Inside the Imperial Palace of the Southern Zhou Empire.

"Ao Yu, please pay homage to His Majesty the Emperor, long live long live long live long live long live long live long live long live long live long live long live long live long live long live long live long live long live long live long live long live long live long live long live long live long live long live long live long live long live long live long, long live long live long live long live long, long live long live long live long, long live long live long, long live long live long, long live long, long live long, long live long, long live long,

After traveling for a few days and nights, Yun Zhonghe finally met Emperor Wan Yun. To be precise, he didn't see him because there was still a layer of screen.

So he still didn't see what Emperor Wan Yun looked like.

"Tell me!" Emperor Wan Yun said straightforwardly, without any nonsense.

Yun Zhonghe said: "The grass people have three strategies: top, middle and lower."

Emperor Wan Yun did not respond.

Yun Zhonghe said: "The worst strategy is to stop the gathering of the army. Even if you really want to gather the army to go south, keep a low profile and don't make a big fuss. I wish the whole world knew that the army was going south to quell the rebellion and killed the natives of the Southern Barbarians. Give the rebellion to the imperial army in the southern border, and focus on appeasement and suppression as the auxiliary."

The emperor sneered and sniffed Yun Zhonghe's worst strategy.

Yun Zhonghe said: "Zhongce was His Majesty who sent the imperial envoy to the south to pass the imperial edict. This rebellion only killed the evil Li Wenhua, and the native garrison troops would never pursue it. As long as anyone killed Li Wenhua, he would be granted a marquis immediately. Even if the natives of the Southern Barbarians, they would be granted a marquis as long as they killed Li Wenhua."

The emperor still sneered.

Yun Zhonghe said: "The best strategy is to release my father Ao Xin, send him alone into the southern border, and quell the rebellion."

Finally, Emperor Wan Yun couldn't help it and said in a cold voice: "Is this your strange strategy? It's a strange strategy to quell the rebellion in the southern border without a single soldier?"

Yun Zhonghe said, "Yes, Your Majesty."

Emperor Wan Yun said, "Come, drive him out."

The emperor was really disappointed. He had great hope for Ao Yu. After all, he was the one who wrote "The Legend of the East" and his performance in Jiangzhou was quite extraordinary.

So after receiving the memorial from Zhou Lian, deputy envoy of the Privy Council, he still had a glimmer of hope to meet Ao Yu.

As a result, the plan made by the other party was simply stink and could not be described as mediocre. It can only be said that it was stink and stink.

If it weren't for Ao Yu's writing "The Story of the East Chamber", Emperor Wan Yun would have ordered the murder directly.

Of course, he left Ao Yu's life for a few days. After the imperial guards gathered, he would kill Ao Xin's family to the sacrificial flag.

A few eunuchs came forward and were about to throw Yun Zhonghe out.

Yun Zhonghe shouted: "Your Majesty, in fact, this rebellion will be quelled even if you ignore it. This rebellion seems to be vigorous, but it is actually a completely rootless fire. Be careful of the mastermind behind this rebellion. You are so full of fanfare, but it is like putting fire to put out fires, which will only intensify the situation and fall into the enemy's plan."

Emperor Wan Yun raised his hand.

Several eunuchs relaxed their hands and Yun Zhonghe fell to the ground again.

Yun Zhonghe said: "Your Majesty, there are only two reasons why Li Wenhua was able to occupy Nanzhou City."

"The first reason is that the Great Protectorate in the South and the Governor of the South Province was not prepared for him and completely regarded him as his own. Because he was a nobleman of the empire with a strong roots and the most unlikely person to rebel. Li Wen, the thief, took the opportunity to attack and captured all the ministers."

"The second reason is to take advantage of the fear of the southern garrison army. This year, our guard against the native garrison army has become increasingly strict. First, they disarmed them all and then kept them in surveillance. This gave the rumors a breeding ground, so they believed that His Majesty the Emperor was preparing to massacre them all in order to prevent the native garrison army from rebelling. The fall of my father Ao Xin is a signal, because this garrison army was established by my father, so they felt that after my father Ao Xin fell, they would kill all the garrison army he established with one hand."

"Otherwise, what kind of virtue is Li Wenhua? Can he mobilize the local garrison army?"

"Your Majesty, the rebellious will of this native garrison army is not strong now. They just want to get the recognition of the empire and get a positive answer from His Majesty the Emperor. We will not kill them all, we will continue to reuse them."

"So the slogan Li Weng put forward was to force the court to release my father Ao Xin."

"Or to put it more bluntly, this native garrison army had no intention of rebelling at all."

The emperor said word by word: "If you are not a race, your heart will be different!"

"Your Majesty, this sentence is no longer correct." Yun Zhonghe said: "But Caomin has a brand new word here, that is, the Leadership Party."

