Please call me Your Majesty!

Chapter 62: I know it cannot be done, but I still do it; even if there are thousands of people against me, I will still go.

Cao Wei is the person who bears the most pressure.

Emperor Yongjin was not an ordinary person.

At the beginning of his reign, the situation in the Great Zhou was extremely chaotic, because Emperor Yongjin's elder brother, Emperor Zhengguang, had been trying to find ways to restrict the power of the Jiedushi.

In the eyes of Emperor Zhengguang, in addition to defending against foreign invaders, the power held by those northern vassal states also posed a threat to the entire central government and the entire royal family.

Therefore, Emperor Zhengguang chose to separate powers and check and balance, so that the power of the Jiedushi was mainly concentrated in military command, but in terms of finance and administration, there were great restrictions, and the Jiedushi was not allowed to take full control of local power.

However, in this process, some of Emperor Zhengguang's methods of reducing the power of the feudal lords were too radical and unfriendly, which led to some military governors in the feudal towns rebelling on the spot. Therefore, Emperor Zhengguang sent out aristocratic families and local tyrants to quell the rebellion of these military governors.

The clans represented by Li Jin and Huan Jie were indirect beneficiaries of this series of changes.

Later, Emperor Zhengguang died suddenly without an heir, so Emperor Yongjin was forced to succeed to the throne.

It was thanks to Emperor Yongjin's personal efforts that the Great Zhou Dynasty was able to remain stable.

When Emperor Yongjin first took over the Zhou Dynasty, he first stabilized the direct contradictions between the Jiedushi and the central government, then checked and balanced the Jiedushi by granting power to the gentry, and implemented many policies to limit external power. In this process, Emperor Yongjin also established three military forces, namely the North Army, the Central Army, and the South Army, to continue to strengthen the imperial power.

For more than ten years, the court inside and outside was basically controlled by Emperor Yongjin. He controlled all external forces, including the military governors, gentry, powerful people and even relatives of the emperor, which led to a brief period of political stability in the world.

In fact, the Great Zhou Dynasty had always had a strong control over the power of the Jiedushi. Emperor Zhengguang was more concerned with eliminating dissidents and wanted to replace them with a group of people he trusted as new local Jiedushi, which caused dissatisfaction among the old forces.

Therefore, Emperor Yongjin had been in power for a long time, and even if he had been slack, Cao Wei, who had followed him for more than ten years, could still remember the methods he used at the beginning of his reign.

This emperor is not a clay emperor.

"Your Majesty, the Fourth Prince is extremely rebellious and is talking nonsense about the country." Cao Wei immediately showed a look of "sorrow". Just looking at his expression, it seemed as if he was scolding Chu Shizhao for not understanding government affairs and talking big here, which was no different from the Qingliu.

"I ask you to continue reading." The voice of Emperor Yongjin was stuck in his throat, and the tone he uttered was intimidating without being angry. It seemed that he was being tolerant, but also seemed that he was about to burst out with anger.

Cao Wei could only bite the bullet and recite slowly: "The ruler is the master of all the people and all things in the world. As the master of all the people and all things in the world, the responsibility is extremely heavy."

"If there is anything that is not appropriate for the benefit of the people, then there will be something that is not up to the job."

"So the way of a ruler should be to be fully prepared, and to entrust his responsibilities to his ministers, so that they can speak their mind."

Cao Wei paused after reciting each sentence, and then looked at the expression of Emperor Yongjin while suppressing the shock in his heart and continuing to recite.

In this memorial, Chu Shizhao listed the ancestors of the Great Zhou Dynasty and compared those emperors who had done well with Emperor Yongjin.

He believed that the Emperor Gaozu and Emperor Taizong of the Zhou Dynasty ruled by doing nothing in the court because the country needed to recuperate, and that was why they did so. However, his father, the Emperor, ruled by doing nothing, which was to let the officials and even the powerful people in the countryside exploit the people, and he himself enjoyed the fruits of the officials' oppression of the people, and called it "the people worship, respect, and admire him."

But this is a kind of reverence forced upon the common people, and they are not truly willing to worship, revere, and admire the emperor.

This so-called Yongjin is a place where nine out of ten houses are empty and clean.

But when it comes to governing the world, how can one think that the world is well governed just by listening to the flattery of officials?

Your Majesty should listen more to the opinions of your subjects, including those of the royal descendants.

