Please call me Your Majesty!

Chapter 89 I will never turn back until their country is destroyed!!! Chu Shizhao’s bloodiness!!!
Chu Shizhao is actually in a stage of continuous exploration now.

Events that can determine the course of history often have both inevitability and contingency behind them.

Necessity means that this thing is determined to happen.

And randomness determines when this thing will happen and in what form it will happen.

For example, after the death of Chu Shizhao's father, Emperor Yongjin, there was a sudden power vacuum. This was inevitable, but whether the Great Zhou Dynasty would be destroyed was actually a coincidence.

As long as there was a member of the royal family who could inherit the political legacy left by Emperor Yongjin in a timely manner with the right event, the right atmosphere, and the right state, the Great Zhou Dynasty might not have collapsed so quickly.

The sudden death of Emperor Yongjin will indeed affect the situation inside and outside the court, but the extent of the impact depends entirely on a series of events that occur during this period and whether there is room for recovery.

It is worth mentioning that the situation in which Li Jin and Huan Jie had their own troops in the north was actually inevitable. As long as the control of the central court declined and chaos broke out in the north, generals like these who had military power, even if they themselves did not want to rebel, would anyway, because of the direction of history, step onto the stage prepared for them in history books.

Who makes them have abilities that ordinary people don't have?

It can only be said that those who have no ability will die early at the hands of their subordinates, in wars, or in various emergencies.

However, these two people are not bound to become traitors and embark on the path of warlords. After all, the existence of Chu Shizhao has caused the situation to become a whirlpool.

One of the ways to change the situation, and a strategy that has been proven effective by Chu Shizhao, is the combination of Chu Shizhao and Li Fengning, which can make Li Jin willing to bet on Chu Shizhao.

In the original history, these capable generals had only two paths to choose from: one was to rebel against the imperial court and get involved in the struggle for supremacy; the other was to support the imperial court and become loyal to the country.

But the problem is that the previous Zhou Dynasty did not give these generals the opportunity to be loyal ministers.

You also have to give these generals the opportunity to be loyal and good, and give them the channel, so that they can be loyal and good.

Li Jin was originally a member of Emperor Zhengguang's army, not a direct descendant of Emperor Yongjin. The direct descendants of Emperor Yongjin were the people of the Zhongfu Army.

Huan Jie's side was in a lawless Liang Province. He relied on his own ability to pacify the Qiang people, which was equivalent to an internal recommendation for the position in Liang Province. The emperor of the Great Zhou Dynasty would stamp a seal and give certification, and would not care about the life and death of Liang Province. The only requirement for Liang Province was that it could pay taxes stably, which would be considered a success.

After the old man died, the central government could not even take care of its own internal affairs, so how could it find the time to act as a matchmaker between the two of them?

The more Chu Shizhao watched, the more he felt like the kind of person who was soliciting sponsorship through his physical body.

Relying on your appearance, trying to get Li Jin's votes, and trying to get Huan Jie's votes. Of course, if you don't have enough ability and excellent conditions, you won't be able to maneuver around.

With absolutely no resources, there was only one way for Chu Shizhao to get Li Jin's vote, and that was to work with Li Fengning to give Li Jin a grandson early on, so that Li Jin would feel that as long as he made an effort and helped Chu Shizhao win the throne, his grandson could become emperor. Li Jin really worked hard.

This is almost becoming some kind of conceptual god.

Moreover, the best time is when Li Jin has not yet completely established his power. If he has completely established his power and Li Jin does not want to establish himself as the emperor, his subordinates will force him to do so, and eventually a group of successful ministers will support him to take the throne.

This is the best early-stage stock, especially when Li Jin only has one child, Jinyang. If he combines with Li Fengning early and has a big fat boy, then Jinyang will basically follow Chu Shizhao.

If Chu Shizhao waits until Li Jin unifies the north and then goes there, he will have no chance.

In fact, Li Jin's vote is more stable than Huan Jie's.

No matter what is said, Li Jin is the grandson who has the inheritance right, and Huan Jie is the nephew who has the inheritance right. A grandson is definitely closer than a nephew.

Huan Jie didn't dare to risk his life, but Li Jin did.

If he had to choose the safest, fastest and most reliable option, it would definitely be to marry Li Fengning directly and win Li Jin's vote.

However, the result of Chu Shizhao's unconventional approach this time actually worked wonders.

Marrying Li Fengning is a quick and safe option, but it is not as exciting as this simulation. However, such an opportunity may not come again in the future.

It is even difficult for Chu Shizhao to replicate such results. There are too many variables here that are difficult to copy.

