If I have sins, I cannot do everything in my mind; if I have sins, I will do everything in my mind.

This sentence comes from "The Analects of Confucius Yao's Pian", and also becomes the beginning of Emperor Wan Yun's edict of guilt.

He took the lead in assigning all his mistakes to himself. Because he was the emperor, the mistakes of the entire empire were his personal mistakes.

This self-criticism edict was written by Emperor Wan Yun himself, and even when he was read in court, it shocked the ministers.

Because it is written very well, if it is placed in the imperial examination, such articles can be ranked among the top few.

It can be seen that Emperor Wan Yun has very high knowledge and has read very well.

In the edict of self-criticism, he listed several serious crimes for himself.

But after hearing this, the ministers' scalp became numb, because these major issues were ultimately their sins.

Everyone said that I, the emperor, was eager for quick success, but I didn't look at it. The Great Zhou Empire, which had not fought for more than ten years, was no longer diligent in training and its military was loose. If I dragged on like this, my combat effectiveness would be afraid that it would slow down every day and start the Northern Expedition and revitalize the army's strength.

Only when the flowing water is gone, look at the top leaders in the army who are controlled by a large number of incompetent nobles and brave and resourceful generals cannot be promoted. They have the ambition to serve the country, but they can only lose their mood.

In the edict of guilt, he also said that he was not strict in his education and instructed the empire to become corrupt and that people were in trouble.

He said that he was not majestic enough and instructed the intra-Korean party struggles to intensify.

He sprinkled thousands of words to explain the ills of the entire Great Zhou Empire clearly, and then attributed all this to the sins of his emperor.

From this edict of sin, we can see that Emperor Wan Yun's eyes were still very sharp, and he could see everything clearly.

After all, the Great Zhou Empire was an old empire. Although it had experienced the revival of the Tianyan, many of the problems were difficult to recover.

The nobles control the middle and senior military leaders, while the civilian elites cannot stand up.

A literati group like Yuedanping organization controls public opinion, fights against differences, colludes with civil servants, and monopolizes the right to speak.

It is said that flowing water is not corrupt, but the entire imperial officialdom is like a corrupt old soup. It is not like the Great Win Empire has just risen shortly, and it is like the rising sun.

The revival of the Great Zhou Dynasty was to put it bluntly because it annexed the Southern Barbarian Realm and obtained the huge dividends brought by this one.35 million square kilometers of land.

However, the fundamental disadvantages of the Great Zhou court have not changed. The entire Southern Zhou Empire is like a running giant, and must always run and cannot stop.

Once the giant stops, the body of the giant will begin to get sick, the party will begin to fight in the face of the country, and the internal strife will begin.

Moreover, a huge interest group had been born in the Great Zhou Empire, and their demands were getting bigger and bigger.

Only by constantly devouring and satisfying the appetite of this interest group will they continue to run. If they cannot feed them, they will start to inwardly fight and find ways to swallow other factions in the empire.

Ao Xin finally managed to achieve results in the governance of the Southern Barbarians, and the court transferred him back to the capital, so that the court, nobles and large families of the Great Zhou Empire could share the dividends of the Southern Army.

But now the cakes in the Nanman Realm have been divided, what should I do?

The Southern Zhou Empire cannot stop, it needs new dividends and a larger goal.

The emperor wanted to find something for the Great Zhou court, so he naturally stared at the borderless land, and then the Northern Expedition to the Great Win Empire.

The emperor wants to find food for the empire, otherwise the empire's interest groups will eat themselves.

So, is I, the emperor, eager to launch a war in the Borderlands?

If it is a new empire, you can slowly conquer it, because the entire empire ruling class is still very new and full of vitality.

But if you wait any longer for an old empire, you are afraid that the speed of accumulating national strength is not as fast as the speed of corruption and degeneration of the ruling class.

Emperor Wan Yun's self-criticism was really deafening. Even the Prime Minister and the other ministers were sweating profusely.

Hu Yong's death remarks tear apart the emperor's face, and this self-criticism edict made the emperor tear apart the face of the ministers.

Emperor Wan Yun looked at the civil and military ministers kneeling all over the ground and said slowly: "When I heard the second and third imperial edicts I issued, some of you may feel that I am already crazy."

Suddenly, all civil and military officials kowtowed desperately again.

"Don't worry, I'm not crazy!"

"Isn't it just a rebellion in the southern border, or is it just a Daying Empire in the north going to take advantage of the situation? Even the Daliang Kingdom in the west will come to join in the fun. My Great Zhou Empire seems to be ambushing around, and it looks like it is in danger of destroying the country?"

"I think it's pretty good, very good!"

"Aren't my Great Zhou Empire lazy and civil officials corrupt? In this danger of destroying the country, I want to see if you can cheer up?"

"Born from distress and die from happiness! The greater the crisis, the greater the motivation."

"I have decided that if someone rebels in the southern border, then suppress them to the end. The Daying Empire in the north is coming to invade, so I, the emperor, will personally guard the national gate. The Daliang Kingdom in the west is coming to sneak attack, so we will fight to the end, so that Hu horses will not pass the Great Wall in the west."

