After rebirth, I became a national teacher

Mrs. Yan, Kong Shuya, blushed immediately and apologized:

"It is my ignorance."

Chen Qingzhu didn't mind and smiled gently:

"That's fine. I'll think about it more thoroughly in the future."

Kong Shuya secretly made up her mind that she would read more books, consult her son and husband more often, and strive to make useful suggestions in the court that could be adopted by the gods as soon as possible.

Chen Qingzhu continued:

"If my prediction is correct, the Wei court will not send anyone here for the time being. You can rest assured."

The facts were just as Chen Qingzhu expected.

凤阳

Zhongdu Liushousi Yamen

Ji Yong, the second-rank Zhongdu governor in charge of Zhongdu's military affairs, was summoning his lieutenant generals and captains to discuss the suppression of the Nandu rebels.

"Everyone, the evil demon Du'e has dug his own grave and offended all the powerful landlords in the prefectures he occupied. It is a good time for us to cooperate internally and externally to severely damage the Du'e army!"

"Now, I want to send another 10,000 soldiers to the rebel territory to ambush the rebels. Who is willing to lead the army?"

The twenty-odd lieutenant generals and captains under him all avoided the challenge and no one volunteered.

Ji Yong frowned slightly.

This bunch of losers, not a single one dared to fight!

Ji Yong had no choice but to point to someone directly:

"Zhang Peng, you..."

Before he finished speaking, the lieutenant general named Zhang Peng was terrified, not caring about the hierarchy, and interrupted him directly:

"Please forgive me, my old injury has relapsed recently, so I am unable to lead the army!"

Ji Yong suppressed his anger and appointed another lieutenant general.

The lieutenant general said that his mother had been ill recently and he wanted to stay at home to take care of her.

Ji Yong was so angry that he gritted his teeth. He simply skipped the lieutenant general and directly selected a captain who was very active in his performance.

It was thought that this thousand households would seize this rare opportunity to take on important responsibilities and move up, but unexpectedly, this thousand households still found excuses to refuse.

In other words, in such a huge Zhongdu Liaison Office, with 100,000 soldiers under its command, it couldn't find a general who was willing to lead the troops into battle!

Seeing Ji Yong's extremely gloomy face, everyone dared not breathe, but still no one was willing to step on their colleagues to fight for this good opportunity to impress Shangguan.

Ji Yong was so angry that he glared at everyone and cursed:

"Great, great! The generals of my Zhongdu garrison are all spineless cowards!"

Everyone let him curse, but no one responded.

At first they were worried that angering their superiors might have serious consequences.

Now, the law does not punish everyone, and no one is going. The adult who stays behind cannot punish all of them.

To be honest, it's not that they don't have ambition, but this job is a dead end.

If there was any chance of survival, they would not retreat like this.

Although the adults who stayed behind did not tell them what happened to the previous batch of people sent there.

However, there was no ban on trade between the two sides, and many powerful gentry under the rule of the God of Du'e fled over one after another, so the news from the other side could not be concealed at all.

They all knew that the last batch of 10,000 soldiers sent out had all been detained.

Ordinary soldiers were fine, they were just detained.

But all the generals and officers above the rank of centurion were beheaded on the spot, and not a single one survived!

It is said that some people also tried to disguise themselves as ordinary soldiers.

However, if he fails to capture the thousand or hundred households, the God of Du'e will kill the general flag or the smaller flags below it.

There were so many general and small flags, most of them were spineless, and in the end they gave out all the centurions and thousand-households, and all of them became victims of the Du'e Army.

It's even worse for those who are in command of the entire army. It's not just death.

Instead, he was struck to death on the spot by a thunderbolt from the sky sent down by the God Du'e, and his soul was shattered, without even a chance of an afterlife.

So how dare they go against a deity like Lord Du'e and attack her army under her rule?

And not only them, but all the generals and officers who were well-informed knew about it.

Even if they were willing to risk their lives to obey orders, I'm afraid they wouldn't be able to mobilize the thousands and hundreds of soldiers under their command.

Ji Yong, the garrison commander of Zhongdu, had led troops for many years and had never encountered such a ridiculous situation.

But now that things have come to this, he has no other choice for the time being.

After all, a twisted melon is not sweet.

If we really force them to go to war, I'm afraid they will just be passive and lazy. There is no point in sending troops like this.

He could only write a letter to His Majesty to apologize.

However, he did not expect that more serious consequences would occur two months later.

It was not until several days after the first group of detained soldiers returned to Zhongdu Camp that he realized something was wrong.

Because these people have become a complete cancer in the military!

The affairs of Lord Du'e have always attracted much attention in the Zhongdu camp.

Many soldiers heard that the army sent to attack Du'e's army was completely wiped out.

Who could have thought that two months later, the person who was thought to be dead actually came back intact!

All the soldiers were extremely surprised by this.

Those who are curious and talkative will naturally go and find out.

"I've never heard of such a bizarre thing, to actually release all the enemy's prisoners!"

Those who inquired were very moved.

Immediately, someone in the returning prisoner barracks said:

"What's so strange about this? The Lord of Du'e has the greatest pity for us poor people. He knows that most of us soldiers come from poor families, so he won't kill us!"

The inquirer was very surprised:

"Is the evil demon Du'e so kind to the enemy? It seems that what the rebels said about the Lord Du'e coming to save the people from suffering is true."

These words particularly resonated with the captured soldiers:

"Of course it's true! You don't know how well the soldiers and civilians are living under the rule of Lord Du'e!"

"Take the rations for example. When they go out on a mission, they have meat for three meals a day! They have dried meat, meat soup, meat patties, etc., and they are full every day!"

"We were watching from the sidelines, our mouths watering!"

When it comes to this, many people come out to provide evidence.

Don't even mention how miserable they were at that time. They were hungry and could only eat one meal a day. For the remaining two meals, they had to drool over the aroma of meat in the Du'e Army's hot pot.

This shocked the people who came to inquire:

“How can they eat three meals a day?”

"And there's meat for every meal? This is like a heavenly life!"

You know, many of them can only eat one meal a day, and only two meals when they are on a mission. That is, some dry food mixed with coarse grains, just enough to fill them up.

"This is nothing. Being able to receive full military pay and being able to eat meat and be full is just the most basic thing for them. They can get a lot of money. Thirty percent of all the proceeds from the confiscation of property are shared equally among the soldiers!"

"Yes, I saw that the least they got was five or six taels of silver each..."

"Moreover, they have abolished the military household system. Soldiers can return to the countryside at the age of 35. Each soldier will be given 30 taels of retirement silver. They can use the money they earn to happily return home and reunite with their families and live a good life!"

"Oh, by the way, they and their families can each get three mu of land, even the girls can get a share! How can someone only pay 20% of the land rent, land tax, and corvée labor combined?"

These soldiers have been following the Du'e Army for more than a month, and have seen and heard with their own eyes many of the benefits of being under the rule of Lord Du'e.

Those who came to inquire about the matter were also fascinated by what they heard.

He went back and told the people around him what he had found out.

For a time, many soldiers in the Zhongdu Garrison Camp heard about how good a life the soldiers and civilians under the rule of the God Du'e were living.

Everyone had only one thought:

How great it would be if they were also under the rule of God!