Therefore, Chu Shizhao wanted to take advantage of this opportunity to found his own country and constantly challenge himself to reach the heights he could reach.

Chu Shizhao already has such a good destiny and situation, and he cannot just waste it. This is a great opportunity for him to hone his ability to govern the country and bring peace to the world.

[In October of the fourteenth year of Shengwu, a turbulent civil war broke out in the Nanyue Kingdom, and Jiaozhi County, half of which was originally under the control of the Great Zhou Dynasty, was attacked.]

[Nanyue general Ding Lan defeated his superiors and killed Yang Ting, the ruler of Nanyue. The war soon spread to the southwestern border of the Zhou Dynasty.]

[In Jiaozhi County, there was a female general named Shixiu, the leader of a tribe in Nanyue. After the king Yang Ting was killed, Shixiu and her army continued to resist Ding Lan's rebels. ]

[Shi Xiu is an expert swordsman and spearman, and his skills are unrivaled. He is already angry about Ding Lan's actions in South Vietnam, so he calls on his followers to wait for the opportunity to attack.]

[As a result, they were defeated and had no choice but to flee and hide in the territory of the Great Zhou Dynasty.]

[Ding Lan, who had won many battles in South Vietnam, did not want to let such an enemy go, so he sent troops to chase him down.]

[Yang Fang's defense line was far from Jiaozhi, which allowed Ding Lan to travel unimpeded and conquer all of Jiaozhi County, which originally belonged to the Great Zhou Dynasty. Seeing the impressive results, Ding Lan led his troops to continue their march and conquer Qinzhou.]

【It was not until then that Yang Fang realized the chaos of the situation. In order to avoid Chu Shizhao's wrath, he immediately sent troops to attack Ding Lan's advancing troops. However, when he led his troops from Nanning Prefecture to Qinzhou, the local governor Su Fu had already fought hard and burned himself to death after the city was broken. Ding Lan's troops killed people and robbed the Qinzhou area, which was much richer than Jiaozhi County. Except for the people who could be taken away, almost all the rest of the people in the city were slaughtered on the spot, leaving only an empty city.】

[When Yang Fang recaptured Qinzhou and returned the territory of Jiaozhi County, Chu Shizhao, who received the memorial, was indignant and threw Yang Fang's memorial of "recovering the homeland" on the ground.]

[“They killed my people and left here calmly. Should I praise you for fighting well?”]

[“I asked you, Yang Fang, to guard such an important pass so that you would be on guard against South Vietnam. And now, you give me this reply?!”]

[In December of the fourteenth year of Shengwu, Chu Shizhao wrapped his head in a white scarf and dispatched Lan Shu, who was in charge of Qingzhou, to Nanning Prefecture as quickly as possible and dismissed Yang Fang from his post. The crown prince Chu Jibang advised him, but Chu Shizhao ignored him.]

[“If your world can only see the love between one family and one person, but cannot see the people who are implicated by it, then you will lose your morality.”]

[“As the crown prince, don’t you understand that those who are righteous will have many supporters, while those who are unrighteous will have few supporters?”]

[“I know that Yang Fang is your father-in-law, but those people in Qinzhou who were massacred because of Yang Fang’s negligence, don’t they have their own relatives and friends? Should Su Fu, who died for the country, be killed in vain because of the negligence of you, his father-in-law?”]

[“Power is a public tool. I know you want to rule the country with benevolence and righteousness like me, but is benevolence and righteousness all that remains in my life?”]

【“Benevolence, justice and forgiveness are reserved for those who deserve mercy and forgiveness. Those who implicate others because of their own mistakes are not worthy of forgiveness.”】

[“Because of the mistakes he made, other people who shouldn’t have suffered the consequences have to bear the consequences.”][“And I reminded him long ago——”]

[“You will inherit my position in the future, and let everyone in the world know that the emperor who sits on this position once again is worthy of the admiration and respect of everyone.”]

[“How can an emperor who only cares about personal feelings and does not regard all living beings in the world as more important than himself gain the respect of the people?”]

[“The benevolence and righteousness I asked you to learn is the benevolence and righteousness towards the people.”]

[“And now I want to teach you——the character that a king should have.”]

[“What’s more, Yang Fang’s mistake was not just negligence. Did he think that as long as he recovered Qinzhou and took over half of Jiaozhi County, he would be able to complete his mission?”]

[“If someone hits you once and you only hit him back, he will do it again in the future. He will think you are easy to bully.”]

[“I deposed Yang Fang because he brought shame to my Great Zhou Dynasty and to me.”]

