Chapter 95 Let these people shine for the Great Zhou
Does the country need a king, or does the king need a country?
People may not have had an answer to this question before, but now Shen Zhiwei has given an answer.
It is the king who needs the country.
When the state perishes, the king will no longer exist.
King Yun is such an example. When most of the Yun Kingdom had fallen into the hands of the rebels, this king who was fleeing everywhere was just a useless abandoned pawn. The only value he could provide was to die when the army set out, and use his own blood to inspire the morale of the army.
Prince Yun was imprisoned in the military camp for twenty-five days. Hu Youan did not treat him badly, but of course he did not treat him specially either. He had food to eat, drink to drink, and a place to sleep. Compared with those people of Yun Kingdom who were abandoned by him and had to face the swords of the chaotic army and died without a complete body, the King of Yun Kingdom lived well enough in the last period of his life.
"General, urgent news from the front!"
Hu Youan threw the blood-stained knife aside, took the silk cloth and wiped the hot blood off his hands. He didn't wipe it clean because the blood coagulated too quickly on his hands.
She didn't care about the blood on her hands. She threw the blood-red silk cloth back into the copper basin of water and took the urgent report from the scout.
When I unfolded it, I saw only a few words that gave a brief description of the situation on the front line.
"Yunshan City has completely fallen into the hands of the rebels. The rebel leader, Zhang Kai, has already gathered his troops and is preparing to attack the next city. I believe they will discover our army in a few days." After reading the urgent report, Hu Youan handed the paper to his deputy general. He then applied soap to his hands and bent down to clean the blood that had soaked into the lines on his palms. "How are you going to fight?"
The deputy general following Hu Youan this time was a student she brought up last year. He performed very well and was specially transferred to Hu Youan.
Her name is Dujuan. She has no surname and even her name was given later. She only knew that there was a bird called cuckoo before.
Dujuan had thought of how to fight a few days ago. When Hu Youan asked her about it, she opened her mouth and explained the plan she had prepared long ago. Hu Youan nodded as he listened, and finally a satisfied smile appeared in his eyes, and he agreed with Dujuan's tactics.
"It seems that you are about to graduate. I have nothing more to teach you."
"Dujuan can learn new things every day by following the teacher. I hope the teacher doesn't mind Dujuan's clumsiness."
"If you still call this clumsy, then your fellow disciples should go to Qingzhu to have their brains checked."
Hu Youan didn't like to hear self-deprecating words. Dujuan was the smartest student. She should know her advantage and make full use of it, just as she should also know where she was weakest.
For example, her archery skills had remained the same for ten years. Her eyesight was still good and her arm strength was okay, but for some reason, she would miss the target within ten steps.
Hu Youan had never seen anyone with such poor archery skills, especially a general. If Dujuan wasn't so smart, Hu Youan would have wanted to send her to Qingzhu to see if there was anything wrong with her.
Dujuan raised the corners of her mouth embarrassedly and smiled. She was actually just unlucky. Sometimes a gust of wind would change her judgment, causing her to lose control of her arrow.
Fortunately, this bad luck only happened in archery. In other things, she has always had good luck.
When Shen Zhiwei learned that there was such a magical person, he sighed that the law of conservation of luck was actually true and was embodied in one person. The world is so big that there are all kinds of wonders.
The master and disciple quickly decided on the tactics for dealing with the rebels and spent half the night discussing it to perfect it.
As Hu Youan expected, after the rebels captured another city, they finally discovered the army where Hu Youan was, and soon found out that it was an army from Jingchang.
It was even discovered that this army killed the original King Yun as a sacrifice.
Prince Yun was dead, but his children were still alive, and most of them fell into the hands of the rebels. The rebels killed some of them and kept a few, who were just in need now. They planned to make one of the younger children the new Prince Yun in order to recruit Prince Yun's old subordinates, hoping to rely on their strength to deal with Jingchang.
This was a sign of cowardice, and it was obvious that the rebels were also afraid of Jingchang's army.
Who wouldn't be afraid? Didn't Ningguo, who used to be on good terms with Yunguo, say a word the entire time? They didn't dare utter a single word, fearing Jingchang would target them. The original Yunning Alliance was a treaty that many people talked about with great relish, and many believed that this treaty would bring the two countries together for a hundred years.
As a result, it didn't even last ten years and was declared broken.
Ningguo is unwilling to get involved in Yunguo's mess, and the rebels are afraid of a direct clash with Jingchang's army, so now a rather strange situation has emerged. The rebels support the new Yun Wang to succeed to the throne, and keep talking about loyalty to the emperor. They hope that the new Yun Wang can avenge his father's death and lead Yun Wang's old subordinates to attack Hu Youan.
It seemed as if the rebels were loyal from beginning to end, and that all those acts of destroying cities and massacring them were not done by them.
The new King Yun and his old subordinates retreated one after another, refusing to say a word against Hu Youan. It was as if the King Yun's sacrifice to the flag had never happened, and all forces kept silent about it.
Shen Zhiwei was speechless. How could these princes be so cowardly? When you were kings together before, you were not so cowardly!
Jingchang is not afraid of direct battle with any force now, but if all forces avoid fighting, Shen Zhiwei will really have a headache. It is impossible for others to live their lives honestly with the door closed, while she kicks the door and breaks in like a bandit, right?
