu, the imperial examination was held. Since the literacy rate of the Great Zhou Dynasty you currently rule is low, you admitted a total of 79 scholars in this imperial examination, of which 51 were from noble families, 20 were from humble families, and 8 were from powerful families.]

[In this imperial examination, the person you admire most is Yan Tingshi, a descendant of the Yan family of Linyi, Langya.]

The overall environment of the Pre-Zhou Dynasty was too bad, and knowledge was not circulated. Each family had its own system and education, and none of it was passed on to outsiders.

These so-called poor families were from aristocratic families whose ancestors had produced famous officials, but their families fell into decline. They either chose the wrong side and were kicked out and moved away from the political center, or something unexpected happened during a chaotic period.

But no matter what others say, there are books to read.

The powerful may be the most suitable for the identity of common people, but they are also local wealthy families, either rich or influential in the local area. They intermarry with poor families or even with the gentry in exchange for capital for promotion. Strictly speaking, the people admitted by Chu Shizhao have little to do with the real grassroots people.

In the political environment of the Pre-Zhou Dynasty, if a knight like Dou Li wanted to make a name for himself, he could probably only rely on military merit, which was called a turnaround.

Therefore, Dou Li was a rootless fringe figure in the court and had no deep political connections. He had to stick to Chu Shizhao and rely on the imperial power in order to survive, which was no different from his position as a noble.

This is also the reason why Chu Shizhao asked Dou Li to be in charge of the [Northern Pacification Office], because this knife only obeys Chu Shizhao's orders.

The situations of Han Gu and Lan Shu were not much different. All three of them had risen slowly from the level of soldiers during the turbulent times. Unlike Yang Fang, Li Jin and Huan Jie, they were generals at an early age.

This kind of people are almost Chu Shizhao's personal direct lineage.

Without Chu Shizhao, there would be no base, so they would only serve Chu Shizhao, and they must be loyal to Chu Shizhao.

Chu Shizhao basically only left the dirty work to these three people.

Now, according to Chu Shizhao's layout and arrangement, the major military regions of the Great Zhou Dynasty are led by Yang Fang, who is stationed in the southwest to guard Nanyue with a total force of 80,000. Lan Shu is stationed in Qingzhou with a total force of 60,000. He can assist Han Gu, who is stationed in Fan Yang, in guarding Beiping at any time. Han Gu has about 130,000 elite troops of the Central Government Army.

Dou Li has no military power, but the Jinyiwei of the entire Northern Pacification Division has been expanded to 10,000 people. These 10,000 people are all "special troops" directly commanded by Dou Li. Chu Shizhao can also dispatch the remaining 100,000 Zhongfu troops in Chang'an.

As for Li Jin, in addition to being canonized as the Duke of Jin by Chu Shizhao, he also held the position of general, ready to be deployed at any time in Chang'an. However, Li Jin acted cautiously, and after Chu Shizhao unified the world, he immediately gave up his power and followed him to Chang'an.

Jinyang was controlled by his eldest son Li Shengming, who had 50,000 Jinyang troops under his command.

Since Chu Shizhao's own achievements were greater than those of anyone else, these generals were relatively law-abiding.

The only difficult person was Huan Jie of Liang Province, who had 100,000 Liang Province troops under his command. As the situation in Liang Province was chaotic, there were always rebellions by the Qiang people and the border was in chaos, it was difficult for Chu Shizhao to dispatch them at will.

However, at least during the Shengwu Dynasty, there won’t be any major problems here.

All together, the total force is close to 500,000. Most of these 500,000 are elite troops who have experienced wars and there are no new recruits. Therefore, there is no need to worry about using them for self-defense. They can also declare war on foreign countries. It's just that Chu Shizhao doesn't need this now.

[In August of the fourteenth year of Shengwu, your Imperial Consort Huan Yi gave birth to your fourth prince, but you could not think of a suitable name for the time being, so you did not name him. Later, because the young child was very weak and often fell ill, you named him Chu Jibing to pray for his well-being.]

Chu Shizhao couldn't finish reading all the information. Sometimes after a busy day of government affairs, he would just click to end the round, take a night's rest, and prepare to get through this round quickly.

Then Huan Yi came over and stuck to me.

Chu Shizhao was also confused. Clearly in this simulation, he and Huan Yi had no interactive plot, but Huan Yi seemed to have a special liking for him and had sex with him like crazy after he entered the harem.

Not long after that, she gave birth to his second son. If things continue like this, his third son will be born soon.

Chu Shizhao initially thought that it was because of his better physical fitness that he could withstand Huan Yi's demand for food. But now, Chu Shizhao feels that Huan Yi's physical fitness is still better.

Your mother, with this efficiency, she has to give birth to three children in four years. Are you playing the role of Dugu Jialuo here? !
The problem is that Chu Shizhao can't tell what's so strong about Huan Yi's physical fitness. Just looking at her appearance, she is the kind of gentle, aloof and elegant person from a noble family.

The result is a pure succubus.

Chu Shizhao was also puzzled. According to the scenario of this simulation, theoretically, this Great Zhou succubus should be him, right? !
Relying on the awakening effect of [Style of Emperor Gaozu] at the age of 35, Chu Shizhao's charm value directly increased to 93 points, and his charm is improving every year.

In fact, all kinds of famous officials and generals chose to help Chu Shizhao. He felt that it was also related to the hidden effect of [Emperor Gaozu's Style]. It was like enjoying the high-definition and pure [Han Succubus·Liu Bei].

Especially in the part of heading north, Huan Jie and Li Jin both chose to help Chu Shizhao. Chu Shizhao didn't believe that this was not the effect of [Emperor Gaozu's Style] being activated.

As a result, he, the [Succubus of the Great Zhou Dynasty], was severely subdued by the real succubus.

No, after each operation round, you have to do it again, once a day, which means seven times a week. If you do it during the day, noon and night, then it will be three times a day.

Am I an iron man?!

Zhaozi has a big head now.

By the time the simulation and deduction of memory fusion are completed, won’t he be paralyzed in prison?

If you keep on messing around like this, the reputation of the people of Liangzhou will be dragged down by you alone.

Chu Shizhao strongly condemned this behavior of treating her husband like an iron man and trying to torture him to death.

The harem is a forbidden area.

Don’t go there again!

I feel like if this continues, Huan Yi will have everyone else torn apart.

[In September of the fourteenth year of Shengwu, according to your idea, you promoted the papermaking business of the Great Zhou Dynasty, and thus a new papermaking technique was born! ]

[The Great Zhou Dynasty will increase its literacy rate by 5% in ten years. ]

[On September 3rd of the 14th year of Shengwu, when you were busy with government affairs in Taiji Palace, you were pulled into the harem by Yin Meiyu.]

There are three thousand beauties in the harem, right?

How did those dog emperors survive?

There are only three concubines in Chu Shizhao's harem!

Seeing his energy deteriorating day by day, Chu Shizhao felt dizzy before his eyes.

Zhaodi couldn't hold on any longer.

[On September 4, the 14th year of Shengwu, you moved to Xiyuan to handle government affairs and began to implement the "Cabinet System" to speed up administrative efficiency.]

(End of this chapter)