[“If you massacre my Qinzhou City, I will destroy! their! country!”]

[The beads on the crown on Chu Shizhao's head gently dropped down, and his eyes were burning with an unquenchable rage.]

[“The emperor guards the country’s gates, and the king dies for the country.”]

[“I want you to remember this heavy day forever.” Chu Shizhao, wearing a black gilded dragon robe, walked in front of the Crown Prince Chu Jibang, “You just kneel in front of this palace until you can figure out this truth.”]

【“Xuan Lanshu and Han Gu enter the palace.”】

[“I allow him to do as he pleases.”]

[Li Jin, who had been standing in the hall in advance, ready to be dispatched by Chu Shizhao at any time, was slightly surprised.]

[Lan Shu was a tyrannical and cruel person, often killing prisoners to gain credit. Chu Shizhao repeatedly warned him not to continue doing so. This was the reason why Lan Shu, despite his great contributions, was ranked last among the five founding generals.]

[This so-called expedient means that when Lan Shu attacks South Vietnam, he is allowed to use any radical means, and Chu Shizhao will no longer ask what Lan Shu did, as long as Lan Shu can give a satisfactory military achievement.]

[“Your Majesty.” Li Jin opened his mouth, but hesitated.]

[“Qinzhou is my people. My people were massacred. This is a deep pain.” Chu Shizhao’s voice trembled slightly. He could hardly suppress his anger.]

[It was hard for him to imagine what the people of Qinzhou had gone through at that time, and he could not accept that Yang Fang, who could have saved the people of Qinzhou from suffering, actually thought that the South Vietnam would not invade in a large scale and would not dare to massacre the city, so he neglected the defense line of Qinzhou.]

[“My benevolence and justice are for the people of the Great Zhou. The people of Nanyue have nothing to do with me.”]

[“If you want to blame someone, blame them for angering me——”]

[Wen Yu, who had to withdraw from the Grand Canal construction project and return to Chang'an because of the Nanyue incident, tried to persuade him: "Your Majesty, you have been kind and righteous all your life. If you kill people at this time, it will make your name in history books. Now that General Yang has recovered those lost territories, there is no need to send a large army to attack those bitter and cold places, which will waste the national treasury and harm the people!"]

[“Infamy? Why should I fear it?”]

[“Let future generations judge us as they wish.”]

[“I only know the blood feud of hundreds of thousands of people in Qinzhou. I absolutely cannot let it go so easily.”]

[“Even if I lose the reputation of being benevolent and righteous, I will still attack Yue!!!”]

[“If anyone else makes a remonstrance, I will drag them all away——”]

[Having finished speaking, Chu Shizhao drew his sword, and the emperor looked around and said, "Do you all think that I rose to power only by virtue of my benevolence and righteousness?"]

[It was not until this moment that everyone recalled that this emperor who was lenient to others in the court was the emperor on horseback who had fought in many battles and made numerous achievements.]

[Just because Chu Shizhao didn't draw his sword doesn't mean he doesn't have a seven-foot-long Qingfeng sword.]

[Cultivating and resting with the people is Chu Shizhao's benevolence, but Emperor Shengwu's martial arts is also Chu Shizhao himself.]

【This is Chu Shizhao's blood.】

【The bloodiness of martial virtue. 】

[The Chu Shizhao standing in front of everyone is not a successor who inherited the world, but a true founding monarch, a founding monarch who emerged from the troubled times! ]

[“I will not turn back until their country is destroyed!!!”]

[“You, Lan Shu, either die in Qinzhou for me, or conquer Nanyue for me.”]

[“Did you hear that clearly?”]

[Lan Shu, who was kneeling in the hall, showed a cold smile. He clasped his hands together and said, "I obey your command."]

[“But I don’t know whether Your Majesty wants a South Vietnam that can still be governed, a South Vietnam that is half dead, or a South Vietnam with no grass growing.”]

[“Whatever.” Chu Shizhao said calmly, “You can take the soldiers, horses, and weapons yourself.”]

[“I will not turn back until their country is destroyed—” Lan Shu stood up, his eyes filled with a strong murderous intent and the excitement of not having been on the battlefield for a long time.]

The screen freezes.

Even Li Fengning, who had been feeling angry and holding back, couldn't help but stare at the scene.

The current Chu Shizhao is exactly her ideal monarch.

Just a few words completely stirred up ripples in Li Fengning's heart.

A hero should be like this!

　A bug in the previous article has been fixed.

　　Han Gu guarded Fan Yang, while Yang Fang was on guard against Nanyue.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)