Jingchang is a regular army, not a gang of thugs!
The situation gave Shen Zhiwei a headache, but Shen Zhiwei was not on the front line. How the generals on the front battlefield made choices was the key to changing the situation.
Hu Youan remained calm in the face of this situation. She and Du Juan had previously discussed the possibility of this happening, and they both agreed that the chances of it happening were very small. How could everyone be so cowardly? After all, they were all either regional hegemons or rulers of entire nations. Where was their backbone?
They have no backbone when it comes to their lives. Hu Youan overestimates them in this respect.
The problem was not big, so Hu Youan directly sent an envoy to start "lobbying".
It's called lobbying, but in fact they are looking for trouble everywhere. Today they burn down other people's houses, tomorrow they steal other people's money, and the day after tomorrow they offend someone's ancestors in person.
What he did was abominable to both humans and gods. As long as he didn't die on the spot, he would do it to death.
There are many such "madmen" under Hu Youan's command. They are in poor health and have few opportunities to make meritorious service on the battlefield. Nowadays, everyone who joins the army is striving for military merit and will be awarded a title. If they cannot make meritorious service, they will never be awarded a title. Therefore, they are willing to take risks and use their lives to make a military merit. Even if they die, their families can enjoy the blessing of this military merit.
Looking at the military reports sent back from the front line, Shen Zhiwei looked at the actions of the messengers and felt inexplicably familiar.
Is that you, the Han envoys?
Anyway, no matter what, once the envoy died, Hu Youan immediately had a reason to send troops. Those who could hold back would be an idiot, and those who couldn't would end up being occupied by Jingchang.
Shen Zhiwei's temper is better now than before. In the past, she would never leave any princes and nobles alive, but now she will leave some alive and then drive these princes and nobles out of the pass.
There is still a huge world outside. Shen Zhiwei's caravan has also found out the details of some countries outside. In Shen Zhiwei's opinion, the development process of foreign countries is much slower than that of the current Great Zhou. These princes who were losers in the Great Zhou will be attacked by a dimensionality reduction when they go to foreign countries.
Shen Zhiwei has no time to care about those foreign countries now, but after the domestic war is over, he will have to fight abroad sooner or later. By then, he can't send envoys everywhere to seek death in order to have a legitimate reason for his actions. It's not impossible, but it's a bit ridiculous.
As a great country, there is no need to put so much effort into mobilizing troops. It should be easier.
Therefore, let the royal family members and loyal ministers of those princes go first. No matter they are very promising and establish themselves as kings again, or they are very unpromising and are killed, it can become an excuse for the Great Zhou to send troops in the future.
Since the establishment of the country, we have been one family since ancient times, and it is natural to recover it.
If they are dead, it means that they are blood relatives who died in a foreign country. It is the foreign barbarians who have created hatred for them, and they must be killed to settle the grudge.
If he is not dead and is doing just average, it means that the foreign barbarians are deliberately neglecting him and we must seek justice. If he is not dead and is doing okay but has not established a country, it means that he is deliberately colluding with foreign barbarians and is ambitious to attack the Zhou again in the future. The threat must be nipped in the bud.
Anyway, Shen Zhiwei has a hundred reasons to make these guys shine for her.
Hu Youan fought this battle from the beginning of the year to the end of the year. He was unable to return to Jingchang during the New Year and had to spend it away.
The new King Yun and his old subordinates have been running around for half a year, half dying. Hu Youan has devoted half of his energy to the nearby small countries and half to invading the Yun Kingdom. Fortunately, these people are lucky enough to survive until now.
After the New Year, officials in Jingchang impeached Hu Youan for deliberately letting the enemy go, suspected of collaborating with the enemy, and most likely trying to keep the enemy at bay. Shen Zhiwei took the impeachment letter and sent several officials from the Cricket People to the front line to express their condolences.
Since you don't know the situation at the front line and still think it's the general's fault, then go to the front line yourself and see for yourself. After you understand it clearly, come back and write a new memorial.
Shen Zhiwei had no intention of deliberately making things difficult for those officials. She simply felt that the civil servants who could say that Hu Youan deliberately released people really needed to go to the front line for training. She believed that these civil servants were just inexperienced and not really stupid enough to fail to see the current situation.
The winter in Yun Country is much warmer than that in Jingchang, so Shen Zhiwei let the group go out in the wind and snow. By the time they arrive in Yun Country, perhaps all the flowers in Yun Country will be in bloom.
After the civil servants who submitted the impeachment memorials were sent out of Jingchang City, the voices speaking ill of Hu Youan suddenly became much quieter. Shen Zhiwei felt that these civil servants should be waiting for those civil servants to bring back first-hand battlefield news. They were truly ministers who cared about the country and the people.
Shen Zhiwei felt that those civil servants were a little bored during the New Year, so he selected a few civil servants who had not made much achievements in Jingchang and sent them to Yundi, which had just been conquered. He hoped that they could display their talents in the ruins that had been ravaged by war and devote their youth and sweat to the reconstruction of Yundi.
As for when they can return to Jingchang, it depends on when Yundi catches up with Jingchang's prosperity.
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