"Isn't someone always saying that he will return the power to the Supreme Emperor? Then let the Supreme Emperor guard the capital!"

"I don't care what you officials do, anyway, I would rather be crushed than surrender or compromise. I would rather be the king of the country than be a compromise."

"My Great Zhou Empire will either be reborn from the ashes or be crushed to pieces!"

Emperor Wan Yun's voice resounded throughout the hall, shocking everyone's ears.

Only then did everyone realize that His Majesty the Emperor's martial arts are so high.

"My dear friends, who else do you want to advise me?" Emperor Wan Yun said in a cold voice.

When he said this, he looked at the six giants in the Cabinet and the Privy Council.

The six giants immediately knelt down and their foreheads were pressed against the ground.

"I will obey the order!"

"I will obey the order!"

The emperor said, "Since no one advises you, it's decided! Fu Yantu, the 150,000 imperial guards have been assembled, and the troops from various provinces have also gathered south, waiting for you to accept them. Three days later, we will swear to go south."

"I obey the order!" Yongcheng Hou Fu Yantu kowtowed and said, "Your Majesty, will you kill Ao Xin's family to sacrifice the flag?"

The emperor said lightly: "Sacrifice for the flag? Of course!"

Fu Yantu was overjoyed. Despite the ups and downs in the matter, he still became the governor of the South, still held the military power of hundreds of thousands of troops, and was able to kill Ao Xin's family and avenge the whipping of the whipping more than ten years ago.

The emperor said again: "Zhou Lian."

Zhou Lian, deputy envoy of the Privy Council, knelt down and said, "Your Majesty."

The emperor said: "It took 35 years for our Great Zhou Dynasty to build the Great Wall in the West to resist the Kingdom of Daliang. Moreover, there are more than 100,000 troops in the Zhenxi Governor's Office. Can you defend the Great Wall in the West to resist the possible sneak attacks of Daliang?"

Zhou Lian kowtowed and said, "I am willing to issue a military order. If a state and a county are lost in the western border, I will be killed."

The emperor said: "Okay, I plan to enthrone Zhou Lian, deputy envoy of the Privy Council, as the Grand Governor of the West and also the Protector of the West."

Duke Lian of Zhou kowtowed and said, "I obey the order and thank you for your kindness!"

"The army in the northern part of the empire gathered in advance on the Jinzhou defense line, waiting for me to personally hunt north. As long as the Daying Empire's army dares to invade the south, I will fight to the death with him."

The emperor's voice resounded throughout the hall, echoing and powerful.

Just from these deeds of Emperor Wan Yun, you can see how rich the family background of the old empire of Dazhou is!

Last year, the army was damaged by 300,000 to 400,000 troops, but it still did not hurt the body.

As long as the emperor gives his will, more troops can be summoned from the imperial population of tens of millions.

Grain storage and national treasury inventories are all financial resources. It can only be said that the dividends brought by annexing the Southern Barbarians decades ago and the development of the Southern Barbarians were too huge.

Give the emperor the confidence to roar.

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The emperor's imperial edict will spread throughout the world in the shortest time.

At least within one day, it spread throughout the capital, and at the same time, two other decrees from the emperor also spread throughout the capital.

The army went south to suppress the rebellion, and would never compromise with the rebels in the southern border and suppress them to the end.

Faced with the war blackmail of the Great Win Empire, we would never compromise. To the end of the struggle, the emperor went north personally to guard the defense line of Jinzhou.

I would rather be broken than be a compromise king or surrender.

The emperor guards the country's gates.

These bold words also spread to everyone's ears in a very short period of time.

Suddenly, countless people were moved by the emperor and their blood was boiling.

Many young men went to join the army one after another.

Many young civil and military officials were also extremely excited and passionate.

No matter what, Emperor Wan Yun’s statements and these bold words can indeed give strong incentives to the people of the world.

All the people must like the tough and tough emperor, and hate the cowardly emperor the most.

In an instant, the entire capital and even the entire empire would have a high morale.

Then a sensible nobleman in the capital immediately submitted a memorial that for the great cause of the empire and to quell the rebellion in the southern border, the minister was willing to donate 10,000 taels of silver.

The other nobles in the capital were a little surprised and then cursed in their hearts.

I fuck you, Wang Youliang!

What show do you do? What kind of loyalty do you show? You are just an earl who takes the lead in donating 10,000 taels of silver. What about the marquis? What about the duke? You donate 10,000 taels, aren’t you putting all the other nobles on the fire? You are just a second-rate noble, why are you active?

If this was the end of the empire, these nobles would not have donated money, just like in the late Ming Dynasty, Emperor Chongzhen personally begged for alms and took over the Ming Dynasty's nobles one by one like an iron rooster, and only donated a few hundred taels of silver. Later, when Li Zicheng entered the capital, these nobles took out tens of thousands of taels of silver to buy their lives.

But the Southern Zhou Empire is far from the end of the world. Although it is full of dangers, its national strength is still strong.
To be continued...