"The so-called leader party is the spiritual Great Zhou people. There is a group of people in the Southern Barbarians who were originally natives, but they were promoted to become lackeys by our Great Zhou Empire and managed the remaining natives. They lived a life of glory and wealth, and were completely different from most natives and felt that they were superior."

"So in the southern barbarian territory, first-class Great Zhou people, second-class leading party, and third-class natives."

"His Majesty the Emperor, we must not underestimate the determination of a group of lackeys to maintain their own class status."

"In order to make themselves noble, these natives' leading parties will strive to maintain this class relationship, and no one can break it. Because they become lackeys of the Great Zhou Dynasty, they can give them a strong sense of superiority in front of most natives."

"Whatever most people rely on to survive is their superiority. I always have to be better than a group of people, and then I stare at these people who are not as good as me and live happily."

"But now, our Great Zhou actually deprived the lackeys of the party leading the way, and of course they were afraid. Because in this way, they would lose the sense of superiority in front of the vast number of native peoples. Not only that, we also had to cut off their dog food, so they would follow Li Wenhua to make trouble, and in essence they wanted to regain their dog food."

"Your Majesty, our ancestors have always said that if we are not of our race, our hearts will be different. But can the natives in the Southern Barbarian Realm call them people// tribes? They cannot be completely uncivilized, and their thinking is ignorant and unknown. Because there has never been a unified country in the Southern Barbarian Realm and there is no glorious leader, they do not have the so-called sense of identity or honor."

"They are not like the Daliang Kingdom. Although these natives in the Southern Barbarian Realm are fierce and fierce, and are even afraid of death, they are essentially just countless duckweeds."

"The Kingdom of Daliang is completely different. They are real aliens and are keen on plundering. In essence, they regard us Chinese as pigs and sheep. When we are weak, they will plunder. This is the enemy that needs us to completely eliminate."

"No matter how strong the natives are, they do not live by plunder. They are not very good at farming, but they can hunt and collect, and they are willing to work after all."

"And these natives are actually not very different from us. They are just a little shorter and darker. In just a few generations, they will be exactly the same as us."

"So they are not aliens, they are just the goal of our conquest, the goal of annexation, the goal of assimilation."

"The most important thing is that when these natives face our Great Zhou, they are inferior and even admire them."

"I have read the information from the Southern Barbarians. To be honest, these natives have a very bad living conditions. They have been immigrated to the Great Zhou Dynasty. I don't know how many people are slaves and servants. But even so, many natives still feel that life is better than before, because they have seen a higher level of civilized life and instinctively admire us."

"So will these natives in the Southern Barbarian Realm rebellion? The key is whether they are attracted by other civilized centripetal force. However, on this land, our Great Zhou is the only civilized centripetal force."

"And in this rebellion, the one who rebelled was not the most oppressed lower-class natives, but the lackeys in the middle."

"And this group of leaders and these lackeys are the most fierce people who oppress the lower-class natives. This also destined that they will not receive support from the lower-class natives in a short period of time, so this rebellion is a rootless fire."

"Your Majesty, we cannot deprive others of the power to be a lackey, otherwise they will have nothing. Only a lackey with nothing will bite its owner."

"So I also say that this rebellion seems to be vigorous, but it is not worth worrying about. What we should worry about is the mastermind behind this rebellion, the Zhenhai Palace and the Shi family."

"The Shi family is unruly and always wants to unify the entire Southern Barbarians and establish another empire."

"If we go to suppress the native garrison troops with great fanfare, we will hit the mind of the Shi family. Moreover, those native garrison troops did not have the will to rebel, but if our army goes south, they will have to rebel in order to survive, and they will be unable to turn back until then."

"At that time, our Great Zhou Empire was really dragged into the abyss of the Southern Barbarian War again. The Shi family could sit in the mountains and watch the tiger fight, and be at the same time. When we were both defeated, the Shi family came out in full swing and began to occupy the Southern Barbarian territory again."

At this moment, another person's voice sounded in the study.

"Had been dragged into the quagmire abyss of the Southern Barbarian War? Do you underestimate our imperial army too much, or do you respect your father Ao Xin too highly? When your father Ao Xin fought against the Southern Barbarians, he did not struggle too much to conquer most of the Southern Barbarian territory. Could it be that without your father, our imperial army could not defeat these Southern Barbarians?"

Who is this young voice? Is the second prince?

Yun Zhonghe said, "I might say something you don't like to hear very much. Now the imperial army attacks the Southern Barbarians, it is more difficult to fight than before. Because the previous Southern Barbarians, countless tribes and a small country in Baili, are like a pile of loose sand. But now the Southern Barbarians are gathered together by us, especially these garrison troops, who have received training and weapons from regular troops and have been gathered together. This group of people is very useful for being lackeys, but if they are to drive them out, they will be very fierce and will be really hard to fight."

