Amidst the unbearable and pale faces of the nobles, Zhong Yu issued this ruthless and almost inhuman order.
Many of the nobles present vomited with fearful expressions on their faces. Their usually free and uninhibited image suddenly lost its appearance and became filled with a look of disgrace.
Seeing the misery of the nobles and the tragic situation of the dead intertwined into a strange scene. Zhong Yu finally began to talk about the second major event that he summoned the Jingzhou nobles to come here.
"I have called you all here. In addition to punishing these rebels, I have two things to announce."
After speaking, he paused to give the restless soldiers time to recover.
After hearing Zhong Yu's words, many people's faces turned pale and their expressions were full of panic.
At the same time, I secretly thought in my heart, does this tyrant not even want to let us go? Want to take advantage of this opportunity to catch them all? As I thought about it, I couldn't help but burst into tears.
Seeing the rude behavior of the people in front of him, Zhong Yu understood that they had misunderstood him, but he didn't want to say anything more and continued what he meant.
"The second thing is that I found that what I did before was indeed too cruel, so I called you all to make a covenant here. In the future, as long as you live up to me and I don't unjustly kill all the scholars, I will be with you in the future. You all can be rich and honorable together, and share this great world!"
Hearing Zhong Yu's words, many people with frightened expressions opened their mouths and stayed at this moment with a look of disbelief, as if they never expected that this arbitrary tyrant would say such a close thing. If you give in.
However, this answer made them extremely happy. They no longer had to worry about whether their heads would still be on their heads in the future. They just didn't know whether the tyrant meant what he said. They couldn't be too carried away. They had to confirm one or two things. yes!
Those nobles were just about to speak, but found that the cruel king in front of them continued to speak. They couldn't help but swallow the words that came to their lips, and listened carefully. What was this last thing
"Is this the third thing? In order to reward the meritorious ministers who followed me, pacified the world, and fought in all directions, I am giving you another reward. Please be a witness!"
After speaking, he stopped and turned to look at Huang Chengyan and Cai Mao. As representatives of the aristocratic families in Jingzhou, these two people have high prestige among all the noble families in Jingzhou. After looking at them for a while, he said to them :
"In order to appease the people in Jingzhou who are in some turmoil due to my actions during this period, the lonely king also made some arrangements for the two of you in this reward, to express the lonely king's guilt! This is definitely unexpected by you. Yes, you two great talents might as well guess what the reward is?"
The two looked at each other for a while, exchanging their opinions with their eyes. Finally, they shook their heads helplessly and replied respectfully to Zhong Yu:
"I have little talent and little knowledge. I really cannot guess the King's intentions. I hope the King will appeal to me for my ignorance."
Seeing these two people showing some boredom, Zhong Yu, who had just become interested again, shook his head helplessly and said speechlessly:
"That's all, that's all. Since you don't dare to say it and don't want to say it, King Gu won't embarrass you. Just say it directly!"
Then, they clapped their hands and a group of dozens of people were either majestic generals in armor or elegant and elegant civil servants in official uniforms.
Under the leadership of a group of guards, he walked out. They came straight to the position dozens of steps in front of Zhong Yu, bent down and saluted in unison:
"I pay my respects to the king. Your military fortunes are prosperous, your civil affairs are prosperous, and our royal family will last forever and will never be replaced!"
Hearing the chorus of congratulations, Zhong Yu smiled, nodded with satisfaction, and said warmly to the loyal people in front of him:
"In order to commend you for your loyalty as the Lone King, I hereby specially award you with awards for your loyalty and bravery, to commend all those who are loyal to me!"
Then he motioned to the commander next to him to take out the edict he had already written and read out his reward in front of everyone.
The proclaimer also looked a little excited, his hands were trembling and he was a little unsteady in holding the decrees. It was obvious that he had known the contents, and his mind was a little excited and he couldn't control his body.