The Son of Heaven should be someone recognized by everyone. Only then can he be called the Son of Heaven.

Therefore, what the emperor does is not decent, and most of the ministers dare not speak out their honest advice and make honest suggestions. Is there anyone in the world who can do the right thing?
This is what I played!

The officials of the world dare not speak, and you are unwilling to listen to the people's words. Then, as your Majesty's subject and son, I will speak for those minor officials and the common people in the countryside to express their voices.

You shouldn't continue to build large-scale projects in the palace, nor should you practice any way to achieve immortality. There is no such thing as immortality in this world.

In current affairs, we should be more lenient towards the people and do our best to deal with those officials and treacherous officials who commit crimes.

"Your Majesty, if you fail to understand and correct your mistakes, I will always feel resentful. Therefore, I will risk my life to be loyal and earnest to speak to Your Majesty."

"Your son is trembling with fear, so I have personally brought this report to you." The expression of Emperor Yongjin changed continuously. He stood up after a long time, his eyes wide open with anger, as if he could not expect that his son, who was so low-key and introverted, would say such words.

He had the wrong person.

He never thought that among his sons, there would be one with such a strong character.

"Good, good, good--a good congratulatory message--"

"Pass on my order, and invite this loyal minister who claims to be a pillar of the country and wants to offer good advice, Xianzi, to come to me from his palace." Emperor Yongjin stretched out his hand and snatched the congratulatory letter written by Chu Shizhao himself, "Please come to the main hall of our Qianqing Palace--"

What Emperor Yongjin said seemed a little incoherent. He looked at the neat handwriting on the congratulatory letter, and the clear and sharp pen strokes.

There was confusion in his words.

"All right—" Emperor Yongjin's voice was a little hoarse, "I want to see who instructed you to do such a treasonous and unrighteous thing, deceiving the emperor and your father."

Inside the Qianqing Palace, bursts of quick and powerful footsteps were soon heard.

However, there are many differences between the public security memorial written by Chu Shizhao and the "Number One Memorial in the World" written by Hai Rui. After all, the environment and historical background are quite different. It is equivalent to taking Hai Rui's roots as the title and writing another public security memorial suitable for the current situation of the "Great Zhou Dynasty".

However, Chu Shizhao's ideas are indeed consistent with Hai Rui's.

After so many simulations, Chu Shizhao realized that if he had started to think of a solution during the reign of Emperor Yongjin, that is, during the original period, things would have been much easier in the future.

Many problems arose from the power vacuum that occurred during the period when Emperor Yongjin died. Emperor Yongjin had no way to control the gentry or the military governors, and the ministers in the court wanted to support the prince they wanted to support.

During this vacuum period, an uprising happened to occur. As a result, several factors combined to create an opportunity for the Zhou Dynasty to enter a period of chaos.

Of course, Chu Shizhao could just watch this series of events happen and quietly act as the gravedigger of the empire and the mastermind behind the scenes.

But what about the people involved?
Those who fight for the world are never the common people, but the warlords, those who stand above the common people.

In troubled times, people will die.

When the world is in chaos, it is always a minority who benefit, while the majority of people become the withered bones among the thousands of withered bones who have withered for their success.

However, Chu Shizhao is not a saint either.

He is also a very ordinary person. Chu Shizhao has to admit that he is very selfish and a very ordinary person.

He likes people like Zhuge Liang, respects people like Hai Rui, and admires people like Yu Qian who strive for eternal fame, but Chu Shizhao also knows that he can never be such a person.

As for the public security report that he had put so much effort into writing based on the situation of the Great Zhou Dynasty, it was just Chu Shizhao's momentary romance.

Chu Shizhao would not think about what changes would happen in the future, but right now, he wanted to speak a fair word for the people of the world.

This is a fair word that Chu Shizhao wants to say after several simulations and deductions, having witnessed life and death in his memory and the cheapness of human life in troubled times.

Chu Shizhao suddenly understood why every ancient person who was recorded in history books had such a complex and changeable personality.

Perhaps, there comes a moment when no matter what kind of person he is, he will pay for his own romance.

I know it cannot be done, but I still do it.

Although there are thousands of people, I am going.

At the palace.

Chu Shizhao was waiting quietly beside the coffin he had personally purchased.

Outside this mansion, the soldiers of the Wude Division were constantly approaching.

(End of this chapter)