"And there is another situation, we have to guard against it! Faced with the rebellion in the southern border, we set a high tone and gather hundreds of thousands of troops to quell the rebellion. So what should we do if the Zhenhai Palace submits a memorial and says it is willing to help His Majesty quell the rebellion? Even while he has sent a large army north to occupy our provinces in the Southern Barbarians in the name of helping us quell the rebellion? By that time, it will be easy to ask God to send God to God."

"So this so-called southern rebellion was entirely a conspiracy of the Zhenhai Prince's Mansion. At best, it was just a salary-taking meeting of the native garrison troops. They were just used by some conspirators. You set the tone so high that you will only force these native garrison troops to a dead end and to a real rebellion, which is exactly the idea of ​​the Shi family."

"So you ask me what strange strategies I have. My plan is very simple. It is to send an imperial envoy to enter the Southern Barbarians as quickly as possible, convey your will to the native garrison troops, not to hold them accountable, and maintain the organization of the previous garrison troops, maintain their previous status, treatment and military pay. As long as Li Wenhua is killed, if he is a Southern Zhou, he will be named an earl, and if he is a native, he will be named a marquis. I guarantee that the rebellion can be quelled."

"Of course, the best candidate to send to the southern border is my father Ao Xin, because the garrison was established by my father, and they trust my father."

At this time, the young man in the study said coldly: "Ao Yu, you are so calculating. In this way, not only will your father live, but you are like a dragon entering the sea. The future southern territory will not belong to my Great Zhou, but to your Ao family!"

Yun Zhonghe said: "My mother and I, as well as my sister, can stay in the capital as hostage."

The young man in the study sneered: "For some people, what is a mere family member for the sake of the king's dominance?"

Yun Zhonghe said: "Not everyone is ambitious. For the sake of power, even their relatives can be denied. Don't just think of others as much as you see."

Even if Yun Zhonghe said this, you are very rude, just say that you are ambitious and are willing to sacrifice everything, including your relatives for the sake of power. But my father Ao Xin is not such a person.

But the young man was not angry either, at least not angry on the surface, but laughed: "Ao Xin was in the southern border and controlled the army of hundreds of thousands of local people, forming a separatist situation. Who dares to kill you in the capital and who dares to touch you?"

This is the word of the heart of the pearl.

Just like the Prince of Zhenhai, no one dares to provoke him in the capital. It doesn’t matter if he provokes the prince, but if he provokes the prince of Zhenhai, the emperor’s attitude is basically one-sided, and he completely protects the Prince of Zhenhai in order to show his favor to the Prince of Zhenhai’s Mansion.

Yun Zhonghe trembled and said, "Your Majesty, if you are not at ease with my father Ao Xin, then you can send another prince to promulgate the imperial edict, but you must go alone and not lead the army. At this time, you can only appease and not suppress the so-called rebellion of the native garrison troops. If you firmly suppress it, it will only strengthen their will to rebel!"

At this moment, the emperor finally spoke.

"Ao Yu, what you call comfort is ultimately about trying to make me compromise with these natives?" Emperor Wan Yun said in a cold voice: "I am not so weak, you disappoint me!"

"Come here, throw this person out and put him in Black Ice Platform Prison!"

With the order of Emperor Wan Yun, several eunuchs stepped forward and dragged Yun Zhonghe out and threw him into the prison of the Black Ice Platform.

At this point, Yun Zhonghe's advice failed.

He still underestimated the emperor's conceit and self-esteem.

Moreover, the entire southward strategy was decided by Emperor Tianyan, and Emperor Wan Yun did not participate in it in depth.

Therefore, in the eyes of Emperor Wan Yun, he was full of disgust for the local people in the Southern Barbarians and wanted to kill them all.

Moreover, he felt that the imperial army could sweep the Southern Barbarians back then, but now most of the entire Southern Barbarian realm is in the hands of the empire, and only a few prefectures and counties are in the hands of the rebels. If 200,000 troops are driven by, they will definitely be able to sweep away the fallen leaves like a strong wind and sweep away the fallen leaves, completely once and for all.

Of course, Emperor Wan Yun's reaction is normal. As a strong emperor, how could he be willing to compromise with the local people?

Moreover, Yun Zhonghe’s proposal seems to be ulterior motives.

In the eyes of normal people, what would it be if I let the noble Marquis Ao Xin go to the southern border to suppress the rebellion?

You said Ao Xin was loyal to the Great Zhou Empire, but what he distrusts the most as an emperor was the heart of the people.

So Yun Zhonghe was thrown into the Black Ice Platform Prison, and the sun was in darkness.

The entire empire is still gathering a large army, and the imperial guards are still gathering in the capital.

The public opinion in the entire empire is still full of shouts of fighting and killing.

Everything is contrary to Yun Zhonghe's route.

And there is a more dangerous signal. The commander who led the army south to suppress the rebellion this time was the most popular commander of Yongcheng Hou Fu Yantu.
To be continued...