Please call me Your Majesty!

Chapter 8 But is this Great Zhou really worth saving?

Chu Shizhao had three reasons for taking the initiative.

On the one hand, it was to hone his ability in warfare, on the other hand, it was to test the intentions of his "father-in-law", and the last point was to see whether Li Feng would rather protect himself.

That’s right, the character abilities in the [Emperor Growth Plan] are not static. As long as you go through large-scale training, you can grow.

After fighting a few large-scale wars, your command ability will be improved.

The more people you control in the army, the easier it is to improve your command and organizational abilities. As these abilities improve, you will gain commissions on various attributes in leading the legion.

For example, if your organizational skills are very strong, the mobility of your troops will be improved.

Chu Shizhao only led the troops and trained his father-in-law in Jinyang according to the daily established military formations. He could not improve his own attributes. Only fighting could improve his attributes.

After a while, the world will be in chaos. His identity is extremely sensitive, and there is a high probability that his father-in-law will strip him of his military power and eventually turn him into a mascot.

So before this, all Chu Shizhao could do was to keep climbing up and try every means to prove his ability, so that he could have the voice he wanted.

This time, he took the initiative to lead his troops to engage in a head-on confrontation with the Huns who were plundering from the south, just to see what his father-in-law's attitude was.

If he was the kind of warlord who loved the policy of appeasement and would allow the Huns to wreak havoc as long as it did not harm his own interests.

Chu Shizhao will have no psychological burden when he turns against her.

This is actually a test to see how broad-minded his father-in-law is.

However, it seems that his father-in-law has no objection to his fighting the Huns. On the contrary, Li Jin's attitude is more supportive of Chu Shizhao's approach.

The biggest complaint against him was that he did not report the matter and sent troops out without military orders.

At the moment, the best news is that Li Fengning is willing to come forward to protect him.

This is the most favorable news for Chu Shizhao.

After all, the troops under his command are largely supported by Li Fengning and have little to do with Chu Shizhao. He is just the general who leads the troops in public.

This kind of relationship may even last for a long time.

[In August of the 30th year of Yongjin, Li Fengning found you. She was very satisfied with the armor you gave her, so she was willing to speak for you this time and did not owe you this favor.]

[In September of the 30th year of the Yongjin reign, a large-scale uprising broke out in the south. A Taoist monk named Wang Shouyi rebelled against the Zhou Dynasty. Soon after, Song Xun, a salt smuggler in the south, joined the rebel army.]

[It is called "Wang Song Rebellion" in history.]

[In October of the 30th year of the Yongjin reign, the Yongjin Emperor dispatched troops to try to suppress the peasant army. He sent the famous general Lu En to suppress it.]

[In November of the 30th year of the Yongjin reign, Wang Shouyi captured Shangyu, attacked and destroyed Kuaiji County, and executed Wang Xiao, the internal historian of the imperial court.]

[Due to the low public support in the Zhou Dynasty, this peasant uprising army was supported by the majority of peasants and slaves. ]

[It also received responses from some powerful classes who were dissatisfied with the imperial court. ]

【As a result, eight counties including Kuaiji, Wujun, Wuxing, Yixing, Linhai, Yongjia, Dongyang and Xin'an rose up at the same time, killing local officials in response. History records that "within ten days, the number of people reached hundreds of thousands."】

【Wang Shouyi called himself the General of the Eastern Expedition and named his righteous army the Longevity Army.】

[The rebels attacked the southern clans mercilessly. Most of the aristocratic families were slaughtered wherever they went. The tenants and slaves of the clans also joined the rebels. In a short period of time, they even gathered 100,000 bandits, which gave Emperor Yongjin a headache.]

[In December of the 30th year of the Yongjin reign, Lu En led his troops to the east. With the best troops in the imperial court, Lu En quickly recaptured Kuaiji County, and Wang Shouyi was forced to retreat.]