"General Zhengnan Wang Fang came forward to listen to the order. General Zhengnan has worked hard and made great contributions to pacify the territory for the people. Now he is conferring General Zhengnan the title of the county of Dian under the jurisdiction of Jianning County, and splits the territory of Guchang under the jurisdiction of Jianning County. There are four counties: Kunze County, Dianchi County, and Yuyuan County. The land of eight hundred miles is the territory. From then on, it is the Dian Kingdom, the Viscount Kingdom under the Great Imperial Kingdom!"
Upon hearing this award, not to mention the people who were being awarded in front of me, even the nobles behind who were watching the ceremony looked surprised and froze there.
What's this? Did I hear it wrong? Seal the country? This has happened since the Zhou Dynasty more than 1,000 years ago enfeoffed eight hundred princes in the world, and no new countries have been established for thousands of years.
Now the tyrant in front of him is willing to give his own land to his men. What is his intention
However, the herald did not care what everyone thought and continued to read loudly excitedly:
"Zhao Ping, the general who conquered the north... split Shu County into a country and governed five counties. It was the Viscount Kingdom of Shu under the Great Royal Kingdom; Li Zhen, the general who conquered the east..., Han Kai, the general who conquered the west..."
"Zhu Hua, the general of the auxiliary country... split Yandao County of Hanjia County into the Yan Kingdom, and created the Baron Kingdom Yan Kingdom under the Great Yu Kingdom."
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As the rewards were conveyed one after another, fifty or sixty of his people became the new kings. All the new kings looked happy, obviously very happy that they could become the leader of a country.
Slowly, the edict on the reward was coming to an end, and the herald's eyes turned to the last two edicts. After opening it, he looked at it and couldn't help but look at Huang Chengyan and Cai Mao. The two people looked a little excited and restless, and said slowly:
"Cai Mao, the head of the Cai family in Jingzhou, was granted the title of Chongxian County Boy under the jurisdiction of Brazil County. Chongxian County was divided into the country and became the baron of the Great Royal Kingdom."
"Huang Chengyan, the head of the Huang family in Jingzhou, was divided into Fu County and Fu County under the rule of Jiangyou County. Fu County was listed as the territory, and it was the Baron Kingdom and Fu Kingdom under the Great Imperial Kingdom."
With this award, he sealed more than 80 counties in total and established 63 kingdoms. It also made all the noble families in Jingzhou and all the officials under his command immediately fall in love with him.
After this luxurious reward spread throughout the Han Dynasty, all the heroes and scribes who aspired to fame and wealth could not help but yearn for Zhong Yu, and also looked forward to the day when they could split the country, become the king of a country, and conquer their own country. The country is passed on hereditary and hereditary.
As for the negative impact of Zhong Yu's previous massacre of the nobles, he couldn't help but directly ignore it. After all, Zhong Yu had made a covenant with all the nobles in Jingzhou. As long as they lived up to him, Zhong Yu would not kill those nobles at will.
Therefore, those who wanted to gain fame and fortune under Zhong Yu selectively ignored this issue. Instead, he tried every possible means to join Zhong Yu's command, make contributions to Zhong Yu, and strive for wealth.
Later, Zhong Yu's strategy in Jiaozhou, Yangzhou, also directly proved the effect of his switching strategy. A large number of county chiefs directly opened the city and surrendered, hoping that they would have the slightest chance to be directly crowned the king of a country by Zhong Yu.
But Zhong Yu only gave his territory of more than twenty counties to commend the county chiefs and local families who surrendered in Kaicheng, and to use it to express to future generations that he would not treat those who had done meritorious service to him badly.
But what Zhong Yu got was more than two hundred counties. Those twenty counties were not worth mentioning in the entire vast territory. What's more, these separated counties are still vassals under his own command, and they are nominally required to obey his orders.
The most important thing is that in a few years, when he unifies the entire Three Kingdoms world, both the kings who were separated by him and those who want to make achievements under his command will disappear due to the destruction of the world.
For me, using something that was destined to be destroyed in exchange for a large amount of loyalty from the nobles of the Three Kingdoms did not cost me anything, but I gained a lot of luck points and time.
(End of chapter)