On Chu Shizhao's map, a large area of ​​the south was lost, like black soil blocks, telling Chu Shizhao that the control of these places had fallen into a state of loss. [In January of the 31st year of Yongjin, Lu En adopted a cautious and steady approach to deal with the rebellion in the south, and Ma Su'an, the governor of Fanyang, saw that the court was exhausted in dealing with the southern uprising army, and his ambitions grew day by day.]

[In February of the 31st year of Yongjin, under the persuasion of his generals, Fanyang Jiedushi Ma Su'an believed that the people of the world had suffered from the Zhou Dynasty for a long time, so he decided to respond to the uprising and set up an army to establish his own regime.]

[In March of the 31st year of Yongjin, Ma Su'an raised an army in Fanyang, dealing a fierce and fatal blow to the Zhou Dynasty.]

[In April of the 31st year of Yongjin, officials in Jinyang who were loyal to the court persuaded Li Jin that at this critical moment of the court's survival, the general should be loyal to the country and send troops to quell the rebellion in Fanyang.]

【At this time, Chu Shizhao persuaded Li Jin, "Father-in-law, the rebellion in Fanyang has already taken shape. Ma Suan's rebellion was premeditated. He must have heavily guarded Fanyang."】

[“If we rashly send out troops and fail and lose Jinyang, we will be the sinners of the country. We are stationed in Jinyang to show our loyalty to the country.”]

[Li Jin did not want to send troops rashly. He did not know Ma Su'an's background in Fanyang. It was more important to preserve the foundation of Jinyang.]

[It is easy to defend, but difficult to attack. How easy is it to capture Fanyang, which is also a northern military town, especially an important town? ]

[Li Jin, who had been admonished by the Jinyang officials, was already distressed. Not sending troops would be disloyal, and if they failed, they would be disgraced.]

[Never expected that Chu Shizhao, the son of Emperor Yongjin, did not add fuel to his fire, but instead helped him out of his difficult situation.]

[Li Fengning was quite surprised that Chu Shizhao made such a choice.]

[“It’s really strange that you didn’t persuade my father to save your old Chu family, which is in such a mess.”]

[Chu Shizhao's eyes flickered, and he sighed.]

[“The ice is three feet thick and it didn’t freeze overnight. Among the four northern towns, Fanyang was the first to rebel. But who can be sure that the other two towns have no other intentions?”]

[“If Jinyang sends out troops and conquers Fanyang, that would be fine. But if they lose, wouldn’t Jinyang be a piece of meat on the chopping board?”]

[“The four northern towns were originally meant to check and balance each other. A single move could affect the entire body.”]

[“If Jinyang doesn’t move, the other two towns will naturally not dare to move either. Then only Fanyang Jiedushi Ma Su’an will rebel.”]

[“Jinyang moved and lost, so the other two towns are bound to change.”]

[“If Jinyang makes a move and wins, it will swallow up Fanyang. The other two towns will probably also change. It is impossible for your Li family to become so big just by looking at you.”]

[“When you take control of Fanyang, they will surely attack Jinyang.”]

[“However, there is another possibility at the moment, that is, Fanyang Jiedushi Ma Suan sent troops to attack Jinyang.”]

[“If he wants to become bigger, he must encroach on the surrounding territories.”]

[“Your father has always been known for his elegance and refinement. In troubled times, gentlemen are upright and easy to be bullied. Ma Su’an dared to rebel like this because he believed that he could conquer Jinyang and that now was the best time for him to start a rebellion. Otherwise, he would not have been so decisive in starting a rebellion.”]

[“Within a month, he will raise an army to attack Jin.”]

[“If we hold Jinyang, defeat Ma Su’an’s troops, and then attack Fanyang, this will be our only chance of survival, and also the only chance of survival for our Great Zhou.”]

[“But is this Great Zhou really worth saving?”]

【At this point, Chu Shizhao looked at your face with sparkling eyes.】

In an instant, Li Fengning woke up immediately, feeling a sense of horror and surprise.

This is an overwhelming ambition.

(End of this chapter)